Grubby
TODAY CHINESE . AoE2 LEARNING BY BIG SLIGHTLY ABOVE AVERAGE INTELLIGENCE NOOB
02-02-2026 · 8h 30m
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Yo, what's up guys, welcome to the stream, how's it going, hello, hello, hello, hello.
Hello, today we are learning the Chinese, first time Chinese in Age of Empires 2,
I hear that their start is very difficult. Let's study them for the first time. At least
I think it's for the first time. Have I ever played the Chinese four years ago? If I did,
I forgot. Let's check out the tech tree. How are you guys doing?
今天總文什麼一夕 今天總文 總文 今天總文什麼一夕
I only know that the Chinese are Chinese. I don't know the rest.
What do you guys think?
Hey, grab it while you come to home story cup 30.
Uh, why would I?
It's different than every other sieve, yeah, Chinese in age of about 4 were very different
as well.
It was so much fun.
They were my favorite.
Tongwen.
Tongwen.
Wo si ge lan ren.
Start with 3 extra villagers.
Minus 50 wood and minus 200 food.
Center's give 10 extra population and 7 line of sight. Technologies are 5, 10 and 15% cheaper
in age 2, 3 and 4. Fire ships and launchers move faster. They have a unique unit, Chokunu.
Ah, just like in Age of Empires 4. It's the crossbow guy. He has like a multi-loaded
Bolt throwing, crossbow type of thing.
Unique tech, great wall.
Ah!
Just like an AWP4, better walls, better stone walls.
Rocketry, scorpions, rocket cards, low-trance, 25% bonus attack, low-trance fire rockets, yeah, like the Nest of Bees.
What Edo are you?
1050!
Grubby, I just ordered my 9800X3D as well, because my 13700K starts doing shady shit.
Did you check the voltage as well, Norix?
Did you do like the voltage check? My voltage was quite high.
Though in the end, I still had the problem after subbing the CPU.
Now I've created a longer wait time with...
If my graphics card is having a hiccup, my windows will wait longer to initiate a recovery event,
which has been causing the 20-30 seconds out time that I've been having which has been dropping the streams.
A Ruygen guys helped me to set that up. I don't think it's gonna help, but I want to see if it will.
And if that doesn't work, I may substitute my graphics card with that of my wife's and give her this one.
Which is better, but is having an issue when streaming games sometimes.
But it only happens once every two weeks, so I'm gonna wait by doing that.
Because I really want to know what was causing the problem.
Hi, Voltage!
Probably forgive me for asking, but I used to watch your HOTS content like 6 years ago
and I swear Logan was a little dark and did he change color?
And no, it's lighting. My lighting changed. It really depends on lighting these things.
For those of you that were online yesterday and gave words of encouragement for my thesis presentation,
thank you all the presentation went amazingly and I'm happy with my grade. Oh nice!
What went the best what went the worst and what was your grade Patrick?
Team bonus farms plus 10% food. Okay good farms a different start
Extra line of sight cheaper technologies, and we have a chokunu
Better great wall and some special siege units
What does the chokunu do?
Strong, all-purpose archer with high attack but less attack speed and range, fires two
extra arrows and quick succession, each dealing 3 pierce plus 0 melee damage, good vs rams.
It would be good vs rams, right?
Because they're doing 3 damage instead of 1 compared to an archer, even though they're
min damaging. Yo, Kano Tykuu! Thank you for the two months up, appreciate it.
My thesis was on dating of Dutch dwelling mounts and the application of luminescence dating as a
a viable method. What? Dutch Dwellingman sounds like New Zealand Hobbiton. The zero melee
damage is translated to actual damage against unit with negative melee armor. Oh. That is
a roundabout way of saying things. So as opposed to not having any interaction, it says plus
zero melee damage. So if there are any takers, anyone that takes bonus melee damage, they
will take the bonus melee damage from this. Finally AoE. What's up, Mathrondale? Armor
class archery unique units accuracy 85% but does it always say accuracy for range units?
oh it does accuracy 80% accuracy 90% accuracy 50% what?
I wrote those tooltips it's part of my improved tooltips mod the default tooltip wouldn't tell
you that. I was wondering about that. Did you really, Haru? I was wondering about the, let's say,
unusual phrasing. Generally, game developers don't push you in the direction of what something is
good against in this manner. Cavalry Archeneed Thumb Ring? Yeah, the thumb ring that says
100% hit rate against stationary targets.
And units fire faster as well, except Chokunuu.
Except Chokunuu? 25. What does that mean? Chokunuu fire even faster. Ah.
Chokunuu benefits more than others. Cavalry Archer and War Wagon a little less and slinger not at all.
It's dating of sand grains in the last time of deposition, it's an entire field.
And no pun intended, right?
An entire field of sand.
Anyway, quite complicated so if you want more information I suggest you look it up yourself.
Okay, I will begin the process of experimentation on build orders.
At this point I am not requesting build order advice.
I won't be reading build order advice.
If I see build order advice in the chat I will look away as if you flashed me.
This will be my first cracked build order on the Chinese.
Okay, so you start with six villagers and no food.
So you would probably start with loom, might as well.
Would immediately need to start harvesting on the cow.
Probably not even waiting for it to come home because it would just take too long.
Start with loom and then go into villagers as soon as possible after.
I have 7 out of 15 so I don't need to follow it up with the house immediately after.
see how fast they harvest food. About one food every four seconds so 50 food would
take 200 seconds but I have six 30 seconds loom takes 25 seconds but I
counted seconds wait I won't even have villager I probably won't even be able
to make a villager after loom. Let's try that. It would be awkward if it was baked in not
to be able to make a villager even after loom. Why are they so slow? Wait, they cannot kill
things that move. Okay, that was terrible. Haha! They can't kill the kelvin it's moving.
I didn't know that, they were all swinging and missing.
Yeah my loom was late.
Guys am I on a slow game speed or is this actually how slow my scout is?
Oh, GG.
This is the normal speed?
Okay, okay.
Wow.
Loom and then wait.
It feels like you're on slow?
Yeah.
It does feel slow, but I guess it's just real.
I can't believe this.
You actually have idle villager time as part of the build order it looks like.
That's crazy.
like something like 5 to 10 seconds idle TC. It makes Chinese look new. We also start
Start with less wood, soon I need to make a house.
Let me try to think of the other special parts about Chinese.
Start with three extra villagers, less food, less wood, town centers have more pop, technologies
are cheaper, that's about it and farms give more food.
for the rest. I would say it's pretty standard. Oh, I could probably have gone for more earlier
already
This is what I need a house
I kind of scouted the back alley, I mean it's arena.
Looks like I can get the other pig already.
I have three on board to rest some food.
Okay, the opening isn't that complicated. It just feels strange that there is an actual
baked-in inefficiency period, like the built-in's clean. You get this loom that you don't really need
early on and uh no no no no. No. You get this loom you don't need early on and then a 10-second
an idol, but that's okay. We are going to H3. I feel so bad. You just have to overcome
your mindset on these things that this constitutes an inefficiency. I don't. That's just how it
is. It's like the headhunter build for Orc, where for four seconds your castle goes idle.
you're doing 14 mil, 15 racks. You'll have 25 gold instead of 75 for the next
beyond. But it's the best way to amass an early army of headhunters, so if it
works, it works. I wonder how this affects my tech timing.
Looks like it's going to be potentially slightly faster, which would make sense since I have
There's more villagers.
I mean, is it faster? I think it is faster. At least one villager is faster, right?
which also have fewer resources. Yeah, true. But I mean, when I look, oh wait, I have
three more villagers, so 22 is like 19, but I also got looms, so it's like 20, so it's
kind of equivalent maybe.
We are trying to go fast gaso, so I still want a lot of food, but I'm putting a bunch
on wood now so I can build farms and farms are actually faster for me which is pretty
sick.
10% faster mining that will convert into a nice little bonus.
Currently I have only 5 on food which won't build up much of a bang.
Upgrades are cheaper.
Wait a minute.
150.
50. Oh, because my a-job hasn't finished yet, so it doesn't reflect the cheaper double-bit axes yet.
It will immediately drop by 5%, 95, 48.
Now, I don't think a 5% cheaper double-bit axis is worth it to get now to delay my castle.
It shouldn't be worth it. It's only 5%. Like, if it was half-cast, or it didn't have a woodcast,
like one of the other civs maybe. Probably the same philosophy still applies that you're
not going to slow down castle for this upgrade.
farms than usual because they are so beneficial for me. 10% is a decent increase.
Now, I think horse collars are actually worth it when I think about it.
Contrary to what I just said, I've become a big fan of horse collars.
It saves so much wood.
It's 10% capacity, not gather speed.
Okay, so it only covers for the walking time.
You're right, you're right.
Gather speed is not fast.
Oh, so it saves wood, actually.
It's not even about walking speed.
It's a wood saving mechanic.
You don't have to reseed it as often.
If you build farms before horse collar, those farms will not be affected.
Right.
That makes sense that it doesn't add maximum to a currently existing farm.
Can you actually see?
But anyone that gets reseeded, it works.
Is that true?
Sima? How?
Sima? How?
Sima? How?
Oh shi...
I don't have my two buildings yet.
Oh, that's what I forgot about in this playthrough.
Alright, let's go one more time.
Now let's remember the tier 2 buildings as well.
Probably slightly too many farms, got carried away.
Let's do that again.
If the farm is completed after it works for it, whether recede or completing it, just
ask the upgrade finished.
Okay, so if the upgrade finishes and the second later he finishes starting the farm,
then it's still included, the 75.
If you stay longer in Dark Age, you'll hit Castle Age faster.
Even though I have enough food to age up, Silver or Cheapskate?
I've heard that before, but I haven't tested it.
You walk long to build houses, waste?
Yeah.
True.
Hey, what's up Marine Lord?
Yo, is this guy gonna slam Hera?
Yes, easily.
We're gonna win easily and then he's gonna have to add cheats.
Gonna take like a massive handicap.
We win the first and then he's going to add 100% handicap to self.
I just hope the handicaps are fairer than mine with Tyler.
But in my defense I thought it was going to be closer between us.
I was saying Hera is very confident to be including Groovy in the 7.
I don't think I'll be top 3 performer as you see.
I think Sing Sing might be the best.
I trust Sing Sing to perform the best in any strategy game.
I have seen how he learned Warcraft 3, how he took my coaching, how he performed and
improved without my coaching and in fact, I don't think he even really needed it.
He just wanted to hang out.
You guys know that show, the Lot of Wicked Millionaires, like who wants to be a millionaire
and it was the nerdy looking guy who called his dad and he's like actually dad I don't
have a question, I just wanted to tell you I'm about to win a million dollars.
John Carpenter, I remember that.
That's Sing Sing, that's Sing Sing getting coaching from me in Warcraft 3.
I remember watching Sing Sing play a particular Warcraft 3 ladder game.
He went for a fast expansion, and this Orc guy was rushing him, saying he was bungling
this, he was bungling that a little bit, as you would since he was playing like his first
or second day of Warcraft 3.
And I thought it's over, right?
Like I'm watching, I'm back seating in Chad, and I'm telling him to leave to save time.
Because he's already lost.
He's losing his main, he lost his heroes, he lost a whole bunch of units, but he's
clinging on and it's just getting awkward.
is one of my invitational participants and they're staying longer than what is considered
respectful. You're just wasting the opponent's time. So I thought, let's just go to the next
game. Let's be time efficient. You take this one as a loss and you move on, but he wouldn't
leave. Five minutes, 10 minutes, 15 minutes. Sing Sing turns the game and he wins and
it becomes fucking cinema. Like, what are you doing? You had that never give up
attitude. He try hards like that, wins the tournament and then afterwards he's
like, guys I gotta play some other games these real-time strategy games are so
stressful. I'm thinking what do you mean stressful? You are the stress! You give
everyone else stress! So good. So good.
Marine Lord, you said you want to try dub C3 sometime? It will be cool, it will be cool.
Yeah, let's stop walking that far for houses.
Actually costs a lot of resources.
So, stay longer in Dark Age, even if you have enough resources to age up, it is not
consider the benefit
have you watched survivalist content for beginners?
uh... a little bit
i started watching the survival stuff when it got famous on youtube like five
plus years ago and then uh...
eventually i flowed forth into the videos where
one man builds a water palace
a water theme attraction park
with no help at all
uh... and then leaves it there after uh... living in it once
and i learned it was fake
took me out man, it took me out
ruined the magic
any plans for sif6?
i played a little bit of sif6 last year
It was really fun, and I would say it had good viewership too, but I didn't know how I could make content out of it long term, so I did the one stream, it was cool, and then I said, okay, this is a game to be played off stream, except if like you can find an amazing opportunity to play it with some other streamers and...
Then it can be fun, I suppose, but overall tough to make content out of long term as a
streamer.
That kind of slow burn game.
Oh, and I remember thinking if I was, let's say, if I was a very good SIF player, then
it would be easier.
But the rate at which I would play, considering I still have to learn everything in SIF
6 anyway, because I played a lot of SIFT 2, but who wants to see that?
The rates at which I would be playing would make it slightly less engaging for stream.
Ever tried Project Zilmboyt?
No, I've never tried that.
A SIFT 6 is made for multiplayer, a SIFT 5 for chill single.
Well I would need to learn the game more and that would take several dozen hours and
I don't think you can sell a turn-based strategy game for dozens of hours on stream and have
it be interesting.
I think it's more interesting when it's played relatively fast and comfortably.
One small efficiency trick is to always kill all hunts exactly below the TC, that way
villagers only get to drop resources and don't have to walk.
