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Love these casting videos and your enthusiasm. I don't really have time to watch on Twitch, but always watching your Age4 videos. :-)

I really wanted to see the graphs of units and total score. It would be cool to see the booming on the plot.

I love your casting! Great content. Please - MORE!

I feel like people don't comit enough to water trade, its so much better than land trade and with france you can choose what res they bring, so for example you don't need to buy stone at bad rates when your trade units already bring it

I played this map once and loved it. Controlling the water is a nice advantage but you have the option to focus land and win if you time things well

The idea was great to say: "ok you are choosing the path of low resistance to boom so Ima water trade and timing push him" however what he did was underwhelming. Late single tc age 3 drop + castle into counter units, pretty easy mode for viper to handle.

So the best way for the Chinese to deal with the French is to completely give up dealing with the French in other Ages except the Imperial Age? Interesting.

Viper decided to go with the Song dynasty to make up for the fact that control of the sea would certainly be French. The fishing boats allow to save on the number of villagers on food and not having them anymore he found a way thanks to the Song dynasty. Divine has invested too much in useless ships since viper didn't play that game. By the time he realized he had been screwed, it was too late. He had already figured this out when he let the knights attack the barracks that kept sending lancers against him .. Great game by viper that proves that there is always a way to beat even whoever is considered favorite or broken

Aargh why gg so soon??!!! Would have loved to see this one play out a little bit longer!

I've not played computer games since the original AoE but I'm hooked on this stuff. Love that Viper sticks with one of the less easy Civs and tries all kinds of Leftfield stuff.

Viper just focused on reaching Imperial Age, and being the Chinese, that is probably the quickest way. Once you are in Imperial and your French opponent is still stuck building inferior units, while you are able to pump out elite units at a faster rate. You just clean the board at that point.

Happy 420th video!

"I can't remember the name of the dynasty. He's entering the song dynasty" good job drongo lmao

That was the greediest game I've ever watched.

I love how AOE4 is bringing so many new names and I feel AOE4 might, just might overrules the ESport scene for the full AOE community Starkcraft and Mithology Warcraft and who knows which other games.... I hope Microsoft keeps on updating this game to become ESports ready...who knows

at 13:45 - that is not the max distance you can get to the top trading post. the further you go away from the corner along the bottom of the map the further away the trading post will be. Like a right angled triangle - use the pythagorean theorem. The maximum distance possible would be if he built his market as close to the coast as possible along the bottom of the map. The corner is much safer, though.

Fucking love this !! Im downloading AOE4 right now i been playing Age of Empires Online until now this is amazing !!

Your thoughts on AoE 3 DE Mexican civilization?

Who needs a Netflix shows when you got this? I may of played aoe 1 or not can't quite remember, and I have a total of 5 hours on aoe 4. I really enjoy your casting, it's informative and inclusive. I learned a lot from the videos and laughed a bunch as well.

Love the content Drongo! If you have the time, can you reach out to Turin? I’d love to see y’all take on some 2v2’s! He loves HRE and Dehli.

I think the solution for French navy is make feudal hulks called like crude hulk and cost more resources (reduce cost effectiveness) then upon aging the price reduces. Right now it's just too easy to make a few and have them pay for themselves. All while going eco at home

The french player probably saw viper and got a bit jittery, not the best play from him , once he turtles early, Viper just went full damn boom his rush is also a bit late with uncontested water, of course Viper also did well concealing what he was doing!

We need more 🤣

Just before you posted this video, I actually played China on boulder bay against France. I knew I'd lose the water, but figured that if I wall him in and build defenses on the coast I'd be able to win. I managed to build 5 keeps on the coastline and go to age IV in less than 20 minutes. The french player was a bit slow with his hulks though so I got a lot more out of my fishing ships than I suspected. Then I just continued to boom, built a huge mass of Fire Lancers and sneak dropped them to his base with 4 transports. First I made a small push on land to distract him, so he would not pay attention to water. Fire Lancers managed to snipe his landmarks in a minute.

I mean Viper face a French player who turtles himself against Chinese while clearly being dominant on water plus tries to contest Chinese in the castle-imperial age, which is not even a bad choice ,but just a least good choice plus instead of flocking Viper base with royal knights, he choose to invest his resources on stone to build up three useless castles against clocktower bombards Viper literally play Chinese as greedy as he can, but it somehow succeeds because French player is satisfied with just destroying 6 fishing boats and one dock.

MAN I came from Dota 2 and its so much more CHill this game ! You have more control no RUssian to blame D:

I dont understand whats happening but its really entertaining. Thx to the caster for the explainations.

You should just make it a series. Kinda want to see how many Viper Watch episodes you will make.

