yea Apollo i know what u mean with chokepoints ^^, but thats why i made a rule for the defenders, that only once they lose 70% of their forces they can withdraw to the castle, which i hoped would make up for chokepoint-like battle, of course i wanted to use the settlement a little bit ^^ so i still allowed Abit of the end-fighting to happen in there, hope u somewhat agree with this decision ^^, anyways great commentary as always, glad u enjoyed the scenario of course ^^. cheers
Synn of the DarkCloud What I've noticed about your Third Age battles: 1. Good vs Evil 2. You play as badies 3. Good guy defenders lose 4. Good guy attackers lose 5. Good guys lose 6. Dont face Dark Cloud when he's the bad guym Maybe have you play as the good guys?
I love all your custom scenarios Synn but I have a question : Don't you give too much to Evil Factions? Because on siege battle when Good is defender they usually have one less player to make for the defense bonus but when they're on attacking side like in that one the forces are even (see the balance of power) so the battle isn't really fair. Why? Is it because Evil factions "sucks" ? It's true that Uruks can't win VS most Elven/ Man elites one-on-one but they are cheaper and have more of them in one unit to balance, without even talking about Trolls or Nazguls ! Once again I really love your work and I hope to see a lot more of it in the future but please can you consider this message as an advice from a fan?
Actually, Isildur had a brother, Anárion, who was killed by artillery during the siege of Barad-Dûr, prior to the battle of Mount Down shown in the prologue of the film, so those general snipes by catapults are actually quite lore accurate.
I'm rooting for some Dwarves vs goblins to be honest! Or maybe gondorian fiefdoms vs corsairs. Heck if divide and conquer is stable enough i'd love to see beornings vs angmar!
Nice battle replay Pix. I love those massive Elven armies, because they are so glorious with all their golden armies. And great work Synn. I can not imagine how much time you and other makers spend for giving life to third age, so please go on because you are doing a great job. Love to watch a third age replay during my homework :D
with the camera freaking out like that. wouldnt it be easy just to make a mod that ignores terrain and is kinda like a noclip tool? I'm no modder so i wouldnt know though
You could remove collisions from the buildings, then your camera glitches through them, however your archers and catapults will be able to shoot their projectiles through them aswell, thats what happens in the osgiliath custom settlement btw.
yes, I love third age so much, I subscribe this chanel just because of third age battles, cus I love LOTR. seven kingdom is good as well. BTW, the Elves is my favorite faction.
hey pixie just wanted to let you know how awesome of a youtuber you are i don't even play total war games but I watch these videos cause your such an awesome commentator keep doing. what your doin!!
So the thing is: I'm always rooting for the good guys! And usually the good guys are the Defenders. When the good guys defend they are outnumbered by a lot. But now they attack and are still outnumbered? And Orcs still have these OP Trolls! And get lucky af to annihilate an Elite Unit and 2 Generals with 3 Artilery shots? I mean, WTF? Just just want them to lose! Ok what i really am trying to say is, that these battles are super fun to watch. You always manage to get me super hyped and I'm sure I'm not the only one, seeing how everybody is upset, when the Defenders lost again. :D So just keep up the good work Apollo. This is amazing :)
I actually have so much love for pixie, channel is bloody awesome man, and its grown so fast im very happy for you. Makes boring asf shifts at work bearable haha :)
After watching it carefully it's hard to see anywhere the defenders don't hold with the high ground advantage, expertly played. Amazing battle, thanks PA!
Really excellent custom map and battle. I think this is exceptionally balanced and evil did a fantastic job end game defending the slopes. The supressing archer fire really punished the attackers for expending all their ammo early game! Synn of the Dark Cloud and Paladin Bob are legends :D
I know why good guy defenders always lose their armies Everytime is less than the attacking bad guy army and right now they make it even for the bad guys.
