For me it was Warcraft 2! My cousin introduced me to the game and I've been playing blizzard games ever since, even still today. I love these characters so much
9:20 Flails were ideally used as a cavalry weapon, since they would benefit from the charging horse´s speed and the chain limited the transfer of force back to your arm, making it less risky to lose your weapon after an attack.
I hope so! I am trying to do runs or videos that other people havent already done so I dont step on any toes. I have to admit I am proud of my own work for the first time in a long time.
When I first played this game, I couldn't read, and didn't understand what I needed to do. I saw that the humans were destroying my buildings and thought that's what I needed to do. So I did. The defeat screen would show a burning village and I thought to myself, good job.
@@micuu1 yea, just like spells kill on god mode in 2. Yea, but at same time not so hard, i remember ending it without cheats when was 7? Maybe 8. Propably play tens of hours of that but when finally buy Warcraft 2 quickly get in. In term of operating heaven and hell.
When I get crappy jobs at work or on ship I would always answer as a peon or peasant yesh m'lord. off I go then! to help cope with the stress hah usually gets a laugh until one officer is like, "warcraft nice" haha
Never got to play WC1, tho I grew up on WC2, SC1, WC3. Its nice to see it with a good commentary and insight and though the game looks dated af, I can see the magic after all these years. Love the video!
Y'know, I kind of have to disagree with you on the Peasants thing. Sure, they sound wimpy and ineffective, but if you put a Warcraft 2 Peasant against a Warcraft 1 Peasant, the Warcraft 1 Peasant is going to run away crying "Don't hurt me!" Then there's the Warcraft 3 Peasant who remarks how he's going to die in battle even when turned into a Militia but he still goes ahead and fights and dies for his country. All those big muscles and that gritty expression are just for show on the Warcraft 1 Peasants :P
haha you are right! war 1 peasants are all show, like those dudes at the gym who just look at themselves in the mirror the whole time. when it hits the fan they are the first to bail ;)
I believe there are also some range differences between the spell casters too. Clerics have 1, Sorcerers have 3, and the Orc ones have 2 each. I think.
This game has a very special place in my heart. The earliest memory I have is playing this game (Playing as orcs in a cave mission, summoning minions with the warlock to to just send them off and find out where the exit is, then move there with the real army.) Which is probably why I'm so sour these days with what Blizzard is doing to the IP that I just don't agree with as I love what it once was. Memory could be failing me on this one but, I also remember thinking how smart I was as a kid when I found out that while the AI can just keep mining gold as it never runs out, it DOES start to run out once you've uncovered it, therefore at the start of the map, send a unit on a suicide mission just to find it. I just don't know if the game actually cares about that and the AI has infinite resources and just likes to pretend...
@@Admiral_Iddy So I went to take a look at the gold mine thing. I found their mine, at "32820". I loaded a save just before I found it, waited a bit longer, then went to check: "32805". So it's not that they don't take resources - it's that they only take 5 gold instead of the normal 100, until they are found. Still dunno if the AI ACTUALLY uses resources or not though!
I have done a no death run using the humans many times and like you, I don't bother with summons. It's just so satisfying to see the casualty counter stay at zero at the end of each mission. However, I have to give you a *MAJOR* tip of the hat for performing this challenge using the orcs. I honestly didn't think it would be possible. You would need a city of farms just to feed all the wounded...
Thanks man orcs DEFINITELY gave me doubts at time thank god for the walls haha i recently did footmen only but i dont know if i could pull off grunts only haha the lack of heals is huge for humans
@@Admiral_Iddy By the way - I lived in Newfoundland for two years and loved it. Newfoundland rocks! Are you a townie or a bayman? Cheers and I look forward to more of your content.
@@Taro4242 mainlander actually! Haha my mother is from the south shore but brought me to the capitol for a job but I visit home often 😀 one day my path will bring me back there its a wicked place to live...besides the winters ahah
I'll have to watch the rest of this later, but regarding flails on horseback: I've heard that if one-handed flails were a thing, they'd mostly be for horseback use. The chain or rope connecting the head to the body can absorb some of the shock that would otherwise be absorbed by your hand, and if you have momentum from a moving horse that hand shock can be pretty severe.
That is actually the neat part: you probably don't even need to swing it aside from a light movement to get the ball into position, if even that. Mostly because the speed of the horse + the weight of the ball/head + physics will do most of the work for you. Also from what I know horses are, aside from the legs, pretty sturdy so it will probably be fine. Granted there is a reason why it went out of favour too.
@@Tenesfer I guess that reason were lances/pikes in formations. You would have been unable to strike or needed to turn 90° and sitll have no reach. But in a chaotic infantry battle/sudden ambush in loose forests etc., perfect
I always giggle when I click a human temple and then click a stable close to the chant’s ending. Horse adds up so much to these clerics. :) With orcs, afair warlock building + blacksmith in the end also makes good synergy.
In the version I grew up on I discovered the same trick in the caves, with one exception. Every level had a unit on another side of a wall you could attack and kill, and once you did, I triggered every single unit up to that point to start heading towards the start of the map, one at a time. It took FOREVER for the first ones to make it because they were crossing the entire map, but you could just set up your archer wall and wait for every enemy to just walk in to your army and die
Man this brings back memories. I remember wanting this but, our pc was kind of underpowered so it never happened. I even recall my dad thinking it was a Lord of the Rings game based on the title and box art. Keep up the good work!
14:26 lol Yeah, I remember finding that out too back in the day. I was never able to get to him normally without having to take on an army of summoned spiders that would kill me, so this is how I always played that mission when I figured it out lol
New subscriber here.... oh my so nostalgic. Thank you Ross for letting me play Warcraft, Dune 2, Worms and more on your parents PC! The music in Warcraft and the atmosphere was incredible. Funny to think how primitive it was back then, 8 angles for sprites, no right-click or attack move. But it worked!
@@walt_man thanks for the support brother! I think i was the ross and showed all my friends how awesome warcraft and starcraft were! These remasters could have been more but they are the best ways to play them right now
Congratulations Admiral. Tons of hard work, dedication and strong will payed off. It's always facinating to watch somebody who loves a game do a run of this sort and experiance it in a different way. As from my perspective it is wonderful to watch. I did not know Garona was in this game. I personally know her from the Movie. I can clearly see that this game in perticular was half way between Warhammer Fantasy and It's own persona. It was great to see you again. Wish you the best and I'll be waiting for you'r next endevor.
