Personally I struggle with deciding what exactly to do when I hit castle. Deciding between pure boom, boom with units or 1 TC is pretty hard. Maybe a video on castle age strategies would be a good one for you to cover? Love your vids btw

Totally not answering your question and this would probably be a pretty big project but I'd love to see a series of 'How to play X' videos. Spirit of the Law does great civ overviews but they don't really tell us how to actually win with those civs. It'd be great if you could do guides on the best strategies with certains civs in the current meta, e.g. what are the civ's win conditions, what strategies are you vulnerable to, etc.

I would really like to see how to micro archers vs archers. Usually when I micro it just makes it worse and I dont dodge any arrows. Love your content!

@Maxiluc Hey I am a noob in AoE2 but I watched a lot of videos and want to guess whats the main indicator. I think it depends a lot on the map and the enemy: -If you have an open map with forward resources you want to secure them with a lot of army and go for units first and maybe add tcs if you have secured res. -If your opoent isnt easy to punish(how our princess would say) you often want to wall and boom (like bf or arena) -If you got a good snowball going on from feudal you want to hold the position and make sure your oponent don't comeback and boom behind when you feel like you can push at the same time -> so all in all: make sure to secure res and try to build as much eco as possible while have at least an army to hold better to push ur enemy (a lot of scouting and understanding of units required), The rest is based on playstyle (Princess will be very unlikely to all in 1 tc push compared to vivi or hoang). now im curious how the "right" answer would be but maybe Hera even makes a video. have a good one

Do a video if castle age Teutonic BBT and Goths with two vils per farm take them out of the F grade and to where.

Aoe II canadian community is really strong in analysis apparently...

@@Dollar-gc9in you said anal

@@HeraklitNorborakk now you said anal too hah

@@thisguyhere1 surprise, it's common everywhere on earth

@@thisguyhere1 yeah in poor countries like namibia they don't have time for that :'D What' s your point, you think canadians are the only analyzing people on earth?

Thanks! That wasn't difficult to understand at all! Saved me 13 minutes xD

Take my 1 like. Hera sometimes make easy thing become confusing

Shut up! He said that it can't be easily explained within 30 seconds! Because of how the video started and its length, I thought something odd happens, but the first 10 minutes is just him explaining and illustrating the obvious. Thankfully, I'm watching it on KZfaq, where you can skip around and watch at 2x speed, rather than watching it live.

So how accurate is ballistics without thumb ring?

@@stonem0013 That's one case that wasn't in the video, but basically ballistics without thumb ring would miss a few shots due to arrow spread, similar to shooting a stationary unit with neither tech researched, plus you'd also miss some shots when the unit changes direction.

Daut "Devs need to add second ballistics tech."

@@genericyoutubeaccount579 Heat seeking arrows?

PianoDome Good point, also, cav archers can use their mobility to keep up with moving targets.

True. They also got 1 less range so i believe its better to have thumbring and stable upgrades first and then build a university.

Ooh man those questions are so difficult to answer 111 However i do notice that alot of these questions have something in common. It relies on knowledge of your opponent. So to decide when to attack for example, it is about knowing where your opponents army is and what he has exactly. So in general i will just recommend you to send 1 unit around to scout your opponent constantly in the midgame, and make decisions based on what you see!

While “outpost rush” might be a meme strategy people only joke about in stream chats, sparing 1 villager to just go build outposts and houses while they’re at it definitely helps with visibility. Also, ya gotta anticipate and preempt your opponent’s counters. For instance, if your civ is renowned for a certain kind of unit (Britons=archers, Franks=heavy cavalry) you can anticipate that your opponent will be coming with skirms or pike/monks, respectively. Britons can mix a few knights in to slay skirms and Franks can even mix in a few (yes, objectively bad) light cav or scouts to pick off monks before they can mass throwing axemen.

True didnt even consider that :/

You don't hit 100% of the time even with ballistics if the target changes direction just after you threw/shot.

Thanks man!

Hera recommends villagers. always attack boar (stationary/moving) with 100% accuracy.

He kind of did that 6 months ago

@@joaobras3836 ah thank you, didnt know :)

Theory: move after the shot is fired Practical implementation: wait for Hera's video

you have to move your units at the same moment when enemy archers fire, because at that moment they fire according to your trajectory and if you change your direction then they miss. But you have a very small window to do that. Also, if enemy archers don't all fire at the same time, then you'll only outmicro the few that fired at that very instant.

@@AhaanM Or if you're far enough: stop moving after the shot if fired. This even gives your own unit(s) the opportunity to fire.

Stray shots do less damage. I think it is half.

It's a feature for Arambai, haha.

With a big mass of units when the other guy is dodging, half damage ain't bad

Thumb ring: Anything that have Archer class expect the Spanish UU ( sorry dont know how to wirte they name.. They just got CA class as a neft since DE.) Ballistic: All range unit i think.

@@anghainguyen9951 except for the canon ( on the picture of the tech ) only the spanish canon galleon is affected by balistic... Talk about a huge thumbnail : /

@@anghainguyen9951 Janissary don't get affected by thumb Ring.

@@satyakisil9711 i think they and hand cannoner a gunpowder units than an Archer. They do have Archer class but have gunpowder class o top of it...

@@Dollar-gc9in not the Portuguese ...

dosnt matter

but Britons with their longbows don't get thumbring at all?

​@@lathamtk I guess the rate comes from if you give Britons thumb ring in a scenario or full tech tree games.

​@El Bottoo Data was from the AoE 2 wiki.

​@El Bottoo Not at all as the first two do melee damage and the conqs works like the hand cannon, but if you want to know for yourself tings like this go to the tech tree and mouse over the unit - it tells you what upgrades they are affected by. If a unit is affected by thumb ring it says accuracy (Archery range) in the upgrades. If it's affected by bloodline it says Hit Points (Stable) etc. you sometimes have to do a bit of thinking to work out which upgrade is which.

​@El Bottoo No problem, have a nice day and keep safe.

He was talking about them separately

@@TDPCMcpho but the example still not valid, becouse he did not show ballistic only on moveing targets

I did say i left that out. I simply couldnt show every combination without restarting the scenario which woulda been really cluncky

@@HeraAgeofEmpires2 all cool man, im rly enjoying your content:) like i said i just thought it would be good to notice for newer players. just backing u up basically x)