YES!!! Even though there was no Isengard in this battle I LOVED this video due to the slaughter of the attacking generals in the last few minutes XD XP Also there should be a field battle between all the good armies and all the evil armies but they only consist of their most elite units (e.g. Mordor would be the Dismounted & Mounted Black Numenoreans (I think that's how you spell out), Isengard would be guards of Orthanc etc.) and the only archers that would be in the battle would be if they were elite as well
Not only did the Defenders win, but evil won. The armies were pretty even in number and they didn't even try to really cheese it at choke points. Really great battle. They gave up the gate, allowed the good guys to push in. Freakin' great battle nicely done. One of the evil armies even topped the elven armies in kills, that's nuts.
Nice battle. Feels like the real siege when the last alliance happen apart from that the Orcs win and that the eye is there but eitherway really cool with big armies
Apollo, i want u to know i everyday wait for a battle with your commentary. Pls. keep uploding videos, u're great and so far my favourite youtuber. I hope u will hit 1000000 subscraibers one day. :)
I have watched tons of your videos for years and they are great. If you don't mind I would like to see a "meet on the battlefield, line to line battle" that would be awesome. Keep up the fun content.
Hey Apollo, how about this as a Third Age scenario? Rough idea. The defenders are in a *extremely* advantageous position, not necessarily bottlenecks so no boring Thermopylae situation, but are just difficult to reach, and are composed solely of elite units. The catch is that they are outnumbered by the attackers 10-to-1. OR... Another idea. Orcs are laying siege a city. The thing is that the attacking Orcs are actually outnumbered by the defenders rather than the other way around. The Orcs are made up only of elite units and the defenders, while much more numerous, and made up of the absolute lowest tier units possible. I don't know how that would play out but it seems like something interesting enough to worth a try.
Imagine you're that one lone archer 42:30 . "Oh, I know what. I'll stay here and use my life to bait out the enemy archers. My death for their arrows." Like, who would even think like that. :P
Lord of the rings is legit though, love those movies. The Hobbit trilogy is a horrible horrifying bastardisation of the novelisation and it makes me sick
I SAlute to the creator of this scenario.great job...i love all these scenarios . apollo your nice and funny commentary makes me laugh sometimes,creating some wierd and freaky but good imagination..i'm your no. 1 fans here in the philippines..I am hoping to have a battle play with you..and also jackie fish..
I personally love the vido great job pixelated apollo and synn of the dark cloud, but I feel like there should have been 1 eleven army, 1 dwarves army, 1 gondorian army and one arnorian army. I mean this would have made the battle in my opinion not only more fun to watch, but more lore accurate as well!!! But otherwise great vid kee up the amazing work man
Sorry Apollo, we tried but they still complain. But then again, they didn't specifically say that they wanted the good guys to win a defense. But maybe we manage to do that sometime soon :D But i think you might already have a replay where the good guys actually win a defense but you said something about recording problems? Maybe give that another try :D
no we just REALLY NEED the good guys to win a def, it's been so long i forgot the last time it happened, tho them(good guys) winning a battle is getting rare too.
The coders produced a great map but missed a trick by not putting a beam/light source from the eye onto the battlefield. Maybe where you point/travel to with the camera or random. It would be a cool effect
this was great pix .alittle bothered the ekves lost there army seemed assuring .but those black numenorians are stronger than the olog high at times lol great video
we tested it like 5 x with sauron everytime it crashed at random points, then i removed sauron and it worked like a charm.. im afraid sauron was just too crashy for this scenario :(
Synn of the DarkCloud That's bad bro ... Sauron is my favourite character that's why i wanted to see him in this siege :( Anyway great battle it was an epic siege! ! :D
"Great defense by the attackers here"
lmao
"A great defense is the best offense"
- Napoleon Bonaparte
Joshua Murphy lol.
@@Yuuzer_ That is why he lost the 3 invasions against my country ;))
Oh my god
0:00 - 51:48 MOST EPIC PART
lol
No it's too 'short'
It's not the defenders that never win, it's the good guys who never win
It's funny how by each videos the number of viewers expands exponentially !
Great work Synn! Great work Pixie!
PS:
All hail myself by the way!
KuroGuroChan yeah all hail u kuru, hope I see a battle from u soon
All hail KuroGuroChan!
