The bit about Glorfindel and the Fellowship is actually on point. In the book it's brought up that if he did tag along, Sauron would immediately go "Oh, the ring is there" coz they sent the most OP dude to escort it.
@@BigGhilz haha what a boss! Didnt tom bombadil go the ring is so insignificant that id forget I had it and leave it somewhere. Funny how the op good guys dont help 😂
@@Admiral_Iddy Gandalf is the one who points out Tom can't be trusted with it because he'd lose it or forget about it. And even otherwise, he'd still be overcome by Sauron, even if the rest of middle earth fell first.
@@Admiral_Iddy Seems like they could have used Glorfindel as a diversion. "Oh, they sent that guy who can solo a Balrog to escort (some random group of people). They clearly have the ring" but then the ring is with Aragorn and the hobbits.
@@BigGhilz I thought Bombadil was supposed to be a wandering Valar and power of the ring was completely negligible to him but that he is just very detached being basically a god?
@@BobMcBobJr haha i wonder if sauron would catch on, hmmm that beacon of light and glory seems pretty suspicious 😆 then again the nazgul did f up and had the ring in reach like 5 times haha
Thank you so, so, so, SO SO much for putting the launcher link in the description! I've been looking for a way to play this game again for over a decade!!
Try downloading "age of the ring" V8. 3. It's a mod for BFME. Its really fun but also hilariously challenging. Even on easy. It completely messes with the factions and rebuilds them, but in a fun way. They made dolguldur a faction and I like it the most, even though it sometimes is pretty weak.
"This is the most frustrating deathless run I have attempted so far." *"so far"* *C&C Red Alert 3 looms over in the distance both goofily and menacingly simultaniously*
I actually played it on 360 before pc too! and multiplayer which was so bonked I remember an elf hero named Ohta who was the most broken bastard ever he could snipe your fortresses and whirlwind your troops. Pair that with a controller and oh boy what a mess ahah
@@Admiral_Iddy RTS isn't designed for console gaming. Not unless you actually just turn your console into a computer by hooking a keyboard and mouse to it. Apparently that was he only way to make Starcraft N64 playable.
@@Admiral_Iddydid you ever do the hero glitch to build a hero with borked abilities? I loved Army in a Box. Every ability slot was the reinforcements one, so they could do all sorts of crazy with no map profile until they stumble on something i want dead :)
Now keep in mind, it's been a since I've looked into the lore so take the following with a grain of salt: Glorfindel did indeed die but death is more of a suggestion to sufficiently powerful characters in LotR lore. To put it very shortly: Elves, similar to maiar like Gandalf, are different from the other mortal races in Arda due to their soul being bound to the planet. When they die, their soul returns to the Undying Lands. They are functionally immortal. That means that, again, just like Gandalf, they can be resurrected and given new bodies. So Glorfindel died, but he got better. Also having Glorfindel be the ringbearer was actually discussed at the council of Elrond. It was determined that he is so powerful, his soul acts like a beacon. It's impossible for him to hide. More importantly, Sauron expects people to be like him and desire the power of the ring, which is why he pays a lot of attention to all the powerful figures in Middle-Earth. It's what allows the fellowship to move relatively unnoticed in the first place. In essence, Glorfindel is better as a distraction. Incidentally, Tom Bombadil is also considered as someone who is most definitely immune to the ring's effects but being who he is, there is a genuine concern that he would simply forget about the ring all-together and just leave it somewhere. Re the watcher: yes actually, it is implied that there are underground water tunnels that connect the whole of Middle-Earth where the horrors from the deep live. Creatures that are entirely alien and unknown and it's better if they remain that way. That's where Gandalf ends up after he is dragged into the depths by the Balrog. It's also the reason why they don't just throw the ring into the ocean (which, yes, is also considered). They *really* don't want to find out what kind of monster the ring could spawn if it was acquired by a denizen of the deep. Sauron is scary enough already, thank-you-very-much. That being said, I don't think the watcher or any of the Denizens are under Sauron's control and it's unlikely the watcher would have the means to move like that so.
Just to add, Glorfindel is the only case of an elf choosing to return to Middle Earth after being reincarnated. Most others hang out in Valinor, either traumatised or not wanting to leave, and Glorfindel just went "nah, send me back in, chief."
@@Salted_Fysh wow! Didnt know that about the underwater ahha now Im just picturing some sort of giant octopus with the power if the ring ugh I shudder the ocean is already scary enough ahha
Even if there was no monsters in the ocean, since Sauron is functionally immortal, he would eventually find the ring, even if it might be thousands of years later
Just do add to this, from my understanding both Glorfindels were supposed to be seperate elves, but lorewise elves all have unique names, which was an error on Tolkien's part, due to not reconsidering the names he used in Lord of the Rings when he wrote the Silmarillion (or the other way around I forgot), and later Tolkien touched upon this in his letters, coming up with that theory that the Glorfindel we can find in the Lord of the Rings books probably IS the same Glorfindel in the Silmarillion, with your comment being his explanation. I've always found it so nice of the late Sir Tolkien not to speak in definitve terms, he theorized as if it was a real world, and often left some sort of feeling that makes you think about his stories and create your own reasoning and lore. He even came up with different thoughts when Glorfindel came back to middle earth, his reason being that he was sent there as an antagonist to Sauron, and also him being one of the last of his kin.
