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Hard to believe I'm watching a tutorial for new players for a game that came out in 1999.

I realized how incredibly bad i am at this game in about 30 seconds into the video.

"Every civ starts exactly the same way" - Builds house Hun players: ...

But I like to watch the villagers build stuff

I always lose because I take "urban planning" into account.

If you don't see the ingame time: press F11.

Using sheep to scout for other sheep! That's genius!

This old game has aged like good wine The community has made it greater :)

Small point: Sheep are *never* by themselves, if you see one sheep then there will be at least one other sheep near it.

Where were you 20 years ago D: this would ve changed my life D:

@00:04 - *_Every_*_ civilication and every _*_strategy_*_ in aoe2 starts exactly the same way_ ME: _picks Huns_ @01:24 - Step 2: _"And then build two houses"_ *I'm already screwed*

My build went like this: - Build house - Gather sheep (if you have em) else, gather berries - Build mill around berries - Build saw mill - Build farms - Struggle getting enough wood realize Ive built too many farms - Defend against the enemies attack (Because they are always ahead of you and you will never be on the attack) - Struggle some more - Surrender - Be grateful your elo has dropped and now you get to play against easier people :) Such a simple life I live

Great series, appreciate your efforts to help new people to find their way into AoE 2 , with structured and well explained short videos like that. I didn’t play the game for almost 5 years and it’s so amazing that nearly nothing has changed over the years. Anyways, good job with that and keep it up 👍🏼😄

thnx for the video im stil a noob but now im a better noob :)

This is amazing work. I'm an old player who just got into this game after almost 20 years. Printed out your guide and used your mod collection, everything is much better now! I feel so lucky to have found your channel, thanks!

"Chinese start with no food." Chairman Mao approves of this

one of the main reasons why this was my most difficult rts i got good at haha. you always need a specific amount of villagers for even a standard build and strategies. and know exactly when and where to put them. and losing a villager can already be a killer blow. not much time can be afforded to be lost here either. many rts games don't put a 'worker' that high up the list in terms of importancy so this game is definitely unique in that.

I played this game when I was little. The nostalgia that these videos are giving me is insane

just got into aoe2 again after 10-15 years, loving it! epic tutorials

Wow your Gameplay is really hectic and fast. I always saw AoE as a slow Game, not like Stacraft oder something like that. This is why i liked AoE more, but now i see: I am really bad in AoE.

Print or have handy for when you start.... Time # Villagers Action Milestone 0:45 4 2 houses Find starting sheep 5 Sheep 1:00 6 Sheep 5 Villagers 7 Sheep 8 Lumber 9 Wood 3:00 10 Wood Find one boar minimum 3:30 11 Wood 10 Villagers 12 Boar 13 House 4:00 14 Mill Find all ressources 15 Berries 5:00 16 Boar 15 villagers 17 Berries

Buildings should be build with as few Villagers as possible to improve efficiency. Therefore, the Villager between 4:02 - 4:12 should not join in building the Mill, but start collecting from the berries instead.

I think you should make it clear that you force villagers to bring back food at 4:20 otherwise you are stuck with no food to produce the next villager for several seconds

Awesome. After watching endless build order tutorials, this is hands down the best one yet. Easy to follow, short and to the point. I'll be looking forward to the next videos in the series. Grear job Zero, you're the best.

Screw this i'm going to free lance build and put houses at random and make 1 barrack 1 archey range, and one stable. Once I've done that I will only make infantry swordsman and not do anything else.

A wise man called TheViper once said that the chinese civilisation should start with 7 villagers on sheep to maintain constant villager production from the TC. I never made an experiment to verify this statement but as I said it was a wise snek :) TheViper is even delaying his 2 houses to gather the food as fast as possible and is sending his 8th villager to finish the first house. 2 Chinese openings by TheViper: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/oNN6rMqGstSvk3U.html (newer) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/adGIZpuUmMuwYX0.html (older)

YOU GAVE ME WHAT I SEARCHED FOR! THE LORD HAS SENT YOU!

Thank you very much, I've been struggling with my build order for a year since I purchased the game, gotta practice more of this

Perfect video, thanks a lot! Very professional with that bar and timings + benchmarks. Really well done 10/10.

