1000 Peasants vs 50 Ogre Mages - Warcraft 2 FIGHT CLUB

Watch huge A.I. armies battle it out in the WarCraft 2 Fight Club. Can you predict the winner of each round?
In Episode 4 of the Fight Club, Peasants, Ogre Mages, Paladins with Exorcism, Giant Turtles and Alliance heroes fight epic AI battles in the Fightclub arena! Who will emerge victorious?
This video is made possible by the Warcraft 2 widescreen / high resolution patch created by fois, as well as the trigger editor created by Mistral (Ed Gorod)!

[@Nihiliste-]

One dead Peasant is a tragedy, a thousand dead peasants a statistic

[@RandomBattler]

819 dead peasants is a victory.

[@tyomies6168]

*autistic.

[@janzalud216]

thousand dead peasants is warcraft :D

[@ly8370]

Stop stealing the classic line from Red Alert 1's Joseph Stalin. 😂

[@XCroxousX]

​@@RandomBattler dunno why i laughed too hard at this

[@Quitarstudent]

i find it funny that blizz made only two faction game with 90% identical units and they still coudlnt balance it because of bloodlust :D:D

[@ivankuzin8388]

They needed to add auto-heal to Paladins - yes, it is proven a much weaker ability, but for most (casual) players the need to micro the bloodlust vs auto-cast of heal would've balanced that out )

[@X3MgamePlays]

Yip, they made a mistake there. Undoing damage isn't the same as twice the damage. On paper, it sounds perfectly balanced. In reality, the paladin player needs to be perfect in skills. The magic cost is off though, but I forgot by how much. Bloodlust should cost more magic.

[@Quitarstudent]

@@X3MgamePlays dunno the % dmg of bloodlust (100%?¨) but it could be just lowered to balance it

[@X3MgamePlays]

@@Quitarstudent You are right. 50% would be more than enough. Also, armor is subtracted after the bloodlust is applied.

[@gamemaster2638]

@@X3MgamePlays Actually, Bloodlust triples Ogres damage. It doubles both normal and piercing damage and, at results, Ogre deal triple damage.

[@Ostsol]

This might sound sadistic, but I love how the OM's Bloodlust battle cry blends so well into the sound of peasants dying.

[@MrCantStopTheRobot]

WC2 has a lot of great sound design. Especially the soundtrack.

[@Dowell318]

LOVE THESE VIDEOS!!! I really thought the turtles would beat the destroyers, as the copter couldn't reveal them all at the same time, especially once they'd encircled the destroyers...but the weakness of the turtles came out quickly as the circle began to close and the copter could reveal them without having to travel as far. Wow! Loved it!

[@sphtpfhorbrains3592]

LOVE THESE VIDEOS TOO!!! I picked all matches correctly except for "Alliance vs Grunts & Beserkers" and "Death Knights vs Paladins". One's Warcraft instincts get really challenged by these matchups. Oftentimes it's good to go with the side that seems like the obvious underdog (especially in terms of costing less resources overall).

[@user-nu4gt6gv4y]

Excellent! I had same thoughts.

[@Inquisitor_Exterminatusov]

Yes, me too

[@benwierchowski3496]

I also put my money on the turtles

[@Dowell318]

So many of these fight club fights, come down to the auto-tactics of the units. For instance, in that last battle where the alliance fought the horde...the archers were dispersed throughout the melee units...but if the melee units had led out, and the arch had stayed back behind them, the result may have been different. Though bloodlust is OP as hell.

[@sphtpfhorbrains3592]

As a spectator in the fighting pits of Azeroth, always put your gold on the bloodlust ogres.

[@washtubz]

You want that though because otherwise they can't support the melee fighters against the demons. Blood lust just too strong

[@user-xu2pi6vx7o]

@@sphtpfhorbrains3592 Peasant army says hi.

[@blackberrypriv6311]

also the heros vs grunts and berserker one is only working due to the bottleneck, correct positioning of the healer in the second row and the full mana from the beginning for kadghar to cast blizzard...

[@ericwalker8382]

Still impressive 50 ogre magi kill 819 peasants. Couldn't say I was surprised by the pally/dk fight though.

[@francoisdross5557]

yeah that was 200 units against 200 of their hard counter that can 1shot them...