Yeah, I did the same in A4.
put everything in the same place like this deer for instance don't kill him
where he is keep sending him further like this
you're in I find it interesting I would love to show you guys age of wonders
planetfall someday. I think about it often but I think it would be more for me
than for most people since I love that game but I would have to explain it to
everyone. Too much on gold? Oh no, no, no, don't kill. You think 2 is too much on
gold? For the fastest possible castle, yes I guess.
Who's your biggest idol, A.B.2?
I mean, I don't have an idol.
I'm not 14 years old.
But I like Viper.
Not too much on gold, but too soon to have two on gold.
Yeah, I suppose.
I think I still adjust for the mistake, right?
2 is classic, but you did 3 on loom, 2 is classic, but you did loom, so 3.
say we'll test, we'll test. How many have already asked why no AOE 4? I mean I don't answer
questions like that anyway. Boring lazy questions that don't put any effort into making an interesting
question, where I have to assume the meaning.
Okay, so now we're aged enough.
So now we need wood and farms.
I suppose the earlier I make the farms, the more they will pay off.
What are we?
1,050.
Is there a particular event that we can be streaming for?
Yeah.
There's three reasons I'm playing AoE 2.
The catalyst was the show match with Hera and Stormstormer inviting me.
The second is I've included it as a competitive game for show matches with me against Banjoa
Red Panda, first of which was yesterday, I won the first and we're playing a best of
five over the course of three to five weeks.
And the third one is that I've developed a genuine passion for it and so I would
be playing now if all the events were cancelled.
You guys must all be really good at Chinese learning from games like AVE 2, it's very
responsible to be playing games to expedite your learning.
Yes I can now order 20 archers in the local Chinese bar.
those super common Chinese bars make sense make sense
look at my eco balance it's so clean the only sucky thing is that these
lumberjacks were going that far oh my god that was a clean castle age holy oh
137, 24, 37, resources.
He basically did a fast castle perfect build, yes.
Yes. GG.
And for once I'm taking without 175 gold in the bank.
Now we're going to get double wood bits and horse color.
I think about where to place TC, let's get exercise, yeah.
here. You don't want to have to walk too far. I'm going slightly high on food if I keep
all the guys on the mill left of the gold mine yeah this is a decent place as well less space
to build farms around it though, oops.
I would build a stone camp now for Castle, but I feel like if I did the cute little one
or two on stone. Now it's actually gonna cost me town center timing.
Paul? Paul?
Oh that was nice.
Happy Feb. Hope all is good.
Happy Feast of Wintervelo, champion.
Bosoil, Wheelbarrow, and Heavy Plow.
But Heavy Plow might be a mistake. How much does it give, actually?
Because I think if any of my farms are about to go empty, this heavy plow will actually
prevent them to reseat and then it gets messy.
Is it another 75?
125.
And farms carry extra food.
Oh, that's kind of nice.
Is this stacking 75 and 125?
Or is this the grand total 125?
200.
Krabby, do you think Dawn of War 4 will make it into your top 5 competitive RTS?
I think it's very unlikely, Blargo there.
It stacks.
Okay, additional.
Cumulative.
Yes, they last longer, but the upgrade needs to finish, then it's applied- yeah, okay,
I thought I knew.
I understood that from County Bombers, uh, before.
Good meeting you.
Wait, all of them?
Good meeting you.
What's this?
What?
Shit!
I'm going to run out of food very rapidly with the amount of villagers that I have on food
right now.
You know what would be good?
Click all my farms to see how far away they are from needing reseeding.
very close, which means that very soon I will require a whole bunch of wood.
Don't they auto-receive? They do. It's just that that's when the wood demand happens.
Very soon all of them will need receipts, so I need to keep a very healthy lumber bank.
Don't make too many new ones.
There, bam.
Re-seed.
Oh.
This is of course, I'm pure booming, and I'm not even fighting over the relics.
I don't have a barracks.
I do have enough food now to sustain villager production, just.
Okay, that's the first failure in...
...receding.
But my economy is going crazy.
very pretty cities
Let's go!
I cannot easily see which one is my monastery, I don't know if it's easier for you guys
with the familiarity of having played for a while, but I literally have to remember which building was my monastery
I wonder if this Q command works, basically I ordered him to return
the relic and then immediately pick up another and return that as well
It looks like it's working.
it's working
just like in a week or
so you can cue all the actions
I think I'm rebuilding labor camps slightly too early
you should only do it when there's one or two spaces between it and the previous one
far as I know. You can give as many shift commands in a queue as you want. I think you can drop
up to like 30 flags for an individual unit or group. That's cool, but it doesn't necessarily
guarantee that the thing that I hope would work would work. And that is because right
takes our contextual and if I were to give that command and it doesn't know that it
can't pick something up again because it still has something in his hand then it
would give essentially the wrong command if that makes sense to you.
I wonder what timing the guy castle rushed me yesterday.
Like what kind of adjustments would I need to make?
35 on food presently.
uh, mounted units move faster, mounted units get extra, skirmishers are trashed
guys I think I'm Chinese
Which one is light or something?
This?
Glad you came out.
Cassandra is Singaporean, right?
She is.
But Singapore is not Chinese.
Not per se.
I am per se.
Glad you came out.
I needed a lot of courage, but I did it.
I need thumb rings and this 270 food.
It looks like monks that are moving don't trigger an all army hopkey which is kind of
cool that it works that way.
even their item. I like that a lot. That's a nice quality of life.
I'm not killing him.
He can't be comfortable on death.
I can't see behind there, keep...
Focusing on two units, one gold, one trash, skirmishers and knights in this case.
Oh, no wonder this guy sucks. I put the easiest A.I.
I didn't even take it for it, it reminds me of a video I just watched, where the original
heroes of Might and Magic creator said he made a concept called Fun AI, which wasn't
necessarily the best, but it was fun to play against. It wasn't as perfect. They
didn't want to make a perfect chest algorithm. It makes mistakes, it makes the
player feel good beating it, which is, to be fair, exactly what you would want
from an AI in a single-player game.
I still think Grubby gets too many villagers, but it seems to be his style.
Yeah, it is my style. I always get a lot of villagers. 140 minimum. This is me deliberately
going easy on Vilkant on the 36th. He's a boomer. Yeah, no boomer. Hey, this was clean.
This was clean. Let's go ladder. I'm ready guys. First Chinese ladder game. Wait, by
By the way, can you see in your profile somewhere how many games you've played with every Civ?
Hey, Krabby, I'm new to your channel, and I'm a big Aoe2 and Aoe4 fan, and I really like your approach to the game.
Out of genuine curiosity, since Aoe2 has two core builds, Phos Castle and Scouts or Archer Rush, that work for all Civs,
what's your reasoning for focusing on rebuilding and testing them from scratch,
Scratch rather than analyzing why they work how to modify them because it's more fun
Doing it myself is more fun. It's some of the best parts. Think of it like your first kiss
What make you pick Chinese as your faction oh defensive every day
my philosophy for games usually is you can only learn it yourself once after you
learn the meta from others you already know what's best it takes away the
journey you can do that at any time you can do that on day one though your
understanding will be insufficient on day one to fully appreciate all the
details you can also do it on day two day seven or day ten now it is slower
Or to learn without benefiting from the already existing build orders out there, yes, but
maybe it'll be yours.
It'll be more sincerely yours if you learn it yourself.
And you can always get to that point where you know how the game works from a guide.
I don't want to skip the first step of learning.
I would still study Empire advantages, picking the right sif for the right map is extremely
important.
Yeah, of course, I know that.
I'm not picking the right map for the right sif right now.
I'm just playing a new sif every day.
Today's Chinese.
On certain websites you can check how much you play the sif.
Okay.
Did you know you can manually drop off food after loom to skip downtime?
Yeah, I know you can manually drop off food.
What is the type of stuff you would prefer, versatility?
I like booming.
I spam Chinese and in aoe4 and they were a boom sif, but also they were a sif that could
crank out a nasty h2 push with mass chokunu.
You go double tc, but then you use the double tc not to go into third h, but to spam mass
chokunu in attack.
You could do that in h4, not h2 of course.
It's booming.
Booming is like extreme greed.
Like 80 drones in Starcraft, 90 drones in Starcraft.
We're against Franks on the Shruplands.
Here we go.
have this funny start where you cannot produce villagers for 10 seconds. This is my first
multiplayer Chinese game. That was a pretty good timing of sending food villagers for
for a manual return.
Oh, that was perfect timing!
I have exactly zero food, GG.
It's over.
Micke, thanks man.
Two second idol, Tissie.
Ah, oh wow, I killed, oh god it's over, I killed 3 guards at the same time.
of course this time I'm not fast age 3 like in uh, like on arena, I'm a little late with
the board actually more than a little but it is what it is little body
block with the goats. Why aren't you speaking Chinese when the tide of the
streams as you do? Does it? Today Chinese.
Okay, hello everyone, I am Dutchman.
Oh, I'm late with the second board, too.
I still have to find him.
I didn't send the ostriches back as I went for scouting.
Wait, could he be in the bottom of the map?
I think very well he could be, in fact.
Science point towards yes.
Oh no!
I don't really need a scout.
It's all good man
Feels kind of weird not to have a control group 2 anymore
Classic noob game so far just like the title promised
Okay.
I think I'm going to rush my eco upgrades and do some scouts rush.
I need it for division anyway.
Oh wait, am I actually going to do that?
No I'm not.
I don't even have enough wood to do any of that, nor is my barracks timing on time.
No, it's not quite the scouts rush, I'm afraid.
Well, I can get upgrades.
Well, actually, that slows down my scouts even more.
do it
now I want to change minds
very transparent, when he scouts the stable he'll know
force collar
double bit axe
You've seen everything, he knows.
He can just get spears now.
I could make two scouts and then go archers.
The archers will walk from so far.
If I go archers, I'll just try to make it a little bit above.
I like proxying the archery range actually because they have to walk from so far at this
rate.
Let's take a house.
Okay, now we need farms so we can go H3.
Making three archers should be enough to deal with any spears.
This is Barak.
I've seen many farms here.
Might not mean anything per se.
Look, they are very experienced at making walls.
I'm going to kill you.
Stop, stop, stop.
Eh?
Get ready to go.
What?
Get ready.
I really shouldn't get poked like that.
castle already
I'm doing some serious damage to him
Night, I'll deal with everything nicely.
That was pretty nice.
Now I'm castling.
I did a little bit of villageery damage.
Now I can take some off of food, make a couple of spears for it.
I am loving it.
Thank you.
Now I have to make a couple of spheres for the potential counter-attack.
They have an insane amount of wood, actually brutal.
We can catch up on the blacksmith we never got yet.
And the marcas.
It's not nice needing more buildings than normally required.
I'll make one scout for you this time.
Now I think I need to save all the lumber.
One scout, the scout the other side.
I don't know how many villagers I died, I think maybe a few.
If he made a lot of knights, it could be in trouble.
I'll make another scout to check.
Oh, I thought that was a full wall off.
I didn't know that I'm going to get tricked like that.
It's just like the French and A4 if they can beat Spears.
And I thought this was a full wall off.
That's a bad place.
Of course, I didn't have Holber Deer upgrades.
Yeah I'm already upgraded.
14 villagers in production. That's nice.
What's this? Fire Lancer.
Fire Lancer is a horseman that comes from the barracks?
Oh, infantry, especially... oh, okay, it's one of those.
And what are they good against?
against mountains okay my plan is to go
So, Imperial or not?
Imperial.
I should make 2 canoes, but how much do they cast?
Wood and gold.
Spears and chukunu.
Or fire lances and chukunu.
versus militia line. Oh, it took an hour to get against that either.
I want to build a little house, huh? No, sir.
Wait, I forgot to actually go Imperial.
I'm playing as if I am Imperial soon.
Wait, I can't even because I don't have the buildings yet.
All good, all good, learning.
What do you mean?
Do a little attack
Fire Lance her attack
Turn back
I don't think he's getting that much.
They're so slow, right?
Yeah, that was not good.
Yeah
I said son
throwing axe man
throwing axe man
I see.
I'm not sure about that, but I'm sure about that.
I'm not sure about that, but I'm sure about that.
What?
What?
Sit down.
Get in.
Get in.
Get in.
I
Can I not make handgunners?
My equivalence is so canoeed.
There it is, Paladins are running through everything.
I just lost 50 villagers.
I don't think Chokinu already answered against Calvary.
I don't have any stone anymore.
I just didn't make the right units at all, evidently.
They cannot kill a single Tremeshe!
Okay, I think they're all single drivers there.
1.
2.
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Oh
Yeah.
Yes!
Ni hao.
Ni hao game.
Heng hao.
Heng hao.
Yeah.
Yes!
Ni hau.
Ni hau.
Ni hau.
Ni hau.
Ni hau.
That was difficult.
Here we grind him down.
Dude, I thought we were losing because he was winning the castle in trebuchet
war.
哦,你是中国人?
没?
是,我是,我是中国人?
Oh, it's so hot.
Do you like this game? Yeah.
I need critical mass a bit on Siege.
It's not just that, I need good defences, I need good left right splitting.
His micro didn't hold up, I mean his micro was pretty good.
Those paladins were so strong chat.
How come I ground him down?
What was wrong?
Back to a 2.
I'm hyped.
I'm hyped.
I'm hyped.
I love this game.
Yo me too.
You are Chinese, not Dutch. I speak a little bit of Chinese.
and have a lot of skirmishers and scouts.
My Chinese is not good.
You are Chinese not good? What?
You're Chinese not good?
You ran out of gold so you couldn't go pannadins anymore.
By the way, these walls, I should have made these a loooong time ago.
Even though they're just palisade walls, it would help a lot against panthing.
nothing. Just like a wall here, especially on the outside. This wall is super useful.
I should have done that a long, long, long time ago.