@@HarduntheRanger Actually, Glorfindel is one of two elves to return to Middle Earth. The other is Luthien, the wife of Beren. Making her the ancestor of Elrond, Arwen, all the kings of Numenor, and Aragorn. Arguably, her return to life is even more epic then Glorfindel's. Becuase not only did she come back to life, but she brought Beren with her. And unlike Elves who simply choose not to come back to Middle Earth, Beren, as a mortal man, should not be allowed to come back by the natural laws of the world.
Holy shit I cannot believe that there is actually a way to get archers to hold position. This is a revelation, finally can play helms deep without pulling my hair out. Big thank you to Talyc
I remember once doing the evil campaign final map. "Got Sauron time to smash through the front gate!" *Becomes a pincushion of silverthorn arrows even before making it to the first garrisoned tower* Mirkwood archers are one of the best units in the game. And pre-nerf they also were as rediculous at smasing buildings as they were everything else.
6:20 Glorfindel did die killing a Balrog and like all the spirits of dead elves went to the Halls of Mandos the Vala but he was reembodied for his heroism and then sent back to Middle earth empowered by the Valar. He glows brightly because he saw the light of the two trees in their time which gives him a presence in the spirit world.
@@timon6759 and this badass just sat out the fellowship alas, i really hope Amazon doesnt bring him into their show hes too precious! Pun intended haha
@Admiral_Iddy Well it's pretty hard to sneak into Mordor if Sauron can literally see you like a glowing light bulb. Tolkien realized that and created Legolas.
I have an Easterling fix for ya. The Age of the Ring mod's Mordor faction has four Easterling units. And the Adventure Faction that replaces Mordor in certain maps is Rhun, which is primarily Easterlings.
Age of the Ring is awesome! Unfortunately they have had disagreements with the launcher folks and their mod isnt included in the All in One Launcher in the description which is a shame cuz AOTR is a bit of a pain to get runnin if you dont own bfme2. I think the Edain mod used to have Rhun as its own faction? Or I might be thinking Third Age Total War which also was amazing haha
@@Admiral_Iddy actualy its really easy, I have just remebered AOTR a few days before and got it running without any problems. Also they got updates and there is a full-fledged Harad faction outside Mordor with a few new arab-themed mechanics
@Admiral_Iddy I'm an Edain player, and no. We advise using the manual download and ISO mounting. And Rhûn isn't a faction, unfortunately, though in the Unchained Submod Harad is a faction these days!
Glorfindel wasnt reincarnated, as in reborn, he was literally re-embodied by the Valar (or possibly Eru) because of his heroic actions, similar to how Beren and Luthien, and much later, in the Third Age, Gandalf, would be re-embodied after dying. After a while, Glorfindel was sent back to Middle Earth as an emissary of the Valar, imbued with the light of Valinor. So yeah he's pretty much the biggest badass on the continent.
Shoutout BeyondStandard and the crew for putting together the great launcher! Also FYI for those who arent in that community, the team has made updates to the good and evil campaigns for the first one and really revamped the difficulty, definitely worth a try!
What a coincidence the community patch 2.02 team for Rise of the Witch King expansion pack just released a new version that tries to mitigate the big issue with battalions getting stuck in combat and other general pathfinding issues. Might be handy if you ever try to beat RotWK deathless. Also all the memories are of the campaign are flooding back to me, so many battalions lost when I played it as a kid lolz!
I love that the Easterlings are the only infantry worth recruiting as Mordor......again, both in 1 and 2 orcs are too squishy while the Easterlings can deal with cavalry and upgrade their armour. Fun fact, the Easterlings DO show up in Return of the King, only in 1 shot, they (along with orcs) charge through the gate of Minas Tirith. I olayed this game a few months ago and i must say, the DLC was hard, even when i was playing on easy, Fornost lives in my nightmares
@@MiguelSanchezDelVillar yeah its not as viable to mass orcs like the game intends its all about the monsters and easterlings for anti cav ah well still cool though . Ill try the expansion soon enough
Before I watched, I asked myself: 'How's he gonna deal with the cutscenes where units are fighting in the fog of war and you suddenly control a guy about to get whacked by a troll'... your dedication to the run is admirable. And you helped me find a reliable way to play an old favorite game. Cheers, Admiral!
To note, there was one patch, iirc either the last official or one of the first fanpatches, that nerfed the radius in which you could build walls around your fortresses to the ground, which is the radius you, Admiral Iddy, seemingly had to deal with. The Original radius was 3~4 times as large as large as the post-nerf one and I do heartily agree, the reducition in wall build radius made wall building way less fun, though iirc, the Return of the Lich-King Expansion hasn't gotten the wall radius reduction, which is an interesting contrast. (One of the reasons playing it may be much more fun.) Edit: Right, the enemy that phase through you wall though they shouldn't is either a bug they never deign to fix because of their opinions about walls, any fix they had made way more stuff elsewhere break and/or may have been an "anti-wall-of-map-edges" inclusion where units that were spawned from off map can not be blocked from going to where they should actually be "spawned" in map. Regardless of which it is, I agree on that being rather annoying. (At least with Misty Moutnain the wall crawlers tend to be not that hard to kill of during the animation.)
@@sestrarsestror3417 right!? I always loved walls in games especially mannable ones and bfme 2 dissapointed me. Imagine it had age of empires 4 walls with towers and big gatehouses that you could garrison!