[@tarekyared4404]

​@@francoisdross5557 Death coil doesn't stand a chance against exorcism!

[@paulmonn7988]

If half of the DK mob used death and decay it would have been GG for the Paladins.

[@Orpheusftw]

I love these. It seems exactly like a way I could have entertained myself for hours as a kid.

[@justinkong9954]

Head one : They have us surrounded! Head two : Oh goodie , then we can fight in all directions.

[@SilentDragonW3]

The re-targeting speed seems to be the most detrimental aspect for any small vs large group setups. The ogre mages could probably have easily killed the peasants if they didn't take more than a full second to target a new one.

[@TransientWitch]

Lost: chose Ogres Won: chose Paladins (AoE and toughness > spellcaster not using their best spell >.>) Won: chose Destroyers, but was nervous near the end there Won: Danath unstoppable. Everyone thinks Lothar's death was your fault, Turalyon, just like last time. Won: that many ogres with backup cannot be denied.

[@FennorVirastar]

Before seeing the first one the question "Will the ogres attack fast or will they hesitate after a killy?" This will make a huge difference on targets that die quickly. I think ogres would have won if they attacked faster.

[@sphtpfhorbrains3592]

1000 peasants vs 50 ogres though. They survived with aout 18% remaining. I only chose the peasants because I wanted to see them win.

[@washtubz]

For the heroes one, I was team horde at first but when I saw the position and the choke, I changed teams. Never doubt ogres mages so I lost on the first one, and also lost betting on turtles.

[@4spenc4]

I lost on turtles. Really expected their invisibility to be more powerful since it was just 1 flying machine. Otherwise I won on the rest. The last round: The horde had better units in general. I am surprised the alliance held out for as long as they did.

[@SamuraiTacos1]

the peasants i rooted for

[@sphtpfhorbrains3592]

Job done!

[@SamuraiTacos1]

it was most exciting fight

[@BaranZenon]

I love how Paladin skills are so powerful, but since those require so much clicking compare to cast bloodlust on something, slap it in its bumm and send it to kill stuff with Ogre Mages, are mostly useless. It would be nice if Warcraft 2 had autocast for Paladin skills, like those in Warcraft 3.

[@Blazieth]

Still doesn't quite compare even if the Paladins had Autocast; the AI isn't restricted by APM, and Paladins STILL lose to Ogre Magi, and it's not even close.

[@OldSkullSoldier]

@@Blazieth Probably Bloodlust should cost at least twice as much mana or simply give smaller bonus.AND be only self cast. Also do not forget that runes-mines are also crazy powerful.Use it in front of enemy army and you get a free kill. Probably Exorcism was mant to make more even battles of Knights+Archers+Mages vs Ogres+Berserkers+DKs by making Mages in such battles most important units, but it requires so much micro. Still it would be fun to see such battle, where most dragons are polymorphed, rest lose badly to high damamge and range archers, most DKs are exorcised and then Ogres try to massacre rest with their bloodlust.

[@GrommiD]

OH MY GOSH, ITS MARVELOUS. The Last Fight with 60 FPS and 1.25 speed was soooo smoooth, soooo spectacular, soooooo BEAUTIFUL. Thank you for the video. We need more, definetly more WC2. The Fight with the Destroyers and Submarines was slightly unfair, but still the Ships has won the Fight.

[@thomasfradd2034]

Hi STU. Love your videos, you inspired me to play BEYOND THE DARK PORTAL campaigns. I’m up to final mission of both human and orc. Forgot how much I loved this game.

[@SoraNgin]

This was amazing!! Thank you for the memories! I've never seen Warcraft II presented in this manner, it's awesome! Keep up the great work!

[@Xalendare15]

Bloodlust nerf when?!?

[@prasaite]

After polymorph nerf

[@rivanrn9079]

​@@prasaitebut poly is useless -_-

[@prasaite]

@@rivanrn9079 Told it for my death sheep knights, or Sheep dragons

[@Kirmakoff]

Love the vid! Fights are really creative. At this point we should think what would actually beat ogre magis and their bloodlust - because those guys win every time. They only lost to peasants!

[@washtubz]

I love some of these sweeps like the paladin one, cause it's just like yeah 134 remaining, honestly what did you think would happen? Also that fight was cool as fuck because they don't just do exorcism as soon as they're in range the do a bunch at once when they're close.

