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The amount of double drops for the Easterlings was insane. The game did not want them to win.

Doesn't only using the dwarves as your infantry instead of the native impact foot or the Variag's kinda defeat the purpose of testing the faction? Though I guess testing the balance of allies is important too.

Спасибо за видео. Интересный контент и приемлемая подача)

You are spoiling us with these videos!

I was surprised at how much worse Landschnekts performed compared to Swiss Keils. The lack of determined foot as well as downgrade from Superior to Above Average means that they crack much quicker from shooting and from favourable melees.

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Some of these hurting soldiers screams remind me of Caesar 3.

Also that general death the instant you charged was a great meme moment

It has been pretty interesting watching Rosedelio's style on his channel. He seems to have an uncomplicated playstyle but just doesn't seem to make any mistakes and his army comp always seems superior to his opponent's.

Is that a custom texture for the nazgul? :D

Slave revolt list is surprisingly not terrible for how meme-y it is

Mod is very cool - no Variags of Khand?

Middle Earth is not my favourite fantasy world in the military sense, but the interaction between those lists seemed quite fun! Thanks for making it and sharing! I guess the axemen are the guys that are mentioned in a failed ambush in the third book, but, why did you made them a different unit than the main infantry of easterlings? Was to give more variety or is because of sources?

This is a nice video

45:20: 'Many of you may die, but that is a sacrifice I am willing to make.' This seems reasonably balanced to me.

Well, that was a butchery. Going down the middle and allowing you to pour all your ranged firepower into them on the advance was definitely a bad move. Picking one flank and sticking to it might've gone better against your more defensive posture.

Reposted from this morning due to an editing error, thanks to viewer 'ThatUglyGuy', you're beautiful to me!

Just started watching your videos. Just wanted to let you know that they're really entertaining.

Hmm... your opponent was fighting downhill for most of that, so it does say something about how dominant your position was that the elves still lost. My instincts have always been that mass beats quality in FoG, but that seems to have become a little less true as the game has been iterated on.

I'm sure your armies are at least better matched with each other than Third Age Total War's are, but if elves weren't so powerful then Morgoth would have conquered Beleriand.

Unmanoeuvrable light foot; I think that's the first time I've seen that. Also, I think that's the first time I've seen those large formations for light troops.

I am enjoying the mod, hopefully someone will make custom textures for units.

I suppose the AI needs to consider the entire LOS of a turreted tank as a danger zone!

It´s a good battle but not lore-friendly. Those rohirrim surrounded by southerners and elephants should have lasted until last turn, then Gandalf appears and evil loses even if they have superior numbers and better tactical position.

You actually DID read the books pretty well for making Rohan's list at least; you picked up on the fact that while the Rohirrim were obviously highly-skilled cavalry, they were also well-known for being pretty sturdy and reliable shield-wall infantry as well, being a critical basis for their battlefield strategies. If it was just a balance choice for making your mod, it was a good one, but I'd like to think you quite enjoy Lord of the Rings and did your research in depth for it!

As a Hungarian subscriber what else I can say: "Sagittis Hungarorum Libera nos, Domine!" ;)

fantastic game

26:42 is the start of the repeat of 22:54.

Deja vu around 28 minutes in.

Lol 0:17 the vaunted Lombard army. Do you have a favourite army in FoGII, SB?

I will be waiting for the second part. Victory for France is possible, but it's a pretty unbalanced battle and it takes poker and risky tricks to win.

Great Conde was only 21 when he led this battle.

Nice recreation of the charge of the light brigade! Muskets to the right of me. Muskets to the left of me. Cannons all up in my face. Away rode the what was left of the 600! 🤓

I feel like you might be underselling the scandinavian foot a little in the opening statement. Compare them to billmen/halberdiers: 43 points vs 45, so scandis are 2 point cheaper. Both do the same in impact, both have armored. In melee they get 105 PoA from heavy weapons + swords against anything that doesnt reduce their swordsmen capabilities. In return for this reduction they get 50% crossbow in what is otherwise a completely okay melee unit. Combined with cannons and the few handgunners you get this can give you a surprisingly hefty ranged punch, especially considering how many armored/mounted units there are in this period. Also some self defense vs skirmishers, even if crossbows do poorly there. Theyre not exceptional, but for their price point I'd make the claim that theyre more than good enough.

How do i load these community mods, i downloaded the war of the roses one but cant seem to load them in game

Watching this video, I had the realization that this system would work surprisingly well for an Imjin war themed game, with some adjustments.

Very bloody battle, interesting to watch! My game sense is still lacking from my limited single player experience, it was easy to see why your right flank was getting crushed but the situation on the left was hard to comprehend as a whole. I was not expecting you to get the win partway through the watch, gratz on pulling through.

Wow that was close, great match! Those polish lancers on your right flank are real chads.

Very interesting game! Thanks for the replay.

Hey SB, did you ever play Field of Glory 2: Empires? There's the medieval version coming in june too. Honestly I really like the FoG series but I'm not good at it (I'm more of a TW player).

Good luck with your project. If you want, I can give a try to see if I can import new models in. I have the tools and some links the guys at slitherine gave me a year ago.

Thanks for your Middle-Earth mod! I hope you will be able to create custom graphics. I'm very interested in fantasy mods for Field of Glory 2.

Very interesting battle! Thanks for the replay.

where can i get the mod

Thanks for the interesting match! Having the opportunity to rewatch and hear you comment on it ( - in your usal "sleepy, finnish accent" of cause XD - ) is always fun. Biggest mistake on my part - besides taking the offensive at all, lol - was probably loosing both of my Knights so easily to your light guns. I put them on that flank, to add some punsh to my infantry attack - sadly they're not dismountable, which would have worked really nice here imo - hoping I would get one or two disrupts in on the first turn of shooting, than a fragment on the second, which could than be exploited by the Knights and maybe good things would happen from there on out. But this way they really just were a points waste. Should have instead bought one Knight less (the other one is forced I believe), going even heavier into light cavalry or at least putting them on the left flank and instead using one of the mounted Xbows for a flanking move on my right. Going for the Scandi foot + artillery combo also worked out really well for you, it's probably the superior army comp for Sweden in this matchup on this map. You certainly played it really well, nicely done!

Good game

Free folk list seems deceptively strong, doesn't it?

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I really appreciate that you’re putting out FoG content regularly! I was late to the party on this game, and it’s great to see you’re still enjoying it.

Interesting game! Even if it was suboptimal in the end, I appreciate that your oponent tried to think outside the box and implement a battleplan that was not just charging forward or entrenching in rough ground. I hope he likes the game and keeps playing