The Scouring of the Shire (Massive Battles)

Hey what's up guys it's Oakley and we are here to celebrate Bilbo Baggins 111th birthday. But actually this is going to be the third age mod for medieval 2 and this is not going to be a birthday celebration quite the opposite it's going to be a celebration of death. We're going to be witnessing the scouring of the shire ladies and gentlemen. I am going to be defending as the army which does feature some uh hobbit forces so let's go ahead and show my deployment because this is going to be getting going very quickly. So I am in command of a portion of hobbiton you'll notice that it is very very cool in terms of the map itself has these little hobbit holes built into it it has a lot of elements from the movie in the book. This is straight pulled out of the movie itself the bridge leading to the the inn and all that so overall really great stuff. We can get drawn into the aesthetics all we could but let's get into the combat. So I'm holding the high ground here what do I have on this flank is going to be an assortment of merchant militia kind of spread out just to hold the high ground. In the center of this cluster is going to be some hobbit archers so rallying together to face off against the armies of Isengard they're approaching from one position. In the center here I have two of these greenway guards which are some spearmen this is going to be this main wing. Down in this central valley I have some mounted battle ready dunedain these are extremely expensive cavalry very very good units they're gonna be holding down this center. Further towards my capture point right in the middle I have these battle ready dunedain but foot troops again very veteran guys and two more of these so these guys are my emergency response and my general here kind of sitting ready. Down here basically I have a couple units hidden away in the woods it's my other unit of hobbits I want to keep them out of combat for the time being allow them to get an ambush on if they could. So hobbitry in arms really cool to see those guys represented in the battlefield and then up on this hill which holds down this flank what I have deployed is a bunch of these stakes here with my dunedain rangers two of those units and then some of these Breland militia spearmen arming the front and then some more battle ready dunedain so what what are we all you know defending against well you have one force here which is going to be the orcs of gundabad which have over here the snow trolls if you haven't seen this mod before yeah this is representative of how awesome this mod is anyways so they have some snow trolls very heavy infantry hard to kill some orc halberdiers up through the front catapults whole bunch of snag archers and backing up some infantry on that flank so they're going to be rushing that hill in the back they have two of these warg riders heavy cav they look beautiful so they're ready to swarm up through the shire and tear my guys apart and over there you have a mix of isengard uruk-hai raiders we're going to cover this really quickly and then get back to the action sorry for the delay crossbowmen in the front just overall representative of the orc the uruk-hai they look beautiful then you have some raiders which are heavy infantry but not as good as some of the more you know core units like the uruk-hai infantry and this wouldn't be isengard if it weren't for these berserkers they come in units of 57 and these guys have i believe two hp points are extremely deadly and devastating so that is going to be it they also have a catapult so the shire is going to be under attack from both flanks let's go ahead and press play because this is going to be getting underway the first of the assaults are going to be taking place over here we're already my dunedain rangers are going to start getting some follies off and my first target is going to be these snow trolls and you can see they just kind of let these arrows ping off of them they're going to brace themselves one of them is bloodied and that only made them angrier so here we go they're going to start the charge and so begins the battle for the shire so we're leading this charge the rest of the units are going to be moving up slowly but surely catapults are going to be raining hell in my position and nothing is going to stop these guys i'm putting in a lot of hp damage but nonetheless they're going to come charging through the hill grade slope is kind of slowing them down a little bit but they are total beasts and so here they come the closer they get to my position the danger the more dangerous it's going to get for me watch from the position of these archers we are unleashing into them and nothing can stop them i was hoping the stakes would skewer these bad boys but they're going to charge right on through the stakes not care about it and just butcher my men i do have my archers firing sideways at them and now we're going to engage with my real in militia but they're just clubbing my units left right and center i'm going to have to pull some of these guys back they are definitely bloodied up so i did nice damage but it's going to be a tough situation my dunedain guys here holding firm i'm going to pull some of my hobbits actually into action here they're spearmen so i figured they would come slay some trolls we saw how the hobbits did in moria so let's see if they can recreate that action but these trolls like i said are very