You can hit “Q” to select all units on the map. You can also double click a unit to select all units of its type on screen. Right clicking a Hero units abilities will allow them to auto-use them as they see fit.
@@ambiguousamphibianvodsThis game could get brutal especially if you don't prepare (you can keep armies and upgrade them). I barely survived the final mission and almost lost Minas Tirith cuz I was young and dumb. Watched Ruddevil play it and even he suffered at the Gate even with upgraded troops. Pippin died first as usual. Of course the lower part of Mordor is a slog but fun as there are 8 medium bases occupied by the enemy and with free orc warriors you better bring Ithilen Rangers and a couple tower guards. You should watch Ruuds playthrough. It's pretty interesting stuff.
Tbf they are innocent. Orcs are evil man. All the ents wanted was to live in the woods and tend to their forests. But no, Saruman just decided he wanted to cut down the forest. Even though he was once their friends. As Treebeard said while witnessing the devastation "many of these trees were my friends".
There is actually an updated mod for this game that makes it way harder and adds more heroes. Just search up the 2.22 update for Battle for Middle Earth you'll find a launcher you can download with both the vanilla version and the updated mod version. Super worth it.
I like the idea where any game based of of an existing story lets you both help the bad guys win for an Evil Ending, or make the Good Ending even sweeter and with fewer casualties if you work for it.
Old School Dynasty Warriors had something like this; and was brought back in 8. Sometimes "deviating from the plan" results in extreme pain, but there was a few secret endings to missions by preventing enemy actions or defeating officers before they *whoop* your lads; good examples are Tachi Ci and Guan Yu as both had points where they struck down in a cutscene and were kind of battle gods from different dynasties, and by preventing whatever gets them you could sometimes change the ending and in a few cases it's used to unlock items.
14:24 lorewise, during The Scouring of The Shire, a large and effective portion of the hobbit forces were archers. I believe it was also one or more hobbit archers who felled Wormtongue directly after he murdered Saruman, marking the final casualty and the end of the conflict. So yes, they are ranged as heck!
Saving Gandolf and Boromir was my first real introduction to the idea that stories could change and the butterfly effect of events. Boromir surviving would just sidestep most of the issues with Gondor in 'Return of the King.'
I always remember as a kid giving all the free xp i could to Gandalf and never legolas he'd level up alone getting kills and i'd always try and get more kills with good use of gandalf's abilities trying to out do legolas's bow
If it resolves your confusion from when you were 6, the Balrog wrapped his whip around Gandalf's leg, so he was being pulled down :) Even a wizard can't do a weighted Balrog pullup ToT thanks for the fun content! ^-^
One of my favorite games of all time. When i was a kid I played countless hours on BFME2 on the 360, the one after this one. It wasn't until a couple years ago when i was finally able to get the expansion Rise of the Witch King. Its like a dream, being able to experience new things in a game i played so much of after years.
Absolutely play more of this. Even the War of the Ring gamemode as well as the extras! I'd even love to join you ever figure out a community night for this game series
NO WAY! I played a lot of this game (100% of him, played with good and evil campaigns in all difficult levels) and yesterday I'm looking if I can play again.
I love this game so much, still have the disc sets and I’ve cleared it multiple times! Just did a challenge run where I’m not allowed to move any non-hero units. took me 3 pain staking hours.
This brings back so much. I remember we had two computers in my home connected by local net, and I invited my friend to play this game and we had multiplayer match where we played out castle siege movie style. Damn, i'm download this game again
Lost this game for a good couple decades, couldn't remember it's name, only that it was some of my best evenings/mornings in cyber cafes... It's very cool seeing it return to the eyes and ears of the public, as it is the GOAT in LOTR games
I couldn't beat the balrog for the longest time when i first played this as a child. So i just ended up playing the evil campaign over and over again until i built up my confidence once more
YESSS I just played through this, this game was so good. I've noticed the fan patch makes the campaign so hard, but they did make the last official patch work on new systems. Ugh, what a stellar RTS
Wish they sold it somewhere digitally - I’ve actually just been spending the last few years re-gathering up ways of playing old games from physical disks. There are usually a bunch of them on eBay still pretty cheap if you have the hardware - mileage may vary from old game to old game. LGR in particular I recommend for figuring out how to get some of them running. This one in particular was pretty easy to get running, but others like The Movies, I need two PCs and a capture card to get filming for here 😅
@ lol I just go to the part where you explained how you collected retro games. I am definitely gonna have this playing all day. Thank you for posting this campaign I hope you play the bad campaign later.
