Hera talking about what he's doing, building 4 Castles in like 2 minutes, booming his eco, explaining his late game, keeping calm as they come and here I am focusing like crazy and yet screwing up left and right beyond mid-Castle 11

Hey Hera! I started ranked lately (9 days ago) I finished the provisional(?) at 810 elo with 33% winrate. I was very unhappy with it, so I rewatched your tutorials, analised my losses, and watched how you play. Now I am at 1014 elo with 60% winrate. Thank you so much! You are the best! ❤❤

Something that helps me in my dark age is having a time in my BO for lure deer. If I find it very early, I immediately lure one while sending the first lumberjacks so that gives me time to lure a second one while my foragers are being sent to the berries. If the deers are far away, I lure one right after killing my first boar and maybe, if there is time to, I lure right after the second boar. NEVER lure while taking the boar to avoid disasters like losing a vill to it or getting housed.

This video is gonna have millions of views in a few years. Looking forward to seeing it. GZ on the massive win at NAC4!

really loving the videos lately and your commitment to both playing really well in tourney (congratz on NAC4) and the awesome content. you are killing it lately. Appreciate it bro

Hi Hera, i just finished watching all your video guides and i have to thank you for such an incredible tutorial, i had a totally wrong perspective of the game since i only played aoe 2 as a kid vs ia or vs friends but no one never played ranked or something, after you figured out that a big tower wall does not protect you from everything (like ia games) the game changes a lot and now i have more under understanding about things that i didn't even care about or even knew they existed. Thanks to you i succeded in win my very first ranked games without any panic plays! Sending a big hug to you from Arg!

Thanks Hera! Great stuff. Thanks for all you do for the aoe2 community

Always hyped to see more content drop, keep em coming ! Also any chance we might see more of your "ultimate guide to x civ" series ? Love those, although I imagine they take a while to make

I love these guides so much, I really can't explain why lol. I feel like it passively boosts my ELO from 1000 to 1001, 1002, 1003. Much love from Perú, Hera.

Thanks for the video bro! Watching this video I managed to reach 1200, it made me realize that using a good strategy and having a good economy is stronger than the micro, I just played a game against a 1200 and the difference I made in the game is a lot, without realizing it I was already in Imperial, 200 pop and with the perfect composition to counter my opponent, And it's like you say. After that, the game was over in less than 5 minutes.

I love all your videos man. Keep going and hope to see you on twitch too

This is probably the best AoE vid I’ve watched this year. Thank you!

24:20 "Wow do you watch Hera videos?" "Yes, I AM Hera." Actually had me laughing out loud 😂 amazing

this is my favorite series, my Elo has improved from 1400 to 1500 by adding the walling technique from the previous videos into my games

Great video! Can't wait for the next one, which will cover 1300-1400 ELO.

"Your opponent is like, do you watch Hera videos? Yes, I am Hera." Lol

this was a great guide Hera. I think though since you are still in your placement matches your opponents are not really at the level of the elo you are going for here. A 1200-1300 does not make trade carts in a 1v1

Good work 👍🏼

We need more episodessss ^^ thanks for the great video’s

This series is the best aoe2 content out there for beginers and advances players alike. Period! Props to Hera for wanting to share his secrets even to the highest level of competitive play further down this series. Despite that being total madness as it could cost him tournament wins in the future, he is willing to risk it in order to further push the limit of peak aoe2. That´s a true winners mindset if you ask me. As a 1200 who managed to drop down to 1000 quite consistently I can not wait to nerd out watching the highest elo episodes.

you make it look simple, i have such a hard time, even trying to get the deers is a challenge fo me at this point

Love this series, why did you choose to go knights instead of steppe lancers or a mix of both?

Thanks for the guide Hera ! Also wanted to let you know that in the thumbnail it says 1100 - 1200

Dont go deer if it will ruin your dark age he says.. Proceeds to do it anyway so I do it as well next game. Lost villager to boar, killed boar with TC had a 2min later feudal when I got scout rushed and killed

great resource, thanks

This series is great.

congratz for NAC4 great series great video!

Love these videos but I cant help to feel bad about your opponents lol.

