Haman pretty much nailed the points. Please watch the entire replays before saying a game is won or lost. Using Traitors on multiple peasants was originally a bug, when the traitors were permanent conversion, but a timer was added as the "fix" for the bug, so therefore it is now a legitimate method. You can't honestly tell me that you've never made a mistake playing, and since Sawman's play was overall quite good, with only minor mistakes here and there that had no relevance to the point, they shouldn't count. In regards to the turrets, if he had made those, that's 150 wasted on something that won't be useful again for a ling time, and in addition I would simply have immediately switched targets to kill the turrets, so that's a moot point.
In terms of comparing costs, it does not matter if Mordor wins economically if they don't HAVE a freaking economy. By taking as much map control as I did with just peasants and traitors(just peasants with Théoden leadership is impossible, and would be a total waste of time to try and do) I proved that just spamming Mordor orcs early game is not enough, and that they DO need help to make any progress. That's the exact point you have been arguing, is that orcs should only serve as a meatshield, and that currently with nothing but orcs you can win a match, which has been proven false. May I refer to a previous replay, posted by Django, the title of which is "OnlyOrcsStillEnough"? In that game, the Rohan players skill was so bad that It bears mentioning. He still had empty build plots inside his base 20 mins into the freaking game, which Sawman did not have.
I will agree that the 2nd game is not as close of a match for 3 very good reasons.
1: Sawman absolutely hates playing as Mordor, and was doing this as a favor for me. Playing twice in a row as a faction you hate can wear on your desire to play your best.
2: Sawman additionally hates playing on Fords of Isen 2, because he is sick and tired of it from all the games everybody always plays on it.
Finally 3: Due to Fords of Isen being so much smaller than Forlindon, it favors the Rohan player much more. You have to cross the entire map on Forlindon to engage the enemy, while on Fords of Isen I could easily harass and engage at multiple points.
I said when I first posted that Sawman was not quite as good as me, and I also very clearly said my play at the beginning was totally horrible in the first match(nearly losing Gamling/Merry). That almost never happens to me, for some reason the I just could not see Gorbag in the middle of the orcs and trees, which is why I withdrew. If I had been able to see Gorbag I would have killed him in seconds with Gamlings extremely high damage due to banishment, and won that fight, gaining map control even faster. To sum it up: Gorbag will never EVER kill Gamling if the player knows how to micro, that was a minor mistake on my part, and the only one that I made. Additionally, if he had rushed a nazgul, I would have simply focused the Nazgul down with Gamlings insanely high damage. If you had watched just a brief while longer into the match instead of turning it off after 5 mins, you would have seen that Sawman does indeed get 2 Nazgul, and that my heroes with Banishment totally wreck them.
Orc spam is currently Mordors only method of staying alive in the early game. If orc damage was nerfed, think about what I would have been able to accomplish. Additionally, if a player skips the peasant spam entirely and rushes straight for cavalry, what then is a Mordor player to do? Orc pikes are freaking terrible, and I'm not joking when I say they lose to Rohirrim of the Eastfold. The free orcs are absolutely necessary to supplement the orc pikes in damage and numbers and to soak up cavalry charges in this situation.
Finally, I am willing to get replays of all other factions to prove that orc spam is not unbeatable as any faction. If you will not accept Sawman as a player, then I'm sure Haman can fill his boots. I personally think Sawman is a perfect representation of a slightly above average player. Not everybody is as good as Skeever, Woppader, Draco and myself. If I came off as rude at any point in this reply, forgive me. It just seems to me like you are all ganging up on things that are not relevant to the point, which frustrates me.