hard to defeat meanwhile they are just one unit holding up the entirety of my force more action is happening in the back where they've brought some of their marauders up to the rear looks like i actually didn't even cover this whole additional contingent that was right over here they're gonna be charging into my guys and try and disengage with my cab what that means is just going to clear a way for his war riders to start to come in through here now all his guys are swarming through this side while i push forward is heavy or caballeros are moving forward and they're going to be backing up the snaga archer contingent you can see in the distance the snow trolls continue to go to work on my guys so even as i'm committed here with all my units now i'm going to get shot to pieces while i'm committed to action the top ranks here are going to start to be um overcome by these enemy forces i had to commit some of my dunedain guys who should be able to kill the enemy forces but it's going to be close fought my cab are going to try and commit around that flank and over in the back here i'm going to send some of my units to engage with these war riders but somehow my general actually got killed in that action uh one of the first to die so those war riders definitely have a buff against cavalry my guys merchant militia came in but a bit too late meanwhile while this is all going on you have the uruk-hai slowly moving forward i've pulled back my merchant militia to be out of range and these hobbit archers are going to be holding back an entire army just unleashing on these uruk-hai and you can see they're actually pretty precise with their shots they're starting to chip away at these guys holding back this entire force uh and this is going to be uh you know holding out against their homeland here this is not looking good for our guys meanwhile the whole right flank is continuing to be enveloped i'm holding up pretty well with these hobbits but i don't have much else to back them up let's return to the main combat where these war riders have been committed to my uh dunedain warriors these guys have good victory chances i've reinforced the top of the hill so we should be chopping away however up through the center his trolls have really cleared away uh through my guys and really choked them up the rest of my um units are starting to rout all that in the face of his guys which we're continuing to push forward they've now reached my stake line but this is where i decided to commit my battle ready dunedain like i said very good troops so they should be able to hold the line i am starting to a bit of control of the top here more of my units routing i'm going to try and reclaim the heights over in the back i have my cavalry that went here and they charge into these snaga archers i wanted to silence them so i'm going to be ping-ponging with my heavy cav here charging the archers and charging the rear of this force i wanted to break these halberdiers to allow me to recuperate this flank here so ping-ponging back and forth is going to allow me to get a little bit more of my dunedain rangers have pulled back a fair amount and now they're going to be firing in close support you can see them continuing to target the remaining trolls uh and it looks like there's just how many of these guys just three of those trolls left but they continue to do a lot of damage someone's heavily armed bodyguard now being committed here and they're just chopping through my guys and he's just waiting around looking for more units to kill from the backside of this hill you have some snaga archers still putting on the pressure i was going to charge them with my remaining cavalry force so we're going to put the fear of god back into them or whatever they worship but the rest of it continuing to just clear out whatever's happening in these woods so this is sucking up my entire army my dunedain units have finished this off and we're going to be swarming these ward riders here getting a bit of revenge and we're going to chop these guys down with my heavy spearmen making it look easy but this means that the majority of forces here have been held back the berserkers were actually committed to this fight they ran past my hobbit archers which are being tied down by the crossman i turned my hobbit archers around to try and shoot into these berserkers because i know these guys will easily clean up my units you can see me kind of holding a little bit but his guys will definitely win victory seems certain only a fool could lose this battle he still has 55 of them so he is definitely going to be chewing through these lines like i said i'm going to try and reclaim the hill which i sort of have i'm now going to try and wrap up the flank where his archers are let's go back through to where the center uh engagement one was i've pulled back and rallied a lot of my forces hobbitry and arms my my archers are going to line back down to try and suppress forces in the distance but his guys keep pouring on through my dunedain guys have now turned about and they're going to continue to try and suppress this force here trying to pick apart that artillery unit that wants to get more fire on me um but yeah they're firing uh with units almost directly in their back most of my guys on the hill are continuing to route and yeah there you can see the commander saying i lost half of my men so the shire is in desperate straits some of these um units here the troll i