Back in 1996 my father owned a computer school (it was a thing here in Brazil), and my brothers, my father, mother and me used to play this game in LAN. My mother would always wipe out our asses with massive archer's armies. My father would prefer footman, my brothers and i would go techy, put up mages, but we were always crushed by my mother and father. Fun days...
my dad made a custom map on the mapmaker, but never played it. hew was a wetland scientist in New England. The map had lots of stone walls and swamps lol
just wanted to say I appreciate the fact that you skip through the beginning and how you add comments in a nice stylized caption box. it makes your games way more engaging to watch!
@shaun Alan I think the Betrayal of Kerrigan and then finally re-uniting with her was more emotional in StarCraft and it also took from 1998 (last SC1 content) until end of 2010 (first SC2 release) until we finally went back to see the betrayal in full scale and what became of her and then until 2016 to reveal the whole story. However, I agree that WarCraft lore also was amazing, especially the original one and early days of WC3 / WoW where they sticked closer to it.
Ahh, War2. Frantic but relaxing at the same time! Mods, montage, unreal challenges and caption boxes are one thing, but it's players like you that are the real life-prolonging fuel for old games. Thanks for not forgetting about this gem after all these years and kudos for beating these comps. Excellent mage bomb delivery by the way!
Great video. The strategies and editing out the less interesting parts really made it. Also that AI mod seems tough as! I remember the default Sea Attack computers would stay in tier 2 and only make ships and basic land units. But here they are landing death knights and demo teams 😂
What a game! I love the blizzard spell sound and there was sure a lot of it in this video. I expected to see more ballistas (ballistae?), but mages and knights were enough. War2 micro is pretty compicated, but you make it look easy.
I didn't play WC2, even didn't play WC3, but it looks interesting. And I noticed that after the destruction of the pot-bellied giants, there is an advanced decomposition animation, which is not in other strategy games! Usually in other games it's just a puddle of blood or body parts, and then everything fades away.
@@StuGames the zeitgeist of the old Blizzard games will be with me always, it's irreplaceable and unbeatable for me. Let's not talk what happened in the last decade though...
Important to note though that that decomposition animation isn't just visual but is actually gameplay relevant. The death knight can reanimate corpses from killed land units but not directly after they got killed, only when they start to decay.
@@mumblecake251 Also, ogres and knights in specific have two decomposition animations, and their corpses can only be raised when the second one initiates.
I have this game to thank for getting my own computer as a kid. I was playing this in the living room for years and the nonstop command audio is probably what left my parents buying me one for my room just to not here "Jobs done" "Yes M'lord" "Jobs Done" "Jobs Done" "Very well, Very Well, Alright , Very Well" "Yes?" "Hello" "Jobs Done" "Do You need assistance?" "Jobs done" for like 4 hours a day. 😂
Nicely done,Stu!!!! And as I was sitting here watching this,I ACTUALLY found myself trying to click one of the buildings,then remembered I am WATCHING this on YT,not playing!!!!...lol.
I guess I could look up the map name when he shows it in the beginning. I feel like there was a time I had all the multiplayer maps memorized, but that feels like ages ago.
I was young and really bad at this game i use to make custom maps and give myself an active ai ally or two with 1 peasant so I wouldnt end up accidentally recruiting my allies to my side. Its pretty cool to see someone do what I thought unthinkable as a kid and win a 1v7ai match
Huh, why did I never think of that? I always did things where I had the Active Ally with a Town Hall far away and I'd let them build up stuff. Once I had a map where I pitted two Active Allies against each other (once I found out they're hostile to each other) while I fought a single AI on my own side of the river... But yeah, a single Peasant start with Active Allies... never ever thought of that to avoid recruiting them...
I literally thought there was no way you were winning this, until I saw you send that scout to show everyone was out of resources, that's when I finally realized it was a survival match until that point. Excellent strategy on wiping them out with your limited army at the end.
That's usually how you win these types of maps. Since the AI doesn't have human limitations on how many units it can control (obviously) then they build like crazy and pump out units with abandon. So for the player it's all about just sitting back and letting them exhaust themselves. It's not foolproof and you still need to survive the onslaught of course, but yeah lol.
