The only reason I now consistently eat two boars every game is because my dad used to yell at me for skipping them.

"The most BOARing video" Sotl: Finally a worthy oponent

"Never skip a boar." -Obelix

Its important to note that , many people play this game purely for its singleplayer and that the multiplayer has had a rocky start for a few these days. Perhaps what we saw in those stats there is more kills with trebuchets due to campaign missions , than double boar lures in dark age.

Imagine your ancestor whatching this video who actually killed a wild boar.

Bacon is the most important resource in AOE.

2019 almost 2020 and new people is coming to one of my childhood favourite game. Thanks for the vid english man...

I didn't realize I was in the upper quartile of something, neat.

Here were all were thinking Zak was a refined, respectful Englishman - but in reality he loves nothing moar than to lame your boar

4:05 biggest tip here: don't be a zeroempire and forget the villager production while you hunt down a boar ;)

Way back when I was playing Age of Kings on CD I never hunted boar , I always got my sheep and happily went to berries lol.

this reminds me of a conversation I was having with my friend the other day, he was talking about the DE achievements and how I went out of my way to get the "dark dinner" one, meanwhile I was just "but dude, getting both boars is a must lol"

I am on board with this evolution of yours Zero.

More importantly than boar i learned how to effectively scout using control groups -A noob who plays against bots

One less thing to learn on my way to the top :)

I NEVER KNEW BOARS WERE SO NECESSARY. IT TOOK ME OVER A DECADE TO DO IT. Thank you!

Watched the entire thing in one go. It wasn't lame or boaring at any point. We're all comedians.

Jokes, Timestamps, accurate information, several degrees of difficulty from the novice to more advanced. You my good sir got a new sub! I've already watched several of your videos but this once made me sub. Keep it up! I was doubtful if I really wanted to buy the definitive edition, but these kind of videos made my decision easier! It's a great feeling being able to look back at a game that I played so much when I was younger and was "easy" back then, being revealed to have so much more depth.. It's great!

In the defense of the players getting the Treb achievement, I seem to have gotten it from simply killing 25 buildings. I think it may be bugged.

"I no pig." (looks at tumbler of scotch in hand, then puts it down on the table) "But maybe it's time I did!"

Those stealth puns in this video. I'm surprised someone hasn't made a comprehensive list of them

The biggest thing I think you missed in the beginning is "When should you take your boar" and also "how to time your boar with your sheep", but other than that great vid

12:04 the worst boar lure in history?

The content quality impressed me, great job

Omg you said "sow" instead of "so" Perfect. This is a usage of sow that rivals Yahtzee's Hogpocalpyse Sow game title.

HONESTLY. I always do boar in the feudal age. Sheep is for the dark age boar and deer for the next age. UNLESS their is a boar very close to my town center during the start, i mean REALLY CLOSE where no luring has to be done pretty much.

I feel like if this were a sotl video he would have mentioned the gothic and Aztec resource carry bonuses as well... if there hadn't been so many claims that the beginning about this being the most complete and definitive video ever on the subject I would not have expected bonuses like that to be mentioned quite as much, but the standard was set pretty high by the intro. Also, the berbers villager speed bonus means they can lure these animals farther... Just saying, I feel like there was even more completeness that could have happened here. Overall, this was an amazing video and there was a lot of detail I did not expect as well! Great job, ZE

This is exactly the depth and style of information I was looking for, thank you!!

AoE2 authors "In this work, we conjecture that the rise and and fall of medieval civilizations may have been due to a paesant failing in luring a boar in town. We support our argument with a computer simulation."

After more than 10 year I'm thinking about picking AOE again thanks to your videos. I remember learning about the competitive scene by watching replay files at the time, youtube didn't even exist

When you want to hunt boars but are afraid of it: *"Go skinning this one, I'll bring another"*

"It will die so hard" you made me spew my coffee.

