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Lord of The Rings: Battle for Middle Earth FAQ
Author: LoneEagle013
Version: 1.0.2
Date: 02/17/05
Contact info: loneeagle.faq@gmail.com
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TABLE OF CONTENTS:
-DISCLAIMER
-INTRODUCTION
-VERSION INFO
-GENERAL COMMENTS REGARDING THE GAME
-COMMONLY ASKED QUESTIONS
-GOOD SIDE SINGLE PLAYER GUIDE (MEDIUM DIFFICULTY)
-EVIL SIDE SINGLE PLAYER GUIDE (MEDIUM DIFFICULTY)
-CONTRIBUTIONS (CLOSED DUE TO HECTIC SCHEDULE)
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DISCLAIMER:
1. Lord of The Rings: Battle for Middle Earth is copyright of EA Games.
2. All materials here are of original strategies and opinions, unless stated
explicitly.
3. As of the current version, the FAQ is far from complete. I will continuously
update the FAQ (hopefully on daily basis for the next 3 days). For questions
please check the message board in the topic I created, w/ the topic regarding
the writing of this FAQ.
4. Please do not plagiarize. Plagiarism is the worst form of flattery. If you
want to use parts of this guide in your own, you may do so by giving credits
where it's due. I'm not picky like big companies, just stick in my name
(that is, LoneEagle013) somewhere in the credits section, or at the part where
you are using my materials. On top of that, I am not a native English speaker,
therfore my writing flavor is somewhat unique - I can see my writing style
being copied without my permission pretty damn well. At the very least please
paraphrase the ideas if you want to take some parts of this guide.
5. When sending me e-mails, I reserve the right for all the contents of the
e-mail, and reserve the right to edit any parts of received e-mails I include
in this FAQ. I will for the most part leave the messages intact, but I will
edit some of the letters for content and clarity, if it is too confusing or
offensive. Just letting you guys know.
6. Please put subject: BFME FAQ, or something like that when e-mailing me. I
receive craploads amounts of junkmail, so every now and then the filter fails
(hotmail, heh) and your mail might be going down to the junk folder. And
please if you attempt to send me files, be clear on what kind of file
attachment you are sending. I trust that people have good intentions, and that
if I receive viruses, spyware, or trojan from any attachments with the BFME FAQ
subject line on the e-mail, I will put the e-mail address in the subsequent
update of the faq, and hopefully the community will punish you with equivalent
pain and malice.
END OF DISCLAIMER
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NOTES ON VERSION 1.0.1:
- Added new privacy statement.
NOTES ON VERSION 1.0:
- First finalized version of the faq, minor updates from now on.
- Updates will be done at slower pace from now on.
- Minor update on Black Gates.
NOTES ON VERSION 0.9:
- Formatting updates for easier reading. 0.8 formatting was converted to a very
weird double skipping for unknown reason, fixed the problem.
- Finished Evil Campaign.
NOTES ON VERSION 0.8:
- More evil missions completed.
- More commentaries and contributions.
- Minor corrections on spellings and grammar.
- Major contribution at the end of the faq, recommended reading.
NOTES ON VERSION 0.7:
- Added some extra notes on Contact info.
- Added some more common questions answered.
- Minor update on mergable batallions.
- Finished Mordor units guide section.
- Added credits section at the end of the FAQ.
- Added more evil missions.
NOTES ON VERSION 0.6:
- Added first four missions of Evil side.
- Finished the Isengard unit guide.
- Added some more commonly asked questions.
NOTES ON VERSION 0.5:
- Added general Ancillary mission strategies.
- Finished Mordor guide for Minas Tirith (Evil final mission).
- Added commonly asked questions regarding the game (always under construction)
- Added contributions section.
NOTES ON VERSION 0.4:
- Minor updates on Aragorn.
- Added my general comment of the game.
- Finished Evil Heroes section.
- Finished the Good Units guide section.
NOTES ON VERSION 0.3:
- Finished the GOOD main missions, with the rest of the ancillary mission
coming up.
- Put a contact info at the top.
NOTES ON VERSION 0.2:
- Fixed/updated GOOD heroes guide.
- Expanded the GOOD campaign missions.
NOTES ON VERSION 0.1:
- Started the FAQ.
- Good side Heroes with their abilities and comments of general usage.
- First few missions of Good Side.
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INTRODUCTION:
This is my first game FAQ ever, so any inputs and ideas are more then welcomed.
This FAQ is a work in progress, and I will update the FAQ continuously as I
refine my tactics and beat the game. As of this version I already finished both
good and evil campaigns, but currently replaying the good side of the game in
order to write up this FAQ, with the evil side coming up within a week or so.
I will also include my brief version of strategies for important/critical
battles.
As of this version the FAQ covers mainly about the Single Player (SP) campaigns
both good and evil. Multiplayer strategies will be included as people
contribute more stuff to me.
I will cover most of the important missions that are integral to the plot of
LOTR, since these are the trickiest missions in the game. I will not cover
all the ancillary missions due to its similarity between one to another and
the objective is always to destroy all the enemies, so not a very hard thing
to do if you have a powerful army at your disposal to begin with.