PS:
More dwarven armies plz
PPS: Less OP dwarves pls.
xD
yea Apollo i know what u mean with chokepoints ^^, but thats why i made a rule for the defenders, that only once they lose 70% of their forces they can withdraw to the castle, which i hoped would make up for chokepoint-like battle, of course i wanted to use the settlement a little bit ^^ so i still allowed Abit of the end-fighting to happen in there, hope u somewhat agree with this decision ^^, anyways great commentary as always, glad u enjoyed the scenario of course ^^. cheers
cheers
Synn of the DarkCloud What I've noticed about your Third Age battles:
1. Good vs Evil
2. You play as badies
3. Good guy defenders lose
4. Good guy attackers lose
5. Good guys lose
6. Dont face Dark Cloud when he's the bad guym
Maybe have you play as the good guys?
yes i win some and lose some as good guys 2.. idek i barely remember what i win and lose really lol...
I love all your custom scenarios Synn but I have a question : Don't you give too much to Evil Factions? Because on siege battle when Good is defender they usually have one less player to make for the defense bonus but when they're on attacking side like in that one the forces are even (see the balance of power) so the battle isn't really fair. Why? Is it because Evil factions "sucks" ? It's true that Uruks can't win VS most Elven/ Man elites one-on-one but they are cheaper and have more of them in one unit to balance, without even talking about Trolls or Nazguls ! Once again I really love your work and I hope to see a lot more of it in the future but please can you consider this message as an advice from a fan?
Wait bro something big is coming !
Now, let's see if history repeats itself:
General crushed by catapult.
that gave me a laugh xD
Actually, Isildur had a brother, Anárion, who was killed by artillery during the siege of Barad-Dûr, prior to the battle of Mount Down shown in the prologue of the film, so those general snipes by catapults are actually quite lore accurate.
The next scenarios will be special ones! Prepare your asses boyz!
dwarves vs elves please
KuroGuroChan download link please I'll die
I'm rooting for some Dwarves vs goblins to be honest! Or maybe gondorian fiefdoms vs corsairs. Heck if divide and conquer is stable enough i'd love to see beornings vs angmar!
Pizza rolls, A mug of apple cider, and a heartwarming, inspiring, epic tolkien battle through the smooth voice of Pixelated Apollo
Nice battle replay Pix. I love those massive Elven armies, because they are so glorious with all their golden armies. And great work Synn. I can not imagine how much time you and other makers spend for giving life to third age, so please go on because you are doing a great job. Love to watch a third age replay during my homework :D
finally the map that i was waiting to see
thank you apollo
with the camera freaking out like that. wouldnt it be easy just to make a mod that ignores terrain and is kinda like a noclip tool? I'm no modder so i wouldnt know though
or maybe something so that structures don't count to the terrain
or maybe even a toggle so when you get to a wall you toggle the noclip tool. imagine the cinematics
You could remove collisions from the buildings, then your camera glitches through them, however your archers and catapults will be able to shoot their projectiles through them aswell, thats what happens in the osgiliath custom settlement btw.
The Orc battle cry: KEK KEK KEK
(kill me please)
dylan pheifer trolls are like really big dumb orcs 😂😂
They're not really. Trolls are corrupted ents and orcs are corrupted elves.
Joe Bloomer dude it was i joke i am a very big lotr are fan and know much about it so you don't need to correct me if i making a joke
Have memes gone too far? when are we gonna see the kekistan empire vs the hordes of cuckingdom
Do you know how i found this channel?
My fate brought me here
JVAAWESOME ohhhhhhhhhhh
check out my ppap video
no i dont
the name is good
thanx bro
Who came here just to watch third age
No, I came here to watch Napoleon. Lo and behold, the tile and thumbnail somehow didn't tip me off that it was third age.
I am a pacifist. The title lead me to believe this was a video of peace, so I reported PA.
yes, I love third age so much, I subscribe this chanel just because of third age battles, cus I love LOTR. seven kingdom is good as well. BTW, the Elves is my favorite faction.