WC1 Doomhammer after seeing what cause him a casualty in his score in Stormwind: Who the hell are you? Little Sneaky Farm: Who...are...youuu? "The demon's times coming to an end and there isn't a victory screen yet." Little Sneaky Farm: (start laughing) "Hoo-Hoo Ha-ha-ha..." Doomhammer start running to re-load that last save.
Great video, as always. Warcraft 1 was one of my first games I have ever played too. It was a doozy especially considering I didn't speak English back then :-) Keep up the good work :-)
I appreciate your content, and am glad it brings you some reprieve. You have character and a wonderful personality. I genuinely believe you can make it big on youtube. Keep on being humble. I'm excited to see where you go from here :)
Thanks so much! I continue to be humbled by all the nice people checking my stuff out, as long as I can keep making people happy, maybe a couple bucks here and there ;) Ill have made it
Thanks man! And good luck to you to! Its a wild place here haha and after many years I must have caught the right wind. I have no qualifications to give advice but just keep at it and keep doing what you love! Eventually someone will watch 😀
These are awesome. Dropping a comment to support you can get more! The warcraft 2 humans video popped up in my feed and I’ve instantly subbed and enjoyed watching. I really appreciate the commitment to your own style and like hearing your thoughts on artwork, sprites, mission and game designs, and all of it. As a kid who got this game I don’t think I ever beat the 3rd or 4th missions of either campaign without using cheats. It’s cool seeing it revisited and completed with a more serious challenge at hand. Great work! I wasn’t sure if the orc campaign without healing would be possible.
Was such a rollercoaster of a video, really great job! Seriously impressed that you managed to pull this off. Definitely excited to see if you try out any other (non-deathless) challenge runs or give Wargus a try!
That's the most impressive video game achievement I've seen in my entire life. Deathless runs are always demanding, but here you also have to struugle with controls and low resolution (limited vision). The only way to top that is propably do Dune2 deathless (You can select only one unit at the time)
One unit at a time seems so ludicrous to a modern audience ahha but they didnt know any better! Same with no right click in warcraft they didnt realize the difference it would make! Thanks for watching and commenting 😁
Found your channel by accident, while looking for GiantGrantGames challenges. For once TH-cam algorithm showed me something of quality. Keep up the good work!
I was half expecting something like "I made YT partner! and have set up monetization stuff. I hope it isnt too intru-" *Hard cut to 3 seconds of an ad for a product*
You good sir have stirred up so much nostalgia in me! I found your channel when you did war 2 deathless. This one is great! Do you have plane for other classic rts games like c&c or age of empires? War craft and command abd conquer were my favorites when I was younger.
That was amazing! Especially your strategy on the last orc level was very helpful! Its is indeed very hard and exhausting... but it worked in the end 👍 I think you are legit the first one who beat the game deathless ✌
If I am not the first I am at least the first to make a video on it! If i didnt figure out walls I legit dont know how to beat those levels i mean the water el spam alone would have driven me insane
Warcraft II was one of the first games I remember playing, as a kid I could beat it without cheating but I've since managed it. I also fell in love with fantasy with the Warcraft series. Warcraft is in my top 3 nerdoms, I've read every book and comic, played all the games and I main a Troll Hunter in WoW (who is now 15 years old) because I loved the Axe Thrower as a kid. I never had Warcraft Orcs and Humans until the released on GoG, was fun playing through it, seeing all the familiar characters and locations that I knew from later.
Seeing where the characters started like Lothar and Khadgar and Guldan was always so cool to watch. Whenever Wow or war3 references war 1-2 I always smile
I haven't played Warcraft: Orcs & Humans in so many years, mostly because getting it to run on modern computers would be a pain in the arse. BUT every time I see footage of it. I am immediately hit with nostalgia from playing it on a windows 95 PC back when I was like 7 or 8 years old.
The first video game I ever played was one of 3: WC1, WC2, or C&C. I have fond memories of watching my dad play all these games but I'm not sure which was my first. What I do know is that WC1 and 2 were childhood defining games for me. I still play WC2 from time to time, thanks GoG! Not even Blizz sells a digital copy of either of these old gems. Funny how not being able to right click to perform actions was a total non-issue when i was 4, and this is primarily the reason why I haven't revisited WC1 for about 15 years now. Anyway, great video. Hit me right in the nostalgia.
Thanks man! I grew up on war 1-2 as well, praise cool dads! Haha playing with the mouse injector is basically mandatory now. Funny with the non issue like when shooters blasted alien resurrection for having left stick be camera and right movement
Also, a small criticism. Your voice seem to cut off a bit too early at the end of sentences at times. I would guess it has to do with noise reduction settings.
So from what I understand in Warcraft 1 you cannot go deathless unless you cheez hardcore :D cool video brought back so many memories, waiting for more stuff
Nice job! I've never played the original Warcraft before, but I have played some of the campaign on a warcraft 3 custom campaign designed to emulate it, and it was pretty tough. Catapults were soooo broken! I also learned recently that saving and reloading Warcraft 2 sometimes completely bugs out the AI, so if you do any more challenges with WC2, you might wanna be aware of that. I had no idea before a week ago, so I wanted to share that just in case you didn't know. Congrats on all the new subs, this video was really well made!
Thanks bro that means a lot! Someone else mentioned the AI breakin in war2 ahah I shant shy away from the game making it easier on me, the btdp expansion has me concerned to try haha. Keep at the vids yourself too my dude pretty soon we will both be ballers rocking diamond shoes and laughing at the common folk ;) jkjk but thanks for the comment and keep those vids coming!
Great video! I was a kid when I played Warcraft 1 (which I got after Warcraft 2, ironically). I also didn't know about pulling up the stats mid-game. Can we get a video/stream for that mod you talked about that ported WC1 over to the other engine? That sounds awesome!
Wow I cannot belive you actually make it. I know with clerics you propably can do it with humans (but still it will be hard) but damn, the fact you do it with Orcs it's like another level on me. Lol and good video, props for you.
Very interesting to see how detailed Warcraft 1 was compared to 2. Was the war so devastating that people forgot how to build bridges? There's also actual walls, tiles, carpets, roads and map decorations while in 2 the world is extremely bare with just trees, destructible rocks and pre-placed walls, you REALLY have to use your imagination that Dalaran is supposed to be a city and not just a loose collection of farms in a Cross shaped island. Why the drop in quality?
