SIEGE OF FORGOTTEN FORTRESS - Third Age Total War Gameplay

Third Age Total War Gameplay - It is the 2nd Age and the blue Wizards have traveled to the east to aid the easterling against Sauron. They united the tribes and the combined forces set up their defense at the forgotten fortress. Will the blue wizards guide the Easterlings to victory, or will they bend the knee to Sauron? Enjoy the Battle :D
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[@samb7805]

This map is originally a Goblin fortress in misty mountains in Divide and Conquer, which they took from dwarfs, and its pretty nicely remade :D

[@rctommy3200]

I'm seriously digging these lore-heavy Tolkienverse battles. Keep 'em coming!

[@Ganonmustdie2]

It's weird how the defenders retreated because they did a lot more damage to the attackers at the outer defenses pound for pound. Maybe they just thought it was too unfair for the attackers (even if the balance bar didn't agree) and decided to give ground so it would be a fairer fight? Or maybe the wizards were working with Sauron the whole time!!!

[@SynnoftheDarkCloud]

we ran out of ammunition, so our men would have just been targetted by their arti there, we were forced to withdraw, also we prefer to use mutliple parts of the settlements, if we killed the attackers there somehow, it would not have resulted in an epic standoff for the main square... also at the square me and kuro were able to support eachother and use his 2 archers that we held there in reserve.

[@Ganonmustdie2]

Synn DarkCloud Ah, should've realized you were running low when the crossbows got committed to melee. I noticed the enemy had a lot of elite troops left towards the end. Did you feel like you used too much ammo on their more expendable troops, or the right amount? Also, about the change of scenery-there were other secondary chokepoints that you could've gone to before reaching the town center. Any reason in particular why you didn't put up some defense there? Lastly do you think your team could've conducted the opening cav battle more effectively, and would that've made a big difference in your opinion? I'm not critiquing (Last I checked I was only good at fighting AI. Yes it's that bad.) I'm just curious about what your strategies and thought processes were mid-battle.

[@SynnoftheDarkCloud]

in the cav it was glitching alot due to cav being glitch sometimes, due to that it made it frustrating to do cycle charges not to mention all the units were completely surrounded (this is the cav battle) so i just took whatever opportunities showed themselves such as targeting archers etc... if we had held the secondary chokepoints there wouldve been no point as we wouldnt have been fighting together anymore, rather separate battles, which usulay is never good as the defenders, therefore the 2 positions of note for us were the first chokepoint and the final chokepoint, if we withdrew abit earlier and had used the catapult at better moments the battle could have gone much better . either way both sides played well, it was a gg xD

[@Ganonmustdie2]

Synn DarkCloud Thanks man!

[@tarty4038]

I don't think Rhun has ever won a battle on your channel. I'm hoping this'll be a first victory :D

[@nicksingh8061]

These kind of assumptions always prove otherwise ;)

[@gandalfthegreatestwizard7275]

Surely they've won one... no? ...

[@nicksingh8061]

gandalfthegreatestwizard A couple yea

[@AshTheMohican]

SNACKS AND DRINKS! CUSTOM SCENARIO! THIRD AGE! SIEGE! AAAAAAAAHH!!!!!1

[@ollielovell6225]

The Fighting Stork a

[@alanjhonson2298]

Fantastic video. Extremely disappointing result, it was such a beautiful defence initially, then he retreated all the way to the town centre rather than holding his ridiculously effective defensive, never fall back half way through, you've got nowhere to go, no leverage. All the progress they made with that gap in percentage at the beginning was closed up in the fighting retreat, units were thrown away piecemeal and they just couldn't hold it at the centre. Fantastic battle the end result leaves a bitter taste

[@SynnoftheDarkCloud]

yeah we didnt execute our fallback plan as well as we wanted, but due to us running out of ammo, on most our archers we inevitabley were forced to withdraw inorder to support eachother n the last fight, we could have executed it better though maybe i sacrificed too many men for that catapult lol got abit carried away there...

[@alanjhonson2298]

I always put more faith in fighting men than lucky shots but it was a difficult decision, its a real shame how the withdrawal went. The first layer was almost artful, next time mount a secondary layer half way between the front and the town centre, you'll always have trouble executing a full on retreat over any long distance, well fought though sir, i wish you'd won

[@SynnoftheDarkCloud]

in this situation you are right in the fact that the catapult slowd down my retreat by alot ^^ but if i didnt retreat with the catapult and instead used it when they swarmed me it would have been perfect id have only had to sacrifice 1 or 2 units max and get the rest back to center safely in no time since then i coulda force marched them instead of covering my catapult. was probably the biggest mistaek i made next to not saving one of the special abilities for the last 3 minutes.