Ive been playing AOE2 since 2000 and still I learn a lot from this new series,m of videos, thank you!

"Keep sending villagers to gather sheep, until you have a total of six." 1:56 to 2:00 I know this means villagers, but to some it may seem like 6 sheep

I know this for years now, but stunned by the video anyway! All of these extras and free resources - top notch! :)

Thanks for the guide. After a few resets, I finally got my 17th pop under 7min

Ahh... age2 a game from my childhood... fills me with joy to see a active community!!

I always wished for guides back in 1999 for this game, before I had internet. Now I can all over again!

I would play the heck out of a re skinned version of AoE with THOSE graphics!

Very good guide. I played this ages ago and want to start again :)

"As the huns, use your starting villagers to scout for sheep" *IMMEDIATELY* puts them on wood.

I LOVE your videos Zero! thank you for making them :D

Hey Zac! Thank you for all your build order guides starting from way long back. I started playing AOE2 seriously after that.

thank u dude i started to follow u 2 years ago for same reason now i am good with the build order but i hope other generation will learn tooo much love for u myman

I kinda intuited my starting build from the new advanced tutorials but its a little surprising for me that its so very close to this one. I make villagers till 7 for sheep and boar because I just add that other guy at the start then 4 wood 5 berries 4 more wood 4 gold then click up.

This is a brilliant resource! I just want to correct one small error made in this video (and most other resources) that players shouldn't be making as their game improves. You should not be building two houses right away. Your third villager, the villager that will be building a house solo, should be used as a second scout until you find your sheep. Once you find your sheep, you can build the second house and continue with your build order as normal. This is important because you don't need the second house until you hit 11 population, while your sheep should be under the town centre by the time the first house finishes building, so you have the extra food necessary to go up early to perform/defend from a tower rush, build militia and men at arms, build extra scouts, or transition onto wood and gold sooner for archers. Hope this helps and keep up the great work! ^_^

thanks for share this amazing content. i love the game since i remember myself playing as a younger.

I bought this game just to relax myself during weekends after hours of hard work. This is the first time I’m playing AoE 2, been playing other RTS games when I was a kid

This guide series is amazing. I hope it continues.

This is so nicely made/edited, absolutely love it.

god damn now I just want these cartoonish graphics in my game : (

Thanks, Zero! This video is going to be so helpful! I'm taking notes right now.

Already looking like a great series !

You forgot about the Mayans. They also need to start with loom. You start with the population limit because they have an extra villager.

Awesome Production quality , 10/10 great job man

the quality of these videos are ridiculously good.

This is the video I was searching for years! :)

That's pretty cool. Thanks. I watch all the cool players on your channel and I watch vipers channel and it looked so easy that I tried it, I failed. So this helps me understand why.

This will be so useful for new player and for noobs who wish to improve. Tatoh has similar videos, but not as edited and easily explained.

Thanks a lot for this beautiful work! Really appreciated. I downloaded your fast castle interactive tutorial, and even if I managed to get an A, I still cannot avoid my villagers to stand idle or kill one sheep more while the first boar is coming :P

Thank you! This is an awesome guide for beginners. Keep up the good work!

only my second of your videos and highly impressed. great content

Doing God's work here Zack, thank you for this. You might be covering this in your sheep video, but one thing I'd quickly mention is to keep your sheep grouped slightly away from your TC so your villagers don't finish with one and then kill more than one at a time afterwards. I'm new and it's something I learned from experience after a few games but isn't obvious immediately.

thanks to this video, i won a 3 player free for all on arabia

You are a really pleasant guy. Nice voice and great tips from one the Beste players :-) Thank you so much for helping others with every detail you know about the game! I was happy to sea you with my friends the rocketbeans ;-) I'm looging forward seeing your other vids! Stay as you are! ;-)

