00:00Hello and welcome to Myth of the Fallen Lords. This is a game that I've played over many
00:08years. One of my all time favourite games. In fact it's probably my favourite game of
00:13all time. That's how much this game means to me. It came out in 1997. I was only 8 years
00:21old at the time. I started playing the game then and I still play it today in 2018. Many
00:33many years after. I don't have that much time to play it these days but it's still one of
00:38the best games out there. One of the things I should point out is that you'll notice it
00:43says Myth here. The original game actually says Myth of the Fallen Lords. The reason
00:51for that is because I'm actually playing the game using the Myth 2 engine. Myth 2 came
00:56out in 1998, a year after the original title in 1997. But they're very similar, almost
01:05identical apart from the fact that the graphics are much better in Myth 2. The general game
01:13doesn't look too different if you know what I mean. It's not a massive change. Over the
01:18years luckily there's been a group of amazing programmers who have been working on improving
01:26the game, patching it up and you'll see I'm on 1.8.2 version at the moment. There's a
01:32website that, at the moment anyway, you can download that patch. The website's called
01:38Project Magma. If you type that in Google or Internet Explorer or your Bing search engine
01:45you'll find that website. I would recommend that you download a copy of that patch. One
01:52of the things you can do is play Myth 1 through Myth 2. So you'll notice in preferences here
02:00you can go to Interfaces, which is like the menu control, and you can decide to have Myth
02:092 interface. I've recently just patched this again so it looks like there's actually two
02:14options for sizes here now. You can have Myth 3 even in here, or the Fallen Lords interface.
02:19So that's fantastic, you can do that. Myth 2's got slightly more advanced graphics and
02:26has been patched many times over the years. You'll notice I'm on 1.8.2 at the moment and
02:33the game runs wonderfully. It's really quite impressive that after so many years this game
02:42runs so well. Many games come out over the years. There's lots of games that I've bought
02:48from a game shop, etc. that are designed to play on Windows 98, Windows XP, and suddenly
02:56when you shifted to Windows 8, Windows 10, all sorts of problems have started to come
03:04to the surface. Myth, on the other hand, is probably the only game I can think of which
03:10does not fall into that category that I have in my collection. The game has always consistently
03:17worked very well and I have to say I think it's probably more to do with the patching
03:24than the original game so I must applaud the programmers behind those patches if they're
03:30watching this. A big thank you to you guys and everyone involved with that because this
03:38game has never been any better. So anyway, we're going to play Myth and let's get started.
03:43So we're going to do the tutorial first. I'll give you a wee bit of familiarity with
03:48the game and we're going to play through the solo campaign all the way through. I have
03:54done this before in the past, quite a long time ago. I haven't done this for many years
04:01so it'll be interesting to see what I remember, what I've forgotten. It's probably even longer
04:07than that because I've played Myth 2 more recently than Myth 1 so we'll see where I'm
04:12at. Anyway, I hope you enjoy it and hopefully you can learn a few tips along the way. So
04:16let's begin. So we'll go to New Game and because I've played the game before you'll notice
04:23there's a lot of levels here that have already come up. When you play that in your game for
04:27the first time they'll actually all be blanked out. I've got lots of plugins which are basically
04:33add-ons. You can download lots of add-on levels and Myth is absolutely fantastic for add-ons.
04:39The level of time and effort that's been put into these add-ons is incredible. I mean
04:46now's the best time to play Myth in a sense because you've got two decades worth of hard
04:52work into producing all this content for you to play. So Myth is still a great game and
05:02not that many people have heard about it, surprisingly. There's an option here you can
05:06play on the Fallen Lords gameplay. It just makes it a little bit more like the first
05:09game. I'm actually going to keep that on Myth 2 throughout playing this. I prefer it. So
05:17we're going to do that. It's just a little bit more smooth, the motion of units and things
05:22like that. It was a wee bit clunky in the first game. The second game is much more improved
05:30and somebody actually managed to get all the Myth 1 levels recreated for Myth 2 in
05:38effect. We can play this here, Magma the Fallen Levels version 2. So that's what we're going
05:43to play. So yeah, we're going to do that. So I think to play this tutorial we need to
05:47hold shift. There we go, and we've got the training mic. So, sit back and enjoy.
