The Battle for Middle-earth: Tactics – is a first mod for The Battle for Middle-earth II: The Rise of the Witch-king which main goals not only to add units, heroes and buildings, but also cardinally to change a gameplay and to improve graphics.

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The Battle for Middle-earth: Tactics is a Tolkien's lore based RTS. You can stand with forces of Light in order to unite and make a stand for Middle-Earth, or crush the enemies of Mordor while bringing havoc and desolation in the name of Sauron.

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BFME: Tactics beta 1.0
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numan1111
numan1111

Downloading now!Thank you guys for your great job :)

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Seregruth
Seregruth

"iniParseFXlist --FXlist FX_VilyaEnd not found!
Error parsing field ´DeathFX´in block ´Object´ in file ´data\ini\object\projectile.ini´, line 441"
(very sad face)

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Ruudy93 Creator
Ruudy93

post a sreenshot

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Boruin Author
Boruin

Apparently you have files from other mods

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Seregruth
Seregruth

like I can´t play this mod, if I have Edain installed?

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Ruudy93 Creator
Ruudy93

Yes, you can't. You need ROTWK without mods.

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Idios
Idios

Pure awesome, amazing work everyone!

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numan1111
numan1111

These graphics are the best graphics I have ever seen

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RiderOfRohan
RiderOfRohan

Very nice!

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Nightshade332
Nightshade332

Hey man, i downloaded the mod and set it up but when i get into game there are no models for anything and text problems with coding and such may of been bad download but thought i should mention it ^_^ on a positive note i love the launcher

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Eärendil_the_mariner
Eärendil_the_mariner

Guys just wanted to say that I LOVE what you did with the mod. Honestly it is something I would like to do myself if I had the skills and the time. The approach of making it more warcraft/starcraft alike in which you can pretty easily rush an undefended enemy base is awesome and I approve such thing. Still trying to get used to it but may I ask a question? Do Mordor farms increase your resources rate or only affect the supply points?I won't ask more related to economy macro management because I want to find it for myself :D Great work, from what I can say so far!

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Eärendil_the_mariner
Eärendil_the_mariner

Hmm I'll give my quick insight on what the mod has, its strong points and weak points.

PART 1

- First of all I wanted to underline that easy mode seems broken. Not sure if intended but the AI starts with double your resources(I played with 1000 on start and so the AI had 2000) and therefore it's impossible, or "quite a challenge" to even contest the victory points for more supply - bigger army.

Now straight to the mod:

Visuals and presentation.
- I find the launcher really polished and well presented. That itself gives right away the impression the mod had attention and care while being developed. Truth to be told, the mod is marvellous and well optimized as far as I know. Visually looks impressive, specially for a game that is getting its first white hairs. The textures are great and the unit/building models are detailed and pretty.

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Eärendil_the_mariner
Eärendil_the_mariner

PART 2

- Now, I can't go really deep but I will try to describe how much I felt about it with only 2 hours of gameplay. This mod is not as ambitious with units as, for example Edain. It doesn't have many heroes. (As far as I know you only have 1 hero per faction excluding gollum which I will come to that later)nor some epic varied systems. Mordor and Gondor are different factions, with different playstyles but one can't ignore the fact that they do seem similar in unit structure. It seems like the units are planned in a way to allow for an easier game balance, with "mirror roles" and obvious counters all across the board. The heroes only function as supports units, so you should not just throw them at the enemy and expect them to survive more than 5 seconds in the middle of their army. I don't see any problem with this, but it surely seems like there is some lack of varity in gameplay. Warcraft 3, for example, has many variety in units and builds to play. Besides you had your different heroes that changed the way you would approach your strategy for that match. Starcraft 2 doesn't have heroes but has really unique units, from alien tech user to mechanized armor. In this case we only have bland melee units or trolls/werewolves with their own role and attack type, but sadly don't qualify them to be extremely "exotic" in the playstyle. You'll have to build them at some point if the game drags on. It's not a choice, it's a necessity.

