+Grigor Dimitrov lol

You made my day XD

Spirit of the waL

Hole in the wall

+DannyECDUB It's like that time in my terrestrial vertebrates class I had to do a presentation on Parus major, or the "Great Tits" as they're commonly known. Just gotta say it and carry on

Try not to laugh at this: Wunder Boner

+PhoenixAlaris93 i failed :/

+PhoenixAlaris93 I actually giggled lel

yeah it might have something to do with him not being 15 years old

should have walled better, get sone defensice mangonels too

You sir need petards.

Your display gave me a heart attack god dammit.

Reminded me of older versions of Dwarf Fortress

It is slightly faster to close the gates when he is still inside and send him out. If he cant find a way out he wouldnt find a way in.

+luis mendez zak :)

+luis mendez It's a Trap!

this is suprisingly deep

+Dmitri Shnubnekov isn't that like infecting myself with ebola because then "doctors will know what I'm sick with, so it'll be easier to treat". Aren't you better off with them always outside the wall? haha Against a computer, though, they'll definitely stream units through a gap right into your archers/onagers, so in that case it might be hilarious and strategic

+Spirit Of The Law I actually don't play that much so I'm not going off experience but the theory is that creating an artificial weak spot helps you prevent the enemy from surprising you

+Dmitri Shnubnekov "A good fort needs a gap. The enemy must be lured in, so we can attack them. If we only defend, we lose the war." - Kambei, "Seven Samurai" But I agree with Spirit Of The Law, it's only worth the risk against the computer.

+Spirit Of The Law its actually not as crazy as it sounds. i wouldn't suggest doing it every game but i will sometimes leave a hole if it is in a spot that will give me a battle advantage (especially in feudal): elevation, tower, or as a choke point if i have ranged units and my opponent has melee. sometimes all it takes is one good fight to take military advantage and dominate the game.

+Dmitri Shnubnekov This is a useful tactic. Bonus points if you wall them in.

+Twiggi Brandyberry if you were really picky you could say that units should be able to walk through most buldings and definetely through those which are seen or likely to have multiple doors and if you were really REALLY picky you could argue that people could just break the doors and walk right in i mean loads of japanese walls were basically paper

***** and you could say a villager could kill a teutonic knight in one hit if he sticks his dagger into the slit of the helmet

***** well if you have a full armor consisting of leather harness with chain mail and plate mail then an arrow fired by a bow isnt gonna do any damage crossbows or arbalests tho would be able make you combat ineffective with one hit and with almost any mounted unit the animal could be killed with one shot but instead mounted units usually have more hp... at the end of the day we know its all for gameplay reasons and not for realism anyway

+Edward Nutt longbowmen were the most accurate archers in the world. so much so, if you could not hit a target on the bull 500ft away, you were cast out of the school, on your tests at 14/15. Also everyone was told by the king to learn archery not just at the archery school.

***** I got that from a documentary (What the tudors did for us, or one of those type of series by robinson (the fella from black adder, forgotten his name)). Might not be that high but they definitely got booted from the academy for longbowmen. Remember we still had short ranged archers we used against the french knights. So they weren't totally retired for a career in archery, just not elite enough for longbowmen. It was the same training we had for our later armies and navies. This is why we had the greatest empire...we had trained our men, professionally and to a higher standard than most other major empires.

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Funny thing for me in Stronghold (Crusader) games is that that's only RTS where I always went for mobile defense... I always try to turtle. But in a game about turtling, naaaaaaaah.

It's not a bad thing.

+Freddie Mercury ha! imagine how I feel. You have no idea how many games I've lost because somebody dodges my tc arrows, saved their villagers from wolves, or beats me with something else they picked up in my videos.... :/

+Spirit Of The Law Does this mean you will start fabricating evidence?! That would be interesting. I don't even remember any fake rumors about Aok/Aoc/AoeHD anymore. Even the instant relic pickup was patched in HD.

+Freddie Mercury Yeah, my dad would make a massive arablast siege onager army, I would wipe up the onagers with hussars, but then all his arablasts would stroll in past my forest.

+Freddie Mercury i thought you never talked

I remember you. Pushing robotic sharks any time soon?

+Chris M true. Worth a quick mention, for sure

I asked myself that question as well. If you got a solid wall all the way around you'll know the couple spots you may have a hole and those buildings are far less likely to be destroyed in the raid

Because in early game, buildings have more hp than palisade walls. Also it saves up on resources

Not only the resources, but also the time. You have to build a blacksmith, barracks, stable, houses all anyway. Making them your wall can save a few minutes of villager time that would be spent walling

Eh, they are only really good against buildings frankly, you can just use them against units though.

