Battle for Middle Earth 2 - 1.07

I personally don't care about it but I've had tons of people use it as an excuse to dodge.

Can some kind soul drop me a couple of replays of effective lancer usage? Any MU

Hmmm.......... I will post my ones in the Mu vs goblins/motw later on, as i think that is prob the MU's they are best in.

kool, thx a bunch I tried them vs. mordor today and they worked pretty well actually. Just use a lot of them at once and send them over to his side only when his naz are on your side, and you should be able to do a fair amount of damage, especially if you use RC, and not take many losses as long as you stealth some miths in trees and retreat your lancers into them when his naz get there.

lancers are nearly useless in all mu's cept the goblins one, never needed em otherwise.

I like em against men if they are heavily spamming archers/soldiers (which is almost always the case), and gobs ofc

This post has been edited by SirKitty: Aug 15 2008, 01:29 AM

They are good vs isen to imo and later on with armor (also with fb) are good at taking PB. Great to help defend from all sort of cav other than rohirm

There harass is great vs. Motw and Gobs and Isen too, but Arwen is just an all around better option in most cases. They can also be good vs Dwarves but only after your first few creeps.

Which cav do they win against 1 on 1 unupped?

Hmm none iirc. Although with knights its close, whats that got to do with Hamish and his great uncle Jack?

How do you counter cavalry harassment once knights/wargs etc. hit the field ? I usually don't have any heroes out yet.

uh well lancers have a good use to counter enemy cavalry harrasement, with pike and archer support, usually i just stick with mith and archer only (though they tend to get more trees)

vs. isen you should be getting a fast arwen, and she's a great warg harass counter. vs. men just stick archer mith combo's at each ford in the trees and keep adding to them. Its kind of boring, will get you accused of camping, and is a bit lame, but it is also extremely effective and one of the only ways i've found of beating men, if you even survive past the GA spam

This post has been edited by Xenai: Aug 19 2008, 02:09 AM

I dont defend with arwen unless im really desperate i think she is way better at harassing. To counter a knight a lone lancer is usually enough, Vs wargs a lancer and arher pike combo RAPES it, also vs men you will prob alerady have a couple lancers if they went GA before. If the men player sends his knights in a big group just pwning your tree's then you want arwen's flood or thran/lego to stop that (keep making sure you can kill off his knights so he has to keep rebuilding them).

I think lancers do well against wargs with no howl. however with howl wargs like 1-2 shot lancers or something redic. like that.

Yeah, but if he howls he's running its a waste of howl and with the lancer you just need to keep checking then run when he targets, and he loses damage fast (esp with the armor weakness with howl now).

just take the hits if you have pike+archer back because you can always just heal your lancer and he loses a warg.

and like shankly says hit and run the warg if he's stronger

Yeah I sorta dont agree with the mutual anihilation thing with the warg and lancer though, cause it gives out unnecessary PP.

well it doesn't have to be mutual annhilation just to sort of keep him in place while your archers get hits on him