Loved this game for years even after the main servers were shutdown, so funny hearing all these voice clips again. Every faction was awesome and had cool benefits of their own.
Can't say it was balanced this video is a proof for that. Main hero is a tank and weapon of mass destruction at the same time. I used to have exactly the same build for it.
Been trying to complete every single map in brutal diff or hard if not able. My experience has told me its a los easier to face multiple AIs in brutal rather than just 1 or 2 because they "steal" space for building, so they cant expand properly and gain an advantage in resources. When facing only 1 brutal AI, it grows faster than a fly's interest in your dogs shit. It will always outbuild you and spam armies constantly, by 5 or 10 min its already sending 2 catapults, with heroes and tons of infantry.
Use heroes only. For the Men of the West, first thing you do is Eomer; then follow with Eowyn and Theoden. And your custom hero, of course. Then follow those with Boromir, Faramir, Aragorn and finally Gandalf. After that, make full arrow towers for all add ons of your fortress, and fully upgrad it. Then add a second fortress and fully upgrade it, then a fully upgraded third, forth and fifth. Keep ALL heroes on foot, and use all their powers (automate all powers that can be automated) and all palantir powers. For elves, start with Arwen, Haldir, Glorfindel, Elrond, Thranduil and finally Legolas (take your custom hero as soon as possible too) For Dwarves, take Gloin, Bard, King Dain, Gimli. For Goblins, start with Goblin King, Azog, Shelob and the Dragon. For Mordor, it's that orc captain, the Mouth of Sauron and then the Nazghuls For Isengard, Lurtz, Grima, the Warg rider hero and Saruman. I can beat ANY amount of AIs on Brutal on ANY map with heroes "only" (heroes and a ton of fully upgraded fortresses). To make things easier, add as many of the "mini heroes" units as possible (the 2 noldor battalions for elves, the Nazghuls riders for Mordor, the Deathbringers for Isengard and so forth). It's easy... It will be an insane fight, but it's pretty manageable. And you'll have tons of fun throwing spears from Eomer and Eowyn into catapults, or Bard's black arrows into Mumakils and so forth. Just make sure to use your powers property against the right targets
:D I'm glad that someone still plays this game. I've never been able to beat something like this when surrounded by the enemy team. I usually get rushed down.
One of my all time favourite games! The graphics were amazing at the time it was released and the gameplay was and still is amazing. This guy is handling self very well against tough opponents so I know he is a true player of this game. This video brought some good memories 👍🏻👊🏻
If I could find how many hours I played this game all these years ago including the witch king expansion and bfme 1 I’d probably be beyond 5000 hours wow this brings back way too many great memories if only I still had the discs
Juanito would probably survive at 58:25 if you used the power Rallying call (5 points). Its a pity you never use it, its actually good. Anyway congrats on the win!
I don’t know what people where expecting when they clicked this video? 1 v. 7brutal! Of cause there is some cheese going on, but it’s delicious cheese to watch. So… good job man 😂👍
Phenomenal defense fending off the constant heavy attack. Ur elf hero was well built and OP. Only advice i would give is this: don’t use Ghosts, hurricanes, and archers against structures, they have no effect. Use it only against troops.
Absolutely not; catapults would have totally decimated the defenses from distance. Shrinking into a tiny place is never a good option. Also, a combined attack would destroy it too. This worked well because the attacks were not coherent.
My favorite game of all time. Still have the disc and box after all these years. I would have recommended leading with the earthquake, sending in army of the dead against mobs not structures, then Rohirim while the army drew fire. Also, target order would have been take out what's killing you before anything else if possible, and don't stand in one place while catapults are raining down.
I've never even asked myself if it is possible to beat 8 Brutal, because it seemed so insane to me. I replayed the game 2 years ago, and the best I could do was take down 2 Hard I think.
Actually it gets easier the more AI you play against, because they cannot expand due to not enough room and so they never reach their full power. Vs one or two, they will reach immense power.