I love lotr
just for lord of the rings battles and because pixelated is the best commentator ever
"The Trolls are OP,Less Trolls, OP!!" actually made me laugh, no idea why
I like how PA does the thumbnails. They're pretty legit.
Michael Miller haha thanks
Pixelated Apollo What's the song in the beginning of the video? The 1st song that played I've been looking for it everywhere.
Michael Miller p
Elves try to flank. Sauron notices and his voice rings across the battlefield, "I see you."
hey pixie just wanted to let you know how awesome of a youtuber you are i don't even play total war games but I watch these videos cause your such an awesome commentator keep doing. what your doin!!
lmao this guy's comentary always makes his total war battle videos so enjoyable to watch
#DEFENDERSAINTGONNAWIN
Get it? 'Cause it's the damn orcs!
Orcs lives matter!!!
check out my ppap video
JVAAWESOME Did you have to comment 3 times?
So the thing is: I'm always rooting for the good guys! And usually the good guys are the Defenders. When the good guys defend they are outnumbered by a lot. But now they attack and are still outnumbered? And Orcs still have these OP Trolls! And get lucky af to annihilate an Elite Unit and 2 Generals with 3 Artilery shots? I mean, WTF? Just just want them to lose!
Ok what i really am trying to say is, that these battles are super fun to watch. You always manage to get me super hyped and I'm sure I'm not the only one, seeing how everybody is upset, when the Defenders lost again. :D
So just keep up the good work Apollo. This is amazing :)
7:38 "This is why the evil guys never win" TRIGGERED
47:49 That one brave catapult crew...he will not be forgotten
Well, the Siege of Barad-Dur did take seven years so there were plenty of battles that the Last Alliance 'lost'.
Only 12 minutes in and much thanks to every one in this battle for such a great one, y'all are awesome I love battles involving arnor
No problemo, thank Synn most of all
I actually have so much love for pixie, channel is bloody awesome man, and its grown so fast im very happy for you. Makes boring asf shifts at work bearable haha :)
dinner+pixelate apollo third age total war=amazing evening
Reporting in, M'Lord Apollo!
Pixelated apollo please use the dwarves
+Punisher Safwan (Safy) i don't think apollo woulde like the dwarfs too slow for him
Darko Mihajlovski ok thx
After watching it carefully it's hard to see anywhere the defenders don't hold with the high ground advantage, expertly played. Amazing battle, thanks PA!
Pixelated Apollo-
To be honest orcs hate each other as much as they hate humans.
Wow Another Mordor victory haven't seen that before
I love a good siege battle. Trolls are fun. Keep em coming Apollo
Apollo,a humble request,when you think a battle is snack worthy,just put EPIC in the title,so we can get prepared before hand.
Then people will start complaining about clickbait tho
Really excellent custom map and battle. I think this is exceptionally balanced and evil did a fantastic job end game defending the slopes. The supressing archer fire really punished the attackers for expending all their ammo early game! Synn of the Dark Cloud and Paladin Bob are legends :D
Matt cries hard
I just stared at the map, a tear came down from my eyes like Grima Wormtongue first seeing Saruman's army... HOLY SHIT... ALL THOSE UNITS...
trolls are OP
trollcats are OP
black numenoreans are OP
orcs can never be defenders
therefore defenders never win
orc lives don't matter
The trolls are called olog hai
Its ya boi Apollo back at it again with dem third age uploads
The evil faction win all the time..it's true ! ^^'
Marc Guilherm the Internet trolls are OP
Marc Guilherm its ORC BIAS
loch urquhart we should build a wall and make the OP trolls pay for that wall
As soon as I saw the eye in the thumbnail I was like this is gonna be an epic battle
How would you feel about some sub commander battles?
I stayed up All night to see this that's how much I love this guy
apollo have u ever made a sale on the shirts
harambow H yeah, I think I have sold about 70 of them
apollo responded to me yaaaaay! good job
I know why good guy defenders always lose their armies Everytime is less than the attacking bad guy army and right now they make it even for the bad guys.
harambow H I think he has
nah, both sides can win this battle, just depends whos at the helm of the armies. tested it over a dozen times, its very balanced.
man, i love pixedapollo´s videos, he publishes the most epic battles he deserves the 230k subs he currently has!