There is a new launcher for it that can download the whole thing for you along with any fan patches or mods. Beware though the fan patched helm's deep is super hard.
Fun fact....its cannon that Sam is the real hero of LOTR's he resists the Ring and ultimately is the only one to compete his mission with 100% success. The TRUE power of friendship...your buddies are the real source of your power! HAHH
Hey man, if you’ll be playing any other games in the series I’d like to suggest giving the age of the ring mod a try. It’s trully something else, custom voice lines, incredible models new factions and visual effects. It contains overhaul of the campaign including (as of now) complete remakes of fellowship and two towers with the return of the king in active development.
If you play the second game on pc, there are some really good patches that you should look into. They make the game run so much smoother and at a better resolution.
"They hadnt clicked on left clicking for abilities yet" to be fair you literally left click every ability to activate non target spells and left click to let you select for targeted skills
Gosh darn it, I have so little time to keep up with you videos and Any time I do I find a new game I want to try out. so even less time. Such a catch 22. An yes, new game for me is what I’m referring to 😅
Omg this game was 70% of my childhood
Never played the campaign but had probably over 100 hours as a kid just playing skirmishes against the ai, great memories 😅
You can hit “Q” to select all units on the map. You can also double click a unit to select all units of its type on screen.
Right clicking a Hero units abilities will allow them to auto-use them as they see fit.
Thanks! This will be helpful for the 1v7
@@ambiguousamphibianvodsThis game could get brutal especially if you don't prepare (you can keep armies and upgrade them). I barely survived the final mission and almost lost Minas Tirith cuz I was young and dumb. Watched Ruddevil play it and even he suffered at the Gate even with upgraded troops. Pippin died first as usual. Of course the lower part of Mordor is a slog but fun as there are 8 medium bases occupied by the enemy and with free orc warriors you better bring Ithilen Rangers and a couple tower guards. You should watch Ruuds playthrough. It's pretty interesting stuff.
"oh good we managed to save the life of three *innocent* ents" *as they continue to stomp on hundreds of orcs and crush them*
Tbf they are innocent. Orcs are evil man. All the ents wanted was to live in the woods and tend to their forests. But no, Saruman just decided he wanted to cut down the forest. Even though he was once their friends. As Treebeard said while witnessing the devastation "many of these trees were my friends".
There is actually an updated mod for this game that makes it way harder and adds more heroes. Just search up the 2.22 update for Battle for Middle Earth you'll find a launcher you can download with both the vanilla version and the updated mod version. Super worth it.
I like the idea where any game based of of an existing story lets you both help the bad guys win for an Evil Ending, or make the Good Ending even sweeter and with fewer casualties if you work for it.
Old School Dynasty Warriors had something like this; and was brought back in 8.
Sometimes "deviating from the plan" results in extreme pain, but there was a few secret endings to missions by preventing enemy actions or defeating officers before they *whoop* your lads; good examples are Tachi Ci and Guan Yu as both had points where they struck down in a cutscene and were kind of battle gods from different dynasties, and by preventing whatever gets them you could sometimes change the ending and in a few cases it's used to unlock items.
14:24 lorewise, during The Scouring of The Shire, a large and effective portion of the hobbit forces were archers. I believe it was also one or more hobbit archers who felled Wormtongue directly after he murdered Saruman, marking the final casualty and the end of the conflict. So yes, they are ranged as heck!
bfme 1 and 2 are childhood classics it doesn't get better than this
Oh, man. This was the first game I fell asleep at the wheel playing. Untold thousands of hours.
For my fellowship, I choose Tom Bombadil and the corpse of that guy who got crushed by the Bree gate when the ring wraith rode through.
