Julius Caesar literally did this. He was the first cheeser in history.

XD 👍

What was he gonna do? A huge army was marching, impossible to fend off. LETS BUILD A WALL!!

Soviet style protection

@@drewmandan The prince bishop did it to Munster during the 16th century Anabaptist rebellion. Great story, ended in horrific torture and execution.

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Definitely

burns forest* sooooooo.... your strategy was... flawed?

Smart and funny xD

what about the gauls though

FROM MY POINT OF VIEW THE GATES ARE THE ENEMY!

rofl

Tbh, the counter to this is probably some sort of proxy build play (for those who watch the competitive sc2 scene. Sending it out early, trick them, show up with a roflstomp army behind the wall when you realize they hit the point where they spent too much resources securing it. Making sure not to reveal your hand too early, and appear you are playing behind as if you are just a bit slow to gather things in the back. Get the reaction of "omfg, I walled you out, how are you in my base destroying my shit?" The trick is definitely more towards knowing the person you are playing against, and planning it out on your RND map properly (at least in SC2, it was more about knowing each map and where to proxy)

@@phillycheesetake Well then you have LOST!!

@@Adeon55 It's over, I have the high ground!

Bro I am right with you! So much nostalgia mixed with absolute surprise that this game is still getting the attention it always deserved.

Yea, I actually started playing recently(I played age of mothology quite a bit years ago, but not that much AoE 2), doing the campaigns and some skirmish modes, might go play some multiplayer games eventually too and I can totally appreciate how this game survived the test of time and with a bunch of fun & interesting strats to do. I've been playing LoL for the past years now, and that game is soooooooooo boring, all about 100-0ing some1 with a champ with a bunch of dashes. I envy AoE 2 players lul.

not only is it still being played, but the most recent official expansion for it was released in 2016.

they got remastered too

Same! 10 years ago for me

Too soon, panda. Too soon...

I'm going to watch the vid later, but I immediately thought of the Roman 'sacking' technique.

To quote Asterix & The Chieftain's Shield. "We don't talk about Alesia so there!!"

he ceasared him well

Samuel Castro >thinks old times are monochrome

Maybe they had golden fleece?

Scotts at it again

I hope yellow s mother gets cancer

Maybe a ascendant of john wick?

Reading this during the Chinese Corona is pretty entertaining.

The Elvensong thefuck who did u know

A prophet

The Elvensong who did you work for?

Timothy Gollan, if only KZfaq notifications worked properly to let know The ElvenSong has to reply here.

That's pretty kool that it has actually ben used at some point in history.

It would be amazing to see someone manage a circumvallation in a team game: pull off walling someone off and then wall that wall off from an ally trying to break them out with another defensive line.

he could build a wall cause he was already besieging the city and the surrounding people fled into the city walls, which was normal till 17th century. btw. it was less a wall than a fortification, which the romans often times did when besieging enemys, setting up a camp for their troops. it was only bigger then previous ones. just to make clear. the army was not 6 tims bigger you talk about the numbers the romans used or julius himself. it was well known even by later roman historians that in the antique, in battles, romans, greeks and so on on purpose made the numbrs bigger, then thy actually were to make it look like the victory was even greater and for political gains. the same was for reducing the numbrs of casualties then the actually were. till vietnam war, this number fakeing ,was still used to justify wars too. the number of roman troops was probably correct with 70k included the supporting troops. the gauls had probably a 40-60k strong army otside and around 15k-25k man inside alesia but whom a goood numbeer were demoralized and started to starve, thats why vercingetorix sent children, sick, old and women outside but julius did not let them pass and insted let them die slowly. the army could not be that big, cause of previous battles the gauls fought, the overall population in the area surrounding it, alesia as a city would never had more enough space for so many, the tactics the romans used could only have beena chieved with equal numbrs otherwise they would have been completely obliterated. they did in fact break through the lines multiple times. people rly forget that especially the celts were not savages but highly skilled warriors, traders, merchants and so on. they adapted roman culture and other things befor their downfall same goes for romans adapting certain techniques in their early stages as a citystate. gauls did btw. no cease to exist they just integrated pretty ell into roman society and were know in the roman army for thei loyalty and greater gaul provinces were one of the most stable ones in the empire. maybe one explanation for this misconception is because often people think, gauls/celts were the same then germans. after reading literature i even would say. celts were closer culturally to romans then they were to germans. another misconception. gauls were the same then celts. gauls were normally refered to celts in todays france. other areas of celts had been captured and integrated into the roman empire befor. also celts were not a humonigous society. there were certain things of rituals, art, religion the same but other things different in all of europe. since celts stretched from the iberian peninsula, to britain, central europe, central turkey, balkan, alps and eastern europe.

