Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness. Human Campaign 14. with commentary
Warcraft II is an old love of mine and the start of my love of the RTS genre. I've played this campaign many times and have been looking forward to redoing for the channel. This is using the Battle.net Edition from GOG.
This first hour of this is seat of your pants constant stress, getting dragon attacks very quick, trying to make a base and never feeling more pummeled. I have quite a few unforced errors here. I really expected to be recording a blooper when I did this!
I was so sure it was all going to fail, getting down to just a single peasant for a while, needing to be very careful and repair my towers, and check it was safe to go out for gold and that I could come back, then choosing when to spend the precious gold! It got away from the brink and back so often, it felt crazy
0:00 - Introduction
0:17 - Mission Briefing
0:56 - Gameplay begins
1:50 - Assaulting the beach
2:30 - Landing on the beach
3:45 - First dragon attack!
4:12 - Starting to build
4:24 - Starting the tower network
4:47 - Clearing some orange guys
8:12 - Upgrading to keep
9:01 - Visited by a death knight!
11:51 - First gold is expended
12:25 - Checking orange is clear
14:11 - Found next gold mine
16:24 - Starting castle upgrade
18:03 - Keep losing guys!
18:41 - Down to two peasants
19:35 - One peasant left!
25:03 - Time for a church
28:01 - Getting another peasant
31:30 - Back to one peasant!
33:25 - Expanding my view
42:25 - Time for holy vision! Losing a peasant
52:42 - End of the white dragons?
57:08 - Scaling up the economy
1:00:48 - Here come orange dragons!
1:03:41 - Blasting to next gold mine
1:05:45 - Better gold mine location
1:06:44 - Attacking blacks navy
1:20:19 - Attacking whites base
1:23:24 - My third gold has run out
1:25:19 - Annoyed red
1:26:50 - Red are wiped
1:30:11 - Into blacks land base
1:35:49 - Woke the final dragon
1:36:25 - Heading to sea
1:37:34 - Oil production
1:41:42 - Now with sea transport
1:42:36 - Smashing whites base
1:44:42 - Ready to travel to the portal
1:45:55 - White are wiped
1:56:50 - Black are gone
1:57:15 - Building for the big finish
2:01:31 - Victory!
2:01:40 - Summary stats
2:03:05 - End Cutscene
2:03:55 - End of game text
2:04:48 - Credits