Are you looking for a relaxing and casual gameplay experience?
Do you like teaming up with your friends and winning Tower War maps together?
Maybe you're interested in managing heroes and having them level up over time in one place?
You hate cows? If so, this might not be the map for you.
- Game: The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for the Middle Earth II
- Version: 1.09v2.00 and 1.09v3.00
If you already have BFME2 version 1.09v3, you will have the latest version available in the official map list. If not, follow these steps:
- Go to the releases section.
- Find the newest CowlandsTowerDefense3p.rar version available and click it to start downloading.
- Extract the downloaded .rar archive in C:\Users\your_user\AppData\Roaming\My Battle for Middle-earth II Files\maps
- If you can't find the AppData/Roaming folders, press the Windows Key + R, type
%appdata%and press Enter.
- If you can't find the AppData/Roaming folders, press the Windows Key + R, type
- Open the game and it will show up.
- Name: Bos Primigenius Taurus: The TW
- Style: Tower War/Tower Defense
- Factions: All factions are playable
- New heroes, abilities and units: Yes
- Players: Playable for 1, 2 or 3
- Waves: 20
- Duration: Approx 50-60 minutes
- Difficult levels: Easy, Normal and Hardcore.
- Development: Developed by Ecthelion over a span of 5 years since 2018 with constant feedback from players.
- 2p Mode: Automatically set up on any spot
- Hard Mode: Can be enabled by ticking "RingHeroes" or placing a beacon on the biggest cow at the bottom right
- Easy Mode: Enabled by placing a beacon on the small cow at the bottom right
- Team Play: If you forget to team up, other players will be allied, but kill-counters won't work
- 1p Mode: Automatically set up on the left side without ticking "RingHeroes"
- Hard Mode: Enabled by scrolling down the camera over the biggest cow at the bottom right
- Easy Mode: Enabled by scrolling down the camera over the small cow at the bottom right
- Shark & Gannicus for gameplay inspiration from their "MADNESS" maps, where i also learned the commandButton reuse trick.
- Silverbane for teaching me the buttonimages trick to be ably to modify commandbuttons, and for his "Osgiliath" map, from which i took his OathBreaker wave for inspiration.
- BIG[BANG] for teaching me the DamageSpeed & WeaponSpeed trick on ranged damage nuggets and for prompting me to rewrite my pathfinding scripts.
- Crusard for his "Legends" map from which i learned the hiding subobjects trick.
- BFME2 ROTWK 2.02 for the Blight ability.
- Thorin for his continous feedback and ideas, such as Theoden's "Forth and fear no darkness" ability. And finally, for setting up a competitive community of "cowboys" in GameRanger.
- Guerrilla for being annoying as shit and continously prompting me to remake my pathfinding, as well forcing me to add hardcoded anti cheats.
- Thorin, Arion, Guerrilla, Fluffy Orc, Fitton, FarmerLau, Sauron, Temptation, BlockBuster, Mithrandir, King, Stormcrow, ForCarnDum, Ahwehawe, Xelenos, F and whoever actually ever played this map during its two and half years of develepment.