Bro, what is that costum hero build :O He literally solos everything and takes no damage. Infantry, buildings, enemy heroes, nothing deals good damage to him, and he destroys everything with a few hits
You can play without a CD: forums.revora.net/forum/2378-battle-for-middle-earth-series/ Get the Age of the Ring mod for the game after isntall. So worth it: www.moddb.com/mods/the-horse-lords-a-total-modification-for-bfme/tutorials
nicely done! I've tried this too but in ROTWK is really impossible because they nerfed the towers and made Brutal even harder. Towers are so damn busted in BFME2
Nice, you could go into more archers and less towers from the start I guess. Was loving compstomps in my time where servers were alive and well. Favorite map nanduhirion. It's way harder without custom hero, yet is a bit easier with elves. Also worst as enemy are goblins and elves cause range of mountain giants and treants makes it horrific experience. It is also bad vs human and angmar for trebuchet reasons. Anyway, wp.
My Dad and I had to get mods to increase the difficulty of even the brutals because we were able to mindlessly wipe full maps no matter what stupid crap we tried. I still have the original box with all 5 or 6 CDs for the install.
This game with few visual upgrades would be as great as it was on the day of the premiere. Anyway only games when I was solo able to defeat enemy on brutal were on Helm's Deep with men and when I was playing as dwarves, coz theyr ability of using tunels to quickly go through whole map. So I'm really impressed!
Thanks for the video. I think you can stll improve yourself in micro game. you can use your powers more wisely. Archers (not the hero) is useless against buildings, try to send them to elephants or trolls which are weak against arrows. Earthquake can be used before sending your soldiers. Also, ghosts are amazing against any kind of warrior. They can clear the area while your hero and rohirim make the damage to buildings. Sending ghosts to building and killing foes one by one with archer is not so efficient.
@@nickjunes Uhrm, no not at all. Have you never tried any of the Age Of Empires games ?? You've been missing out if not !! Pick them up, you'll come back to this and thank me ! ✨👌🏻 I played as a kid, then more recently they released a new one which was a real blast from the past. Great fun !
@@ProfessorArcanum I've always been more into sci fi and fantasy. The historical realism aspect doesn't interest me much. It's why I'll play a game like Halo but not Call of Duty. I know it's weird but that's how my brain works.
@@nickjunes I can't fault you, I'm very similar and absolutely similar when it comes to movies / TV series ! In that case, have you tried Starcraft, or Warcraft III ? Blizzard has made some awesome RTS titles.
try those tactics in 1.06 and forget switching between defensive - attack stance, see how that goes. People who don't know: new patches nerfed ith. archers + towers a lot. Nerfed range + dps
Games suck when they pick balance over lore. The Ithilien rangers in the books are some of the best archers in the world at the time, they use long bows and are extremely accurate and deadly. Lore will always be cooler and better than stupid game balancing.
@@christianriddler5063 Do they have more range then ballista or catapults? That's the problem. Even in the patch still they are op but main issue in non-patched version is , they got massive range + fire rate even preventing catapults to destroy towers. Patch is lore + balance friendly. Compared to their price they are most deadly archers.
@@christianriddler5063 are you crazy? how the lore states that 1 human kindgom with only ithilien rangers could single handledly destroy the entirity of Mordor's army?
nice video but.... Why wait SO LOOOONG to use your spells for attack? Also, you first use earthquake so you don't hit the cavalry, then call the army of the dead to attract all the aggro and THEN you call the cavalry... much more sufficient. Plus... statues bro! Build statues! Your dmg will sky rocket!!!
This is literally a lore-accurate representation of what Gondor went through xD
This game was so so far ahead of its time. Still looks good even after all these years. Many good memories, thanks for the upload!
yep ..
Not ahead, this was the peak
Im playing this game now 😂
@@randomnick1051 how did you get the game please? id love to replay through my childhood once again
@@sgredbull1184 torrent
Imagine the steelness of the farmer balls calmly raking the land while orcs storming in
The worker's resistance to the Ring's temptations is also formidable.