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Eärendil_the_mariner
Eärendil_the_mariner

Part 3

Well this is taking longer than I thought so I let's wrap it up with gollum, towers and victory points as quickly as I can. Well, just like in the normal game you'll find gollum roaming around the map but if you (almost) kill him, he doesn't drop the One. Instead, he joins you and his role is to steal economy from your enemy's victory points. I still have to look deeper into this to see how much it affects a match.Yes, this means there are no ring heroes, no Sauron and no galadriel, for Balancing sakes I'd guess. It's a game design that I won't question but it doesn't feel sweet in my mouth as I'd like it to. Now we have towers. Towers are extremly bulky and overpowered. I think they should be toned down a bit. The only way you can defeat and enemy that has 3+ towers in his base is by being extremely ahead of him (Which I doubt. If so you'd have won way before he managed to get the towers up.) and overwhelming his base with your troops and then with pikes/siege units you get those towers down, or by exploiting the fact that he invested economy on towers and not on units for map control purposes

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Eärendil_the_mariner
Eärendil_the_mariner

Part 4

If you fail to do that and you get all game on a 50/50 conflict, you'll at some point not be able to do anything about those towers. Now victory points. You have some books that spawn in the middle of the map and you'll have to fight with your opponent to get control over them. I think the mod devs explained how those worked in some news here so you should go read (as I should aswell) because I have no idea what they do xD Two hours are not enough to quite get it on. You have to fight aswell for some zones on the map that you are able to build your camp there and get boosts of supply/defenses/ more buildings to build troops.

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Eärendil_the_mariner
Eärendil_the_mariner

Part 5 and final part finally xD

One thing that I did not quite understand is to why at 30 minutes of gameplay, my and his (AI bot) workers disappeared and our income declined to null. This makes sense in games where you can fight for another base locations, but not in this where the tournament map doesn't offer even economic victory points for you to squeeze until it's last drop. Not sure if this is a bug or if it is intended but it seems quite off to me.

Overall I think this is a great well polished mod and it's going in a good direction but needs some more features to get the player's grip.

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Drogoth-fan
Drogoth-fan

downloading now very exited :)

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krabaat
krabaat

Sweet, I will report you bugs and fixes ;) I will do anything to make this mod be one of the best!

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darkyuri
darkyuri

I have got windows 10.

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Boruin Author
Boruin

did you try install?

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darkyuri
darkyuri

yes.
Can you add standalone version without ROTWK?

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Windlance
Windlance

I can start a game, but when it's started everything is like purple

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Ruudy93 Creator
Ruudy93

1. Install patch 2,01.
2. Then install mod.

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Windlance
Windlance

Thank you it's working, this is it man I have waited for this so long. Great work guys! :)

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liwei2010032215
liwei2010032215

GOOD JOB!!!!Thanks!!!!

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dirion
dirion

when i click play in the main window it doesent do anything it just load for ever (i dont have any other mod and the patch 2.01

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Pavero
Pavero

Try to start the game without launcher.
And please tell us your OS and installed game language

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liwei2010032215
liwei2010032215

I can not believe that this mod installer supports S-Chinese!!! great

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Guest
Guest

Крутой мод

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Mastroberti
Mastroberti

OH wow this is the LIKE THE best mod i have ever seen i have not tried it yet waiting to get the patch 2.01 and gona instal the mod i really want to see the awesomnes great work already you got a thumbs up from me.!

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briandir1
briandir1

Please add installation instructions. (as detailed as possible, starting with whether to save or open)

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Long92
Long92

When i start the game appear a message , could not found english patch 201.big , but in the lang folder english patch201.big it's present ! Help !

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Operator21
Operator21

When i start playing it takes about 6 secs and then all enemies are just instantly defeated so i cant even start building

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Robin0608
Robin0608

i have two other modds can i run this one too?

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