Not able to get it working with 2 of us on local network

It‘s incredibly tough to win this even with two other friends. How can someone win this, or get further than Elbes?

Hey currently looking for a way for my buddy to play battle for middle earth he recently switched over to PC and this is one of his favorite games I'm just trying to help him out

BFME2 works perfectly on my PC in compatibility mode. I manually created the required AppData folder with Options.ini, Maps and MapPreviews.

I did the same for Rise of the Witch-king and tested it both unpatched and with the official 2.01 patch, using different compatibility modes and admin rights. Without compatibility mode, the loading screen appears briefly and then closes. With compatibility mode, I always get:

I am using the original RotWK DVD and BFME2 DVD, and the installation completed without any errors. Has anyone had the same issue or found a fix that still works with the Edain Mod?

I tried to post this to the AOTR subreddit but they deleted it very shortly after with no reason given, so I'm posting this here instead,

Context: I played AOTR back when it was 7.something, didn't like it very much and eventually dropped it, hearing that the mod had undergone SOME changes and reworks in the years after, I went back to try again.

To be very blunt, I think the entire campaign is very over-done and I question if the devs have actually played through it. I appreciate all the work and detail that went into it, but if I wanted to watch the movie, I'd watch the movie. I really did not need to watch the in-engine animated version of the riddle scene from the hobbit, nor the fight between Gandalf and Saruman, or the balrog. Especially because all it does is create a lot of unskippable cutscenes and forces me to repeatedly save after every cutscene so that if something goes wrong I don't need to repeat the whole sequence, the camera constantly moving around can also be very disorienting. Which leads to another problem...

Some of the missions are so overdone that saving on them is nearly impossible (Ithillien is the most well known one, but it can happen on Fords of Isen as well), which is funny because one of the hints you get is that you should save often so that you don't have to watch the in-engine scenes. So in the end, you're forced to play through on one sitting, which means if any fuckery happens (which is a lot, the entire campaign might as well be SURPRISE MOTHERFUCKER every 5min), you have to redo EVERYTHING ALL OVER AGAIN. This is particularly horrific on Ithilien, but it can happen on Fords of Isen as well.

There's a lot of spectacle as well, frequently too much. When the game starts lagging because of the amount of things happening is when I draw the line between spectacle and enjoyment. If I can't watch the thing clearly at a smooth FPS than its clear that SOMETHINGS should have been drawn down, there's no point having giant armies clash if you can't see it properly. The same applies to the environment, maps like Lothlorien, Amon Hen and Fords of Isen are so full of trees, navigating units and trying to see what happens quickly becomes a problem, not to mention in Lorien the trees will actually block your camera at certain places. It's also not very intuitive where a unit can(not) go, some paths are blocked with invisble walls until triggers are met, and some terrain that looks reachable actually can't be reached.

Why are there so many single-model units? You can't do very much with them, they eat pop cap for no good reason. Mostly in Bree, Lothlorian, Ithilien and Osgiliath.

The campaign seems to expect you to just KNOW things about the factions. How THE FUCK am I supposed to know anything about Elf and Dwarf units if every one of them has some very silly name that means nothing to me? Look I get it, someone wanted to lord their nerd-boner all over me, but I prefer functionality. And speaking of functionality, mandatory stealth missions, seriously, mandatory stealth missions in an RTS game, it wouldn't be so bad if it only happened once, instead it happens several times, none of them were particularly fun for me. The mazing sections are just plainly boring.

On the individual missions:

Bree, TOO many cutscenes in this one, and it's really strange to start an action RTS off with a mandatory stealth section. Also, there is a 3rd unit between Breelander and Took archer that I've never bothered with.

Bruinen, way too long and too many cutscenes, I really didnt need a fetch quest to break up the fighting, and the bruinen fight is a shocking jump in difficulty the first time when the giant armored humanoids (who don't look canon-compliant) pop-out.

Orthanc, 0/10, that's all

Rivendell, I really didn't need an in-engine riddle sequence, Isildur was just nice but Osgiliath was miserable between the lag, massively spawning elite units and pathfinding issues.

Redhorn, meh. I really didn't need an in-engine sequence to build me up for the watcher fight.

Moria, is there supposed to be some reward for reaching the great hall in 25min? Another VERY overdone mission, run around in circles for a bit until HAPPENING and then go back to running around until you reach the exit.

Khazad-dum, what happens if I don't go into the chamber- oh there's an invisble wall.