@@AVM26😂😂
hahahaha
The mens needs some food to resist the force of moria
But the natzguls are keeping spawn it
holy shit, gollum delivered the ring litteraly to your front door lol
Considering the ring was at Osgiliath, I consider it lore friendly
Eomir: "The enemy is upon us!"
Galadriel: "The end is near!"
Tom: "Ring-a-ding-a-Dillo!" xD
Loved this game for years even after the main servers were shutdown, so funny hearing all these voice clips again. Every faction was awesome and had cool benefits of their own.
Can't say it was balanced this video is a proof for that. Main hero is a tank and weapon of mass destruction at the same time. I used to have exactly the same build for it.
you can still play it online with gameranger
@@Hello_there_obiEven better T3A Online, cuz it uses the ingame server browser
When I see the Elven Archer custom hero I know what's going to happen and how windy is it going to be.
Been trying to complete every single map in brutal diff or hard if not able. My experience has told me its a los easier to face multiple AIs in brutal rather than just 1 or 2 because they "steal" space for building, so they cant expand properly and gain an advantage in resources. When facing only 1 brutal AI, it grows faster than a fly's interest in your dogs shit. It will always outbuild you and spam armies constantly, by 5 or 10 min its already sending 2 catapults, with heroes and tons of infantry.
lmao once someone on the map fell I shit myself coz I'm still smaking their farms up here and there and I know a full sweep is incoming.
This is so true!
Use heroes only. For the Men of the West, first thing you do is Eomer; then follow with Eowyn and Theoden. And your custom hero, of course. Then follow those with Boromir, Faramir, Aragorn and finally Gandalf. After that, make full arrow towers for all add ons of your fortress, and fully upgrad it. Then add a second fortress and fully upgrade it, then a fully upgraded third, forth and fifth.
Keep ALL heroes on foot, and use all their powers (automate all powers that can be automated) and all palantir powers.
For elves, start with Arwen, Haldir, Glorfindel, Elrond, Thranduil and finally Legolas (take your custom hero as soon as possible too)
For Dwarves, take Gloin, Bard, King Dain, Gimli.
For Goblins, start with Goblin King, Azog, Shelob and the Dragon.
For Mordor, it's that orc captain, the Mouth of Sauron and then the Nazghuls
For Isengard, Lurtz, Grima, the Warg rider hero and Saruman.
I can beat ANY amount of AIs on Brutal on ANY map with heroes "only" (heroes and a ton of fully upgraded fortresses).
To make things easier, add as many of the "mini heroes" units as possible (the 2 noldor battalions for elves, the Nazghuls riders for Mordor, the Deathbringers for Isengard and so forth).
It's easy... It will be an insane fight, but it's pretty manageable. And you'll have tons of fun throwing spears from Eomer and Eowyn into catapults, or Bard's black arrows into Mumakils and so forth. Just make sure to use your powers property against the right targets
interesting insight lol, gotta try it out
it didnt work out lol. they spam armies like crazy even 1v7. withing first 3-4 minutes im dead already
Builder: How many towers do you want ?
Juanito: YES
its a plesure to see someone playing a classic game like this on a Niveau like this. Thanks for this gameplay
If he build more farms (west/east) he would have beat them a lot faster.
:D I'm glad that someone still plays this game. I've never been able to beat something like this when surrounded by the enemy team. I usually get rushed down.
One of my all time favourite games! The graphics were amazing at the time it was released and the gameplay was and still is amazing. This guy is handling self very well against tough opponents so I know he is a true player of this game. This video brought some good memories 👍🏻👊🏻
Bro take a tower defence to a new level 💀
LMAO that was some crazy stuff with the Ring popping right next to your castle.
If I could find how many hours I played this game all these years ago including the witch king expansion and bfme 1 I’d probably be beyond 5000 hours wow this brings back way too many great memories if only I still had the discs
There’s an all in one mod on the moddb site!
