In skirmish when you are playing with Men or Elves, instead of building a fortress at the start of the game, build: a couple of farms, (a baracks if you are elves), (an archery range if you are men), and an armory. Now upgrade the armory to level 3 and purchase all upgrades, including fire arrows at archery range when playing Men. Now construct two battalions of archers, and fully upgrade them. Then what ever direction the enemies are coming from, build a well and a hero monument right next to each other, and place your archers just in front of them so they are getting leadership from both the well and the hero monument. Now your archers will be indestructable because the well will auto-heal them, and the hero monument will give them +50% damage and armor, plus they will gain experience twice as fast accelerating them to level 5 in no time. Now the enemy will be crushed whenever they attack!

Submitted By: Ballistic_Maniac

Obliterating Even Brutal Enemies Easily

It's really pretty easy. Start off the skirmish buying your resource maker (farm/tree/mine/whatever), and with your other builder, get a barrack/range/ whatever. Once the unit building has been completed, you should have 2 farms, or about to get the second. Keep building resource buildings with that builder, while you build unit builders with the other builder.

Here's the good part - On Brutal, the enemies ALWAYS attack your farms. So put a line of them up towards the enemies base, and constantly build your forces. Once they start attacking your farms, you should have enough units to crush them easily. Have your builder make a well/statue/forge, and start upgrading your guys. This is easiest with the Elves, since their Silverthorn arrows obliterate anything and everything. It's hardest with Isengard, because they tend to suck in general.

Once you have a sufficient wall of troops to halt the enemy, save up your points for magical use until you have one of the two level 25 ones. When you are ready, summon your Lvl 15 allies, and use the Lvl 25 skill on the next group of enemies. Now you can rush into their base unhindered, and obliterate them.

All archers works best, they clean the base in no time flat. I find that with the elves, dont bother using Mirkwood archers because they dont get armor upgrade, and take more command points. The only time I bother with the Mirkwood guys is when I have a Castle like Helm's Deep to defend, because their range is unmatched.

All in all, it should take you anywhere from 8 - 15 minutes to crush any Brutal opponent using this method.

Submitted By: Reaper

Assassinate Enemy Heroes

Create a hero and give them the disguise and assassinate abilities (other abilities don't matter). Now train your custom hero and train a battalion of simple swordsmen and disguise your hero as one of them. The enemy will not attack your hero, so then you can assassinate the enemy hero that you choose.

Submitted By: gimli8888

The Best Elven Hero: Thranduil

As you might know, Thranduil is invisible all the time. But if enemy units or Fortress gets too close to him or he gets close them he will be uncoverd. First you want to kill wargs/trolls/wraiths/goblins with him, he doesn't kill buildings fast enough until level 7. Once you have the elven cloak, get into defense mode. Go into their base and pick off your enemies. When they get about a fortress length away click on elven cloak and don't attack anyone or move. You are now completely invisible. If they stay next to you, send a battalion of swordsmen to lead them off and pick a new location in the base. Buildings besides fortresses will not discover you so you're ok.

Submitted By: Dwarven33King

Easy Resources

In Skirmish, while playing as any dark force, set the map for Isengard. Put yourself inside of the giant wall. If you build a lot of lumber mills all around in that area, you will gain resources constantly because of how many trees are there. I recommend 8-10 Lumber mills. This only works with Mordor, Isengard, and the Goblins.

Submitted By: Tanner360

Fun with Dwarves

First, change the starting resources to 4000. Build a few mines. When you have 4500 resource points, upgrade your fortress with dwarven stonework. Next upgrade to a mighty catapult. The thing shoots half way across the map. This is a big bonus on the Good campaign at Dom Gildur. If you can aim it well you can annilate the Mordor counter attack. If you use this in skirmish, do the map of Osgillith - you can build a fortress near each bridge and fire away.

Submitted By: MATTY BOY

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