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walling was pretty common for Romans back then. In his first encounter against Pompeij in Greece he lost the wall game. Both bukd like 30km of walls to try and wall the other off

lol I know right

From all my years of playing non-professionally, I thought this was a fairly common tactic.

@@pwntwtf it is a fairly common tactic. Just not in this high tiers of play. It's so random. One villager sent to harvest outside the main town and it would have been over for yellow. The pro level players will always do things a little differently. I always farm as much stone as I can get as early as I can get it because of castles. But clearly, that's not the case with pro players. :)

I only gonna buy game for doing this and I only played this game when I was 7 years old :D

You can get it for free on the pirate bay. lol

your mum most be an op player

@@gemo3644 Me and my mother have been competing with each other with various strategy games since she first started teaching me chess when I was 3yo. We've played other types of games together though, our favorites being GW2 and MtG. I only ever beat her at AoE2 once.

@@erianle123547 what a nice, inteligent mother, congratulations. I guess she really wanted to develop your critical thinking and logic in a way both can enjoy.

There were towers, though.

Watchmen reference.

Yep. I had a single castle up on their main gold and they suicided 30 vills into it trying to build something behind it. Wtf AI 😂

@GloriousTapeworm want a cheesiest strat max diff? stack boats on their shores and just focus on villagees, they'll keep generating more till they run outta food

The not original AI counter you

A.I. in Age of Empires II is totally stupid, Age of Empires Online has an insanely great A.I., you should try it!!

lol

r u mad

Such pure evil damnnn

The game is receiving regular patches AFAIK, last one on Sep 6, 2018.

Chess has a meta. Chess is much older. What about Go? Even older. You'll get used to it. What I mean is, games don't just vanish into a blackhole a year after it's created. Some can last a long time.

@@BuFFoTheArtClown Great games do at any rate, or more like legendary ones. As a diamond level of League of Legends player, I envy this greatly, my game's so popular yet so boring, you never see sh1t like this, just play OP champ and dash dash dash 100-0 some1, win. Heck, I've been looking to start playing AoE2 or Mythology again, at least watching these replays and playing the campaigns is a blast for now.

Thank you! @@MgMast3r

the depth is so amazing aoe2 dont need graphics

Spring was "completely trapped" because he had no quick way to go to castle age before Timothy and get some siege and rams to batter these walls down… because there was no gold to collect. You add the surprise of the strategy, time to take it into consideration, reorganize his whole economy and build… no wonder he lost.

He should have put a tower on his side of the wall at the main gold that would have stopped timo from adding layers so that he could break free.

Yellow was lucky that blue never sent a single villager to harvest outside of his own town or it would have ended right then and there. But then, it is a pretty small map they're playing on.

Nah, thinking the trick would have been to know who he was, and had builders make a surprise for him in the back, while not revealing too much as in a lack of units and 'omfg, you walled me in'... When spent too much - destroy the fuckers main. It has been used successfully on other RTS games in containment. The trick is to not be properly scouted before you lay your trap, mind games. It is a common tactic as an early sort of rush in a game like SC2; but it kind of works like what tarrker is talking about. You can't wall properly everywhere, and if they come from behind you and you didn't think of it - suddenly you wasted a lot of resources that will not help you save the game for yourself.

I was so happy that Spring have paid for his laming

I actually really enjoy when people lame, adds some spice to an otherwise boring few minutes to the start of a game. But that said, I enjoy watching a lame backfire like this even more.

Watch the final episode of the Hidden Cup to see that moral taken to the extreme :P

Lame is when you deny a boar or annoy them early game I assume. Don't play AoE2 but i'm taking a guess based on the vid.

Basically stealing sheep and boars

Edgy, bro. Isn't it funny how in the sandbox universe of videogames, we all immediately recognize how effective walls are at keeping unwanted people out of an area, even to the point of cracking jokes about it?

Well obviously walls are effective in a video game where no one can climb.

Walls are effective in video games where you can climb as well...

@@crimsonsr7113 right lol ... LIBERAL LOGIC: "People can climb, therefore walls are pointless" Yeah lol tell that to the Chinese or anyone who ever constructed a wall for that matter

@@crimsonsr7113 but then again I suppose if they were at all skilled at logical reasoning and critical thinking they wouldn't be brainwashed liberals in the first place.

Knowledge is power.