Saving Gandolf and Boromir was my first real introduction to the idea that stories could change and the butterfly effect of events. Boromir surviving would just sidestep most of the issues with Gondor in 'Return of the King.'
One thing you might not have known, even when you were on the Gondor part of the campaign you can select your Rohan armies and do missions with them
I always remember as a kid giving all the free xp i could to Gandalf and never legolas he'd level up alone getting kills and i'd always try and get more kills with good use of gandalf's abilities trying to out do legolas's bow
Return of The King (the old third person hack n slash game) was BRILLIANT.
If it resolves your confusion from when you were 6, the Balrog wrapped his whip around Gandalf's leg, so he was being pulled down :) Even a wizard can't do a weighted Balrog pullup ToT thanks for the fun content! ^-^
I loved this game as a child. Gondors Tower guards were my favorites unit with its 80%? Defense stance.
One of my favorite games of all time. When i was a kid I played countless hours on BFME2 on the 360, the one after this one. It wasn't until a couple years ago when i was finally able to get the expansion Rise of the Witch King. Its like a dream, being able to experience new things in a game i played so much of after years.
Almost every map had one or several moments of "we got this" that quickly changed to "we don't got this". Overconfidence is an insidious killer.
My favorite lord of the rings games were custom maps in Warcraft 3. I still see them being hosted occasionally.
That just flung me all the way back haha legolas was broken
@@mrsquiggles1379 Agility heroes were crazy busted with the stat increasing both attack speed and damage.
This game was so good omg, always save Boromir!! I still have both disk versions of Battle For Middle Earth 1 and 2, just not the expansion for 2
Damn just replayed this myself. This NEEDS to make a come back!
i appreciate this so much. this really was my childhood and idk how i can play it now
Absolutely play more of this. Even the War of the Ring gamemode as well as the extras! I'd even love to join you ever figure out a community night for this game series
NO WAY! I played a lot of this game (100% of him, played with good and evil campaigns in all difficult levels) and yesterday I'm looking if I can play again.
Oh my dude you just hit that sweet nostalgia with this one.
I love this game so much, still have the disc sets and I’ve cleared it multiple times!
Just did a challenge run where I’m not allowed to move any non-hero units. took me 3 pain staking hours.
Man, these games were my childhood
This brings back so much. I remember we had two computers in my home connected by local net, and I invited my friend to play this game and we had multiplayer match where we played out castle siege movie style.
Damn, i'm download this game again
Lost this game for a good couple decades, couldn't remember it's name, only that it was some of my best evenings/mornings in cyber cafes... It's very cool seeing it return to the eyes and ears of the public, as it is the GOAT in LOTR games
Man I still remember having to download this game off of five separate discs when I got it 😂, makes me appreciate just how easy we have it now.
I couldn't beat the balrog for the longest time when i first played this as a child. So i just ended up playing the evil campaign over and over again until i built up my confidence once more
Wow I am so glad to see this game again. This was such a fantastic time when I was a kid
YESSS I just played through this, this game was so good. I've noticed the fan patch makes the campaign so hard, but they did make the last official patch work on new systems. Ugh, what a stellar RTS
How did you get it working?
I'm always Rudyng for Seanwise Ganjee
I see you’re a man of culture
I remember playing this game after highschool. How are you playing this? Is there a link? Please I need to reclaim my childhood memories lol
Wish they sold it somewhere digitally - I’ve actually just been spending the last few years re-gathering up ways of playing old games from physical disks. There are usually a bunch of them on eBay still pretty cheap if you have the hardware - mileage may vary from old game to old game. LGR in particular I recommend for figuring out how to get some of them running. This one in particular was pretty easy to get running, but others like The Movies, I need two PCs and a capture card to get filming for here 😅
@ lol I just go to the part where you explained how you collected retro games. I am definitely gonna have this playing all day. Thank you for posting this campaign I hope you play the bad campaign later.
@@ironerikb IGG games, use a VPN
The whole campaign? Respect, madlad!