I agree! I mention that in my war2 orc video how the capitol city is just a blob of grass and scattered buildings. They should have had walls, farms organized in blocks and way more towers or even a custom castle like stormwind in war1. Perhaps the update to the sprites and engine took too much and they couldnt have indoor or fancy locations
Must have been tied to the apocalyptic flooding that happened between the wars, seeing as the eastern kingdoms are more akin to the eastern archipelagos. Also Warcraft 2000 nuclear epidemic (ukranian wc2 bootleg (?) from the guys that made the cossacks and stalker series) deathless when?
Just found your channel, I really like the deathless content, especially since i never played the old Warcraft rts games before i picked up a used copy of wc3 in high school. For me my earliest gaming memories were probably watching my dad play the original Age of Empires, and then one of the really old i think it was DOS Duke nuke'em games? It looked like something drawn in paint and was a plattformer/metroidvania style of game i believe.
I got a lot of ideas in my dumb brain but I think I want to try a retrospective video next, but challenge runs will always be a thing maybe footmen only or elves only war2
ahhh that makes an insane amount of sense! Thats pretty cool mechanics wise actually I dont think I even did that as a kid haha I just assumed I needed to rescue them
Ah man, this hits right in the feels! Remember beeing 8-9 years old and seeing the boxes for Warcraft, Dune 2 and C&C beeing amazed and not knowing where to begin 😂
Nice one, bro, I always liked humans more because of the extra range of archers and cleric's healing 😁 This game is an absolute gem, one my first games that I played, even though back then I didn't know how to play nor any English whatsoever
Thanks man! There has been a few people saying they learned english from video games and I think thats so awesome! Its cool the game itself is universal so you dont need to understand to get a grasp on things...the priest looking guy probably heals!
Came back to comment on this again, thanks man! I really, really enjoy your style and Warcraft I, this is like looking back to my early, early childhood and my memories with my dad, first game we played together (he crushed me 1v1, no mercy vs a 4 year old ) Sadly, he passed away when I was 9 in 2000, so I've really treasured these sprites and gamesounds for all my life. Definitely if you feel like it, play War1gus and make some videos, it looks great as an idea.a
Thanks so much for the kind words and Im so happy i can bring you back to that time, sorry for your loss I cant imagine losing your dad so young 😔 I might actually stream some war1gus tomorrow as well as another challenge run for war2 or another game so if you are around will be great to have ya! Keep staying strong bro!
@@Admiral_Iddy Yeah, it does blow, mostly I feel like I missed out on sharing all of these kinds of moments with him, but I will have to find other ways to cope and you surely help bring back the good old memories :) Will you stream TH-cam? Because I really can't be arsed with Twitch much anymore, but if you are here, I will def pop by if I'm around.
@@errata fridays will be youtube! My audience is way wider here but I am not neglecting twitch, i am dabbling with 2 streams a week one yt one twitch but frodays i think will always be youtube
someone said that casting unholy armour on water elementals instakilled them too but that was FALSE, I imagine healing demons just heals them but would be a cool mechanic if it did! like healing undead in Kingdom Under Fire kills them.
Griselda Blackhand is supposedly mentioned in "Rise of the Horde" according to wiki. But outside a small footnote is a really excellent book that I even forgot about, yeah she got done dirty.
Not really viable for a deathless run, but as a kid I discovered a trick for the human final mission. If you cast invisibility on about four knights, you can sneak them into the top-left corner and kill the warlocks there. If I recall correctly, the AI never made any new ones so that meant you don't have to worry about daemons for the rest of the game.
Thanks man! I will preface those vids are OLD and I was a much younger and dumber guy ahha so take the quality and the voice over with a grain of salt :) I might do an updated one at some point
@@Tore299 ahh that explains it! I just googled Dune 2 and picked a nice screen grab haha never played them before so didnt know what the og looked like :P
@@Admiral_Iddy Haha, I understand. It is quite hard to find screenshots of Dune 2 these days due to all the fan projects. You should try it, it is the grandfather of the modern RTS after all. The controls are quite hard to get used to for those used to modern RTS, but since you have no issue playing War1. The only thing you will probably miss is the ability to select multiple units. ;)
Oppenheimer truck lol I've never played Warcraft 1 much - compared to bright and colourful Warcraft 2 it was dark, gritty and scary. But this challenge was really fun to watch. Thanks, admiral!
Oh my I was just thinking other day you know what it would be nice if you or somebody else actualyl tried Warcraft 1 for these challenges. And you already have two videos!
@@Admiral_Iddy I kind of love graphics thanks to nostalgy (Song of Syx reminds me the style) but I don't think it and Dune 2 is really playable today even you mention mouse click mod. But I heard War1gus mod is decent wc1 for modern systems, give it a try.
pays the bills brother! ah yes! there must be a mod in war3 that has more race diversity like the upcoming chronicles of the second war. I dream of a warhammer fantasy small scale RTS with warcraft mechanics
@@Admiral_Iddy Thanks, the army turned me down so I'm glad there are people out there willing to help, like our healthcare workers as well. Hopefully one day Games Workshop and Activison can bring Warhammer into the Warcraft universe and make Warcraft 4 happen with all the races from both franchises (might leave out the Starcraft and 40K factions for balance reasons).
It may be janky and nearly unplayable by today's standards but hot dang if I don't still love Warcraft 1 for being what it is. I still to this day get a hankering to go back and play it every once in a while. Thanks for bringing this gem back to the forefront of my TH-cam feed!
I am the same way I come back to it pretty much yearly. I do have some plans to try some challenge run stuff for it like footmen only or grunt only etc so there might be some more war1 content in the future! Thanks for watching
giving this a rewatch and when you mention the medivh cheese, There's one for lothar too, I dont remember if you have to cheat (which makes the cheese invalid), or if youre giving far sight, but you can heal lothar from your starting location, and with keeping up the heal a bit, he can solo a ogre without being at risk, so he can almost solo the way back. (you can rescue the wounded archers and make it even easier)
Unfortunately you did need to cheat, last i checked your clerics dont get the farsight spell in that level but i have done it with the unlock abilities cheat and its neat ahha too bad you couldnt just cast it into the darkness
This was also one of the first games I remember playing, possibly the first non-edutainment ACTUAL video game I played. (I too was 3 when I first played it)
From one military vet to another congrats! Might need to chat with you about a sponsorship if you are interested 😁. Your content is the type of stuff we like supporting as a PC company
My first video games were sesame street, Freddy the fish, and Warcraft 1. I used to be terrified of the fog of war so I would just stage a big army on the border of the fog and defend against attackers.