[@alanjhonson2298]

Fair point, i didn't know the special abilities were limited...hell i didn't know they actually did anything, i always figured at best they slightly raised moral ?

[@SynnoftheDarkCloud]

they give very big bonuses sometimes to moral sometimes cause fear sometimes cause infightng or increase hitpoints attack armor etc they affetc the stats in different way each ^^

[@SynnoftheDarkCloud]

nice battle analysis´s apollo ^^ enjoyed this vid ^^, gg kuro was a very well made scenario

[@kurogurochan7957]

i want to see yours Carn Dum now, it's crazy !!!

[@SynnoftheDarkCloud]

haha me2 bro me2 ^^, but really this was a cool battle good job on it xD

[@Figgy_23]

Why do i get the sense you have alot of minecraft shirts, and have never been laid.

[@SynnoftheDarkCloud]

why do you think that? lol no i dont play minecraft.. i play totalwar, i like strategy, and no im not a virgin lol, dont know why id give you that impression,...

[@SynnoftheDarkCloud]

firstly... i didnt even make this map, my friend kuroguro did, and he did a good job on it. secondly i think i made about 3 maps in total in this game in my life, maybe 4... so i dont see your point ^^ and thirdly.... im studying veideogames for a proffession... so making mods is a walk in the park. not as time consuming for me unless i forget to save somewhere when it crashes... :I you just seem like haters to me tbh... ^^

[@tjsmith8348]

Wow, I remember about a year or two ago first finding this channel I believe on Gondor or Mordor campaign, I'm not sure how big the channel was at the time but looking back this has come far. Me and my friend love total war games and I just heard him talking about this channel recently and I asked him if it was this specific one, we now play some of our own little custom games together thanks to this. Thanks Pixel!

[@jakeholy4587]

NOTICE ME APOLLO Do a artillery shot montage! Like so Apollo can see

[@theuntamed3214]

Yes from the future

[@harrisonjewell6510]

@@theuntamed3214 agreement further from the future

[@dylanmckenna9193]

I liked the idea the blue wizards tried to stop Smaug but got killed

[@ryang58]

The blue wizards are in the book, but not the movie, they weren't allowed to be mentioned in the movies because peter jackson only had the rights to the lord of the rings trilogy (and then the hobbit book) the blue wizards are mostly mentioned (albeit not that much) in the silmarillion and unfinished tales, which is why in the movies when asked Gandalf cant recall there names.

[@33Dakes]

Very good. The blue wizards are always a mystery that Tolkien left up to mystery which he did quite a bit 😞

[@gandalfthegreatestwizard7275]

Quite an unnecessary line that, stereotyping grey people as forgetful...

[@33Dakes]

+gandalfthegreatestwizard shut up

[@gandalfthegreatestwizard7275]

Jacob Kelly It was a joke about what Peter Jackson wrote in the script... how did you not get that?

[@minuteman3317]

Saruman: "Rods of the five wizards". There are 3 seen in the movie. The 2 blue wizards were not, but are mentioned.

[@JustARandomFio]

Absolutely beautiful scenario and awesome battle, plus your great commentary, as usual... Thanks for the fun, really enjoyed it.

[@jamaly77]

Silver surfers nice xD Someone please give those poor guys some textures.

[@ibrahimzahid2001]

your a sick guy :)

[@GeorgeUsername0151]

Who will give them textures though?

[@shanepealow2052]

I shall start a gofundme for them

[@GeorgeUsername0151]

Drunken Beaver What?

[@grilledchicken8415]

GeorgeUsername0151 he's a drunken beaver, be proud he can type. Be REALLY proud it's proper English.

[@kanef7]

wow I said in your last video can u do a desert stronghold siege and here you go lol Cant wait to watch it :) Loving your vids Apollo

[@Solaris132]

Alatar and Palindo are the Wizards' names

[@mistercuchicuchi4068]

Apollo ty for making my day a bit better, my grandfather died today. Keep it up!

[@samtheman9002]

Really bummed out man lost one of my classes thanks for cheering me up though really, really, love these battles man.

