Lol @ T90 farms reference

1:15 and i may add that theres this feature where the resources gathered by a villagers get deposit when you finish a farm. So there's almost no value lost in cutting nearby trees to gain that time.

5) horse collar takes 20 seconds, farms take 15 seconds, so horse collar needs to be at least at 25%. T90 just play Khmer and do what you want.

Glad you didn't mention unnecessary things like healing farms with monks

Number 2 is slick and cool, but I don't think any players that aren't at least 1500+ elo should bother with it. It saves maybe 1 or 2 food and you have much more important things to focus on when your elo isn't among the best.

The T90 logo on the mills in the beginning killed me 1111

Thanks Hera, some amazing tips and tricks. The hitting the farm trick and the mangonnel farm trick are gamechangers! Thanks man🙏

5:00 didn't know crop shots actually had a viable function. Amazing

I love the quality of your new videos. Keep up the good work !

Thanks my man, this will help a lot, I love this kind of videos, keep it up with this content

4:58 Not only does the Teutonic knight fade in, but the mangonel shot does as well. And then they're firing in sync again. Was going to mention the last trick if you didn't. I've seen expert players use this about twice in all the games I've seen. You should have shown units around a town center, because that's when this trick is most useful. It would be nice to see players focus more on denying a specific resource that's needed to make a counter-unit, like denying food when the counter is scouts. I think this also works well with bringing forward villagers to wall about 7 tiles from your opponent's TC. Try it! Or 6 tiles if stone walls, since those take 1 damage from TC. Can make a stone gate to block villagers from repairing a stable, etc. This should be easier in DE with partially-built diagonal gates blocking at their corners. I guess (I haven't played DE) that this is harder with unbuilt gates now having no pierce armor; but stone gate is at least about as good as any other building which would take 5 bonus damage but no pierce damage, or palisade gate which would take full pierce and bonus damage.

I felt so bad for that villager trying to build farms while scout ruining his day, it ended up ruining my day.

i will definitely work on 4) thx for sharing those tricks. we need a SOTL video on the mechanics behind 1) !!!

The last 4 tips were game changing for me! Never thought about it for 15 years of my gameplay..

nice tips! The last one I had no idea about, great video!

Thank you for these tips there were a couple I didn't know!

I've seen pros attacking farms for years and never knew the real reason until now.

Woww!!! Amazing!!! Loved it Hera!

Amazing content as always.

Trolling t90 by explicitly saying was redundant imo :D those icons on the windwheel are so cool and good enough by themselves! Btw, the vid is so nice (as usual)! Idling a vil by attacking a FARM is the discovery of the month for me! And extra thanks for the 04:27 *Honorable Mention* , that's truly a pro tip as well! Insane contribution to the community -- this channel

This video will definitely improve my farming simulation now! Thank you!

Great videos @hera always great tips, thanks… ps. ANY TIME I have the chance to snipe a farm I’m taking it xD so frustrating xD

Crazy that I’ve been playing this game for so long and I’m still learning mechanics about it’s most basic buildings

It was great. More of these educational videos, please.

1) oh wow! that is such an amazing trick!! am going to have lots of fun with the AI (ab)using that trick! xD

thanks bro....your videos are awesomeness

I don't know if someone noticed but the villager only works in the upper part of the crop. So it would be more efficient to start placing the farm below the TC.

Nicely done Hera T90roasted

I realy like about your videos that it doesnt matter if you are 900 or 2k. You can always learn something :)

Great tips

Some real beauts in this thank you!! 11

Onagerble mention..... Thank you, I'll see myself out.

Me: placing farms far better than T90. Also me: struggling to hit half of T90's elo.

More Hera content. Best 4th of July ever and I ain't even American.

really good video. great tips. you should do more material like this

There was a patch about a year ago when you commanded farm, garrisoned vil, then go backed to work, the vil would eject where it garrisoned from it drove me nuts

Also stolen farms give strange additional food, and monks can heal farms pretty fast

Thank you Hera very usefull.

"What's the greatest enemy of hardworking villagers without killing them ? The number 1. Yes, laziness !"

Hey Hera, there one thing I am always not sure about. When I build many farms with many vills. How do I make sure they all go to their individual farms and don't collectively build one after another which takes a lot of time??

You can use your farm vills to build one house each around their farm. When the villager steps away from the farm, the farm regenerates/grows food, and after returning the villager quickly harvests/collects all that food without waiting in one spot. That way your villager doesnt lose work time and can wall yourself with houses that way too. I do this with multiple villagers at once, shift+right clicking them to go back to farm after building.

wow the mango farm trick :D

Funnily enough, you can actually place a farm up to 1 tile away - but only after you've researched Hand Cart. Then it doesn't make enough of a difference to matter to efficiency. Basically only a sub 1% loss (SotL did a video that confirmed it). So, late game you actually can get some click and attention efficiency out of placing "t90farms". Of course that only helps if your attention is urgently needed elsewhere, e.g. you're placing farms and get an attack signal.