Invisibility remains to this day a mechanic that Blizzard tried and never quite could fully balance. Polymorph-bomb wizards in 2, stealth crit Blademasters in 3, Starcraft with burrow ambush and Ghosts/Banshees in 2, there's always something that slips the net. Funnily, Warcraft 1 would be a lot less worrisome in the campaign if you could just attack ground catapults like you can in 2. Nevertheless, thank you for doing it and proving that yes even Warcraft 1 is doable deathless! (and no I'm not counting that snafu in 2 as a death)
Oh yeah everygame its either overpowered or useless, perhaps the night elves nightime cloaking is ok? But in war2 i can accurately say ive used invisibility maybe twice in my life and it was to experiment haha
Okay, I know I commented on the one stream video saying I was going to watch it, but I have a HORRIBLE attention span. I think this one will be a lot more digestible for me. Might make edits as I watch the video.
This is exactly why I make the condensed vids! Not everyone wants to watch a 4 hour vod and I get to insert some jokes and cutaway gags to keep people invested :)
@@Admiral_Iddy Decided not to edit my original comment, I'm just replying to this one because I only have a few things to say. First off, yeah, capital F catapults. The unit balance in this game is hilariously bad. There's one version of the game that lets you edit unit stats and I _always_ nerf them into oblivion. Second off, I would LOVE to try that war1gus mod someday, but I feel like I'd horrendously flub installing it. XD Also, congratulations on surviving some of the purest torture known to man (or orc)!
Deathless means no summoning allow since if a summon unit dies due to magic out then hp out it counts as AI kill human would be easy as they have cleric heal but orc would really need macro necrolyte unholy armor.
"Mom, are spiders orcs?" *insert Gigachad*
she probably was like, "ive raised an idiot" in newfanese haha ironically she watches me play warcraft now :) how the turntables have turned
I have the same memories of being a toddler and watching my dad play, only it was Warcraft 2 not 1. I'm loving this so, keep them coming!!
Yes! Shouts out to all the dads and children bonding time with gaming, but now my dad sits on the stool and I play :)
For me it was Warcraft 2! My cousin introduced me to the game and I've been playing blizzard games ever since, even still today. I love these characters so much
For me it was Doom (or maybe Doom II), and Need for Speed Porsche
@@Admiral_Iddy is it possible to win warcraft 2 with orc without deaths, i think is dont do it, impossible
@@imjustsayingfyi lucky for you I already have a video on war 2 orcs deathless 😁 apart from mandatory sappers it is possible!
9:20 Flails were ideally used as a cavalry weapon, since they would benefit from the charging horse´s speed and the chain limited the transfer of force back to your arm, making it less risky to lose your weapon after an attack.
And you can bonk people on the head with it
If Varian still had his moustache he'd still be alive. Prove me wrong.
The mustaches hold power I swear!
Comment for promoting this masterpiece of a run! Other hardcore warcraft content creators must be proud of you!
I hope so! I am trying to do runs or videos that other people havent already done so I dont step on any toes. I have to admit I am proud of my own work for the first time in a long time.
When I first played this game, I couldn't read, and didn't understand what I needed to do. I saw that the humans were destroying my buildings and thought that's what I needed to do. So I did. The defeat screen would show a burning village and I thought to myself, good job.
Haha "way to go humans we got this together" thats awesome haha its like when id lose at golf games id be like but my score is so high!
That's adorable. The way children attempt to understand things is amazing.
I legit thought Orcs was going to be impossible. Congrats on pulling it (and I guess a lot of hair?) off!
Oh man I had my doubts too, when I found out how to wall in though I got a trickle of hope!
Me too, i remember even when i play on cheats always some catapult kill my units xD
@@Shimospeher Even with the 'god mode' cheat on catapults are still kill everything. Warcraft 1 was a wild ride, wasn't it?
@@micuu1 yea, just like spells kill on god mode in 2.
Yea, but at same time not so hard, i remember ending it without cheats when was 7? Maybe 8. Propably play tens of hours of that but when finally buy Warcraft 2 quickly get in. In term of operating heaven and hell.
best line in any video game ever is "Something need doing?" lol never gets old tbh
When I get crappy jobs at work or on ship I would always answer as a peon or peasant yesh m'lord. off I go then! to help cope with the stress hah usually gets a laugh until one officer is like, "warcraft nice" haha
It was a pleasure to watch this happen live, good sir!
Keep up the great work! Wish you all the best! :D
I appreciate you putting the old concept art on screen whenever you show a new unit, that shit looks so good.
Oh yeah love the manual art! Def a good way to showcase the units too
Never got to play WC1, tho I grew up on WC2, SC1, WC3. Its nice to see it with a good commentary and insight and though the game looks dated af, I can see the magic after all these years. Love the video!
Y'know, I kind of have to disagree with you on the Peasants thing. Sure, they sound wimpy and ineffective, but if you put a Warcraft 2 Peasant against a Warcraft 1 Peasant, the Warcraft 1 Peasant is going to run away crying "Don't hurt me!"
Then there's the Warcraft 3 Peasant who remarks how he's going to die in battle even when turned into a Militia but he still goes ahead and fights and dies for his country.
All those big muscles and that gritty expression are just for show on the Warcraft 1 Peasants :P
haha you are right! war 1 peasants are all show, like those dudes at the gym who just look at themselves in the mirror the whole time. when it hits the fan they are the first to bail ;)
I believe there are also some range differences between the spell casters too. Clerics have 1, Sorcerers have 3, and the Orc ones have 2 each. I think.
Yeah. Is what said in the manual and WoW wiki.
This game has a very special place in my heart. The earliest memory I have is playing this game (Playing as orcs in a cave mission, summoning minions with the warlock to to just send them off and find out where the exit is, then move there with the real army.) Which is probably why I'm so sour these days with what Blizzard is doing to the IP that I just don't agree with as I love what it once was.
Memory could be failing me on this one but, I also remember thinking how smart I was as a kid when I found out that while the AI can just keep mining gold as it never runs out, it DOES start to run out once you've uncovered it, therefore at the start of the map, send a unit on a suicide mission just to find it. I just don't know if the game actually cares about that and the AI has infinite resources and just likes to pretend...
Someone else mentioned that too actually I never knew that was a thing! Ill have to do some sciencing to figure out if its true or not
Playing this game since 1996/1997 and I never knew the gold mines did that, nice info
@@Admiral_Iddy So I went to take a look at the gold mine thing. I found their mine, at "32820". I loaded a save just before I found it, waited a bit longer, then went to check: "32805". So it's not that they don't take resources - it's that they only take 5 gold instead of the normal 100, until they are found. Still dunno if the AI ACTUALLY uses resources or not though!