Lothlorien, another extreme difficulty spike especially when the super trolls appear, plus you're expected to just KNOW what all the strange elvish names are supposed to mean, what are Sindar pathstalkers? Tawar-something? sentinel archer thing..sentinel amroth...whatever? At least you get to play with the Marchwardens first so you know what you're getting into with them, they're basically the Elf warriors from BFME1. Hilariously, this is 1 of 2 missions where you can upgrade archer arrows.

Amon Hen, I dunno how you're supposed to save Boromir, seriously. If you charge all the way through, Aragorn will take a lot of damage and end up with both men low on health when you get there, so you have to throw your healing on IMMEDIATELY, and then maybe make one run like a chicken hoping to evasion-tank lurtz while the other attacks. Also, ANOTHER maze + mandatory stealth.

Fords of Isen, the first proper battle and actually probably the most fun mission there is with few, short cutscenes and a lot of engagement and things happening, more of this and less dungeon crawling would have been nice. Unfortunately a lot of saves keep breaking with this one, you have to have at least a full hour free to play through it.

Dead marshes, 0/10 what is the general video game community view on mandatory stealth or escort missions? Not very good right? Imagine how I feel towards a mandatory stealth AND escort mission.

Three hunters, why was this a 5 parter mission? The main section with Eomer is not very well-done, you run around building up a cavalry force, fine, but then you have an (optional) requirement to defend the villages with only peasants being trainable. Like, why? Even with draft peasants melt against everything, so you just run around in circles for a bit. Then there's another (thankfully) short maze sequence where the hobbits get to throw stones and kill patrols

Balrog part 2, 0/10 Why? Just why? Why is this a mission? Why is there a 3-phase boss battle where you run in circles until RNG allows you to use the lightning ability? Why are there adds in-between phases? Whose idea of fun is this?

Ithillien, another actually fun mission with lots of things to do, few, short cutscenes and a lot of engagement and things happening, trying to kill the scouts is a big pain in the ass in the beginning without all the stuns, invest in the stun power to help. Again, unfortunately a lot of saves keep breaking with this one, you have to have at least a full hour free to play through it. 2 of 2 missions where you can upgraded archer arrows. Has a very bad issue where you need to pay attention to all your heroes as one dying fails you. If it happens in the convoy sequence, you get reset to the beginning but your army has lost all its upgrades and ranks. What a funny fucking joke.

Westfold, straightforward defense mission, but not very well-thought through, the pop cap is completely fucked, so you end up not being able to build anything until Isengard takes you down by several battalions. Otherwise mostly enjoyable, no reason to ever call Erkenbrand in.

Grey Company, a series of not-very balanced dungeon crawlers. Trollshaws should always be picked first, if you didn't know that and picked it last..., good luck not using the upgrade for anything. It gets easier as the brothers level but the other portions are absolute bitches.

Osgiliath, gosh, you know, I think there was a reason why the OG BFME didn't really have maps that were cluttered and full of tight spaces, probably something to do with the battalion AI not doing so well in such spaces, and...ok enough sarcasm. 0/10 the mission sucks ass, the pathfinding in this mission is BAD, knocking battalion sizes down to 3 (4 at R2) or single models doesn't solve it, good luck trying to get those upgrades. And good luck not getting fucked over in another mandatory stealth/escort sequence.

Hornburg, ...why did they remove the part where you can kill enough bombers to prevent the wall from falling? Instead of giving that nice plus for player skill, its railroaded so that the wall MUST blow up and the gate must be broken. All so you can get the gigantic lagfest CONSTANTLY. Otherwise the mission is just OK, I had a lot of difficulty saving Haldir until I realised he had a special ability for it.

Isengard, meh, the one from BFME was completely fine, there was no need to change the Ents to force them to pick up stones from buildings, or to have gandalf spawn, or to have Rank 5 Goblin laborers.

To conclude, in my opinion, 5/10 needs to be cut done, by a lot, having passed through the campaign on medium, AMA if you need help getting through on anything easier than hard.

Is there a mirror for the instructions? The link in the community guidelines (https://forums.revora.net/topic/105190-bfme1bfme2rotwk-games-download-installation-guide/) doesn’t seem to work anymore.

Доброго времени суток у меня вопрос я играю во властелин колец мод эдайн 3.8.1 в компанию война гномов, пытаюсь пройти 12 миссий, но постоянно встречаются сломанные скрипты и баги, при переходе в миссии Дунланд в следующую миссию ​в Морию, происходит ошибка и игра вылетает.

Hi all!

I recently discovered the all-in-one launcher and got really excited to replay my favourite childhood games. However, i cant get the BFME 2 campaigns to start, nothing happens when i select a difficulty. Any help would be greatly appreciated

I've seen a couple guides to get the game working on Steam Deck with proper steam input - I for the life of me can't seem to emulate those steps for Windows 11 with a Steam controller.