26:50 This mission is hard if you kill a troll to fast it overflows their healthbar and cant die So i had a few max level troll destroying my base for the last half of it
Fun fact: you can actually spot a couple easterlings on the background scene, when the orcs rushing towards Gondor spearman, after the breach of the gates of Minas Tirith in the third movie.
I definitely gonna replay these games. Thank you for letting us know that we can get it on moddb. I missed these games for a while now. Like I would had bought them if there would be an option to do so.
Glorfindel of the golden flower was a great warrior from Gondolin in the 1st age. He held a balrog back single handed, so the survivors from the fall of Gondolin could escape, He was able to strike the balrog and sent it off a cliff but as it fell it grabbed his hair pulling him with the balrog to their deaths. Due to his selflessness and bravery he was ressurected early and with greater power, he would be sent back to middle earth in the 2nd age to assist against Saurons forces
@@brumahozen1232 and Elrond sits this badass out of the fellowship! He could have put the ring on an arrow and sniped it through saurons eye into mount doom ahha
He had an incredibly bright soul so sending him with the fellowship would of allerted sauron to them, defeating the point of the fellowship to begin with. But yeah he is the 2nd most powerful elf in the 3rd age behind Galadriel.@@Admiral_Iddy
You know your D Day comments really got me interested in seeing you try to beat Company of Heroes 1 deathless. The game should be great for this challenge since it is designed around micro of small amounts of units.
I remember playing the first one on the helms deep mission. Managed to keep the deeping wall alive which meant that the computer bugged out and just kept sending a single bezerker to try and blow it up every min or so.
6:17 IIRC he IS the OG. Man literally walked out of Elf Heaven saying "I didn't hear no bell." something *almost no elf has ever done **after dying. ***Obviously the elves left Valinor before but few had died, gone to the Halls of Mandos and left THOSE.
0:55 it’s crazy cause a few years ago I remember the only option was to find the physical discs awesome to see that I still got them but I have a desktop now so I definitely will be downloading 💯
Loved playing the game mode called War of the Ring. You can just build like 1000 attack trolls with the Witch King and steamroll against 7 brutal ai. Absolute "evil power fantasy" vibes.
Oh by the way, theres a guy with a small channel called "fallintheabyss" who did this challenge run as well and he was seemingly able to rescue the units up north in mission 3.
Maybe a bug, unless the free online version nerfed resource structures? From playing my physical copy, I recall when you're given the shadow to place the buildings, it will have a colored ring and number showing the efficiency of it depending on placement, ranging from like green 80-100 to red scraps. Something about how much open ground and lack of other resource buildings it has near, I think? So if you space em out they should pay good, but clump em up too much and income goes down the drain.
@@Ghostly_One1 oh yeah i know that part, but even with perfectly spread out 100 percent buildings they still go down for some reason maybe its a balance choice to avoid snowballing? So one player wont be making 6k a tick? Who knows! Haha
@@Admiral_Iddy i just went into skirmish to check, and it seems like every resource structure after the 2nd will make every previously built resource structure gain one less resource per tick, i dont know if they also degrade over time, but it seemed to only go down every time i built a structure
@@DKHacher Iiirc, ressource buildings kind of degrade over time to a given minimum, but it takes soem tiem to get there, which may have been one of the ways to encourage you to not turtle too much. That said, it may have been a combined reduction, but I do not have the game on hand to test yet.
4:08 I believe that's something done by the latest unofficial patch which comes included in the launcher. I played this game countless hours back in the day and never remember this happening.
@Admiral_Iddy I'll get it downloaded right away. Also as I'm watching this. Yes, that is the OG Glorfindel. He and Gandalf are the only 2 beings to be resurrected by Illuvitar (God god) because they were doing such a good job.
sometimes when your units are near trolls they will get "feared" so they cant move. u can see in the animation that theyre hiding behind their shields. some heroes give fear resistence to nullify it.
"most frustrating deathless run i have attempted so far" C&C generals Zero hour: "allow me to introduce myself" seriously, my gods i have been trying to route this thing for months and have given up good luck man, im pretty sure its not possible
Did not expect the Umbar National Basketball League Also, I remember laughing when playing Rivendell and Sauron was actually losing a 1v1 to Galadriel.
What patch did you play on? BFME2 somewhat famously had at least one super broken buggy/OP unit or tactic on each patch that might give you the edge you need to cheese. Examples: Vanilla patch: the banner upgrade on a war wagon gives you two phalanxes who swing their pikes for 500 damage a swing. 1.4 Axethrowers accidentally have +400% damage vs buildings 1.6 setting the ground on fire is hyper lethal to units & buildings. Also the dale archer war wagon upgrade has insane range & they hit like trucks. The patch selection has a massive effect on how easily troops live or die & I would recommend 1.4 as your best shot at succeeding with a Deathless run.
@@ledanoir1239 true it was cool exploring all of the different regions in 1 and the maps were really nice looking too. I dream of a bfme 3 with all the winning recipes of both
Nice run as always! I downloaded the game and gave it a go. Bugs quite a lot. I installed and played BFME2 and wasted many hours because after a victory in a Tactical map realtime the game just has music and green screen but no stats and just stops working.
@@samisainio7468 thanks for watching! Sorry you are having issues maybe drop a message to the devs of the launcher on their discord? They are usually pretty good at updating it!
Eldar, when they die, don't fade away. Their souls go to the Hall of Mandos, where they can get a new body. So technically, elves don't ever die. Humans leave the world when they die tho.