Pixelated appolo, the UA-camr, his somewhat recent videos on BFME 2 provides links to the site in his description!
But beware, you just might become addicted!
Juanito would probably survive at 58:25 if you used the power Rallying call (5 points). Its a pity you never use it, its actually good. Anyway congrats on the win!
I thoroughly enjoyed this, I would have used heavy armour but it's good to see different tactics that also work.
The Nazgul at 18:14 cracked me up.
"ATTA-" *riddled with arrows*
BFME2: 'You can send Galadrial out to go torching slaughterhouses, lol. I know it's stupid but it's only a game -'
Rings of Power: '- Hold my beer.'
Ah yes, this and Dune 2000, games where I spent so many hours at and if I could i'd do so again, was a pleasure to watch whole video!
Man the selfmade heros are so broken. I love it.
I don’t know what people where expecting when they clicked this video? 1 v. 7brutal! Of cause there is some cheese going on, but it’s delicious cheese to watch. So… good job man 😂👍
Thank you! :)
Ya hehe, the hero from the beginner is a bit OP.
That custom Hero is cracked, man. XD
One of my favorite parts about this game.
Phenomenal defense fending off the constant heavy attack. Ur elf hero was well built and OP. Only advice i would give is this: don’t use Ghosts, hurricanes, and archers against structures, they have no effect. Use it only against troops.
Absolutely not; catapults would have totally decimated the defenses from distance. Shrinking into a tiny place is never a good option. Also, a combined attack would destroy it too. This worked well because the attacks were not coherent.
My favorite game of all time. Still have the disc and box after all these years. I would have recommended leading with the earthquake, sending in army of the dead against mobs not structures, then Rohirim while the army drew fire. Also, target order would have been take out what's killing you before anything else if possible, and don't stand in one place while catapults are raining down.
I've never even asked myself if it is possible to beat 8 Brutal, because it seemed so insane to me. I replayed the game 2 years ago, and the best I could do was take down 2 Hard I think.
Actually it gets easier the more AI you play against, because they cannot expand due to not enough room and so they never reach their full power. Vs one or two, they will reach immense power.
Lack of heroic statues next to the towers was bothering me a lot
The number of huge errors made in the first 3 minutes and you still somehow managed to win
Yes😅
Bro, what is that costum hero build :O He literally solos everything and takes no damage. Infantry, buildings, enemy heroes, nothing deals good damage to him, and he destroys everything with a few hits
It's been years since I played this, but I don't ever remember rangers being this good.
They where nerved in patch 1.06
One of the most fun strategy game. Wish there was 3
They are working on battle for middle earth: reforged
There are enough modifications which made this game 10x better with new factions, heroes and better gameplay, regular fan tournaments are set.
@@greatsarmataelike what? I already play Aotr but i would love it if there was a better option because Aotr keeps crashing.
We need a new BFME :( This is awesome.
Juanito soloing entire mordor and sauron what an op champ
Damn. I miss playing this. I was OBSESSED with this game back when it first came out! My favorite faction is MotW.
This game needs a remake. I hope someone does this.
ever heard of bfme reforged?
UA-cam algorithm anybody?
🙋♂️
Me 😂
I have to take my hat off to you sir. That was non stop micro managing from minute 1.
I'm disappointed from the lack of Aragorn and Gandalf 😔.
This is STILL my favorite RTS of ALL TIME. It holds up, I would still be playing this in 2022 if they hadn't took the servers down.
You can play without a CD: forums.revora.net/forum/2378-battle-for-middle-earth-series/
Get the Age of the Ring mod for the game after isntall. So worth it: www.moddb.com/mods/the-horse-lords-a-total-modification-for-bfme/tutorials
I legit used the exact same create a hero in this game. He’s almost busted with how effective he is.
this video should have more views
Agreed
Amazing gameplay, you are really talented to play this well. Lotr is an awesome series as well. Return of the king has the best battles.
Didn't know that this game is a "tower defense" :)
Damn. I am 26 now and I played this game when I was very young on my parents PC back in the days. I still remember it so well.
