Hey pixelated Apollo, idk if you’ll see this but I wanted to say I used to watch your videos 24/7 as a kid, you were a good part of my childhood and I dreamed about playing these games. Now I am an adult and could finally afford to get myself a pc to play these. It’s just awesome to see you’re still going strong

My friends and I used to devote entire sleepovers to playing this game together nonstop

I don't understand why we don't have today a remaster or a remake of this masterpiece.

I like that he leaves his mistakes in! Mad respect

This game is such a gem. So sad it did not get the attention it deserved.

I remember playing this with friends online back in the day. It is such a good game. In terms of the campaign I do prefer the first The Battle for Middle-Earth game. Good campaign is so much fun :D

Thing I remember most about BFME2 campaign was Erebor was nuts playing as Mordor because the dwarves spammed attacks while you were trying to build up your base and then as the Dwarves, the enemy would just bum rush through all your troops through the two open gates you couldn’t close

Hey Apollo, great video! Heres some tips i like to use. As you discovered, the command limit will also limit your heroes, which then limits all other upgrades to your castle until it is either finished or canceled. Pressing B will switch to the nearest builder, and that key should be defaulted. Cntrl + a number will assign the currently selected troops to a squad. Then, press the coresponding number to select the squad. A good setup i like is 1 for infantry, 2 for archers, 3 for cav, and 4 for siege. I plave my heroes in their coresponding roles. No matter the situation, always leave 1 or 2 troops at the base for defense. This game, as im sure you are aware, used the rock paper scissors scheme, cav beats archers and non spear units, spears beat cav, and large units. Archers beat infantry, and infantry is a meat shield. Use cav to destroy resource buildings that the enemy has placed. They are quick and in and out. The gold after you destroy a map enemy (goblin cave, troll cave, etc.) Aslo provides the hero that collects it with a huge exp boost. That is why faramir leveled before Boromir. I hope you play more of this as it is my childhood favorite. I also love your videos and will continue to support you. I hope you dont mind my tips.

The best time I've ever had on this game is playing Men of the West on Helm's Deep and only using heroes against mass waves of orcs. It's epic. Would recommend for your next video! Or a match on Old Brown Lands. One of the best maps.

I remember as a kid watching your videos on Battle for Middle Earth 2, I am truly glad to see you play it again

Love the BfME games! Quick tip to make it easier to select your army: You can assign quick select option to units. Select the units you want to group and then press Ctrl+1. Once you have done that, you can quickly select that group by simply pressing 1. Select another group and assign them to number 2 by pressing Ctrl+2. I always have my heroes under quick select 9 (and 8 if I want to separate them in 2 groups). I usually have the rest of my army under number 1. If it's really big battles, I may separate them in whatever way suits the campaign. Sometimes I have all infantry in one group, archers in another and cavalerie in yet another. In other scenario's I make battle groups of 2 infantry, combined with 2 archers. Anyway, that can be very useful in keeping control over your army and respond very quickly to attacks. You can even group your builders (usually number 0 for me, so you can quickly select them and bring them to safety in case of an attack).

Legendary Game, always amazes me that official support ended for this masterpiece, so glad the community picked it up and are keeping it alive.

I remember playing the 1st BFME and the 2nd one was so good ! Getting hero's to high levels and all the abilities were epic

My god, hearing those voice lines unlocked a nostalgic part of my brain that I didn't even know was there. I remember I played this non-stop when I recieved it for Christmas as a kid.

8:31 lore accurate, love it😂

Good old times of just watching Apollo and Medieval 2 and asking for some Battle for Middle Earth once in a while. And a classic! 3, 2, 1.... Gotta love you man!

I'd like to see a mode or an upcoming game where in battle for middle earth each race has the ability to choose their fortress upgrade to like star fortress, square, circle etc etc... and each one is unique. Because in real life there were different types of fortresses built. That be cool.

you had your upgrades "frozen" because you didnt had enough comand points (lost farms) to respawn faramir, so the upgrades down the cue were waiting for faramir to finish

I'm so glad you returned to this game, can't wait for all the new content for this game.

He's so goddamn lucky the AI was attacking each other. He didn't have to defend shit lol

I loved this game so much back in the day. Used to turtle hard, with insane defenses, wait for an enemy push, then immediately counter attack.

yoooo you absolute chad. Hoped you would do this. I say again CHECK OUT AGE OF THE RING MOD if you can, it has an AMAZING campaign that follows the movies/book storyline including the BFME2 Campaign with multiple storylines along with incredible fellowshop driven story! I cant suggest it enough. The campaign isnt just a RTS campaign its a rts/rpg campaign which is extremely story driven. Please please for the love of god try it man, I know you'll get shivers just playing the first mission for the battle of the last alliance. Anyhow, BASED AF apollo, much love!

