Well thank you for "teaching" me how to play on a suggestion forum.
I have had plenty of experience playing edain, actually. This is the kind of response and cocky arrogance that 1) made me stop watching your videos, and 2) make these suggestion forums standoffish for people who aren't so regular as the same four players who constantly respond here and seem to all be "Balance Testers"
You send upgraded trolls into an army of upgraded pikes, especially elite pikes, of any faction, and it goes down. If those pikes have heavy armor, the troll isn't going to devastate your army as much as your army is going to devastate that troll.
You mention many combinations of Mordor play that sound fantastic on paper, but ultimately rarely makes it to fruition late game in reality. If you're a Mordor camp, you have limited build plots. You need to choose carefully between going for spell point recharge reduction or archer/pike reduction. Choose between 2-3 barracks (2 is the standard for me, it's almost GG if you only make 1 barracks as Mordor early). So you're using 2 plots for barracks. Then you pick between 2-3 arsenals or tribute camps. Now you're already using all but 1 of your build plots so you need to choose between siege or trolls.
Everyone makes the case that Mordor is so eco friendly because the units are free. But those free units are not viable late game. You can argue you "make" them viable by spamming them, but CP only goes so far. Then while you're churning out the orcs, you need to spend very heavily just to make your nazgul viable by leveling Sauron. The units from Cirith Ungol, yes, take no CP, but are expensive and limited to 3. Just getting to your first battalion of castellans costs 3,600 I think, then even more for 2 additional ones. You're dumping 500+400+300 PER troll. They should be more tanky.
I really cannot see how you could possibly have 4 pikes from Isengard get mowed down by 2 trolls unupgraded. I really have never seen that happen regularly.
You paint a very dreamy picture of late game Mordor that rarely pans out perfectly for the Mordor player. My argument is to buff trolls against pikes slightly to make them more viable in armies head to head. I have never played with you, Kryptik, because you seem more comfortable playing with the same group of people every time (and when I've invited you to a group game you've said "No." but I can tell you that I play many times a week with/against a large group of edain players and I very rarely see trolls playing a prominent, EFFECTIVE roll in Mordor armies head-to-head late game because they are so brittle to pikes and arrows late game. It simply does not happen.
Without sounding like a jerk, I think maybe you should experience playing against more than Haman, Python, Fella, and Sawman 90% of the time and maybe you would see a wider amount of the challenges we are experiencing.
As a balance tester I think you should take it upon yourself to expand your horizons a little bit. And please do not presume to know my experience level
My goals are to enjoy the game- same as you.