CONTACTING ME (PLEASE READ PRIVACY STATEMENT AT THE END):
I welcome any comments, you can send them at LoneEagle.faq@gmail.com. If you
have any strategies that you think works better than mine, I'll be happy to
include it in this FAQ. Also, I haven't played all the ancillary missions yet,
so if you have anything you would like to contribute, it is more than welcomed.
Please understand if the replies are somewhat slow because I have a busy
schedule and writing the FAQ is a spare time thing. (CONTRIBUTIONS ARE CLOSED
AS OF 02/17/05, but questions are always more than welcome)
I will try to respond to all the messages sent to me, and update my FAQ along
with answers from the questions I received via e-mail. However, to avoid
redundancy I will not reply to questions already covered in the FAQ, so please
read the FAQ carefully for your questions and if you cannot find your answer
then by all means ask me the question. I will make this FAQ as comprehensive
as possible, and I will edit the contents to make them clearer if people find
my explanations confusing.
Update: I have received quite some e-mails within the few days of posting this
FAQ, thereby confirming my questions on whether people actually read my FAQ or
not. I am happy that a lot of people do, and so far all the mails I received
have been very positive. However, I did notice that there were some e-mails
that were written poorly, and asked questions that has been thoroughly
discussed in other places (GameFAQ message boards, EA tech support, etc).
I don't mind answering your questions, but I mainly focus on the strategic
aspect of the game rather than technical and dollar value of the game.
The message board is always a good place to start for finding information,
and there are plenty of reviews out there in the web or printed media that
asking me whether the game is worth to get or not is a bit of a subjective
issue. Solutions to technical problems can often be found in the message
board, or at the EA official tech support page. I will gladly answer your
questions the best as I can, but I'll be much happier discussing gameplay
tactics and finishing the faq to its final version.
Ultimately, if you're still stuck and no one out there can help you, then
by all means you are welcome to e-mail me and I'll try to help you out the
best I can. Just remember I am just an individual and are not affiliated in
any way with EA or Game developers, only a guy who happens to play the game
and decided to write an faq about it.
PRIVACY STATEMENT/IMPORTANT STUFF (READ BEFORE CONTACTING ME)
Since the release of 1.0 faq, I have been receiving a whole lot of e-mail. Most
of them were good questions and strategies, but some concerns me a whole lot.
First of all, people are starting to instant message me, and add me to their
buddy lists and asking me weird questions. While I do not mind having you in
my buddy list, you will require my permission to do so (send me an e-mail
regarding that topic).
While I can filter e-mails sent at my direction, there is no way for instant
messaging to do that except to block the person. To anticipate this, I have
set up a new mail account exclusively for faq purposes, and set up several
new rules so that hopefully it is easier to deal with the large amount of
e-mail I am receiving because of this faq.
So here is the deal:
1. PLEASE DO NOT ADD ME TO YOUR BUDDY LIST ON ANY INSTANT MESSAGING MEDIUM,
UNLESS I GIVE YOU THE PERMISSION TO DO SO VIA E-MAIL.
2. PLEASE READ THE FAQ, AND ONLY CONTACT ME REGARDING STRATEGY CONTRIBUTIONS,
OR QUESTIONS NOT COVERED IN THE FAQ. (Dumb questions will not be responded,
nor will be questions that I have covered in the FAQ).
3. EMAIL TO: loneeagle.faq@gmail.com. If you have corresponded with me before,
please send subsequent messages to the new account. I will not respond and
block any e-mails regarding the subject that are sent to the wrong mailbox.
4. PLEASE PUT BFME FAQ ON THE SUBJECT LINE. There are tons of junkmail floating
in my mailbox, and I don't feel like fishing your mail every time from the
junk folder. I am doing this out of courtesy, but it is getting troublesome
for me to fish all the messages.
5. PLEASE WRITE IN LEGIBLE ENGLISH. While I am well versed in L33tSP34K and the
rest of internet lingo, please try your best to write something legible. It
helps me to understand better of your questions and contributions, and
saves me time of editing your stuff if it makes it to the faq.
6. DO NOT ASK ME FOR CD KEY!!! I am only writing a strategy guide, a free one
to boot. I agree that often times games are really expensive to buy. So earn
it, like get a job or something. Or you can save up. Before I had a job, I
used to skip lunches and use my lunch money to buy expensive things I wanted
that my parents would not get me for a million years (video games, etc). If
you still want freebies, then search the web for it. They are out there, and
tons of people are playing bootleg games on daily basis. Just don't blame me
when the FBI comes knocking the door on you. Software piracy these days is
a serious crime. Try it if you will, but then buy the game afterwards, when
it is on sale or it is at the bargain bin.
A lot of you are very friendly, helpful and sent me very good questions and
strategies. But trust me, this is only the minority of the e-mails I receive.
A majority of e-mail I received goes back to the questions I have answered
a lot of times to different people who failed to read the faq CAREFULLY. For
those of you who are in my good list, I apologize for the inconvenience and the
new rules imposed on contacting me. I just have to do this before things get
seriously out of control. For the rest of you who sent me some seriously dumb
stuff, I forgive your errors in the past. But I will not be so forgiving, now
that I made the rules clear for everyone.
Thank you, and please enjoy the rest of the FAQ.
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