The player's special powers are purchased from a small tree. 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. Good has the advantage in the quantity and quality of heroes Gandalf at the peak of his strength is an anti-army device. Most hero abilities require certain experience levels. 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 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.
Squads replace lost members when rank 2 or higher without losing experience. Units gain experience and levels, becoming hardier and more dangerous. 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. Unit strengths and weaknesses form a sort of rock-paper-scissors system.
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. The Forces of Darkness are the fighting Uruk-hai of Isengard, and Mordor's orc hordes, bolstered by Haradrim, Mûmakil and Trolls. 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 only resource are the nebulous "resources," which are produced inexhaustibly in dedicated buildings. 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.
In The Battle for Middle-earth, buildings may only be constructed on the building slots of predefined plots. Warring factions gather resources, then use them to construct military bases and armies on-site. The Battle for Middle-earth is a real-time strategy game.
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