@@fromrawn9303 macgruberrrrr🎷 His hair is fucking perfect macgruberrrr🎷! Its a comedy spoofing macgyver its a really fun film! His sex scene doesnt end there and its hilarious haah
Thank the TH-cam overlords for putting this on my recommended. I played this game to death growing up and have had to VM old OS to play this on my original discs. Now I can play this patched and easily?! Also the video was very good 😂😂
i had a copy of this when it first came out. i remember around 10 years ago I was trying to look for another copy and couldnt find it anymore. wonder why they stopped selling it. was a great game and easy money for them to sell it again.
@@JanJansen985 ive wanted to make some sort of video with regards to summoner for years but I cant figure it out or find the rythym to start it. I wanna do a review/essay on it but it just cant click in my brain...yet. I have a lot to say about that game!
@@Andrastos there sort of is, you need a purchased copy like on steam but the launcher updates it to widescreen, fixes compatibility and allows quick downloads for mods! Try googling genlauncher from a guy named legionairre
Erebor is the easiest mission bro. If you build two fortress on each side of the map, and put archers and axe throwing dwars in towers and close the main gate of Erebor , the AI will targeting them and it's easy to defend them on any difficulty without losing units. For me it worked.😅😅
4:07 How is a mechanic that makes sure that expanding your base is good, but not too much, not a perfectly understandable and reasonable bit of game design lol
I'd like to see if u can do some deathless runs of the dawn of war games mainly dark crusade and soulstorm with every faction but I'd also like to see if u can do dawn of war 2 and its dlc's too
There's a bug where they are hidden off screen. It can happen to flying units too, where they get stuck outside of bounds if their pathing gets interrupted while on the edge of the map.
@@yaboityler2617 you can use the worker button to get them back on the field and just use select all and spam move inside the map and they will get there
The bit about Glorfindel and the Fellowship is actually on point. In the book it's brought up that if he did tag along, Sauron would immediately go "Oh, the ring is there" coz they sent the most OP dude to escort it.
@@BigGhilz haha what a boss! Didnt tom bombadil go the ring is so insignificant that id forget I had it and leave it somewhere. Funny how the op good guys dont help 😂
@@Admiral_Iddy Gandalf is the one who points out Tom can't be trusted with it because he'd lose it or forget about it. And even otherwise, he'd still be overcome by Sauron, even if the rest of middle earth fell first.
@@Admiral_Iddy Seems like they could have used Glorfindel as a diversion. "Oh, they sent that guy who can solo a Balrog to escort (some random group of people). They clearly have the ring" but then the ring is with Aragorn and the hobbits.
@@BigGhilz I thought Bombadil was supposed to be a wandering Valar and power of the ring was completely negligible to him but that he is just very detached being basically a god?
@@BobMcBobJr haha i wonder if sauron would catch on, hmmm that beacon of light and glory seems pretty suspicious 😆 then again the nazgul did f up and had the ring in reach like 5 times haha
Thank you so, so, so, SO SO much for putting the launcher link in the description! I've been looking for a way to play this game again for over a decade!!
@@LukeozeeVODS-pm5wz my pleasure! Now go play!
Try downloading "age of the ring" V8. 3. It's a mod for BFME. Its really fun but also hilariously challenging. Even on easy.
It completely messes with the factions and rebuilds them, but in a fun way. They made dolguldur a faction and I like it the most, even though it sometimes is pretty weak.
"This is the most frustrating deathless run I have attempted so far."
*"so far"* *C&C Red Alert 3 looms over in the distance both goofily and menacingly simultaniously*
theres a content creator who has been doing it - Psyminette
@@alexashton6501 i've seen them do it
We also have Rise of the Witch King to come too 😂😂😂
What about Generals Zero Hour?
SPACE!
Man, as hard as it is to play deathless on PC...imagine trying to play this game on xBox 360. That's how I played it and it was...CRAPPY.
I actually played it on 360 before pc too! and multiplayer which was so bonked I remember an elf hero named Ohta who was the most broken bastard ever he could snipe your fortresses and whirlwind your troops. Pair that with a controller and oh boy what a mess ahah
@@Admiral_Iddy RTS isn't designed for console gaming. Not unless you actually just turn your console into a computer by hooking a keyboard and mouse to it. Apparently that was he only way to make Starcraft N64 playable.
@@robertbarrows6687 if you cant beat Starcraft 64 with a controller thats a you problem
I did that a couple times
Its rough yes but totally possible
@@JanJansen985 Oh that'd be an awesome future video and stream. Playing Starcraft 64 with the controller!
@@Admiral_Iddydid you ever do the hero glitch to build a hero with borked abilities? I loved Army in a Box. Every ability slot was the reinforcements one, so they could do all sorts of crazy with no map profile until they stumble on something i want dead :)
Now keep in mind, it's been a since I've looked into the lore so take the following with a grain of salt:
Glorfindel did indeed die but death is more of a suggestion to sufficiently powerful characters in LotR lore.
To put it very shortly:
Elves, similar to maiar like Gandalf, are different from the other mortal races in Arda due to their soul being bound to the planet. When they die, their soul returns to the Undying Lands. They are functionally immortal.
That means that, again, just like Gandalf, they can be resurrected and given new bodies. So Glorfindel died, but he got better.
Also having Glorfindel be the ringbearer was actually discussed at the council of Elrond. It was determined that he is so powerful, his soul acts like a beacon. It's impossible for him to hide. More importantly, Sauron
expects people to be like him and desire the power of the ring, which is why he pays a lot of attention to all the powerful figures in Middle-Earth. It's what allows the fellowship to move relatively unnoticed in the first place. In essence, Glorfindel is better as a distraction.