Yo, thank you for this, Godly Giplam. Kiss my booty, 22.
You can make trebuchets or small house with gates. I like that. I like that. Small
little house with gates, yeah. My trebuchets are always out there in the wild.
be playing Age of Empires 2, believe it or not, stop right away. I believe it. You put
your money where you're outside. So can I see his final resources at the end? Can I see how
much he had at the end? Not at the glance, right? I would have to go into the replay.
But yeah, no more paladins. Franks. Paladins have probably a lot of bonus health for
Like they have very good paladins.
Powerful, all-purpose heavy cavalry, weak against monks, camels, and pikes.
So, Holberdeers are my main answer.
He gets 20% bonus HP.
Farm upgrades free, foragers work faster, castles cost less.
Oh, okay, okay.
Unique unit throwing, Axeman.
Unique tech, bearded axe.
Shivery, stables work faster.
Dude, they're so much like Franks in AOE 4.
In AOE 4, it's clear that they just wanted to kind of keep a lot of the same mechanics
per civilization.
Probably would not be popular if they were very different if you did Franks again and
you did it differently.
Plus, it probably fits the history of the Franks or something.
Knights, line of sight.
So better harass.
Franks are missing bloodlines?
Aha, so they don't get the 28 speed, they get the 20%, which is not better for Knights,
though it's free, but then it's better for Cavalier and Paladin onwards.
Oh, that makes sense.
Same lore, yeah, historically accurate.
What's a team bonus?
A team bonus is something you get and your teammates.
So if you play one-on-one, just read it as a regular bonus you get.
Yeah, it scales better.
I didn't mean to stream with guns today, but I had to take the guns out of the holster because I was getting hot.
So he actually made so few farms, he completely relied on mass windmill spam with the berries.
Whereas I have a significant farm investment, though it really went patchy at some point.
point.
Infi just did 5-0 against Falkus in Orc Mirror.
He played two games with Mass Witch Doctor, crazy, Grubby would you watch replay later?
That sounds fun.
You know I had a game against Infi five years ago where I Mass doctored him, I'm pretty
sure that's the first time he ever faced it.
It's a compliment that he remembered that, enjoyed that, and repeated that.
Except every time that I tried to play...
Every time that I tried to play...
Mass Doctors and Orc Mirror recently, it lost heart.
So I'm very curious as to what his implementation was.
This relic I should have taken, of course.
I only took one relic and only very slowly.
On a map like this...
Super good to get the relics early, obviously.
We're both very lazy with it.
He's got a relic.
Oh my god.
He's got a relic right here!
Anyway...
Uh, by the way, Grubby, you were building castles on flat grounds.
It's better to build parts of the foundation on hills for bonus damage and less damage
taken from enemy Troop of Shave.
That is so crazy.
I think if you hover over a hill, it should show.
It should show.
Like, you're about to enjoy the bonus benefits of bonus damage and less damage taken.
It's such a hidden bonus.
Hills matter.
You can see the hills?
Yeah, of course, of course.
I can see the hills.
There's hill bonus for arches and stuff?
Yeah.
That's such a hidden bonus.
You could play forever without figuring it out if you don't pay too much attention.
Guys, I'm very happy to announce we just entered top 20,000.
We started our ladder journey in top 26,000, we're now officially top 19,000.
It's it!
Grr!
Grr!
Grr!
Grr!
Grr!
Grr!
Grr!
Grr!
Grr!
Grr!
Grr!
Grr!
Grr!
Food, wood, stone, gold. Very similar, very similar. Either one of us got good... You know,
as a Frank you should really put more attention into relics.
I'm getting 190 gold, I barely recoup the cost of the monks.
Do you see why I don't like your massive village account after that one by the way Grumby?
Minus 20 army can really second times?
No, I do not see.
Do you know how poor someone is on 100 villagers?
You got 30, 30, 30, 10 splits.
You take a little bit of eco damage and you immediately fall into a massive ravine.
Villagers are meant to be overmade and occasionally lost.
You had 130 villagers with 45 in the queue.
Hey, my bad.
I cancelled many of those.
It's really hard to stop the muscle memory of spamming villagers.
After a while it's just something I do, like rocking your leg when you're nervous or blinking.
I'm just pressing 5E or 5Q, whatever it is, all the time.
Oh, didn't the turks do like a castle bust against me?
Just a little Chinese opening with a small idle TC playing on arena.
What was that?
What was that?
I don't even know where that sound came from.
Oh, maybe it's the sound of a prediction.
I didn't know that the prediction browser thing that I added actually makes a sound as well.
And I didn't add it to this scene yet.
Yeah, there it is.
That's kind of cool.
I think that's cool.
We better put that over here.
But don't cover too much.
I will turn off that sound soon.
Okay, he just unpaused without saying anything.
That's fine. He was nice enough to wait.
I'm not gonna complain.
arena, fast little castle, delayed, dark age ascendancy, not the best house location
but can't undo it anymore
I'll be making one of these wood guys into a mill so I'm not really gonna mine with four
it's a rabbit cane by the way
start scouting
What?
What?
Okay.
Okay, found him.
I guess the way that my walls are situated already shows to me where an enemy is going
to spawn.
Like I'm kind of starting to understand the arena algorithm.
Like obviously my walls are not oriented in a manner that seems to suggest that we
are right across from each other.
to suggest corner activity so I'm expecting a castle bust or something
I think that's what Turk did.
I think it was a castle bust with some kind of unit to break through.
They can do fast... oh Janus?
Yeah, Janus Aries.
How do I counter Janus Aries again?
fast imperial hand cannons, bombards, ooo okay, skirmishers, uh huh, skirmishers, okay
overwhelming numbers and skirmishers, okay, uh that doesn't mean we should assume that's
That's what he's definitely going to do, but it's worth keeping in mind if that's what happens.
25 bills
Defensive gas also a possibility
Okay, get a drink up.
Just use the auto-scout. Nah, it makes me lazy.
if I do
I know there's sometimes downtime on my guy but
It's more fun
Two stone, two golds, whole bunch on wood.
we're very close to hitting our mark of pretty damn fast castle
Maybe if I have done more berries, I can just buy the food too.
Ah, not quite.
Fuck it.
I was cancel a villager.
I was bad.
I was bad.
This is the stone grave.
It's to get the stone grave.
I can't let them get a frital by the way.
My tech upgrades are a little late, so it didn't work on any of my farms.
No plus 75
I will get second TC.
And then, castle him, maybe.
Take the fight to him.
Second TC, get um, get a monastery.
trade cards bm do you need to prepare for imperial after the castle
Where are the other relics?
Is there only three?
Oh he picked them up already?
Oh, wait, I lost all my Spears.
So he killed all my units.
Oh my god.
Oh, he just took it too!
Crap!
Oh, wow, he took that too.
Oh my god. Oh god, he got 4. GG!
What the fuck?
That's so fast!
Oh fuck, house.
Okay, this game is not going like how I was hoping.
Jesus.
How can he possess them so far?
So, it's insane from how far away you can do that.
Alright, okay, I'm okay now.
You seem theory already?
Oh fuck.
What's that?
Janissaries.
Janissaries
That's right.
Free game.
What the fuck?
They're not like Sprinkles.
What the fuck?
What the fuck? They're not like spring-offs!
They look like spring-offs but they're nothing like it!
It's now or never.
My guess is, never.
You guys said skirmishers against genoceries!
It doesn't work at all!
They lie to go archer.
You have no upgrades.
I do.
I have full upgrades.
I need to find a hill to put this castle on.
Keep luck on arena
He's got three armor upgrades or four
does archer armor even work? doesn't he do like 20 damage? by the way how many tc's
do you have? 1, 2, 3. I didn't feel like delaying my tc was very helpful by the way, like going
to TC because I had no rush. I think it'd be a nice idea to do a tier list of the faction
at the end of the stream, did you play them, Annie as you go. It's a nice idea, but I'm
not qualified at all to do any tier list.
I have more villagers.
That's all of it.
to be deep in the classic wire scene in 2019 but fell off shortly after TBC and
haven't touched games since. Watching your recent wire stuff reignited that spark.
I'm not even playing but it pushed me to start my own wire project and it feels
exciting to build something with real pressure again. It might sound silly but
I really appreciate the opportunity to be inspired.
Every human needs to create, every human needs to create something they're passionate about.
We cannot just run on work and food and sleep, because there won't be enough meaning.
We need to create something we feel passionate about, whatever it is, it could be a collecting
bottle caps collection, right, or something like anything.
I don't know what you are building on the Wild Project, but I'm curious about
Let me know some time, gift tank, but I'm glad to have had that effect.
I thought you were gonna say I'm playing Vile again and I quit my job. Thanks gift tank.
I did have more villagers, even though I did like this slow build up of the third TC, but I didn't know how to beat Janissaries.
Skirmishers are a viable option, but that Turk army, including Bombard cannons, is a powerhouse, so you need a lot for it to work.
You're supposed to push the boulder up the hill for 8 hours, then let it roll back down every day.
You have more villagers because he's playing a semi-all-in, yeah.
I guess I should have... what if I have mass skirmishers, mass scouts?
Does that work?
I don't even know if I should get armor upgrade on scouts.
I don't even think it changes the tipping point that much.
I think just get skirmisher attack upgrades as many as possible and then
mask out my skirmishers, but I need like three stables, three archery range and
maybe I even skip imperial for it. If he is pushing like this...
You still need to micro the scurms.
Why China?
I mean, I don't...
I'm playing a new safe every day.
I don't always have to give a reasoning for why I'm playing it.
I'm just playing a new safe every day.
Why are there only a few maps?
I think it's because a game like AOE 2 is complicated enough without having to play 17 different maps at the same time.
Usually in a one-on-one RTS competitive game, there will be a map pool of about 79 maps, otherwise it's too overwhelming.
And then they change out the maps like every season, like every three months, and they have to keep it fresh.
No matter if it's a rabie arena or any other map, Gribby goes to put it forward castle.
Hey, Turks again!
On arena again!
And we get to another try!
Oh yeah.
True.
You know what's funny about the loom upgrade guys?
Even if you accidentally started late, there's no penalty with China.
Prediction started.
I will be muting that alert forthwith.
I guess it increases prediction usage.
Potentialy.
Not that it's important or anything.
Check the pinned link later.
Impressive amount of info.
Okay, I'll try to remember that.
I kinda want to spam games today with not so much downtime, so I don't know if I'm gonna
remember or want to do the leak check.
I understand why that happened.
Because they were still on the task of killing rabbits, killing geese, so that when they
I came out and went back to work, which happened to be geese skilling.
Two seconds of idle time.
What is this?
Get ready!
What is this?
Get ready!
Get ready!
What is this?
What?
This time I'm going 3TC again. I see very little advantage to skipping a 3TC on arena.
I cannot get enough resources together. Maybe if I stop making villagers, if I removed
all expectation of ever going Imperial, if I actually go all in and I stop villagers
at 60 something crazy like that I could see maybe I could maybe see an
opportunity to to do something like that
Man, he was fast with the relics, too.
You could go monk and like Avery to find relics, then RTC.
Aha, you think like over T.C.?
I don't hate it.
I've done that before. You would do that with Holy Roman Empire in A3IV. I guess there
was a Sif here too. I believe it was Cumans? Maybe not Cumans. There was a Sif here that
That starts with the relic, Armedians I believe.
Reaching up.
Gold pretty close to my base.
I'm not.
What do you mean?
What?
What do you mean?
Hello, hello.
Why is the scoundrel like a science epithetic?
It's intentional I think.
For early game, in balance of vision acquisition.
It goes up by 2 every age, automatically.
Yo, thanks for the sub, Pote.
Now I think it's four hexes and then it becomes six which if I recall the spirit of the law video correctly
is an increase of something like 117 percent even though you think six four
50 percent yeah it's because of the way the radius works
he apes faster
I need my wood now, I'm actually going to go and pull off of gold to streamline the bet.
Where are you going?
of gold. No more farms now. Holland Buries. So the relics are the white dots on the map.
Okay, it's good to know because I usually spend too much time searching them
Oh, he still has 15 food in his pocket
We can add some idle TC time
There it is castle 1249
I'm not better.
Now I stop making farms.
i'm gonna try that thing where i get a couple of scouts
that's my food acquisition situation
let's get the lumber shop
this will delay my second TC a bit
of berries. He's castled faster than me. It means he could have people on the relics
faster than me. He was not really guarding. He was guarding his flank. I believe. I need
a lot of wood to build both the 175 and the 175 on Diamond. I don't want to show it to him.
Let's make it real fast.
I'll forget how it is.
I think he already took one.
Man, that's fast.
I have to stop the second.
Oh, there's loads of upgrades, what the fuck?
Maybe it gets them for free.
But he took a red furnace.
Not too bad.
Got three.
Not too bad
Oh
It's not good.
I'll take the sword.
What?
OK.
Sword.
Sword.
Sword.
I don't know.
I'm on the line.
I'm on the line.
I'm on the line.
I'm on the line.
Get ready.
Sword.
Sword.
Sword.
Sword.
I'm on the line.
I'm on the line.
I'm four hundred score ahead I don't know what it means maybe he's aging fast here
I'm assuming he's going to go for Janissaries, so I'll get the appropriate upgrades.
I'll get skirmishers.
Stables
The king walks back to the king of the empire.
I'm sorry for the social haha, which had no meaning.
Oh
Love lines
weird going on with my controls at the bottom. I don't understand what happened. Oh, wow!
I see.
All right, that's the wrong unit.
Maybe it don't matter.
This is fucking me.
Get in there!
Get in!
Get in there!
What is this?
I
Oh, the skater's unfinished.
I
Can we do this?
Can we do this?
There's another one.
I'm going to take that.
Here.
