The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth Cheats - PC
Primary Collection of Cheats
Cheat mode
Note: This procedure involves editing a game file; create a backup copy of the file before proceeding. To edit stats of your skirmish player, use a text editor to edit the "<player name>skirmishstats.ini" file in the "c:\documents and settings\<user name>\application data\my battle for middle-earth files" directory and edit it accordingly.
Another Set of Cheats for This Game
Unit Cap Hack
Changes game critical files. Back up the originals before alteration! Locate the ini.big file in the game directory and open it with a text editor such as Notepad. Search for the following string:
GoodCommandPointLimit = 300
EvilCommandPointLimit = 600
Adjust the amount to what you want. It is a good idea to look below that string for more values to adjust, such as:
GoodCommandPointsBonus = 20; bonuses for every territory captures in living world
EvilCommandPointsBonus = 50
and add about 30 or so to each value, depending on how high you set your command limit, as it will not be possible to reach 999 command in campaign when you only get 20 or 50 bonuses per terrain.
Hints
Good army spying in skirmish mode
The Evil factions of the game both have a Spying power they can use. However, Good factions have no spying power. Early in Skirmish mode, recruit the Hobbit available to you. Have him run over to an enemy castle, camp, etc. He should be able to make it to the citadel, unless the enemy is playing a Good faction and has closed the castle gate. Once inside (or outside the gate if it has been closed), activate his Elven Cloak. He will remain there, untouchable by the enemy. By doing this, you will have a permanent spy. Note: If he moves, he will be exposed until he can use his cloak again. When selecting all your units by pressing Q, hold [Shift] and deselect your spy before ordering everybody to move or attack.
Bypassing the command point limit
If you have reached your command point limit during a mission, send out a battalion or two (with the Banner Carrier upgrade) of soldiers. Have them fight until there is only one or two men remaining in the battalions/hordes. Then, send them back to your base, near a Healing Well for the Good side. You have just freed up several command points. Your damaged battalions can regenerate. Use this strategy to make up to three battalions of cavalry to raid your opponent with.
Defeating Ents
Train a horde of Archers and give them the Fire Arrows upgrade. Send them and shoot the Ent until he is on fire, then run away. He will die in a short time.
Defeating Isengard
When you are fighting Isengard, either use Summon Rohan Allies or start out as Rohan. Build a stable and a lot of farms. Close the main gate and build a Postern Gate instead. Build an army of Riders Of Rohan and walk over the Uruk-Hai's. To counter battering rams, use Yeoman or Elven Archers. To counter Warg Riders and Siege Ladders, use Heroes or Sentry Towers. Note: With the riders, just ride over the Uruks. It will either kill or stun them for you to finish. With the riders, try summoning Eomer to the field and give them a bonus or two.
Defeating Rohirrim
When Isengard, Pikeman can easily defeat Cavalry if their numbers are similar. However, by combining a Pikeman horde with a Crossbow horde you can have one of the most powerful anti-Cavalry groups there are.
As Mordor, there really is no cheap way to deal with Cavalry. Trolls and Mumaks are your best bet, considering they have heavy damage with little harm done to them. Try getting creative and putting Orc Archers with fire arrows inside the Mumakil. This can make for a devastating blow to even a castle, and not just enemy soldiers.
Defeating Trolls
Make a horde/battalion of archers and give them the Fire upgrade. Shoot the troll until it catches on fire (like Ents), then run away. The troll will die very quickly.
More powerful creatures
To make a Troll more powerful, have it pick up a tree as a club. It is slower, but much more powerful. To make an Ent more powerful, have it to pull boulders out of buildings or rock piles to throw at enemies. This is a very powerful long-range attack.
General strategies
1. Hordes/Battalions with a Banner unit should be retreated when only a few remain to allow the ranked unit to regenerate.
2. Try to grab as many of the economy/outpost plots surrounding your base.
3. Always close your Castle Gate and build a Postern Gate instead.
4. Build two economy structures per one unit production building.
5. Fewer upgraded units are always better than many non-upgraded units.
6. Build economy structures in the back of the Camp/Castle and build unit production structures in the front.