Republican villagers

Trump would be so proud

biden sucks

The Chinese did that too, were they retard noobs? I doubt.

More like ”babelutyun”

That is god mode

Gotta get that score boah

I do that , indian universities are beautiful

What's wrong with 2 or more Blacksmiths or Universities? Halves the time needed to research stuff?

ow :( I'm in this comment and I don't like it

I only upgrade them all when I have a lot of spare money. It is for pride and collection.

or just go for a 6 kind of units army comp and never upgrade them

since they're noobs probably they'll use a lot of different units upgrades because of bot army composition LMAO

@Miles Doyle TL;DR

I come to KZfaq to be entertained. Not personally attacked! 🤣

I have to ask: whats wrong with it? I am still doing this.😂

that was my go to move lol

I played through the campaigns using this exact tactic.

@@stast2944 Wasteful. A stone wall is a good defense but why wall from edge to edge when you can pick two or three narrow passages and achieve basically the same result unless the map is a completely open plain. If it is a plain, you're better to invest in towers and such probably, since you can't defend a stretch of wall that long anyway. You can then build a smaller, easier to defend wall near your base. Just a case of logistics, but if you want to do it anyway then go ahead, games are supposed to be fun.

meh, It works in stronghold

И то, что чел использует оригинальную версию игры, а не DE

Same i'm just an average player but seeing this, this is pain

Me too

However! It's actually valid tactic in some maps as Lithuanians due to +150 food start. It enables 2 militia + scout rush while enemy is most likely without loom and luring first boar. With specific build order planned for it, it wont delay your villager creation or anything else either. It's somewhat difficult to execute flawless though.

@@DogMeat- That sounds interesting. Thanks.

Lol, and they probably got mad for taking their resources.

Lovely story

Heartwarming story

Online games would be much more fun like this

aoe 2 community are pretty brutal against new players, some of the insult are hilarious though

Encerio??

@@jorgeignaciodfullbuster9212 en serio*

@@douglitasadalbertojuanguil8938 *Henzerio

@@jesusgst pistachio

@Miles Doyle WTF Dude?

That’s some Roman styles tactics there buddy. You did it right. When in doubt, build fortifications!

Works untill the enemy comes by with a couple of siege onagers or bombard cannons :P

@@Gin-toki Or simply attack the unfinished walls before it's even built

I dont know why, when i was in elementary school i can defeat 8 ai players in hardest level. But now when i study in graduate school i can't even win campaign mode in moderate level

I remember playing this game as a 12 year old in the early 2000s using the ancient GameSpy client to search for other players and having the most cheesy tactic of walling myself with 3 layers of stone walls while slowly building up my army of cavalry, crossbowmen and pikemen combined with trebuchets to overrun the enemy. I also made some friends during this time and we often played together. One day a player asked to play against me and a friend 1vs2 and he overrun my teammate pretty quickly. But because I was protected behind my 3 layers of rock I felt safe ... well, until I saw about 50 elephants knocking on my doors. He had no problem to force his way inside my base and overrun my army while destroying my important buildings with his siege weapons. When I capitulated I saw that the WHOLE map was literally filled with his buildings and that he had about 10 town centers. That's when I realized that my tactics weren't great and that there are far better players than myself. And this was in the early 2000s!

I'm vegan.

The wildlife is pointless, setup a couple farms auto seed and crop rotation when you can and you'll never run out.

I used to do that as a kid.

I just send everyone to bush. Long distance bush farming ftw. And by the time bush gets completely used, you can build a few farms from your long distance straggler tree wood farming.

I do that as I always fuck up and forget to have them basically in my tv so I only sometimes use them

Been playing since I was a kid. Not sure how to do that even now.

@@Drrobverjones use shift 😀

@@Fulcrum-Edits thx

@@dailyshort6240 np 😁

@@Drrobverjones i can defeat four computer in hard mode...can you??

I didn't get why it is a "noob" thing. Maybe 'cuz I am a noob 😐. Anyway, what would an experienced player do?

@@diyorbeksadullaev same. Cause I tried selecting two buildings and clicking just once like you would do in warcraft but it doesn't work

@@diyorbeksadullaev shift + w

@@tayron2766 Thanks a lot!

