So as promised, I played a game and got a replay. I decided to actually get 2 replays, both have been posted in the Post Your Replays! thread. Now the person I'm against, my friend Sawman, is quite good at the game, only slightly worse than me, and I told him to try his hardest, so both matches were fair fights. The first match I told him to focus entirely on making free orcs, getting an outpost and spamming them like crazy to try and overrun me. The second match was a standard 1v1, the only difference being that instead of random we both knew what we were when we started. I won't go much into details, but I won both matches. The orc spam was defeated both times. Its all about micro and using powers effectively, and countering enemy troops. The first match I also did something people have said is impossible, and outspammed him with my peasants, just to prove that Mordor Orcs really are not that great a force. They served exactly what their function is supposed to be, that is to hold the line and be meatshields. He was not able to gain any ground at all in the first game using mostly free orcs.
Both replays also demonstrate something that I heavily disagree with in the latest patch, the price increase of Théoden to 800. It slows down rohan extremely badly in the early game, in the older versions you could deal even heavier blows against Mordor. I really think his cost should be returned to 600. In addition, the 2nd replay demonstrates the weakness of trolls. Finally, we talked and agreed that we think the Mouth of Sauron is too expensive, and should have a price reduction to 1800.