I miss this game so much. I want to play it soooo bad.... And i must add, your a pro, you had A three pronged offensive going on with birds, knights, and mages. Props. Reminds me of when I was watching my dad play on sundays after churchxD (I was born 93')
That’s Cool man… Those Blizzard Boxsets and others like Doom2 back in the day were cool, I remember them, being only about 6, back in 1995 era and remembered the film Independence Day around that same time.
Wow. I don't watch WC2 videos in general, but you executed this perfectly. The editing at the start, the defense, the early attack on your first opponent, different tactics in taking out each opponent at the end, all was very enjoyable!
I played the same map on the same place against 7 enemys, too. I won,- too. But complete other plan. Less towers but more bomb Towers, no (!) Mage, only some Archers and Many Palas for Heal, more Balista to secure my towers and attack ships. No technology that cost wood. I bomb the way to north, too. Big flying army, short attack, back to heal. Short attack, back to heal. I secure some Oil and start building transporter. I attack and defeat another enemy before he was out of gold. Good old time.
Loving this before I even click play, let's goooo. Thanks for playing a water map, I know it's not popular, but I love the ship combat. E: fkin well played!
Gotta love the one knight at 23:42ish that had the presence of mind to avoid walking into the blizzard and not getting slaughtered. Then after he sees all his friends do it, decides he wants to be cool too.
Damn death coil sounds is one of the scariest sounds in this game when you're not the one casting it, because it means a lot of your dudes are now dead.
This is seriously impressive. The way you withstood that insane barrage of attacks all the while maintaining equilibrium, then proceeded to take everyone out in a calculated yet brutal offensive of your own 👏 probably your most accomplished/best mission. Would you agree? I don't think I've seen you beat a harder one. Yes you've beaten other very hard missions, but you were so resourceful in this one. Usually you just send out the eagles/dragons. Which is boring to watch tbh. This was fucking awesome
Good playthrough. What I always noticed about these sorts of maps, playing a computer, is that they would do mass assaults at the start, and if you could survive that, you could beat them when their resources ran out - as you did here. Also, that the AI is not that smart and easy to outwit. I enjoyed this game a lot when it came out. Seeing now is fun.
Very similar strategy to what I experience - when you're on the verge of being overwhelmed almost constantly, it comes down to a matter of surviving the weak, but frequent, attacks and living long enough for the computers to run out of money. Then you can fairly effectively sweep the map.
It's funny how the yellow faction is always the last one on the list and they're listed as "Alliance/Horde" Traitors depending on who runs them. It's like Blizzard ran out of ideas on what to call their factions and were like "Ehh, just call them Traitors" even though they could be siding with the rest of the Horde or the Alliance, etc. Of course, Beyond The Dark Portal gave a Horde clan to the yellow faction but you only see that on Swamp tilesets.
After watching this, I have two questions: 1.) How many times did you fail this skirmish before you got this footage? 2.) What is your rank in Starcraft? You're APM is nuts to watch, and I can only imagine you being just an absolute beast to play against.
Took me perhaps 10 tries or so, but getting the map set up and calibrated with the improved AI was even more challenging =) I didn't play a lot of Starcraft online (got to Master once in SC2), but I was pretty good in WC3 back in the day. I think I was top 10 in Reign of Chaos multiple times, but the ranking system was pretty busted. If you won too many games your internal MMR got so high that you couldn't really find games anymore, so you had to intentionally drop games in order to keep ranking up :D
@@StuGames I figured the mod aspect was likely the more difficult task to accomplish. On the WC3 front, I remember playing ranked being a mess. Was never really good enough to tournament play, but I certainly tried.
@morgrimgaming7342 Stu sounds very familiar, very well could have seen you too if the name was morgrim. morgrim sounds familiar as well. I was consistenly in a chat room with Bei and Sh1tty, pretty sure both of them were in top 100 for a long time
Damn that impressive player my man u have lighnting reflexes this must be really tough mentally too do what an PRO u are this was one of my first rts game i played and us an classic.
I really love your videos, it brings back so much memorys, but I really wish it would had commentary, would make it so much more entertaining to watch. Maybe you can commentate over the video after playing it, when it is to difficult to commentate while playing.
This reminds me of AOE 2 AI when playing small islands. The AI would go absoloutly ham and rush to get all its resources but in doing so spend most of it by building tons of lumber mills
It's interesting that it naturally goes on the course of the medieval war. Building walls and deploying projection weapons can only be pierced at the expense of countless lives.
