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  • i like this i tried it it works perfectly thanks

  • Who is stronger:

    Rangers HP:400 level:1 Fire arrows VS Mirkwood archers HP:150 level:1 Silverthorn arrows

  • @Croatianuploader Ranger for sure

  • Mirkwood archers need pretty decent sentries to stand any chance (unless you're playing against *shudder* Mordor). So in 1v1 rush battles you essentially have to get the archers (lvl 2 barracks) and sentries and silverthorn arrows (lvl 3 Forge) before they're that good, at which point Men's or Dwarves' infantry units have disintegrated your base.

    Plus, I've had an entire battalion of MA taken out by one catapult shot. In no-rush, a well armed, micro-managed and mixed-up army can kill them off.

  • wow this game is wrong. there should be very few but very powerful elves like in third age total war. elves have excellent melee capabilities; like the high elf spearmen.

  • as soon as they shut down the servers they stopped selling the game in stores. That is so sad that a beautiful game such as this has to killed by the people who made it. Look at counter-strike for god sake its a decade old and people still play it, y can they do the same with the BFME games?

  • @jkdoorbinnia Use game ranger man

  • The elves suck ass

  • @JOSHUAHEROO

    are you kidding? they're possibly the best faction out of all of them. you have no idea how much damage they can dish out

  • Strategy 1: Mirkwood archers

    Strategy 2: Silverthorn arrows

  • We must explore the woods ! , maybe we'll find them :D

  • FRiCK i cant play the effing elves

  • Strong points:

    - Strongest archer units

    - Best heroes together with Men

    - Best Good powers

    Weak points:

    - Worst siege units in the game (That's why they are not a good offensive team and are better in defense IMO). 2 eagles, all heroes and silver archers in towers are virtually the hardest defence to destroy

    - Expensive units and upgradings (but they are fast in moving and quite easy to use, so they balance their weak and strong points during rush games)

  • does anyone else think its stupid fighting the AI on skirmish? cuz all they do is make heroes and no infantry. there is no fun in that! and is there any way to fix it

  • @DESTROYER68483 Really? Because when I fight them they always make a shit load of infantry and no heroes..... Are you playing on fortress maps?

  • @MultiBadavis every map that i play on does that

  • @DESTROYER68483 I barely ever encounter heroes in skirmish battles (I usually play against Brutal). My problem is that they harass you too much (they know exactly where every one of your resource buildings are). And they're very uncreative; usually they start out assaulting whomever is the closest to them (with that strategy). Playing teams with AIs I've actually had them attack my allies' resource buildings when they started out close to each other and completely ignoring mine.

  • best elven heros

    Legolas

    Thranduil (father of legolas)

    and

    Haladir

  • man ent allies is such a bitch strategy

  • nc video, and in my opinion Dwarves are the best,they are rly good and resistent

  • Out of all different types of things that you could be what would you be out of these: Ranger, Warrior or Mage. Personally i would be a Ranger because you get bow cloak learn how to not been see, stealth throwing knives, hunting skills, ect.

  • The elves are great but you are right that if you are invaded early, you may not survive long when it comes to melee combat

  • elves fuck in suck ! they don t stand a chance against a mumakill or a nazgul

  • @teostere lol a mumakil or a nazgul die in 3 sec against a few archers with silver arrows

  • lol what a noob

  • elves are the best...

    Btw great video tip I already plan most thing for elves but I think you forgot to meation a few things elves can hide in woods and ambush the enemy forces..

  • when are trolls cavalry

  • We want Battle for middelearth 3!!!

  • name of the song at 0:08??

  • EA SERVERS ARE DOWN. BUT YOU CAN PLAY ONLINE AGAIN WITH GAMERANGER NETWORK HAVE FUN.

  • Arwen rocks!! wish she cud fight inn thee movvvviiieees :)

  • Nice tips....

  • Haldir, expendible? NEVER!!!

  • Ive had this game for years on the 360, and had the first one and finally got around to actually get this for the pc. But i found NO places whatsoever that sold these. I had to get mine off of amazon.

  • ok, i havent played this game in forever and a half, are there any updates from the original version?

  • lol 3:28 i bet they didnt see that one coming.

  • rohirrims can finish it in minutes....