Dwarrowdelf under the backyard
I miss this game, can't find it anywhere though, except the bay
There is a new launcher for it that can download the whole thing for you along with any fan patches or mods.
Beware though the fan patched helm's deep is super hard.
@@voxmaris42 Where, can you supply a link?
@@vincesergi7339 Not sure if allowed to on UA-cam but just search "All in One Launcher"
I was just playing this two days ago on my laptop!!! I am amazed that you played this!!!!❤❤
This is some dungeon seige ass shit and I'm here for it.
Nothing beats dungeon siege.
FIRST! Great video, one of my favorite games while growing up.
Fun fact....its cannon that Sam is the real hero of LOTR's he resists the Ring and ultimately is the only one to compete his mission with 100% success. The TRUE power of friendship...your buddies are the real source of your power! HAHH
Meanwhile Frodo is a scum bag. After all that he just ditches Sam to go to Elf land. All cuz he got poked by a spooky sword.
I played lotr: return of the king religiously as a kid on xbox. Good times
Hey man, if you’ll be playing any other games in the series I’d like to suggest giving the age of the ring mod a try. It’s trully something else, custom voice lines, incredible models new factions and visual effects. It contains overhaul of the campaign including (as of now) complete remakes of fellowship and two towers with the return of the king in active development.
I had no idea Cavalry were such big fans of cheese XD
Loved this stronghold and settlers when I was under 10 amazing games
Hobbits of Middle Earth: The Rock of the Trolls
I put so many hours into this game growing up.
I love this game so much still! ❤
Not the lotr game I thought this was but glad I'm learning of it now, I'll have to wishlist it
If you play the second game on pc, there are some really good patches that you should look into. They make the game run so much smoother and at a better resolution.
This game was a solid 10/10.
God I loved this game. I would love more LOTR RTS content, from the slick sequels to the really jank predecessor.
WE HAVE THE NEW FARM
This and Shadow of Mordor are my only LoTR game.
2:12:30
Where was Westfold when Gondor beat the Mordor Army?!
Look up the 2.22 update mod, please as a fan of this game and you I'd love to see more
I played this a little with classmates at school, but I never played the campaign
There is an unofficial remake underway, in been in the works for a couple of years now.
LEGIT one of my favorite games! 100% play BFME2 ROTWK (EVIL CAMPAIGN) ITS CRAZY FUN TO OWN ALL THE GOOD GUYS!!!!
Would love to see BMF2 too!
LotR:BfME 2 is my favorite RTS
"They hadnt clicked on left clicking for abilities yet" to be fair you literally left click every ability to activate non target spells and left click to let you select for targeted skills
I wasn’t gonna ask but you offer LOTR:BFMEII 👀
Tom B. should be an option for alternate fellowship.
So where did you get this from? I havent played this in forever. You should check out War of the Ring as well, Great LOTR rts.
Definitely do the evil campaign then the second game please
Loved this game. Also the 2th one & the witch king of Angmar 3th one. All higgly recomendd
I'd keep just 1 battle pesant just so I can have one.
Love bfme and 2
Gosh darn it, I have so little time to keep up with you videos and Any time I do I find a new game I want to try out. so even less time. Such a catch 22. An yes, new game for me is what I’m referring to 😅
Multi player going strong too!
Have you tried the Matchless kung-fu?
Where did you find a copy of this game?
Please god do the sequel.
How do you get this game? It was one of my favorite of all time and I can’t find it.
Leg-o-lass
Yep.
Yee boi
i can never get this game to run on modern systems
More please!!!
Classic game
Played this game when I was a kid sadly it was crashing every 5min when a mission started
Please do evil campaign
Don't you mean "the battle of home depot"
Dirty Hobbit knocker
lets frogging gooooo
Where can we get this game now?
Fiiine, i will reinstall BFME again :D
Deus ex
Grandalf? What's wrong with you? Bro, what's wrong with the Rings of Power writers?!
Did they remaster this game? Because they should.
Where did you get this game?
Lego lass
I will give $500 for BFME 2 console version
how tf u play this still
What's up with your voice Amph? It sounds ugly sometimes..