Rohan

[Panch]

Just started playing a coupld days ago, and get raped, any ideas?

Ive been playing on H/H but it seems everyone around here says to play on VH/VH, so ill give it a shot, but any other tips?

Thx guys

[Wolfsblut]

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[brapollo]

Rohan's pretty easy, even on VH/VH. The ai cannot deal with cavalry well at all. First, use your generals to seize nearby rebel settlements. The garrisons should attack you and then you can wipe them out with cavalry charges. Second, mass your forces for an attack on Isengard. Park all or most your generals on the border of Isengard. Wait to attack the citadel when the AI parks a unit or units next to the fortress. The garrison will join in the defense of the units being attacked and you want to make sure you kill or capture every enemy and massacre the survivors. Now you can march into an unguarded Isengard and the garrison script can't trigger.

At this time mass any archers you can raise in one force. Combine about half cavalry and half archers into one force to destroy the spawned army Isengard gets with an invasion of Duneard/Isengard. This will be your only real battle. Use the archers to destroy the pikeman and use the cavalry to destroy everyone else. Once that army is finished, you can easily mop up the rest of the provinces as they will be defended by only raiders and skirmishers. You should be able to destroy this spawned army before the bad guys can call a crusade down on Edoras (though that invasion never came in my last game). You can then use your massed cavalry to destroy any invasion army but leave a small force for mopping up the remnants of Isengard.

After that, your only real enemy on your borders will be occasional forays by the OOTMM. You are free to pursue a growth policy at this point and you will have a pretty large empire. I suggest sending your forces to help Gondor hold back Mordor and Harad. It's easier to help Gondor than to defend your own borders if Gondor collapses. Riddermark axeman and cavalry charges are good at killing trolls btw.

[jinjo]

Just started playing a coupld days ago, and get raped, any ideas?

Ive been playing on H/H but it seems everyone around here says to play on VH/VH, so ill give it a shot, but any other tips?

Thx guys

the hint is to blitz isengard so then ther will be no problem to play as rohan
try to get all of isengard's towns asap(except city isengard, because it has garrison script), then prepare well to to isengard da destroy them at all
after that, u'll play without direct enemy, but u have to choose to fight vs OOTMM or mordor(u can fight both of them simultaneously but it's not effective imo)
i choose mordor mostly because if gondor falls then rohan remains alone, if u help gondor to defend against 2 enemies(mordor and harad) then u are victorious early or later