Incidentally, Tom Bombadil is also considered as someone who is most definitely immune to the ring's effects but being who he is, there is a genuine concern that he would simply forget about the ring all-together and just leave it somewhere.
Re the watcher: yes actually, it is implied that there are underground water tunnels that connect the whole of Middle-Earth where the horrors from the deep live. Creatures that are entirely alien and unknown and it's better if they remain that way. That's where Gandalf ends up after he is dragged into the depths by the Balrog.
It's also the reason why they don't just throw the ring into the ocean (which, yes, is also considered). They *really* don't want to find out what kind of monster the ring could spawn if it was acquired by a denizen of the deep. Sauron is scary enough already, thank-you-very-much.
That being said, I don't think the watcher or any of the Denizens are under Sauron's control and it's unlikely the watcher would have the means to move like that so.
Just to add, Glorfindel is the only case of an elf choosing to return to Middle Earth after being reincarnated. Most others hang out in Valinor, either traumatised or not wanting to leave, and Glorfindel just went "nah, send me back in, chief."
@@Salted_Fysh wow! Didnt know that about the underwater ahha now Im just picturing some sort of giant octopus with the power if the ring ugh I shudder the ocean is already scary enough ahha
Even if there was no monsters in the ocean, since Sauron is functionally immortal, he would eventually find the ring, even if it might be thousands of years later
Just do add to this, from my understanding both Glorfindels were supposed to be seperate elves, but lorewise elves all have unique names, which was an error on Tolkien's part, due to not reconsidering the names he used in Lord of the Rings when he wrote the Silmarillion (or the other way around I forgot), and later Tolkien touched upon this in his letters, coming up with that theory that the Glorfindel we can find in the Lord of the Rings books probably IS the same Glorfindel in the Silmarillion, with your comment being his explanation.
I've always found it so nice of the late Sir Tolkien not to speak in definitve terms, he theorized as if it was a real world, and often left some sort of feeling that makes you think about his stories and create your own reasoning and lore.
He even came up with different thoughts when Glorfindel came back to middle earth, his reason being that he was sent there as an antagonist to Sauron, and also him being one of the last of his kin.
@@HarduntheRanger Actually, Glorfindel is one of two elves to return to Middle Earth. The other is Luthien, the wife of Beren. Making her the ancestor of Elrond, Arwen, all the kings of Numenor, and Aragorn. Arguably, her return to life is even more epic then Glorfindel's. Becuase not only did she come back to life, but she brought Beren with her. And unlike Elves who simply choose not to come back to Middle Earth, Beren, as a mortal man, should not be allowed to come back by the natural laws of the world.
Holy shit I cannot believe that there is actually a way to get archers to hold position. This is a revelation, finally can play helms deep without pulling my hair out. Big thank you to Talyc
I remember once doing the evil campaign final map.
"Got Sauron time to smash through the front gate!"
*Becomes a pincushion of silverthorn arrows even before making it to the first garrisoned tower*
Mirkwood archers are one of the best units in the game. And pre-nerf they also were as rediculous at smasing buildings as they were everything else.
I swear they had fast firing RPG's instead of bows.
I am so glad I found this neat little channel before it blew up.
@@SioxGreyWolf thanks for being one of the OGs! Ill always appreciate the support I had even as a lil bebe channel 😁
6:20 Glorfindel did die killing a Balrog and like all the spirits of dead elves went to the Halls of Mandos the Vala but he was reembodied for his heroism and then sent back to Middle earth empowered by the Valar. He glows brightly because he saw the light of the two trees in their time which gives him a presence in the spirit world.
37:55 Fornost? Dwarves? Fornost is the old fortress of Annuminas the capital of Arnor it's literally a men only mission.
@@timon6759 and this badass just sat out the fellowship alas, i really hope Amazon doesnt bring him into their show hes too precious! Pun intended haha
@Admiral_Iddy Well it's pretty hard to sneak into Mordor if Sauron can literally see you like a glowing light bulb. Tolkien realized that and created Legolas.
You my friend gained my subscribtion simply for putting the Launcher in the description.
1 minute in and immediately liked for providing a way to play these games! Thank you!
Such a great game. Installing it when i get home from work
I still playing,now on new pc
I have an Easterling fix for ya. The Age of the Ring mod's Mordor faction has four Easterling units. And the Adventure Faction that replaces Mordor in certain maps is Rhun, which is primarily Easterlings.
Age of the Ring is awesome! Unfortunately they have had disagreements with the launcher folks and their mod isnt included in the All in One Launcher in the description which is a shame cuz AOTR is a bit of a pain to get runnin if you dont own bfme2. I think the Edain mod used to have Rhun as its own faction? Or I might be thinking Third Age Total War which also was amazing haha
@@Admiral_Iddy actualy its really easy, I have just remebered AOTR a few days before and got it running without any problems. Also they got updates and there is a full-fledged Harad faction outside Mordor with a few new arab-themed mechanics
@Admiral_Iddy
I'm an Edain player, and no. We advise using the manual download and ISO mounting.
And Rhûn isn't a faction, unfortunately, though in the Unchained Submod Harad is a faction these days!
