Can you Beat Battle for Middle Earth Deathless? 

Cheers to 100k! My first time ever! thanks so much to everyone for watching and supporting :)

I think the reason the Lord of the Rings tie-in games are great is... Everyone involved either loved or respected the work of the Professor and wanted to do their best.

"A fool of a took gets one-shot by a troll rock" "One-shot"? You sent him in with like a quarter of his health! You can hardly blame Pippin for that one!

My all time favorite line in any movie is. "BREAK THE DAM... UNLEASH THE RIVER!" that hyped me up soo much when i was little watching it for the first time.

Although if this run didn't go perfectly (the bannermen, for example), it didn't matter. I still enjoy the fact that this gem is being played and discussed even nowadays.

I'm glad you listened to advice and branched out to other games. As said before: don't worry if other did the same challenge before. You have enough charisma to put your own spin on it. Keep 'em coming, buddy! Love your style🎉

The best part of the video is already your reveal of how to play these gems in this day and age THANK YOU Admiral

"Without losing a single soldier. Not squad, soldier" Investment in the vid went from casually interested to hot damn.

This is hardcore levels of nostalgia bait and I am all here for it.

I love this game. The music and voice acting make what would have otherwise been just a good rts into a true classic. I still remember the first time I played this as a kid and being taken aback at how beautiful the world map was to behold with the beautiful music and eagles soaring over the mountain. Can't wait to see how you pulled this one off.

I just clicked on this video for the nostalgia - I haven't been able to play my copy in years since PCs never have support for CDs anymore 😂 And then you come out of nowhere and show off this launcher to get the digital version? Life saver! Thanks dude 😄

Can't wait for BFME 2

I thankful to you to make this video that has give me a little nostalgia. 🤗 If you want to make other deathless run I recommend you the evil campaign of BFME1 or BFME2:ROTWK (Agmar campaign) but this time use the rule of full squad death instead of unit or you will go crazy 😛

I don’t know if you mention it in the video, but on the stream it was cool having you name your units after the viewers! I thought that was a fun and personable touch.

If your looking at getting the launcher, I think it’s also worth to note that it includes multiplayer if you want to play it! The launcher is amazing

The Shelob part is beautiful actually made me laugh out loud as she scurries into Cirith Ungol to start attacking all the Orcs. Great video became even more amazing, great work!

Great job! My favourite game used during a challange run is something i never knew i needed until now 😃

I've been playing this game (and the sequel) for years, but I've learned A LOT from this video. Thanks a lot :*

Good stuff man! I love this game and the 2nd one. Keep up the good work!

I really liked 1. But 2 is the game that got me addicted to RTS games. Between Star craft and BFME 2 I spent hundreds of hours as a kid just playing. Love that stuff

Wasn't on as much when you ere streaming this, but this catches me up. Still waiting on the rest of the Kingdom Under Fire Vids haha.

This was such a treat to watch! One of my favourite games of all time, i was addicted to this and is one of the first strategy games i played in multiplayer.

thanks for that launcher shout out I have had a hell of a time trying to get this to work for me on and off and that worked instantly so yeah thansk

Love to see Bfme content, it brings back so many memories!

This game and it's Sequel along with Black and White, Empire at war and Total War where my childhood, I remember being a young LOTR Fan in 2004-5 finding out this game came out and then trying find out more about and see more videos. This game set be on my path to PC gaming and Strategy games, something I still love today.

Well played! Very impressive run

LOTR the third age, for the GameCube. That was my childhood 😂

Nice been looking forward to this

You should probably have set the deathless rule to apply to the whole squad instead of just each individual unit. This would have made a banner carrier rule moot as well as the exception you made for Osgiliath.

LoL at that forces of evil “section”

3:05 Holy shit I didn't make the connection until you said it. No wonder they felt so similar in many ways.

Hope to more BFME gameplay, this was a great watch.

Very good video, keep it up!

F L Y, S H A D O W F A X! Great video. I never played BfME myself, I think we had #2 but it didn't run well or had some other issue so I didn't play much of that either. I might just go install that launcher and give it a go myself!

Big respect for showing the client for LOTRBFME have it installed and I'm vibing to the menu music rn

Warcraft II human music playing on the background. Love it 😂👍🫶

Ty for showing us the patch

I absolutely never knew ents could walk into water so the fire got extinquished! And i played this game hundreds of hours

yoo great stuff brodi

Never seen your videos before but I do love BFME, I hope you give the other campaign and other games a shot for this challenge if it's doable :)

I used to absolutely love this game it was great seeing you play it. Also a fun bit of info if you didn't have the no-summons rule on the Minas Tirith battle (if I'm remembering it correctly) your Ghost army summons don't disappear on that map.