You should check out Age of The Ring great mod for Bfme 2 which looks like bfme 3 trust me

For anyone who doesn’t know, there’s a mod over on moddb for BFME 2 called Age of the Ring. They’re still updating it!

You can try age of the ring mod for this it is from the creators of remastered bfme project they just finalized the mod last year or the year before that i cant tell the passing of time much but what i can is that mod is packed with races and more lorey faction roster there is rivendell woodland realm harad gondor rohan erebor misty mountains and lothlorien there might be more i cant remember but give it a shot it also has its custom campaign and the game is a little more higher quality upgrades arent light sabers and armor upgrades arent gold coloring (armor upgrades are my favorite it adds custom armor it is really cool)

ahhh Pure nostalgia watching this, The Age of the ring mod for this game makes it even better with way more factions including rohan and mirkwood and many more

Hey apollo!!!! Please, get into the Age of the Ring Mod!!! Its lead the game to another level!!! It will be incredible if you do that, Im from Brazil and have played this game a long time ago, now I come back thanks to this mod wich gives the game a new begining!!!

Finally! You're actually the one who introduced me to bfme 2. I've watched the Destroyer 001 videos that you recommended for years😂😂. Though he's no longer post new Bfme, rotwk contents recently. Unexpectedly you came back!

You should definitely look into the age of the ring mod, I used to play this as a kid and loved it but now I can only play it with the mod. It's just the base game on steroids adding/changing factions, units, maps and making everything look way better

when BFME 1 came out I spent every weekend just playing helms deep battles over and over , these games are so good!

OMG, these were my all time favorite games. I found one of the CD's a month ago but didnt have the key to go with it. I am so excited to play this again. Thank you for this.

There is a really great mod for BFME2 called Age of the Ring. More factions and better graphics.

One of the best RTS games of all time. The guy who designed command and conquer made this game, which is why it's so good.

It's my favorite strategy ever... also there are so many great mods now Age Of The Ring, Edain Mod....

Apollo, play the 2004 The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-Earth game! That one is the true OG. I bought three disks so I could play multiplayer with my dad and brother back then. I would 1 v 2 them both and still win as Isengard.

31:00 "why is it not upgrading?" because in one building, unit and upgrade are in one queue. You can see it happens at barrack/archery range, and the same applied to fort (as it was waiting for your Faramir spawn)

Please try out the age of the ring mod. Also there is still an active multiplayer community for this game as well.

Anyone else had this problem when playing against Isengard when the enemy berserker would become immortal and keep on attacking you forever ???

You played that perfectly, I loved these games as a kid. The best PC Lord of The Rings games ever made.

Now this brings me back!! I am still holding out hope they will oneday remaster this series though I also fear they would find a way to run it into the ground

Man, I grew up with this and the first game. I haven't been able to play this in years cause I stopped having a computer that was able to play it. I miss it so much.

Try this to use formations: - Select units you want to move - Click and hold right mouse button on destination - Click and hold left mousbe button additionally to right button - Move cursor to make your formation face the right direction Also try to use the Attack order instead of simple Move order. Your selected units will attack any enemy on its path then. Shortcut for this is A Hope this will make your game easier.

Edain mod/Age of the Ring mods are top.tier

play with the age of the ring mod, it adds so much!

I was sad they never made a 3rd game after all the Hobbit movies came out. Both the first and second games are truly amazing RTS games.

He's a fool to leave Eomer on the bench . He can finance your whole army.

Dude I grew up playing this game. It’s so freaking fun and my imagination really took over when I played

I've always liked RTS games like these. My favorite of all time is Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings.

I grew up with this game..... Still playing it!

Sorry, I’m having trouble finding the link in the description :(

Nice video, you better consider trying Age of the Ring mod for Bfme 2 RotWK so many fun stuff there 🙌

The builders chit chat has lived rent free in my head for too many years.

I just remembered how much I love this game

God I miss this game, I used to play it all the time as a kid with my brother and mother. Now I aim to get it again

"boromir is littered with arrows" Ah, just like in the movie.

this man said 3,2,1 and started over LOL amazing

I love how no one gives a F about him leaving the re record at the begining. Because we came here to enjoy not to judge

Love this game spent the whole summer on the 360 just playing this with my best friend back in the good ol days. Nostalgic

I remember having my heroes on training montages as they camp outside a lair for the endless spawns.

