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[gargarensi]

I'm playing my campaign as Gondor. It's on VH/VH. I maintained a defensive role as Mordor pours on the stacks at East Osgiliath and Cair Andros, forcing me to devote much of my money to the defence of Osgiliath and Cair Andros. By turn 50, Mordor had broken through and captured East and West Osgiliath and Harad had begun invasions on coastal settlements, but instead, they broke off their invasion of Cair Andros. By this point I thought I was pretty screwed, but rather than Mordor attacking Minas Tirith immediately, they spent most of their time moving in troops from Mordor to Osgiliath. I took this opportunity to make as many troops as I could and sold a settlement to Rohan for some extra dough.

Harad had taken most of my coastal settlements but Rohan somehow made it down there and threw themselves at Harad. I took my forces I had raised at Minas Tirith and Caid Andros and launched a counterattack at Osgiliath (against four or five Mordor stacks) I took one and a half stacks from Minas Tirith and one stack from Cair Andros and encircled East and West Osgiliath. Luckily, much of their stacks consisted only of orc bands, making the fight relatively easy. After capturing Osgiliath, Minas Tirith get attacked by Uruk-Hai from Isengard (WTF) and I realise that all of Rohan was overrun by Isengard, but was alive after they recaptured a few of my coastal settlements. Now I'm faced with two fronts to fight on, well...three plus Harad's coastal invasions with little to fight them with except my exhausted troops that took Osgiliath and with very little cash. This is the hardest campaign I had to fight, and I'm loving it.

[Vielokont]

After trying out Isengard, Dwarves and the High Elves I am playing a Gondor campaign too. (newest RR/RC, VH/VH)
I'm just over the first upgraded barracks unlocking event, and I have finally secured Cair Andros and both Osgiliaths. There was a lot of fighting over East Osgiliath, it changed owners every few turns, until finally Mordor brought *a bit* too many filthy Orcs and I thought that I was screwed (i was struggling for cash to both retrain and recruit new troops; every victorious defence cost me the life of many brave militiamen and it wasn't getting any better). Luckily, 2nd Harad "invasion" (both of them being somewhat weak, although their first attack took me completely by surprise, the fact that I managed to defend was a true miracle ) was a true blessing - the raiding force consisted only of 2 units of weak infantry and their faction leader himself! I intercepted them as they were obviously too weak to try and attack any of my coastal settlements and managed to surround and rout them - their King was captured and I decided to demand a ransom - and they accepted - I got ~12.000 gold! That was more than enough to assemble enough troops to retake East Osgiliath, boost my economy a bit and retraining the decimated veteran militiamen. Sauron must be very angry at Harad cause of that ^^

Now I am gathering forces for a campaign against Harad. Rohan protects me from the north, it seems like they are doing pretty well - Isengard is struggling for survival (they are surrounded by Rohan, Eriador and both Elves).

[Sevachenko]

I've been playing Gondor on VH/VH (RC latest) and I've been mostly in a defensive role. I've left Cair Andros to the rebels with my spy watching it in case Mordor advances on it. I've had stack after stack of 5000 orcs thrown at me and it seems endless. My spy just west of Minas Morgul reveals another 4-5 stacks in Ithilien. I have 3 units of Gondor Spearmen, Citadel Guard and the rest is militia. However the ones who have held the city have been my Generals. Currently I have 5 Generals present including the Steward and it is they who charge in and out of Mordors ranks and rout entire armies. To the south, At Linhir, I am holding off Harad's invasions. In the first attack I foolishly lost a general but I took one of theirs.

Rohan stands resilient to Isengard but neither side is winning. The Silvan Elves are drawing some of Mordors armies to the north, which is certainly a blessing. I'm tempted to push to East Osgiliath but I have the grim feeling that if I do, It will be at a terrible cost.

[old_dude]

4 for 4 with Gondor. VH/VH no RC/RR this time. At turn 40 Cair Andros and W. Osgiliath are both mine and solid. I rushed them as early as I could and now after a dozen or so heroic victories between them they both have 1/2 stacks loaded with silver chevrons. Linhir(spelling?) has not been attacked but it has been sieged by Harad three times now. The first time they lifted the siege and their army vanished. The next two times a "crusading" army sieged it on the way to Edoras. However their Generals were shabby and my weak assassin got both on the first try. Money is tight but I am getting just enough to retrain my units when needed and slowly build up my infrastructure in the west. All the good guys are still alive and my first offensive army is just being formed. It might not sound like a spectacular campaign but my first two tries as Gondor wound up being horrible fun debacles. Hopefully I'll last long enough to see Swan Knights. They and mumaks are the only units I haven't seen. Oh and I don't know why but Dale kind of hates me, I think. They granted me trade rights and the drop-down I got was for our relations worsening to terrible. A few turns later I offered an alliance, 3000, and map info. Brand barely accepted and our relations drop-down said improved to terrible. Crazy politicians!

