The Rohan Thread

[Nazgûl Killer]

This is a place in which you can find strategies, problems' solutions, features and loving players of Rohan.


Strong Points:
Extremely powerful and fast cavalry.
Strong early units.
Powerful speedy bodyguards.
Strong citadel early on.
Quite a lot of room to expand.

Weaknesses:
Lacking in infantry later on in the game.
Lacking in archers later on in the game.
A prime spot for invasion for some reason (Edoras, hopefully fixed in next versions).
Several cities and castles start very weak, as villages or wooden castles, lots of money spent on upgrading those.
Very strong army to face off with, Isengard, which are the complete contra of Rohan.

Also, since Gondor, Dale and Isengard already have their own thread, it's time to discuss the awesomeness of Rohan! Discuss away!

[ISA Gunner]

Cavalry sucks donkey balls. Charges are very ineffective, they get slaughtered in prolonged melees, they're charges are well underpowered. This is in general of course but seeing as Rohan relies a lot on horses, this becomes a significant disadvantage to them. Cavalry pathfinding also blows. Other than that, i have no problem with Rohan.

[Anibal at portas]

for my rohan is good.

[Outlawstar15a2]

Cavalry sucks donkey balls. Charges are very ineffective, they get slaughtered in prolonged melees, they're charges are well underpowered. This is in general of course but seeing as Rohan relies a lot on horses, this becomes a significant disadvantage to them. Cavalry pathfinding also blows. Other than that, i have no problem with Rohan.

You do know that no cavalry in any mod is effective at head on fights thats not what they're for. My strategy is to use my infantry to pin the enemy in place, use archers to further the casualties and take my mass of cavalry and do a little backdoor rapage. Adun willing I'll win, I usually do with this strategy, a standard army for me is 3-4 archers, enough melee infantry to hold the enemy in place for a few minutes, and the rest in cavalry (usually 10-12 units of cavalry). It's expensive as hell but this for me is my assault force. As for defence? Rohan is a cavalry based army make sure it doesn't come to that. City assault? Just starve em' out....

[Dangor]

Downloaded a script that made charges better (they plow deeper in the enemy ranks) it's in the sub-mod forum somewhere

[daddytorgo]

Downloaded a script that made charges better (they plow deeper in the enemy ranks) it's in the sub-mod forum somewhere

can you elaborate? What script is this? Because I've put in a couple of the sub-mods and started a fairly successful rohan-game and want to make sure i'm not being shortchanged

[Outlawstar15a2]

can you elaborate? What script is this? Because I've put in a couple of the sub-mods and started a fairly successful rohan-game and want to make sure i'm not being shortchanged

He's talking about the Darth Mod for TATW now for 1.1. I have it aims to change and improve the battle mechanics by fixing some flaws and shortcomings in M2TWs combat engine such as ineffective charges....

[hengyu]

Downloaded a script that made charges better (they plow deeper in the enemy ranks) it's in the sub-mod forum somewhere

Mind sharing a link? Can't find it anywhere...

[Nazgûl Killer]

Aye, it is in the sub mod forum, downloaded it too. It makes Mumakils killable by cavalry as well.

[Beriadan]

yea i got the submod, still have a problem matching isengard.

[Hallow]

Started my Rohan campiagn yesterday, at turn 20 something and pretty much destroyed Isengard, they only have 2 western villages along the coast. pretty much did this by spending every single little piece of gold I had to begin with and mustered 2 full stacks of a mix between cavalry/spearmen/heavy infantry/bowmen led by Theoden and Gamling. Used one to take Isengard itself and one to go north. I guess when I'm done with them I can start taking the rebel settlements :p

[IrishBlood]

i took isengard aand am soon gonna take the dunlanding settlements soon, but i have a slight problem.....................

sauron declared a crusade against me, and now there are 3 full stack armys besieging edoras!

put im not worried, even though its on very hard, the ai tend to suck when it comes to sieges

[Nakharar]

i dont like the look of Rohan soldiers much as much as i would like to play there position but i as High Elves am going to help them against Isengard it was good my excellent archers and Noldor Spearmen and there excellent Horses flanked alot of Urak Hais

[pwf224]

I get all my units together and rush Isengard. Once I take the settlement I play defense for a while (Isengard is a citadel and a great defensive location) while I build up my economy and armed forces. I then try to take the fight to isengard and finish them off asap. After you finish off Isengard you usually have to go retake Minis Tirith from Mordor, which will usually reward you with an Invasion on Edoras. Pretty much playing as Rohan is ridiculously difficult and thoroughly enjoyable.

[Nazgûl Killer]

I get all my units together and rush Isengard. Once I take the settlement I play defense for a while (Isengard is a citadel and a great defensive location) while I build up my economy and armed forces. I then try to take the fight to isengard and finish them off asap. After you finish off Isengard you usually have to go retake Minis Tirith from Mordor, which will usually reward you with an Invasion on Edoras. Pretty much playing as Rohan is ridiculously difficult and thoroughly enjoyable.

In all BFME/TA games/minigames/mods I've played, -THAT- is the tactic to beat Isengard. Rush them head on.

[dom385]

i wished i had known that when i started mine at the moment im almost bankrupt and cant train/retrain or build im so poor. however it is the most fun i've ever had in a total war campaing, i've just regained the upper hand in our war, isenguard are down to their last 2/3 towns and only have 1 big army, fighting a war when you have resources this limited is actualy realy fun. i also managed to fight off an invasion against edoras by mordor,isenguard and harad then retook minas tirith for gondor, now they were some epic battles

[Dangor]

Is the invasion on edoras scripted? it has occured in all my campaigns so far. Minas Tirith seems like a much more logical target

[Nole4694]

I don't think so, but by the time the invasion is called Rohan is normally considered a bigger threat than Gondor to the AI or Minas Tirth is already taken.

[Aye]

Had some wee fun with my save today, but frankly I'm not in war with Isengard, tried to defend Minas Tirith with Gondor, but couldn't, now I'm sending full stack to fight with Gondor's rest towns. And funny that, when Sauron called invasion on Edoras, Isengard didin't even attack, they have mighty full stacks around so I couldn't really afford fighting them when Mordor is running with like 20 full stacks around.

Had two nice fights, first was when with one Eorling Militia and 33 bodyguard, defending a city from three raider units I got them routing when I had 3 bodyguard (the general still alive) and 2 militia left, orcs were still around 300.
Another was when I beat three mordor Orc Raider units, with three Rohan Riders (the basic cavarly not sure about the name) and one cavarly archer unit, the only full unit were the archers. So I beat 3x250 of them with 11losses, without any cavarly mods. Archers killed most, but one unit was right behind with charge attacks, I usually seperated one of them weakened heavily by the archers and charged from every direction, worked pretty darn well.

[Beriadan]

i just got seiged by rhun and mordor..the only to answer saurons call on edoras.

i took isengard, after 2 hours at my pc fighting... 1fps is not good during a battle! anybody else laggy as hell when in a settlement battle?