  • Mirkwood archers are quite annoying opponent in online game. :D

  • Any good multiplayer would know that due to the updates that the elves have been nerfed and buffed in many ways. SILVERTHORN ARROWS ARE NOT OVER POWERED! You want to know what it's called? Keeping the pressure on them for God's sake! Their mallorn trees are the second weakest resource producer in game. Learn your faction and you might win against the elves. Goblins easily can kill the elves because you just hit and run their resources for fucks sake. Then just get back attacking cavalry.. >_>

  • elves are just gay in this game, there is no need of strategy skill to play with elves at all: lorien archers + silver-horn arrows = end of the game. The bfme2 has 5 factions and 1 uber factions the elves. when i play with my friends on lan or online we usually ban the elves because we all agree there is no fun to play if we all know who will win. elves are the race that made to people who can not play or can not accept loosing. if i show the game to someone i tell them to start with elves

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  • to be honest i've done beeter with the elfs then most other factions their bowmen just destory enemy units add ents and that damned flood attack

  • @sithmaster4305 if you know how to fight them there easy i took out 6 mirkwood archers and 2 mithlond sentries fully upgraded with 2 rohirrem in multplayer

  • @sporepid

    indeed but i took out a isengard player with three lighting fortresses by using glorfindel and his attack squad and ent spam behind his base needless to say not even saurman can stand up to the mirkwood archers with their upgraded bows

  • @sporepid yea the freakin heroes are the overpowered part

  • I like to draw my emeny into a straight pitch fight with sentries infront of archers this will usually cause them to bring in archers into the fight from their defences, then I circle round with a set of lancers, usually 2 battallions with glorfindel mounted to mop 'em up or they will bring artillery up to clear your sentries though the same tactic can be used. Then you can pull your archers back into towers with upgraded arrows and pull your sentries out to draw them into fire range of towers.

  • No isengard strategy?????????

  • at the end of the video what is the box on the right?

  • This map isn't in the ROTWK, darn.

  • is the online play down? :-/

  • awesome man cheers for that i love elves and that helped a lot.... :)

  • awesome...that actually helped alot cos i love elves...cheers buddy :)

  • Such a bad-ass game!!!!!! :D

  • This guy is a total noob. Look around 2:30 when he summons the ents. He has 4 ents from the summon instead of 3. This means that this is NOT patch 6. Subscribe to my channel for better information because I'm beginning to do shoutcasts of bfme2.

  • the thing is a dwarven army can easily rush on elves and they would be defenseless. the only time elves are strong is when they have already built up a powerful army but that takes a long time

  • low hp and light armour ???? we experimented with a buddy and we pitted 6 uruk batalions and 6 elvish battalions ( swordmen with no upgreats at all for both sides ) the elves OWNED them

  • @sotospithis why not just try one battalion of each to remove the fucking shitload of variables? as it stands thats not a good test.

  • @zombahkiller01 I agree with you. The test is fairest with 1 vs 1 and the uruks get to be on shield wall formation. That wasn't mentioned in the test but it is VITAL to have uruks in this stance. I think it would be a lot closer than "ownage."

  • way isent there any mordor strategy lol

  • but i'm being serious, the Noldor got their asses handed to them in the Nirnaeth Arnoediad, the Grey Elves (the elves of Doriath) were never attacking, always ont he defensive, Gondolin got its butt wooped, Nargothrond fell, pretty much all the elf brothers that came over (such as Turgon, Fingolfin, Fingon) all died

    Thingol (king of the Grey Elves) was the smartest; always play the defensive

  • 2 Pikemens in front and 3 archers at the back is the proper formation.. and 2 lancers out there raiding around.. once ur vision see an infantry units, rush your lancer to them, if its a pikeman, dont go suicide.

  • men heroes > elf heroes

  • when you put Glorfindel in that equation the men get screwed XD

  • @Arantre20

    and only if you had elrond at rank 7 to use his restoration to put glorfindel's blade of purty back to recharge.

    but seriously, all rank 10 heroes on elves and all rank 10 on men = Aragorn use AOTD = killed all the elf heroes minus glorfindel until 20 seconds went by :S

  • elves are best when they defend helms deep

  • @snowman2138 I agree with you from all directions, all u gotta do is put mirkwood dudes on the gate and ur basicly done :) thats how I beat brutal

  • The idea is playing with other.

