Help with Rohan economy.

[Taroc]

I've been trying to play as Rohan but I cannot get the economy down, I don't make enough gold per turn to effectivley build up a stable ecomony. Any tips on establishing an ecomony as Rohan?

[Baron Samedi]

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[Hero of the West]

standard build road > farm > market > townguard policy.. taxes on low for quick growth and the possibility to raise them in times of need. Make helmsdeep your main stronghold for unit recruitment.. prepare to be invaded by isengard but do not provoke and at best make an alliance with them and OOTM (very possible).. the benefit from having evil factions as allies is the off chance that they will not participate in a crusade.. which leaves them neutral.. keeping isengard friendly also gives you some room to breath and maybe support gondor later on.. First crusade will be on edoras.. let them take edoras and reclaim it a few turns later..

hope there was something usefill in my advice to you

[IrishBlood]

standard build road > farm > market > townguard policy.. taxes on low for quick growth and the possibility to raise them in times of need. Make helmsdeep your main stronghold for unit recruitment.. prepare to be invaded by isengard but do not provoke and at best make an alliance with them and OOTM (very possible).. the benefit from having evil factions as allies is the off chance that they will not participate in a crusade.. which leaves them neutral.. keeping isengard friendly also gives you some room to breath and maybe support gondor later on.. First crusade will be on edoras.. let them take edoras and reclaim it a few turns later..

hope there was something usefill in my advice to you

ARE YOU INSANE??? let them TAKE Edoras?????!!!

BLASPHEMY you should be able to hold it if you keep a full stack in it. i did it anyway

as for making alliances with evil factions, that just breaks the lore!

[damnmap]

The biggest problem, or choice, is whether to defend edoras or give it to an evil faction until sauron declares an invasion on someone else. To defend it and garrison the towns near isengard with sufficient troops will pretty much devour your economy

[Kawee]

From a logical PoV, it's of course a good idea to try and ally with Evil factions, and giving up Edoras and take it 2 turns later with a full-stack.

However, most people, including me, prefer lore-play. That mean, we will hunt down Isengard, and the (for some reason stone) walls of Edoras will be red with Orc blood (or Easterling, whichever come first.)

[Hero of the West]

ARE YOU INSANE??? let them TAKE Edoras?????!!!

BLASPHEMY you should be able to hold it if you keep a full stack in it. i did it anyway

as for making alliances with evil factions, that just breaks the lore!

I've been attacked for who knows how many turns in crusade on edoras once :o it cost everything.. so yeah if you need to make a choice between living and flourishing in gameplay or half destroyed and bankrupt in lore.. you should make the one you like the most

[Princeps]

Just seize Isengard ASAP. You have substantial forces to begin with, build up stables and recruit everything you can. Then group your forces to the river Isen, and seize Isengard. With luck, you can destroy the enemy in the battlefield, destroy all defenders, and capture Isengard without having to fight the scripted spawn (they dont apparently spawn if the Isengard is emptied). Don't go forward to west before building further armies, because another Isengard army, on with many pikemen, Uruk hai infantry, Wargs and so forth, will spawn if you do so.

[Hero of the West]

Just seize Isengard ASAP. You have substantial forces to begin with, build up stables and recruit everything you can. Then group your forces to the river Isen, and seize Isengard. With luck, you can destroy the enemy in the battlefield, destroy all defenders, and capture Isengard without having to fight the scripted spawn (they dont apparently spawn if the Isengard is emptied). Don't go forward to west before building further armies, because another Isengard army, on with many pikemen, Uruk hai infantry, Wargs and so forth, will spawn if you do so.

has not much to do with the economy?

[ArmyCharger]

has not much to do with the economy?

sure it does. You've just taken out your main treath. now you can just relax till you're strong enough to blitz mordor.

taking out isengard early however does make the game for rohan too easy for my taste. but hey, if you're in trouble, go for it!

another tip: when your economy is suffering, DO NOT disband units and go on the defensive. instead, go on a good old raiding party: find a town, sack it, destroy all buildings, give it to another faction in exchange for an alliance and move on to the next town.

your enemy will probably hesitate to take it back, since that'll start a war with another faction. If they do, not only do they now get a worthless town, they'll also be at war with one of your allies. again tough, I find this makes the game too easy.

[MAMO72]

In my last campaign with Rohan I have destroyied Isengard faction within turn 16; it is my opinion that you have to smash them quickly as soon as possible (I attacked them starting from turn 3/4); I prefer to let the tax rate at low until settlements reached 1000 inhabitants, normal until 2500 then the highest until growth rate is 0,5%. Once you have destroyied Isengard take all the settlements in the west till the sea and north to the river that divide you from Eriador/HE/OOMM. At the same time push your eastern borders to Tirith Anduin and Limlight left the fangorn forest to OOMM at this time. raise a stack to help Gondor against Mordor; if Sauron call for an invasion you have two choice for me: 1 let them conquest Edoras and retake immediately or try to fight on fords and bridge but you need much more than one stack to do that, and in the early game I think you won't have sufficient troops due to weak economy. Trade rights with all factions an alliance with elves, both factions, asap. For your economy build roads, markets, farming improvements, ports avoid brothel for corruption.

[tallstark]

Just seize Isengard ASAP. You have substantial forces to begin with, build up stables and recruit everything you can. Then group your forces to the river Isen, and seize Isengard. With luck, you can destroy the enemy in the battlefield, destroy all defenders, and capture Isengard without having to fight the scripted spawn (they dont apparently spawn if the Isengard is emptied). Don't go forward to west before building further armies, because another Isengard army, on with many pikemen, Uruk hai infantry, Wargs and so forth, will spawn if you do so.

Agreed! Rohan campaign is actually pretty much decided in first 25 turns. If you just build roads and then have two main groups, one straight north to Isengard and the other west to get rebel settlements, it will all come down to how you do tactically in the battles with Isengard. By rushing them, you will allow Eriador and HE to grow unchallenged, and once you take Isengard you can either go OOTMM OR start sending stacks right away to help Gondor.

The one tip on the Isengard attack is go hit Isengard when its almost full. The script won't spawn more than the city can hold, and if you can't beat the AI full stack versus full stack, thats a whole different conversation...

[MAMO72]

Agreed! Rohan campaign is actually pretty much decided in first 25 turns. If you just build roads and then have two main groups, one straight north to Isengard and the other west to get rebel settlements, it will all come down to how you do tactically in the battles with Isengard. By rushing them, you will allow Eriador and HE to grow unchallenged, and once you take Isengard you can either go OOTMM OR start sending stacks right away to help Gondor.

The one tip on the Isengard attack is go hit Isengard when its almost full. The script won't spawn more than the city can hold, and if you can't beat the AI full stack versus full stack, thats a whole different conversation...

or you can simply wait for a little stack of enemies right outside the walls to attack and let the rest of the garrison sally out without any script, better for me