I have done a no death run using the humans many times and like you, I don't bother with summons. It's just so satisfying to see the casualty counter stay at zero at the end of each mission. However, I have to give you a *MAJOR* tip of the hat for performing this challenge using the orcs. I honestly didn't think it would be possible. You would need a city of farms just to feed all the wounded...
Thanks man orcs DEFINITELY gave me doubts at time thank god for the walls haha i recently did footmen only but i dont know if i could pull off grunts only haha the lack of heals is huge for humans
@@Admiral_Iddy By the way - I lived in Newfoundland for two years and loved it. Newfoundland rocks! Are you a townie or a bayman? Cheers and I look forward to more of your content.
@@Taro4242 mainlander actually! Haha my mother is from the south shore but brought me to the capitol for a job but I visit home often 😀 one day my path will bring me back there its a wicked place to live...besides the winters ahah
I'll have to watch the rest of this later, but regarding flails on horseback: I've heard that if one-handed flails were a thing, they'd mostly be for horseback use.
The chain or rope connecting the head to the body can absorb some of the shock that would otherwise be absorbed by your hand, and if you have momentum from a moving horse that hand shock can be pretty severe.
Cool fact! Id still be worried for the horse, one mistep and you are swinging at an expensive investment!
That is actually the neat part: you probably don't even need to swing it aside from a light movement to get the ball into position, if even that. Mostly because the speed of the horse + the weight of the ball/head + physics will do most of the work for you. Also from what I know horses are, aside from the legs, pretty sturdy so it will probably be fine.
Granted there is a reason why it went out of favour too.
@@Tenesfer I guess that reason were lances/pikes in formations. You would have been unable to strike or needed to turn 90° and sitll have no reach. But in a chaotic infantry battle/sudden ambush in loose forests etc., perfect
I always giggle when I click a human temple and then click a stable close to the chant’s ending. Horse adds up so much to these clerics. :)
With orcs, afair warlock building + blacksmith in the end also makes good synergy.
In the version I grew up on I discovered the same trick in the caves, with one exception. Every level had a unit on another side of a wall you could attack and kill, and once you did, I triggered every single unit up to that point to start heading towards the start of the map, one at a time. It took FOREVER for the first ones to make it because they were crossing the entire map, but you could just set up your archer wall and wait for every enemy to just walk in to your army and die
I think I remember being able to cheese the lothar mission too but oh yeah if you are patient you can just let every enemy come to you
"You can Cat and Mouse..." Very interesting choice of words there, Admiral! You could say you CATTED your Enemies to death!
Man this brings back memories. I remember wanting this but, our pc was kind of underpowered so it never happened. I even recall my dad thinking it was a Lord of the Rings game based on the title and box art. Keep up the good work!
It definitely gave me lotr vibes too, I was raised on the Ralph Bakshi lotr cartoon movie too so just seeing orcs n humans fight was just chefs kiss
Love your videos, man. The nostalgia is punching me in the face in a way I love. You've got a good voice for this sort of thing.
@@jesselindsey9760 thanks! Glad you enjoy them! Thanks for the support
14:26 lol Yeah, I remember finding that out too back in the day. I was never able to get to him normally without having to take on an army of summoned spiders that would kill me, so this is how I always played that mission when I figured it out lol
New subscriber here.... oh my so nostalgic. Thank you Ross for letting me play Warcraft, Dune 2, Worms and more on your parents PC! The music in Warcraft and the atmosphere was incredible. Funny to think how primitive it was back then, 8 angles for sprites, no right-click or attack move. But it worked!
@@walt_man thanks for the support brother! I think i was the ross and showed all my friends how awesome warcraft and starcraft were! These remasters could have been more but they are the best ways to play them right now
Congratulations Admiral.
Tons of hard work, dedication and strong will payed off. It's always facinating to watch somebody who loves a game do a run of this sort and experiance it in a different way. As from my perspective it is wonderful to watch.
I did not know Garona was in this game. I personally know her from the Movie. I can clearly see that this game in perticular was half way between Warhammer Fantasy and It's own persona.
It was great to see you again. Wish you the best and I'll be waiting for you'r next endevor.
22:38 Knight Vision and "Want some candy?" Predator 1&2.🤣
Now I want a predator movie where he is on horseback with a flail haha
They only used alien dogs in Predators and The Predator movies (like in the red alert games) but never an alien horse.😂
WC1 Doomhammer after seeing what cause him a casualty in his score in Stormwind: Who the hell are you?
Little Sneaky Farm: Who...are...youuu?
"The demon's times coming to an end and there isn't a victory screen yet."
Little Sneaky Farm: (start laughing) "Hoo-Hoo Ha-ha-ha..."
Doomhammer start running to re-load that last save.
I dont know whats going on but a lot of words seem to get muted as if they get censored. Like at 25:28 the word damage seems to get chopped up.
I think my noisegates are too sensitive on my mic during recording, a good learning experience for next time :)
Great video, as always. Warcraft 1 was one of my first games I have ever played too. It was a doozy especially considering I didn't speak English back then :-) Keep up the good work :-)
thats so awesome bro! I think it is a testament to game design where you dont need to speak the language to get the gist! Thanks for watching
I am right there with you, this is some of my best memories playing this with my father.
I appreciate your content, and am glad it brings you some reprieve. You have character and a wonderful personality. I genuinely believe you can make it big on youtube. Keep on being humble. I'm excited to see where you go from here :)
Thanks so much! I continue to be humbled by all the nice people checking my stuff out, as long as I can keep making people happy, maybe a couple bucks here and there ;) Ill have made it
As another small conent creator I am very happy to see your hard work paid off. Do monetize your videos and good luck, buddy!❤
Thanks man! And good luck to you to! Its a wild place here haha and after many years I must have caught the right wind. I have no qualifications to give advice but just keep at it and keep doing what you love! Eventually someone will watch 😀
On the channel success, you've clearly done something the algo likes. Your recent streams/deathless runs came up and its been a good recommendation.
Thanks so much! Im glad people are enjoying my stuff 😁
Man, I remember all these levels :)
Such nice memories.
Thanks a lot, dude.
These are awesome. Dropping a comment to support you can get more! The warcraft 2 humans video popped up in my feed and I’ve instantly subbed and enjoyed watching. I really appreciate the commitment to your own style and like hearing your thoughts on artwork, sprites, mission and game designs, and all of it.