    I played many times with the computer, and the hurry way to win was the goblins.

    Throwing goblins and blocking his unit production, when I was ready, I create a giant and blow up the base.

  • ye thats all i do with them

  • The elven warriors of minas tirith (when you play with men) are great.

    You rush if you can, with those and rohirrims and you kill everything.

    I prefer isengard siege rush, and goblins rush.

  • lol when I summon ents, it takes like a year before they arrive... o.0

  • @Keelle09

    Well yeah, they need to finish saying hello first :p

  • Thanks for not being one of they videos with shit music on the top of it it helps me to actually wanna watch it :)

  • ...Elves are great for defense at Helm's Deep. I set 3 AI's at the highest difficulty against me and I won because I used archers on the walls.

  • being in fortresses is easy....I did Minas Tirith and Helm's Deep like 5 mins ago...playing dwarves...both times against a team of 3 brutals...

    ...it was pretty much the same as playing 1 on 1 against an easy in a straight forward map...

  • elves for ever.....

  • jesusfreak elves can build ent from an ent moot there quite bad

  • Gotta love Flood

  • Is it just me, but when haldir uses his melee strikes sometimes it will make a whoosh noise, and it looks like a there was a small shockwave. Is this a critical hit or something?

  • are elves the only ones without proper siege units? aka Catapults rams and the like. I know the goblins only have mountain Giants but those work well on buildings and can be made while Ents can only be summoned.

  • Um no, you can make Ents from an Ent Moot...

  • Um Ents can be built to, and there better then mountain gaints.

  • @MrJesusFreak22 ent moot duhu

  • @MrJesusFreak22 Ents can be made asswell lol

  • Haldir is the worst hero of all time i would not choose him

  • @shadowrunt

    he's awesome if you have multiplayer

  • but.... too bad my game broke... WAAAAAA

  • WTF, "low hit points and light armour...wont last very long in a straight fight", "by their nature not very strong on the defensive". Elves are at least equal in strength of body to men, they have greater knowledge and strength of mind. Some elves ex. Noldor, are even greater than other elves.

    And why would Arwen be in battle?

  • Because Arwen is just badass ok, don't question it, just accept it.

  • @jackskellingtonsora

    idk what youre' talking about, heroes in best order on elves is this:

    glorfindel, elrond, haldir, arwen, thranduil, legolas. arwen is mediocre, has low hp and the only good thing is heal.

  • @Favre4Eva4

    Sarcasm....?

  • @jackskellingtonsora

    no. gloorfindel and elrond and haldir can (as a trio) take down any fort cause of blade of purity, elrond's restoration which is heal AND recharge all special abilities, and haldir just has good melee. then after elrond heals/recharges everyone, glorfindel using blade of purity AGAIN. = fort down.

  • @jackskellingtonsora

    no...the 4 frontal heroes have swords and can take down structures much faster than legolas or thranduil. thranduil is good for garbage like custom helms deep maps or w/e. rank 7 elrond and rank 8 arwen and rank 3 glorfindel pretty much ensure a win. glorfindel blade of purity, all 3 of them + haldir attack the fort, low hp, arwen's heal, low hp again, elrond's restoration, use blade of purity AGAIN, and then arwen's heal AGAIN, and guaranteed win. use your brain...

  • @Favre4Eva4 not exactly. You are not giving enough credit to thranduil and legolas who are FAR superior to arwen. They just cost a lot but with proper micro you can pick off a rediculous # of enemy troops with them. Legolas has held of entire armies before. I was once mordor in a ffa on buckland and legolas and thranduil were able to hold off all 3 nazgul which is something that 2 arwens wouldn't have a chance of doing.

  • @radagastthe3rd

    yeah, and when it comes to taking down a base, you gonna use thranduil and legolas? don't think so. get arwen at rank 8, elrond at 7, glorfindel at w/e, and haldir at w/e, and any base is down in minutes, army attacking you or not.

    that's what flood would be for anyways.

  • @Favre4Eva4 nay I have a different way of playing. Once you have thranduil/legolas at a high level then they can hold off practically any army. Then what you do is gain map control and build malorn trees everywhere. You go for upgrades instead of heroes. Once you get upgraded swords and maybe armor then you move out with lorien warriors and lancers. I'm not bashing elrond/glorfindel but I think that my way works very well too.

