The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth is a real-time strategy game developed by EA Los Angeles for Windows. Released on December 6, 2004, it is based on Peter Jackson's film trilogy and J. R. R. Tolkien's novel.
The Battle for Middle-earth is a real-time strategy game. Warring factions gather resources, then use them to construct military bases and armies on-site. In The Battle for Middle-earth, buildings may only be constructed on the building slots of predefined plots. Plots range from farmhouses to full-fledged castles, with different slot arrangements and available buildings, and plots can be purchased when they're in the sole presence of a side's forces. The only resource are the nebulous "resources," which are produced inexhaustibly in dedicated buildings. Four factions on two sides wage the War of the Ring: Representing the Free Peoples are the horse-lords of Rohan, and Gondor with its forges and battlements. The Forces of Darkness are the fighting Uruk-hai of Isengard, and Mordor's orc hordes, bolstered by Haradrim, Mûmakil, and Trolls.
Keeping with the trends of contemporary RTS titles, basic units operate in groups, significant characters are represented by "hero units", and the destruction of units gathers points for the purchase of special abilities. There is also a unit limit. Unit strengths and weaknesses form a sort of rock-paper-scissors system. Cavalry beats archers as they do not have a lot of time to shoot and are then forced to close quarters fighting, Pikemen beat cavalry, swordsmen beat pikemen and archers beat swordsmen. Fire beats Ents, Mûmakil, and Trolls. Units gain experience and levels, becoming hardier and more dangerous. Squads replace lost members when rank 2 or higher without losing experience.
Most normal units have purchasable upgrades and may also have abilities such as changing formation, changing weapons, combining with other squad types, Ranger stealth and orc cannibalism. Heroes are unique, far more potent units (and Hobbits and Gollum) that lack upgrades but do have multiple, elaborate abilities, and can be purchased back if killed. Most hero abilities require certain experience levels. Good has the advantage in the quantity and quality of heroes; Gandalf at the peak of his strength is an anti-army device. Buildings also gain experience and may become able to build new units, research new upgrades, or bestow better passive bonuses such as a reduction in cavalry build costs.
The Battle for Middle-earth is abandonware and no longer sold or supported by its publishers. Files are archived here for these platforms:
How to play on Windows
The repack does not include the entire game, it is not updated, and it is only compatible online with people who are using the same repack.
You can get the full, original game with the latest updates from T3A:Online on Revora Forums or from the patch teams at Gamereplays. The games are constantly being updated.
Please Old Games Download, get the entire game from either of those sites and upload it here, you have an incomplete game and there are free, better alternatives elsewhere.
all my units and also change my cursor as if I pressed ‘A’ for an
Attck-Move. Also, when I press ‘A’, key, it does nothing. Seems like my
‘Q’ key and ‘A’ key combined uneder the ‘Q’ key. I’ve tried changing the
mapping in commandmap.ini but it doesnt work. Can someone help me with
this? Thank you!
I have the original discs (very scratches) and to prevent using them too often I turned the discs into an ISO file, that can be loaded and you would have no problem. This requires the discs to do so and a program such as MAGIC ISO.
There is also a NO CD trainer. I found mine her – you need to install the game before downloading your trainer. On the start screen you should be able to see, what version of BOME you have installed – and then pick the righ trainer for that version.
https://gamecopyworld.com/games/pc_lotr_battle_for_middle-earth.shtml
The only disadvantage is that it sometimes work, and sometimes it doesn’t. When it doesn’t it either tells you to put in a disc OR cause all your forces to die silmutanously in the middle of gameplay. Very annoying – to which you would need to reinstall the game and trainer, to see if it helped. Remember to save your saved games in a folder.