>loses half his spider riders to kill 2 pikemen >still thinks he did well against them

“This game is perfectly balanced” *Mirkwood archers with silverthorn arrows have entered the chat*

-Tries to say this game is unbalanced -Doesnt immediately rush Drogoth the dragonlord

When you think about, that one lone enemy builder was really smart move by the AI, you lost far more in collateral damage from your own catapults than they could ever hope for with a regular assualt.

"Giant fish insults british people of Yorkshire while complaining about the balance of an old videogame"

>play the angmar expansion >play as angmar >spam halls of the king's men >spam thrallmasters >make only hillmen and hill orcs >swarm >wrath of the witch king

You have to go deeper, Vale. You have to play Stronghold Crusaders.

Who would win, chad spider riders or some weak goblin bois

Also i'd be down for more vids on this, this game is awesome, and so damn nostalgic.

My strategy was to play the elves on helm's deep and fill the walls with upgraded mirkwood archers. Rain hell on orcs like napalm on Charlie. Also cockneys are London not Yorkshire 😂

I find it funny that he makes a joke about the game not being balanced, but then he loses anyone. Maybe it is actually perfectly balanced.

So, even despite giving yourself a massive advantage with the stronghold, you still managed to screw up? Never change, you big blue whale.

As a Yorkshireman, "Cockney" and "Yorkshire" are two words not to be used together

please tweet me your chad jar-jar pics Also, before you comment about it, when I said "They're all Cockney, they're all from Yorkshire.." I was just listing the not-posh bits of England - wasn't saying Cockney = Yorkshire at all. I'm stupid, but not _that_ stupid...

"having a hard time getting the game play in 1920x1080" You just change 2 values in .ini file.

Also, if you really want OP, Elves defending Helm's Deep. 3 archers on the main gate, 1 on the wall. Nothing gets through.

God I fucking loved this game. Goblins were so delightful to play as, there was never a better feeling than swamping over your enemy's economy in the early game with rushes, their walls in mid game and disregarding elven arrows of mass destruction through sheer weight and army positioning

I must have played this game for like a few hundred hours. Yet i Never even owned The game. It’s just What me and friend would always play When i was around.

Battle for Middle Earth 2 - Ents only

I see you use the Mongolian Empire tactic, charge in on giant spiders and wipe out all the armies that attack you.... wait hold on......

"They have a Cave troll"

WIth the Rise of the Witch-King expansion and the edain mod there is a whole new life to this game

Another map-wide teleport faction Am I sensing a theme here?

I love how you have had a far more consistent upload schedule than you did before when you were trying to force yourself to do it rather wanting to do it. This is awesome.

#Pray4ChadChadBinks

I had a physical copy. My dad cut it up for underperforming at school. Never forgave him for that. Probably never will. :^)

ah i was waiting for this....masterpiece now mordor artillery only

I loved making custom characters in this game

If only you used more spider cavalry. First Dol Guldur, then Middle Earth.

Ahh, yes the heroes were perfectly balanced. I had some Dwarf number 7 that had a jump and like 4 earthquake abiities. Youd send him somewhere, and he would just destroy a whoe army and the base. Then youd wait for cd and send him to destroy another faction

I always loved observing the building animations. A lot of detail went into these.

"No problem with transporting your entire army across the map" Covanant from Halo wars:🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣IKR

This reminds me a lot of Empire at War. Definilty just as balanced

This brings me back to the good ol' Stronghold Crusader times. When in trouble in the campaign... Memories where the baracks of the enemies are build. Restart and build flowers on those spots! That game was so much fun to cheese... Having trouble holding the enemies off? Make sure you leave a path open into your castle... make sure it's a long zigzag line and in plain view of archers. loved the game

"Jar jar bink's chad cousin" Is not a phrase I wanted to hear today or ever for that matter.

Gotta love those "Yorkshire cockneys" 😂 nice one mate...

How did you get your zoom so far out? Mines is zoomed in much further and I totally prefer your zoom

Balrog and sauron combined attack was my ultimate strat in this. Saurons near infinite health and insta kill everything dmg was just unbeatable especially with a balrog assist.

More of these videos, please. I love 'em.

I remember playing this game without understanding what the fuck I was doing at conventions. Ah, good times

Two years ago I found this in a box of my brother's old xbox games and I played the shit out of it until my younger siblings destroyed the disk It was my favorite game :(

Dammit, man. You had enough points to make a Balrog at the end...

so many fond memories of playing the shit out of this as a kid, thanks for reminding me of it

My best memory of this game is being Saruman in Rivendel, using towers to shoot down any elves that came for my gate (i built an ARMY of guard towers, nothing came through), then spending 45 minutes to build enough mines. I took down all my enemy's buildings until they couldn't create any more units. Then i made a line of mines from rivendel to isengard, where the elves were holed up (oh the irony) and circled around the fortress too for good measure. 45 minutes of fuckery to create one chain reaction to blow up isengard. Ah, good times.

Imagine a remaster of this😍was a shame you couldnt have a “no rush” setting against the AI

Still my 2nd favorite strategy game.

You, mortal, probably won't be a commander in my dark army

"They're all cockney, they're all from Yorkshire" he says as if those two areas are not over 200 miles apart

Supreme commander series

How can I get this game legally in 2019?