Also love to see other LoTR challenges

I love that game and after you explaining the rules i was like god bless

War of the Ring was a game not many played and maybe not the greatest, but definitely an interesting experience. Both that and BFME 1 and 2 were great parts of my childhood, along with Warcraft 3

The ending is amazing haha

Just found this channel today and I'm immediately binging your LOTR / Warcraft vids. Fucking great content, 10/10

BMFE is in my all time games ever. The AOTR mod is also phenomenal and has kept the community going which has been phenomenal.

It's been A LONG time since I played that Hobbit game, but I remember liking it for a neat and colourful action platformer

ooooh thanks for the link to the game. That's something i can waste some time in, while i'm sick at home.

One of my fondest gaming memories was finishing Helm's deep on the good campaign without a single squad dying. And this was the first time I mustered the courage to try the hard difficulty. In the end, after Gandalf arrived with the reinforcements and the battle was won I was siting at something like 800/ 350 army cap. I tried to play bfme2 with some mods that update it a few weeks ago, but it really didn't age well in my opinion.

Is your intro soundbite with the birds from King's Quest VI by chance? With Alexander stranded on the beach, brings me back lol. Love BFME, cool video

All three games are incredible. Are they the deepest strategy games out there? No, but they don't need to be. These games were meant to be fun, and that's exactly what they accomplished. Incredibly fun games to go back and play even today.

Regarding the Mumakil at Minas Tirith: If I remember correctly, their aarival is not tied to you summoning the Rohirrim. They will automatically show up a few minutes after the timer for the flag is up. You can use this to bait the Mumakil to the city, kill them with fire before they lay eggs and then wreak havoc with the Rohirrim.

This vid earned you a sub, now go for 2

07:13 I never thought about this back then. How right you are, how absurd it must be to just start in Moria and control 9 heroes and have no idea what the game is about. LOL :D

Great to see someone try this run aswell... I completed this run myself on my own channel some time ago. Try the evil campaign next. Its waaaaay harder

Impressive! Think you made the right call picking an early patch, not sure if this is possible on 2.22 or 1.9 on hard, 1 tip, I noticed your heroes are quite low level on the final mission. if u kill the balrog with level 1 gandalf, he is level 5 on the next mission. meaning you can get a lot more levels for your heoroes in the first mission instead of letting gandalf get the xp, im at helms deep on my current playthrough and my gandalf is level 9, and because he didn't pick up the xp boosts in moria it gave room for the other heroes to extra xp too. The balrog fight as a level 1 gandalf is a big tip tho, assuming it works in the earlier patches, I did it just yesterday on patch 2.22 though, and it worked a charm although it took a long time for level 1 gandalf to kill the balrog. Haven't played the old patches in a long time though, can't guarantee it would work on them.

I seem to remember a level 10 Gandalf with word of power trivializes the last mission. Just wait for the waves to spawn with him sitting right in the middle and use it to wipe out the wave instantly and wait for the next. That being said, I don't remember what difficulty I was playing on, so milage may vary.

"Bannerman aren't people." The Dawn of War intro would like to have a word with you.

Hell yeah, brother.

In a very rare case, BFMW was probably one of the very few games that got even better with the sequel

I would argue that units you don't have control over are not your units this you don't lose them as they were not yours. Still nice to see Battle for Middle Earth again, I still have my old disk copy.

Loved this game!

Great video, can you also make a video of bfme 2 and the expansion rise of the Witchking? (Although if you ever come to evil campaign level rivendell... Man that map is literally impossible)

funny enough the updates is what made it super easy to save boromir on amon hen as when the game came out he didnt do a aoe knockback with his base attacks meaning he could get overwelmed, but with the addition he just knocks down everyone and thus bearly gets hit

I have a challenge in mind: Can you beat the campaign with only the most basic unit? Use only peasants soldiers Gondor and warriors uruk/ orcs Rules for both: only the one type of unit that can be used. Heroes not allowed unless there's no way to command the basic unit, also cant used to buff. Powers allowed, but not allowed summoning powers. Towers allowed. Existing units that aren't basic are expendable either go slaughterhouse or let them die without damaging the enemy, although they can be used if theres no way to get basic unit in certain maps. Upgrading armour and weapons allowed Evil side: labores can be used for fight, ladders and siege towers allowed if theres castle

This is incredibly impressive. BTW: You can also play online now! The patcher has an online pvp function.