I'm going to take the key.
I'm going to take the key.
What? The key?
What is it?
The key.
I'm gonna lose this shit.
This is battering ramps, man.
of
You
chemistry is a must for archers oh fuck and murder holes is that kid
oh yes dude it was so hard it's so hard man GG I forgot murder holes how many
Many times did I not have a castle firing at a ram or some hussar.
Only hard because no university or blacksmith upgrade.
I finally got all the blacksmith upgrades, but yes, I forgot chemistry.
I mean, is chemistry really that important?
Is the AoE2 scene collectively overrating chemistry?
Has chemistry become a dangerous crutch?
Yes, no.
Archers cavalry, archers skirmishers, defensive buildings, ranged warship, and ranged siege
units gain plus one attack required to unlock gunpowder units.
It's just one damage.
It's just one damage!
You have all day to watch twitch streams and you don't have one damage.
That's one damage per unit, yeah.
Yes?
One damage for 40 archers, yeah.
I think the archer switch was really nice because the skirmishers did one damage on
the Hussar.
Who should I have 7 armor?
Arbalest have 8 damage.
It's double damage.
It goes from 1 to 2 damage.
Literally double damage on archers.
Is the AoE 2 scene collectively undervaluing the power of chemistry?
In my humble opinion, you should get it.
in a 1 hour 7 minutes 1.7 x speed adjusted game
How do you read Hussar armor? Why does it say 0 plus 3 divided by 2 plus 5? It's maths
It has 5.7, 0.57 armor
No, the way it reads is the left side is anti melee armor, and the right side is anti ranged armor, which is called pierce.
And the left side of the left side is the base armor, and the second part of the left side is the amount of extra armor upgrades it has.
So in other words, you can read it as three melee armor, seven ranged armor.
Do you have chemistry?
Also a big thing is to try and place castles on more active positions like on their gold if the first castle was on this gold
Yeah, I just wanted to
Build it out slowly, you know
Man that was sick they were sick
Girlie spent so long in just trash instead of going Arbalest Harbor deer. Yeah, I wanted to save gold
You had 8k res in the bank for like 40 minutes straight, yet you lived.
Well, that was just extra.
That was just a lot of extra.
Ne?
Ne?
For later, you know?
Dude, he has 375 food and farms. I guess so do I.
Yeah, more even.
Crips of Dunlund.
Crips of Dunlund!
Hi!
Thank you, I'll get Johnny RTS, Murilovsk.
Did you enjoy this game? Yeah, I love this kind of games.
Eventually, this kind of game, if you're both unable to break each other and it goes on forever, can become really, really exhausting.
I had a whole bunch of 1-hour-plus games in A4 and actually 1-hour-plus, not like 1.7 x speed adjusted.
And the thing that basically makes it go on forever is that in AOE 4, and I think this is a big mistake in terms of game design,
in AOE 4 there are various sources of infinite stone and gold generation.
And I believe that breaks a core tenet of RTS which is resource scarcity.
Now there is some gold generation here as well with the three relics.
And in my opinion, when you destroy an enemy monastery and they just drop on the ground, that's not enough of a punishment.
But at the same time, how much does it give really?
One gold every two seconds. That's not enough to fund a campaign, is it?
That's 30 gold per minute.
Relics are a good way to break stalemates.
It's just that it's so centered around the early acquisition rat race who gets the relics
and after that if you've won that you have a lifelong advantage and there's no real
way to steal the relic back once it's in the monastery.
But I suppose, for the first 20 minutes, for the first 25 to 30, let's say, age of empires
2 minutes, you will make a sacrifice to win those things.
Contrary to destroy the monastery, you can, but the relics drop on the ground, and it's
very hard to do a heist and then bring monks in and steal them all.
But it's not that big of an advantage until one hour plus.
I mean it helps for sure.
You can also just not go for them.
Yeah, yeah, for sure, for sure.
And if you don't go for them, you can really tell what the, like you can really tell what
the gold and wood and effort and protection investment takes away from something else.
Like it could cost you a town center, it could cost you bonus units.
For instance I could skip making monks and stealing relics and just make enough army
to defend them as well and then just to see behind it or delay and make it so costly his
relic acquisition to the point where yes eventually he gets it but he over invested
in army and now he has 2 TC and I have 4 something like that.
So we did make 4300 gold from relics we made 2900, not bad villager eye 156 it
It gave me a star, it should actually give me a thumbs down.
I went slightly too far, and he was reasonable.
Seven castles total.
Gained quite a bit more stone.
I need to get more on top of market selling time.
I need to be first to sell.
I also learned from this game that the rate never drops below 114 in the market,
Which is kinda cool.
So there's a website where you can see stats.
Does it mean the enemy has negative 1 gold per 2 seconds because it's their own game?
Of course!
Every relic you take is worth 1 gold per second, actually.
Not 1 gold per 2 seconds, because you got it and they don't.
Not coming the opportunity cost of course, I'm getting it.
Which we should count. Which we should count.
Whaaat?
Whaaat?
Looks like I'm supposed to rush.
It was, yeah, Salza.
Jack has been taken, thanks for the sub.
What's that summary at the top?
I don't know favorite opening no rush because I have arena start because I
want to learn what kind of cheese people do on the map overall behavior
phosphor how could that be my behavior I don't even know what it means it's in
What was for the... the explodey powder?
The white explodey powder?
Is this AI?
Am I AI?
Often booms to castle age, occasionally opens, scout rush, plays a cavalry heavy...
For a while. Do you play only Chinese or you just trying different civilizations?
Bro, it says in my title the first two words, today Chinese!
Every day I play different shit.
Often booms the castle age, occasionally opens scout brush, plays a cavalry heavy style in
the middle of a game, most successful with scout brush.
Struggles against unique units, yes!
Yes I struggle against units when I don't know what they do.
against firebombers and axe cartwheelers. As a unit that cartwheels sideways and keeps
throwing axes between his legs when he's standing on his hands. What do you do? Like, I don't
know. Well, it happens to be good against buildings. It's a shame you didn't know the first time
you saw it. Place open and aggressive with minimal walling. Holy shit, that's true.
Frequently employs forward castle drops and fast castle. They came specialists
It improves past 45 years of age.
Early game weaknesses?
None.
Early game strengths?
Step lancer rush?
No rush.
How to beat this player?
Early game, if they open no rush, often loses to fire lancer rush.
There's no way it's 66.4.
I haven't played enough game to get that many decimals.
Quick tips?
open pressure early. What? I feel so exposed. You know, a long time ago when I used to meet
people that are like a psychologist, that's how I felt. It's like, what do you do for
a living? I'm actually a clinical therapist. I'm a psychologist. I'm like, holy shit. They're
still reading me right now, but now I'm not afraid anymore. I used to be like,
Oh my god, they can read minds.
This thing is reading me!
You don't like talking with them too?
Just analyze them back, Bendixon.
Dominates versus Spears.
That's right.
You got them right.
Cavalry, primary style.
They're boolimic, they can read minds.
Yes, I am bad with night elf.
So what?
I play raiders, how did you know?
Rips off shirt?
Sif playstyle analysis.
Zero percent with Vietnamese.
Yikes.
Oh, I played Tataris when I was playing four years ago, I guess.
Wait, when did I play Vietnamese?
Four years ago?
Oh yeah, I got Tataris by accident yesterday.
Oh, so I guess it didn't collect the info from four years ago.
Would you play Korea? Dude, I would play anything.
I especially like playing Chinese and Korean because it's been so long since I've been
to China or Korea and I used to go so often.
So it's fun hearing those languages again.
Yeah, raah.
Rating me like you're raiding me in a few weeks from now?
Look, your raid is working!
It's open! All of those wilder beasts are going right past the wall.
Hey, Hera, thank you so much for the rate. I'm getting ready for you.
Wait, where does it say tilt easily? Wait, wait, what?
Tilt behavior.
HAHAHAHAHAHA!
Quits while ahead!
WHAHHAH?
Why?
Chase's losses.
Stops after losses.
This...
I told you guys, it's like a psychologist!
Performance drops significantly after losses.
Oh, so I'm an emotional player now, is it?
Nonsense!
Performance by time of day, afternoon, evening.
Yes, I'm a night owl.
Yeah, wow, how embarrassing! This guy has emotions.
Don't get mad. Yeah, just don't get mad when you lose.
And don't get happy when you win. Just be a robot.
Win rate by game length.
Yeah, we're gonna take Hera to the one-hour games.
Surely, surely his skill level will not give him more edge the longer the game goes.
He had a 3 hour game recently, GG.
Best matchups, Turks and gunpowder.
Most faces, Frank's classic.
That's a classic.
I age up and make nights.
Effective APM.
WHAT?!
THAT IS A FUCKING LIE!
I had 100 plus in Brutal War, 270 in Warcraft 3, I had 285 with my PknaC2, 250 when I'm
being chilling.
There's no way I have 45.
That is a lie.
That is not true, guys.
Don't believe what they said.
Once I get to Imperial, I just stop playing.
I have more APM on Google Sheets.
Where is the actual APM? Okay. This is fake.
This is so fake. This game calculates it all wrong.
Oh, I can't see where people are from, but do they know where I'm from?
Well I have a massive win streak, how could they know where I'm from?
I didn't tell them.
I think the site's down because you guys all went here. You crossed it.
Let's go next game, guys.
They cut your IP. How could they get my IP?
They're not?
They're not the developer of this game, are they?
They're just a third-party website.
How many of you have been playing?
I have 65 hours in the game.
40 hours of which was 4 years ago.
4 or 5 years ago.
We're against Maggiars.
Where am I playing on?
Is this Arabia?
Not dry Arabia I don't see the usual deserts.
Do you promise to make a gold unit before 30 minutes this game this time?
Bro you're making it sound like I'm trash.
I'm a trash lover.
Prediction started, guys.
I will turn that sound off very soon, okay?
It's coming.
Okay, I didn't set out to impress you guys with my non-existent...
Guns today all right. I just got hot. I was wearing something and I had to take it off
Don't sexualize me against my will that's tomorrow
Good where are the other geese
Maybe I should have scouted the piece and I wouldn't be having this problem right now.
What's up, man?
Let's get the other board.
I'll start pushing these ramps back.
It's kind of hard when they're standing around trees like this
One more!
Feudalink, I think that's late, I think that's very late.
I can push it to the farm here, let's catch him now, it also feels late.
What Elyse says? I'm 1080.
Pretty low, but trying to get better.
If you like out there, thank you, better do, if you're talking to me.
Fiddles, slightly before me.
Scout rush.
Nice, surrounded it.
Lumber chop upgrade, ok found it.
Scout being dead, he can't see this coming easily.
Oh, he made a new one.
Oh, he made two.
He's doing Skybrush too.
Well, I actually don't have enough food to, uh, produce growth.
6 12 6 6
also made some upgrades which removed the bank
No.
No!
It's okay, I have 89% win rate with scouts.
I'm just going to try and age out as fast as possible then.
And then knights maybe? Or knights and archers? Maybe knights and archers?
Oh
Terrible horrible
I wonder when it's worth it to make a new mill.
I don't have enough tier 2 buildings to age up, lmao.
I'm not...
Aging up quite slowly, but we're aging up.
I figured out a modifier hotkeys to only select military.
I used it a lot last game on arena.
Archer's
96075 oh god, I don't have enough gold. I think I need 8 on gold at least
Arches and knights both cost gold.
Oh, that's bad.
I should have done scouts and archers then maybe, it was what it is.
Okay, that's open.
I don't even have money for all elite skirmishers.
What's that?
Nice.
Whoa!
Oh
Time to make trash.
I
I'm gonna go.
Why do I always build Stonewall on my hotkeys, man?
that's over anyway
Yeah
Whoa, wait, you can zoom out this much?
Why am I playing so zoomed in then?
Micro's easier zoomed in.
Maybe you should zoom in and out depending on the situation.
I don't know where the other relics are, maybe he already has them.
He doesn't know how many villagers I have, so he doesn't know how behind he is, I guess.
I like rams, I should make more rams.
Also, 2300 stone!
It took a bit long to start that drop.
Triple castle in your base.
Can't get much more clear how over it is.
I admire his tenacity.
I need a market so I can sell some food, what?
was. He's still in the game, he's not gonna leave. Why? Is it because I didn't scout the
rest of the map and he's actually huge and he's preparing three camera roosts? Some people
don't do salty like that I guess
don't do... it's okay it's okay I'm a... I'm a...
I'm very stable I'm a very mentally stable genius
I think it's Farms... wait, you can steal Farms?
That's kind of sick.
Oh look, there's a knight right there.
He has better upgrades.
Oh, I have one more armor.
He has one more attack.
I guess he wins.
This is the first salt lord on it that just stays in.
Hey white content, wait is there a maximum amount
of downstairs somewhere, can I have?
Huh?
Guys you made me BM, I didn't know what 105 is gonna be.
Oh the villagers are blocking the way.
Oh, okay, I see.
You made me BMG out!
I feel like people that do this should get punished.
Research spice? Yeah, I'll get the 10,000-required gold.
O-okay. Okay, research.
And of course it has to be a game where it's so difficult to finish people off actually.
Keep a tarte!
Strong against buildings.
Well, to be fair, he did have more on different places on the map than I thought.
GG.
GG.
Old shift to the trades.
Yeah, I was holding control and shift, so it wasn't working, and with shift it worked.
GG, wow, you BM'd the poor guy who just wanted to play.
Whoa, I'm just coming in with the show of force!
I'm not trying to BM him, but I'm trying to help him move on, accelerate the grieving process, the grieving.
we can both have another wonderful game tonight later.
No last hope of Orc, thank you for the 32 months.
Not trying to be Ember here my sixties anyway, I am helping him move on
and reach the next stage faster.
