Barrow wights were the spirits that Frodo, Merry, Sam, and Pippin ran into in the barrows outside of the Old Forest, the ones Tom Bombadil rescued them from in the books. I believe they're the spirits of old lords, but I'm not sure.
Barrow wight are wraiths that were based on Norse mythology like the Draugr in Tolkien's series. Barrow being burial and wight for the living or creature, the Witch king of Angmar using his witch craft resurrected the spirits of dead orcs, men, and others to keep the Dunedain from reestablishing their lost kingdom. Many barrow wights were found in the northern shire and the old forest of which Frodo and company encountered some and were trapped in the barrow downs and almost were killed by the creatures but were fended off by Tom Bombadil and him then giving them shelter in his Mansion. Not to different from Nazgul barrow wights could cast spells and fought as wraiths whenever summoned by their Nazgul masters and the Witch king himself.
Yeah I have a feeling that many of the units from reforged are taken from DAC none the less both mods heavily immerse and give the knights of Apollo and anyone else a full and true experience of the Lord of the rings universe :D
Wainwright is another author of the Lord of the Rings an add on for the general audience of the Lord of the rings universe proceeding J.R.R Tolkien. The creature is most certainly called barrow wight or a type of wraith such as the nazgul with Tolkiens own twist on what a wraith is. You can look it up just go to Wikipedia :D
Thank you for making these videos, they are helping me feel happy. I am bullied in school and my dad got a stroke, it has been more than 2 years since that and i don't even know him anymore. And my grandfather grandmother etc has died not so long ago.
if osgilliath wasn't in its prime it will probably be the best city to live in, for action, as everyday you would have to fight against 1000s of orcs to hold the city although you would probably die
Why gondor is not here: they lost their army defending the west. They made a desperate stand as the elves and arnorians simply stood there, outside the eastern half of the city. The gondorians all died, knowing they would get no help, despite it simply standing outside the city. After the last gondorians died, the elves and arnorians finally marched into the city.
OVERCRITCAL NERD Gondor called for help to defend the Citadel of the Stars. Arnor and the Elves responded, but they soon realized that, with Gondor's army gone, they could parcel out their land. and so they waited, oblivious to the screams of their supposed allies.
Inshrektor Gadget yeah! However, in other lands, such as Dol Amroth, Palargir, and minas tirith, where their allies did not desert them, the survived. Rohan and gondorian remnants joined with ARNOR and the elves to push out the mordor forces, who had infighting in the form of a rebellion in harad, but then the elves and ARNOR fought a war, which resulted in the sacking of rivendale, and both receiving no more help form gondor and ARNOR.
I love the cinematic camera angles over your explanation. It reminds me of one of those old History Channel documentaries where they'd go in depth into some old battle, and reuse the same couple shots of re-enactors marching and standing in formation. Also this battle can make sense, maybe this is from the period when Arnor and Gondor were one kingdom (I'm not that familiar with the lore, but I'm pretty sure that's a thing...)
I think the player of Isengard was thinking "Yay only melee infantry so I can overhelm them" but when the defenders had only 2 bridges, 1 wall to protect and pikemen this seem more like a dumb move and like you said "just 2 units of crossbowmen and it's game over"
Well that make more of sense with what you said (even if bringing atleast one archer unit is always better). Also you had one of the best attacking position and you attacked the last so it's normal to get more kills since you mostly faced depleted units (and more than Mordor since they get butchered by elves, I don't know what he was trying to do with the full charge) . But I have to admit even if I was sceptic with your waves attacks you made at the end you almost win so bravo and well played !
apollo pls can you show us what at least what units exactly each play has? you used to have that shown during the army-com and i find it very interesting, thanks alot
Wow! The attackers picked suboptimal builds, did not pursue very sound tactics, the defenders choke-pointed them to death excellently, set up fantastic defenses and archer fire, completely wiped out Morder very early on, and still BARELY won the battle. The fact that the defenders took it is nothing short of a miracle-they must have been SEVERELY outmatched!
To be honest, Isengard did pretty good job. He did not taken the archers because he thought that he will attack the walls (that explains the amount of bersekers units). Sadly, he was on the wrong side and he was stopped on bridge choke point. He tried also to extend attack by going from the walls. His only mistake was not helping mordor dealing with arnor cavalry. Sorry for english btw
You are doing some proselytism for the strategy that you argue with Jackie Fish ;) It is too bad that Isengard wasn't doing so well because i'm still impress by the performance of this faction in the last battle of the Mountain Pass Anyway, Thanks for the video :)
The second I knew the name of the elven general I knew who's gonna win. Still a little bit surprised that those siege towers were, in fact, siege towers and not Ents. CREEEED!