Useful!

Can't wait for people around my elo to start trying to steal my farms with a single vil

excelent!!!

That helps a lot thx

I didn't know the 1 ) , crazy stoof

Cool tips

1200 here who had no idea about the mangonel range farm thing, good tip! Also I like the idea of using my TC to teleport but there's no way I have the APM for that :D

Does treadmill crane allow farms to be built faster as well? Ik it doesn't seem like a tech used much by pros from what I've heard BUT seems like it would be worth researching just for that alone, if so.

That's very interesting.

Nice Video! What do you think of the farm layout where you start every row of farms at the right (or left) edge of a building, to have a layout with no holes in it? I've noticed that none of the farms in the video had this layout, so I wondered if you think it's significant (Looks nice anyhow^^)

Is there any easy way to reorganize your villagers on farms after being raided?

nr 5 will give me 100 extra elo cause i never knew what to do in small walled and towered bases. and i never understood how the others reach castle age after my raids

#4 is micro nerd stuff, APM needed, for such a small benefit it's probably better to use the apm on more important things

What is the best way of making a ton of farms in the late game? Let's say i need to place 10 farms. Can i place the farms, the mill and then task the vills to the mill? Sometimes not all of them are auto assigned to a close farm

you didn’t mention the “deny quick walls with farms” thing that you encountered in a recent game.

Super useful, thank you! Been playing for 1000+ hrs and didnt know some of these things (like the boosted mango range) That being said, a few of these things would've surely been patched out in other games (range abuse, idling, stealing, sniping)

Idea for a new civ bonus: have a civ who can place farms for free, but farming drains your wood like repairing. There is probably some balancing to do around farm sling, maybe make it so the farm's food increases as your wood is depleted. Maybe make the wood a little more than 60 wood to balance it or just don't give that civ horse collar? I feel that would be super strong yet it could have interesting strats

Hera you are awesome bro

that 1 dislike from T90 lol

I think i might be able to successfully tower rush

Be careful. You're treading on SOTL's territory now XD

Hey Hera. Learnt something new today. Part of me wishes you wouldnt release this sort of content coz everyones gonna harass n steal my farms with a vil on the ladder until the next such video🤣🤣 #1200eloproblems

👍🏻

Something I always wanted to know and never dared to ask is if when my villager has another resource (be it wood, gold or stone) and sends him to build a farm. Are those resources that he had in his possession lost?

BO21 vs Yo, G1 @ 15:04, did you delete the farm so that he couldn't snipe it?

How do you herd animals instead of killing them for meat?

Never heard about the n°1 ! Ty

i lost time building farms.. how can i build them faster? thats what i was looking for

Spirit of the law's voice has changed a little

Nice I know all these tricks before watching this video, when would I reach 2.6k elo?

Thanks for showing me how to be a Jerk. And T90 already know how to so this is spoiled on him. 😎

Wow never knew 1

I have aI have a question. If I am harvesting wood and create a farm, do I get all the wood harvested or do I lose it? Greetings, Hera.

"Kill the farm." Hera

the last one should be patched out right?

tip 4: when placing a farm far away from a vil, use this trick tip 3: never place a farm far away from your vil. :P

Mango farm trick sounds like it should be patched.

Farm gaming

T90 FARMS!!

Idle is really new.

that's what she said hehe

If you start building a farm and delete it to place it in a different location, do you lose the full 60 wood? Nice tips, thank you! A bit aggressive towards poor T90, I'm not a fan of his but still.

with all respect to you, i dont want to win if i have to use these tricks

We need more 1v1 though!

Just delete the farm and build a new one to then receive the upgrade, duh!

I'm a guy... a gay one, so I don't use my hand... I use my large early wood bonus instead, like any good Vietnamese player. And #2 I get killing herdables & stealing boars is 'bad' - very influential to an early game, but this is nasty in my mind. Not terribly powerful I don't think, just harassive... both to the economy & one's sensibilities!

You know the devs are gonna watch this and be like "oh damn, more things we can remove from the game / automate to make the game easier". Things like this is also why I love age. It breaks my heart that we've already lost so many like mangonel delete trick

unban pls

farming in AoE2 doesnt make sense, the drops are terrible :(

Bro this is gonna help me so much thanls Hera! The T90 thimg topped it off too🤣 yoitsbro03 om ur twitch:)

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Due to the high quality of the recent videos, I have to point out that this one wasn't up to par. This felt like stuff I knew and/or stuff that isn't very exciting. It's probably important and this content will help a lot of people, but I don't think I would be re-watching this one as compared to the other recent videos. Keep at it through, love the effort, the upload schedule, the editing and especially those few puns and jokes you throw in.

@spiritofthelaw

Idle is really new.