[@vesuvyan]

All I have learned from these videos is that Ogre Mages with the auto-cast bloodlust are OP as hell. Put them up against any similar cost army that they can actually auto attack, and they'll win. Prove me wrong in the next fight club.

[@nelsonhill4625]

Similar cost mages with blizzard will crush them.

[@celticjordan1]

The knight at the end… “uhhh”!!!! Then Ogre just stares silent at him for like 10 seconds…. Then uses bloodlust… 😂😂😂

[@kBandik]

These videos are always so well made! I absolutely love watching these bloodbaths

[@andyhansen5905]

That horde vs alliance army was brutal for that last group of rangers. It was pretty obvious the ogre-magi would win but I underestimated just how fast they could plow through them. Blizzard really never thought bloodlust was OP?!

[@dorpth]

"Always bet on bloodlust!" (peasants win) "Uhhh....."

[@majermike]

STU these videos are so far above any other gaming videos out there, and educational

[@errata]

Thank you for making these, they always make me smile.

[@cris.duarte.m]

the sound of the exorcism is between satisfying and tetric

[@WipesHandsOnPants]

Damn, my death knights are drooling over that pile.

[@albdamned577]

lothar having a custom speech thing always threw me in the base game, he is in it for 5 seconds before being killed. I was so proud the time I could actually type "It is a good day to die" fast enough to keep him alive.

[@HouseRN]

“Job’s done” 🥶🥶🥶

[@sebastiannemeth-ramirez2160]

So what did we learn? Bloodlust beats everything except peasants.

[@aceshighdueceslow]

at first I thought the peasants were going to be destroyed, but it wasn't too different a match up as the Ultralisk vs SCV fight a few vids back. The naval battle? That one was a toss up, I couldn't really predict which way it would go since it was hard to tell which side's ships were sinking faster

[@fraddstar]

Warcraft 2 fight club is the best ! Love your channel man keep up the great work.

[@reckoner1913]

I was thinking I must be missing something with DK's vs Paladins, or it's just going to be an exorcism bloodbath. It was just a bloodbath. Also, when I used to play WoW I generally got to drop BL in the raid, and I liked to always say "WRBBL UURBBBBLLL Bloodlust". Memories.

[@marcuslevy2932]

I was pleasantly surprised by the Destroyers and LOVE THIS MADNESS!! However the horde and Alliance match was COMPLETELY out of balance once you added Ogre Mages it was OVER!! That was B.S. and totally one sided :( Add Dwarven Mortar teams and gryphons and it would be much more balanced! :D MADNESS!! :D

[@kylethomas9130]

I remember trying to use cheats against some map's ai, thinking I was invincible. Then they whipped out spell casters, and still trounced me. My lack of skill was very apparent back then.

[@astovar23]

Good thing i'm not a betting man, I only guessed the last one! awesome vids as always!

[@robertherter1640]

OK who ever played War of Craft before knows each others strength on each side i mean awesome video but very predicable

[@treehann]

these are the kinds of epic fights I wish I could have seen as a kid playing this game.

[@_NDC]

5:05 just add a bit of slow motion, and you basically get Zack Snyder's 300.

[@sebastiannemeth-ramirez2160]

The Paladin/DK fight was ridiculously one-sided. I knew how it would end. A lot of people don't know the massive range of Exorcism. It's only 2 points shy of Death and Decay. That plus the fully upgraded melee attacks virtually guaranteed victory from the start. If it was say, 50 Paladins versus 100 DKs, that might be a bit different.

[@user-wk4in6ms2n]

Вот бы еще увидеть бой магов Лордерона против Рыцарей смерти орды. Кто сильнее. Потому что складывается впечатление что Маги сильнее Рыцарей Смерти за счет заклинания Превращение. К тому же еще одно преимущество это заклинание Магов-огненный щит и невидимость. Что на это могут противопоставить Рыцари смерти.

[@SuspishFish]

When the lumber _chops back._

[@Ottriman]

Suggestions. Mages vs Death Knights, both only using their starting spells (Fireball vs Death Coil). Mages (Casting Blizzard) vs Ogre Mages (Casting Bloodlust). Lets see which factions best spell is better.