Pixie can you do a WAR IN THE NORTH series? This is how it goes: 1st video - Men of Dale and Dwarves of Erebor vs. Easterlings (Siege of Dale) 2nd - Men of Dale and Dwarves of Erebor vs. Rhun (Siege of Erebor) w/ a reinforcements of Dwarves of the Iron Hills for the good guys. 3rd - Thranduil and Elves of Woodland Realm vs. Dol Guldur (Siege of Dol Guldor). pls pls haha! We want to see a Northern theatre of The War of the Ring hehe! Thanks Pixie, your videos are the best!
Amazing video - of course! It was so frustrating watching Isengard send forward 1 or 2 units at a time though :P Also, there is a slight spelling mistake in 'Osgiliath' in the title :)
Pixelated Apollo can you please put the picture of the army comps when you explain them because I really like to see exactly how many units of the same type someone has and it makes me decide who I will cheer for the bad side or the good side but I usually just take the bad side. Love your third age videos and keep up the Great work.
The Barrow Wights come from the 1st book of the Lord of the Rings. They are always left out of any movie along with Tom Bombadil in the Old Forest next to the Brandywine river. In the movie once they escaped the dark riders and made it to the ferry on the Brandywine, the wraiths could not cross the water so they had to go around to the Brandywine bridge. The hobbits had to then travel through the Old Forest to avoid the other wraiths on the road. Once through the Old Forest they encountered the Barrow Wights in the Downs. That is where the other hobbits find their weapons just before they get into Bree...
Hey Apollo...Barrow-wights have been showned in "Lord of the Rings Battle for Middle Earth II" game... they are like gobllins trolls and drakes having there own cave on the map.
Mordor attacked to early but did a good job. Gundabad did a really great job, using there Siege Towers as a shield and attacking on multiple spots. But Isengard did almost everything wrong. They attacked in so little waves that the defenders could reform after every attack. They didnt attack the two bridges at the same time. Also they attacked on the wall against the arrow towers and they didnt helped Mordor by killing Arnors Cav with there Wargs. They just let them kill Mordors Archers and Catapult.... All Attackers should have bring Javelin Units for the Gates. The Defenders instead did such an amazing job, really awesome.
barrow-wights, along with Nazg-Hai, berserkers and a couple other units, are one of the few who have two hitpoints, making them excellent troops. Their lack of a shield makes them vulnerable to arrow-fire though.
By the way barrow wights is a special units with 5 dmg and 0 armor but with 10 hp. They are the ultimate meatshield unit. they also cost 1k... they frighten enemies and fight to the last!
How could you lie to me PA!! I thought you said this was a battle to the last man standing. :( ..... but thats ok. It was a fun video. Just wish it was a fight to the last man standing (for at least one of the armies) and that no troops retreated off the map since the attackers only had 43 men left.
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why dwarves are over powered????
they are facing bad players! or army comp!
Defenders
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I would if it weren't for Miles lol
PLEASE Never stop doing Third Age I subscribed a while back only because of them and I am sure that a lot of people feel the same way that I do
Almost an hour of Third Age? The Third Age gods have answered me! Thanks, Apollo! You are THEE man.
I know, I got online, looked at my subscriptions, and thought, "I hope Pixie has a TA vid." I open his page.....It was a glorious moment
This is proof that Eru and the Valar exist!
Hail Iluvatar!
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PuttPuttPurp Lol right
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Barrow wights were the spirits that Frodo, Merry, Sam, and Pippin ran into in the barrows outside of the Old Forest, the ones Tom Bombadil rescued them from in the books. I believe they're the spirits of old lords, but I'm not sure.
Barrow wight are wraiths that were based on Norse mythology like the Draugr in Tolkien's series. Barrow being burial and wight for the living or creature, the Witch king of Angmar using his witch craft resurrected the spirits of dead orcs, men, and others to keep the Dunedain from reestablishing their lost kingdom. Many barrow wights were found in the northern shire and the old forest of which Frodo and company encountered some and were trapped in the barrow downs and almost were killed by the creatures but were fended off by Tom Bombadil and him then giving them shelter in his Mansion. Not to different from Nazgul barrow wights could cast spells and fought as wraiths whenever summoned by their Nazgul masters and the Witch king himself.
They're avaliable in DAC , dont know if they are in vanilla Third Age.
