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Block & Slay

What is Block & Slay?

It is a trick I made in War in the North game. There are many Orcs who have no sense of moving swords and putting claws on our player. They take major health of your player and sadly our player cannot control those hits. That’s get a little nasty when your partners get fallen and they all are coming to you and you have no better skill to reflect them. Lastly you go again playing that thing all over again. Can’t say you will pass or not.

So try to use some mind and let’s kick their heat out and make them stun!!

Block: on PC hold [Ctrl] key or on consoles hold your dedicated key while dealing with the hard ones, it will make them stun for a while and push them back a little making a room for you to ‘Slay’

Blocking

Slay: When you are holding them with blocks, keep on hitting the normal strike button for 4-5 times and you’ll see a down-arrow mark on your enemy’s head. GO snap a special attack! It’s gone!

Slaying!

Great! You have learned!

Great thing is this that, with blocking you can fight with more than 4 enemies and also can kill them with the trick if your both partners are fallen and you are not in the condition to revive them.

Blocking is a pretty trick to get yourself safe for a while when you’re surrounded with the enemies. It lets you think for your other strategy. It works in mostly every action adventure game.

Important: This trick will not work on Bosses, Trolls, Hammer Orc and Tharzog. So don’t try to be fool and stand in front of them blocking waiting for their kicks. They’ll chop you down in a sec.

You should use Dodge&Slay trick with them.

"With his far reaching rich hand Sauron might have done great evil in the North. Yet all that has been averted because a handful of heroes stood in his path.”
– Gandalf the White

The Lord of the Rings: War in the North is a co-op Action RPG that immerses you and your friends in a brutal new chapter in the War of the Ring. Snowblind Studios is in the unique position of drawing inspiration from both the literary and film rights to world of Middle-earth, allowing players to bloody their axes on a wide range of deadly enemies and traverse both established and never-before-seen locations. The result is a journey that is both epic and intimate, familiar yet unexpected.

ACTION MEETS RPG

Intense, visceral, and satisfying combat. Rich, layered, and impactful character progression. In War in the North, you get both. Find and equip the best loot, upgrade your hero using a wide range of skills and items, and feel the intense satisfaction of rushing into real-time battles with friends by your side. Fight through the brutal realities of the war on all fronts that were brought to life in the lore. Immerse yourself and make your own mark on Middle-earth.

CO-OP AT ITS CORE

Build your own fellowship of three heroes to confront the growing army in the North. The survival of your group and all of Middle-earth depends upon your uniquely skilled heroes working together. You must fight together or you will die alone, and these high stakes make the experience of playing together both socially engaging and incredibly satisfying. The first time you rescue a friend who has been grabbed by a troll and is desperately yelling for help, you will understand what we mean.

AN UNTOLD STORY

While much attention and focus has been placed on the journey of the One Ring, the assault on Middle-earth hits all corners of the map. War in the North turns our attention towards an integral part of the storyline that is grounded in details within the books and various appendices. This is not someone else’s fight. This is your own effort to forage a way through the dark, dangerous, and unknown landscape, defending all that is yours. This is your war.

RELEASE DATE: November 1, 2011
(North America)
DEVELOPER: Snowblind Studios
PUBLISHER: Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment
ESRB RATING: M for Mature
GENRE: Action RPG
PLATFORMS: Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Windows PC
PLAYERS: 1-3 Player Co-op

The Barrow Downs

Land of the deads.

Here starts the journey into barrows.

This is the first scene of Barrow Downs. Really a fascinating and blood running!!

Kill hime with blocks...this one is irritating..I don't like his sword hitting style...attitutive!!!

Continued....

Nordinbad Battle

There are four phase in this battle when you reach Nordinbad. You have to fight through all the 4 phase to get through the game. Otherwise there's no option. The favorable thing is this that whenever you clear a phase the game autosaves so there's no fear of playing the all phase all over again if you fail in any of the phases.

Phase I

Stopping the Orcs, Uruk Hai and destroying the towers.