If they are not in range of buildings, you might as well use them to try and kill some archers. Otherwise you're wasting the Trebuchets because they aren't doing anything

they're good if you're playing as the Britons because of splash damage, but apart from that they kinda suck against units - not accurate enough, and apart from the Japanese, their rate of fire is too slow. Spirit loves the Japanese kataparuto tech though so he probably uses them against units for the lols.

He mains Japanese and the unique tech makes trebuchets actually okay against units since they pack, unpack, and fire a lot faster.

The wall just got holes in it

lol 100% same thing i do 😂😂😂😂😂

+CmdrSloanne yeah, those fake looking mountains in the scenarios can be brutal. The wall has to go right up to the middle of the mountain sometimes. Learned that the hard way when walling up on the third Attila the Hun scenario. Cliffs probably should have been mentioned in the video, and that's a bit of an oversight. Where they end can be misleading on elevation slopes as well.

Spirit Of The Law those elevations are a murder. I usually build a wall in front of it with towers. have a good week & keep up the great work.

+Kaotic Phoenix they are stronger but they are bigger witch means more space for destructors.

+Kaotic Phoenix lol funny guy

Not per tile. Per tile even stone walls are stronger than gates. And there is a slight difference between units pouring into a 1 tile gap versus a 4 tile gaping maw of doom for the poor sod who built a wall of gates.

+JuJu76X he will also have to re review the civs since the developers said they are tweaking and balancing the old civs before the forgotten ones and including mostly the Italians, Incas and Indians from Forgotten dlc

+aListers it was very creative. He's good with animation

+aListers thanks :)

+Björn Schmidt probably just a submitted one from a fan.

+Ronan Smyth Celts aren't highly requested, surprisingly, despite the fact they're the third most popular civ to play online. I had them planned as one of the last civs, but maybe I should bump them up

+Spirit Of The Law Okay well i don't mind too much i really enjoy all of your videos you make, no matter the civ :D

+Carlo V that sounds like a fun idea :D

+RandomGuy1994 Sometimes units get shoved into trees and boats get shoved onto land tiles (similar to how units end up when you ungarrison them from a building that's walled in). That's probably the same bug.

ZortLF2 They really should fix that if at all possible

+RandomGuy1994 I think it's hilarious.

ZortLF2 It can be really frustrating when like 4 or 5 enemies get through in quick succession and kill a couple of your villagers and some low health buildings before you manage to dispose of them because you weren't expecting the enemy to start manipulating the existence of space and time.

Lol the same happened to me once, my two handed swordsmen just phased through my opponent's gate. I think it was to do with how gates have multiple sections (the wall sections with the flags on top, and the actual gate that opens and closes). My units went in between those.

UPDATE: I _finally_ won! I ended up digging a path through the trees and filled it with some mixed towers on the sides, some Scorpions in the middle, with some halberdiers out in front, with some archers/handcannoneers/monks in the back. When I had enough units busting though into the enemy's town I went ahead and started spamming Siege Onegers and Bombard Cannons. As soon as that civilization gave up I allied with victory as a term with the other enemy AI, and it was game over from there. I saved beforehand though, and may replay from where I allied with the other player and just wipe him out instead, just to see if I can. But my victory goes to Spirit of the Law; I learned the scorpion/halberdiers combo from one of the videos. Thank you very much Spirit, for all the content you provide!

Didn't even use a _single_ Teutonic Knight in my second playthrough where I won; I ended up having: ~800 units killed : ~500 units lost ~100 buildings razed : ~3 buildings lost

teutonic knights are terrible in mass. why would you even get so many of them? just a couple of hours ago i won a game against a hard ressonancebot and the death count was almost into the 10 thousands. seriously, i lost 5300 units and he lost 4400. it was so frustrating how i couldn't breach (and actually got pushed back most of the time because the fucker managed to mine twice as much gold as i did) with 17 military buildings spamming trash units non-stop for almost 2 hours. i think it was like 3:20 in in-game time. he had the superior composition with so fucking many 11 (or 12?) range arbalests on top of his trash, more scouts and more siege but his production in numbers wasn't far off mine. unbelievable. i only managed to win when he finally exausted his gold supply and i managed to catch a break long enough to buy gold for my own siege. getting my economy to a large enough size to maintain that was pretty hard too. i think i had 150 villagers all on wood and food just to barely cover production costs.