YES!!! Even though there was no Isengard in this battle I LOVED this video due to the slaughter of the attacking generals in the last few minutes XD XP Also there should be a field battle between all the good armies and all the evil armies but they only consist of their most elite units (e.g. Mordor would be the Dismounted & Mounted Black Numenoreans (I think that's how you spell out), Isengard would be guards of Orthanc etc.) and the only archers that would be in the battle would be if they were elite as well
Not only did the Defenders win, but evil won. The armies were pretty even in number and they didn't even try to really cheese it at choke points. Really great battle. They gave up the gate, allowed the good guys to push in. Freakin' great battle nicely done. One of the evil armies even topped the elven armies in kills, that's nuts.
Drinking game: Take a shot every time Apollo says "that tower in the background"
Pixie Poo ? Third Age ?! Three Minutes Ago ?!?! * Faints *
That was a perfect video to watch this morning. I grabbed my coffey and watched it. :) thanks for that.
Orcs win + Defender win = Best Battle of all times.
These custom scenarios are bloody fantastic.
im from germany but i just love your third age. your RUclips Channel is great!
wow that's a very cool battle!good job apolo ;)!i want to see more battles like this one
Nice battle. Feels like the real siege when the last alliance happen apart from that the Orcs win and that the eye is there but eitherway really cool with big armies
OH MY GURD!!!! JUST STARTED THE VID AND ALREADY MY FACE FROZE, THIS WILL BE EPIC!!!!!! I LOVE THIS MOD.
Apollo, i want u to know i everyday wait for a battle with your commentary. Pls. keep uploding videos, u're great and so far my favourite youtuber. I hope u will hit 1000000 subscraibers one day. :)
Thank you knight Apollo for this huge siege, we love you !!!
I have watched tons of your videos for years and they are great. If you don't mind I would like to see a "meet on the battlefield, line to line battle" that would be awesome. Keep up the fun content.
Again a funny story of about a character, the holog haï here, thank you sir Apollo !
The battle is so intense I spontaneously combusted in the first minute
One of the best battles I've ever seen
Pixe keep those epic battles of third age i love them bro :)
Apollo: Looks like those archers ran out of ammo
Me: *Looks at Elves and sees arrows in their quivers*
Wha.....
thank you apollo for this third age total war keep it up man
Hey Apollo, how about this as a Third Age scenario? Rough idea. The defenders are in a *extremely* advantageous position, not necessarily bottlenecks so no boring Thermopylae situation, but are just difficult to reach, and are composed solely of elite units. The catch is that they are outnumbered by the attackers 10-to-1. OR...
Another idea. Orcs are laying siege a city. The thing is that the attacking Orcs are actually outnumbered by the defenders rather than the other way around. The Orcs are made up only of elite units and the defenders, while much more numerous, and made up of the absolute lowest tier units possible.
I don't know how that would play out but it seems like something interesting enough to worth a try.
In your second idea the orcs would lose.
i like the soundtracks that apollo puts in the battles
Lol a tear coming down saurons eye I was dying 😂😂😂
Imagine you're that one lone archer 42:30 . "Oh, I know what. I'll stay here and use my life to bait out the enemy archers. My death for their arrows." Like, who would even think like that. :P
А teardrop just landed on the floor... Why always the side i'm for loses?!? :D
Got snacks. Its Saturday. Pixelated Apollo Video.
I think I'm good.
I'm cooking dinner while watching this,I will have snacks for once
Because of you i started watching the lord of the rings again!
Boyd s I watched them since I was 3 years old in 2005 and I never stopped since then
me2 ! i love the lord of the rings trilogy ( and now with the hobits series)
Pfft anyone can watch them, real ringers read them, also the Hobbit movies suck arse
Lord of the rings is legit though, love those movies. The Hobbit trilogy is a horrible horrifying bastardisation of the novelisation and it makes me sick
GlazedGamer I have every single book
I loved this video So much! DAMN! Apollo, You are one blessed man...MAY ALL HAIL THAT LOVELY BEARD-MONSTER! ALL MATURE MEN SHALL GROW BEARDS! RAAAAH!