[Warmaster Tibs]

4 for 4 with Gondor. VH/VH no RC/RR this time. At turn 40 Cair Andros and W. Osgiliath are both mine and solid. I rushed them as early as I could and now after a dozen or so heroic victories between them they both have 1/2 stacks loaded with silver chevrons. Linhir(spelling?) has not been attacked but it has been sieged by Harad three times now. The first time they lifted the siege and their army vanished. The next two times a "crusading" army sieged it on the way to Edoras. However their Generals were shabby and my weak assassin got both on the first try. Money is tight but I am getting just enough to retrain my units when needed and slowly build up my infrastructure in the west. All the good guys are still alive and my first offensive army is just being formed. It might not sound like a spectacular campaign but my first two tries as Gondor wound up being horrible fun debacles. Hopefully I'll last long enough to see Swan Knights. They and mumaks are the only units I haven't seen. Oh and I don't know why but Dale kind of hates me, I think. They granted me trade rights and the drop-down I got was for our relations worsening to terrible. A few turns later I offered an alliance, 3000, and map info. Brand barely accepted and our relations drop-down said improved to terrible. Crazy politicians!

VH makes everyone hate you. You would have to give someone HUGE amounts of gold or citys for them to like you. But then it decays so you have to keep giving them stuff.

[Staffen]

Old_dude, there is a theory that having trade rights with a faction you don't actually trade with will worsen relationships (since technically, you're not living up to your promise to trade with them). If Dale's settlements aren't trading with yours, that might be ze problem.

[Graviak]

I am rerally wondering. Be it 1.0, 1.1, now with rc/rr i never ever had a problem with the good factions. Sure its difficult to get military access without gifting them cities. My relationship never went below "amiable" with any good faction. I played HE,Dwarves,Rohan as good fations.

[Coxy]

As Rohan on H/H - I defeated Isengard by turn 50 ish, and then turned my attention to OFTMM - this was going well, as I had conquered Moria and 3 other settlements from them with my 2 best armies. However, I had had an invasion called on me 3 times, each time at Edoras, and so I raised a 3rd decent army, this was actually becoming my best army to take back Edoras each time and then to act as a defensive force each time.

At around turn 100, I saw Mordor was now on my borders. They had taken Minas Tirith. A spy revealed to me that Gondor had been hit severley, by Harad as well. So I sent my finest army and re-took Minas Tirith, and also Cair Andros. However, my army took a severe battering from 4 of Mordor's and I had to retreat, giving both settlements back to Gondor.

At the same time, Mordor launched an all out total war against me, and I lost 1 settlement straight away, so I've had to recall both of my Northern armies who came to my aid just in time. I have retaken my lost land, and prepare to go into Mordor's land once again, this time with more efficency.

2 of my armies headed south of Edoras into Gondor to take back land there from Harad, as they were in desperate need. Gondor has just 4 settlements left I believe, but we are fighting back together. Cair Andros and Minar Tirith are once again in Mordor's hands, and I am now at turn 112. It is time for revenge...

[YassirX]

History of my High Elven Campaign:

First: I am not using cheats or anything similar and I also dont play with "toggle_fow", I just toggled it off to show how my territory status is at turn 154.
Difficulty is VH / VH.

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The Campaign did not began very good.
In the first turns I captured the northern rebel settlements above Mithlond and the settlements among the east coast. I also toggled my captial to be Mithlond to get the most possible money.
Imladris (Rivendale) was under constantly attack by Orcs of the Misty Mountains, as I was only able to recruit 1 Archer / Melee-Infantry Unit in several Turns my army was getting smaller from siege to siege.

After some heroic victorys in Imlardis I thought I banned the Orcs back into the Mountain Valleys... but after about 4 or 5 turns Orcs of the Misty Mountains were attacking me with a full stack Army.
At that time I only had about 700 Men stationed there. 1 Infantry-Regiment, Archers Regiments and Elrond the High King.

The Battle was hard, they outtapped me about 4:1. My tactic was to charge with my Elven Nobles into the enemy mass and call them back and charge again. After about 10 minutes of survive-fighting I recognized that Elrond was bugged outside of the gate were the whole enemy army was standing trying to enter it.
I was not able to call him back into the castle as he had about ~2000 orcs behind him and the gate.
He fought about ~3-4 minutes than he was slain by the enemy.