I spent thousands of hours on this game, I'm so used to the AI, it's weird to see the computer send mages on transport boats. Where did you get that plugin? Does it work on GoG version of the game? Anyway, nice game and well done :)
Brilliant. And you're so precise with the Polymorph spell its like you're casting it yourself. What are some big mistakes the computer made that mightve cost it the game?
For some reason I recall there being a setting for a .pud to say "this is a water map, when there are AIs, make sure they use the WaterAI logic. But I think I might be thinking of an entirely different game.
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Back in 1996 my father owned a computer school (it was a thing here in Brazil), and my brothers, my father, mother and me used to play this game in LAN. My mother would always wipe out our asses with massive archer's armies. My father would prefer footman, my brothers and i would go techy, put up mages, but we were always crushed by my mother and father. Fun days...
wow, fun parents
Its more likely for me, to meet actual extraterrestrials, than see my father playing a pc game.
@@Ghostwulf.J.M. Well, it didn't last long, 1 or 2 years after those times both my parents stopped playing anything at all.
my dad made a custom map on the mapmaker, but never played it. hew was a wetland scientist in New England. The map had lots of stone walls and swamps lol
For the same kind of raisons, warcraft2 will be always the game with the most memories.
just wanted to say I appreciate the fact that you skip through the beginning and how you add comments in a nice stylized caption box. it makes your games way more engaging to watch!
+1 for the textual commentary track
-1 for editing out the boring parts. As Queen said, "I want it all!"
As a RTS nerd I wanted to see the boring macro, but I definitely agree on the captions
Seeing all these structures in wow for the first time was cool af.
I don't like the direction that game took, but playing vanilla for the first time was magical back then.
@@StuGames agreed, vanilla was amazing. I stopped after cataclysm.
Most buildings there aint from the og games but they do make some look better.
I remember launch day 2004 thinking the same thing
@shaun Alan I think the Betrayal of Kerrigan and then finally re-uniting with her was more emotional in StarCraft and it also took from 1998 (last SC1 content) until end of 2010 (first SC2 release) until we finally went back to see the betrayal in full scale and what became of her and then until 2016 to reveal the whole story. However, I agree that WarCraft lore also was amazing, especially the original one and early days of WC3 / WoW where they sticked closer to it.
Ahh, War2. Frantic but relaxing at the same time!
Mods, montage, unreal challenges and caption boxes are one thing, but it's players like you that are the real life-prolonging fuel for old games. Thanks for not forgetting about this gem after all these years and kudos for beating these comps. Excellent mage bomb delivery by the way!
Orcs and Humans AI: make landfall.
Blizzard Mage: So…. You have chosen death.
it's so appropriate to win this game with mages for the army of dalaran
Great video. The strategies and editing out the less interesting parts really made it. Also that AI mod seems tough as! I remember the default Sea Attack computers would stay in tier 2 and only make ships and basic land units. But here they are landing death knights and demo teams 😂
What a game! I love the blizzard spell sound and there was sure a lot of it in this video.
I expected to see more ballistas (ballistae?), but mages and knights were enough.
War2 micro is pretty compicated, but you make it look easy.
I expected some ballista action too.
I didn't play WC2, even didn't play WC3, but it looks interesting. And I noticed that after the destruction of the pot-bellied giants, there is an advanced decomposition animation, which is not in other strategy games! Usually in other games it's just a puddle of blood or body parts, and then everything fades away.
That attention to detail is what distinguished old Blizzard as the masters of PC games!
@@StuGames the zeitgeist of the old Blizzard games will be with me always, it's irreplaceable and unbeatable for me. Let's not talk what happened in the last decade though...
Important to note though that that decomposition animation isn't just visual but is actually gameplay relevant. The death knight can reanimate corpses from killed land units but not directly after they got killed, only when they start to decay.
Many old games had such animation ^^Age of Empires, Empire Earth, KKND and so on....
@@mumblecake251 Also, ogres and knights in specific have two decomposition animations, and their corpses can only be raised when the second one initiates.