Juanito did an awesome job
If you had taken Eomer with your hero you could have taken advantage of his passive and obtained resources from the deaths. Greetings from Argentina!
You're right! I did that in some of the other videos. Also in the one where I go against 7 bots without custom heroes. Thank you for watching! :)
What I love the most about this game is using lots of cavalry to wash out the orcs😆
GG. Commanding Eomer to the archer towers in defence mode will level him pretty quickly up and you will earn money for each kill by the archers soon.
The Witch King: No man can defeat me
A Tower: I am no man!
oh my god, last time i played it was probably in 2011,it was great games and great times...wish it never ends
nicely done! I've tried this too but in ROTWK is really impossible because they nerfed the towers and made Brutal even harder.
Towers are so damn busted in BFME2
So That’s why this sounded impossible. I wondered how he was hitting catapults with towers.
@@davidderricott3968 yeah in rotwk the towers have less coverage and you can only put 1 team
@@Sordicus nah you can still fit 2 troops in there.
Maybe you were playing a mod..
@@horstgunther9521 some factions could put only 1 garrison in their towers in RotWK, iirc Mordor maybe?
I know in the fan patch (2.02), Brutal actually gets a 60% discount on EVERYTHING. I even watched a replay just to confirm it.
I don't remember "Juanito" being in lord of the rings? Lol
Archers taking out catapults I can't 😂
it s about to where you build. Usually height affects this, sometimes some maps got tricks.
DAMNNNN, you played liked no stressed, welldone, if I'm played 1vs7 fully stressed
as a lotr fan i love this game. well done man
Así empieza la leyenda de Juanito, héroe de Gondor
Thank you so much! It’s truly great Battle, and you are real master
Nice, you could go into more archers and less towers from the start I guess. Was loving compstomps in my time where servers were alive and well. Favorite map nanduhirion. It's way harder without custom hero, yet is a bit easier with elves. Also worst as enemy are goblins and elves cause range of mountain giants and treants makes it horrific experience. It is also bad vs human and angmar for trebuchet reasons. Anyway, wp.
Ahh I see a fellow elven archer custom hero aficionado
I am amazed that you didn't use hotkeys to set the units stance (or use hotkeys in general)
Where are the Mordor catapults?
Destroyed 7 Brutal Mordor in a team with one hero and powers ... wow
Great to have a reliable auto-matic defense!
Your a hero mate you bow to no one🤴🏽
Juanito the MVP
I was able to see one of the towers he built from my window. I wonder if he keeps building...
My Dad and I had to get mods to increase the difficulty of even the brutals because we were able to mindlessly wipe full maps no matter what stupid crap we tried. I still have the original box with all 5 or 6 CDs for the install.
your custom hero sounds like the dude from Formula One
damn what a play! you received my like before watchin the video, these are some skills boi!
My brain refuses to believe this is not a mod for c&c.
I remember in this game Galadriel could beat Sauron and Balrog at once xD
You remind me moments, when I played in this game so much time
you, my friend you bow to no one.
Eomer getting blueballed for 60 mins straight
NIce, NICe!!!!!! Ypu really did a good job Juan!!!!
I wouldn't want to meet anything called a Mordor Bot,
damn Murder bots
This game with few visual upgrades would be as great as it was on the day of the premiere.
Anyway only games when I was solo able to defeat enemy on brutal were on Helm's Deep with men and when I was playing as dwarves, coz theyr ability of using tunels to quickly go through whole map. So I'm really impressed!
Thanks for the video. I think you can stll improve yourself in micro game. you can use your powers more wisely. Archers (not the hero) is useless against buildings, try to send them to elephants or trolls which are weak against arrows. Earthquake can be used before sending your soldiers. Also, ghosts are amazing against any kind of warrior. They can clear the area while your hero and rohirim make the damage to buildings. Sending ghosts to building and killing foes one by one with archer is not so efficient.
i played this game as kid and i had problem with one brutal enemy :D gj dude :)
Watching you play this is painful, I think i need to reinstall this game NOW!
