I just bought M2TW...

[Cute Wolf]

Wait... One orc units beats the dismounted kings guard of rohan...
Im not sure if this is faithfull...

They beat in frontal combat, using their sheer numbers... I also play TATW, but with human factions, you should try to use your brain, while the orcs only need to charge forward....

[seienchin]

They beat in frontal combat, using their sheer numbers... I also play TATW, but with human factions, you should try to use your brain, while the orcs only need to charge forward....

Yeah and there the people dont get the tolkien message. Everything is a question of blood. Nobel humans or elves are way more powerfull than simple orks. Way more. In the first age wars single elbs killed balrogs. Even with their power vanishing elves are still way better than orcs and so are human.
Sorry for offtopic

[Subotan]

First, I am a Tolkien Fundamentalist, I hate the films and PJ. As I told Seienchin in private I want to face PJ in a swordfight with sharp swords so I can cut his fat gut open and watch him try to keep his innards in while slowly dying. Call me the Bin Laden, Mullah Omar or Ayatollah of Tolkien I care not.

Surely the fact that PJ has brought Tolkein to a wider audience is something that should be appreciated, regardless of whether he includes Tom Bombadil or not, or doesn't spend the first half of the Fellowship on a bloody mushroom farm. He still includes the core message of Tolkein, and when you think about, it could have been a lot, lot worse.

Also, is there a First Age Total War? Belegost FTW

[antisocialmunky]

They beat in frontal combat, using their sheer numbers... I also play TATW, but with human factions, you should try to use your brain, while the orcs only need to charge forward....

You should play real combat though some of the changes are really borked since the orcs are given terrible armor and weapon values and die by the hrodes to even Gondorians. Also the Dwarves and Elves become ridiculous. I remember taking out 3000 Urukai with cave troll support with about 400 High Elves.

So yeah, 6-1 is good odds for any Elf or Dwarf.