I just remind that C&C III has deathless runs so some rules are established.

You are already insane enough attempting this. That said: Maybe hard difficulty campaigns with actually losing no squad instead of single units ^^" (dunno)

Currently AoTR team (mod for LoTR BFME 2) working on finishing campaign which inspired by movies and books the same time and there you can save Boromir and even Haldir and mod team write dialogs for that

did you ever try putting your archers in the towers for the kite section at the end? might have been a major help and kept them safer as long as it doesnt affect aggro to the towers. it never noticed it affect aggro towards towers but i also never tried to play the game this way

i know youre a wc2 guy, but it still warms my heart to hear the music on videos not about it

The part of the video where minas tirith gets sieged is amazing and hilarious with the amount of catapults there were.

Ahh, this game was my childhood

if you ever for some god-forsaken reason want to put yourself through the pain of a deathless mission 11 again, I'd recommend upping Gandalf to level 10 beforehand - at that point he is capable of casting "word of power", which is a magical nuke centred on himself that kills most units within 100 metres of him (which I believe is based on the spell effect which happens in the movies when Sauron dies at the beginning of the Fellowship of the Ring).

I would say summons do count as deaths, becouse in the last mission at the Black Gates if you use eagels, which count as hero units, and their timmer runs out and they disapear you will not get the objective of finishing this mission without losing a hero.

As a veteran player in this, Hard difficulty in insane to pull this one. Also, I am pretty sure that Outpost garrisons is from some community patch. Vanilla BFME 1 you can only garrison Towers BUT when you do that, you lose a unit and, which was fixed in BFME 2 and in community patches.

Great video! How do you zoom out so far with the camera?

One thing i like about bme IS that It almost play as a total war game. Cavary charges send enemys flying , Spears can almost insta kill cavary units charging and They are realy good against big units, shields make then hard to kill with Long range, fire IS used to burn wood units (ents mostly), artilary feels like artilary.

love the video!! wait is the launcher free and safe? id LOVE to play bfme2 but i dont want to get a virus or anything on my pc

You're really making me want to bust out my 17 year old copy of BFME 2

This game is a classic

So much nostalgia

Another game that has leveling up structures is Supreme Commander 2, can't remember if the firstgame has it also. So in 2, a good idea is to make multiple production and just autobuild a unit from it. Making them build faster. Though you do have limit to how many buildings + units you can have.

Great video ❤❤❤

My interpretation of the army of the dead summon is "What is dead may never die." So you get a pass.

Are you going to do this for the evil forces? And are you going to do this for the 2nd game?

Lord of the Rings Conquest is an all time classic, OG battlefront 2 but for lotr

😢oh wow i also never knew about shelob destroying everything

Also, I woder if it's possible to do any of the C&C games deathless.

using the ghosts summon is fair game, imo they're literally invincible so no casualties >w

Holy crap I thought about this idea as what I would do if i ever got into youtube as a creator! Glad to see it

Jesus christ i feel all of my childhood ...

If you'd gotten Gandalf to level 10 you could use his Word of Power ability to just one shot every enemy on the screen in the battle of the black gate mission. Yes, that's what it does, with little exaggeration.

Hey, question. What game is it that has the dragon that is shown at 0:42-43 seconds?

Why would anyone want to play 1.03? Does that even have a multiplayer scene? Its basically 1.06 before the bugfixes and QOL changes. Btw, on Mission 1 the best thing to do is level Aragorn, Legolas, Gimli and Boromir to 2 before Balin's tomb, then each collect a veterancy upgrade. Then Gandalf rank up to 2 and collect the last veterancy upgrade. Also enemies have less health and/or damage on the first mission of both campaigns. Just because you easily beat a Troll on M1 doesn't mean the same happens in M3 and 5.

Easiest rts campaign I’ve ever played

A friend gave me a CD of this game almost 10 years ago I think haha, it was the best game ever, but the CD broke accidentally 😔 Can't wait for fan made BFME game, they promised to make it soon

How can u download the game I have the disks and all and it downloads but it gets stuck on loading screen

Most similar in style amd quality to the LoTR direct tie in games was probably the Star Wars prequels. RoTS on PS2 was fire. You also get the RTS but the real MVP (akin the Battle for Middleearth) is ofc OG Battlefront.