Find here links to all articles posted. Conversely, you are of course also free to search to the archives by name or category, whatever suits you best….The categories are:

1. KoM 101
2. Heroes & Equipment
3. Campaign
4. Troops & War
5. Tournaments
6. Game-play & Updates
7. Cities & Buildings
8. Alliance

The Kom 101 category covers some of the basics of the game. Although many subjects are covered in the other categories, the KoM101 articles are specifically directed at new players who want to get a head start in the game.

• City buildings overview 
• Farming made easy
• Getting through your first 7 days 
• ALL items and prizes (sort of)
• All Elven and Dwarven troops
• All Elven and Dwarven Wall troops
• Some tips to get over 100k Might

Under Heroes and Equipment you can find anything related to either Heroes, or Hero Equipment…go figure. Here you will find how to use your Heroes, what equipment is available in-game and which of those are best suited for certain tasks, as well as guides to upgrade your gear by either upgrading&enhancing or by embedding Gems.

• Battle Mechanics:
  • I. The basic Battle Formula
  • II. Separating the Buffs
  • III. Why your opponent does not matter
  • IV. Diminishing returns and how to deal with it
  • V. Conclusion

• Hero Skills: All you need to know 
  • Hero Skills: Where to use which
  • Don’t buy Knowledge Crystals! 

• Basic Gear and Gem set-up illustrations NEW!

• Embedding Gems: All you need to know
  • Where and how to Embed Gems
  • Mining Gems 

• Best sets to use
  • Best Sets lists and how to use them
  • Why the new Gems will mess up gear choices..
  • Diminishing Returns…
  • Gear bonuses and when to use what gear 

• Upgrading gear: All you need to know
  • Update or Enhance first?
  • Gear bonus levels 

• Hero Equipment: All you need to know (contains all available gear sets)
  • How to acquire Bard’s Gear

• How to best use your Heroes!
• Getting a lvl 212 Hero
• Quick tip/update on 212 Heroes

Campaign is a crucial part of the game for farming items, getting resources, and participating in Goblin Kill and Campaign High Score tournaments. Of course, the notorious Smaug also resides in the campaign, reluctantly letting go of his tokens. Here you will find anything to do with campaign, from a walk-through of all the maps, to guides for getting great High Scores!

• Basic Gear and Gem set-up illustrations NEW!

• New Campaign map: Lake-town-Along the Shores
• The new Smaug
• Temporary maps

• Campaign Spreadsheet updated!
• Campaign spreadsheet  outdated

• Goblin camps and Wilds spreadsheet
• Useful tools and spreadsheets

• How to get great High Score on campaign with Tactical Troops 
  • CHS: The double-tap NEW!
• How to get great High Scores on campaign levels 2
• How to get great High Scores on campaign levels
• Quick tip: Using Ent gear for Campaign <old>

Under Troops and War all articles are filed that have to do with your armies of Elven or Dwarven troops and how they behave on the battlefield. Information can be found on troop stats, how troops attack an enemy army, and an overview of the exclusive Tactical Troops. Besides that, there are articles on how to train your troops most efficiently and matters related to farming resources from other players.

• Battle Mechanics:
  • I. The basic Battle Formula
  • II. Separating the Buffs
  • III. Why your opponent does not matter
  • IV. Diminishing returns and how to deal with it
  • V. Conclusion

• Troop Attack Order
• Attack report spreadsheet 
• Tier 1-5 Attack/Life modifiers
• Attack and Defense runes: When to use them 

• All Elven and Dwarven troops
• All Elven and Dwarven Wall troops

• Tactical Troops: All you need to know 
  • Update on new Tacticals and related issues

• How to speed up troop training times
• How to train Tier 4 troops
• Wall Might and why you shouldn’t have it!
• The “Tier 1,2 or 3?” discussion, my two cents

• KoM 101: Farming made easy 
  • Problems with farming gold
  • Farming your Third and Fourth City Relics made easy
  • Farming: how to pop bubbles
• How not to get farmed in Kingdoms of Middle Earth

This category could certainly use some additions, and they are coming. Expect to find here everything related to the range of different tournaments the Hobbit has to offer to its players, along with some tips and strategy on how to be competitive in them!

• Masters Season II tournament series
• Masters Season I tournament series

• Tournaments: Alliance Boss Kill 

• Inventory overview spreadsheet 
• Tourney: Might popping order 

The Game-play and Updates category contains two types of articles. The Game-play articles deal with subjects related to the game-play of KoM which are not covered in other categories, as well articles on certain game mechanics that work behind the scene. The Update articles cover all the official Kabam updates to the game. These updates are written after the update has released; for more speculative information, go to the Blog page.

• World Mergers: All you need to know 
  • Biggest questions concerning World Mergers

• Update 12.4: New Skills/Hero lvl/buffs/troops…
• Update 12.2: Box slider and Hero Skills!
• Update 12.1(.1): Unstable start but new Gems
• More info on coming January update (12.1)
• Update 11.2: Even more features
• Update on new Tacticals and related issues 
• Updates on the blog and game (10-’14)
• Update 10.3: Hero 249, New TT and more! 
• Update 10.2: what the hell Kabam…
• Update 10.1 overview
• Update 10.0: Not so major yet…
• Future KoM updates and the new Tactical Troops
• Tauriels Circle of Fate and more: Game update 9.2.0!
• Game Update 9.1.0 overview

• 10 Daily things to do in Kingdoms of Middle Earth

• Why bonuses in training/construction/research seem smaller than expected
• Make it rain or snow in your city!
• How to annoy the person annoying you!

• Infinite Hourglass: One great use!

• This is why you save Tokens!!
• How to use your Galadriel tokens 
• Get a free Galadriel token every day
• How to cheat Galadriel’s Gift?

One of the main goals in this game is to construct and maintain your cities as good as possible. To assist you on this quest, the Cities and Buildings category of articles covers all subjects related to your cities, the buildings they contain, and how they function or operate.

• Lake-town 5th CIty: All you need to know 

• City buildings overview 
  • The Sage Tower
  • The City Guardian

• Forge runes: all you need to know

• Construction flowchart for ALL buildings, up to level 10
• Runecrafting flowchart, up to level *7
  • What to spend your Hobbit Building Crews on

• Tax rate, population and income
• Feeding your troops (2nd city)

The Alliance category lists the few articles that pertain to game features that specifically impact your whole alliance and which do not fit any other category. The two primary subjects right now are the Alliance shop and Alliance Boss Battles, but who knows what the future holds for KoM’s mighty alliances!

• Alliance Boss Battles: All you need to know

• How to ask Alliance for resources and help

• Alliance Shop: All you need to know
  • Alliance Shop: Where to farm Vala Stones