I dnno why it is considered a newbie thing if that's the way it used to work on Age of Kings, when they changed it on The Conquerors expansion I was very glad

It was alsp fun when we easily breach walls by one shotting trees that act like walls Or villagers of our own town make a hole by cutting those trees acting like natural boundaries

Those darn wolves get ‘em every time.

ah shit i woke up my girlfriend, laughing out loud at the point of "the villagers nowhere to be seen" ...damn that felt familiar XDDDDDDDD

i just delete my scout in the beginning so that i will have the pop for another paladin in the end.

What about choosing the huns for the first time and thinking that the game broke and we have max pop 😅

That last one actually can work with the Mayan special tech

Towers inside the wall is OK IMO, it really add more durability to the tower. Any building isn't OK against Ram. Attacking town center only using bowmen happened a lot. Just can't rush with it. Fire arrows helps. It is a slow process but will work eventually.

@@edhikurniawan I think what they meant is that they would build the towers as part of the wall, i.e. replace a wall segment with a tower.

I remember build wall around base but in the AOM, love there design 😂

I disliked because it's exaggerated, I don't play AoE 2

@@puro7706 lol

@@silverwoodlawn4913 owo

You can what now? Orz

@@ThePrinceUva hold shift key while clicking (or hot key'ing) to create a unit, and it'll automatically que up 5 of those units instead of just one. When starting a regular conquest game, always have your fingers ready and in position to press H and then SHIFT + Q, and you'll instantly start making 4 new villagers without having to touch your mouse. Then press the " . " button to select an idle villager, press Q twice again, and you're ready to start placing houses.

I still do lol

I've played since 2005 and I didn't discover shift-clicking to que up until I read this comment lmao

@@chandler224 me too lol

I remember spending hours on one campaign mission, trying to build a massive base that looked nice. Then make a save file just before I finished the mission. Lol

@Cord Beckemeier Yeah I actually won by killing the last base in the far south and didn't even notice the relic until I saw the map revealed at victory.. lol. The biggest problem was the population shortage and constant battling at both bases while having substandard amount of villagers to keep up army size. I even killed the French commander charging at the south with just TC and couple knights vs probably 30+ units, then walling up again there. :)

I remember doing Joan of Arc campaign and trying hard to establish a base in the last mission only to have it effectively ruined everytime, wherever I built it until I realized it wasn't about building lol

One of the Inca missions, capturing I think 4 relics. I ended up treating it just like a normal 'kill everything' map until I realized that, hey, there's like SIX of these relics, and some are in easy reach! I didn't need to dig into that castle-entrenched hell after all.

@@Pandalka It isn't about building?

Not that the military would help you in that matchup

Britons have good knights and scouts, you rush the goths because they don't have stone walls, you make them panic because they don't know other than infantry spam, GG

@@AramesiaToken Luckily Goths can't make spears/pikes/halbs! (Briton cav is mediocre at best btw, no bloodlines is worse than you think)

@@musfiquerrhman7329 perhaps my comment was a sarcastic reaction to the idea to counter Goths with cavalry

@@bartelvandervelden9894 no it wasnt

Stronghold Crusader reks me. I love the fact that simply not paying attention is the fastest way to ruin your economy in that game, unlike AoE where there is no food maintenance and you can build farms almost anywhere that isn't water.

Im crying XD

idk fam, maybe build gates?

Lmfao XD that's how you learn tho 😂

If you were smart like I was back then, you just need to build a gate in each of the 4 sides of the wall... Omg how have I even won sometimes?

@@martinhorvath4117 If I recall correctly, there were no palisade gates in the original version of the game.

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Omg yes! I've been playing like this since I was 6. Almost 30 now. lol

I played like this with my best friend back in 1999 when we just wanted to chill, build up our base, fortifications and army, develop new stuff and get going when we are ready for it. We would have never won a competitive game against the AI and of course no online game against real players if we played like this. But yeah, from 2006-2012 I played Company Of Heroes very compatitively online and reached high ranks in the leaderboards. Since then I can't play RTS games 'slow' anymore and just try to do everything as fast as possible to be able to rush my enemy as quickly as possible. I miss those good old chill days, though.

