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'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.
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.
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 😁
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 😂
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!
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
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
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)
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
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!
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
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.
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!
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!
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
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.
24:54 Yup Blackhand was one brutal monster Alright. He wouldn’t even let Griselda drink the blood of Mannoroth because she was weak and a shame to their clan. And here he just kills her without a second thought. Blackhand is probably the evil Orc in the Warcraft universe other than Gul’dan. Worst father ever!
I didnt even know that! Must have been covered in the books I assume? Thats pretty metal though I dont think Blackhand got as much respect throughout the lore as I think he should have. He may have been guldans puppet but he was a baaad dude and the warchief of the horde! barely even gets mentioned until warlords of draenor
@@Admiral_Iddy Gul’dan manipulated him alright, but Blackhand wasn’t like under a spell or anything. Everything he did was of his own free will. He was a brute alright. A child Draka was sick, so she was weak because of it, and Blackhand said if she were part of his clan she would have been killed. He wasn’t mentioned much before WOD but he had his lore. You just need to look farther lol
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
I don't think a regular run would be as balls-to-the-wall batshit insane difficult as this one was, but yeah, the orc campaign is definitely harder for a multitude of reasons. XD Ironic, because it's the one that's considered "canon" according to Warcraft 2!
I know it's a silly element, but I really miss being able to build roads and walls. Honestly, it added to the RP and just looked nice. There was also something enjoyable about 1 basing, it kind of looked like an ant hill, with your workers just walking all over the map to bring back resources.
I was always a fan of fancy bases moreso than practicality haha age of empires id build neighbourhoods and symmentrical cities, only to get obliterated by the enemy lol!
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.
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!
The flail is exclusively a cavalry weapon. It's meant for the knight not to break his own arm when making a run-by attack. It's basically useless on foot.
And people are thinking that Starcraft II deathless is hard. That's really impressive, I knew I had to comment simply so I could help you with TH-cam algorithm.
Personally I'd like it if you would give more story explanations per mission because most of the time I have no clue what's going on. Also you should pay more attention to your audio mixing. The start and end of your sentences frequently get cut off.
11:58 - That's floppy version 1.12 of Warcraft: OaH. I believe it was the very first officially released version of the game (all patch notes for the game start from 1.13, making me think 1.12 was the "pure" original release). The final update for the floppy version was 1.21, whereas the CD version is 1.22h.
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
I think I want to try a retrospective video next but I got a laundry list of games to try. Im thinking a blood n magic, summoner video next but we will see what the mood brings :)
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 that's alright with me. Time will always move forward with or without us. All we can do is enjoy the journey no matter where our paths come from or where they go
I never had the full game for Warcraft1, so i never really grew up playing it. Warcraft2 i played like crazy though. When GoG got this game, i bought it to play through it since i never did. The mechanics are sooooo bad, i struggled hard to even play the game casually.
I highly recommend the stratagus rebuilds of War1 and War2. They add a bunch of QoL Features that make replaying these old games much better. I really enjoy watching you abuse the originals for deathless. Do you think you will touch on War3 at all?
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
@@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.
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 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.
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!
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!
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
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
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.
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
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*
Hi Admiral Iddy, I subbed at around 200ish subs due to your good quality content. Just know if you keep putting out quality like this your channel will grow exponentially. Quick note on the audio, some of your lines are hard to hear. Cheers!
Thanks for seeing the potential in me brother! I appreciate it so much! I think I know the problem with the audio I have noise gates set up a little too sensitive on my mic so will tweak that for my next vid 😀
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 :-)
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 😀
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.
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)!
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
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
"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
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
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.
If Varian still had his moustache he'd still be alive. Prove me wrong.
The mustaches hold power I swear!
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
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.
Your choice of games warms my boomer heart.
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 😁
7:01 3 attack routes - they can also attack from the north east (just east of the top block of trees). Great vid!
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 😊
Man, I remember all these levels :)
Such nice memories.
Thanks a lot, dude.
"What kind of church is this?"
Clearly you weren't expecting the Spanish Inquisition.
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!
That FUN was to watch specially for someone who never played the game.
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
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.
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)
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 😬
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
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!
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
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! 😁
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
Thank you for finding the mouse helper. Makes it so easy to play
an awesome blast from the past !
I will cheer for the possibility of Deathless Beyond the Dark Portal.
Because my memories make it seem impossible
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!
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 😂
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!
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!
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.
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 :)
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
24:54 Yup Blackhand was one brutal monster Alright. He wouldn’t even let Griselda drink the blood of Mannoroth because she was weak and a shame to their clan. And here he just kills her without a second thought. Blackhand is probably the evil Orc in the Warcraft universe other than Gul’dan. Worst father ever!
I didnt even know that! Must have been covered in the books I assume? Thats pretty metal though I dont think Blackhand got as much respect throughout the lore as I think he should have. He may have been guldans puppet but he was a baaad dude and the warchief of the horde! barely even gets mentioned until warlords of draenor
@@Admiral_Iddy Gul’dan manipulated him alright, but Blackhand wasn’t like under a spell or anything. Everything he did was of his own free will. He was a brute alright. A child Draka was sick, so she was weak because of it, and Blackhand said if she were part of his clan she would have been killed. He wasn’t mentioned much before WOD but he had his lore. You just need to look farther lol
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
Dear god, I had no idea that the orcs have such hard odds against them
For the race that lorewise makes them to be super badass fighty invaders they sure do work at a disadvantage :P
I don't think a regular run would be as balls-to-the-wall batshit insane difficult as this one was, but yeah, the orc campaign is definitely harder for a multitude of reasons. XD
Ironic, because it's the one that's considered "canon" according to Warcraft 2!