As a kid who got this game I don’t think I ever beat the 3rd or 4th missions of either campaign without using cheats. It’s cool seeing it revisited and completed with a more serious challenge at hand. Great work! I wasn’t sure if the orc campaign without healing would be possible.
Thanks man! Super glad people are enjoying my style and take on things 😊 I had no idea there were so many likeminded warcraft fans out there!
Was such a rollercoaster of a video, really great job! Seriously impressed that you managed to pull this off. Definitely excited to see if you try out any other (non-deathless) challenge runs or give Wargus a try!
7:01 3 attack routes - they can also attack from the north east (just east of the top block of trees). Great vid!
Your choice of games warms my boomer heart.
It is so lovely to hear how your channel is growing and how it gives back to you
I feel really lucky so far the response has been all kindness! Hopefully it will stay positive 😂
Beyond the dark portal War2 next?
That's the most impressive video game achievement I've seen in my entire life. Deathless runs are always demanding, but here you also have to struugle with controls and low resolution (limited vision). The only way to top that is propably do Dune2 deathless (You can select only one unit at the time)
One unit at a time seems so ludicrous to a modern audience ahha but they didnt know any better! Same with no right click in warcraft they didnt realize the difference it would make! Thanks for watching and commenting 😁
Found your channel by accident, while looking for GiantGrantGames challenges. For once TH-cam algorithm showed me something of quality. Keep up the good work!
Thanks! To be even compared or algorithmed to him is so awesome. He has some major talent 😄
I was half expecting something like "I made YT partner! and have set up monetization stuff. I hope it isnt too intru-" *Hard cut to 3 seconds of an ad for a product*
hah! I could have added a fake RAID SHADOWLEGENDS type of joke there damn! missed opportunity
Congratulations on your insane victory, as a Warcraft fan i am very proud of you!
Thanks bro! Im glad I could pull it off, we will see how the expansion to 2 goes now 😬
You good sir have stirred up so much nostalgia in me! I found your channel when you did war 2 deathless. This one is great! Do you have plane for other classic rts games like c&c or age of empires? War craft and command abd conquer were my favorites when I was younger.
I have a laundrylist of stuff I wanna do, some more challenges and retrospectives too, Id like to try my hand at reviewing some nostalgic games 😁
@@Admiral_Iddy I am looking forward to it! Thank you for the work you do.
@@joshforbes1320 and thank you for the support! This community is what is keeping me going 😁
Nice video.
I realy like it when you fail and explain why you failed and how you achieved your goal after that, it's like a little movie
That was amazing!
Especially your strategy on the last orc level was very helpful! Its is indeed very hard and exhausting... but it worked in the end
👍
I think you are legit the first one who beat the game deathless ✌
If I am not the first I am at least the first to make a video on it! If i didnt figure out walls I legit dont know how to beat those levels i mean the water el spam alone would have driven me insane
This is a fun series you got my Candaian Brother. God Bless you and your family in Newfoundland :)
Warcraft II was one of the first games I remember playing, as a kid I could beat it without cheating but I've since managed it. I also fell in love with fantasy with the Warcraft series. Warcraft is in my top 3 nerdoms, I've read every book and comic, played all the games and I main a Troll Hunter in WoW (who is now 15 years old) because I loved the Axe Thrower as a kid.
I never had Warcraft Orcs and Humans until the released on GoG, was fun playing through it, seeing all the familiar characters and locations that I knew from later.
Seeing where the characters started like Lothar and Khadgar and Guldan was always so cool to watch. Whenever Wow or war3 references war 1-2 I always smile
I haven't played Warcraft: Orcs & Humans in so many years, mostly because getting it to run on modern computers would be a pain in the arse. BUT every time I see footage of it. I am immediately hit with nostalgia from playing it on a windows 95 PC back when I was like 7 or 8 years old.
one bad campaign can't spoil them all, and i think red alert 3 is calling for a deathless run, not that i expect you to do it
The first video game I ever played was one of 3: WC1, WC2, or C&C. I have fond memories of watching my dad play all these games but I'm not sure which was my first. What I do know is that WC1 and 2 were childhood defining games for me. I still play WC2 from time to time, thanks GoG! Not even Blizz sells a digital copy of either of these old gems.
Funny how not being able to right click to perform actions was a total non-issue when i was 4, and this is primarily the reason why I haven't revisited WC1 for about 15 years now.
Anyway, great video. Hit me right in the nostalgia.
Thanks man! I grew up on war 1-2 as well, praise cool dads! Haha playing with the mouse injector is basically mandatory now. Funny with the non issue like when shooters blasted alien resurrection for having left stick be camera and right movement
@@Admiral_Iddy I didn't know the mouse injector was even a thing until I saw this video. I might be revisiting this soon.
This video showed up on my recommended and is the first of your videos I have seen. Will be Watching the WC2 deathless next.
Also, a small criticism. Your voice seem to cut off a bit too early at the end of sentences at times. I would guess it has to do with noise reduction settings.
So from what I understand in Warcraft 1 you cannot go deathless unless you cheez hardcore :D cool video brought back so many memories, waiting for more stuff
Nice job! I've never played the original Warcraft before, but I have played some of the campaign on a warcraft 3 custom campaign designed to emulate it, and it was pretty tough. Catapults were soooo broken!
I also learned recently that saving and reloading Warcraft 2 sometimes completely bugs out the AI, so if you do any more challenges with WC2, you might wanna be aware of that. I had no idea before a week ago, so I wanted to share that just in case you didn't know. Congrats on all the new subs, this video was really well made!
Thanks bro that means a lot! Someone else mentioned the AI breakin in war2 ahah I shant shy away from the game making it easier on me, the btdp expansion has me concerned to try haha. Keep at the vids yourself too my dude pretty soon we will both be ballers rocking diamond shoes and laughing at the common folk ;) jkjk but thanks for the comment and keep those vids coming!
Great video! I was a kid when I played Warcraft 1 (which I got after Warcraft 2, ironically). I also didn't know about pulling up the stats mid-game. Can we get a video/stream for that mod you talked about that ported WC1 over to the other engine? That sounds awesome!
Absolutely! I played with it the other night and its WILD like they added guard towers! I will def stream it at some point
Wow I cannot belive you actually make it. I know with clerics you propably can do it with humans (but still it will be hard) but damn, the fact you do it with Orcs it's like another level on me. Lol and good video, props for you.
Thanks man! I will admit I had my doubts with the orcs but once I got that wall strat down I got pretty hype :)
Yet another great video, we really need more of these videos, loved to see a red alert 2 one!