believe is down to just one man left and i can't seem to bring him down hobbit still in action but the rest of my force is here just being completely outnumbered and surrounded here the halberdier is pushing forward my cavalry is getting some nice strikes into the rear of this force where my dunedain warrior is worse so we cleaned up a fair amount of men the combination of the ward riders is just overwhelming numbers broke my dunedain heavy infantry and he's going to allow them to keep pushing through in the distance the troll now gets to the open ground and this is where he's going to just keep picking off my guys yeah just one of them left and he's uh you know perhaps exhausted but still going to continue to attack my guys a lot of my guys have now returned to the central victory point which means like we can rally but we still haven't been able to take this guy down the hobbit staying next to him not sure what to do over in the distance here the remainder of my flank is going down against these berserkers chop chop chop my hobbits here still somehow holding strong they're going to fight down to last man these crossbowmen actually going to finish it up with i think almost a point blank execution and this is going to clear the way for more orkai to start pushing forward the catapults already in position and a lot more units ready to uh devote themselves to the fight and here comes these forces swarming through they're now going to start to be suppressed partially by my dunedain archers still up there it's going to stop these guys in their tracks they're going to be forced to reload and fire upon me so this flank has been lost become the berserkers like i said i did kind of reclaim the top with some my dunedain so we're going to be holding this position getting through his uh goblin trackers and snaga archers and then we're going to be coming back down and going to try and go for a sandwich on what remains of the forces in these woods but a lot has been lost in the green woods of the shire and the troll still alive looks like he retreated a little bit uh to gather himself but it looks like i've held somewhat of a fighting line i've been able to um hold back with my rangers here and supporting fire some of my warriors holding strong here looks like we outnumber the enemy so we should be doing okay it's this last troll really hoping to finish him off but now armies of eisengard coming through the catapult actually crushing my men it was close to killing its own unit so i was hoping for that outcome now we're going to start to be suppressed but this is such an epic fight here amongst the birthday celebrations like i said we would be witnessing death on a huge scale in the shire itself the crossbowmen now in and amongst the party tents what a crazy scene that this mod is absolutely amazing i hope to bring you guys more of these battles and this one in particular is just super iconic armies of eisengard just look at these masses of uruk-hai here swarming over this is the dream essentially that or the the potential future that i believe it was pippin witnessed uh when they were in the the forest and you look into galadriel's mirror um into what the future might be but uh yeah so this is this is some crazy stuff and they're standing over the bodies of my men more of them still held in the background so the odds are not looking very much in my favor we have however became a little bit of our dignity holding the top here my units reclaiming the high ground so perhaps if only we had the eagles to come in here and swoop in uh help out with the victory i'm gonna try and clean up some of his berserkers but uh they still are at high health down here in the valley like i said where the remainder of my guys are still holding strong i have my greenway guards coming back attempting to rally around my archer units this this orc or this troll refusing to die it looks like we were actually able to force him back he's exhausted he scared of my guys i think now that he lost his journal um and some of my uh dunedain riders are coming back they were continuing to ping pong around delay the action back here killed a lot of units in the back here um trying to disable his catapults but uh this enemy rear guard actually forced my units back so oh it's down to the last last little cluster of men the last hill of the free world basically here holding out at the shire and there you go the overrunning some of the little hobbit houses this is so cool let's get some shots of them running past the hobbit homes just taking arrows to the face crossbowmen right by the building chimneys of bilbo's house and now they're gonna start to fan out these raiders oh crap this is so scary oh and luckily some of those catapults frying their own men that's gonna soften them up for my assault here with these dunedain i'm gonna be chopping through those guys still holding these berserkers back they're kind of losing a victory is distinct as opposed to certain um but look at all these ranks coming down here some of my units yeah down to two or one or let's actually watch some of these hobbits try and defend their house i'm gonna be having a hard time against these heavy infantry the rest of this force committed and i do still have heavy hitting these units in the back and they're tired and shaken so perhaps another wavering so i was hoping to get a a chain route to get going here but that shot was just brutal killed some of the last