I got copyright struck THREE times trying to upload this, and after it passed the check got struck again, so apologies for the awkward ass stock music that pops up near the in memoriam! alas hope you enjoy the rest of the video!
@@magentaballthepolandball5130sucks too because I got it from a channel SPECIFICALLY labelled copyright free music.. still got dinged and the bandaid music to put in I cannot control the volume nor the placement so it chops off a chunk of the voice over at the top and tail of the memoriam...ugh ah well lesson learned
I gotta admit this is one advantage I have with aggressively not wanting to care about view counts and by extension also not wanting to monetize. It expands my music options, because usually I get at least one song in there that's copyrighted, but I haven't had any videos taken down yet because of it. I do think there are a few videos on my channel that I'd need to change up if I wanted to monetize them though. The system is also just screwed up. I mean, youtube said I used one copyrighted song on each of my last two videos, but that the owner allows the content to be used on youtube, so it doesn't influence anything. But I've never had more than one song listed, I use a lot of songs in my videos, and these songs are often from the same source so you think they'd be equally listed. For example, God Shattering Star was listed on my previous video, but I used like 8 fire emblem soundtracks and none of the others were, lol. I'm also pretty sure one of my videos got blocked in russia once for copyright, but I can't find that restriction anymore so maybe it's not there anymore? UA-cam is weird.
We should all be inspired by karl, work hard, and you may yet be a hero! Or be chased by frothing monsters until you die haha couldnt write a better ending
Beautiful. It's very poetic how close that ending was to the original's story: A humble little being againts impossible odds, saves the day with their courage and a honest heart.
The "long sprint of Karl" is actually considered canon in Tolkins middle earth lore. Many refer to the movies ending as an "abridged version" cause of its complete cut of all Karl´s scenes. Apparently the Karl-scenes getting deleted were also the reasoning for Peter Jackson to intentionally grief the "hobbit" movie production, to get back at the studios for their censorship, years later. If you look closely at a some of the shields, that the rivermen in the hobbit movies carry, they spell out the word "K.A.R.L. is still running" which is a subtle hint of jackson himself refering to this very incident. Beautiful to have something close to a visual representation of this. thanks!
Rock-Paper-Scissor system of good RTS isn't about what kills what, but what is cost effective against what. There are a dozen of statistics that define how well units scale with numbers as whenever unit has range, what range is, whenever attacks have projectile or are hitscan, whenever attacks are smart about overkil/targetting etc. Games that are melee-focused and/or squad based often have troubles with that, as things like melee surrodinings/concaves or blocking of enemy movement doesn't really happen.
This takes me back. A core memory of mine is playing the Helm's Deep mission and thinking it'd give me a pre-made cavalry army for reinforcements. But nope! It was my meme army with nothing but geared up peasants.
And neath the misty mountain Karl returned to his plot satisfied in the victory, saddened by the loss of those who bravely stood and fell by his side and proud to know his cause was good.
haha I think he went through 6 in total, he was in the lead until fangorn and them trolls turned him to snot haha so he went for most sacrifices for the blood god!
Same! Im glad I get to share these moments too, its like when you mess around on your own as a kid and get these moments but no one to share with! I couldnt have written a better ending
I picture the village being like, Karl where have you been?! The field hasnt been sowed in weeks get off your lazy butt and get in there! And he just sighs and goes to work.
correction - pretty sure elves (from Archery building) would count as their second (and better) melee unit. And yes, they can switch from bows to swords, to make it easier.
I know! A perfect analogy to the lord of the rings theme of even the smallest of people can make a difference! But karl was a lil chubby and with a bad knee ahhah
I saw some last missions on stream great work i have no patient to challenges like that specially on 2.22 jesus black gate on hard was trully nightmare:P
@@Admiral_Iddy the good campaing is in my opinion harder at least the story mission not the all small ones- defending the castels turn out to be more difficult than attacking them. On Black Gate i have few units from begining and they survive the finale when playing as evil new misson new me- but i have feelings that isengard got downgrade literaly units made od papier with upgrades ... But Mordor is more enjoyable with bonus to DMG on lvl 2 on orcs and i literaly spam Minas thirith to death xd
Thats true! Maybe they left in game because they got an alert elsewhere although they do come in waves hmmm perhaps they need to gas up their felbeasts? Ahah
I was going in with the impression "depends on who you fight. If you fight gondor or rohan on a castles map, no" I left with "..oh the campa-HOLY MOTHER OF FUCK YOU LEGEND"
When i played lord of the rings battle for middle earth 2 and saw no rohan i through it was strange gondor having they cavary units as hibryd archer spear.