The battle moved on and finally I managed to win it but after this heroic fight the Orcs of the Misty Mountains attacked once again. I was not able to hold the defence as my cavalary of elven nobles dissapeared after Elrond death.

After I've lost Imladris I collected all of my reinforcements at the east coast, united them under the command of Glorfindel and started a Crusade against the Evil.
I won every single battle and soon I controlled the whole coast down to Gondor. Then I fought my way trough Isengard and finally arrived back at Imlardis which became a Goblin Town. In an Heroic Fight were I was outnumbered I managed to get the City back to its old owners.
After that I have captured the Town above imlardis and moved all of my army into the mountains... willing to kill every orc who was meeting my march.

After some turns of hard fighting I slained all orcs who were living in the misty mountains and controlled all 3 Goblin Towns. From that Point the Orcs of the Misty Mountains only had Beorn's Halls and the little town next to the Mountain Fort left.
After about 5 Turns later the Misty Mountain Orcs were death... same as Isengard before. The Dwarve's were allready attacking both cities and I supported them in their behaviour.

Here I am now, at turn 154, I get 35.000 Money each turn (without taxes etc.).
My next Target is mordor and I hope the dwarves are able to witstand the invasion of rhun in the north... the gain one territory each turn. Rhun already slained Dale and the Silvan Elves.
Gondor is doing a Crusade in the Wastelands arround Umbar... winning their battles they will soon get the wasteland theirs... than only mordor and rhun will be left.

Now I start my fight down to Barad-Dur... so may the Day will come when middle earth once again lives in peace. I've yet captured the town at the top of the anduin... the corpses drag on the anduin down to osgiliath.
Mordor know's what finally awaits their Homeland... they will get slained once the day comes when I knock at the black Gate.

Glorfindel possibly will not see this day coming he is old allready... my best general will die soon.
The General who fought nearly every battle... and won every battle... riding on his mighty horse asfaloth.

[Mythre]

I have played Extensively on a VH/VH Gondor campaign and have just recently started a High Elf campaign.
Both of these have been rather easy i must say.

The Gondor one started well. I took Cair Andros, E. and W. Osgiliath, and the Ithilien regions in short order, fended off a few feeble counter attacks, built up an army and Minas Morgul followed. (That was, I admit a hard campaign. My first introduction to the Mordor fatigue leech. No desert was that bad in MTW2!) Harad then began their attack of my south. I fended off their attacks with not too much issue and set out with a two pronged offensive from Dol Amroth and Pelagir. I took multiple settlements and beat the primary armies of Harad. It was only a matter of time before I won when i hit a bit of luck. I killed the entire harad family on a ill fated raid to Umbar. With all their cities rebel, I absorbed them in short order.
Meanwhile up north, I had suceeded in taking the Orc encampment and the black Gate. (Taken by an offensive from Malgalad.) After a couple extremely bloody and troll filled campaigns, Barad-Dur and Durthang fell.
I then launched an offensive north to retake Rohan from Isenguard. It progresses well to this day. I am now in the last stages of mopping up Morder. To be honest, this campaign has been a piece of cake. I have lost only one settlement to enemy action... That was taken by a Harad surprise attack. (They took 88% casualties doing it though.)

The High Elf one is also on VH/VH.
It is now around turn thirty. Imladris has not even been besieged. I have taken Moria and the 2 other Orc cities above it. (The campaign was pitiful for the Orcs... i took 200 losses for the entire campaign....) My economy is growing and soon I will strike north to beat the rest of the Orcs.
Not sure what the fuss is all about with the High Elves honestly.

[Lioncross]

I'm currently playing my very first campaign in TWTA on H/H, with none other than Gondor. The first few turns where hell, getting pounded by Mordor and Harad, at one point I only had 3 territories and -1002 in cash , but after a short period of peace I took a gamble and sent out Denethor with the only army left to raid the Harad twice. I gained back all the Gondor lands plus three settlements from them and tons of cash plus crippling them for 30 turns.

Rohan fell and Isengard began attacking from the east and over the mountains, I sold some land to the High Elves (whom where neutral to Isengard) hoping Isengard would attack it and they took the bait. The High Elves and I took all of Isengard except two settlements, as of now the High Elves and Isengard are at each others throats, so I don't need to worry about them.

