They've been given more units per battalion (which creates battles with more bodies and more action) and given all of the buildings necessary to create bases including their brand new fortress.
In any case the remaining factions have been adjusted to fit the game's new format. The pace of the game doesn't seem to suffer, partly because skirmish maps are usually compact enough that conflicts erupt over room to expand resource operations. I don't think this is necessarily a problem though. There are some bonus buildings that can be captured, but I've often seen those destroyed quickly rather than having to worry about them being captured by the enemy. For instance, Dawn of War has capture points, StarCraft and Warcraft have resource nodes… but BMFE 2 is all about building up and crushing the enemy. While resource spaces are to be fought over, my compatriot Steve made a good point after playing a game that there aren't as many focus points for battles as there are in other RTSs. Goblins and dwarves have a great advantage in that they can actually use their resource buildings as tunnels for traveling quickly around the map. It also means those interests have to be protected, which gets more complicated the farther they are from the main base. It means that players will have to actively expand into new territory to get the money necessary for their plans.
Resource buildings now continuously collect money, but have a radius around them that blocks new resource buildings from being constructed too closely together. Walls become a huge strategy for certain races (though they're usually very expensive to construct) like the dwarves. Now, since walls can be built and buildings placed anywhere, changes were made to what can be constructed and how resources are collected.
Bases can now be built free-form instead of the set base size with a number of build plots. For those unfamiliar with the changes to gameplay, Battle for Middle-earth II has made some huge ones that give it an old school feel. Players will have to contend with the dwarves slow speed and the goblin's lack of defense. Each faction brings new play styles to the game and the offer of spectacular advantages and tricky disadvantages. The addition of these three new races raises the faction count to six and manages to balance out very well. Because the war in the north takes place simultaneously to the war in the south between the Men of the West, Mordor, and Isengard, most of the focus in the campaign is on the three new factions: the dwarves, elves, and goblins. Whoever put them together has a good eye for the visually dramatic and they certainly help get you excited for what's to come and feel victorious at the end. While they're relatively unimportant to gameplay, they sure can be fun to watch. All of these cutscenes are a mix of art and in-game graphics with more interesting camera views. Preceding and following each mission is a short cutscene describing the happenings in the war, why the mission is where it is, and what the strategic value is. I know I've said it before, but it's just too much fun to run into The Shire with the goblins to not mention it again. The good missions really push the feeling of being cornered while the evil missions are all about attacking with superior numbers and disdain for the realms of the freemen. By the end of the game there's a truckload of powers, units, and heroes at hand.
Many of them provide very cool settings to play in like Rivendell, Celduin, Erebor, and The Shire and most are constructed to fit the fiction and progress the action and technology. In fact, almost all of the sixteen total campaign missions (eight each for good and evil) are well constructed and fun.
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