[@criminalzot5346]

I love your work pixelated Apollo

[@Mankindatwar]

I love that you bring lore (secretly i think Tolkien was a seer that saw things from another world), and paladin bob is awesome for creating these maps. I would love to join one of your battles.

[@martinban139]

finnally one good epic siege on Third Age! Thanks man!

[@rizkyardan5760]

Looking forward of these third age custom scenario :D and i hope you play one of them :P :D

[@Observer29830]

The defender could've won, I think. It felt like everything went to hell once he left the primary defensive positions.

[@euansmith2929]

SPOILERS come on man

[@thefirstgalacticempire4746]

Jeez stop spoiling videos in the comments.

[@HIPEOPLE1887]

And lost the catapult

[@maximpact4070]

dude spoiling is really unsexy

[@thiskid12345]

Long time Knight of Apollo here. Love your videos and commentary. Like you said, I would love to see more massive Cav on Cav battles! Like an entire army of Rohirrim vs an evil faction Cavalry battle. Ask your subscribers if they can make that happen! Cheers!

[@Yeagerbonebone]

+Killer Whale Minecraft yes this is needed

[@miloneirink2805]

19:41, Actually, cave trolls could withstand sunlight under saurons power. ( I think they mention it in the books)

[@rafaelperez4127]

You are correct my friend but the only way they survive is if souron summons his dark clouds

[@qwertyqwerty-ek7dy]

Saruman the white, Gandalf the grey, Radagast the braun, and the blue wizards.... The league of justice!!!

[@PepsimVideos]

No it's The League of Justice, Justice League is copyrighted

[@senefautua3433]

Dream team

[@Coolchannels4you]

+Reckoning Bruh,you are everywhere.

[@HsienKoMeiLingFormerYANG]

Sauron Syndicate

[@lucasmagichands]

Them videos always make my day.

[@MrBigCookieCrumble]

Hi there! Something i'd really like to see in third age is a historical battle series with reversed roles of good and bad, for example: Helm's Deep Uruks defend, Rohan attacks, Rhun's cavalry come to save the defenders and trolls come instead of Ents. At Minas Tirith you have orcs defending agains't the hordes of Gondor, with rhunic cav coming instead of rohan and elven archer cav instead of Mumakils, instead of the ghost army coming to save gondor you have a swarm of nazgûls/black nümenorians/mumakils coming as the last ditch effort to save the defenders. I think it would be really fun to see!!!!!

[@Yeagerbonebone]

yes that would have been funny

[@emiliogomez3416]

I hope you never stop making videos

[@aubreyarmstrong5801]

Was waiting on this hold morning

[@gandalfthegreatestwizard7275]

The names you mentioned for the Blue Wizards were merely translations of their names among the Easterlings, as their real names were Alatar and Pallando.

[@philprangnell]

Your name says Gandalf yet your picture is of Saruman.

[@mattmol212]

+Phil Prangnell nooo.....it is gandalf, look closer

[@albertbriones5744]

Alright go to the picture And compare with them. See the differents

[@psychedelia6891]

+Phil Prangnell that's gandalf the white

[@gandalfthegreatestwizard7275]

It is most certainly Gandalf, I would know as I have watched those movies many times and it IS my profile picture...

[@hschmidleys5410]

Pixelated Apollo do a every man for himself battle of 4 armies, (you can choose the armies)

[@brandonnesbit7465]

Yes please

[@gandalfthegreatestwizard7275]

There have been two of these, and one fairly recently, but another would not go amiss I suppose.

[@luckycat624]

I believe you mean Battle of 5 armies? Like the Hobbit Movie? It's 5, not 4. Just letting you know. If not then my bad

[@gandalfthegreatestwizard7275]

The Lunar Gamer No, I believe he means simply a four player FFA like several we have had on this channel so far, the ones where the players have to rush in to the middle as fast as possible.

[@luckycat624]

gandalfthegreatestwizard oh, like the one in the valley range in mordor, with the dwarves elves and arnor rushing for Mordors castle? Makes sense i guess. Maybe Pixellated Apollo could do one with FIVE players?

