SIEGE OF EPIC PROPORTIONS - Third Age Total War Gameplay 

you know a battle is going to be good when its an hour long

Anyone else with zero snacks and drinks every time he says that?

This battle is so long I haven’t even skipped a bit

Elves: "Our arrows will blot out the sun!" Gondor: "Then we will fight in the shade."

I have three things to say about this battle: 1.) I think the MVP of that battle was Mordor. As an evil army, his troops were unquestionably the worst quality wise, but he still got the most kills on his team. 2,062 kills is incredible in his position, so well done to Mordor. His trolls were also very handy, and his conservative use of them made a defender victory that much harder. I have to also give props to Eriador. On his own, and especially with those ridiculous shots with his trebuchet early on, he did incredibly well, considering he was on his own attacking the Dwarves, who are imo the best faction on the defense. 2.) In terms of army layout, I think that the Dwarves were spot on, not that it's very difficult to decide how to defend with them. All you need is heavy infantry up the butthole and some artillery, and I would argue he should've scrapped the crossbows for more heavy inf. Gondor is a way better skirmishing faction than the Dwarves (not that that is actually saying much), but Gondor I think should've invested more in the Ithilien Rangers and the Archers, and I was really surprised to see that he didn't bring any Fountain Guard, especially on Edoras with that final chokepoint. I don't honestly think bringing all the Swan Knights was a good idea; I think more Fountains and Citadel Guard would have served him much better, although the skirmishers would've helped even more. Imo Mordor ha the best army comp. No criticisms whatsoever there. The Elves, on the other hand, I think had the worst army layout. He had a lot of spearmen and swordsmen, and nowhere near enough archers. Considering he was teamed up with Mordor, who brought a shitload of all the Uruk units, and considering he's playing as the Elves, he should've had more skirmishers. I think a unit of either Smiths or Mithlond Nobles is paramount when you play as the Elves, because those two units are arguably the best units in the game, and they will shred anything save for pikes, trolls, and beasts like the Mumakil. Eriador did fine as well, especially considering his success by himself attacking the Dwarves. 3.) I was very glad to see no major mistakes from anybody in this match. Save for using their ammo way too quickly and deciding to not hold with his Guards and Iron Guard at the same chokepoint in the final stage of the battle, which I consider to both be minor messups. I say this because a.) everybody used their ammo way too quickly, so it nulls the effects, and b.) by that stage in the battlle, it was very unlikely the Dwarves and the Gondorians would've won. Other than that, great play from all involved. These Third Age battles are what keep me subscribed to your channel, Apollo, and I must say this battle in particular was great. Thanks for uploading it onto your channel! I can say that at least for me (although I'm positive not just for me), this was a great way to spend an hour of my life. No regrets whatsoever.

I love these epic Third Age battles! The longer the siege the better :) Keep up the good work man!!

uploaded 17 min ago, already 2 dislikes, but vid is over a hour long. why ??

I love such massive battles. 2v2, 3v3, 4v4. They give all the hype like when you watch the actual lotr movies. Thank you Pixie, keep it up!

Gotta love this guy's commentary xD He's so enthusiastic, and it actually inspires me and makes me want to play the game.

WOW, this was truly an epic battle, and yes, I watched the WHOLE vid... absolutely amazing, and your commentary was the salt in the soup, Apollo. Thx for the fun!

Great vid, I loooooove long sieges. Don't worry about choke point battles, those are my favourite ones

Nice battle apollo, thank you for all of the fun and entertaining videos, you have a great channel and fantastic videos

One of the most glorious sieges i have seen of yours Apollo.Epic Proportions indeed!

1Hour of Gameplay ! Give me my popcorn !

Ok personaly i think this is one of the best replays we have ever seen on your chanel!

I love giant battles like this! GREAT VIDEO!!!! Keep up the great work!!! NEVER STOP!!! pls ;-; don't stop these great vids

Watching pixelated apollos replays is like watching a mini movie. Only that this is 10x better than any movie

I love opening youtube and having a great battle to watch, thank you

and once again....rohan is going to come back and find that Edoras is destroyed........man....the Rohirrim need to stop going on a vacation lol

one of the best siege battles tha you have ever uploaded keep up the good work!!!!! :)

this is the second vid I've seen of pixelated Apollo and I've already subbed

really want more battles like this!! greate work!

Awesome siege man , definitely one of my favourites.

Only six mins into the vid, and I know it's gonna be awesome, thanks for a great artillery replay Pix!!!

Love the long battles ur my favourite RU-vid by far

geez not even five min in and those two artillery shots hitting that unit of dragon slayers gave my heart a jump

nice vid man, more long battles like this pls :DD

i'm so used to having snacks and drinks when watching his vids lol and I gotta wake up early in the morning to watch it before I go to school >_

Hour long battle, check. massive siege, check. Third Age with Pixellated Apollo voiceover, check, what more can I ask for from a youtube video? Been watching you for a long time, love all of your videos.

Thumbs up this comment if u want him to make 2 vids a day!

I love the videos that you make, I am only really interested in the LoTR battles. I would love to see more of the battles that you play in so I can see the strat that you like to use. depending on the army you use.

It has been a while since I sat down and watched a good ol brawl :) Keep up thee good work dude :)

Great video pixie. Much props to Omega1249 for his brilliant play. Especially with his trolls.

I feel like we've not seen enough Dwarven plays, good to see one at last.