I love that mages must have 255 mana because its value is stored in a byte memory of 256 characters (edited)
@aaroncarlsback7239 Much like how Link can only hold 255 rupees in the original Legend of Zelda.
i love the “who summoned me?!” that the mages say when they’re built
I have this game to thank for getting my own computer as a kid. I was playing this in the living room for years and the nonstop command audio is probably what left my parents buying me one for my room just to not here "Jobs done" "Yes M'lord" "Jobs Done" "Jobs Done" "Very well, Very Well, Alright , Very Well" "Yes?" "Hello" "Jobs Done" "Do You need assistance?" "Jobs done" for like 4 hours a day. 😂
*Headphones* has entered the chat.
😂
Set Sail?
Aye, Captain?
Aye-aye, Sir!
Underway!
Aye Captain!
AYE AYE SIR
You're making me sea sick!
Nicely done,Stu!!!! And as I was sitting here watching this,I ACTUALLY found myself trying to click one of the buildings,then remembered I am WATCHING this on YT,not playing!!!!...lol.
I would appreciate if you could show the entire map at the beginning real quick or something. Just to give an impression of the layout 'n' such.
I guess I could look up the map name when he shows it in the beginning. I feel like there was a time I had all the multiplayer maps memorized, but that feels like ages ago.
I believe it's the blizzard map highseas combat
It's the west coast eats, aight, pistol papaya
I was young and really bad at this game i use to make custom maps and give myself an active ai ally or two with 1 peasant so I wouldnt end up accidentally recruiting my allies to my side. Its pretty cool to see someone do what I thought unthinkable as a kid and win a 1v7ai match
Huh, why did I never think of that?
I always did things where I had the Active Ally with a Town Hall far away and I'd let them build up stuff.
Once I had a map where I pitted two Active Allies against each other (once I found out they're hostile to each other) while I fought a single AI on my own side of the river...
But yeah, a single Peasant start with Active Allies... never ever thought of that to avoid recruiting them...
Ready to watch
I literally thought there was no way you were winning this, until I saw you send that scout to show everyone was out of resources, that's when I finally realized it was a survival match until that point. Excellent strategy on wiping them out with your limited army at the end.
That's usually how you win these types of maps. Since the AI doesn't have human limitations on how many units it can control (obviously) then they build like crazy and pump out units with abandon. So for the player it's all about just sitting back and letting them exhaust themselves. It's not foolproof and you still need to survive the onslaught of course, but yeah lol.
So polite to skip the base building. Rare for a Warcraft 2 video :)
So, now I am bingewatching Warcraft 2 / Starcraft vids… That’s where RUclips has got me.
It could be a lot worse. Trust me.
Sniping their turtles and submarines first was pure genius!
Turtles ARE the submarines for horde...
@@dariusgreysun I know man haha
I miss this game so much. I want to play it soooo bad.... And i must add, your a pro, you had A three pronged offensive going on with birds, knights, and mages. Props. Reminds me of when I was watching my dad play on sundays after churchxD (I was born 93')
I played so much of this game when I was a kid! I still remember getting the huge box set for Christmas.
That’s Cool man… Those Blizzard Boxsets and others like Doom2 back in the day were cool, I remember them, being only about 6, back in 1995 era and remembered the film Independence Day around that same time.
These WC2 videos of yours are outstanding, I could watch these all day. Please make more!
My younger brother, RIP, beat 7v1 on "Friends" when we were younger. I saw him do it and was so proud. This game brings back happy memories.
Sorry for your loss. What was your brother's name?
@@Ophidian14 Peter.
RIP Peter.
@@Ophidian14 Thank you. That was an iconic moment for him. I'll always remember it.
Yay :D I saw the orcs game and was hoping there was a Humans play, was sad to see not, but glad there is now :D
Merry Christmas Stu!
No easy feat at all. But man do i love this stuff. You play WC2 well.
Wow. I don't watch WC2 videos in general, but you executed this perfectly. The editing at the start, the defense, the early attack on your first opponent, different tactics in taking out each opponent at the end, all was very enjoyable!
War of attrition with heavy "artillery" focus.
Could never conceive this level of play in my youth, well done, interesting.
I appreciate all the work work work you put in to these. Very nostalgic.
Nostalgia overload! Nice job, by the way
"The mod makes computer opponents better at water combat." *Hundreds of ships just anchor in the middle of blizzards*
pure magic.
you make it look so easy and logical.