Glorfindel wasnt reincarnated, as in reborn, he was literally re-embodied by the Valar (or possibly Eru) because of his heroic actions, similar to how Beren and Luthien, and much later, in the Third Age, Gandalf, would be re-embodied after dying. After a while, Glorfindel was sent back to Middle Earth as an emissary of the Valar, imbued with the light of Valinor. So yeah he's pretty much the biggest badass on the continent.
Shoutout BeyondStandard and the crew for putting together the great launcher! Also FYI for those who arent in that community, the team has made updates to the good and evil campaigns for the first one and really revamped the difficulty, definitely worth a try!
Finally got to play this gem again a few weeks ago thanks to this channel. Awesome video too! Keep up the great work.
@@ry2950 thanks so much! Im glad im a conduit for people to get the chance to play again!
Thank you for telling us about the Battle of Middle earth Launcher.
What a coincidence the community patch 2.02 team for Rise of the Witch King expansion pack just released a new version that tries to mitigate the big issue with battalions getting stuck in combat and other general pathfinding issues. Might be handy if you ever try to beat RotWK deathless.
Also all the memories are of the campaign are flooding back to me, so many battalions lost when I played it as a kid lolz!
very very very happy to see content and attention still being given to this game :)
I love that the Easterlings are the only infantry worth recruiting as Mordor......again, both in 1 and 2 orcs are too squishy while the Easterlings can deal with cavalry and upgrade their armour.
Fun fact, the Easterlings DO show up in Return of the King, only in 1 shot, they (along with orcs) charge through the gate of Minas Tirith.
I olayed this game a few months ago and i must say, the DLC was hard, even when i was playing on easy, Fornost lives in my nightmares
@@MiguelSanchezDelVillar yeah its not as viable to mass orcs like the game intends its all about the monsters and easterlings for anti cav ah well still cool though . Ill try the expansion soon enough
Was a pure joy to watch this. Caught you on some streams but timezone difference is a bitch lol. Good job!
@@sanderkiki thanks! I know my Canadian timings are hard for most but I appreciate that you can make it when you can 😁
Before I watched, I asked myself: 'How's he gonna deal with the cutscenes where units are fighting in the fog of war and you suddenly control a guy about to get whacked by a troll'... your dedication to the run is admirable. And you helped me find a reliable way to play an old favorite game. Cheers, Admiral!
To note, there was one patch, iirc either the last official or one of the first fanpatches, that nerfed the radius in which you could build walls around your fortresses to the ground, which is the radius you, Admiral Iddy, seemingly had to deal with. The Original radius was 3~4 times as large as large as the post-nerf one and I do heartily agree, the reducition in wall build radius made wall building way less fun, though iirc, the Return of the Lich-King Expansion hasn't gotten the wall radius reduction, which is an interesting contrast. (One of the reasons playing it may be much more fun.)
Edit: Right, the enemy that phase through you wall though they shouldn't is either a bug they never deign to fix because of their opinions about walls, any fix they had made way more stuff elsewhere break and/or may have been an "anti-wall-of-map-edges" inclusion where units that were spawned from off map can not be blocked from going to where they should actually be "spawned" in map.
Regardless of which it is, I agree on that being rather annoying. (At least with Misty Moutnain the wall crawlers tend to be not that hard to kill of during the animation.)
@@sestrarsestror3417 right!? I always loved walls in games especially mannable ones and bfme 2 dissapointed me. Imagine it had age of empires 4 walls with towers and big gatehouses that you could garrison!
Fromage of highest quality!
Don't think I didn't notice the WC 2 music at the start. Thanks for the double nostalgia.
@@Megingiard warcraft 1 and 2! Triple trouble haha copyright goda dont allow the actual game music lol! But i think it fits 😁
the hero we all needed
@@severijnjanssen4726 i am but a humble servant of nostalgic gaming 😎
Heck yeah. Always great to see content from the admiral
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This mission is hard if you kill a troll to fast it overflows their healthbar and cant die
So i had a few max level troll destroying my base for the last half of it
Fun fact: you can actually spot a couple easterlings on the background scene, when the orcs rushing towards Gondor spearman, after the breach of the gates of Minas Tirith in the third movie.
@@maedrosthehight5816 i think I might have heard that before as well! Looks like I gotta rewatch the movies again to see... Not the worst plan 😆
@@Admiral_Iddy That's excellent plan, Sir!!!!
I definitely gonna replay these games. Thank you for letting us know that we can get it on moddb. I missed these games for a while now. Like I would had bought them if there would be an option to do so.
After you graduate acting school, be careful of which casting couches you end up on
@@christianweibrecht6555 haha if it gets me a job I could couch a few casts 😉
@@Admiral_Iddyyou’re aware of which end you would be on, right?
Best wish to you on your Acting School path.
Thank You for the video as well; It was wonderful.
Glorfindel of the golden flower was a great warrior from Gondolin in the 1st age. He held a balrog back single handed, so the survivors from the fall of Gondolin could escape, He was able to strike the balrog and sent it off a cliff but as it fell it grabbed his hair pulling him with the balrog to their deaths. Due to his selflessness and bravery he was ressurected early and with greater power, he would be sent back to middle earth in the 2nd age to assist against Saurons forces
@@brumahozen1232 and Elrond sits this badass out of the fellowship! He could have put the ring on an arrow and sniped it through saurons eye into mount doom ahha
He had an incredibly bright soul so sending him with the fellowship would of allerted sauron to them, defeating the point of the fellowship to begin with. But yeah he is the 2nd most powerful elf in the 3rd age behind Galadriel.@@Admiral_Iddy
Iddy has upgraded. Now using cheese and trolling. Sounds like an evening on Reddit with a plate of nachos.