Have you thought about adding "viper watch" to the title? Would be easier to keep track of the playlist :D

wait why did he surrender?

my man viper didn't even attack the enemy 🤣🤣 and took the dub

Greedy Viper play. Fun to watch in aoe 2,and aoe 4 alike, thanks for posting this video.

Every time he activates cinematic camera i think someone gg´t.

Why did the french gg there? Seems way too early

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I see aussi drongo? I click aussi drongo!

Thu VIPUUUUR! Lol nice intro

How many poop while watching KZfaq everyday dozens? Maybe hundreds?

Viper is in the moon age, too good!

Wait I’m so confused, he was invading vipers base and his keeps were getting destroyed, so he surrenders? What is the point of that? Why not regroup and try again? I don’t get it

love the content .. thank you

Why did he tap out? Just because his attack failed does not mean he could not win right?

Viipeeer is to insane

The logo appears to say "Russie Drongo". 😅

Id like to challenge the viper to a game of aoe3 i never lost back in the day

subbed, brilliant content

Viper is like: You wanna have the water? Have the water. But I'll take 2/3 of the land and boom. His opponent would run out of resources eventually.

Should have raided traders instead. There was no winning against spear spam with just a handful of knights.

how the HELL did viper go into a dinasty AND build a second town center before 8 minutes????????

How do you see the rank of someone? I thought quick match MMR is hidden

And here i thought my chinese Song dynasty booming was good ... 😑

I don´t understand why the blue player gave up but I am clueless :-D.

The shoreline looks really dull in this game. Sebastián laugue would be ashamed. Where is the white foam?

Just started playing aoe4, so I might sound like a dump question. Why did the french player resigned?

Is there any point to going harbor against French? I always find that I get wrecked early game on the water against them. Also, every time i kill a boar with villagers it disappears and i can't harvest it. Why?

reSources not "reZorzeus". Love ya drongo

why would you resign after a failed attack. it's not like viper got control of the water

Can someone explain to me why the other guy ceded? (Im a noob)

The French water advantage seems like something that simply has to get patched

great video!

Yo but isnt song dynasty bonus just scout line of sight?

So who won??? 🤔

Weird to me that Divine surrendered here. Sure, he lost a bunch of knights and stone, but Viper didn't have anything approaching an offensive army. I guess the massive economy was too intimidating.

Weak boom. Less than 120 villagers at 15 min. Pathetic.

Me looks at title: "Ok boomer"

How can I download this replay in game? Want to learn his eco distribution

der ewige boomer

Hey Drongo have you seen the KZfaq Waddling Duck. He makes great videos on AOE4 mechanics. You need to see what you can do with the lodya demolition ships they can get over 900hp! Love the vids and enjoy the content!

G'day

Can someone explain why did he surrender?

just because sacred site?

I dont understand how the chinese won??? is it poin based or what?

I was at the corporate meetings for this game...they decided that china would be the one op faction and decided to zoom in the game basically to appease both the chinese market and their heavy tablet/mobile users compared to the us pc users...china is overwhelmingly tab/mobile users while america is mostly pc's...and also they we're afraid the ccp would hinder their sales in china if they didn't make china the dominate faction...they'll never nerf china, if anything they'll buff it... In my heart and mind, I realized the gaming industry at that moment is completely controlled and ran by the ccp and the chinese market now...american players will continue to see this pro-ccp trend in the gaming industry until it is blatantly obvious but by then won't be able to do anything about it...you'll be censored and won't have the free market you used to have where you could create anything...you'll be only able to consume and create pro-ccp content and products... I hate it...the corporate world is communist...secretly trying to find a way out of this but I would instantly be in massive debt and homeless if I left at this moment...I have been saving for 3 years hoping one day I can finally liberate myself from this and hope that the world can figure this out before it is suddenly too late...

why does he sound like rlyknight

Can anyone explain why the heck blue quit??

The way he says "dynasty" triggers me

Bit of an early resign??

Why did he go so quick?

I would pump viper

Any chance yoi would cast one of my amateur games, just for funzies. Its my best match to date in pvp after spendi g a few houra fighting hard a.i. fremch

in age 2. you send out one vil. and when a scout comes out. viper quick walls. in age 4 you send out 2 vils. and attack back? because 2 villages with no weapons can beat 1 scout with a weapon. this game has some flaws.

im triggered for some reason its, die-na-ste

Please calm down about 'Viper'... 😒 There's so much more to life

do you think aoe4 is awful or just really bad

He kinda failed to utilize his officials on the important resources, also TC close to the Gold is shit, since you can't buff it with an official. xD Clocktower official is insanely good with the speed you can put out units though. Bombards 45 --> 15 Sec

why did game end? it seems he just quit since u mention it wasn't a rank game anyways he didn't want a long game what a lame person to play with

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