Damn, this takes me back. Crazy its been almost 20 years, i feel so old.

Love lord of the rings games. I’ve had this game for so long one of my friends gave it to me. Never got to it but now I have and I love this game ! I can’t believe I was missing out on this gem! Good video my man

I remember having the Collection of the Battle for middle earth games back in the day and rise of the witch king is definitely the best. I wish i could be able to play it again, but i dont have a disk drive on my PC.

We played this when I was in boarding school in 2006 had some epic lan battles. Was so much fun

Hey bro I found your videos like 3 days ago and I’ve just been watching them ever since love your stuff ❤

Before this I had only played age of empires and mythology RTS games. I was amazed that you could actually have calvary charge and run down the enemy

man that minimap was HUGE didnt notice it back in the day.

Dwarf custom lords are OP, just make a super tank with heal abilities, just build the hero ASAP and send him into the enemy base. Job done.

HOLY MOLY! This take some way back to my childhood. I gotta go get this game installed ASAP

Battle for Middle Earth I and II both hold up so well today. A true testament to how well they were made both graphically and gameplay-wise.

I like how you kept in the messy part at the start, we love your straightforward dorkiness. Keep it up man, loved BFM1 as a kid - ran like absolute shit with modded servers but 5 FPS was awesome at the time for the scale of the fight you got.

never in my life did i imagine seeing this in my feed. Apollo is worthy

I’m at the 35 minute of this video screaming, your powers!!! Haha

You should try the age of the ring mod !! Truly amazing

I used to go to my local Harvey Norman as a kid and play the demo they had on display for hours lol. The guys didn't know whether to kick me out or what,

Oh boy, I was thinking of replaying it again, but I get something better on YT. Thanks for bringing this back

Reminds me of the old days of KZfaq. Calming videos with low graphics games lol.

Please continue the story of the son of biggus i really enjoyed it

I'm incredibly lucky to have been able to purchase a physical copy of the BFME anthology a year or two before it was discontinued. Downside is that for some reason the game won't launch and I haven't been able to play it in years.

Love you apollo! I'll never get tired of your cozy videos. Love from Denmark

God this is my favorite game of all time. Remember playing it 15 (1st game) years ago and it was unreal then.

There was definitly a way to zoom out. I can recommend that 😂

The reason your fortress wasn’t upgrading is because you had faramir queued to come back to life, but didn’t have the population capacity for him to revive. So everything in the fortress was stalled

man we are still playing this game, there are even tournaments... btw if you want you can zoom out more imo its more enjoyable to play if you see more

There used to be so many awesome RTS games.. Obviously this, the entire CNC collection, emperor battle for dune, earth 2150, act of war, joint task force, COH etcetcetc. It's crazy how this genre never gets any new releases besides creative assembly pissing off their entire fanbase every once in a while..

When you accidentally called Aragorn, “Gondor”

Glad to see you play games you genuinely like

Great games, i personally play BFME ROTWK mostly, you played well but since its been a long time for you, you obvs made some mistakes which is faur enough, it was jist so painful that after knowing you were against mordor and goblins it too you ages just to get fire arrows when them team combined have 4 flying heroes, trolls and mumakils (however its spelt) but still great video

You should check some mods for bfme, like edain or age of the ring!

I used to abuse the healing bug on the elven custom hero, one hero to rule them all 😂

A surprise to be sure but a welcome one

Literally the only game I have time for these days- great to see the gaming comm finding it again. Goes to show good games ain’t about specs.

What a blast from the past. Forgot how much I loved it.

You should play the age of the ring, its crazy good. You almost cant go back to this, as the updated version is so immersive.

Snyone else like the first one more? The units had more weight to them and werent as disposable, and they'd upgrade ranks with experience. Everything was harder to kill and meant more when you did

There is a hotkey for every building and build action and a hotkey for every military action. I know this cause back in the day if you wanted to survive a multiplayer battle you have to memorize all of em lol

While watching this, KZfaq is advertising at me to buy The Return of the King (Extended Version). Well done, KZfaq, your algorithms go something right!

this just gave me so much nostalgia

Thank you so much for bringing it to my attention that it got easy to install this part of my childhood again

This is one of my favorite RTS games of all time!

Man I need this game back in my life.