  • @radagastthe3rd

    that works, no problem with that. and btw i agree w/ the archer heroes for unit killing.

  • @Favre4Eva4 glorfindel has the lowest armor of all elven heroes, dying even faster than arwen under direct fire. learn these thingsssssssssssssssssssss. and its important to know that while in mythology, elves are greater than men, but in this game their str > men, their defense < men.

  • @jackskellingtonsora rofl that just made day

  • @PreTest04

    ik this was 3 months ago, but the elves SUCKED in the Elder Days. they just flat out SUCKED BALLS. read the Children of Hurin, the Silmarillion, and Unfinished Tales of Numenor and Middle Earth...elves suck dick in every one.

  • Yes? But all the battles were fought by elves... Dwarfs didn´t appeared too much. Men were too weak, too "young" in the world. And in the Silmarillion, Elves were too powerful, always was. The difference, is that in the third age of the middle earth, they were too few compare to men.

  • @chanchi789

    in the Silmarillion, they were not too powerful. the Valar just had so much love and affection towards them that they brought them to Valinor to see hte light ot the two trees, not becasue they were too powerful.

  • @PreTest04 because Arwen dies to quick. she is only strong with surrounded by other heroes. It takes like forever for her to get to level 10. Elves are nos strong people in physical man.

  • @PreTest04

    Realize that there is a difference between the lore and the game.

  • @PreTest04, Arwen can fight. didn't she rescue Frodo from the Wringwraiths after Weathertop, or was that just the movie?

    I guess these are the Wood-elves (Sindar?) from Mirkwood, since this game takes place in the north.

    The elves have Rivendell and Lothlorien in the south, and Mirkwood and Grey Havens in the north, right?

  • witch one is the best? Ithilien rangers(Mens) or Mirkwood Archers(Elves)

  • obviously elves

  • Mirkwood Archers r best archers in the game besides heroes

  • Mirkwood

  • To be honest, it is up to who plays them. Different tactics work better than others. Though, mirkwood tend to be stronger when you just have them

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  • hey anyone knows where i can find the crack for version 1.06 (the muldiplayer version)?

  • Mordor is one of the best.

  • is he talking about a strategy for online play or solo skirmishes?

  • both..?

  • is there anyone who knowes what the song name is at the start and where i can get it?

  • Best races:

    1. Elves

    2. Dwarwes

    3. Isengard

    4. Mordor

    5. Men

    6. Goblins

    (from my point of view, of course)

  • I'll respect your opinion

    but dont underestimate men army

    they are very advanced

  • if you're good with Goblins, you can make them better then elves, with difrent strategies, there really isnt one perfect/best race ;)

  • the dwarves with proper tradegy could take on all forces

  • thats why i hate being elves there was a macth were i could deffend no problem, with the elves archers but in open war or sieging a fortress they just got pwned so no one could win

  • lol, hero bait. Didn't think od that =D

  • i bet i could kick his arse at lotr bfme 2 how long would it take him to get all them powers and army i would attack in 3mins and if his building mallon trees to get that big of an army he would die...........................­....

    cant some plz put on a live match so i could watch him and what he does

  • Wait... so the elves struggle to take out fortresses without the aid of powers? That sucks!

  • without aid of powers ? what do you mean :S

  • it sucks a lot, but if you add the power of the peasants from the capturable reasources, you are laughing.

  • are the farmers so strong against buildings?

    never used them, they seemed so stupid to me :/ xD

  • they are great. you go and take the buildings (fords of isen) and make it seem like your not by not giving them time to look, and then build like 3, send with warriors and lots of archers, they're gonna have troubles recovering

  • thanks mate, i'll try 'em out next time, would be handy as elves don't have siege waepons; ents are weak when they throw rocks but if they get closer they'll get killed by flaming arrows :/

  • what music is this?

  • can play online or lan?

  • Both versions can be played on-line (XBOX and PC).

  • thank you

  • Two new questions. What are the 3 strongest units in the game? Who are the 3 strongest characters in the game? Factor in cost.

    Feel free to explain your rational.

  • 3 Strongest heroes = Galadriel, Sauron and Gandalf.

  • I like the dragon lord too

  • Best heros = Aragorn, Gimli, Thranduil/Witch King.