Well done! Spoiler for you since you seem to like to use exploits to make your life easier: In the normal missions, the opponent receives an army at their base based on what units you started the mission with. Essentially, it tries to have some counter units ready so it’s not that easy to simply start with a huge army and wipe out the opponent in two minutes. If you ever tried to play with only Mumakils, you know that a huge army of fire arrow archers awaits you. In the same way, if you start with a lot of infantry, trolls will be ready to feast on them. If you don’t want to fight against a camp with a lot of trolls, you can suicide your peasants at the end of the previous mission.
there is a fan remake called BFME 2 Reforged! It looks good, but I think there are some Cease and Desist issues they were or are facing! either way its on a brand new engine. I agree though a remaster or hd rerelease would be mint
already streamed an attempt! its not very clean though a lot of rule bending already. Uruk swordsman are actually trash ahah they are designed for buffs like lurtz and stuff and they cannot damage ents. had to use labourers 2 levels, lurtz for a bunch it just isnt going well haha
not really the biggest fan of BFME, prefer old blizzard games, but this was still interesting to watch also, I've recently had a shower thought: Wouldn't it be cool if you collab with another youtuber to make a challenge run? I know that there are co-op versions of all the blizzard sc1 and wc2 campaigns, so how about you teamed up with another challenge runner like redwings13400 (wc2 challenges), Polish Gaming (sc1 challenges) or Davey Gunface (did sc2 challenges) to see if you can beat the co-op versions of the campaigns while under harsh restrictions?
Always down to try new things, especially when I retire from the military ill have more time. Redwings is actually in my discord and Jofg does BFME runs as well who tells me there is a coop BFME game too I think it could be fun! Thanks for the comment and for watching
@@Admiral_Iddy no, thank YOU for doing all these challenge runs! I seriously love watching challenge runs of video games of my past, especially RTS games, because it feels like they're being given a second life. I just love watching them being beaten via unconventional, unintended methods.
@@magentaballthepolandball5130exactly! thats why I started doing them, guys like GiantGrantGames breathed new life into some classics too and there is an audience for almost ANY old game and I love reuniting people with their childhoods. I got a banger I will be streaming this friday not an RTS but a hidden gem
@@Admiral_Iddy GGG was actually how I went like "wait, you can seriously do this? I want to see similar challenges!". I'm glad people like you were inspired by him, especially since nowadays youtube is oversatured with crappy shortform content. I haven't been able to really catch your streams, but I'll try to catch this one because you've piqued my interest.
Throwing throngs of untrained peasants against hordes of orks? This should have been called "Can you beat Battle for Middle Earth using Ukrainian Armed Forces tactics"
I got copyright struck THREE times trying to upload this, and after it passed the check got struck again, so apologies for the awkward ass stock music that pops up near the in memoriam! alas hope you enjoy the rest of the video!
Screw the youtube algorithms.
@@magentaballthepolandball5130sucks too because I got it from a channel SPECIFICALLY labelled copyright free music.. still got dinged and the bandaid music to put in I cannot control the volume nor the placement so it chops off a chunk of the voice over at the top and tail of the memoriam...ugh ah well lesson learned
@@Admiral_Iddy "clearly, the music is copyright free... As in, we're free to copyright strike your channel whenever we feel like it."
I gotta admit this is one advantage I have with aggressively not wanting to care about view counts and by extension also not wanting to monetize. It expands my music options, because usually I get at least one song in there that's copyrighted, but I haven't had any videos taken down yet because of it. I do think there are a few videos on my channel that I'd need to change up if I wanted to monetize them though.
The system is also just screwed up. I mean, youtube said I used one copyrighted song on each of my last two videos, but that the owner allows the content to be used on youtube, so it doesn't influence anything. But I've never had more than one song listed, I use a lot of songs in my videos, and these songs are often from the same source so you think they'd be equally listed. For example, God Shattering Star was listed on my previous video, but I used like 8 fire emblem soundtracks and none of the others were, lol. I'm also pretty sure one of my videos got blocked in russia once for copyright, but I can't find that restriction anymore so maybe it's not there anymore?