At one point of the game I took 3 stacks all the way to the black gates, raiding and conquering as I went, till I got to Mordor (where the sky is red *spooky*), there Sauron beat me like a bastard child, and debutted two new units, the Uruk and Olog-Hai. Mordor released 5 stacks of elite units full of: Nazgul, Uruk, Olog-Hai, Catapults, took back his lands, conquered and crossed Osgiliath with ease. But I was waiting there with 5 stacks in Pelennor fields, plus a packed Minas Tirith and another stack 2 turns away coming up the river. What ensued was the biggest battle I've ever had in a TW game. I lost about 12,000 men, close to 80% my gathered force. Mordor lost about 9,000, but I was able to take out all the Nazgul leaders + the Witch King. And even thought the still outnumbered me 2:1, they went back to Osgiliath and Cair to regroup I guess, I think they went back cuz I landed the relief force across the river.

As of now, Harad is almost gone, and I'm fighting a fairly easy fight with Rhun (mostly cuz according to my spys the Dwarfs are making Rhun their up north), Mordor and I are playing a tug of war over Osgiliath. Once I get enough % of men in the current Rhun cities I've gained I plan to attack Morod from the south with a bout 3-4 stacks of militia, and once Mordor pulls back armies from the river to counterattack, I will create about 5-6 stacks of Heavy Elite soldiers and push this mofo from both fronts all the way to Mt. Doom

[Ranger of Ithilien]

Well i am playing a rohan campaign VH/VH with RC and RR Lore Edition... And i Lost many settlements but i managed to capture them again but Edoras is under control of isengard and i don't want to recapture it because if i do, Sauron will call an invasion...well not much to say.. i am now at turn 26 and attacking fangorn but my armies are not strong enough to face isengard... Sometimes i think the ai cheat because i saw in the console this following command line when i was going to write toggle_fow: add_money venice 150!!! so they will always have more money than me! but this is the difficult part!

[bentlemp]

I've got four campaigns going (sorry I've had to try everything and these were the ones I stuck with): High Elves, Silvan Elves, Dale, and the Dwarves

High Elves
First thing I did was fortify that single lone city where Elrond resides (sorry i suck with the names). It's vulnerable due to it's positioning. And given that Eriador is weak, I created a diplomat and made friendly with the Dwarves and Silvans.

I took as many easy rebels as possible and then went after the OotMM. this took some doing as they really pack a punch. Primarily I tried to cut off their supply lines by heading straight into the mountain east of Elrond's city. Then I went north. Once I gutted everything north, I finished it to the south removing that faction.

At this point Isengard was humping Rohan so I took the fight to them. As it stands I'm generating pretty decent cash and have a stout stack sitting on Isengard's doorstep.

Silvan Elves
I started by trying to unify my territories. So I took some rebel towns as fast as I could which took some doing because resources are scarce. Once I got those, I built up my economy and turtled for a bit. Dale my natural ally was starting to take a hit from Rhun so I allied with the Dwarves and High Elves and started defending Dale. I drove them back a bit and then started picking on OotMM (my favorite targets). At this point it was revealed to me the magic of the archer! (I was having a hard time realizing their potential). So, I started blasting OotMM and routed them into extinction. Then I turned my western forces toward Isengard while pushing gentley south toward mordor.

Dale
Just started this one but I'm pretty much at war with Rhun immediately. They are just bringing the fire and it's hard to keep up with their stacks as I dont have much revenue. The Dwarves are turtling and I've had to scale back and play defense while I build up. I took two rebel areas to begin with but lost them to Rhun during their invasion. Right now I'm just holding them off with a combination of archers and shield wall spears.

Dwarves
Ugh! I can't play as the Dwarves. Maybe I just don't know how, maybe I just dont have the patience but they are agonizingly slow and they drive me nuts not having any long range option. I get completely owned by any half ass army with archer (because in the beginning the miners just get mauled). So, having been destroyed twice I'm on my third Dwarf campaign and I'm adopting the 'turtle and advance through tech' method hoping that I can level up and build fast enough to create some sort of a force that wont get destroyed as soon as any boy with a bow steps up to hammer me.

[desean]

