Battle for Middle Earth II is a Perfectly Balanced Masterpiece 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Battle for Middle Earth 2 - Ents only

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

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

I loved making custom characters in this game

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

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

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

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

"They have a Cave troll"

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

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

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

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

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

#Pray4ChadChadBinks

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Still my 2nd favorite strategy game.

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

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

How I can set up to zoom out the camera ( alguien sabe cómo configurar para alejar la cámara?)

How can I get this game legally in 2019?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Use the force, Harry -Gandalf

Supreme commander series

I have a hard copy for pc but after installing it won't run and pops up with an error message but runs on my old ass laptop fine any suggestions with this problem would be greatly appreciated.

pliz play more of this this was my childhood

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

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

i had the OG DVD, but they cant run in windows 10, somebody says about the compatibility, and i try, but i cant make it work

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

We need more spider troops to conquer the world

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

Brings me back to better times...

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

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

That builder comp sent out was META AF

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

Is this that new battle toads game?

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

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

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

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

Battle For Middle Earth 1 is still better.

Howd you get it to work on a newer pc. I have the disks but windows 10 wont support it

love this game, nice that you played this for us.

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

elves with the arrow upgrade are pretty insane as well. explosive 1 shots all the time.

Or could use custom elven hero with passive attack upgrade so he ends up being able to do fun things like being able to kill a mumakil in two shots, solo sauron and have a generally unkillable hero in general

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

Such nostalgia this was my favourite game back in the day. Sad its not still around.

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

Played this so much as a kid! ❤️

This game was gem in Turkish internet cafes back in i guess 2006-2009? I dont remember well but we were doing 4v4 for hours with friends ...

I still remember playing this on the PC... 2v2's against a Dwarf and Goblin pair.. whether you were using it or played against it, it was always the worst. Tunnel/mine base rush cheese... still gives me nightmares.

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

10:48 That's a grudgin'! That insult is going in the book!

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

I remember tryin so hard to solo two or three opponents in Helm's Deep just because I really liked that fight in the movie. I think the longest I lasted because I wasn't quick enough to get enough troops to attack, only enough to slowly delay the inevitable, was like 20-30 minutes?

i've played C&C games, Star Wars empire at war, Dawn of War 2, Supreme Commander 1 & 2, Halo Wars 1 & 2, and (little Known Classic) ParaWorld. the only Middle Earth Games i've ever played are Shadow of Mordor, Shadow of War, and Guardians of Middle Earth. yet you have me intrigued.

Ahh, this takes me back. Loved this game back in the day. Kind of weird that steam haven't snatched it up yet though.

I have this for the xbox 360 but cannot find it anywhere for the pc, it's not even on steam :/

Oh man..the memories, makes me wanna play this game again

I always spammed Mirkwood archers with silverthorn arrows as the elves, you were pretty much unstoppable

I have this on disk, but it's so damn old it stopped working about 5 years ago when I last tried to make it work. I've wanted to play it for so long but I forgot the name of it since the disk is now in the attic somewhere collecting dusty bois. So many memories Pog

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

Are there any fairly recent games similar to this you would recommend? Same fun level in your opinion or anything better?

how do i stop this game crashing on startup on windows 7?

Need more of this pls

I remember one of the dwarf heroes basically being able to solo an entire base with his abilities. Elven archers were also insane. Good times!

Anyone know the details on downloading the game without original cd’s and key?