how can you defeat the balrog?
Third Age: Total War (Balrog help)
how can you defeat the balrog?
Semisalis
Re: thirt age total war
Archers,archers and more archers.
Sooner or later that bugger does go down it is just generally later.
I tend to just order all my melee units into forests to cover and kite it around with missile units and hope it goes down before i run out of arrows if that happens then u have to decide.
Can you afford to lose a lot of men?
How big a difference is killing it going to make to you.
I tend to just fall back then attack again with fresh ammo and if it still dosnt die i surround it with spearmen first and let them take the brunt of the damage and send in the shock troopers once its alrdy close to death to mop up.
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Patricius
Re: thirt age total war
Thread moved from RTW GD forums to TATW forums.
Campidoctor
Re: Third Age: Total War (Balrog help)
Only 1 Balrog for you guys? Really?
By the way, if you click on my profile and look for my Balrog thread, there are lots of tips in there.
Last edited by marceror; January 11, 2012 at 07:53 PM.
Re: Third Age: Total War (Balrog help)
Just withdraw from the siege when the balrog appears. OoMM sent him north and I never saw him again. Took Moria 2 turns later.
Foederatus
Re: Third Age: Total War (Balrog help)
Javelins and crossbows work for me ? If you are Elves archers are your best bet.
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Patricius
Re: Third Age: Total War (Balrog help)
Off-topic post deleted. A member is allowed to open a thread on any matter as long as it is relevant & cope with forum rules, searching before asking does indeed help but it's not compulsory, so please don't start nagging members that they should use the search function instead. Post something on-topic and then you can provide this suggestion in a friendly and polite manner.
Ya know, every time a person on this forum acts rude, a fairy dies.
Artifex
Re: Third Age: Total War (Balrog help)
I have to sheepishly admit that the time I fought him I just killed everything else and had enough men being slaughtered standing around him that the game counted me as in control of the city so after 3 minutes of my soliders getting slaughtered I won. But I didn't manage to kill a single Balrog.
Re: Third Age: Total War (Balrog help)
The same rules apply from killing trolls.http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=262519
To sum it up, you not only need archers, you need archers with either high damage or ap (armor piercing). Same with infantry, you're going to need infantry with high damage, lots or armor and ap as well.
Since they're better than olog-hai expect it to be a much harder fight.
Semisalis
Re: Third Age: Total War (Balrog help)
The biggest difference is that trolls count as infantry, while Balrogs are elephants. That means they got an area attack and send units flying by walking over them, so it's much harder to surround them. But yeah, crossbowmen or armor piercing skirmishers is what you're looking for. Or to put it differently: As High Elves you'reed, because you have neither.
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Re: Third Age: Total War (Balrog help)
Do Elves have ballistas and catapults? Granted, you need some meat shields but I've killed Balrogs with ballistas before.Originally Posted by kraxmause
As High Elves you're
Campidoctor
Re: Third Age: Total War (Balrog help)
Well a thousand or so high damage, High Elven archers can definitely serve to soften up a balrog horde.The biggest difference is that trolls count as infantry, while Balrogs are elephants. That means they got an area attack and send units flying by walking over them, so it's much harder to surround them. But yeah, crossbowmen or armor piercing skirmishers is what you're looking for. Or to put it differently: As High Elves you're
Semisalis
Re: Third Age: Total War (Balrog help)
What I meant is that as High Elves you don't have that one unit that works like a charm, like for example the Riddermark Skirmishers killing Mûmakil with one volley.
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Re: Third Age: Total War (Balrog help)
By doing a search.
Re: Third Age: Total War (Balrog help)
Auto-resolve FTW
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