I should have gone Imperial by the way.
It was fun to play a full game in Castle.
Man, those four scouts.
1.1k? Alright! 1.1k, let's go!
Ramps are finding it nothing? Yeah, I should do more rams.
He didn't call DG so he'd be in for real.
That's not how my philosophy on that works.
In my philosophy, if you're winning, no matter how much you've won, if you say DG,
I think that's more BM than 10 castles and 20 town centers in your base.
Because one uses legitimately built up game resources to show the difference and the other says get out.
Now the 105 that was kind of BM, but in my defense I didn't know what that was going to be. You guys wrote it.
And there was no way that from context I could...
Understand...
What it could possibly be.
There's no way at all.
Oh my god! Oh my god!
My feeling guys, I did an exactly 50 food drop off.
I'm gonna turn that prediction sound off, don't worry.
I actually like it, I'm playing Tetris Between Games.
Is that Tetris sound?
There's one thing Warcraft 3 and AOE have in common and it's the difficulty of clicking
freeze
trace
you through
matter games
one more let's put one more would
Do I know where the other board is? Yes.
Is it around this game? Yes.
Grabbing games are easier.
So you're not sweating over pushing back there.
Hey, grab me 105m again. No!
No, I don't think I shall.
Yikes!
the bore no wonder I had a weird gap. I was wondering why I had a bore shaped gap in
Wow, my foot is in a very bad spot now because of it, so we're going to be aging later.
How do we compensate for that?
Not with extra gold, that's for sure.
cage farms I guess. This is good fast castle. I've never done that on an open map. It can
be fun to try though. Fast castle into knights. Shema. Okay, let's try fast castle.
I
just not gonna let me get away with it too
Fast Castle.
On an open map, I've never done it.
here
with such a shape
We're very close to being able to go.
Okay, now we need more on gold, because we're gonna make knights.
He made a wall off.
Is there any point, Nights, if he's open, I guess I can still bang on the wall.
Definitely very heavy on gold for someone that doesn't even have enough wood for his stables.
Nights are food and gold, correct chat?
Orbarics?
Ah, it's coming, it's coming, it's coming.
It's coming.
I'm really good at this fast gas or one base rush things don't worry about it
Hey at least I adjusted
I took the guys off gold
Oh he's like a partial war enjoyer
what it's like oh my god how did you get in look you think about it for a
a second. Ah this is here showing to her unless she looks. Forward sea trams maybe?
Night Speed Spears guys? I'm running from a couple of Spears. Are you saying I shouldn't?
Lord Siegeman, you know, ends his whole career.
Three Spirits is too much though.
Oh man, it looks very good for me.
In your way.
I don't think I need the third TC, by the way.
It's stupid.
Okay, I thought Spears can win.
Guys, how do I make manganelles?
I'm Chinese, I can't make manganelles.
rocket gardens rocket man
oh
oh
oh
oh
oh
oh
oh
I
What
I didn't say it would end my career too.
Nor could you have anticipated how I would use them.
Okay, good tip.
It was good to finish and I got some cool practice with Mr. B's rocket guards.
Yeah.
Cool.
Cool game.
Cool game.
Juicy.
Yeah, fun.
Uh, my favorite moment was where I used rocket guard to kill the rocket guard.
But my next favorite moment was the night run by.
GG.
Did I know what a doubt castle is?
Yeah, almost finishing it.
Thank you for your nights just got in, did enough damage to slow push in?
Yeah I think they did a lot of damage.
We had 79 against 32 villagers.
He could only make a couple of spheres.
Cool!
Cool!
Guys, in your opinion,
Manganail or Nesta B, which one is better? Rocket Guard or Manganail?
Rocket Guard is generally considered better.
It's because they fire a little faster, right?
I guess Manganail at the best.
Against an unaware, unmoving opponent, Manganail will do a little bit more.
or as rocket-card projectiles are a little faster the rule of cool what
looks cooler rocket-card therefore I'm gonna slow oh it drives faster as well
isn't it grab me you got to keep the game civilized and say gg after it's
over as the winner I'm usually not even aware if they said it yeah I should
reciprocate recently when I started playing worker 3 I was always gg'ing
when I lose and reciprocating with the GG when the enemy lose but the last five
years people leave so fast after they say GG when they lose that I almost never
get a chance anymore it's literally GG alt QQ and they're out so every time I'm
starting to say GG it's like they're leaving me hanging so I unlearned the
habit
just don't say GG well played if you win some people don't think it well I
I don't like Gigi well played when someone beat me either, like if I say Gigi and they're like Gigi well played, it can sound smug, it depends who it is I guess.
I prefer Gigi terribly played. Gigi you were bad. Actually, thanks for the Prime Root. It reminds me of this time, I think it was 2007.
There was this Danish team called Mietjormakers. They weren't very good.
There was 4K, Arma Team, SK, and Mim wasn't that good. They were just like Dark Horse. They had a bunch of Scandinavians.
Then suddenly they got venture capitalist funding and they hired a full team of South Korean players and they were very good.
at the time I felt like that was
just
Buying a good team with money. It was not an organic growth
They didn't have the power of friendship
I was like at least it should be like in football like in soccer where people don't just buy the best players in the world
And then play with that. I was young naive and foolish
But I didn't like it that much
But anyways, it doesn't matter. We got to play against the Korean players in European team leagues.
And that was actually really cool. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose.
One time I lost to this guy, and his German team manager came to me with a massive smile.
Like, I didn't lose to the German team manager, but he was smiling like he personally just beat me.
smug very elated and happy with a giant smile came to me right after I lost
where usually I'm like a hot potato after I lost because I'm a hot-headed
person and I just want to be left alone for like 15 minutes after I lose a
game. He comes with this massive smile, holds out his hand because it's at
right it's offline and he says sorry you can't win I think he meant like sorry
you couldn't win this time around or something he just said sorry you can't
win I was so mad it was a really good rage bait it's one of the first rage
baits that I fell for in my head it was like what do you mean sorry I can't
win of course I can win I didn't win this time but generally I can win how
dare you say it is a rule that's how my brain lines such a good race but anyway if
I did not win then it's against the player I respect not you why are you
cli- that's how my brain went.
Rach made it.
Hey Krabby you can say a little bit about build order in A.W.2 get everything
down in worker 3. Hey you're playing A.W.2 as well buddy Paul. You followed me
or you were playing already I'm not good enough to commentate everything I'm doing
it but I'll try to do my best.
I'm playing the Chinese so you can't really follow my build order anyway, uh, body pull,
because they're very different.
They start with 3 extra villagers, 10 extra pop cap, 200 food less and 50 wood less.
Anyway I'm playing on the arena and on this map everyone starts with Stonewall and those
Those are unassailable with Dark Age and Feudal structures, units, therefore nobody
goes for those.
Yo, thanks for this up, Arnie Boy.
Arnie Boy!
And I can't really over-explain the build order too much, buddy Paul, but I could do it when
I'm not actively playing.
Right now I'm gonna try and focus on playing as good as I can.
But I'd love to do like an over-explain once I'm a little bit more comfortable with the
flow of the game.
I love using gouts to body block the bore.
here we're working on the board let's start sending the other animals back
there's no rush to age up to dark to feudal because you're you're castling anyway
When you go later, you'll just have more resources anyway.
I'm doing double Ibacks at the same time. Oh my god, I'm a jugger.
Can I do it again?
Kind of.
GG.
Okay, let's put the second one on gold.
Is it normal not to scout this map?
Yes.
As far as I know, and I could be wrong, there are no threats because of the stone wall that are guaranteed.
3 is too much on gold.
So now the scouting begins and there's also no sheeps like in A.W.I. 4 on the neutral map.
In aoe4 you have to immediately contest the main areas of the map.
That's not the case here.
Go to 25 and then go for feudal.
We already have enough food, so let's start cutting these trees.
Isn't there a tower hop box right on the arena?
I do not know, that sounds scary.
I want nothing to do with that.
Not in my games, maybe in 400 MMR.
Maybe like you cut tree and then build house, cut tree, build house, something like that
and then you can cut all the trees.
That sounds believable.
The berries, the purpose of the berries now is to get as fast as possible to castle without
of making more farms.
Got the advantage, I hit him first.
We're gonna be able to age up.
Maybe the fastest I've ever done.
Let's see how long does a villager take.
Maybe not.
Pretty standard.
Actually, yeah.
Oh my god, that might be the fact.
12, 24?
Maybe that's...
Maybe I've done that before.
Now I don't need as much food anymore.
The most important area of the map, the middle, I have no info from.
By the way, this is how AI plays, and yeah, Scott's going there.
Damn, I lost the edge.
I need to use this scout.
I want as much wood as possible now.
I basically want like 700 wood so I can do 2 TC's in the temple.
but I'm not gonna get that
I'll settle for the temple
2 TCS and then more.
Oh, you know what?
I forgot to get the double bit axe.
That is a big loss.
It's up to the drugs.
Yo, yo, yo, thank you bro.
Still, not a bad start, I think.
just too bad i got those upgrades so late
Stable, stable, double stable.
Okay.
It's shocking how many farms you need.
What?
What?
What?
What?
What?
What is your mission?
Oh yeah, it's cooldown.
I'm going to get him.
It's enough, right?
Get him.
I'm going to get him.
I'm going to get him.
Get him.
Villagers get bonus attack against buildings, hope you get a good way to use my villagers.
So we won, GG.
Fun game.
My micro isn't good.
Oh, hello.
But fortunately, you don't need micro when you have this much resources.
Do you have a YouTube playlist of your journey in AoE?
Yeah, Excavation Mark GP.
I didn't have murder holes.
Heavy rocket cart.
That's kind of cool.
I have so much trash.
I love the modifier keys so that you can select everything without villagers or everything
with only villagers.
GG, nice!
Can you say GG after someone resigns?
Or is that BM?
I'm not sure how you guys view it.
I say 1-1-0. He don't like it. He didn't like it. 1-1-0 is like hell no, that was not
Not a good game. It was bad because XYZ. I respect that. I never win.
Yes. Yes. One month without victories.
I'm a Jimbrough now.
Under 60 villagers is too much, come on.
Stop mansplaining him after beating his ass.
Now, he was not an unwilling recipient of this, I think.
He started the conversation.
I agree, you shouldn't be like,
okay, I know you didn't ask anything,
but you know how I was able to beat you?
I was able to think three steps ahead of you
because I am more intelligent.
It wasn't like that.
He was more like,
oh, I can't win anymore.
I keep losing, it sucks.
I'm like, no, you can do it, man.
He's like, no, man, I've been losing for a month.
I'm like, bro, snap out of it.
It's okay.
It's a mindset thing.
You're on tilt.
You're on massive tilt.
is a break buddy you need a break and you'll come back and you enjoy it more
and you'll be better. This not me mansplaining I'm trying to get him to
recovery. Five relics though 3,134 gold. Sorry you can't win smiley face.
Hand shake. Is that how you feel playing HOTS? Yes that's how I feel
playing every game. If I go into a long term tilt, I need a break too.
How else do I recover? How many push-ups do you get in your level? All the push-ups.
Let's turn up the music.
easy I had like 20 more but I don't want to exert myself too much.
Shout out to Squarespace for sponsoring this video.
Hey guys Spirit of the Lai here in this sim overview want to take a look at either the
best or worst sim in the game.
That sounds contradictory, but Chinese have always had an interesting quirk, where for
years for the top 1% of players, they've had among if not the highest win rate of any
civilization, while on the other hand, for the bottom quarter of players, they're flat
out the worst performing.
That tells us a lot about the difficulty of their unique start, and the goal for
this video is then to highlight the Chinese strengths as well as how to navigate their
perilous first two minutes.
We'll begin though with their team bonus, which is a thing and their allies farms have
10% more food.
The last time we looked at Chinese in 2016, this was instead plus 45 food, which if we
crunch the numbers, turned out to help a lot more in the early game than the bonus
does now.
The main impact of this is that your farms end up having around 1-2 minute longer lifespan,
giving not just a better wood to food conversion ratio, but importantly delaying the wood
crunch of especially your first round of farms in feudal age when those come up
for receding in castle age.
It's probably a top 15 team bonus for its versatility, without being something you really
need to plan around intentionally, which I always find are the best kind of team bonuses.
Moving on to their proper SIV bonuses, the first is your town centers have roughly double
the usual line of sight and give 15 pop space instead of 5.
That extra line of sight was incredibly helpful back when sheep started further away from
the town center, though these days is a bit less important.
The pop space in the other hand is a very big deal, and greatly helps your start,
I give you lots of time to build your first houses, which we'll keep in mind as we get
to their next Civ defining bonus of starting with plus 3 villagers but minus 200 food and
50 wood.
The reason I think this bonus goes so wrong at low elo is some players look at them as
extra villagers and spread them between different resources, but that'll leave you ending up
way behind in villagers because of town center idle time.
The proper start is first and foremost to send an animal or two under the town
center as well as all 6 villagers since they need to go on food immediately.
Second is to pick up Lume, as her town center will unavoidably be idle for at least 40 seconds,
so we might as well get that.
You then want all 6 villagers on that one sheep once it's fully under the town center,
then being able to start your scouting up and running if you haven't already.
You still have to keep an eye on those villagers though, and force drop off to get 50 food
to start queuing up the next one.
A rule of thumb is to force drop off when the sheep has 44 or 43 left on it, and
you should have almost exactly 50 food in the bank, but you can also just use the
be forced to drop off at multiple times, and just keep an eye on when your food gets to
that magic 50.
A couple of notes here is first do not build houses, as you start at just 7 out of 15 pop.
Outdated guides back when Chinese TC only gave 10 pop space instead of 15 say to do this,
but that's no longer necessary.