Glorfindel died fighting the balrog during the escape from gondolin but is allowed to return to middle earth by mandos.
you can actually buy Drogoth in the last mission which you can use to cheese missile the archers
@@supermari246 i think you can in the newer fan patch but in 1.6 i couldnt get him only his youngins
You know your D Day comments really got me interested in seeing you try to beat Company of Heroes 1 deathless. The game should be great for this challenge since it is designed around micro of small amounts of units.
Loved this game absolute Chad trying it deathless
I remember playing the first one on the helms deep mission. Managed to keep the deeping wall alive which meant that the computer bugged out and just kept sending a single bezerker to try and blow it up every min or so.
I hear you playing warcraft 2 music in the background
I like this game but that just makes it better
@@JanJansen985 its a staple of my channel now! And it doesnt get flagged for copyright like the lord of the rings soundtrack does
A valiant effort! And thanks for the links!
6:17 IIRC he IS the OG. Man literally walked out of Elf Heaven saying "I didn't hear no bell." something *almost no elf has ever done **after dying.
***Obviously the elves left Valinor before but few had died, gone to the Halls of Mandos and left THOSE.
Gosh, this still looks so great in 2024!
0:55 it’s crazy cause a few years ago I remember the only option was to find the physical discs awesome to see that I still got them but I have a desktop now so I definitely will be downloading 💯
Liked for your use of Tourettes Guy and Warcraft 2 music.
Loved playing the game mode called War of the Ring. You can just build like 1000 attack trolls with the Witch King and steamroll against 7 brutal ai. Absolute "evil power fantasy" vibes.
@@yaboityler2617 i spoke about that mode in the script but i must have forgotten to record it hahah was such a neat mode, like a soft total war
Awh, hell yeah. Love these games! More pls
Beat Rise of the Witch king deathless!!!
Oh by the way, theres a guy with a small channel called "fallintheabyss" who did this challenge run as well and he was seemingly able to rescue the units up north in mission 3.
Maybe a bug, unless the free online version nerfed resource structures? From playing my physical copy, I recall when you're given the shadow to place the buildings, it will have a colored ring and number showing the efficiency of it depending on placement, ranging from like green 80-100 to red scraps.
Something about how much open ground and lack of other resource buildings it has near, I think? So if you space em out they should pay good, but clump em up too much and income goes down the drain.
@@Ghostly_One1 oh yeah i know that part, but even with perfectly spread out 100 percent buildings they still go down for some reason maybe its a balance choice to avoid snowballing? So one player wont be making 6k a tick? Who knows! Haha
@@Admiral_Iddy i just went into skirmish to check, and it seems like every resource structure after the 2nd will make every previously built resource structure gain one less resource per tick, i dont know if they also degrade over time, but it seemed to only go down every time i built a structure
@@DKHacher Iiirc, ressource buildings kind of degrade over time to a given minimum, but it takes soem tiem to get there, which may have been one of the ways to encourage you to not turtle too much.
That said, it may have been a combined reduction, but I do not have the game on hand to test yet.
It definatelty did work like that, maybe they patched it to make it less finiky?
4:08 I believe that's something done by the latest unofficial patch which comes included in the launcher.
I played this game countless hours back in the day and never remember this happening.
YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW LONG I'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR A WAY TO PLAY THIS GAME.
@@enomisv9830 go play right now! Enjoy 😊
@Admiral_Iddy I'll get it downloaded right away.
Also as I'm watching this. Yes, that is the OG Glorfindel. He and Gandalf are the only 2 beings to be resurrected by Illuvitar (God god) because they were doing such a good job.
Great video and you have a new follower :D
@@anduril38 thanks for the support! Never thought i could make a go at this but here we are 😊
This was nice! Keep it up
A kingdom under fire reference I’m so happy let’s go Jubal the black anvil
@@ciaranburke6252 well i also have a deathless video of kingdom under fire so feel free to check that out!
sometimes when your units are near trolls they will get "feared" so they cant move. u can see in the animation that theyre hiding behind their shields. some heroes give fear resistence to nullify it.
Great job! Can't wait for your Zero Hour run (if there will be one the first place :)
@@petrowegynyolc7108 there will be! One day haha
"most frustrating deathless run i have attempted so far"
C&C generals Zero hour: "allow me to introduce myself"
seriously, my gods i have been trying to route this thing for months and have given up
good luck man, im pretty sure its not possible
@@jkbscopes1233 ill have to have you in the chat giving me tips when i stream it 😉
Did not expect the Umbar National Basketball League
Also, I remember laughing when playing Rivendell and Sauron was actually losing a 1v1 to Galadriel.
@@demilung hah! Thats a good way of putting it loo yeah those buggers are throwing 3 pointers all day
What patch did you play on? BFME2 somewhat famously had at least one super broken buggy/OP unit or tactic on each patch that might give you the edge you need to cheese. Examples:
Vanilla patch: the banner upgrade on a war wagon gives you two phalanxes who swing their pikes for 500 damage a swing.
1.4 Axethrowers accidentally have +400% damage vs buildings
1.6 setting the ground on fire is hyper lethal to units & buildings. Also the dale archer war wagon upgrade has insane range & they hit like trucks.