That’s sound hard but believe me it is quite simple. When the phase starts you will see 2 turrets at the 2 corners of the stage above heading to the outside. You just keep your team on attack (press 'C' on windows) so that they keep the coming orcs busy. Go on the turrets and shot down the Uruk-Hai(s) who are standing on the wall. Change the turrets one by one to keep the balance of enemies on both sides because the coming and pouring bows from both sides. Also shoot the landing orcs down fighting with your team. Help them sometimes. I suggest you to always take a round look beside and behind you to make sure there are no orcs. If you find one kill it before it harms you because in this battle you'll need much health potions,so try to save them for last 2 phases as for they are difficult than first 2 phases.
So after making sure you are safe again hang on turrets and kill down all the enemies...kill those first with hammers and shield as they are stronger as compare to other ones. They damages higher. With turrets you can kill the hammer one in just 3 shots and shielded one will take 2. After then you'll hear the horns' sound and the towers start appearing by the walls...keep on firing the towers to destroy them(first focus on the enemies coming from them), also if you don’t destroy the towers, Beleram (eagle) will do the job.
Just keep in mind to toggle the sides so that you hold both sides' enemies. As long as you finish this phase. It will save automatically (you'll see a ring rotating).

Phase II

Stop the Sappers

As the phase 1 finish stay off the turret. Some catapult fire stones will destroy the turrets. Now you can't use them any further. You are again totally dependent on your swords and bows.
Turn around and fall back to the inner door and take out your bow and point the target. Sappers will come running and destroy itself near the inner door to damage it. You need to stop them from coming them near the gate try to keep the gate un-harm by shooting the bow on sappers far away from the inner gate. Don’t go and hit them by sword otherwise you'll lose your health.
As you finish the Sappers game round. THE GAME STARTS NOW.
I hope you have not lose much health or health potions, also you should have at least 30 bows.

Phase III

Protect the inner door from Trolls.

The trolls are the strongest creature in this phase. You'll face 2 trolls and 1 uruk hai (whom you can down any time easily). Do not waste your time on others. The strategy here is to stop the trolls from reaching the inner door. If they reach there, they will bang the door down and sadly it will take 6-7 hits by trolls to over the game. So here...what you have to do is, when the trolls came from the door point your target on one of them (I suggest you to play as Eradan or as Andriel for this phase) and press '3'(pc) for a stun bow shot..it will heavily damage the troll and then go near
and do the special attack to make a brutal hit. And then roll/dodge back (on pc movement keys + space). Again point the target on trolls and press 'C' (attacking command key) ,it will make your team to just get busy on trolls and down both of them easily. Believe me I just kill both of them down in just 1 minute with this strategy. After killing the trolls it is easily to kill the others. Regain the health and powers, change any 'need repairing' weapon or armor. If you have chose Andriel as your player then just keep shoting on the troll's face, it will irritate them and they will focus on you forgetting the inner door. This way you can easily knock them down. You will need power bottles for the shots. A lot and also if you have activated the power blast skill of Andriel that will be the best thing for you to clear the Nordinbad Battle in just some minutes. Believe me!
Get start,

Phase 4

Killing the Orcs Champion

Choose Andriel for this phase. She's hot!

Now instantly when you stop the trolls the horn winds and the Orc's Champion (the boss) rush into the battle field. The archers will still be there on wall so ignore them. With the boss there will 2 dual-wielded sword orcs will come. Do not ignore them much as they are really winners of sword playing. They will not give to time to heal once they start moving their swords, they are not that stronger but good in sword battle, use Block&Slay trick to face them every time. But still also do not put all focus on the sword masters. Once you slay the Orc Champion they all will go down except the archers. So the strategy is this, when the OC(orc's champion) comes in just stand in front of the way and point your staff (for this phase choose Andriel as she has unlimited staff power shots) and command your partners to attack.once they get to OC, release the heavy power shot first. Then keep feeding the shots and also keep an toggle on your power bar, immediately reload when it emptied.do not let him come, keep on throwing and he will release his soul in a minute or two. After OC dies, the archers will come down and surround you and
partners, quickly put the protection field around you and slay them off.