Also you can have villagers chop a bit of wood while you wait for the first sheep
to come in, and you see this at higher levels, but it's completely optional.
After that first new villager comes out, keep in mind you're still technically
down 50 food so things are very tight and you want that first villager out to be on food as well
either luring a borer elephant if you found one or just putting it on sheet. Throughout this you'll
have to force drop off using that button each time a villager comes out to thank you with the
next one. The 8th villager can then either go on food to be extra safe or you can then start
It's sending villagers
First wood, build a house, and essentially things play out like usual past that point.
If you do this cleanly, you should be a full villager ahead of other players, and actually
two villagers ahead once they pick up loom.
Their next bonus is an Inversatile Technology Discount, starting in Feudal.
This is a clear reference to the fact that many technologies in the game, from
block printing, to horse collar, to wheelbarrow, were invented, or at least have their
first recorded uses in China.
For an idea of this bonus's impact, Bloodlines and Fletchings save a handful of resources
and the big three feudal ecotechs alone save 28, so on the high end you could save 50 resources
and feudal depending on the strategy, which is significant on a smaller economy.
The discount doubles in Castle Age though, where upgrading Crossbowmen alone saves almost
200, adding in over another 100 for the basic ecotechs that most players will grab
around that time.
In Imperial Age, it then grows to its max of 15%, which discounts all the
way back, though even castle and feudal age techs you grab at that point.
Decking into champions for example becomes 15% cheaper, making it a very flexible bonus
that easily saves hundreds of wood, food and gold while letting you get techs a bit earlier.
The final SID bonus is an 8% bonus.
you
Was it the same problem again?
bottom quarter of players are flat out the worst performing.
That tells us a lot about the difficulty of their unique start, and the goal for this
video came to highlight the Chinese strength as most of the video was black, then the YouTube
video played again and it seemed fine, then you sat down and it died.
Interesting.
Interesting.
Yeah, I don't know what happened.
I guess it's the same bug as before.
Yeah, unfortunate, unfortunate.
With their team bonus, which is a thing in their allies' farms have 10% more food.
The last time we looked at Chinese in 2016, this was instead plus 45 food, which it could
crunch the numbers to not help a lot more in the early game than the bonus does now.
The main impact of this is that your firm's in a panic.
So I'm changing one thing at a time about my computer.
And the thing that I changed now is I did a registry edit
change that changes how Windows handles
timeout and recovery events.
And also, I emptied my solid state drive
where I have Windows.
So those were not OK.
I can still try to, oh, it might
be crashing because of the language models
that I have installed.
let's turn those off again, at least.
They were still running my translation models
for the German Sauerkraut thing, for World of Warcraft.
Remember, that was crashing things too,
that are against on other people's streams.
I don't think that's the one that's responsible,
but you never know for sure.
Might have something to do with it.
They're off now.
So if that doesn't fix things,
then I can try buying a new SSD or putting my Windows and OBS on a new SSD.
I think that's a fair try.
And if that doesn't work, it's probably my graphics card.
I can also try to go back to Windows 10, but they kept telling me,
October, the maintenance for Windows 10 will end.
Don't you want to switch now?
And it actually did it automatically at some point.
wood-to-food conversion ratio, but importantly delaying the wood crunch of especially your
first round of farms in feudal age when those come up for receding in castles.
Interesting, really.
It's probably a top 15 team bonus for its versatility.
Without being something you really need to plan around intentionally, which is probably
one of the best current team bonuses.
Moving on to their proper Siv bonuses, the first is-
How old is your rem?
Six years, or seven years?
Because your town centers have roughly double the usual line of sight, but I
did a test.
You need a 15 pop space instead of five.
That extra line of sight was incredibly helpful back when sheep started further away from
the town center.
So, I used Memtas to 86 and it was fine.
These days is a bit less important.
The pop space on the other hand is a very big deal and greatly helps your start by
giving you lots of time to build your first houses, which we'll keep in mind as we
get to their next Civ Defining bonus of starting with plus 3 villagers but minus 200 food
and 50 wood.
Did you check your GPU for sagging?
I just installed it.
I just reinstalled it on the new water board, I don't think it's a problem.
I have two anti-sag things underneath.
The reason I think this bonus goes so wrong at Low elo is some players look at them as
extra villagers and spread them between different resources, but that'll leave you
ending up way behind in villagers because of town center idle time.
The proper start is first and foremost to send an animal or two under the town
center as well as all six villagers since they need to go on food immediately.
end is to pick up Lune as her town center will unavoidably be idle for at least 40 seconds,
so we might as well get that.
You then want all 6 villagers on that one sheep once it's fully under the town center
and being able to start your scouting up and running if you haven't already.
You still have to keep an eye on those villagers though, and force drop off to get 50 food to
start queuing up the next one.
A rule of thumb is to force drop off when the sheep has 44 or 43 left on it, and
you should have almost exactly 50 food in the bank, but you can also just use
the force drop-off fight in multiple times, and just keep an eye on when your food gets
to that magic 50.
A couple of notes here is first, do not build houses, as you start at just 7 out of 15 pop.
Outdated guides back when Chinese TC only give 10 pop space instead of 15 say to do
this, but that's no longer necessary.
Also, you can have villagers chop a bit of wood while you wait for the first sheep
to come in, and you see this at higher levels quite good to do.
Man, I feel bad I didn't do that.
Chulp a little bit of wood while waiting.
There we go!
Optional.
After that first villager, you see this at higher levels, but it's completely optional.
After that first villager comes out, keep in mind you're still technically down 50 food,
so things are very tight, and you want that first villager out to be on food as well,
either luring a boar or elephant if you found one, or just putting it on a sheet.
Without this, you'll have to force drop off using that button each time a villager comes
out to thank you with the next one.
The 8th villager can then either go on food to be extra safe, or you can then start sending
villagers to wood, build a house, and essentially things play out like usual past that point.
If you do this cleanly, you should be a full villager ahead of other players, and
actually two villagers ahead once they pick up loom.
Their next bonus is an Aversatile Technology Discount, starting in Feudal.
This is a clear reference to the fact that many technologies in the game from block printing
to horse collar to wheelbarrow were invented or at least have their first recorded uses
in China.
For an idea of this bonus's impact, a bunch of fletchings save a handful of resources
and the big three feudal ecotax alone save 28, so on a high end you could save 50 resources
in feudal depending on the strategy, which is significant on a smaller economy.
The discount doubles in Castle Age though, where upgrading Cross from an alone saves
almost 200, adding in over another 100 for the basic ebotex that most players will grab
around that time. In Imperial Age, it then grows to its max of 15%, which discounts all
the way back, though even Castle in Feudal Age techs you grab at that point. Teching
into Champions, for example, becomes 15% cheaper, making it a very flexible bonus that easily
saves hundreds of wood, wood, and coal while letting you get techs a bit earlier.
The Final Sift bonus is then a relatively new one, with Fire Lancers and Fire Ships
There was a coma.
and having a bit faster movement on Fire Lancers never hurts.
Their fire ships in Castle Age can then also choose to chase down or avoid enemy fire ships,
which is a nice little bonus on water maps.
So that's the Chinese bonuses.
It's a tricky start, but if you can jump that hurdle, you should end up in a good position economically,
with then cheaper techs and a very solid tech tree moving forward.
Another secret to their success at higher levels is then their powerful unique unit that you can knew.
As always, I've deep-dived this unit on its own as a 10-plus minute video, with a lot more depth.
But for overview purposes, it's an anti-anti-archer-archer, which is to say,
you can do very well against a lot of things that are supposed to counter archers.
Compared to the crossbow line, they're a bit later on gold,
and stats-wise have more HP and higher attack, with the downside of a slower reload rate and one less range.
The most interesting aspect is the unit's secondary arrows, all of them dealing 3 pierce attacks and 3 melee,
Which ends up working on the mobile units with nearly armor, like rams.
Their upgrades are basically what you'd expect, though notably thumb ring has little extra
benefit for them, adding 25% instead of the usual 18% attack rate boost for archers, so
that's one to prioritize even a little more than usual.
The elite upgrade has then recently changed, and is now better than it was before.
Previously it was one of the objectively lowest value elite upgrades in the game,
giving 5 more HP, 2 more secondary arrows, and a 3 second reduction in training time for a very
f...
Thank you spirit of the law, for the food entertainment.
Like, did the game crash?
My age of empire has crashed, because of the bug from before.
steep price. However, it now also gives us two attack to the main projectile. It's still expensive
at over 2200 resources, but greatly helps their DPS against especially high armor targets like
paladins. Wow, they get two bonus damage and two extra...
Wait, I don't get it.
5 HP to attack 8, 2, 10, 4. Isn't that 4 extra damage?
They double shoot.
They do 4 extra damage on people with no armor.
Against people with armor? It's 2 extra damage.
You don't look Chinese. I am.
I can look Chinese.
You want to see how I look Chinese?
There.
You thought it was going to be racist.
Here I am just picking a sith.
I'm trying to show respect for a nationality and a culture.
You guys are up in arms.
I'm ready.
Let's go on Trapland.
Can you look like Clint Eastwood?
That's a trap.
I don't know why my light is so exposed.
I'm so white.
Alright, here we go.
Franks, Elvisette on Treblence.
Hey, we got seven wood.
Thank you spirit of the loft.
There's a rhinoceros.
They call me the rhinoceros.
lyrics are bottomless
I know where the other Renus sources are, there it is.
Okay, let's start bringing the Zebra back, I know I'm going to need them sooner or later.
Let's get a little bit more on the wood.
Did Steve tell you that?
Should it be another zebra?
I thought there would be one more.
There's one here.
My feudal is so late.
Okay, these are not part of the same pack.
That's way too far.
Too far.
You go too far, sir.
I think I'll do Scout Rush.
Has anyone used Cheese Strategies against Graviest?
Yeah, four years ago I got Dark Age Rushed.
I got Deuce.
And I think Castle Proxy and several others, which I don't even remember the names of.
Oh
Close
this house
yeehaw baby
hell yeah brother making some... thank you by the way, picking wolf
He's not walling yet, so that's nice.
Four scouts?
Am I fostered in him? Oh, because...
The H-Diff!
Thanks for the error to contact my pleasure. Thank you
I don't know what I'm doing here, but I'm just going to get out of here and get out of here.
I'm just going to get out of here and get out of here.
He used the old army hotkey, you can tell by the fact that his scout's got slow.
How do I know?
I crashed on it as well.
What's this actually?
Oh God!
The buildings!
The buildings!
nice to build these
I lost everything
and he's castled so much before me
What did he have though?
I think this is the stables.
I've built up a sick economy though during all this.
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
I don't see any.
I don't see any.
I don't see any.
I'm gonna say to him,
What?
I'm gonna say to him,
I don't see any.
So, he castled and may have just gotten TC's out of it, and for the rest, no idea, he's
not rushing me with knights or something.
But, I'm booming nicely as well.
very nicely indeed this is good how that's a night
Did he take all the relics already?
I don't see any relics left.
There's one over there.
Maybe I didn't scout any.
Okay
Let's try to go imperial
We do a little attack to distract him, and then in P we go.
You can't see how many an enemy has.
At least one, yeah exactly.
I feel like this is doing quite a lot.
always I'm forgetting one building
Okay, I'm done.
I have enough villagers, this is what I mean.
Okay, enough fillers already. Come on. Exaggerating here, what?
of
Yeah.
Oh, he is very serious about this, what?
What?
Get ready.
GG, nice game!
Sick!
It's GGG, we had units everywhere. Dude, when you get a bunch of Arbalestars on top of production, it's over.
Hot game, yeah, I love these games.
Big improvement from before doing these quasi-wall-offs, although the infernal stone ground prevents
a full wall-off.
It's still incredibly helpful to have a small predictable hole for him to stick it in, and
I can plug it so that he can't get there.
This is cool too, like a keep and then a wall to make it more effective.
Cool peasant block here against the cavalry.
I had one very awkward lack of wood during this game, when I only had like 10 villagers
he did the knight run by and I had 10 villagers on wood and no bank, but it was a nice recovery.
It took me too long this game in general to start my first production.
The initial rush was nicely debilitating with the 1 archery range like 3-4 archers
and 4 scouts.
Then I went to boom into triple TC, I did my farms and then very very very later
run I was like oh wait I still need a bunch of production and if I can smooth
that out a bit and just that I don't have to overcompensate and suddenly go like
six tables or four archery range. What makes you start on maybe two? I started
thank you so much for this out Broke, it's true. I started because of a show
match invite and I'm continuing because of passion because I didn't need to
practice I could just something over illuminated about my webcam I don't know
why the settings are the same as always we're luminous
well maybe it's this one okay it's fixed okay better
Yeah, it started with a show match.
And I'm continuing because of passion.
I could see myself playing A.R.E. 2 for quite a while.
Why do you keep one extra space between the stone gold resource in the mine, but not the berries?
So the reason for that is that berries diminish quite fast, 125 food.
food though so when you put a meal here and they kind of need to like stack up
gather stack up like this and then return stack up like this that's a
little bit inefficient but because the berry is only 125 after just 375 food
then your meal will be at one distance and they can have a nice
horizontal spread whereas with gold because there's so much in the single
stack of gold and it's mine so slowly but if you were to touch it then
you'll have that awkward walk around thing the whole time. So it is just slightly more
efficient in your opening gold and in your opening stone is to leave that gap but on
the very stone do it. So much 7-dota 2 pros or let's say 7-dota 2 immortal players against
one AOE 2 rank 1 player here and we're gonna have a 7v1 and there'll be some handicap
rules maybe. Maybe the first one without the first map. Don't know how many maps we're playing.