"Yesh, milord". That peasant is Sean Connery.
Did not expect to see those AI sappers. Interesting AI plugin. You weathered the storm, but only just.
Steak egg and chee bagel and Warcraft 2. Perfect morning
I love the format and brevity of these videos, incredible quality!
I played the same map on the same place against 7 enemys, too. I won,- too.
But complete other plan.
Less towers but more bomb Towers, no (!) Mage, only some Archers and Many Palas for Heal, more Balista to secure my towers and attack ships.
No technology that cost wood.
I bomb the way to north, too.
Big flying army, short attack, back to heal. Short attack, back to heal. I secure some Oil and start building transporter.
I attack and defeat another enemy before he was out of gold.
Good old time.
wow. amazing. so fast and strategic. i'd be overwhelmed by the second wave lol
Loving this before I even click play, let's goooo. Thanks for playing a water map, I know it's not popular, but I love the ship combat.
E: fkin well played!
Hello! How do I download the widescreen patch?
I am glad he kept tips at start up. Never too good at the game to learn.
23:30 Black still had a capable military force. *Had.*
This was my favorite game as a child! I spent many hours with it. Thanks and keep up the good work ;)
I love how the polymorph sound is reinstated. Found it in the sound editor as a kid, and didn't understand why it didn't work in game.
Gotta love the one knight at 23:42ish that had the presence of mind to avoid walking into the blizzard and not getting slaughtered. Then after he sees all his friends do it, decides he wants to be cool too.
First 17 minutes are so stressful. Really amazing to pull this off.
AI went for depression after managing 3 kills.
Imagine if such AI came with original game release for 10 year olds to play :D
Damn death coil sounds is one of the scariest sounds in this game when you're not the one casting it, because it means a lot of your dudes are now dead.
This is seriously impressive. The way you withstood that insane barrage of attacks all the while maintaining equilibrium, then proceeded to take everyone out in a calculated yet brutal offensive of your own 👏 probably your most accomplished/best mission. Would you agree? I don't think I've seen you beat a harder one. Yes you've beaten other very hard missions, but you were so resourceful in this one. Usually you just send out the eagles/dragons. Which is boring to watch tbh. This was fucking awesome
What's funny is that I had made that exact part of map in the thumbnail back in the day. That's wild, good times.
we are under attack. 나는 이 소리만 들어도 손이 바빠져서 정신이 나갔습니다. 오크가 쉴세없이 공격하고 bloodlust를 소리내고 마을을 공격했습니다.
Polymorph was OP af! Hilarious and still awesome, though!
you are as good as I thought I was with cheats when I was 5.
Right in the nostalgia. Thank you! Also well fought
Good playthrough. What I always noticed about these sorts of maps, playing a computer, is that they would do mass assaults at the start, and if you could survive that, you could beat them when their resources ran out - as you did here. Also, that the AI is not that smart and easy to outwit. I enjoyed this game a lot when it came out. Seeing now is fun.
I skipped to 35 seconds into the video and was like "how did he build all that so fast?!?"
Wins a 1v7.
Rank?
Knight.
Dear Blizzard, What does it take to impress you?
win without mages and gryphons
Walthrought of hard version campaign.
The ranking system in Warcraft 2 is a bit busted. lol
the rank persists through campaign i think, so it's not meant for that kind of games
Very similar strategy to what I experience - when you're on the verge of being overwhelmed almost constantly, it comes down to a matter of surviving the weak, but frequent, attacks and living long enough for the computers to run out of money. Then you can fairly effectively sweep the map.
Fortheking, foortheking, fortheking, foorthekind, atyourservices, forthekiing. Omg this brings back memories.
The annotations are a nice touch. Also polymorphing peasants because mutton is delicious.
Only 3 minutes in but the first attack wave already feels just like those demo battles that happen in the menus.
23:20 Polymorphing the Peasants is BM and hilarious.
It's funny how the yellow faction is always the last one on the list and they're listed as "Alliance/Horde" Traitors depending on who runs them.
It's like Blizzard ran out of ideas on what to call their factions and were like "Ehh, just call them Traitors" even though they could be siding with the rest of the Horde or the Alliance, etc.
Of course, Beyond The Dark Portal gave a Horde clan to the yellow faction but you only see that on Swamp tilesets.