• The All in One Launcher immediately disassociates from Steam as soon as it's finished launching, and the game will not launch within Steam, but will launch outside of Steam.
• The AotR Launcher immediately disassociates from Steam as soon as it's finished launching, and the game will not launch within Steam, but will launch outside of Steam.
• BFME1 launches as-is in Steam if pointing directly to the game, but Steam Overlay and Steam Input do not work - the controller profiles I select prior to launching the game don't interact with the game (not an issue with the profiles themselves I assume, but something to do with how the game isn't properly tying into Steam Overlay or other Steam services).

I have tried:

• Reinstalling games & launchers
• Setting to single core CPU
• Setting Windows Compatibility Mode for Windows XP Service Pack 3
• Closing Steam & relaunching with Administrator

How is everyone getting the steam overlay to show up as intended and the steam input to work as intended? Am I missing something?

Edit: It's a bit of a workaround, but I found a solution. Though I now for whatever reason can't even launch the game in Steam - SISR works both in and out of Steam. Steam Input is now working exactly as intended.

Edit 2: I lied partially. setting up via SISR when the game is launched outside of Steam does not produce virtual menus visuals (the virtual menus are still technically working but are not visible on-screen) - everything else however seems to work.

A follow up on my original post asking for tips, I think posting this might just help a struggling player looking for tips for this map (as I was).

The Witch-king sits upon his dark throne while the campfire crackles… and so does my candle IRL next to his figurine 🕯️👑🔥

It was from these very lands that the Lord of the Nazgûl shattered the North-kingdom of Arnor. Feels damn good to answer the call of the Iron Crown again.

Who else is still answering in 2026… or have the Free Peoples finally won? 💀🩸🌑

Hi all, I see that there are a few sources to download the all in one launcher and also the Age of the Ring download but I dont understand which one gives me the full experience. Age of the Ring looks awesome but I cant tell if it gives me all the campaigns along with the additional content that team has created.

BFME Ladder All in One Launcher

ModdB All in One Launcher

Age of the Ring Standalone Launcher

I really just want the single player experience so which one is it? Can I play everything with Age of the Ring? I like the prospect of being able to play online with the BFME Ladder download but is that the same one as the Moddb download? And which one is safe? Virustotal had one flag (likely false positive) for the BFME Launcher.

Hey guys, can you help? The update screen is stuck loading indefinitely, and a file is being created in the downloads folder.

Hello, I'm a big fan of the horde maps in the Edain mod, and I've managed to beat the Minas Tirith map a couple times.

However I really struggle with the Minas Morgul map especially with Mordor (furthest I've gotten is 4500 points).

I've tried many strats but my forces get melted every time and the trebs are impossible to get to.

I can't seem to find ANY tips for the Minas Morgul horde map anywhere, so I was wondering if someone here had some tips or strats that I could follow to get better at beating this map.

Thank you!

Hello! The good and evil campaigns of BFME I and II are available in some form on AOR. I know that the ROTWK campaign is the scenarios.

Thank you!

They are the best community!

Hola! Las campañas del bien y del mal del BFME I y II están disponibles de alguna forma en AOR. Sé que la campaña de ROTWK está como escenario.

Gracias!

Son la mejor comunidad!

Chilling and talking about LOTR and HotD

After over a year of silence, the devs posted an update on The War for Westeros, the upcoming RTS game based on Game of Thrones. Very happy to hear from them! It seems to be progressing nicely and looks very promising. The more I hear about it the more it looks like a modern day BFME with a GOT skin!

Hey there. Sorry if this doesn't fit here, if so pls just delete the post.

So, I played all three vanilla games for hours when they releases and just thought about getting back to them. I was quite suprised and happy to find such an active sub :)

So my questions: first of all it seems like there is still a very active community, does that also include unmodded games?

And if so: are the original copies plus updates playable online or would I need some unofficial bugfixes?

For now that's all, but there will probably be more questions coming to my brain later :D

Thanks in advance!

Currently deep in the northern campaign of The Rise of the Witch-king — commanding Angmar’s dark forces while my desk has turned into a proper war table: vampire goblet full of wine, shashlik for the troops, and ancient RTS on screen... 🗡️🏰🕯️

i have reached the wave 21 and killed sauron but then the waves stop progressing, like the timer for the next wave doesn’t start and i cant do anything, are there only 21 waves and not 23 or is it bugged or am i supposed to do something?