  • i would sooner have legolas than thranduil anyday

  • every unit is weak on their own. it is how you combine each unit to make each combination strong.

    combinations can varry, especially who your facing against.

    I used to know many tactics, which i would have explained, but haven't played in over 3 months cause it broke.

  • BFME2 is the only game I have ever owned both for a console and the PC.

    The PC version is better in most respects, graphics (potential), control layout, and most of the "little" things in the game (on the xb360 it's hard to end figure out what army you are choosing on the selection screen).

    However, the xb360 is better for leveling the playing field for those who's PC can't run BFME2 efficiently. xb360's are also less glitchy in general. PC's can have issues that effect your game.

  • My Favorite army is Mordor And Elves...

  • whats it better for pc or 360

  • It is better for PC I would say.

  • I only have the PC version. Unfortunatly, I don't have a 360, otherwise I would have this game. And Halo Wars which is very similar to it. :D

  • @jackskellingtonsora halo wars is nothing like lotr bfme2

  • um i only have it on 360 and its sick

  • yea its laggy

  • @dontmesswitdasaints PC DEFINITELY. PC is much easier to navigate around the map and have more actions per minute. There are also more online player for PC than XBOX.

  • Thankzzz!!!!! :) :)

  • Are either LOTR BFME for PC? HELP!!!!!!!!

  • yes for the pc and 360

  • elves SUCK ....i come with 4 battalions of goblins = elves estinguished

    they are so expensive too dudes cmon

    the only strong thing are archer units with silver thorn arrows...but they r sooo expensive too soo...they suck!!

  • Elves are a strong team, you just have to know how to play them. They're extremely good in the beginning.

  • you should not descriminate against an army you underestimate and do not know the proper tactics.

  • Elves are the best army in this game

  • Lol goblins suck vs the computer with elves i can beat 2 goblins on wreed in 10minutes,

    elves are best faction then dwarfs....

  • 1. Dwarves

    2. Isengard

    3. Elves

    4. Mordor

    5. Goblins

    6.  Men ("Balanced" factions suck at everything.)

  • once again. "suck" means its you, not the faction

  • My point is that so-called "balanced" factions have no overall strengths. True, that may fit some playing styles, but not mine.

  • elves are amazing in this game

  • great new soundtrack

  • here's my expert selection:

    1: elves

    2: isengard

    3.men

    4:goblins

    5.dwarves

    6: mordor

  • screw lorien (prob not spelled right) archers 3 mirkwood archer units with silver thorn arrows can rip apart a whole army with a good hero to give em that leader ship bonus

  • then please, get 3 mirkwood archers before I rip your ass apart

  • Mordor has some strengths, like Nazgul, Attack Trolls, and the Mouth of Sauron etc.. But their weaknesses a pretty crippling. They have no Cavalry, their early units are crap, they can't build walls (or wall attachments), and they take more structures to build and upgrade all of their units than any other army (6 in total, compared to the Dwarves 3).

    Then again, I'm sure a good player can use Mordor efficiently.

  • what about hardrim lancers? they re cavalry ?

  • the mordor stinks

  • What i think on lotr bfme 2:

    1.Isengard

    2.Men

    3.Elves

    4.Goblins

    5.Dwarves

    6.Mordor

    Although mordor is last, there attack trolls are really good.

  • Mordor should actually be in the top 3...

    The Nazgul are powerful....

  • yeah maybe

  • An orc rush backed up by a crippling bonus by the mouth of sauron works well.

  • I sent the game back to get the activation code but when it returned the first disc wouldnt work. only got to 1% load and then said that that one file about movies didnt work. Any help or can someone send me the first disc? Ill just mail it back when its loaded because i still have my own first disc.

  • I while back I posted a question on a 3 videos (Dwarf, Elf, Goblin Strategy) and asked youtubers to rank the Armies of BFMEII. I had some time to kill the other day, so I tallied all of the results from each page. 21 people responded, Here is the average rank each army was given:

    1. Isengard = 3.05

    2. Men = 3.00

    3. Elves = 2.48

    4. Dwarves = 2.43

    5. Goblins = 2.24

    6. Mordor = 1.81

    1st = 5 points, 2nd = 4 points . . . . 6th = 0 points. I added up the points for each army and divided by 21.