[@aaroncarlsback7239]

5:06 FOR SPARTAA!!

[@imjason791]

Где можно скачать игру с таким высоким разрешением?

[@wuzzle5261]

You think Lothar's death was my fault, don't you??

[@S20TBL]

OMG the slowdown during the ally vs. horde army fight

[@StuGames]

When a Warcraft 2 server reaches its limits... 😎

[@sebamartinho]

Very nice battle!!!

[@TheSuperColonel]

"Perfectly balanced" blood-lusted Ogres in the last battle........

[@nospoilersplzthx]

definitely didn't see the destroyers winning with the limited vision. others went how I'd expect

[@justinedc1077]

All war battles were won by the Alliance except for the last one cause the Horde have the BURNING LEGION daemons with them plus the OP Ogre Bloodlusts. First battle is why peasants learned how to fight as militias in WC3. There was no surprise of the outcome between the Paladins vs Horde DKs at all. Not even half of the paladin numbers were killed. The Alliance heroes vs the army of orc grunts and forest trolls is awesome! Of course Khadgar did most of the damage. Danath is a one tough soldier! Alleria is the best High Elf Ranger of all time! Uther and Turalyon being major healers.

[@SteinerArts]

Will you ever do videos like that of the original StarCraft one day? Looks great! 😃 👍🏻

[@StuGames]

I already made a whole bunch of them 😎

[@SteinerArts]

@@StuGames Oh, that's wonderful! Thank you! Haha

[@ivankuzin8388]

@@StuGames Only War3 left, although it is not as spectacular - units are too tough and battles look very long (when you're just looking and don't need to micro you heroes at the same time :) )

[@StuGames]

@@ivankuzin8388 Blizzard is considering relaunching Reforged with "updated classic graphics" so I'm holding out on wc3 for the moment!

[@ivankuzin8388]

@@StuGames Oh, that's wonderful news (assuming they will do it) - after enjoying SC Remastered I was very close to buying Reforged, but then reviews started coming out...

[@Astroga159]

My predictions: Fight 1: ogre win by landslide Fight 2: paladin win by landslide (since DK do 50 to primary target+10 to secondary damage per death coil, you need 2 direct hits for 1 kill while pally can oneshot 1 dk with full mana) Fight 3: Turtle win Fight 4: alliance win Fight 5: horde win

[@StuGames]

Seems like I caught a lot of people off guard with the turtle vs destroyer fight!

[@martins4781]

For the Alliance!

[@AlexanderRussPaladin]

Звуки от битв божественны, как и достойны отдельного музыкального сопровождения

[@Shavlov77]

Прикол!)) Это ж надо до такого додуматься)

[@Asturiel]

First fight looks like the conquest of Soledar by the rashists

[@Jeff_the_Hobo]

4:45 Hold up, Lothar has lines?

[@StuGames]

not really 😉

[@doramon6668]

Alliance heroes vs Horde was interesting. If 7 heroes can beat army, so its logical that 25 heroes in WoW raids can beat any boss of demons, dragons and da Dark Gods) And yet dis combat Heroes vs Horde looks like standart mission in Dynasty Warriors or Samurai Warriors games

[@Hugh_Jas]

Paladin/DK matchup is the easiest choice I've ever made.

[@nights8880]

i always liked to consider Danath to be a bad ass, by both stats and behavior

[@tauIrrydah]

I think those Death Knights were defeated by the Hayes code.

[@user-kx1pq2nc7z]

what was that flying melee from orc? don't remember that i know only grifons from hum and gragons from orc from wc2 (both with line attack)

[@Romess1]

Fuck I was really rooting for the subnautic turtles to win that one.

[@test-rj2vl]

Is the code that you use to automate this game available somewhere or is it private?

[@Suryoyoz]

Nice video! you should have done one fight with the Horde champions also!

[@StuGames]

check out last episode =)

[@RainingMetal]

Do you plan on doing a Warcraft III Fight Club?

[@StuGames]

yes but I hope they fix the Remaster first

[@RainingMetal]

@@StuGames Honestly if Reforged doesn't remove the unit selection cap like how Starcraft II does it it's not worthy to me anyway. Command and Conquer never had any unit selection cap so there was no excuse for it to exist back then either.

