keep these coming! best series!

I've got to admit, i never watched pros play this game that i've played so casually my whole life, and my tiny monkey brain just couldn't comprehend what i was seeing most of the time. So many things to keep up with, so many actions every second of the match, and that's without mentioning small actions that have big consequences like not having any army of regular soldiers and only have seige weapons and controlling where they shoot, placing small buildings to block enemy units, and my favorite was using animals as scouts in the start of the game.

Hera: it’s great that Xbox players are embracing the game. Love to see it Hera 2 seconds later: *absolutely obliterates the spirits of 4 Xbox players*

''Maybe I inspired them?'' *quits playing the game forever 🤣

bro the Imma go professional got me dead🤣🤣

it's cool you're able to use the phrase 'professional player'. When I was a kid spamming cobra cars I could've never imagined that playing this game could ever be a profession

Hera killed the most of his own units this game. 21 kills 11

The team had Bohemians, which was kinda funny because Yellow could go full Houfnice's if other players would sling him. He forgot about Chemistry and probably picked Heated Shot. R.I.P

Seeing entire armies melt to siege onager shots is one of the most satisfying things in this game for sure. Keep them coming, Hera! GG!

Definition of Greed: clicking "Loom" at the 25 (in-game) minute mark, KZfaq video ~16:40. It was a smart play for sure, but risky. Newbie players tend to like to push to the endgame where 800 population vs 200 population obviously would be a crushing win. So Hera knew the beginners would go for late game, and then played the most extreme greed ever (No-loom fast-castle into 4x Town Center? Wow, greediest play I've ever seen). The best chance for the beginners is the unintuitive choice: they had to attack in Castle Age. Hera coming up with the counter to the "obvious" strategy was key here. Furthermore, late-game faster-firing Celt Siege Onager would cut through the map and avoid walls, while being the best unit for ~40 unit army vs a crushing ~400 man unit army from the 4x beginner players. Siege Onager (with +Attack speed from Celts) are probably the only late-game unit who can take 10-to-1 odds like this and come out on top.

Dude this was sick… never saw your micro in pov before… i can see why you are number 1!

This is AOE2 Celt SO hero wet dream, when you have to face multiple opponents but like movie grunts they come at you one at a time in turn and you crush them with superior skills.

I'm an Xbox player and it's great to see you playing against some of us. Great content!

I think beginner players are much more passive compared to more experienced ones.

What if you played four noobs but as soon as the game started they sent every single villager after you? How could you possibly defend against a 4x villager brawl?

This is clearly Hera embracing his evil arc.

I was thinking SO will not work, Hera is worrying about monks, but there will be Houfnice! But then I saw the bohemian longswords xD

Love these videos so much! It's nice to see some fun starts. Have you tried the 10x tech mod or other UGC stuff?

love this map. lookes like typical red alert 2 maps

Hera stopped doing what we all did against easy AI when we were children, became a top player at this game, only to start doing the same thing again but to all of us this time around.. Can anybody really blame him?! 11

Just started watching - Had to slow the video down to 0.25 speed to keep up with all the things you are doing! Very impressive.

Really cool to watch! And compliment to Hera to make it fun and above all explain here and there things despite being busy kicking Chevalier butts. Although I started playing this game in 99 I never played online (just LAN parties back then - I feel old). I was wondering what the platforms are today? Where do I get more info about the AoE leagues / tournaments etc? Would love to get into esport again as a spectator :)

Hola, eres un genio del AGE, ya no juego pero me encanta ver jugar a los elites como tu. Ahora en adelante veré tus videos cortos y así aprendo ingles!! XD Saludos desde Corrientes-AR

Hello Hera, a long time ago a friend and I que'd up for ranked 2v2/3v3/4v4 (some team games), que pops and I believe we got a 4v4 game (maybe 3v3 its been a couple years), everything seemed normal at first... other team was being very defensive, and we had a bit of a score lead so our team did a bit of pressure early castle and kept building up to Imp ( I was goth and hoping to get a good eco before I built up a big army) .Then Imp came in and we started our major attack, and something interesting is noticed, for some reason the other team has wonders in each of the bases.... is this some kinda flex? who do they think they are? Well its at that point, and only that point I realized it was quite literally you on the other team as a pocket, and shit gets real. I tried my best to overwhelm you with goth spam, I would even argue I had your team a little nervous at one point (I think one of your edges was starting to cave in), then after about 30 mins of non stop aggression, the time came for your teams counter attack, and we all got decimated. I remember me and my buddy checking the recent players after/looking everything up, and sure enough it was the #1 ranked Hera on that team. Legend. Will never forget that beating lol.

They were so passive and had so many cavalry to work with 😅 my favorite strategy is to cut through the trees behind their armies

111111 It's like you had a delete key for their units, micro so good.

*game starts* *some Ultra Instinct type shi* *JAW HITS FLOOR*

That cavalry getting melted by the onagers was heartbreaking 😂

Elephants are a pretty good seige counter. Great video! 👍

so satisfying to watch SOs clearing everything :D

ha ha ha. mowed through those trees was good stuff. figured they would have had some kind of eyes/patrol in the mid for SA. 21:00

The moment you know it's Celts on Amazon Tunnel you know it's going to be gruesome

Xbox player here, complete noob to aoe 2. Your “Afraid to Play Ranked” video inspired me to just get in there and try. Thanks for all your vids

Best strategy for the beginers is to attack right away with 3 villagers+ scout each to deny access to resources while "building with one villager back at the base

excellent man!! hera you are funny!

