PAY TO WIN hear it good and loud!, the game has just characters and names of the fictional world from J.R.R Tolkien but nothing else. The strategy is well mplemented in-game but developing your fortress, commanders and armies is boring, hard and unless you have the credit card in hand it takes a looooooooong time of grinding and grinding. The map is huge and it has a lot of symbolic places known from the books and movies, but you can't really explore it all cause the movement mechanics suck.