So I need help with these guys, I've only started playing the mod two days ago and have been laboring along as the Silvian Elves. I'm not even playing the game on Very Hard/Very Hard as it suggests yet overcoming the Misty Orcs and later on Mordor seems to be impossible.
The only real time I was on the offensive was at the start of the game. The Misty Orcs didn't have many troops and only sent small armies into my territories which were easily massacred with my archers (in some cases the loss/kill stats were 0/300, 2/400, and one time even 0/700) yet when I was issued the mission to take Moria that spawned the Balrogs and it was game over, the Misty Orcs have been on the prowl ever since sending stacks of 10 - 15 units sieging my border towns every other turn.
For the last 100 turns it's been nothing but sieges, retraining, and sieges, losing a city, then retaking, and the whole process starts over again. Due to SE's slow recruitment it takes something like 10 turns to even get a worthy army together and even at that point that's only something like 8 units. Meanwhile Orcs are still hitting my towns with stacks of 15 every turn and now Mordor has rolled up through from the east and is doing the same thing.
So yeah...help? Advice?