I'm doying my first VH/VH campaign as Gondor, fortunaly i readed alot of forum member guides about the first gondor turns and the nightmare it is.
I decided to rush mordor in the black gate and Minas Ithil, things went good in black gate but i failed miserably in Minas Ithil, after about 20 turns of fights around all of Ithilien i finally took Minas Ithil and with it i managed to control all of Ithilien, this was with no doubt the best 20 turns of gaming i ever had, i had to have 3 huge battles just to reach Minas Ithil. Meanwhile i managed to control all the western rebels till Druwaith Iaur, I must admit i only managed to put Mordor under control because i think i was lucky enough in 3 situacions, first no one rushed most of the western rebels, second mordor kinda ignored the black gate, third harad didnt bother me much.
After Mordor was finally controled i marched south into Harad, i must say i never fought Harad was so easy, i marged with 2 stacks of militias, i lost half a stack in Harondor and the rest to secure it, the other stack marched to Umbar, while i was marching to Umbar the rest of Harad started remaking its forces, by the time i was done with Umbar, my southern borders were in trouble, and i couldnt spare any reinforcements because mordor was sending stack after stack against minas Ithil and to make things worst it called a crusade agaisnt it, after some close fights i took all the harad settlements, 1 by 1, till there was 1 left, after a siege to show them whos boss i decided to go nice guy (also i didnt want those desert lands) and so i made them my protectorate in trade for their 3 eastern settlements, ofc i destroyed all theyr buildings to make then weaker, and that was the end of the harad headache.
Now that things were under control i decided to check my long forgotten allies, rohan was holding, i can almost say rohan and isengard were evenly matched, eriador was kickin OotMM, while the Dwarfs and Silvan Elfs were being kicked by the OotMM, Dale had the usual troubles to survive against Rhun.
I had 2 choices now, enter Mordor and destroy it, or go to the lands south of Dale to assist against Rhun.
After i took the 2 provinces near Dagorland, both to help me from Mordor from Dol Guldur and to at least make some pressure against Rhun, i marched against Mordor from Minas Ithil, got myself humiliated in battle, Mordor somehow understood that trying to retake Minas Ithil or the Black gate was suicide so they gave up, instead they builded about 6 stacks in Gorgoroth (i was unaware), so after this crushing defeat i made some spies and assassins to assist me in Mordor, half the spies died lol, and after a while i got a mission to assassinate a certain nazgul, wich my assassin surprisely managed to, and to my surprise the Mordor faction was defeated, i was like 'OMG', taking all of Mordor was really easy after that.
Now the war against Rhun was about to start, i attacked Rhun first, before they decided to attack me, they were focused on Dale and the dwarfs and didnt had forces to the South, i took everything till the river that seperates Rhovanion from Rhun, and all the way to the lands of Dale, i must say Dale wasnt happy i didnt return their old lands to them.
After i spent some time building and moving some armies to the west, i went to assist Rohan against Isengard, i was very disapointed with isengard, i expected a challange, but instead was like fighting against OotMM, the Isengard armies were full of snagas, i wasnt prepared for that either, fortunally i learned to to fight them with cavalry with hit and run tactics, Rohan joined the fight and isengard went down pretty fast, i took most of the Lands while Rohan focused on Isengard and fangorn.
Altho i didnt crush Rhun i had it controled with troops on the bridges in the borders rivers, and after alot of turns with building and reforming the armies i started getting bored, lore wise, every part of me said i should move to eriador, first i went after any rebel settlement that wasnt taken (only 2 beh), then i marched my armies and hell went loose, all our shared allies turned their backs on me (High Elves and Rohan), so now i was at war with rohan, high elves and Eriador, Rohan was easy to hold i only had to reinforce fast 3 settlements in the west and minas Tirith to the east, but the north wasnt goin well, i had to mass produce armies to keep up against the elven stacks in grey heavens and those eriador dudes for a bunch of farmers and hobbits and a few rare professional units were pretty hard (harder then isengard).
At this very moment Eriador is at an end, only Bree if left for conquer, i gave 2 of their provinces to the dwarfs to strengthen our alliance, and gave Ost-in-Edil and mithlond to the silvan elves to strenght my reputation with them and their fight against OotMM, tbh with this moves i shielded myself from the OotMM, i still have the high elves to deal with, im getting out of stacks (their archers kill alot ) and they still have 2 full stacks and a buntch of small armies walking around, as for rohan they only did some sieges but never tried to conquer any settlement, seems theyr avoiding open war with me, and i think i will not continue my war with em, i dont have enough troops anyways.

[Momus]

I am the dwarves VH/VH

I owned OoTMM, (this was a fairly decisive battle in the campaign against OoTMM http://www.twcenter.net/forums/album.php?albumid=2063)

I owned Rhun

I owned Dale who attacked me!!!! *******s

I owned Isengard

I am now moving to own mordor and harad so save gondors bacon. again.

Simples

[Æsir]

Gondor, VH/VH, turn 32
The most interesting situation is in diplomacy - High Elves and Dwarwes have allied and attacked Eriador together. Is seems Eriador is doomed, and I'm very glad of it, because in my last campaign I was bored of orc-killing, but now I will get the chance to exterminate Elves and Dwarwes justifiably - to punish them for their treason of race of men.