We're grateful to you president ZeroEmpires, for making real the election promises at 21:48

started watching your tutorial playlist 2 days ago and now you get back on it. 11 excellent

This game is so good. I'm so pleased they made DE.

What do I do if 30-50 of them come into my town when I let the villagers play for 5 to 10 minutes?

Once I watched the Pros do this; clicking up to the Feudal Age has never been faster! Thanks for the tips T90, TheViper, and ZeroEmpires! Happy hunting!

Respect to you sharing all this awesome info. AOE2 is such an amazing game and now you just made it more amazing for me, thanks dude!!!

can we jsut appreciate all the detail that went in to the hunt life in AOE 2

Why am I even watching this? I only play bots and on regicide.

Today i'm going to teach you how to lure the boar. *proceeds to teach how not to loose food* dude you're exceeding our expectations here !

Lmao how that one vill farming berries said "Im looking for tristan" Pls help him find t90

Nice work, Zac. Here, have a like and a comment! ^^,

6:29 "The boar will die. And by that I mean it will die so hard that it won't actually have any food in it"

I don't play AoE2 but I found these tips to be useful even for everyday life

I recently got into this game and I love your videos! Very entertaining and helpful. Please keep making more noob videos for people like me 😁

This is a like a AoE textbook containing valuable information , good work!

If you time the lure right before finishing the 4th sheep, you can shift click the villagers under the TC to the boar, and they will start attacking as soon they finish the sheep. No need for fancy control group micro.

I usually like to park the next sheep to be used behind all the villagers working on the first sheep, like she's looking over their shoulders. "Hey guys, Whatcha all doing over he-... OH DEAR GOD"

19:05 I wonder if those villagers have found any juicy T-Berries in those bushes.

maaaan.... the fisher woman animation is so fucking cool. i love what they did.

"try not to have the memory of a goldfish!" I may have a bad memory, but even I...

If you dont want to lose a villager just set gather point near the boar und then attack it and you can directly move back to your tc. So you wont forget.

Another thing worth mentioning is screwing up your opponents boar lure with your scout. If you manage to make your scout last hit the boar, they get nothing. If you manage to block the luring villager, it will disrupt their lure and kill their villager. If you manage to take their boar, you can scout lure it from their base to yours. Pretty much no matter what you do to mess up their boar situation, it hurts them significantly.

The long awaited bore tutorial video, hazzuh!!!!

Dude I am a non-native English speaker but your voice is magical, awesome, fascinating!

Love the amount of effort put into this! thank you for doing this, really great for new players and thus for the community! Thank you again :D

Fun fact: Goldfishes remember things much longer than people letting villagers die to a boar.

Some people play the campaign where you get too use trebs but not be in the dark age. Therefore can’t get this achievement. So far I have finished the Spanish and french campaigns and am now working on Barbarossa.

My Chinese Zodiac is The Boar, I'm highly offended by this needless slaughter of my people.. Did you not bother to think that we have feelings?

Until I started watching streams I would always go sheep - berries - farms.

Continue your guide bro you're so good at it and there is so much new players with DE (like me)

as of this time 34.5% have the achievement dark dinner. You are doing gods work sir

Wowie, I was already doing the teenager strategy, with the sheep gathering and one at a time technique. I just figured it'd be most efficient, and I'm super new :o The expert level doesn't look too difficult with the garrison to minimize food loss. I'll try it out!

Hats off to u man!! What a detailed video👍🙏🙏🙏

What was funny was that I got this achievement day one simply by doing what was suggested in the Art of War missions! ^^

I'm starting AOE 2 DE because of you, ty.

woooow.. this video solved so many of my problems.. "where da thonk is my scout?" - "Oh damn it, now I told the sheep to attack the boar again" hahaha

Extra note on the goths, the extra carry weight for hunters makes the numbers work out so 7 hunters can carry a full boar, so even if you kill it off your town center decay won't be a problem, only the walk distance (in theory you could send 7 vils forward and lame your opponent, but that would be costly)

Well... that was my first achievement in the game. An old, someone will say all- know-trick, it's always useful.