Psyminette does a red alert 2 vid thats really awesome! I recommend checking him out he does most of the cnc games 😁
Very interesting to see how detailed Warcraft 1 was compared to 2. Was the war so devastating that people forgot how to build bridges? There's also actual walls, tiles, carpets, roads and map decorations while in 2 the world is extremely bare with just trees, destructible rocks and pre-placed walls, you REALLY have to use your imagination that Dalaran is supposed to be a city and not just a loose collection of farms in a Cross shaped island. Why the drop in quality?
I agree! I mention that in my war2 orc video how the capitol city is just a blob of grass and scattered buildings. They should have had walls, farms organized in blocks and way more towers or even a custom castle like stormwind in war1. Perhaps the update to the sprites and engine took too much and they couldnt have indoor or fancy locations
Must have been tied to the apocalyptic flooding that happened between the wars, seeing as the eastern kingdoms are more akin to the eastern archipelagos.
Also Warcraft 2000 nuclear epidemic (ukranian wc2 bootleg (?) from the guys that made the cossacks and stalker series) deathless when?
@@uncleernie345 hah! Never heard of that one but Ill have to read up on it 😀
Thank you for the video. I also joined the Livestream but I saw you playing the Orc campaign. So far, I have seen the Human campaign,...
Dude! Impressive! When I saw this video I was certain that there was no way no how in WarCraft I.
That's incredible! We'll done!
Yoooo retrospective. Hell yeah nice vid
Just found your channel, I really like the deathless content, especially since i never played the old Warcraft rts games before i picked up a used copy of wc3 in high school. For me my earliest gaming memories were probably watching my dad play the original Age of Empires, and then one of the really old i think it was DOS Duke nuke'em games? It looked like something drawn in paint and was a plattformer/metroidvania style of game i believe.
@@snelhestarna age of empires is a classic too! Glad you enjoy the channel! Feel free to pop into the stream sometime!
Any ideas what challange run you'll do next?
I got a lot of ideas in my dumb brain but I think I want to try a retrospective video next, but challenge runs will always be a thing maybe footmen only or elves only war2
an awesome blast from the past !
I believe that the purpose of the peon prisoners, in Northshire Abbey, was to be meat shield for your spear throwers, and then resurrected as undead.
ahhh that makes an insane amount of sense! Thats pretty cool mechanics wise actually I dont think I even did that as a kid haha I just assumed I needed to rescue them
@@Admiral_Iddy You gotta start thinking like an Orc! lol
Ah man, this hits right in the feels! Remember beeing 8-9 years old and seeing the boxes for Warcraft, Dune 2 and C&C beeing amazed and not knowing where to begin 😂
The og battle chests were so sweet too I remember just reading the manuals over n over
@@Admiral_IddyI miss manuals and the awe they inspired 😊
Nice one, bro, I always liked humans more because of the extra range of archers and cleric's healing 😁
This game is an absolute gem, one my first games that I played, even though back then I didn't know how to play nor any English whatsoever
Thanks man! There has been a few people saying they learned english from video games and I think thats so awesome! Its cool the game itself is universal so you dont need to understand to get a grasp on things...the priest looking guy probably heals!
The low level orc peons serve the purpose of being sacrificed for skellies. Thought that was common sense lol
Came back to comment on this again, thanks man! I really, really enjoy your style and Warcraft I, this is like looking back to my early, early childhood and my memories with my dad, first game we played together (he crushed me 1v1, no mercy vs a 4 year old ) Sadly, he passed away when I was 9 in 2000, so I've really treasured these sprites and gamesounds for all my life. Definitely if you feel like it, play War1gus and make some videos, it looks great as an idea.a
Thanks so much for the kind words and Im so happy i can bring you back to that time, sorry for your loss I cant imagine losing your dad so young 😔 I might actually stream some war1gus tomorrow as well as another challenge run for war2 or another game so if you are around will be great to have ya! Keep staying strong bro!
@@Admiral_Iddy Yeah, it does blow, mostly I feel like I missed out on sharing all of these kinds of moments with him, but I will have to find other ways to cope and you surely help bring back the good old memories :) Will you stream TH-cam? Because I really can't be arsed with Twitch much anymore, but if you are here, I will def pop by if I'm around.
@@errata fridays will be youtube! My audience is way wider here but I am not neglecting twitch, i am dabbling with 2 streams a week one yt one twitch but frodays i think will always be youtube
@@Admiral_Iddydo what's best for your growth bro, I'm sure 10k ain't too far with the ball rolling.
Is healing daemons effective at killing them?
someone said that casting unholy armour on water elementals instakilled them too but that was FALSE, I imagine healing demons just heals them but would be a cool mechanic if it did! like healing undead in Kingdom Under Fire kills them.
@@Admiral_Iddy Unholy Shield and Invisibility instakills demolition squads, but sadly, they are from a different game(
Griselda Blackhand is supposedly mentioned in "Rise of the Horde" according to wiki.
But outside a small footnote is a really excellent book that I even forgot about, yeah she got done dirty.
Oh wow! Rise of the horde i forgot there are so many novels and stuff about the world
Thank you for finding the mouse helper. Makes it so easy to play
Not really viable for a deathless run, but as a kid I discovered a trick for the human final mission. If you cast invisibility on about four knights, you can sneak them into the top-left corner and kill the warlocks there. If I recall correctly, the AI never made any new ones so that meant you don't have to worry about daemons for the rest of the game.
Thatd be a good strat for playing casually! Ill have to test that out
OOO I was the guy that told you about the f6 to view stats .... HI!
You are the pioneer that has unlocked challenge runs stats tracking forever! Certainly blew my mind 😃
I never knew about this detail either - it's super handy, even for regular runs!
I have been watching your kingdom under fire lp and I love it.
Thanks man! I will preface those vids are OLD and I was a much younger and dumber guy ahha so take the quality and the voice over with a grain of salt :) I might do an updated one at some point
@@Admiral_Iddy that would be awesome. I would watch it lol. I just turned 31 so seeing a lp brought back some memories
That FUN was to watch specially for someone who never played the game.
that's a very cleaned up screengrab for Dune 2, where'd you find that?
That is not original Dune 2, but a fan remake called Dune 2: The Maker. It has sharper graphics and plays more like C&C.
@@Tore299 ahh that explains it! I just googled Dune 2 and picked a nice screen grab haha never played them before so didnt know what the og looked like :P
@@Admiral_Iddy Haha, I understand. It is quite hard to find screenshots of Dune 2 these days due to all the fan projects.