[@stormpaintball6498]

Continue the great work P.A ;)

[@asainog1093]

i luv ur third age battles

[@clashyroyale3443]

great vid love it

[@mmmax8646]

I always watch your videos keep it up

[@kesterallan8104]

Great video

[@mrdepixelatedpotato6222]

I know i ask for this a lot but would it be possible for another siege week it would be great :D

[@whatsnerdypodcast3649]

Yes

[@jacktaylor8306]

Ok

[@alexbove1990]

Siege week please

[@Cuheru]

yes

[@christopherweaver9317]

Siege week would be cool.

[@blz4849]

Yes! Another third age video!

[@Piiiskotak]

This one was amazing !!!!

[@pipipoe5486]

they were mentioned in the first hobbit movie. They were also mentioned a few times in Shadow of Mordor but most might have missed it, they were talked about in the stories en descriptions you got when finding the collectibles.

[@HrothgarHeavenlight]

It's a misty Mountain settlement in DAC , of course without snow, old dwarven fortress, named Zagh Kala. And if you play dwarves often you attack or defend this place, sometimes to invasions.

[@kyknosmemnon9181]

wonderful battle

[@mike990]

Truly incredible.

[@haydenhansen4447]

Blue wizards names are Pallando and Alatar, they went to the east and weakened the forces of Mordor there to stop a huge army of Easterling and Haradrim charging to Mordors aid.

[@94SwedishGuy]

As always, never fail to amuse us :D

[@jesseklassen8763]

50:24....that catapult saved quite a few rhunic lives by absorbing those javies

[@emiliogomez3416]

Your shirt looks soooo cool

[@rixo7001]

I lov ju widios Pixelated Apollo :)

[@sworntoavenge]

Pixelated Apollo, the wizards names were Alatar (after-comer) and Pallando, (far or distant) or Morinehtar (Darkness-slayer) and Rómestámo. (East-Helper) (as you said).

[@levirowan8116]

Great commentating

[@StephenStine]

There are two kinds of trolls in this world: Fictional Trolls and Internet Trolls

[@dhananjaysharma2764]

Superrrrr awesomeeeeee!

[@thezeroalchemist277]

Great scenario for the forgotten blue wizards

[@Elliskierkane]

I loved this episode watched it in full

[@aneesahmed929]

:) love your vids

[@boltonforthenorth5466]

Rhun where allies of Mordor when Alatar and Pallando, aka the blue wizards arrived. Their job was to make the easterlings rebel against the will of Sauron. So to say it was before they where allies is false. The east has alway been favorable of Morgoth and his servants. And the greater evil they might have fought could be Ungoliant. We really dont know what happened to her. Her hunger supposedly made her devour herself but it has never been confirmed. And since she most likely would have killed Morgoth, if not for his balrogs, i think it is safe to say she is stronger then Sauron.

[@snowhood2]

The ruins layout is zagh kala almost identically just desert version. Looks cool.

[@kieranmalenoir8705]

does anyone know what the name of piece of music is that is played for the 1st 2 minutes of the video?

[@Lolbanaan123456789]

Nice settlement

[@radrev.7818]

" Skins not working" actually just a unit of sliver surfers. Little did you know, Mordor is breeding more than just orcs.

[@protozoanpro]

Epic description

[@BattiArts]

47:50 Dat 360! xD

[@Theframeinator]

Hello, I was wondering, I installed the file for the custom battle, but it crashes, whenever I try to play it through the "historical battles" section. please help!

[@sarahjanereeve]

Really enjoyable slugfest.

[@totalkurddeath]

nothing can defeat the mighty mauntain DEW!

[@colesmith9105]

The blue wizards actually failed in the east then went west and fought against gundabad but they left middle earth with the third wave of elves which was 1 wave before the wave when Gandalf and frodo left.

[@babisassar5286]

i love third age for me its the best total war game👌hello apollo play more often

[@thepopestar9135]

I am a huge fan of Alatar and Pallando, so here is my theorie: They travelled east and persuade many of the soldiers of Rhun and Khand to betray Sauron. They had some kind of political battle going on and in the end they fought in a great battle against Saurons Haradrim and Rhun-soldiers, they were defeated but they did create huge losses for Sauron. They may have died but no one knows. Obviously they experienced many adventures in their time in the east. You can expand the storyline at will. Please, TV-Show PLEASE!

[@AdmiralAckbar.]

Awesome angle at 56:48 and the few coming moments

[@ianfadrillan7526]

The retainers have a medieval look

[@garrettritch4666]

"The defenders are at 69%, Giggity" -Apollo 2016

[@drachen3222]

with massive battels like this i increase the speed

[@Marco-gn5fj]

I'm early, lets make a joke: orcs of the misty mountains

[@HIPEOPLE1887]

+AC they're trash

[@chandleradams1837]

Orc lives matter!