Oh boy, we've come a long way. To be fair, though, my villager in the clip went back on his own (pathing strikes back).

Another trick to this is when you're luring the boar or other animals. Hit the animal twice with the same villager and they will aggro all the way back to your base without stopping from losing aggro. You can then use the scout to block its path and it wont lose its aggro.

Great video - funny and informative, 1.9k video :D WP Zak

I need a whole series on HOW TO PLAY! jUST like there were at the start of starcraft 2

Nice to see Hera at the top of the leader board back then!

Had no idea James Acaster did AoE tutorials.

If you have about 10 villagers after taking the sheep, another idea would be to send them over to take the boar and then they will come back with all the food...

8:06 Sometimes I have the feeling boars hide intentionally in those black spots

lmfao "currantly" filling my basket.... excellent berry pun

Actually, expert level is *now* luring boar, and shooting boar with TC. (If Zak is anytime going to come back to his YT channel or even this video)

I just type "cheese steak jimmy's" while watching this video

that outraged "LaMER!!!" feeds my soul

I must say, I have got the 25 kills with trebuchets but not the 2 boars one. Reason is because of the campaign, in the campaign that I played you barely ever had vills.

i just drank some raw deer blood and now im watching this aoe vid about hunting. ironic no?

It's ironic that the huntable elephants are fast but the military elephants are slow. As someone who has been chased by a wild elephant, I can confirm that they will outrun you. (Fortunately I was in a vehicle)

For starters, farming is always preceded by hunting-gathering. With that, you will save a lot of resources in the long run.

if you attack the boar twice to lure it wont change aggro when you get it back to the TC so you wont run the risk of losing a low health villager to the boar (unless your lure villager is low because of distance or mistakes)

**sends picture of villager dieing to boar**

You actually get the trebuchet achievement from just playing campaigns much faster than you would the boar one

I assumed the reason for that few people killing the boars was because they only played campaign.

Great video! Thanks for this :)

Best boars with a video in it. Amazing.

The thing I don't understand is why take bushes while there is food rotting on the ground (boars/sheep) If you can scout push deer especially

enlightening video, nice work ✔

Did you know if you format the description timestamps in MM:SS and include 00:00 first (named eg "Introduction"), the timestamps will automatically mark the playback timeline on youtube?

The third way is to pallisade enemy boar with incoming villager, and then killing it so it rots. Then killing his deers. In fact, you can steal one boar with scout, pallisade the other, and kill all his deer for extra damage.

I feel a spirit of the law inspiration here...

I object! The math at 17:45 is incomplete!! To lure your boar, you need to take a village off your 5-6 starting villagers. This reduces your mining speed for - let's say 30 seconds to by about 20%. If you factor that in, into the 0.41 gather rate - then it gets complicated. However, let's work wit the simple timings you provide for 8 villages at 17:35. 4 villagers should then be able to gather half that amount in the same time, right? So factoring in that one villager is missing for luring the boar for the assumed 30 seconds, we will need to reduce the base gather speed of 0.41 by: 0.41 * ((3 [villagers] / 4 [all villagers] * 2:41 [minutes]) + (1 [villagers] / 4 [all villagers] * 2:11 [minutes])) / 2:41 [minutes] = 0.41 [gatherrate] * 95% = 0.39 gatherrate per villager In case you have more villagers, it gets more efficient, like, for example for 8 villagers, you get an effective gather-rate of: 0.41 * 0.98 = 0.40 gatherrate Bottom line: Do not take your boar right at the beginning of the match, but a few minutes in --- Duh! ;-)

actually if you start playing the campaigns you get the treb achievment really fast, but you never really have to go for boars. They are mostly multiplayer (i played through 2 campaigns and didnt need to hunt for boars, but needed trebs, according to my achievments)

Finally! Keep going mate