Yeah I have a feeling that many of the units from reforged are taken from DAC none the less both mods heavily immerse and give the knights of Apollo and anyone else a full and true experience of the Lord of the rings universe :D
i thought it was wain wright
Wainwright is another author of the Lord of the Rings an add on for the general audience of the Lord of the rings universe proceeding J.R.R Tolkien. The creature is most certainly called barrow wight or a type of wraith such as the nazgul with Tolkiens own twist on what a wraith is. You can look it up just go to Wikipedia :D
HAHA well the edit mistakes strike again. I am fixing it now. 15:10
Pixelated Apollo three two one lets go xd
Collin Ackermans yes me too
can u destroy the siege tower?
Saruman is a just an officer atm
Ohh, now I get the 3,2,1 Joke..
Thank you for making these videos, they are helping me feel happy. I am bullied in school and my dad got a stroke, it has been more than 2 years since that and i don't even know him anymore. And my grandfather grandmother etc has died not so long ago.
i would also like to watch some total war shogun
Axel Kjällquist Weiss things will get better man!
Rachid Barendregt i hope so, and thank you
rekt
Statical35 ?
if osgilliath wasn't in its prime it will probably be the best city to live in, for action, as everyday you would have to fight against 1000s of orcs to hold the city although you would probably die
that last part made me laugh hard XD
In the name of Eru Illuvatar, Amen
0:30
"Where was gondor..."
*WHEN THE WESTFOLD FELL*
53:21 Saruman's body... look closely on the wall...you can see his white cloak
Alex Purcarea yeah u can
Apollo:"where's Saruman? I don't see him?"
Me:"You passed by his corpse on the wall at least five times"
You know you screwed things up when Apollo starts saying "Dang it ! Dang it ! Don't do that".
Why gondor is not here: they lost their army defending the west. They made a desperate stand as the elves and arnorians simply stood there, outside the eastern half of the city. The gondorians all died, knowing they would get no help, despite it simply standing outside the city. After the last gondorians died, the elves and arnorians finally marched into the city.
why would the elves do that, arnor would possibly do that because gondor said that the king of arnor is not worthy of claiming the throne of gondor.
OVERCRITCAL NERD Gondor called for help to defend the Citadel of the Stars. Arnor and the Elves responded, but they soon realized that, with Gondor's army gone, they could parcel out their land. and so they waited, oblivious to the screams of their supposed allies.
Inshrektor Gadget yeah! However, in other lands, such as Dol Amroth, Palargir, and minas tirith, where their allies did not desert them, the survived. Rohan and gondorian remnants joined with ARNOR and the elves to push out the mordor forces, who had infighting in the form of a rebellion in harad, but then the elves and ARNOR fought a war, which resulted in the sacking of rivendale, and both receiving no more help form gondor and ARNOR.
OVERCRITCAL NERD wait.. when did this happen?
Aaron Rivas canonically.... it didn't.
i used to watch you like crazy, but i havent for a few months. and im glad that im getting back into it
Love these third age videos! Just installed it last night. Completely in love with this mod.
I love the cinematic camera angles over your explanation. It reminds me of one of those old History Channel documentaries where they'd go in depth into some old battle, and reuse the same couple shots of re-enactors marching and standing in formation.
Also this battle can make sense, maybe this is from the period when Arnor and Gondor were one kingdom (I'm not that familiar with the lore, but I'm pretty sure that's a thing...)
I think the player of Isengard was thinking "Yay only melee infantry so I can overhelm them" but when the defenders had only 2 bridges, 1 wall to protect and pikemen this seem more like a dumb move and like you said "just 2 units of crossbowmen and it's game over"
Well that make more of sense with what you said (even if bringing atleast one archer unit is always better). Also you had one of the best attacking position and you attacked the last so it's normal to get more kills since you mostly faced depleted units (and more than Mordor since they get butchered by elves, I don't know what he was trying to do with the full charge) . But I have to admit even if I was sceptic with your waves attacks you made at the end you almost win so bravo and well played !
Hi just subbed bro i really like watching these long videos of battles they're very satisfying keep it up!
the barrow weights are men that have been magically forced to serve salron
Lore wise instead of Osgiliath it could be an Arnorian city under attack
I would love to see Rhun and Harad vs Gondor and Rohan :D
Great channel btw !
Pingwin33 He did that before go to his playlist of third age.
really? Ill need to check it out then, I know he did Harad and Corsairs vs Mordor
apollo pls can you show us what at least what units exactly each play has? you used to have that shown during the army-com and i find it very interesting, thanks alot
Crisis Lars Used to but he doesn't do because it makes the video longer.