UA-cam is weird.
Is this the reason for the 720p or is it because the vid is peasant themed? ;-)
"This victory will long be remembered" yes indeed it will.
Yes, indeed.
Funny how this victory goes to the spirit of Tolkien of the humble doing great things. Long live Carl!
We should all be inspired by karl, work hard, and you may yet be a hero! Or be chased by frothing monsters until you die haha couldnt write a better ending
Rohan has a new king: Chad Karl
Long may he reign!
KARLLLLLLL!!!!
What a legend. Apparently good cardio is all that's needed to defeat a horde of orcs.
Hah makes me out of breath watching him ahah its like that one rule in zombieland... Cardio, thank god no trolls showed up
Beautiful.
It's very poetic how close that ending was to the original's story: A humble little being againts impossible odds, saves the day with their courage and a honest heart.
And with karl at the helm! I couldnt have written a better ending than one brave fella saving the world
@@Admiral_Iddy
Amen.
The "long sprint of Karl" is actually considered canon in Tolkins middle earth lore. Many refer to the movies ending as an "abridged version" cause of its complete cut of all Karl´s scenes. Apparently the Karl-scenes getting deleted were also the reasoning for Peter Jackson to intentionally grief the "hobbit" movie production, to get back at the studios for their censorship, years later. If you look closely at a some of the shields, that the rivermen in the hobbit movies carry, they spell out the word "K.A.R.L. is still running" which is a subtle hint of jackson himself refering to this very incident.
Beautiful to have something close to a visual representation of this. thanks!
Rock-Paper-Scissor system of good RTS isn't about what kills what, but what is cost effective against what. There are a dozen of statistics that define how well units scale with numbers as whenever unit has range, what range is, whenever attacks have projectile or are hitscan, whenever attacks are smart about overkil/targetting etc.
Games that are melee-focused and/or squad based often have troubles with that, as things like melee surrodinings/concaves or blocking of enemy movement doesn't really happen.
This takes me back. A core memory of mine is playing the Helm's Deep mission and thinking it'd give me a pre-made cavalry army for reinforcements. But nope! It was my meme army with nothing but geared up peasants.
Glad to see another one on this game. Thoroughly enjoyed your commentary on the unusual approaches to a heavily under-remembered game
thanks so much for the support!
- You can't defeat me
- I know, but Karl can
No man can defeat me! I am no man!... Ummm. As he stabs his pitchfork in the witch kings face haha
And neath the misty mountain Karl returned to his plot satisfied in the victory, saddened by the loss of those who bravely stood and fell by his side and proud to know his cause was good.
Lols looking at all the Styles peasants in the memoriam, Good stuff
haha I think he went through 6 in total, he was in the lead until fangorn and them trolls turned him to snot haha so he went for most sacrifices for the blood god!
Beautiful deathless run, one unit type to rule them all
If only the peasants in BFME could get upgrades like Spanish villagers in AoE2 xD
Man, Karl the peasant has to be that guy who looks like nothing but is secretly a top level athlete to outrun an army of monsters like that.
hes like chris farley, looks out of shape but can do a cartwheel and dance better than anyone!
Carl went back to his farm. Followed by a conga line of orcs all the way.
Hah! Some say hes still running to this day, like that movie It Follows but with orcs
I love these BFME videos! So entertaining!
Thanks so much! Glad you enjoy it 😄
KARL! SUMMON THE ELECTOR COUNTS!
YES! KARL the for Emperor!
WHO CALLS?
Absurd situations like that ending are exactly why I love challenge videos so much.
Same! Im glad I get to share these moments too, its like when you mess around on your own as a kid and get these moments but no one to share with! I couldnt have written a better ending
@@Admiral_Iddy You really couldn't have, even if you did how would you pull that off?
beat battle for middle earth, with only range units
frodo and sam coming home and seeing only karl left 🤨 how did you survive but not gandalf😂
I picture the village being like, Karl where have you been?! The field hasnt been sowed in weeks get off your lazy butt and get in there! And he just sighs and goes to work.
correction - pretty sure elves (from Archery building) would count as their second (and better) melee unit. And yes, they can switch from bows to swords, to make it easier.