Keep up the great work and clips!
I know it's a silly element, but I really miss being able to build roads and walls. Honestly, it added to the RP and just looked nice. There was also something enjoyable about 1 basing, it kind of looked like an ant hill, with your workers just walking all over the map to bring back resources.
I was always a fan of fancy bases moreso than practicality haha age of empires id build neighbourhoods and symmentrical cities, only to get obliterated by the enemy lol!
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.
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
Well I just found the video to watch while eating lunch!
The flail is exclusively a cavalry weapon. It's meant for the knight not to break his own arm when making a run-by attack. It's basically useless on foot.
Looks like warcraft is more historical than i thought! Minus the nuclear catapults and magic 😂
Good to know, guess I should stop giving my Icewind Dale clerics flail proficiency, if it makes little sense on foot.
And people are thinking that Starcraft II deathless is hard.
That's really impressive, I knew I had to comment simply so I could help you with TH-cam algorithm.
Thanks so much! To be compared to the sc2 runs is great 😃 and thanks for the comment! Might be able to make something of this channel yet
Personally I'd like it if you would give more story explanations per mission because most of the time I have no clue what's going on.
Also you should pay more attention to your audio mixing. The start and end of your sentences frequently get cut off.
Ill try to add some more backstory for the next video! Thanks for the suggestion
I play this game when I was 7 and always brings back good memories!!!!
also can you make Z bitmap brothers without death??? XD
@@JC-js3er never heard of Z bitmap! is it a good game?
@@Admiral_Iddy it's a good game as long if you are ready for some pain
"69 - nice"
A man of culture following the law
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11:58 - That's floppy version 1.12 of Warcraft: OaH. I believe it was the very first officially released version of the game (all patch notes for the game start from 1.13, making me think 1.12 was the "pure" original release).
The final update for the floppy version was 1.21, whereas the CD version is 1.22h.
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
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!
GG man and gratz!
What's next? Dune2, C&C or what? :)
I think I want to try a retrospective video next but I got a laundry list of games to try. Im thinking a blood n magic, summoner video next but we will see what the mood brings :)
man if warcraft 1 got a graphic update and no other changes. id dig it. not even a HUGE upgrade. like warcraft 2 pixel level.
Keep up the good work !
thanks so much! I shall try my best
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(
got a question for you Admiral range or fire rate?
Id say range
Excellent end of ze world reference. I wonder how many of us are left that know it?
Haha a member of the old guard! 😉 We are becoming the "back in my day" for internet memes 🤣
@@Admiral_Iddy that's alright with me. Time will always move forward with or without us. All we can do is enjoy the journey no matter where our paths come from or where they go
19:58 dude on the left winked at u
I never had the full game for Warcraft1, so i never really grew up playing it. Warcraft2 i played like crazy though.
When GoG got this game, i bought it to play through it since i never did. The mechanics are sooooo bad, i struggled hard to even play the game casually.
Oh you got into it from watching your dad play it? Same here I saw my dad play warcraft 2
shoutouts to all the dads that got us into gaming as kids! Now he sits on the stool and watches me play.
I've already watched your warcraft 2 runs but this one has one mission that worries me it's the no build mission near the end of each campaign
I am very interested in this warcraft 1/2 mod
Keep it up
Did you censor the name Warcraft?
33:30 you made this joke at least 3 times.
Dwarf ranged units are riflemen :)
0:16 just like how StarCraft was meant to be a warhammer 40k rts?
I highly recommend the stratagus rebuilds of War1 and War2. They add a bunch of QoL Features that make replaying these old games much better.
I really enjoy watching you abuse the originals for deathless. Do you think you will touch on War3 at all?
I dont think I will, Giant Grant Games has War3 challenge runs on lockdown and Id rather not step on his toes or make an inferior vid!
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You are the one of the heroes we all deserve! thanks :)
..you can HEAL catapults? hahaha
oh yeah much to my dismay the enemy are REAL hardcore at healing cats haha
I enjoyed this. Have this comment to help with the almighty visibility
Edit: any love for Dune 2?
Thanks so much! Never played that series might have to check them out sometime!
gud
how many subs for you to kiss the cod?
That cod has been kissed once or twice already hah being a newf and serving on the HMCS St Johns exposed me to that world a lot :)
Ok boomer
lol what
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!
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.
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 ;)
It was a pleasure to watch this happen live, good sir!
Keep up the great work! Wish you all the best! :D
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.
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!
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
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
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
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.
"You can Cat and Mouse..." Very interesting choice of words there, Admiral! You could say you CATTED your Enemies to death!
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
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
Hi Admiral Iddy, I subbed at around 200ish subs due to your good quality content. Just know if you keep putting out quality like this your channel will grow exponentially. Quick note on the audio, some of your lines are hard to hear. Cheers!
Thanks for seeing the potential in me brother! I appreciate it so much! I think I know the problem with the audio I have noise gates set up a little too sensitive on my mic so will tweak that for my next vid 😀
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
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 😀
Beyond the dark portal War2 next?
I don't think you can say bad words in the first six minutes of the video or something if you want to get paid for it. TH-cam rules are crazy dumb
ah I see! I think ive heard that before...hmm I hopefully should be ok with that all the profanity comes after the beginning ;)
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
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.
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)!
Can't wait for warcraft two expansion deathless
Yoooo retrospective. Hell yeah nice vid
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
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
I am right there with you, this is some of my best memories playing this with my father.