@@JackoBanon1 I think the slow pace build up would make a lot more sense in a scenario where there's more than 2 teams (e.g. a 1v1v1v1) since attacking your opponent creates a vulnerability for other opponents to exploit - so it would only make sense to deploy in offence what you can afford to loose from your defence or to time your attacks when other opponents are busy, but in a 2-team match (which most strategy games are), there's basically no point to defences in most games since using those resources to build offensive units will give you more versatility, less vulnerability to siege units and being the aggressor lets you control the pace of the game. It's shame though since purely aggressive gameplay is boring to me; the satisfaction of building up your forces and creating a cunning defence to absorb the enemy's attack before unleashing your counterattack is part of the reason I choose to play strategy games rather than just playing FPS games; trying to get hyper-active gameplay from a strategy game or trying to rush your opponent to me is like eating your fill of water rather than food - sure you can do it, but there's far better things to satiate that hunger.

@@Neion8 Why is not rushing better than rushing?

Wow treebucket. I used to pronounce chaos as “cha-ows” instead of “kayos “ And sword was literally sWWoord

I had a friend who had a hearing disability who played with my main group of friends and he pronounced two things in AoEII wrong; Trebuchet and Cataphract. He said it Tray-bucket and Caffel Tract. We still use those terms today when talking about those units.

More like go back to the William Wallace campaign on easiest difficulty tier. 😂

More like get stuck on that help your yellow ally William Wallace campaign mission

I bet they can't even finish the campaign

Most of the campaigns don't teach you crap about the game honestly. Joan of Arc doesn't deserve to exist in this game.

Shit. I tried age of empire 3 campaign as the Native Americans that fought with the revolutionary army against the British. That Hill mission was fooking impossible. I’m decent at rts but I think I’m just to hardwired to empire at war AoTr units tactical use compared to AoE spam play

Imagine if that tactic worked in real life

Spanish inquisition be like

Select all the buildings at once

You got me ! I bought the HD version years ago. I play once in a while, vs the AI.

it's expensive, unwise to spend on it too early (or at all), unlikely to become crucial... ..especially if you are not a noob (thus aiming at ending matches as soon as possible); remember the game also allows you to build wonders, in many game types, even those not having it as a win condition/option. same way, no one is saying researching "Heresy" is absolutely wrong, "Heresy" might be relevant if you plan to play against armies of monks.. .. but are you gonna?.. and wouldn't it be wiser to try not allowing the enemy build their army of monks?

Well I think the problem he's demonstrating here is that new players put too many villagers and resources into it too early

i often spam houses all over the center of the map mid game for that reason

I've done it on small maps where battles are occurring across the entire map and our bases/'frontlines' have expanded so much that I actually need to wall across the freaking map

That's me in AOE2.

You should 1vs1 him one day and attack him regardless. He will rethink his priorities 😁

No es nesesario saber jugar AoE II Despues de todo no es muy diferente a otros juegos pero si en lo de defenderte y unidades sino le sabes sos pollo

its cheaper to use given structures such as forests and cliffs as part of your walls :)

@@dupplo5467 Ah. I could never get into that if they weren't permanent (cliffs, rivers, etc.), since I tended to play for attrition, and I knew they'd eventually get mined, or chopped down.

@@morgant.dulaman8733 well a good player (and that explicitly excludes me ^^) will take care of any gaps that might occur due to overchopping. It's also faster to close your base if u wall near your town center and use existing structures, if u create a complete wall a rusher (e. g. with scouts) might get behind them before you are finished :) I still see your point tho :D

Yes especially the original age of Kings AI from 1999 does not know how to react to a wall across the map and always attacks in the same spot. Then you simply drop a castle and a few towers there and garrison them with archers plus a few mele units to take out any trebs and the AI will waste all its resources trying to push through that spot until it runs out of everything and just gives up. This is how I won many games back in the early 2000s when I was still in elementary school.

@@AntonFetzer they always seem to specifically attack gates as well which funnily enough is where I concentrate most of my defences 😅

same here