It's a seven. It's a seven view on maybe it'll be best of seven or something. Seven, seven,
seven, everything seven. And I'm also playing a show match against Leon of our own organizing
bond, Joao Red Panda. And that's going to be going for the next few weeks as well.
I'm not supposed to practice for that one. But now that I am, he's forced to practice
as well so keep a look out for Bondra channel or Bondra rep bandwidth to maybe also be like
newbie level a way to beginning win-win who are the seven other players monkeys forever
day nine sing sing dendi warga mama and i'm forgetting one more maybe
Oh, the one that asked me, Stormstorm.
134, 147, reasonable villager guns from both of us.
Cool game.
Let's go next.
Yeah, it's quite a lineup.
Do you guys know how Handicap works in AoE 2?
You give yourself a Handicap to be stronger, which sounds opposite.
He's going to start taking percentages of Handicap if he loses.
Basically, here's how it works.
Your units have more HP, your resources gather more quickly, basically everything you can
imagine, almost, except movement speed, gets 5% better when you have a 5% handicap.
He also has a pop cap of 500, we're gonna have a pop cap of 200, in other words, 1400.
Please don't use that abbreviation slardare.
Grover works.
Have you ever seriously played one of the older Kamanakonka games?
No.
What do you think about them? I think they're an amazing vibe.
I never was too interested to try and get good at them, but they're really fun single-player casual games.
Cumans!
Is Cumans the one that can...
Is Cumans the one that can expand?
Um, in feudal?
Yes. Okay. They're cool.
Oh, that's a good map for Arena. Maybe he picked it on purpose.
You know what I just realized guys? Everybody else is picking their Siv on purpose on Arena.
And I'm just picking whatever the flavor of the day is for me.
Lol. Crazy concept. Dude I know. It's crazy.
So OP, they're picking their shift based on the situation.
Okay, I had so much idle time, my bad, I apologize.
Oh, the Borsers were in such a good position this time.
Bansif picking! Who's with me? Not me smiley face. Guys I'm joking you don't know me yet.
i mean not joking i'm capping
i'm rage baiting
got him
van rage baiting
What?
Two feet?
What?
Just checking if he's like proxy Zealot thing me.
I see almost no relics yet.
There has to be one here, based on the law of spreading.
No? Are you sure? Wow. What? Are all the relics on the left? Wait, can he pick up relics
and feudal. Okay, that would be crazy. This is the Warrior Monk, is it? No, okay. This
This is the one relic for free in the monastery safe.
This is Armenians, isn't it?
well his feudal is so late, no actually sorry my feudal is so late
Oh, I see two relics so far.
They're all on the left side of the map.
Oh, I have more turkeys. That's the sound I heard.
I thought Militia was supposed to be good man.
all those were dark age militia
Welcome to the
You know, from his scout movement, I felt like, I already felt like he's gonna proxied
Remember I said proxy zealot?
That wasn't for nothing.
I felt it coming.
How the fuck did they build a siege workshop in feudal?
There's all these things you don't know.
I'm just gonna try and castle from now on and get back in there, you know?
Oh, what a slowdown.
Report this cheater.
Yeah.
For sure.
I don't think it was without cost for him, too, by the way.
possibly I have more farms than him
and I have my tier 2 upgrades
he also got blacksmith upgrades
Oh god, I don't have Marketplace anymore. That's so funny.
I'm only three minutes behind. It's fine.
What's your name?
Hao.
Xing.
You're a pig.
He's a real pig.
He's a real pig.
He's a real pig.
He's a real pig.
He's a real pig.
What?
He can still use the ram again.
What the f-
Why you stupid ass!
This should not be possible.
Just keep coming in bro.
That was really bad, they downed by him.
Oh
Oh god you
Yeah, just take all my knights.
This guy is so annoying.
I'm going to kill you.
I'm going to kill you.
I'm going to kill you.
I don't know what to do with this guy, but I don't know what to do with this guy, so I'm
going to kill him.
I don't know what to do with this guy, but I don't know what to do with this guy,
I
Ah, GG.
Okay, that's okay.
We learned something new.
Humans have siege workshop tier 2.
Like, I didn't know that man.
You can't prepare for stuff like this.
And you have to face it once.
So for that I am grateful.
Dude I thought he's gonna proxy zealot rush me.
I could tell from the scout.
His scout behaviour was way too sniffy.
He was like sniffing my butt.
Like checking with the scout at the back of the wall all the time like he picked his
location.
My instincts were correct, but I discarded proxy zealot rush as not a possibility
because this is not Starcraft 2.
And then it wasn't rushed like that anyway.
Okay then, okay then.
It's good to know, good to know.
That's Q-Mans.
Q-Mans, tier 2, siege rush.
Trust no one.
How to defend that?
Well step one is knowing that it can be done.
Knowing that it exists.
And the second is, you make the units that beat his non-RAM units.
And melee.
So it's horses, pikes, or mended arms, plus the one that beats whatever he's supporting
it with.
And it was archers, so I make skirmishers, and then anything that doesn't lose too
hard against skirmishers or archers, which is horsemen, that would be the best.
I went mended arms because I had a barrack, but I forgot to upgrade them from Dark
Age.
Ooh, Cumans again!
No, no.
Okay, that was... not good, but...
Pigs have 100, so you return at...
Oh, DK. Ah, that's why he said 46. Lemau. I forgot about DK.
Oh, that also means you won't have enough until you take at least 10 from the new.
Oh 49! Okay, but we're getting close. We're going deeper into science.
I think no. I was over. I was over compensating.
chicken game
in game.
Ah, Q-mants.
Q-mants, Q-mants, Q-mants.
I'm not talking about the excellence in football, Blader.
It's funny that, and maybe, oh shit, it's a good thing that boar and sheep and deer tasks
are not thought of by the game as the same thing, so that they don't travel to a type
of animals they don't like but it does mean you have to do some good shift clicking
this is full evil though
What do you mean, what do you mean, you don't talk to me?
You're the lane?
Happy Monday, my friend.
Happy Monday.
Kevin Hart, you can do a little bit more wood chopping and then I start all my farms.
dude you know what I need to find out I need to find out what is the time to
start a farm that when I do my regular timing for horse collar that it hits
exactly on the second
Oh, fuck, that was such a bad misclick.
Oh, my god.
Dreams of efficiency.
Realizations of mediocrity.
Okay, what are you doing there?
Postmask out? Feels good.
No, no, I mean the second return to Altarion.
Do you know what I've done this game?
I'm fast-castling.
Kind of.
I rushed out my Tier 2 upgrades and I masked farms.
talking about the mistake I made with the scouts and pulling all the
I am all gear down.
I am all gear down.
It is running.
Yeah, baby.
You saw my shirt?
The clothes?
Ah, the caca.
It's over guys, it's cooked.
What?
Hello?
Hello?
Hello?
What?
Construction?
Construction?
What?
What?
Ready?
What?
Construction?
What?
Ready?
Thank you!
My only hope is that I'm castling faster.
These guys are in fast enough.
I hope he's not looking for this.
I can't repair it.
come on come on I couldn't break it this is models are too big
I castled faster than him so I still have a chance.
Skirmishers?
Nice.
I need more barracks.
Time to go.
GG, well played.
138.94 villagers.
Never Imperial.
Alfin Fijio.
Something finished?
I had more resources, I had less gold, but mostly more.
How much are you going to steal the game?
No, Espanol.
Finally, old man.
What?
Cuánto vas a estirar la patira sin hacer nada?
Largest army, 17, guys.
The problem here, I couldn't keep my nest of bees alive.
Like I basically won by Ikon.
I just needed...
don't do nothing. I have more of every resource than you.
He's telling me I should have got the hell out of the game a while ago.
Still yapping or not?
He's mad? Cause winning took too long. Except I had 50% more villagers than him.
No, I think it's an anime trope Excalibur.
control.
I know Chino!
Cripple, is your house very warm?
Yeah.
I uh...
I think it's too warm.
The heating in my room isn't on but I've got this guy here and he generates a lot of heat.
Then I have the studio lights, I have the PC, then I have my wild APM that is further
bringing up heat.
My heating is off but the heating in the house is on so that we realize actually it
makes my wife feel a lot happier when the house is warm rather than cold.
I used to do it like my grandma, which is 17 Celsius, which means that you can see the
air form in front of your mouth indoors in winter, but it made wifey unhappy and took
a while until we finally, you know, thanks to you guys's sub-support and we can finally
afford it and now we can actually be warm in winter.
Too warm as far as I'm concerned.
She's happy.
17 is crazy.
We have it on 20 and a half now, but I think because we improved the isolation in the house,
20 and a half, the way that it was attenuated back then, I think it's more like 22.
I don't have a temperature meter, but it feels warm.
I did forget to make gloom, but I believe it's still on time.
Yeah, it's still on time.
18C year around here, my Malamute loves it. Yeah, makes sense. It's not for the dog we
do it in general. My dog can tolerate cold quite well as well. I have to check if the
The pig is here.
He's not.
Where is the pig?
There.
Rabbit's game.
of
the
the
the
the
They didn't find the other ship.
It's hard to click the trees.
on the top. Accurately. Ah, what's if am I against? Spanish, okay. Something, something,
Inquisition.
Well, here you go, buddy.
Bad rally.
have I met conquistador before? No, what's gonna happen?
Hey, tables!
Thank you, bro.
Guys, am I missing too sheep or not? I feel like I am.
Maybe I already have them all. I guess there's quite a lot.
I think I already have them all.
Uh, a rifleman on a horse. Oh god.
Wow.
A rifleman on a horse.
Then it sounds like a skirmisher game for me.
Yo, what up, horse devalte? Thank you.
I'm sure you know me
I'm sure you know
What?
What?
Pardon
Wow, here's a war already! That means it's going to be more resistant against...
This guy rush most likely
Why you just want to do a little love
Why do I have so much food chat?
I can't click this tree!
So this guy, what the hell?
He's walling this much?
Is this early?
Ha ha ha!
You just want the castle in peace, in peace, yeah.
No, I get it.
People have been bothering me all day when I'm trying to castle.
I can uh... I can bother him actually.
Yes, but now I feel shy about it because of the obvious mismatch in your comparison.
the reality. Shit.
What's that? Marrakech.
like freaking the people been working out lately
Who's that?
He gets a prime.
Who's that one?
What?
Oh my god. He scared me with a cheat taunt.
Smart.
Such a large wall.
So much effort to save it.
You've castled, so will we be.
I always have 13 villagers in the direction.
going burial? yeah I probably did
my resources are close to it
that's a barracks?
There's no way that's his first barracks.
Almost through, and then I can have a lovely scout of his base.
Oh my god, I had the best day of my life.
I got him.
We're going to open already, aren't we?
Conqueror!
Oh my god, they don't miss do they?
motor
That's a very fast power build.
This guy is such a bastard.
You can resign again.
What's 27?
You played two hours to die like this?
You can resign again.
Yes.
He kept rushing, killing things and laughing.
So disrespectful, extremely disrespectful.
And most of all, he couldn't back it off.
He couldn't back it off. Incredible.
He tried to tilt you. Yeah, well, it just made me play harder
It was having fun. Yeah, what you do know
Funny thing is a one time with Christmas. I was playing Hearthstone with my wife
We're both playing side-by-side and then the the opponents would emote
They would emote something like not quite what was planned and then my wife would be like, oh my god
He's beaming me. He's making fun of a mistake. I just made by saying not quite
I'm like no no no I think he's just having fun with you
He's probably cackling and laughing on the other side. He's just enjoying things not looking down at you
Just enjoying we have this kind of discussion back and forth and sometimes I would emotes where I'm like well played sir
I'm like oh well played. That was actually a really cool play nice card
You drew it on a good turn well played nice and like I generally meant it, but like it completely
changes based on your interpretation whether someone is saying yeah sure
whatever cool and answer or what if someone says yeah sure whatever cool
like you don't know you can't tell from the tone so some people are gonna hear
his laughter and they're gonna be like no dude he was just having fun but I think
based on the timing that the laughter came it happens every time after he
He killed a bunch of villagers after he got into my city.
He didn't say anything during the war.
He didn't say anything during the even battle, only when he was getting a massive advantage.
So I think he was taunting me and trying to tilt me, but it was funny, it was funny.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, he saw my website, he saw I easily tilted.
I played a bit of Marvel Snap.
The Mrs. Marvel Thumbs Up emotes was seen as obnoxious taunting.
The first time I was playing Dota 2, I thought when people tip you, they're tipping you for
a good job.
Like well played.
You're literally giving someone some virtual bonus points when you tip someone.
You can do it to allies or enemies and I genuinely thought people were complimenting
each other until I realized there is no possible positive interpretation of tipping
any more except if you've been living under a rock or if you're ignorant or naive it's
only ever done to mock you.
Aw, isn't that nice?
Dude, our timings were very competitive with each other.
Fuel wage, gas wage, imperial.
I got two relics, a few more villagers, but this game was close man.
Psychological warfare is part of the game.
I think it takes a certain mentality to tip with hostility.
I mean if you steep yourself in coffee long enough you'll turn black eventually, no?
Probably you improved a lot in today's I can tell.
Nice, nice, nice.
going the right direction.
I improved my hotkeys a couple of days ago and now it's more comfortable.
I set it up in such a way that instead of needing to do control 6 for all my stables and needing
to find them all, I'm simply using 6 as my default stables hotkey from the start of
the game.
4 is my archery range, 6 is my stable, 7 is my barracks, F4 is my seatbelt.
workshop and f5 is my key and those are hard coded every time.
On the contrary my wife expected that command on victory screen and Dota was always toxic
even coming from teammates.
Ah, but I think Cament is actually meant...
I think Cament is actually meant... well...
Where do you bind your control groups then?
One, two, three...