Yeah, but I play only against the AI, never online, I play Regicide, and I do a mountain of urban planning as I go, eventually naming some of the streets in my village/town/city based upon significant battles that occurred there. My king (in the Castle) even gets a bride eventually (a female villager who never collected resources). If I survive the first hour, whether on Standard or Medium difficulty there's no way I'll lose. Yeah, I'm weird :-) Interesting video. I never thought about how other players would react to what I'm doing. This gets a like from me. My initial build order is probably a mill, villagers, a lumber yard, housing, villagers, a stone quarry, villagers, the beginnings of inner curtain walls, villagers, market, church, monks, dock, barracks, etc.. Much later, the King/queen get a royal compound including at least one more castle, a town center of their own, a church for permanent storage of relics, and a university (the queen is a firm believer in continuing education), with a stable and barracks just outside the compound. Yeah, I'm weird. :-o

very usefull and clear, i like chineese so i'm happy that you talk about "specific case"

this is literally the highest level gameplay in real time i have ever seen how the fuck are you this fast, WITH NO DAMN HOTKEYS absolute fucking god here

Great video! thanks for the help

Nice vid. Only difference I am making is that I send all 4 vills to berries and uses one of the vills under TC to lure the second boar, but I realize that this way give me more food faster compared to my way.

Twenty years later and I still suck at the game but I love it.

Thanks for this series man. I use to play this game when it was just AOK. Now...I get my asses kicked with the AI. Thank for your tips mate. Managed to get the AI this time.

wish there was a mod to make the game look like the art prints in the beginning of the video

Fantastic Guide and great editing

Thank you so much for taking the time and effort to make this series, it's so well laid out and easy to understand. When will you be uploading more?

Super well done Tutorial! Thanks :)

Nice series. Appreciate!

finally!! those will be soo good!

I start with 1 peasant building mill by berries, 1 herding sheep and 1 building 3 houses and then also loom research right away. By the time loom is done, 1 house is done so I can create more villagers (yes there was one available to start). Meanwhile scout is out looking around. Now house peasant on to wood near town centre and all of the 1st 10 villagers go on to food (6 on sheep so they are ready to move to boars). Now create some for wood. Aim for 20 villagers then upgrade to next age. If not enough food, create a couple more villagers on food while you build up the food. It's a balancing act.

Play as Chinese or Aztecs you have to force drop every now and then to queue the next vil right away. You can get 7 on sheep as Chinese instead of 6, which makes it a bit easier. And I would recommend it.

by the way: britons usually send one less on sheeps because they gather faster and the boar time will be on point then

Love the series helped a lot

So much happens by the time he has finished saying "First, queue villagers at the town centre". I just had to re-watch it about 5 times in slow-mo. It usually takes me about 5 minutes to mouse over all the stuff to figure out what it even is.

Thanks dude, most helpful

When you are Chinese in nomad map...go enemy hunting, much funnier than building a towncenter. 1) Go close to their vills which are building. 2) If they are not building it in the same side, send 2 vills to kill any isolated enemy vill. 3) Start building your towncenter leaving one gap between the two of them. 4) Close the gaps with wood wall so their vills can't escape. 5) Let the battle begin.

Heyyyy the remastered version is out!

„IT‘s the same for everyone“. Cries in huns

Thank you, zeroempires!!

what he did in 1 minute i do in 30 minutes, by then i got destroyed and starting my migration to my ally's base

damn, didn't know this community was still thriving

Zeroempires, I thought you said many years ago you would not be posting anymore AoE2 conent? However, I am happy that you do.

When I watch people who are good at the game play i feel like your either on alot of caffeine or drugs....Gotta go fasster!

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Need to get into this man

I am not sure if going with loom with Mayans is the best choice The house with two villagers take 19 seconds to create. Loom research takes 25. That means that you are losing 6 seconds that you could be using to create your 5th villager. Basically you can start making up your 5th village at 19 seconds on the game instead of 25. If you do so, that means that you will be getting your 5th villager at 0:44 when other civs get their 5th vill out at 0:50. Technically, doing loom first doesn't put you on disadvantage since you would be getting your 5th villager at 0:50, but you would loose the advantage of 0:44. Tho it's just a few seconds so I am not sure if that would actually have a big impact ingame.

This is great, but it's been over a year and we still don't have any more tutorials... :/

Having sheep help with exploring the map.... how the fuck haven't I thought of this in 20 years?

Thanks for this.

I would have gone for that deer with the lumbercamp builder

Hey ZeroEmpires, great video and very helpful! But please tell me what mods you are using (''!'' above idle villagers - or is it just video editing?).

Thank u For subtitles

for any fellow noobs to the game, it's f11 to enable the timer.