[@gandalfthegreatestwizard7275]

I'm thinking those OMM trolls are so bad that about seven Fountain Guards could effectively take one down... or eight Swan Knights... or even six Beserkers... yeah, they're shit. Better than other infantry man for man- good at disrupting formations and killing weak units- good for taking out objectives- strong versus cavalry- but shit.

[@gandalfthegreatestwizard7275]

AC Better than the cave trolls, I suppose, but still not good enough for a faction that already has shitty infantry, archers, and cavalry.

[@Therapingunicorn1]

The Orc of the Misty Mountains is a pain in the ass to be at war with in the campaign, try using the silvan elves on very hard mode so you see.

[@mikedicewrites]

Rhun Vs Mordor: Grabs popcorn.

[@orionslaver432]

Where do we get these maps you've been playing lately for Third Age? They've been pretty epic and I can't find them in the maps that came with the mod.

[@jjjuuhhnnjjqa5653]

Dat was epic

[@darkhorsearmor3513]

I came back to this episode for the music

[@cup6669]

waking up to pixe voice awesome!

[@stefanlofven5195]

Apollo you are close to 200 k subs

[@RemusKingOfRome]

Thank YOU for promoting Med 2 and it's mods and not jumping on the Warhammer band wagon like a CA sycophant.

[@vulkanlives9776]

rhun is doing a good job as defenders, seems like an overall great faction

[@ziga4870]

If I am not mistaken that is the Zagh Kala map from Divide and Conquer but with an eastern feel.

[@anjalisalvi8888]

I think if the defender had bought infantry instead of the catapults and if they had not wasted that one guard unit they would have won

[@kurogurochan7957]

Houray to Easterlings!

[@paladinbob1236]

:P

[@SynnoftheDarkCloud]

:3

[@tayoobsolomons8670]

+paladinbob 123 you You good bro

[@SynnoftheDarkCloud]

that was kuro not me xD

[@kurogurochan7957]

it was my clan guard haha, actually i wanted to retreat them and then i just wanted to make a small last stand in the ring. so it was totally on purpose, a total waste, that's cost me a lot after that as you could see ahaha

[@codemancz798]

Probably answered before, but what's the first music from this video?

[@batmunkhulzii4523]

Hi The legend Apollo I have a questions. I am a beginner /noob :)/ for Third Age Total War. I have just downloaded 3.2 patch. Is there any more patches or something?

[@Luis83982]

PA why you don´t do battles online of divide and conquer ,the submod of Third Age Total War . Great video and great siege

[@Hroros]

Muhad beastmasters are very underrated, I had a Unit 5 killing a whole unit of heavy cav bodyguards(arnor), 21 of them .

[@Cuheru]

If I was in that situation, I probably would have charged out the wizards when it looks like they were going to break though and tried to run down the witch king. Still, awesome battle!

[@matthewg5374]

I love how if the general dies your men lose hope it has happened so much throughout history

[@zmaj5437]

So I have been trying to install this mod for weeks now, and it keeps getting the same error " Third Age has not been totally installed becuase of the following reason: mods/Third_Age_3/alpine _forest.texture. This file contains invalid data (error 21FC)" It then says i must redo the utility again in order to install the mod, but I keep doing that and nothing seems to work, can someone please help me.

[@mike990]

I want to see more battles here maybe with multiple teams like a king of the hill type battle.

[@bradyholdredge7759]

Gandalf talked about all the Wizards in hobbit

[@dylanlake7454]

You should do a siege of Helms deep but with a spin on it by making the defenders from the evil factions and the attackers from the good guy factions

[@tomnock3157]

I love all of your vid please could you do Gondar vs lisongrad

[@generalbutton]

I know about the Two Blue Wizards! I feel smart today :D

[@CexarCS]

Wow just got home got my 2 panninis sandwiches and tea, open yt and here it is. Third Age pixi vid :D... So happy

[@euansmith2929]

I read in a fact thing that the two blue wizards were sent to slow down sarons army and weaken it but were killed in doing so

[@fasasdadad5945]

does pixalated Apollo have a video or a list of his pc specs??? as well as mods used? my total war atilla looks a lot different than his

[@killerbro7316]

bro u are awesome