The patch selection has a massive effect on how easily troops live or die & I would recommend 1.4 as your best shot at succeeding with a Deathless run.
@@Ivaneus27 i used 1.6 tried to avoid newer patches as they balanced things like cloudbreak turning trolls to stone which would have helped me a lot!
Is it voice acting school because I swear you sound like a narrator from a military documentary🤣💜
The one thing BF1 had over its sequel its the maps. Like instead of "Gondor" it had 20 lore regions of Gondor etc
@@ledanoir1239 true it was cool exploring all of the different regions in 1 and the maps were really nice looking too. I dream of a bfme 3 with all the winning recipes of both
4:58 could have sworn wall placement was also extended by the resources production building. Maybe a difference between console (360) and pc
Nice run as always! I downloaded the game and gave it a go. Bugs quite a lot. I installed and played BFME2 and wasted many hours because after a victory in a Tactical map realtime the game just has music and green screen but no stats and just stops working.
@@samisainio7468 thanks for watching! Sorry you are having issues maybe drop a message to the devs of the launcher on their discord? They are usually pretty good at updating it!
15:25 I saw you had that issue on the stream too, crazy that was never patched
Eldar, when they die, don't fade away. Their souls go to the Hall of Mandos, where they can get a new body. So technically, elves don't ever die. Humans leave the world when they die tho.
So Aragon not dead.
What in gods name is 40:40 from? Burst out laughing what an odd ref
@@fromrawn9303 macgruberrrrr🎷 His hair is fucking perfect macgruberrrr🎷! Its a comedy spoofing macgyver its a really fun film! His sex scene doesnt end there and its hilarious haah
Thank the TH-cam overlords for putting this on my recommended. I played this game to death growing up and have had to VM old OS to play this on my original discs. Now I can play this patched and easily?!
Also the video was very good 😂😂
@@DakanMisty its the best and easiest way to play now brother! Enjoy!
i had a copy of this when it first came out. i remember around 10 years ago I was trying to look for another copy and couldnt find it anymore. wonder why they stopped selling it. was a great game and easy money for them to sell it again.
When expansion video? Great job bud
Battle for middle earth was possible to play deathless.
Just use all archers and like 3 battalions of melee cavalery and you will be fine
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Summomer when Iddy?
@@JanJansen985 ive wanted to make some sort of video with regards to summoner for years but I cant figure it out or find the rythym to start it. I wanna do a review/essay on it but it just cant click in my brain...yet. I have a lot to say about that game!
much better than the first one.
i am still looking forward to the KUF crusaders evil side deathless.... i hope it happens some day
I wondered: Ist there something like the mentioned middle earth-downloader for C&C Genearls Zero hour? 🤔
@@Andrastos there sort of is, you need a purchased copy like on steam but the launcher updates it to widescreen, fixes compatibility and allows quick downloads for mods! Try googling genlauncher from a guy named legionairre
@@Admiral_Iddy I have a CD lying around here somewhere... does it work with that too?
Thanks for the quick response ❤
@@Andrastos I believe so! It just needs any copy of Generals soft or hard
@@Admiral_Iddy Thanks a lot, Admiral ❤
I have been playing bfme2 since like... early childhood, and I never knew S held position, I always thought it just canceled orders. FML
@@DuskFae i know! I love learning stuff like that doing these runs there is always someone who knows what you dont 😂
Appreciate the link to play the game.
Appreciate less being stuck in the launcher for more than an hour now. What is this?
Gooood very good, now do Rise of the Witch King
Erebor is the easiest mission bro. If you build two fortress on each side of the map, and put archers and axe throwing dwars in towers and close the main gate of Erebor , the AI will targeting them and it's easy to defend them on any difficulty without losing units. For me it worked.😅😅
Amazing video !!!! Are you going to try to do this but with the rise of The witch king?
@@TabroArma eventually yes! I might do age of empires 3 yet
Great video!
Hardest Challenge run for this game is finding a physical copy
Have you tried the mod " Age of The Ring"?
now witch king of angmar campaing?
nice
AGE OF THE RING DEATHLESS
A deathless run should be broken only if the whole unit dies seeing as keeping the individuals within the unit alive is really not gonna work.
4:07 How is a mechanic that makes sure that expanding your base is good, but not too much, not a perfectly understandable and reasonable bit of game design lol
I'd like to see if u can do some deathless runs of the dawn of war games mainly dark crusade and soulstorm with every faction but I'd also like to see if u can do dawn of war 2 and its dlc's too
i think you should try a death run, complete missions while loosing all your units.. :P
I don't think I'd count summons that have a time limit as deaths.
We need another game like this but with better AI
I tried installing this and then after I clicked play I got an error message saying like 20 problems lol
Ey thanks for that link
Rise of the Witch-King Deathless?
Could you play warcraft 3 deathlees run
You know you get Mordor workers with the witch king and sauron
There's a bug where they are hidden off screen. It can happen to flying units too, where they get stuck outside of bounds if their pathing gets interrupted while on the edge of the map.
@@yaboityler2617 for the workers you just need to click the worker button due to them being add to it
@@yaboityler2617 you can use the worker button to get them back on the field and just use select all and spam move inside the map and they will get there
Can you use mods like edain for this version of BfME
@@arminblock8934 edain is built in the launcher last i saw but age of the ring is not
I wonder how fast you can beat the campaign....
@@MrAudymurphy haha could be a good stream for the future possible speedrun lol
Neat.
No Angmar? :(
@@MasterKolis one day!