Much love my friend

agree

and now there`s a WALL guy 1111111

why bother .. s or t .. doesnt everyone know that t follows s ... when you have to do the alphabet song it is a sign that you dont actually know what letter is at what place .... heck l and m are the middle of the alphabet ... after that it's east

@@0623kaboom The reason we make songs and jingles and cronyms, is to remember. It's not a sign that "we dont know what letter is where" It's just confirming instead of stating. Theres nothing wrong with saying lmnop, or qrst, or tuvw. Kind of like multiplication on 9s, I know them, but i still use my hands to double check my answer. Some people just like to check themselves.

My check for nines is that the two digits of the answer add up to nine. What's this finger verification wizardry?

easy counter ... place something cheap and quick to build further out from your base and closer to your resources you want later ... so you can keep and eye on them . when they send villagers to build a wall or something you pop over and slap them back to the stone age before they build it ... . spring lost because he was over confident he had the game won early by stealing his food sources .. and found that was just the carrot to keep him away from his base where he was needed

Dude not cool 😀😀😀

AWESOME COMMENT! XD XD XD

Shieeet

spring was laming, thats worst

bought the land

aoe2 doesnt have flying utnis

r/woosh

Right. Just make some orcas or firehawks.

Just a few mutas would have done the trick.

Frost wyrms

You were very confused, there are more people now than 10 years ago.

its crazy, they relleased everal expansion packs quite recently.

The dude that posted this video got a Twitch account as well. I've seen it live and they go so in depth, dope shit all around and just a great community altogether. Just people loving strategy games and taking it to the next level. I highly recommend sitting down and watch this one from start to finish: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ebqCqrGdt8fbaY0.html Last time I played AoE2 was probably 10+ years ago and I've played it a handful of times, still have fun as they explain enough to understand as an outsider.

Kinda reminds me of other classic RTS games, like Starcraft and Warcraft 3. Despite their age, there's a competitive scene for them still. I didn't realize there was still a WC3 scene until I got on Twitch and saw Grubby (that wasn't the discovery moment), and then learned through his chat that there are in fact still some pros circulating, and tourneys held. You probably couldn't really live on the winnings anymore, but tourneys are still held all the same. The Starcraft competitive scene apparently never died, it just lost some popularity to other big games, which makes sense. It was still televised until something like 2012, but plenty of tourneys still circulate around S. Korea, what with the guys of Tastosis apparently living there specifically to cast them along with some SC2, and Starcraft still pulls well over 15k+ players on the daily.

@@leonardomiotti3181 why tho? what does this game has to draw in crowd of players after 20 years.

And make the Berbers (blue player) pay for it!

YES. Was about to comment this

Got link for that game?

WC3 tower rush

Good lord, you really are everywhere. I've seen this ninja ppst comments on other random videos.

Skinny Neatfreak

That's not how puns work, bro.

I still chuckled. There's nothing better than a lovingly crafted lame joke. :D

@@crimsonsr7113 Indeed, atleast somebody's smart enough to understand ;D

You're implying I'm not smart enough? I understand, but that's not how puns work. Puns are based on how words _sound_ , not how they're spelled. "Plumed" is pronounced with a long "u" so "plum" is never heard during the pronunciation of "plumed." Before you accuse someone of not being "smart enough," have some modesty and check your facts beforehand.

@@timjung640 I don't wanna be rude or anything, but I think you're going too much into detail. The lame joke "plum-ed archer" is already quite old and it has always been meant as a lame joke, although since jokes stop being jokes when you overuse them, people kinda forgot it ever existed some time ago. So, I wanted to bring back the good ol' memories that the people who have been around for long enough still remember. This also sorta uncovers the fact you probably thought I made that one up (which I certainly haven't) and also that you can't be familiar with the AoE community for too long, else you'd have known. I hope I satisfy you with this explanation as I never meant to create a fuss over such a stupid thing. Have a nice day sir!

Fortnite is a billion times more popular than AoE

@@HeloisGevit are you an idiot or why do you state the obvious? Obviously I was saying that exactly this is sad, as AoE is a great game and this comic garbage rules the world.

You got an attitude problem and anger issues bud, that's no way to speak to people. People like different things, and that's OK, deal with it.

Helois Gevit it’s the internet, if you say stupid things you’re gonna get burned

@@jeannebouwman1970 thats if he said anything stupid tho which he did not he stated the truth regardless of how much i hate fortnite hes not wrong.

its like in starcraft... deviate slightly from the standard macro play and ppl say u cheese.

Annoying for the opponent, I don't think he meant it in a bad way.

Annoying for people used to the meta; it's brilliant, and we all admit that. But what do you do? You have to be creative, and that's the crazy thing.

meta makes you predictable. Caught off guard is always a winning strategy!

Well, annoying, imo, means good. If your opponent is not annoyed, you're not playing the game right. The goal is to win, isn't it?