I remember playing this once at an internet cafe. It was an FFA with my friend and his brother, but we were on a crescent shaped map with me in the middle. I was an elven faction, and immediately crippled my friend’s brother with just my hero and the Tom Bombadil support power. My friend didn’t attack for a long time because he was a human faction and turtled up, building a huge army which appeared when I had very little army because I was just building one of everything to learn what it was. Luckily, I grabbed the Ring just then and destroyed his whole army with Galadriel.

"Theyre all cockney, they're from Yorkshire" As a Yorkshireman this hurt my brain

I'm lucky enough to own a copy of BFME, BFME 2 and ROTWK.

*PTSD* Thank you Valefisk, now I will be locked in a room with PC for a month!

Where did you get this I would love to play again but I have no clue where to get in online please help

Use the force, Harry -Gandalf

or you can just play the most balanced faction, Elves and their machinegun magic arrows that can slay anything

'They're all cockney, they're all from Yorkshire'. Never change America.

this is probably my favorite childhood game because i never understood it, but i still played it with my dad and little sister all the time. he keeps all his discs so it's in working condition too

We need more spider troops to conquer the world

Just play elves with the arrow upgrade. It's a cake walk.

“They’re all cockney, they’re all from Yorkshire.” Let that statement mull for a bit...

i am so angry that you didnt get a balrog at the end

Are you using the T3A:Online? It's a community of people who still play BFME and have a few community patches that balance the game. You can also download all of BFME games for free.

I have the full collection of games on CD but it doesn't work on Windows 10 anymore. If only EA weren't focusing on their microtransactions, we could've had this masterpiece on Origin or something.

This is the best strategy game of all time I played this for ages as a kid and it's genuinely surprising that they were capable of making brilliant games back in the day

Show me those silverhtorn arrows. Show me those silverhtorn arrows killing balrog.

I came in second in a school-tournament the first and only time I played this game. Played defensively and racked up score to win the time victory. It's an annoying way to play the game, but if you've played the game for a long time and still lose to a first-timer, you don't really get the right to be salty about it, because at the end of the day, _you're the one who sucks._

Is this that new battle toads game?

"They're all cockney, they're all from Yorkshire" *Raises fist* How dare you pair us Yorkshire folk up with the South! "The less nice parts of England" Tread carefully with what you say, Valefisk. "I mean look at the portraits. Clearly from Yorkshire" *Tilting intensifies*

Still looking for a way to put my hands on this gem of my childhood...

playing on helms deep with elven archers with full upgrade is far too op

This game is very unbalanced. The spider goblins should be buffed

My favorite thing to do in the first BFM was to make an army of peasants, upgrade them with armor and weapons, then take over the enemy with what looks like an angry mob!

WHen the final building was up you had enough to get the Balrog!!!

Battle For Middle Earth 1 is still better.

I was always fond of just having an army of mirkwood archers who insta-gibbed anything within range.

You could've saved yourself with the balrog at the end but ya didn't even seem to notice you had enough points for it.

watching you run your army right onto the path of you catapults made me wince. I play Elves, exclusively. if you want to multiplayer let me know, you can sit in Helms Deep, i'll let you do that. But dont be surprised when i pepper your entire army with my mirkwood archers... That are invisible until i make them shoot

Holy shit I remember playing this as a kid, totally forgot about it, I need to get this again

I really did enjoy this and I hope you play some more of it too! Get some worth out of it haha

"What is Yorkshire?" Yorkshire is a state of mind

2:49 you had the perfect opportunity to quote Boromir and YOU MISSED IIT

One builder did more damage to the orc army than anyone else put togheter

"they're all Cockney, they're all from Yorkshire" ... facepalmed in to next week

Fun fact "The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth 2: Rise of the Lich King" is the longest video game title out there.

something really balanced is that Gondor can get a view of the full map and call in a earthquake that almost destroys every type of building or call in the army of the dead that's invincible and can instantly kill full battalions of units or decimate level 10 heroes

Jeff Goldblum looked high AF during that EA opening

Every time I heard spider riders my brain went back to that old cartoon by that name

The kind of games that were made before social media

Have you ever taken a look at the Edain mod for Battle of Middleearth 2 ? you just need the expansion pack aswell.

I Loved how you could make a really large uruk army, Killing them til last unit, and then give all the units banners. And Then basicly have an army to do the battle of helms deep.

Dude I remember playing this game on 360 until all hours of the night. Always in those no rush lobbies. Amazing times back then.

best memories of the game are maxing out armies with friend and sending them to battle then we both span our powers and afterwards both armies are totally destroyed and not an inch of ground was gained. Balrog is op as fuck and can pop up under your army sending everyone flying, as is army of the dead, which aragon and men can use virtually creating an invincible army.

The best way to play this game is to set up in helms deep with the Elven archers and just stack the walls with fully upgraded archers. You're basically invincible.

That builder comp sent out was META AF

*complains angrily in Yorkshire*

That worker had a great strategy

I remember this game, I played nothing but humans, swarming the enemy with rangers + fire arrow just ruins the AI

A couple of weeks ago I found this shit at a flea market for 2 bucks. Was so damn happy. This was one of my favorite childhood games.