remaining defenders uh so even though they kill some of their men a lot of the times they'll also end up killing some of mine and this just started to sadden me the overlooking crossbowmen there um just being very scary i didn't however break these guys with a rear charge i was hoping to recreate that over here with a nice charge to the rear and try and save some of my hobbits doesn't look like it's really going to be the case dunedain ranger is seemingly having unlimited ammo i'd be eager to see the kills that they racked up in this battle so i have a little rank of uh real in militia it's like they're going to commit themselves here comes the last charge of the dunedain and we actually broke this unit so we're starting to turn the tide a bit on this front finally seizing territory back um however here comes the the heavy or thanks spearman and no matter how many arrows i shoot into these guys it's going to take a lot to knock them out not to mention that you have more units starting to move up in reserve and let's take a look on those uh yeah actually looks like we've been able to hold our own victory does still seem certain but at least i've kept these guys away from the main fight uh the main piece of action and this is honorable for these greenway guards if they had all survived i mean they will be remembered in legends that's for sure unless of course all legends and traces of humanity are wiped out by the the orcs and the ruokai two men retreating to the central uh plaza and my last rider goes down i don't know if we actually have any hobbits left at this point on battle i'd be curious to see if we can find any more banners the white hand of sauron here being raised in the midst of my lines it looks like my archers who have now been completely surrounded by these fighting ruokai they've had enough of my silly pesky rangers here and yeah now we're broken these heavy or thank guys look absolutely beautiful and they are not to be trifled with so now the final slaughter is going to ensue and the berserkers have joined the fight here gonna be essential for cleaning up what's left of my guys our enemy has command of the city oh and there he goes gonna finish my dude off while on the ground this is so so brutal uh so there you have it folks you saw my defense attempted defense of the shire but uh we didn't have any of our heroes here uh and the shire despite putting up a brave resistance was doomed and the uh the devastation and gloom of the scouring that you see here is uh just in such stark contrast with the beauty of the shire and i do have to say this map is absolutely gorgeous it's so cool uh so yeah like i said leave your recommendations for what battles you'd like to see in the future there's a lot more maps to share a lot more uh confrontations to uh to try and set up and uh yeah i'm definitely loving this mod i don't know why i haven't covered it before uh but this is definitely going to be super exciting uh stuff to cover anyways uh we should be wrapping this up fairly soon i can't imagine i have anyone left unless we have some brave souls still fighting somewhere oh i saw an arrow this is ladies and gentlemen this is the last hobbit standing he's just sitting there plucking away at the enemy forces looks like uh it's gonna be finished off by indie brides berserkers here we're gonna take one look at this measly little hobbit and just finish him off tripping him and then finishing up with the bashing right to the face brutal way to go here comes the last banner of the free men oh a couple more men actually have come back to join the fight it's not well i was about to say it's not quite over but uh you know what i mean it's not quite over in the sense that it's only only time until our guys get killed with those berserkers charging in yeah for sure our men have fought long and are becoming tired yeah so here comes the surround and i think for this this game was definitely really fun i think the thing that did me in was definitely that um snow orc charge here that just totally disrupted my formation and allowed you know gave cover to the rest of his forces to start moving up and just pepper my ranks with a bunch of fire the massive swarm of troops up through here i was able to fight it back but uh they they did good work and i think those war riders getting uh i shouldn't have committed my general unsupported right away but uh damn that was a fun battle definitely enjoyed it and uh yeah here you can see the total amounts of men deployed i had 1800 my opponents definitely had a fair amount more than that and uh yeah i definitely killed a lot more than the opponents combined so uh fun battle i did my best to hold out but alas the scout the uh the shire has fallen i want to take a look at some of the kills yep mounted battle ready doing a day and my heavy cav you know paying for themselves 358 kills 159 with my rangers those are the guys who are constantly shooting be curious to see um yeah doing a day and definitely doing well i want to see how my uh hobbitry and arms did 38 and 13 so not doing so well but i definitely have to give it to um the hobbit archers huh only 35 kills that's surprising they stood out well i mean they did a huge delaying action against the entire army of eisengard on that flank so they are definitely to be commended anyways i hope you guys enjoyed this was a brutal brutal fight but nonetheless very very fun i will see you guys in the next one peace out