Absolutely insane. I have no words lol. I like a challenge often but holy fuck my guy!
Thank you for your performance! Delightfull
Can you imagine if they made RTS games today? That's all I want.
Did you try the new Age Of Empires ?
@@ProfessorArcanum Isn't it turn based?
@@nickjunes Uhrm, no not at all. Have you never tried any of the Age Of Empires games ??
You've been missing out if not !! Pick them up, you'll come back to this and thank me ! ✨👌🏻
I played as a kid, then more recently they released a new one which was a real blast from the past. Great fun !
@@ProfessorArcanum I've always been more into sci fi and fantasy. The historical realism aspect doesn't interest me much. It's why I'll play a game like Halo but not Call of Duty. I know it's weird but that's how my brain works.
@@nickjunes I can't fault you, I'm very similar and absolutely similar when it comes to movies / TV series !
In that case, have you tried Starcraft, or Warcraft III ? Blizzard has made some awesome RTS titles.
I know it's not easy as you let it seem.
Nice done!
Same strategy 😂bring costemized hero, buiders dies, my problem was always the bombardment
Very lucky to have ring so soon and on your side of the map! I was sceptic with your challenge but the one ring changes it all. Well done mate
Juanito's tale must be told.
There have been few mistakes but great watching experience nevertheless. You are great!
gg, i remember playing this like 15 years ago. weird, but cool game
Let's make this guy commanding general of Nato forces 😂👍
try those tactics in 1.06 and forget switching between defensive - attack stance, see how that goes.
People who don't know: new patches nerfed ith. archers + towers a lot. Nerfed range + dps
Games suck when they pick balance over lore. The Ithilien rangers in the books are some of the best archers in the world at the time, they use long bows and are extremely accurate and deadly. Lore will always be cooler and better than stupid game balancing.
@@christianriddler5063 Do they have more range then ballista or catapults?
That's the problem. Even in the patch still they are op but main issue in non-patched version is , they got massive range + fire rate even preventing catapults to destroy towers.
Patch is lore + balance friendly. Compared to their price they are most deadly archers.
@@christianriddler5063 are you crazy? how the lore states that 1 human kindgom with only ithilien rangers could single handledly destroy the entirity of Mordor's army?
@@christianriddler5063 stick to reading the books then dont play the game :D
The right side is always outnumbered. I am reinforced in my opinion.
Advanced tower defense.
I once created the biggest mine field domino from my base to the last enemy structure....was so excited...crashed my game super hard
The Ring has been dropped.
RIGHT AT HIS GATE!? WHAT THE HELL!?
Brutal Bots y brutal defensa ;) Superlike
I forget one think
You can make so many stutes for discout your troops
how did you get farms next to each other? great vid btw an eye opener for me on how to play
I didn't even know that there was a LOTR RTS game?!?! I really liked the MOBA they had but this looks really fun, I hope to see it more in the future!
This game is out of print and has been for a very long time. Don't hold your breath for a Battle for Middle Earth 3.
@@stevem7192 But do hold your breath for Reforged!
Battle for Middle Earth 2 is one of the legendary classic RTS games. Nothing niche :)
@@Avalyahful Truly legendary indeed. I hope they succeed in making Reforged great!
You can download the games online which is safe I believe!
nice video but.... Why wait SO LOOOONG to use your spells for attack? Also, you first use earthquake so you don't hit the cavalry, then call the army of the dead to attract all the aggro and THEN you call the cavalry... much more sufficient. Plus... statues bro! Build statues! Your dmg will sky rocket!!!
Do the statues affect towers, and archers in towers?
@@bluenicholasbf2142 Towers no, archers in towers yes. Unless this was not the case in patch 1.00
Custom archer heroes have always been the best.
I dont remember Juanito is one man Army in movie
i was ranked 1 on the leaderboard on xbox 360 for a while , 2v2 was where it was add , i was the leader of the transformers clan