Sick quickwall vil save ! That Jaguar was ferocious!

You're such an insane player, your brain power has to be insane to work this quickly and precisely!

Yeah love those games ! You are realy amazing ! Awesome micro WHILE macroing ! This is beautiful, you are very talented and you legit deserve your reputation for to be one of the best player ! Best greetings from Switzerland and I wish to you to have the best continuation ! :D

Green had a score of around 2300 when Hera hit the 6000 points mark!

keep the vids coming!💯

man those siege onager kills are so satisfying

How do you make those boars and relics marked with special icons on top. Is it in game options or do you install something for it ? :)

hey hera love ur vids these ones are my favourite

I love the HOANG joke at the end.

This was absolutely crazy and scary as well..

I think that was the most fun AOE2 game I have ever seen.

23:32 The kind of strike that we love with onagres xD Poor yellow but it's the coming job in AOE

my dad played this game since 2001 and is astonished seeing a pro player for the first time lmao

Got Xbox ultimate game pass so I can play Starfield on my macbook and then I saw I could play AOE2. I remember "playing" it when I was like 8 and loved it. Playing is in quotes because I probably had no idea what I was doing but still had a blast. So now I started playing again through Xbox techinally

Best game ever loooool! Good effort from the 4 other players

Eso fue brutal...y entretenido!

i love how hera always says "i kinda want XY" and all the time it turns out to be the perfect call. and i hate it's the opposite when i feel i kinda want this or that 11

Hera: Siege onagers kill all the enemy units. Me: Siege onagers kill all my units. XD

If there is a prize to win for the most clicks and map movements at the same time, this guy's gonna win it.

are the xbox play plays with controller or with mous and key?

this is cruelty lmao, but it's fun to see that army of onagers and scorpions

Maybe they should make farm foundations invisible and intangible to enemies after all. With auto-eco on xbox that might become necessary

I know I'm late but he said it himself. "I don't care how good you are. Against 800 pop?" All they had to do was wall/pull a fatslob. Like two of them rushing walls in the center and don't ever stop. Other two fast castle, even at 1200 they should be able to boom a bit. That's 400 pop with potentially poor villager count, rough macro and minimal micro but one go infantry and the other seige and they'll be fine. Other two players can then boom during the mid game trades to a few TCS and start getting ranged/maybe bombards and either light cav or knights. Soon you're against everything and against 800 pop... just not enough coordination from the 1200s.

How were you building TC’s in feudal?

omg hasta me dieron ganas de jugar vs la AI xD GG bro eres un cerdo esa T es la onda

Finally, hera is embracing the best map of aoe. Eventually he will become a pro on michi😂

Very nice "comparison"! Hopefully we get more like this. Such a fun to watch

Hera with the evil MBL-laughs throughout the game 1111

7:58 I‘m literally professional at this game. 😂😂😂😂 The realisation tho!

I'm playing on Xbox hanging around 1000 ELO on 2v2. I love it, I've wanted to play this game since I was 8 years old but never had the PC for it

Purple make you Celts from Wexford, Ireland. They're the only team in the country that have that in one of their two GAA jersey colours. Imagine if they had used this strategy of using onagers against the Anglo-Norman invasion of the 12th century.

Do you have any civ guides?

Imagine they implemented the tree thingy in age of mythology as a unit ability. That'll be nuts

those were some nice hits

The numbers are phrases that pop up as spoken words in game on xbox

27:00 thats some character development

that was some sick micro

i think Hera style community games would be good shout, casting some silly games.

That was absolutely GORE

Now imagine a Ludicrous mega random map, 4 beginners vs 1 pro.

Is it possible to connect keyboard and mouse to an xbox and play aoe2 *normally*

Blue had enough seeing his last army fall 😅

I think my nightmare would be facing that deathball while holding an Xbox controller 11

If they were not having nightmares about onagers, they are now.

Wow might be time for 1v5 or 6 Amazon Tunnel or Black Forest

Hoang would be proud

Hi iam playing on vooplay , there is just few players , what the name of the site they playing at now?

Deeply upsetting they didnt take advantage of their numbers in Feudal Early castle age and rush.

Mongols are so good with that siege speed though

what was the micro video Hera referred to, I dont remember seeing it, can someone link it ?

I've been playing AOE since '05 but I only play against the pc. I just recently started watching AOE games on youtube and man how the heck do you move your mouse curser so fast? 😂😂

Well played!

Los jugadores nuevos: Usan varias unidades para su ejercito El profesional: La vieja catapulta y el viejo escorpión, nada le gana

Now out of curiosity : when faced with this kind of deathball how would a light cav spam fare? Maybe like 2 players sending waves of hussars to hold you out while the other 2 build some serious eco / army to raid you to death?

Damn imagine if this dude went pro, he could compete against people like theViper.

Hello Hera, don't you include the community chat anymore in your videos? I liked it.

7:55 I love humble Hera 11

I also want a shot on this, I'm 950elo and promise that I'll not be that passive...

Youre right Hera! These guys have a perfect example of AOE greatness and will most definitely examine and attempt to replicate this. Maybe they will come and seek revenge some day?

Love it!!! 😍

If you've got spare monks in castle age and you really aren't expecting them to make military you could start abducting vils en masse

so how the heck you counter those siege onagers? looked like they are bit overpowered units? you said that you can counter onagers with bombard cannons but is there any other way?

Best series

great stuff

insane SO micro...could some one link the video to the SO micro Hera was mentioning