Your map was awesome btw 11

Luring a boar while pushing a deer. I can't even do one of them correctly lol

"-Do you watch Hera's videos? -Yes, I AM Hera. And then you win the game" This is the highlight of the entire series for me 😂

Hera, I've been having this thought of a strat and I want your opinion on it. If you're turks, could it be worth it to intentionally run under your opponents TC with your tanky scout and kill as many sheep as you can? How many sheep would you have to kill for it to be worth it? My thought is, the whole issue with turks on open maps is that they have no early eco bonus. Maybe your eco bonus could just be to thoroughly screw up your opponents eco?

Asking if Hera could beat Viper in the finals certainly aged well with the 5-0 smash at KotD5

"Wow do u watch Hera videos?" "Yes, I am Hera."

I want to go play Mongols now :) thanks Hera

Super good video, you are my favorite aoe2 player ❤️. Love from India 🇮🇳

Awesome

Could you please make a playlist for the New Guide?

As much as i love this video, your thoghts and the banter in the end, as a teacher I have to say this wont help all that much for players who are actually in that elo range. There is just way to much info; learning is about training small stuff in isolation and connecting the dots later on, not having everything served at once.

Apparently I'm a 1400, but to be honest I had no idea that bloodlines didn't give the full 20hp extra to damaged scouts :'D

To prevent wrecking unsuspecting opponents and possibly demoralizing them, maybe you could consider playing against your subscribers who are at the right elo for the video... having said that, these videos offer a wealth of information and are priceless

if you struggle with scouting with sheeps, just start with 1 sheep. Once you get used to it, add another one and so on

@Hera , when you will release next videos ?

i like how the algorithm has probably guessed my elo from my watch history

Lol the trade was amazing

Someone in chat said maybe you're playing at 14xx. That's the point! Showing what you need to do to win and improve at a certain level requires playing slightly above that level.

I hated it when he didn't go into your base with his scouts in Feudal when you delibarately left bottom part of your base open for a minute or so. I wanted to see what to do in that situation because sometimes there's an invisible hole in my walls and I don't know what to do when enemy scouts rush in through that hole. Can you tell me how you were going to defend if he went in there? @Hera

Your opponent is onto something. Trade cart meta inc

This comment isn't about this video, but a piece of general advice for your channel: don't sleep on the Shorts format. The last Short you did was a year ago from AoE 4, and you haven't made any since then that I can determine. Make more shorts, they can be like 30-60s stuff you take from content you've already made, but condensed for the Shorts format. It'll help your channel grow a lot faster. For example, if you made a Short from this 30 min video, you'd summarize the key talking points, and this is important: a lot of people watching Shorts are doing it on their phone, right? So make sure you put big, easy-to-read subtitles overlaying the video. A lot of people browsing their phone may not necessarily be in a situation where they can listen as well, so those subtitles will allow those folks to experience your content without missing anything.

i would watch like 20 videos of you explaining yourself while you beat up 1300s

I know hera's far beyond this elo but as a 1300 player this was a rather lackluster display from the opponent

Hera I learned your streatgy but i still stick on 900 elo, a lot of ppl they play thousands games at this elo, they play very professional, they use 3 man at arms, all strategies, you mind to give a tip how to defend them

You have wrong preview picture on this video.

Damn that looks so easy but it's another story in the game

"the hundereds of hours i have" my man you have tens of thousands of hours in this game no doubt

til you can trade with enemy’s markets at your own risk lmaoo

Yes i am Hera Kappa

Early gang

Why does the opponent in these vids always seem much lower elo that the title says? They don't seem to pressure early, castle drop quickly or do anything I see at 1000 elo, let alone 1200.

wood isn't used to make the army , even when it does, you use food and gold to upgrade the unit - siege players "No but also yes"

That scares me. I'm sitting here with 1268 elo and there is a chance to play against #1 o.o

Poor guy getting trained by hera

his opponent go for trading cards, and i get a 13min > knight rush and fast imp guyz XD in 1050elo :D with 2000 wins and loses ?!

I don't this is the correct representation of elo, as you are still in caliberation and you will be getting opponents way lower.

You used to be my favorite player to root for but now you win so much it’s not fun 😔 there’s no suspense when Northern Isles loads up

2:41 Guys, he means tens of thousands of hours of practice. Don't be fooled.

omfg THE TRADE CARTS BAHAHAHAHA!! LMAO!🤣😂

this is my favorite series, my Elo has improved from 1400 to 1500 by adding the walling technique from the previous videos into my games