06:17AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
06:47In a time long past, the armies of the dark came again into the lands of men.
06:53Their leaders became known as the Fallen Lords, and their terrible sorcery was without equal in the West.
07:01In thirty years they reduced the civilized nations to carrion and ash, until the free city of Madrigal alone defied them.
07:10An army gathered there, and a desperate battle was joined against the Fallen.
07:16Heroes were born in the fire and bloodshed of the wars which followed, and their names and deeds will never be forgotten.
07:46AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
08:16AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
08:46Okay so that was the intro. I wanted to play that through all the way without introduction
08:55because it's such a brilliant cutscene and introduction to myth. A lovely narrative and
09:03quite sort of sober tone to it. And it's quite scary actually as well. When I first played
09:11the game. This is quite a scary game when you haven't played it through before. So anyway
09:17I hope you enjoyed that and let's continue the tutorial.
09:22This is a brief tutorial on playing Myth, the Fallen Lords. Follow the instructions
09:27or die horribly. The camera is your point of view. Moving the camera well is the first
09:33step toward playing well. Use the Q and E keys to orbit or rotate the camera. Use the
09:47W and S keys to move forward and backward. Use the A and D keys to move left and right.
10:02Use the Z and X keys to track left and right. Use the C and V keys to zoom in and out. Hit
10:21tab to bring up the overhead map. See the green dot on the overhead map? That's your
10:28warrior. The yellow trapezoid represents your field of view. Select the marching warrior
10:36with the mouse and hit the space bar to stop him. Now move him towards the flag by clicking
10:45near it. You may quickly select groups of units by band selecting or double clicking
10:58on a unit. Select your archers and make them attack by clicking on the archery targets.
11:28Hit tab to bring up the overhead map. See the green dot on the overhead map? That's your
11:35warrior. The yellow trapezoid represents your field of view. Select your archers and make
11:44them attack by clicking near it. You may quickly select groups of units by clicking on the
11:53archery targets.
12:21Nice going, way to stick it to him. Now make the dwarf attack the targets.
12:28Okay, he's our dwarf.
12:30No, just click on the targets.
12:32Okay, okay.
12:48Okay, here we go.
12:56I think the dwarf throws bottles with fire inside them.
13:08The dwarf also has the special ability to place satchel charges. This is useful for
13:14protecting vulnerable areas. Let's go step by step through this process. Move the dwarf
13:21close to the target.
13:23Okay, here we go. They've got to be backpacks on them as well, as you can see.
13:33Now hit T to place a satchel charge.
13:35Okay, here we go. So that's one.
13:39Now, CTRL click on the ground near the charge to blow it up.
13:43Okay, CTRL and then click. Don't worry folks, it's a really simple tutorial.
13:52Now you can blow stuff up.
13:58The journeyman has the special ability to heal units. Journeymen may also heal themselves.
14:05Select the journeyman, hit T and click on an injured unit to heal it. Go heal the injured
14:11warrior.
14:18Way to help your fellow man.
14:23Assembling troops and formations is essential to keeping order in the chaos of battle.
14:28To make your units form up, select them, select a formation from 0 to 9 and click on their
14:34destination. The loose line is formation number 3. Move the warriors across the river in a
14:40loose line.
14:44Okay, so 3 and loose line.
14:52Oops, sorry, I need to move my cross. Okay.
15:14Okay, here we go at number 9.
15:44Alright, you've finished the tutorial. Good luck. You're gonna need it.
16:14Okay, so that's the tutorial. Very straightforward. And we're now ready to begin our journey.
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