You should try it, it is the grandfather of the modern RTS after all. The controls are quite hard to get used to for those used to modern RTS, but since you have no issue playing War1. The only thing you will probably miss is the ability to select multiple units. ;)
@@Tore299 Dune 2000 would also be fun to see, more modern and has those video mission briefings that are always fun.
Oppenheimer truck lol
I've never played Warcraft 1 much - compared to bright and colourful Warcraft 2 it was dark, gritty and scary. But this challenge was really fun to watch.
Thanks, admiral!
I love war2 and 3 but I have to admit the dark and gritty world of War1 was way more appealing, kind of wish they kept that vibe, like diablo 1!
Oh my I was just thinking other day you know what it would be nice if you or somebody else actualyl tried Warcraft 1 for these challenges. And you already have two videos!
@@martind5653 i love revisitng war1 even had a lil stream playing it multiplayer! Thanks for watching
@@Admiral_Iddy I kind of love graphics thanks to nostalgy (Song of Syx reminds me the style) but I don't think it and Dune 2 is really playable today even you mention mouse click mod. But I heard War1gus mod is decent wc1 for modern systems, give it a try.
Keep up the great work and clips!
I swear, the water elementals look like a laughing face.
The unit sprite or the portrait?
@@hernanreipp3321 Sprite.
@@Zandonus True. When looking to the south really looks a creepy laughing face.
I hope you're having a nice day (and thank you for your service), I read somewhere that the Riflemen in Warcraft III were dwarfs.
pays the bills brother! ah yes! there must be a mod in war3 that has more race diversity like the upcoming chronicles of the second war. I dream of a warhammer fantasy small scale RTS with warcraft mechanics
@@Admiral_Iddy Thanks, the army turned me down so I'm glad there are people out there willing to help, like our healthcare workers as well. Hopefully one day Games Workshop and Activison can bring Warhammer into the Warcraft universe and make Warcraft 4 happen with all the races from both franchises (might leave out the Starcraft and 40K factions for balance reasons).
Good work. Impressive to do it with the controls in wc1
My hands cramped FAIRLY hard during the longer levels I must admit haha the mouse plugin is a lifesaver though
It may be janky and nearly unplayable by today's standards but hot dang if I don't still love Warcraft 1 for being what it is. I still to this day get a hankering to go back and play it every once in a while. Thanks for bringing this gem back to the forefront of my TH-cam feed!
I am the same way I come back to it pretty much yearly. I do have some plans to try some challenge run stuff for it like footmen only or grunt only etc so there might be some more war1 content in the future! Thanks for watching
"What kind of church is this?"
Clearly you weren't expecting the Spanish Inquisition.
Ah the time honoured "WTF IS THE GOLDMINE " gameplay
giving this a rewatch and when you mention the medivh cheese, There's one for lothar too, I dont remember if you have to cheat (which makes the cheese invalid), or if youre giving far sight, but you can heal lothar from your starting location, and with keeping up the heal a bit, he can solo a ogre without being at risk, so he can almost solo the way back. (you can rescue the wounded archers and make it even easier)
Unfortunately you did need to cheat, last i checked your clerics dont get the farsight spell in that level but i have done it with the unlock abilities cheat and its neat ahha too bad you couldnt just cast it into the darkness
This was also one of the first games I remember playing, possibly the first non-edutainment ACTUAL video game I played. (I too was 3 when I first played it)
This was incredable tho! Very nice playing!
From one military vet to another congrats! Might need to chat with you about a sponsorship if you are interested 😁. Your content is the type of stuff we like supporting as a PC company
I am always open for a conversation! We vets need to work together :) Cant make any promises though I am just a lovable misfit buffoon after all.
5:54 - my headcanon is peasants became humbled after humans lost the first war to orcs
My first video games were sesame street, Freddy the fish, and Warcraft 1. I used to be terrified of the fog of war so I would just stage a big army on the border of the fog and defend against attackers.
Gz for becoming monetized, you 100% deserve it!
Warcraft 2: beyond dark portal expansion deathless when? ☺️
It will happen! might take a while I got a laundry list of stuff to do :) but hang in there
@@Admiral_Iddy Can't wait! 😁
Can't wait for warcraft two expansion deathless
Invisibility remains to this day a mechanic that Blizzard tried and never quite could fully balance. Polymorph-bomb wizards in 2, stealth crit Blademasters in 3, Starcraft with burrow ambush and Ghosts/Banshees in 2, there's always something that slips the net. Funnily, Warcraft 1 would be a lot less worrisome in the campaign if you could just attack ground catapults like you can in 2. Nevertheless, thank you for doing it and proving that yes even Warcraft 1 is doable deathless! (and no I'm not counting that snafu in 2 as a death)
Oh yeah everygame its either overpowered or useless, perhaps the night elves nightime cloaking is ok? But in war2 i can accurately say ive used invisibility maybe twice in my life and it was to experiment haha
Dude I think this was the first game I ever played too, also watching my dad play from my little computer-side stool. It was either this or Civ II.
ooh Ive never actually played the civ games before, revolution for the 360 I wonder how they aged
Man this bring back memories I was in elementary school the last time I played this game now I kinda want to play it again
Gog.com has them in a combo pack for decently cheap but you could always go to war2 combat i think its free but is a bit janky
I really like that orc raider sprite
it is super menacing! It really makes the unit look as tough as it is for sure. Best raider :)
A military vet Newfoundlander playing classic strategy games? Here mate, have my sub!
@@mitchellmarinac6893 thanks man! Gotta represent the rock when I can 😁
Okay, I know I commented on the one stream video saying I was going to watch it, but I have a HORRIBLE attention span. I think this one will be a lot more digestible for me. Might make edits as I watch the video.
This is exactly why I make the condensed vids! Not everyone wants to watch a 4 hour vod and I get to insert some jokes and cutaway gags to keep people invested :)
@@Admiral_Iddy Decided not to edit my original comment, I'm just replying to this one because I only have a few things to say.
First off, yeah, capital F catapults. The unit balance in this game is hilariously bad. There's one version of the game that lets you edit unit stats and I _always_ nerf them into oblivion.
Second off, I would LOVE to try that war1gus mod someday, but I feel like I'd horrendously flub installing it. XD
Also, congratulations on surviving some of the purest torture known to man (or orc)!
Deathless means no summoning allow since if a summon unit dies due to magic out then hp out it counts as AI kill human would be easy as they have cleric heal but orc would really need macro necrolyte unholy armor.