🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation: 00:00 🏹 *Punishing Greedy Players with Aggression* - Scouting information is crucial for deciding the right strategy. - Limiting the opponent's food access, especially when playing greedy, is key. - Going for aggressive build orders and punishing between 4 and 5 minutes is effective. 02:44 🛡️ *Identifying Greed through Map Control* - Confirming opponent's intentions by scouting critical resources. - Recognizing defensive structures like towers as signs of greed. - Adjusting strategies based on opponent's choices to maintain aggression. 05:18 🏹 *Expanding Aggression with Archers and Javelin Throwers* - Transitioning from Horsemen to Archers and Javelin Throwers. - Leveraging ranged units against defensive structures and infantry. - Emphasizing the importance of upgrades and resource gathering from pocket resources. 08:55 ⚙️ *Sustaining Aggression and Eco Management* - Continuously applying pressure to idle opponent and disrupt their eco. - Highlighting the significance of eco upgrades and their impact on sustained aggression. - Emphasizing the avoidance of Farms, keeping eco untouched, and maintaining momentum. 13:11 🔥 *Adapting after Overcommitting and Continuing Aggression* - Evaluating the consequences of overcommitting to an attack. - Choosing to continue aggression based on eco, army strength, and map control. - Emphasizing the importance of not losing momentum and adapting to the game's flow. 15:51 ⚔️ *Counteracting Defensive Strategies and Eco Denial* - Burning production buildings and farms to limit opponent's production. - Utilizing diverse unit compositions to counter opponent's army. - Emphasizing the need for continuous unit production during aggressive play. 17:50 🔥 *Final Push and Breaking Defensive Civs* - Maximizing value during fights by targeting buildings and villagers. - Sustaining unit production to maintain pressure and exploit advantages. - Concluding with eco disruption and breaking down defensive civilizations.

using horsemen to spread out his deer as a secondary task is a brilliant idea. I'll be using a lot of info you gave in this vid.

You're doing really great content Valdemar. Well done mate. I don't even get to play much as life is too busy but I still enjoy learning from your guides. You deserve 50k more subscribers!

Let's be honest, you just wanted to post yourself dunking on Zhu Xi as Byzantine. Understandable.

man this is perfect timing, I just learned my first strategy: the feudal all-in xD

Incredibly useful guide, came here after watching your Byz feudal all-in video. This strat just clicks and is relatively straightforward. The heavy lifting happens with the micro and finding angles of aggression. To me, that’s the fun part! So thank you for letting me do that with my favorite civ!

Seriously, you are the best youtuber AOE4. We love you. ❤

What a coincidence! I finish my session practising my feudal all in and you upload this video. Pro Tipp from a gold player to all of you who read this: don't let the zhuge nu shoot your army while they are building the second batch of rams. One moment you are happily building things in your base and the next moment you are wondering where your army went. Definetly didn't lost a game like this today...

Great video Valdemar, look forward to the next one!

Thank you, this was a really good video.

As always, great videos from the Kid

Watching this as I'm falling asleep, commenting for the algorithm

great video, thanks a lot man!

Amazing, just amazing.

Great guide, the splitting of the deer blew my mind. I play aggressive civs and rely on the deer a lot, if someone got some horsemen and did this to me I'd lose my mind

Hell yeah man I appreciate this channel

Great video format idea

great video, great example of !deer as well

Love your tutorial videos!

love your videos, your my favorie pro, cause you were starting in gold and made ur way up until you defeat beasty. pls do more vids like this

valdy valdy boyyyyyyyyyyy

That is I was waiting today as a byz player

Awesome stuff! Which civs are best for early aggression? And which are best for countering it?

if possible i would like to hear your thoughts on how to counter jeanne de arc, the beasty videos series isn't good, his opponent either goes full Knights which is extremely stupid and they never go 2tc and other situations. all went feudal all in and doesn't even build rams 10 minutes in

Great video as always. I am trying to do this playing with JD. Problem is when I play against English or Russian. It's very difficult to raid against longbows or Russian shooting landmark. In this specific cases wouldn't it be preferable to just go 2tc straight away?

Sorry if you’ve already spoken on this elsewhere, but which site do you use for Build Orders? Do you have one made for this Byz rush? Looks similar to Drongo’s but quicker out the gate.

hey valdemar i like ur videos. can u make a RUS guide on how to play with single tc going into feudal with hard aggression? in my ladder u get ur ass wrecked if u try fast feudal into second tc because the enemy is building nonstopp units out of 1 tc and spends all his food on units and not on villagers....

If you still offer coaching lmk where to sign up!

So you focus on military superiority, which starts at the decision of making units vs the opponents decision of making eco. From there you use said superiority to chip away little advantages (killing vills, destroying infrastructure, kill more military than you lose per battle) in order to snowball said advantage. If done properly, things shall get to a point where the military difference is big enough to force the opponent into trully horrendous battles for them because the alternative would be let us steamroll his base. Nonetheless, keep up with the "chip away" mindset, just remember that now you are chipping away a limb a time, because you can. Keep up production in order not to lose steam and most of the times the match will end in your favor. Is this a correct summary of it?

I'm interested in Coaching but I live in the States. Is there a way to get that figured out? Just picked up the game a couple weeks ago on GAME PASS' XBOX X.

How do you decide to go feudal aggressive vs. just matching them and going FC/2TC?

In a replay, we know you've killed 20 villagers. During a game, do you keep a mental tally of how many you have killed, too?

All in is my favourite playing as Byzantines😅

nice vid, thank you i hate vids like beasty where he spams his keys for 50 mins

To be honest if the eneny wouldve build more army after 2nd tc (like drongo in his guide from yesterday) i feel like he might ve defended

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