If the result was that close and the attackers played badly, how is that fair for the defenders?
Siege attacks are rarely fair to the defenders
Wow! The attackers picked suboptimal builds, did not pursue very sound tactics, the defenders choke-pointed them to death excellently, set up fantastic defenses and archer fire, completely wiped out Morder very early on, and still BARELY won the battle. The fact that the defenders took it is nothing short of a miracle-they must have been SEVERELY outmatched!
TYEAHHH!!!...I can't sleep without one of these videos!!!! pls film more total war third age! xDDD
yes more third age whenever 1 comes out i try to watch it as soon as possible and whenever iw atch them i luv them so
53:21 you can see Sarumans body
I love when you say "Knights of Apollo"
Yet another Epic and awesome battle, thanks Pixy, I agree the best part was how close it was. Alone: ELVEN WIN!!!!!
Finally the defenders win :D
Really ?
Osgiliath was actually the original capital of Gondor. While Minas Tirith served as the city protecting it from the forces of Rohan and rebels.
To be honest, Isengard did pretty good job. He did not taken the archers because he thought that he will attack the walls (that explains the amount of bersekers units). Sadly, he was on the wrong side and he was stopped on bridge choke point. He tried also to extend attack by going from the walls. His only mistake was not helping mordor dealing with arnor cavalry.
Sorry for english btw
Apollo I think that this was one of the best army comps of all time 👏👏 good job (and one of the best battles) :)
You are doing some proselytism for the strategy that you argue with Jackie Fish ;)
It is too bad that Isengard wasn't doing so well because i'm still impress by the performance of this faction in the last battle of the Mountain Pass
Anyway, Thanks for the video :)
I swear this man always making these references "I guess their just natural sprinters" lmao
Is East OsgilTath the little brother of East Osgiliath? Love your video's. Keep up the good work! :D
More Third Age! It's now a great day.
Pixie, the Barrow-Wights are wights from the Barrow-Downs near Bree, they were sent there by the Witch-King during his war against Anor
The second I knew the name of the elven general I knew who's gonna win. Still a little bit surprised that those siege towers were, in fact, siege towers and not Ents. CREEEED!
Any 1212 replays coming your way? Been a while since one's been featured.
yeah i got more coming soon
Pixelated Apollo Alright. There's no updates right now, so it shouldn't desync any battles you do.
After watching these as they appear in my que, I have to sub. Huge Third age fan and I would love to play online sometime.
Pixie can you do a WAR IN THE NORTH series?
This is how it goes:
1st video - Men of Dale and Dwarves of Erebor vs. Easterlings (Siege of Dale)
2nd - Men of Dale and Dwarves of Erebor vs. Rhun (Siege of Erebor) w/ a reinforcements of Dwarves of the Iron Hills for the good guys.
3rd - Thranduil and Elves of Woodland Realm vs. Dol Guldur (Siege of Dol Guldor).
pls pls haha! We want to see a Northern theatre of The War of the Ring hehe! Thanks Pixie, your videos are the best!
Another fantastic video, from a wonderful youtuber. :)
Wow.. thank you apollo for such a close battle.. enjoyed it till the end..
just got donuts, took a piss, grabbed a soda, I open youtube new PA video for an hour well...... That's convenient
Love this but really craving some Napoleon total war 3 mod!!!! You can not feed our hunger for total war fast enough! Congrats on 300k subs!
It may seem weird but I really like the amount of troops each army has, they are not small armies but not a huge confusing battle
Your channel is too entertaining that I am risking my grade and school period to. See them🤗🤗
great video and pixelated apollo wish you well on youtube
No Apollo you are sane. we see them too! (Elves moving super fast)
Considering Globox took one of the lesser ended faction in .86, good job! Definitely needed those crossbows though.
Amazing video - of course! It was so frustrating watching Isengard send forward 1 or 2 units at a time though :P
Also, there is a slight spelling mistake in 'Osgiliath' in the title :)
The barrow whites are from the barrow downs up north. A place frequently visited by the dunadein rangers
Best video/fight ever hahah
especially the one troll who almost reached the archers
hands down best death
Isnt Saruman lying dead on top of the wall at 53:21 ? I'm pretty sure I saw his white robes amongst the dead bodies!
Great video 1,2,3 action pixie and the high elves are back again in action my favorite faction , a great battle thx
53:11 ... saruman's body. You're welcome :)
Pixelated Apollo can you please put the picture of the army comps when you explain them because I really like to see exactly how many units of the same type someone has and it makes me decide who I will cheer for the bad side or the good side but I usually just take the bad side. Love your third age videos and keep up the Great work.