[@Inquisitor_Exterminatusov]

Oh, paladins with exorcism vs death knights with death coil - is that what i wanted to see. Thanks for that! I rooted for paladins. P.S. In first battle i rooted for peasants :)

[@fargoretro]

should have had more air units in the ships vs turtles battle

[@Knuckles2761]

Ogres could have used trap runes.

[@volbound1700]

I thought the sea turtles would win, especially with how bad the flying machine was.

[@Ozzblahing]

It was all ogre once the peasants got the 360 surround going.

[@andreireal9158]

guessed right everything 'cept for submarines vs destroyers)

[@nooneinparticular5256]

I'm willing to bet the Ogres would have won if they opened up with Runes

[@dannyldd]

Hello, could you please tell me which unit from War3 did you use to get Lothar's voice acting in 4:46? Thanks a lot.

[@StuGames]

It's from Hearthstone

[@thomasseeley8124]

Hold the line!

[@infestchristopher1457]

Blizzard Entertainment could've remade Warcraft 2 first instead of three

[@xXxGameboy500xXx]

Peasants: FOR THE SWARM!!

[@Blackwingsss]

Last fight was winnable by alliance :/

[@junhyeonglee863]

Don't mess with the peasants

[@billypoker7822]

would never have bet that.

[@jonathangardner4475]

The peasants would do better if they let the others spread out.

[@Basaraassassin]

make this video on war craft III

[@breathstealer5486]

The older the rts the more damaging the peasants

[@legionofpie]

*Looks at board before fight* Do the Orcs have Bloodlust and Ogres? I'd like one bet on the Hoard, please.

[@BowChickaHonkHonk1]

Peasants would have won better if they penetrated the circle when the first gap opened, and attacked from within and without... position is important with those numbers.

[@AlryFireBlade]

1_52 What does the Ability Exorcism do? I never understood it.

[@OldSkullSoldier]

It damages undead specifically: Death Knights and skeletons. It has quite high range, very useful in few campaign missions, since you can scout with flying machine and kill deathkinghts from afar.

[@Kirmakoff]

@@OldSkullSoldier Doesn't it act like a mana burn? Like if a death knight has 100 mana, it'll be hit for 50 damage?

[@kasialotnik2864]

before watch , i bet all money that ogres win , and i bet 23 number of survivors , now i go watch

[@danieldobkowski7116]

Meh, lost only at turtles/destroyers fight :X

[@Leptyzz]

Hey Stu, are you ever going to take up warcraft 3 again?

[@StuGames]

yes, for sure

[@Leptyzz]

@@StuGames glad to hear it, I will be looking forward to that

[@gaborsimon3299]

STU videos summed up Would this 400 gold 120 lumber alliance army fair aginst this 8.000.000 Gold and 7.000.000 Lumber only high tier orc army with 500 summoned unit and and bloodlust? Everyone watching: Bro are you kidding me?

[@legionofpie]

So that's why everyone says "any detection and turtles suck" 🤔

[@inffire90]

Blood for blood

[@HLLVANJA]

insane!

[@gypruzzcaccamo6586]

"Units are fully upgraded" you mean just the ogre mages, right? Peasants had no upgrades in the game.

[@user-nf7ej2sh9q]

Dam spartans

[@fatboyjr364]

Your videos are like meth just addictive

[@mityakosyakov]

Power to the people! :)

[@havoc1498]

last but not least the orcs get their revenge 🙂

[@adriannalockhart9639]

Hi Stu! How did you get that AI update plugin working? I think I've found it but for the life of me I can't get it to run in game. It's annoying because all the computer does is the old crap of building turtles on sea maps and never attacking with anything else lol. I have googled and googled and no one seems to have an answer on how to install the mod.

[@StuGames]

You should probably try asking on the Warcraft 2 Server discord, all of the modders are on there. I got my plugin files from edo directly, so they might be different from what you've downloaded!

[@adriannalockhart9639]

@@StuGames Okay I'll look it up. Thanks!

[@adriannalockhart9639]

@@StuGames hey thanks a bunch for mentioning the Discord. I didn't know it existed and immediately got a lot of help there. I have to play a full game today to be sure but I tested a little bit last night and it seems the game is working with the plugin now. ☺️