Nice vid pixel that was awesome and your the best keep it up
Yay,a battle where mordor is defending!
A great battle although Mordor won it was still great
Food, water, and a 50 minute Apollo video :D
this is the best battle in forever. love it so much.
I SAlute to the creator of this scenario.great job...i love all these scenarios
. apollo your nice and funny commentary makes me laugh sometimes,creating some wierd and freaky but good imagination..i'm your no. 1 fans here in the philippines..I am hoping to have a battle play with you..and also jackie fish..
Hello from cambodia, I believe I'm the only cambodian fan haha love your videos been watching from number 105 up to 1.
I personally love the vido great job pixelated apollo and synn of the dark cloud, but I feel like there should have been 1 eleven army, 1 dwarves army, 1 gondorian army and one arnorian army. I mean this would have made the battle in my opinion not only more fun to watch, but more lore accurate as well!!! But otherwise great vid kee up the amazing work man
Love the music
Also: ELVES ARE THE BEST!
The only certainty in life is that nothing matters, and no one will remember us when the universe is cold and empty
Thomas Brogan very true, we are the universe, made from the star dust. We are the universe self aware for a short period of time. Enjoy it :D
Pixelated Apollo the universe and I are one and when it becomes completely empty of everything I will be too.
lol deep talks guys, honestly i don't agree, i believe we have something to live for.
i never said we don't have anything to live for. We make our own destiny
Pixelated Apollo yes but in the end, nothing matters
There should be a book full of pixelated apollos funniest quotes and sayings and corny jokes
Sorry Apollo, we tried but they still complain. But then again, they didn't specifically say that they wanted the good guys to win a defense. But maybe we manage to do that sometime soon :D But i think you might already have a replay where the good guys actually win a defense but you said something about recording problems? Maybe give that another try :D
Its just ppl trolling son, it will never be good enough for them. Next time when the elves or something win, the elves are a op faction.
no we just REALLY NEED the good guys to win a def, it's been so long i forgot the last time it happened, tho them(good guys) winning a battle is getting rare too.
Son of Imladris you ruined it
How did i ruin it?
His second online match video was eriador winning a defensive battle against orcs of the Misty mountains.
The glorious third age uploads intensifies
I love the noldor and high elves helmets, very spartan
THIS IS SPARTA
sorry I couldn't think of something that would go with that
What background music is that called
Wow what a epic battle, hope there will be more videos like this
At the end "It was a good defense of the Attackers here" xD
The coders produced a great map but missed a trick by not putting a beam/light source from the eye onto the battlefield. Maybe where you point/travel to with the camera or random. It would be a cool effect
apollo probably had to go though 100 screen shots to find the right one, you could tell he was taking screen shots.
"Not a great shot but it looked cool" it's a catapult... ALL THE SHOTS LOOK COOL
KingofPros21 👍🏻
this was great pix .alittle bothered the ekves lost there army seemed assuring .but those black numenorians are stronger than the olog high at times lol great video
Siege of barad dur without Sauron ??!! XD
Anyway great battle !!
:D
we tested it like 5 x with sauron everytime it crashed at random points, then i removed sauron and it worked like a charm.. im afraid sauron was just too crashy for this scenario :(
Synn of the DarkCloud
That's bad bro ... Sauron is my favourite character that's why i wanted to see him in this siege :(
Anyway great battle it was an epic siege! ! :D
22:20 had me in tears 😂😂😂
haha yea
i always prepare myself with chips and cookies everyday PA uploads :p
The Apollo Templars reporting for duty sir
watching old vids for the nostalgia while wondering if Apollo will post a vid today
Third Age is a Sunday's fix. Thanks Apollo !
i dont like that they always forget about dwarves and silvan elves. still very good video