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[m@tt]

Unfortunately, Celeglin the mod creator hasn't been seen here for around 8 months.

Tips to beat MT:
When the mission starts, you already have full CP. So spam farms and blacksmiths, and also stick in a marketplace. Build as many wall trebuchet as possible. Once the attack gets going, kill the first level buildings and create all the unit buildings plus a well and statues. When the towers come, focus all the wall trebuchets (inc the 2nd level ones) onto the towers. If you also stick some archers on the second level then they can hit some of the units that climb up the tower as well as whatever units you have on the wall.

[Taralom]

i've managed to beat Minas Tirith by drawing all of my men to the stairs to the second level.
it was quite easy after that.

[Kyrivian]

You'll most likely havea full command point total at the start, so do what M@tt said earlier, but when your soldiers start dying, create a few trebuchet's, and get teh "Fire Stones" upgrade. Upgrade your wall trebuchets to give them a fairly large boost against the towers.

[Olorin]

Please don't blame the modder for EA's 'mistake'. It's not even a mistake: it was made so for balance reasons (I think because the Evil armies can kill their own soldiers and they get Spellbook Points - I dunno, haven't played B4ME in ages).

[Lauri]

AoD wipe out armies...
Balrog wipes out armies and buildings...

Considering that the good castles are tougher than the evil ones, it's quite fair Although, TEA made their stay much much shorter

Edited by Lauri, 12 March 2008 - 01:19 PM.

[Elvenlord]

And good units give off more pp then evil. At least I think they do...

[Kyrivian]

It's not that they give off more, as far as I know. It's that there are more orcs in a horde than soldiers in a battallion.

For example,*** there are 4 soldiers in a gondorian batallion, each worth 5pp. Total 20pts.

But there's 20 orcs in a mordor horde, each worth 1 pp. total? 20 points. You have to kill more to get the same effect when good.


***Example is completely and utterly rediculous. The theory may be right, but the point values are wrong, wrong, wrong.

[Elvenlord]

I meant individually, not as a battalion
Or maybe that too. Someone needs to check

[Lauri]

if an orc is 2 pts, a man is probably 3 points...
3x5 = 15
2x10 = 20

Good = 300
Evil = 600

Good = 20 Battalions, 100 Troops
Evil = 30 Battalions, 300 Troops

[Elvenlord]

You should probably get your rohirrim inside the city, they'll be wasted outside. Put soldiers with your archers on the wall to be a meat shield.

[Taralom]

Another strategy that I used is to drop the 1st level. Don't even think about defending it. Try to defend the stairways to the second level instead with your mêlee-troops. Put your archers on the entire second wall to defend against incoming nazgûl and soften up the incoming troops for your mêlee-troops. As soon as the Rohirrim arrive, get them inside with a side-gate, as Elven said. Then you can use those Rohirrim to protect one stairway and your total Gondor army to defend the other.
That's how I get through Minas Tirith, since defending to small bottlenecks is waaaaaay easier then defending each and every segment of the walls.

Of course, if you want to do it another way, you're free to do so. There are plenty of other ways to finish this map, but it takes time. It takes Epic, adrenaline-rushing time

[Elvenlord]

Are you building soldiers or tower guards? Soldiers are better on the wall, because you can build more of them and are more effective against infantry. By the gate a mixture of both is best.

[Elvenlord]

What about the archers? Regular are better than rangers on the wall.