Also thanks for the great in Memoriam just great
I wanted the titanic song with the recorder! but the dang copyrights got me :( still turned out good though thanks for the support bro!
This is such an underated youtuber, tf I found a gem
thanks so much for the support bro! I am humbled everyday by all the cool people that find me.
That ending was so perfect! One brave peasant winning it all lmao
I know! A perfect analogy to the lord of the rings theme of even the smallest of people can make a difference! But karl was a lil chubby and with a bad knee ahhah
Greatest end to a challenge run EVER. Carl 4ever. The in memoriam killed me 😂
Aha i hope you liked your assigned peasant but yeah couldnt have written a better ending
FOR KARL!!! ⛏
I saw some last missions on stream great work i have no patient to challenges like that specially on 2.22 jesus black gate on hard was trully nightmare:P
even on normal 2.22 is super tough! evil I cant even beat ahah I dont think these challenges would be possible on that patch.
@@Admiral_Iddy the good campaing is in my opinion harder at least the story mission not the all small ones- defending the castels turn out to be more difficult than attacking them. On Black Gate i have few units from begining and they survive the finale when playing as evil new misson new me- but i have feelings that isengard got downgrade literaly units made od papier with upgrades ... But Mordor is more enjoyable with bonus to DMG on lvl 2 on orcs and i literaly spam Minas thirith to death xd
Finally an adaptation of the helms deep book fight from LotR D:
I like the elven version more though :P
We were all rooting for Carl at the end 🙌🙌
What a finale
I couldnt write a better finale if I tried haha one peasant to rule them all, Karl has been a meme in most of my runs too, he is always the hero
Enough bugs will overwhelm the bug zapper.
Yet another fun vid from the Admiral!
Make the old man from helms deep a hero. That’s what he is when I run helms deep
25:30 imdb 11/10
Jokes aside thank you i had so much fun watching the whole thing haha
Here I am to help 😂❤... Thank you for the video. It was entertaining😂😂
It makes kind of sense that the nazgul time out: they were sent to mount Doom when Frodo put on the ring.
Thats true! Maybe they left in game because they got an alert elsewhere although they do come in waves hmmm perhaps they need to gas up their felbeasts? Ahah
20:50 hearing warcraft music over lord of the rings just feel so right
Carllll that killssss orcsesss
11:41 that jackstaff looks heavy bro
I dont miss part ship hands at all, other than the views we need the extendable jackstaff like some countries have 😉
This was a good follow up. I like this game.
Could you do a challenge for the evil campaign next?
Already streamed an attempt last week, not as clean, seemingly impossible so had to bend the rules a LOT so we will see how it goes
@@Admiral_Iddy I imagine only swordsmen evil campaign would basically fail at the first mission, unless you counted lumberworkers perhaps
Carl the MVP! HAHAHA! Great video!
Hahaha! One cardio peasent to rule them all
Im working on his shape, but my cardio definitely needs work hahah
I was going in with the impression "depends on who you fight. If you fight gondor or rohan on a castles map, no"
I left with "..oh the campa-HOLY MOTHER OF FUCK YOU LEGEND"
thanks man! haha but Karl, hes the real legend here I am just a humble sailor ;)
When i played lord of the rings battle for middle earth 2 and saw no rohan i through it was strange gondor having they cavary units as hibryd archer spear.
Yeah! Their like javelin throwing units were an odd choice, the Age of the Ring mod really fleshes out rohan even giving them heavy infantry
please more BFME can u beat videos!
In conclusion karl is a CHAD
It was LEGENDERY
28:31 😂 Grab your sword and fight for Iddy :P
MEN OF MIDDLE-EATH, RISE UP AND DEFEND YOURSELVES!
@@kabob0077 for king Karl!
"Fly Carl!"
Man great Video, keep it up
what an ending haha😅 great video
I still wanna see a run with Easterlings only
My Carl... You bow to noone.
@@petrowegynyolc7108 you have my plow 🧎
Haradrim units in this game are DEVASTATING against infantry. And cavalry to some extent I feel. But they melt against archers and especially rangers.
Well done!