After watching this, I have two questions:
1.) How many times did you fail this skirmish before you got this footage?
2.) What is your rank in Starcraft? You're APM is nuts to watch, and I can only imagine you being just an absolute beast to play against.
Took me perhaps 10 tries or so, but getting the map set up and calibrated with the improved AI was even more challenging =)
I didn't play a lot of Starcraft online (got to Master once in SC2), but I was pretty good in WC3 back in the day. I think I was top 10 in Reign of Chaos multiple times, but the ranking system was pretty busted. If you won too many games your internal MMR got so high that you couldn't really find games anymore, so you had to intentionally drop games in order to keep ranking up :D
@@StuGames I figured the mod aspect was likely the more difficult task to accomplish.
On the WC3 front, I remember playing ranked being a mess. Was never really good enough to tournament play, but I certainly tried.
Dog, i think i remember seeing you in the ranks on roc. I used to cruise ladder frequently
@@joshblacker3512 Me or Stu? Last I played Reign of Chaos ranked was a long while ago.
@morgrimgaming7342 Stu sounds very familiar, very well could have seen you too if the name was morgrim. morgrim sounds familiar as well. I was consistenly in a chat room with Bei and Sh1tty, pretty sure both of them were in top 100 for a long time
Knights totally say WE MOOB i can't unhear it
Not only a polymorph, but you killed him as a sheep!
Turn them all into sheep, then poke em until they explode.
Bah-ram-ewe!
As a player who normally plays against extreme AIs in Age of Empires. The warcraft 2 AI is ruthless!
Oh polymorph. The spell that annoyed my dad out of actually finishing this game.
Oh nIce!! Yeash Meelood yeash melierd
I enjoyed the orc vs 7 ai video. I've been waiting for this
«Inclement weather conditions are expected across the area.»
Damn that impressive player my man u have lighnting reflexes this must be really tough mentally too do what an PRO u are this was one of my first rts game i played and us an classic.
So many mouses clicks, your micro is legit!! 😮
God, your videos are amazing and addictive! I can watch WC2 all the time)
I really love your videos, it brings back so much memorys, but I really wish it would had commentary, would make it so much more entertaining to watch.
Maybe you can commentate over the video after playing it, when it is to difficult to commentate while playing.
Ah, the nostalgia.
*ready to serve*
how appropriate you obliterated them with mages as Nation of Dalaran :D
THANK YOU! I got more then what I hoped for!
This reminds me of AOE 2 AI when playing small islands. The AI would go absoloutly ham and rush to get all its resources but in doing so spend most of it by building tons of lumber mills
very fitting that you chose Dalaran colours 😆
Nevertheless that AI is more aggresive, the computer still remain fool. He can not think!
It so satisfying to watch these bases bein cleaned up with spells) I used mass whirwind for this purpose (and for fun) while playing for the orcs)
Like the soundtracks very much..
I allmost forget to hit like button lol. This just made my morning. Thank you Stu! 🥰😍🤩
That improved AI seems really nasty. They are very upset with your mere existance here compared to the normal one on water maps.
It's interesting that it naturally goes on the course of the medieval war.
Building walls and deploying projection weapons can only be pierced at the expense of countless lives.
incredible music for the time. they barely improved it in WC3 which was also fantastic.
and i played this on PS1, imagine the difficulty using controller, and lag at max units
Elllooo….. milloooooordd….. okkkkkkkkk…… chop chop chop
Rewatched, you're a legend man
I never knew you could blow up the rocky terrain.
I spent thousands of hours on this game, I'm so used to the AI, it's weird to see the computer send mages on transport boats. Where did you get that plugin? Does it work on GoG version of the game? Anyway, nice game and well done :)
Just stumbled upon this video. I too would like to know where to find it and such!
Hey Stu, u should play and upload SZWagier insane campaign as well. There r some XOrc levels that r truly insane to beat.
Zog zog!
Brilliant. And you're so precise with the Polymorph spell its like you're casting it yourself. What are some big mistakes the computer made that mightve cost it the game?
Widescreen high resolution is amazing
It's like watching a ballet! I love it
For some reason I recall there being a setting for a .pud to say "this is a water map, when there are AIs, make sure they use the WaterAI logic. But I think I might be thinking of an entirely different game.