When I saw those catapult shots I was like 0_0 so many roasted dwarves

I love charging Elven spears in tight formation, right before they hit the enemy, they raise their shields and charge like the dwarves did in the battle of the five armies, so glorious.

that technical term tippy top love it 'commander with captured the top of the hill' 'even the tippy top' 'yes even the tippy top'

PA:I THINK THAT GONDOR MAYBE PUSHING BACK ARNOR HERE. ARTILLERY HITS PA:NEVER MIND I SAID THAT!! PA:GONDOR IS PROBABLY GONNA BREAK HERE BECAUSE OF THE MEAT

Hour long third age video on my birthday? It must be my birthday!

awsome massive siege.thanks for ur hard work man.

That was so epic , i want more batlles like this :)

"You should never underestimate dwarves" "Have you learnt nothing of the stubbornness of dwarves?"

right in time apollo :) keep doing more amazing historical replys

These over an hour videos are so awesome

Those opening shots on the Dwarves is why you don't coat your men in gasoline...

I gave bean watching your videos since 10k subs and you make me laugh every video you are my favorite youtuber hope you reach 1 mill

you can have my like before I even saw it :D third age is so awesome, keep it up :D

Finally at the end of the video and I got to say that for the most part the dwarf and go for players really did well in when it came to working together and supporting each other during the battle some mistakes were made like not keeping enough archers in reserve or artillery in reserve for the late game would have helped a lot during the final stand. Overall the defenders did well together.

I would have sent the Khazad-dum unit to that chokepoint where the Iron guard were defending... Bud awesome battle overall!

Always a great video, congratulations Apollo

my fucking dream came true apollo

apollo i havent skipped once and i watch it all just love your videos

Time flies when you watch a total war battle

watched the whole video without skipping

the best artillery action I have ever seen in third age

10/10 GJ apollo. I love these ones!

Takes years to train those armies it took them 40 min to take them all out

because of the fact that you have alot of medieval 2 videos i mean thats what attracted me to your channel so i mean like its not wrong that we miss medieval 2 abit.XD

If you can at some point, some siege battles on Beginning of the End Times would be great, this mod is awesome, lots of improvements over the original Call of Warhammer. For someone who enjoys Medieval 2, and its siege battles, this is a must have (and overall a better game than Total War Warahmmer itself, this is not an overstatement). Sorry for the reminder if you already planned a few !

Damn what a battle loved it. Even though he died a life if a solider may be cool for the lone Swan knight.

Hi there! Something i'd really like to see in third age is a historical battle series with reversed roles of good and bad, for example: Helm's Deep Uruks defend, Rohan attacks, Rhun's cavalry come to save the defenders and trolls come instead of Ents. At Minas Tirith you have orcs defending agains't the hordes of Gondor, with rhunic cav coming instead of rohan and elven archer cav instead of Mumakils, instead of the ghost army coming to save gondor you have a swarm of nazgûls/black nümenorians/mumakils coming as the last ditch effort to save the defenders. I think it would be really fun to see!!!!!

Another top quality vid great job Apollo

Watched the whole video, epic battle!

Please do more of these epic and huge third age total war battles

i ate so much popcorn and drunk so much soda such a good battle , im sick now XD

I like when you focus more on catapult killz. Alot of times we miss out on some great killz because you are talking, being a little lost in yourself. Anywho. I really enjoy watching your videos. If I had internet, I would have been all over mastering this game.

Hey man, how the fuck can i skip a single second of this battle? You're so entertaining :D

need more replays like this. We need a hour long battle of Helms Deep.

Just one word: BEAUTIFUL!!!!

When I see a hour long battle I get s excited :D

I would really enjoy to see the Dwarves and Elves work together to defend

the dwarfs through out the whole battal were just amazing especially in that last stand good for choke points they are seriously no joke i give it to the defenders they put up a fight even though they lost.

Gr8 video Love Third age an all games u play ! Almost 160k now ;) But what happened with warhsmmer and shogun 2?

39:36 Such is the power of Apollo's commentary

57:22-57:35 bottom left. that pikeman kept poking that dwarf over and over and the dwarf looks like he just likes it xD

we need a video of all 3 Elvin army's man that would be sweet

I'm glad how it's not that laggy with those amount of troops

YAY THIRD AGE!!! thanks pixie!

long yet like always, great video. Please do a campaign on the medieval 2 mod planetary wars I think it's called.

I really love your videos, keep going bro

the catapult was so useful in the video it got tones of kills

You coming out and saying you never liked Total War would be strange. Captain America hailing Hydra levels of strange.

Edoras is easy to defend and hard to assault, Unless you have Catapults or Trebuchet. Good video!

Notice how all of apollo's siege titles are always "EPIC -insert theme/place- SIEGE"

Wow the channel blew up. Last time I watched a video you were at 87,000.

I never thought I would see the day when gondor would go up against Elves

How could you not see the trebuchet with 243 in the end stats? One of the best Trebuchet performances I've ever seen

one of your best videos yet :P

Yah! I've never skipped a second of your videos

Pixelated, test this theory out. Trolls are infantry and can be single shot by a ballista, then can they be single shot by fire arrows. Because if the fire arrow crits a infantry unit, the infantry unit burns and die's

Man, what an amazing battle!! XD

I swear this is my favourite battle of all time

honestly, this looks like it could be the final battle of a different story.

Apollo your the best total war RU-vid's bro!

That epic stand of guards of Kazandum

Your should make a playlist for your long battles Name it: Snack Worthy Battles

no lie when I'm eating pizza I watch your videos like it's assume like watching a movie

vids like this is why I sub to you because I have a lot of free time

More of these man I love them

nice battle and epic last stand of the dwarfs they woulld have deserved a meddal