WHAT THE POTATO!?! I thought you were too busy making fan vids dedicated to the Venetian Arsenal to drop in on other games!

@@kelleren4840 aaaaay lmao, the venetian arsenal haunt is real

Your mom has one of my favourite openings!

Another legend is here

I just started watching and i saw your comment. Was afraid it'd be a spoiler. but thanks, now I'm excited to watch

Same lol, got a Chrome alert and clicked over to it, my game is still paused

Yeah, like they have some GREAT techs, but it really just feels bland to play them. Camels are relatively expensive for having such a small niche. Although, camel rider spam could have actually been really strong in this game to counter the knights and rival the mobility (but then again, you need several techs to reach this level of counter).

The Camels are their actual problem. They're just too bad and cost a ton. Also their attackspeed feels worse than a scouts. Reduce cost by 60 food from 180 to 120, fix their attack animation / attackspeed and you could rely on them as affective counters against cav civs like french and maybe mongols/rus. Rus horsearcher mop the floor against the only units that deals bonus them right now while having more range, attackspeed and only costing half as much. RN rus horse archers feel so unbalanced to the point for me where i consider just quitting when i have rus as my enemy.

@@foresightfox1256 Yes, comparing Camel Archers to Rus Horse Archers is so unfair, it's ridiculous. Paying that much more for 3x damage against Spearmen while sti having worse range and speed is absolutely not worth it. I don't know who thought that 120 resources with no gold cost would be a fair price for any mounted archer unit. Two tiles range updgrade is also very fun when they reach the mass to one-shot mangos. I'm having so much fun with this game, but man, there is some stuff going on with bugs and balance :D

@@DarkEpicSlayer Yeah hopefully the balance and fine tuning will keep coming. So many people hours being played that it's really hard to QA all the changes needed without delaying a game prior to releae while fine tuning for another 2-3 years. It'll get there I'm sure.

The funny thing is camel archers do no bonus dmg to horse archer unlike camel riders who do bonus dmg to cav (melee and ranged cav) but it get even more fun cuz even with the 15% movespeed buff camel rider barely catch up to them

time travelers

I hope so. I'm getting good with them in the meantime

wololo u mean ?

200 iq

Even with those keeps around?

French can retarget the keeps to snipe the monk.

This is some big brain play

Yes, I would've bitten my nails like everyone else instead of laughing my arse off

It's because of AOE3. He's from AOE3. And that game has a much faster pace and one little misplace swings a match, so being extremely careful in taking fights was the norm.

100% correct, this is not a bug, he just placed the building on the mine

YES! This!!! French was winning all game. Then, plot twist, they won. Lol. That's not very interesting imo.

And no camels from StatesSC2. Abbasids are supposed to be the perfect counter to French but that wasn't showcased here with a lack of camels til very late game.

Somone just watched SOTL (I assume...)

He played mobility, and in the end that mobility helped him run circles around his opponent while his castles rain down arrows

The enemy, even after successfully countering, made no attempt to get map control. Instead he hid in the walls and turtled. And lost because you don't have to destroy the enemy to win.

There is something like that. But with mining camps it doesn't work as it should. Mines often disappear for no reason. Even those built in your range of view

He placed the building atop the mine by mistake in the fog of war (two squares collide) so the building got canceled when the actual position of the stone was revealed. It shows at 3:25 when he selects the stone then the building

I mean if you can afford to put 10 castles around each sacred site then you could've pushed into the base and killed them. It is just different ways to win.

At any point after countering the mass knights he could've pushed out and taken map control. But he walled up 100% and hid instead. I would prefer to not have stupid turtle games where both players sit either side of some walls and just treb each other slowly for 60 minutes until one runs out of gold.