Apollo you should play Blackwake with call to Arms
Greeting from Cambodia Apollo, probably the only Cambodian fan around :D
Apollo just roasted isengard on their lack of archers the entire battle xD
The Barrow Wights come from the 1st book of the Lord of the Rings. They are always left out of any movie along with Tom Bombadil in the Old Forest next to the Brandywine river. In the movie once they escaped the dark riders and made it to the ferry on the Brandywine, the wraiths could not cross the water so they had to go around to the Brandywine bridge. The hobbits had to then travel through the Old Forest to avoid the other wraiths on the road. Once through the Old Forest they encountered the Barrow Wights in the Downs. That is where the other hobbits find their weapons just before they get into Bree...
Holy Crap! The good guys finally won one of these Third Age battles/siege 😂
Apollo i liked those small pictures of units that appear on the begining the most.You can put them instead of doing match comps for 5 min :).
oi! pixie do u remember the LAST time the storm guard defended a choke point? they lasted the entire GAME! great job elves, great job.
Hey Apollo...Barrow-wights have been showned in "Lord of the Rings Battle for Middle Earth II" game... they are like gobllins trolls and drakes having there own cave on the map.
do a cav only battle and make it massive
Toxicz - Agario that will be cancer
caocaoli1 well if you could read that would be a start
TheForBiddenRoman xx You do realize that caocaoli1 was insulting you because you called someones idea cancer.
This would be amazing.
Toxicz - Agario
With Rohirrim and warg riders
Hey Apollo! I think that's Saruman's Body in white o. 53:21
Mordor attacked to early but did a good job. Gundabad did a really great job, using there Siege Towers as a shield and attacking on multiple spots. But Isengard did almost everything wrong. They attacked in so little waves that the defenders could reform after every attack. They didnt attack the two bridges at the same time. Also they attacked on the wall against the arrow towers and they didnt helped Mordor by killing Arnors Cav with there Wargs. They just let them kill Mordors Archers and Catapult.... All Attackers should have bring Javelin Units for the Gates. The Defenders instead did such an amazing job, really awesome.
finally the defenders have a satisfying win thank god
I love the Arthedain men at arms
Elves are natural sprinter
Me: I THOUGHT DWARVES WERE
I WAS LIED TO
3, 2, 1
great battle. MOAR
The ballista really is the best artillery piece in this game.
Loving the pause at 15:10
sauromon (sorry if misspelled) is a wizard. he can disappear if he wants too.
Osgiliath is my favorite map:)
thx apollo
worst friendly fire was a whole unit of old guard getting killed of a wall with the guys own artillery
barrow-wights, along with Nazg-Hai, berserkers and a couple other units, are one of the few who have two hitpoints, making them excellent troops. Their lack of a shield makes them vulnerable to arrow-fire though.
barro-wights have 10 hp.
nazg hai have 5 or 6
Wow, that's a lot more than I expected. I thought of the units from Divide and Conquer when mentioning it. No wonder they are doing so well.
You are crazy PA that was by Connor Caricchio
I love all your videos and your amazing never stop making videos :-)
00:20 when you realize apollo has no clue about lotr 😂
I do love the new style, it remains me a lot of Time Commanders (Props to the two other people who will remember it.)
Time commanders? I remember that.
Nice video I love this keep it up Apollo.
another perfect battle
Great video apollo
41:47 "We are the flanking Uruk-Hai! We slew the great warrior!"
RIP Christopher Lee you will be remembered :(
At 43:21 it's the Black Knight from Holy Grail!!!
You've lost both your legs!
No I haven't!
Will you please do another Third Age campaign?!
By the way barrow wights is a special units with 5 dmg and 0 armor but with 10 hp. They are the ultimate meatshield unit. they also cost 1k... they frighten enemies and fight to the last!
i love third age but i honestly like the new kind of content a lot better.
guards of the orthanc's helmets looks a whole lot like the Orig cylon helmets from the original Battlestar Galactica series
Hey, do you have any tips? I wanna maximize the efficiency of my strategies and would like tips
Great battle. Keep it coming
How could you lie to me PA!! I thought you said this was a battle to the last man standing.
:( ..... but thats ok. It was a fun video. Just wish it was a fight to the last man standing (for at least one of the armies) and that no troops retreated off the map since the attackers only had 43 men left.
still shocks me how greatly his accent changed. crazy.
your third age vids are the best
Time to change the "Defender never win" phrase.
any seven kingdoms battle with the targaryens soon?? epic vid as always btw