Amazing HE economy

**Maxamus** · February 22, 2010, 08:35 AM

After killing ootmm and isengard, i killed eriador. Lol elite elves marching on hobbits and men, but after that i killed rohan for lack of some1 better to kill, then i focused on building building that increase trade,law, order ect and now i get like 30k per turn

**Lordinquisitor** · February 22, 2010, 08:43 AM

Honestly; So what?

You killed 4 factions.. You should earn some gold by now.

**Æsir** · February 22, 2010, 08:59 AM

In fact, I have the same result after killing just Isengard. That's reason why I found HE pretty boring to play: infinite money but limited access to high tier units.

**Louis Lux** · February 22, 2010, 11:50 AM

That's exactly how it should be, most people would be weirded out if there was a big number of elven units available.

**THEMANMAN** · February 22, 2010, 01:42 PM

You can almost make the same amount of money in the beginning of the game if you move your capitlal to one of the costal cities and you dont have to go to war with anybody.

**Arágion** · February 23, 2010, 04:51 AM

Originally Posted by THEMANMAN

You can almost make the same amount of money in the beginning of the game if you move your capitlal to one of the costal cities and you dont have to go to war with anybody.

that's what I always do

It gives a nice boost for your economy.

**Maxamus** · February 22, 2010, 04:20 PM

Just seemed like alot lol i've basicslly finished campaigns and not made that much

**tallstark** · February 23, 2010, 12:43 PM

Nah, nobody makes money like the dwarves!! At least in RC/RR with all those House of this and that with the 10% mining bonuses and mining complexes? Wow, it gets crazy if you are not pumping out units.

**The Saint** · February 23, 2010, 03:05 PM

Thats just called taking advantage of a stupid AI.
You wouldn't be able to take Eriador when there are other human players...
And after destroying a couple of factions you are bound to get a lot of money...

**Maxamus** · February 23, 2010, 05:54 PM

I've never tryed killing them b4 and why not, i killed 7 or 8 stacks of suburb militia it wasnt very difficult with my tier 3 elves

**THEMANMAN** · February 24, 2010, 04:17 PM

When I played as the High Elves once I just moved the capital to one of the costal cities and didn't go to war with anybody, besides fending off the Orcs of the Misty Mountains, and just watch as the events of Middle Earth unfolded. I had so much money that instead of building armies I just made diplomats and gave rohan and gondor boat loads of money instead. I finally did intervene to stop isengard from totally destorying Rohan.

**Princeps** · February 24, 2010, 04:36 PM

Its useless to give money for any AI factions, because they get loads of gold from scripts.

**zumbum** · February 25, 2010, 07:38 AM

I really enjoyed the High Elves, I moved capital to Forlond and made a truckload of money by turn 2!

The most important tool you have available as the HE are your extensive ports to the north, while they are out of the way they provide a unique opportunity for the High Elves to control the west coast of Middle Earth entirely. Make a large army or two and stick em into boats, sail round the coast until you hit the west coast of Rohan/Isengard where there are a couple of port-towns. I used this as a base to wipe out Isengard and link up Imladris with the heartlands. I noticed the OOTM had been pushed back to Lothlorien by Rohan, so I decided to give them a miss and made a huge fleet which sailed down to Harad's west coast, and ganked the ports there too. If you're lucky you may also be able to snatch up some land in the Harad/Gondor conflict.

Then I found out how to toggle the fow and found out that Gondor had pretty much raped Morder and that I had nothing left to do. I

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