Five...
That's it. One, two, three, five.
Five in my town center, so one, two, three is my army.
And the 8 is hardcoded my market and 9 is hardcoded my temple
Wait, two cows have less meat than sheep?
I mean, more meat?
And you're giving fewer of them?
Oh, I didn't realize that until recently.
How much do they have?
150.
So you're giving fewer cows, but they have more meat to compensate?
I think you start with one kind of viewer or something.
Interesting.
Chinese on arena and I'm playing against flying white bird.
flying white herdo
polls
okay what i know from history class about polls
is that it's part of europe i don't know what army they're known for
my guess would be infantry i don't know
postcards
into castle
what do they like to do i don't know
collect gold when farming stone okay
They collect gold? Let me try that out again in my mouth.
They collect gold when farming stone.
Okay.
I see.
You know what I think has been slowing me down?
I forgot what I was gonna say
no, no, not 45 APM, what the hell?
the halflings
I believe
Oh, um, mining the wood around my um, town center extensively.
This is D.G. Yikes.
Dude, that was a very nice hold last game.
First time I faced Conquista D'Or and I recovered from the heavy attack.
I'm surprised how many people don't go through triple down center by the way.
So I always have a chance to get back in the game.
You quick walling to trap the initial conquistadors probably salvage the game.
Ooh good.
I'm usually slow at quick walling because of the slow part.
Because I can't find the hotkey on time.
But this time I found it.
And it saved my life.
Wow! Wait a minute. Guys, does he have any age 2 threats?
That is such a sassy feudal timing on this map.
Either he doesn't know how to play arena, or he's got some kind of siege ram thing
going on.
Pacifican tower. Okay. Tower. Time to scout this base. This wall anyway.
23vil up is pretty standard. On Arena I've been told to go for more. I watched back my
I fought with Viper from some time ago and he went 25 I believe.
Of course I had no contacts.
Oh shit.
Uh oh.
I forgot about the discrepancy and speed and damage.
It was okay man.
Oh, I just realized I'm not good at this, so I'm just going to go back to the base.
yeah I just realized I made zero farms
calm down there buddy
8,000 timing is okay
why barracks?
what barracks?
I feel like he's chasing me.
double scouts are early
she forgot my
ego upgrades
missing a couple of firms
Oh, that costs one stone?
What?
We're castling first.
I'm gonna get massive issue with food I already have
I hope I have some folks there, there is almost no gold too, luckily we have a small bank.
This game would be improved with the rocks.
Yeah.
Both skins are.
It's quite an early castle. We're going to have to reciprocate in some way.
There's no way that he has 3 TC, by the way.
Why's there no way?
He cannot afford Castle this early if he has 3 TC.
He's doing some kind of all-in.
The proof is I can't and I'm pretty close to optimal for my elo.
He didn't get any relics yet, which is another proof that he's not investing in the late game.
準備就緒!
準備就緒!順命正確!
建築中發木補!
為順命緊保!
建築中發木補!
何種命為建築中!
準備就緒!
建築中發木補!
Oh
three places one early the fuck is going on how the hell did you get it I hate this shit
I- I think gates should not be openable.
This is so stupid.
They just- oh never mind, it's open.
This is nice.
I mean, a classic case of me being too greedy.
Not having anything is a nice strategy to have.
Does he have upgrades?
Yeah, one.
I was about to go in the imperial.
Of course we're so much.
So annoying.
I killed all my manganas too.
Awwww.
I know so much.
of
the
death
of
death
of
Thank you.
Good play to you.
The monster piece.
I'm a bit high on villagers again.
Nice, GG.
Skirmishes must be misclicked, and no, I did it on purpose, but maybe it's bad because
I said enough there are upgrades, it looks like a classic Kravyaad boom, I did some weird
things because of this, I didn't see the wall break open, he had picked the right range
to kill it, then I had the manganelles, I didn't even know the horses were in my base,
I felt so bad when all those horses got in, I thought he abused my gates again which
is very easy against me somehow people never let me in but I let everyone in I
guess it's when I'm using the gate then they can use it to make sense otherwise
it's kind of like magical like a magical portal lol so many villagers thought you
know what I'll just go 5 tc to recover and recover we did I think he used
petards aah Bailing Bust you did a Bailing Bust you can lock gates yeah
Yeah, yeah, I know. There is a Lockgate option, I'm just not used to using it.
There is a setting in game for Villager DoubleClick.
Okay.
But what does it do?
Only selects idols, mmmm.
I don't know if I want that.
When you put rally point for trebuchets from castle they instantly go destroy the...
Oh, okay!
I like that!
Yeah, because you saw I always have idle trebuchets, right?
Not that it can't go wrong, but I like that.
Extended unit stats.
Yeah, should I use this?
Additional stats will be displayed.
Minimum range, work rate, movement speed, blast radius, nearby enchantment.
Useful to learn the game, perhaps.
I like using it.
Okay, Slarder.
Oh, there we go. 1.7. Oh, that doesn't harm at all. I guess they have it off by default,
so as to not overwhelm players.
How many relics did I have in the end? One.
And he has a monastery here, but did he have another?
If not, where did those relics go?
Or again, I can't see it in-game, never mind, he probably has them all in here.
Instead of making buildings in niche squares, consider walling behind your initial walls
instead.
I did that in a particular game, and then I stopped doing it because it was costing
me a lot of walking speed.
Wow, I have so many farms.
57 farms.
Whoa!
I already turned on building range indicator, but for some reason it's not working, Haru.
162 villagers.
Yeah, baby!
He had more gold. No, I have more gold, despite him having relic gold.
Guess I'm in 60% more villagers helps.
What's your record today? I don't know.
Oh, I want to go for another game, but it's 12.30.
Oh, I'm going to play more.
I didn't have to tell the life once then.
Playing one more half already even, I don't know.
Look guys, I found this old picture of us when we were still young.
One more game.
Damn, she's hot?
Yeah, she is.
Smoke show.
Still is still.
Okay, here we go.
Arabia.
10-10 wood bang groovy that is.
Hey, in another life?
Who knows?
Data grace.
Or should I say, data gaze.
If you had a big Chinese or Hindustani, Hindustani was the archer civilization.
I really like that they have siege elephants.
And the guy with the shield that's like really good against piercing, he's cool too.
I like this piece from the Chinese.
I will say I haven't really been using hand cannons all that much.
I'm supposed to have a special hand cannon upgrade.
I didn't use it at all.
In a way, I'm only playing 50% of the SIF every time, because I forget what military bonus
they have.
I'm not fully playing the SIF properly yet.
That happens on day two, guys.
I'm only playing every SIF for one day.
On day two, we can start going wild.
50 food exactly again purely based on feeling that's so sick
We are plucked into the matrix boys, yes another fifty exactly
Fifty three times in a row!
Okay, I did not do it again. That's okay.
three times in a row someone someone send me a whisper with the time stamp
that's crazy everybody
okay a malt not everyone please
How can, how can heroes stand a chance against such perfect 50?
he stands a chance against 50
What is the additional foodstores, chickens?
I see a space potato
You can't be here
With the chicken start you definitely feudal a little later than if you push back here.
But supposedly I haven't tested this myself because I'm kind of trying to save time on
testing these things.
Normally I test.
But supposedly chicken distance according to chat.
According to chat, according...
What the fuck just happened?
By the way he's really close to me.
First of all, secondly, what the hell is that rally?
Here I was stealing some triggers.
Anyways, how can you be so close to each other?
That's insane.
I've never seen this.
The chicken start is so slow at aging up.
I think berries is better for aging.
Oh... man, man, man, man, man...
It's a Mongol thing? Can I see?
Is he gonna tower me like in A4?
Is he gonna scout rush?
my funeral is so much longer
Oh, buddy blocks!
GG, it's over!
Alright, that was not good for him.
I've already got all the gold I need.
Prediction started! Do we still have a chance to win or not?
I would say not.
It would win lots of points if we do.
What a crazy close proximity, man.
Does it auto path to the correct location where he is?
What's this?
Some kind of advanced wall.
it does auto path
this is a micro guy
This guy is a micro guy. He's playing the right safe.
that's over. Can I go next?
I don't want to play anymore.
Tilter, Tilter.
This guy micro'd well.
Look, he has only two farms!
He has nothing!
Leaving winning games classic.
I have six villages more!
He's bad!
I should have kept playing.
I was winning.
Oh my god, I didn't think it could be that bad.
Oh.
Oh.
Dammit.
One tower would win on wood gold.
Yeah.
How much damage does a stone tower do anyway?
Just needed to build the archery and win.
Dude I know, I was trying to go castle, why?
Look at how close we are to each other, why am I going castle?
as hard as you do an arena to win. I don't have as much experience on non-arena maps. I don't know
why. Maybe it's because I favorited arena and I'm getting it 60% of the time. Did you check
score before resigning? I did not! I should! In fact, I shouldn't even resign so fast at all.
I just get tilted when I lose any villagers at all and I'm like, if they're stepping on the
villager gas as much as I am, then they're super far ahead. It's incredible. But guess what?
He had a million seconds idle on his town center, so none of it mattered.
Feels okay, man.
Oh, he means finally a real fairsive game, but lower like how
Now...
What do you mean?
Prediction started.
Prediction started.
Yep, it's working.
Yep, it's working.
Yep, it's working.
Finally a first hit.
We're 8 wins 4 loss today.
66 MMR change, nice.
more on the board guys I'm never gonna leave early again
The only reason I did it now, besides tilt, is because it's my final game before Beth and I wanted to make sure it's good, and in trying to make sure that it's good, I made sure it's not.
of
the
It's a chicken game.
but I don't want to get chickens before actually on this map I can
diversify a bit
finally play against the sif that's not gonna chase me
Komodo dragon so fancy
Does he remember the Hussite wagon game?
Yeah, but Bohemians don't have that, right?
Wait, wait, wait!
Bohemians!
Not Byzantines!
I thought I'm against Byzantines!
This is Hussite wagon?
They're both a sif with like a bee in them. It's kind of hard to distinguish. Almost
impossible some would say
i thought it was the bristons
I'm going to take care of the rest of the workers.
Hello?
I'm going to save Yang Cao from the beast.
Wow, he's feudal already.
I feel like he's teasing me, guys.
That's crazy.
I wasn't that scouting yet, sir.
Very rude.
He's definitely cheesing me, I recognize a freaking cheeser.
It's incredibly rude.
the
the
the
the
So I just slow myself down for nothing.
What's that sound?
I'm picking up all the lizards, or what?
He is castled.
So he's such a cheeser.
I can't believe these people.
Funny the lizards can't get in.
I see, they can.
Not that funny actually.
And all the lizards are in front of the gate.
Man.
Look at my wood.
What?
that's it
any monks here? Damn it, I thought I made one already.
Oh
up to relics not to doubt
Oh
Dr. Relics not to doubt
Oh
I can't understand why I can't get more food.
Damn it, that's such an early trim shape.
I guess I have more CCs than him.
Ham's kinda nears.
I should get Ham kinda too.
or skirmishers
I already upgraded these two
I
see how it micered me here
and how it sounds kinda near me
This is going to be winning.
My village account is good, but I'm not winning now, because maybe my units are weaker than
and I'm not fully upgraded.
Maybe I'm making the wrong units.
I mean, hot cannons are disowning skirmishers.
so hard
I'm breaking him.
I think I'm breaking him.
Shit, stop making villagers!
I think I won't.
I don't know, I sacked all my units.
I'm going to go Arbalest now and I have good resources for it.
GG, nice.
GG, nice.
Ohhhh.
Yeah, it's so funny when you're building all your buildings through each other and you're making like this place where you built the mining camp on the stone while you're distracting someone with the fight elsewhere.
Dude, he killed my first three castles! It's like they said, if someone reaches Imperial first, you have to build your castles more backwards.
backwards. Otherwise they will die.
Finally spending gold? Yeah, but you can't spend it too fast. There's only a
limited amount available, so I like to throw trash for like an hour and then
start producing the real units. Do you guys agree with the build?
There's a full gold mine unused in the base.
It's not entirely unused, I got a mining count there. I chopped it a bit.
I always prioritize the ones that are on the map anyway, and then I still have one at home.
Yeah, genius.
Because no ball you. Yeah, that's the risk. That's the risk of my style.
It's a special style where you throw trash at the wall for 40 minutes, see what sticks, and then
BAM. And also I try to have like 35 units in queue so that when I kill all these villagers
suddenly 35 units pop out and I go from like 20 army to 50.
You can shift Relic back to your mana. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, I know. Even
when building it's so convenient. You can actually shift click all five Relics with
one more. They only killed nine villagers though. How do you know how many villagers
I killed? Oh, just now? Yeah, not enough. Guys, we need to talk. We have to talk. This
This is not okay.
I have a serious issue.
It's fine, you can always delete them, yeah.
But we did get more wood, food and stone.
He just had more gold.
I didn't need gold because I only made trash.
So guys, our Arbalest is better against skirmishers
than skirmishers against skirmishers.
And the only reason you go skirmishers
is because you don't spend gold, like for Imperial.
Skirmishers are anti-Arbalest, OK?
Skirmishers are better, but they only
better against that unit right and it's impossible to micro in the large fights
so maybe like when you get to the 57 or the 52 minute mark and not a moment
before you should have Arbalus just because they can kill everything and
whereas skirmishers in the Knights and Horsemen is so wasted
And not a moment before, it's fair measures for defense.
That's why we won Arbalust.
I tried this once at 51 minutes and it went bad.
Yeah it goes sour.
Guys, it was an absolute pleasure and a privilege to play for you and coming in such
large numbers to my ancient empire's two-stream. Let's do it again tomorrow. Have a good night,
thanks for watching. Peace!