Spoiler for you since you seem to like to use exploits to make your life easier:
In the normal missions, the opponent receives an army at their base based on what units you started the mission with. Essentially, it tries to have some counter units ready so it’s not that easy to simply start with a huge army and wipe out the opponent in two minutes. If you ever tried to play with only Mumakils, you know that a huge army of fire arrow archers awaits you. In the same way, if you start with a lot of infantry, trolls will be ready to feast on them.
If you don’t want to fight against a camp with a lot of trolls, you can suicide your peasants at the end of the previous mission.
i missed stream.. oh it video yay
Man they really gotta do a remake/remaster or do a re-release of BFME 1& 2 for modern PCs. That or put out a 3rd game!
there is a fan remake called BFME 2 Reforged! It looks good, but I think there are some Cease and Desist issues they were or are facing! either way its on a brand new engine. I agree though a remaster or hd rerelease would be mint
WHERES THE YAKETY SAX FOR KARL?
EDIT: LOOK MA IM IN THE VIDEO
I thought of putting it in, but felt like letting the footage just run itself. Live reactions n all!
Press K for respect
Wow why I’m here on preview 😂
ALL HAIL KARL
King of the peasants!
27:52 I guess this one wasn't The Everchosen...
One single chubby guy winning the entire war is the most Tolkien thing this game has ever achieved.
@@Alvaro_El_Herrero its how Ive been living life so far 😂 although my cardio isnt as good as Karls abba
Maybe “can you beat BFME without unit upgrades”? (Banner OK if obtained naturally)
Imo if the cpu attacks your special units after you park them into the corner, th3 special units can attack.
Great video !
TIL guard towers are swordsmen…
Are you going to try with orc warrior and Uruk-hai swordsmen?
already streamed an attempt! its not very clean though a lot of rule bending already. Uruk swordsman are actually trash ahah they are designed for buffs like lurtz and stuff and they cannot damage ents. had to use labourers 2 levels, lurtz for a bunch it just isnt going well haha
Yeah okay, not bad...
But what about beating Battle for the Middle-Earth deathless using only peasants ?
28:44 What music did you want?
@@kabob0077 the titanic theme done poorly on the recorder haha
Where to buy BFME and BFME2 ROTWK?
I've looked all over!
Ill do you one better, simply click the link in the description and boom you got em!
Alex Jones
not really the biggest fan of BFME, prefer old blizzard games, but this was still interesting to watch
also, I've recently had a shower thought: Wouldn't it be cool if you collab with another youtuber to make a challenge run? I know that there are co-op versions of all the blizzard sc1 and wc2 campaigns, so how about you teamed up with another challenge runner like redwings13400 (wc2 challenges), Polish Gaming (sc1 challenges) or Davey Gunface (did sc2 challenges) to see if you can beat the co-op versions of the campaigns while under harsh restrictions?
Always down to try new things, especially when I retire from the military ill have more time. Redwings is actually in my discord and Jofg does BFME runs as well who tells me there is a coop BFME game too I think it could be fun! Thanks for the comment and for watching
@@Admiral_Iddy no, thank YOU for doing all these challenge runs! I seriously love watching challenge runs of video games of my past, especially RTS games, because it feels like they're being given a second life. I just love watching them being beaten via unconventional, unintended methods.
@@magentaballthepolandball5130exactly! thats why I started doing them, guys like GiantGrantGames breathed new life into some classics too and there is an audience for almost ANY old game and I love reuniting people with their childhoods. I got a banger I will be streaming this friday not an RTS but a hidden gem
@@Admiral_Iddy GGG was actually how I went like "wait, you can seriously do this? I want to see similar challenges!". I'm glad people like you were inspired by him, especially since nowadays youtube is oversatured with crappy shortform content.
I haven't been able to really catch your streams, but I'll try to catch this one because you've piqued my interest.
Ooh. That actually sounds super fun, I'd definitely be down to try this if you want to :D
When are you beating Warcraft with only peasants?
You know i wonder if warcraft 3 could be done with peasants? War 2 is definitely impossible haha
Throwing throngs of untrained peasants against hordes of orks? This should have been called "Can you beat Battle for Middle Earth using Ukrainian Armed Forces tactics"
p
Myth has, carl is still running to this day .... 😂