AoE2 1v1 Game - Pesky Villager on Golden Swamp

hey guys spirit of the law here we're gonna be taking a look at a recording that was sent into me so this isn't actually my own gameplay and i've done this before where i once in a while commentate games have said that you guys can send them in and a bunch of people did last time like six months ago i got maybe 10 or 15 submissions immediately after that but i didn't want to do a bunch of them in a row so i kind of sat on the recordings for a bit of course every time they make an update it breaks all the old recordings so then i didn't have any but this one was finally sent in i haven't had one for a little while and from the email this one sounds like it's a pretty crazy game so these guys are like 1250 elo one versus one on definitive edition just put that in context i mean kind of means different things on hd and voobly and everything but 1250 is actually pretty good as a one versus one rating on definitive edition so that's kind of like top 20 top 18 percent somewhere in there so in the red we have the berbers berber's main strategy is to go for knights and camels with their discount and castle age and so personally i usually open up with scouts with them you don't really have a dark age bonus besides faster walking villagers which as you can see you don't do a lot of walking around oh no don't kill it no [Music] yeah the faster walking speed doesn't really impact your dark age economy too much in fact i think the only real benefit is when you're luring four you tend to take fewer hits from the board or in this case rhino interesting that's an interesting wood line i wonder why not in the back woodline anyway and on the other side of the map in the blue we have the persians actually very similar civilization to berbers or at least i play them quite similar usually open scouts and go into nights i think of persians is having the stronger but expensive cavalry and lots of options available and berbers are more lots of cheaper units and doing some scouting here with these uh water buffalo going way out there you have three groups of water buffalo that you have to find so scouting's a little bit more important you can see red kind of coming out across the map oh we almost stole that one yeah so it makes a pretty big difference like if you can get your water buffalo going out you can have a pretty good idea of the map pretty early and just find your resources a bit quicker i think red's moving out to try to steal some of them actually this seems very early you'd be scouting out your opponent at four minutes and doesn't manage to find a couple water buffalo there and those are worth a lot because they have 150 food and so the map you might notice has a lot of gold in the middle what is this what i was doing okay so yeah a lot of gold in the middle probably not worth fighting over early on because you know you will have gold around in your base but uh for late game that becomes more important what is he we're four to a half minutes what is this okay yeah i don't know what he's doing i mean the village is a little faster maybe he's just trying to send it out there and get some scouting done oh no he's going yeah i figured he's trying to steal you know he probably could have stolen that and walked it across the map because like i said berber is a little bit faster walking sneaky man that really would have been tough for blue here nice and i think he managed to steal a couple of extra water buffalo here just did a great job finding him i just stole those two a little bit earlier oh okay i gotta say though uh yeah there you go you gotta put them all on one always you just wanna have the fewest number of decaying animals you can possibly have because every decaying animal you have is basically like having another villager from gaia just stealing the food from it it's about the same in terms of collection rate so even if you've got a few of them decaying you want to finish off the one with the least amount of food left first but looks like he knows that and certainly at 1250 elo people would be aware of that kind of thing and so red being very aggressive throwing the barracks in here i don't yeah i'm kind of conflicted on this because i think he's going to go for militia here the thing is though with persians he's probably going to make scouts and this means that you don't have a barracks back home to make spearmen so you're gonna have to make either a second barracks later or be walled up and um yeah so it's like you have your militia closer and they'll attack a bit earlier but it's also kind of risky in a way dressing coming he actually tells him too late i'm fully walled yeah blue sure you're fully walled that's funny it's a little bit of laming a little bit of uh little mind games being played here yes we have uh one militia coming out take a look at filter numbers so both the same i expect very little idle time from these guys this is so many water buffalo wow okay yeah i definitely still with you there contrast that with blue and we've got a couple left and just starting a wall up now it's kind of a weird wall that's mill okay that makes more sense and we've got two militia coming in we have a third on the way no just a two militia okay unless you come in here i don't think you're gonna be able to pick a villager with just two militia but you can probably annoy him a little bit and now you want to run back yeah there you go and that's what he's doing and oh no you can't no oh that was bad yeah you gotta gotta be careful with water but folks they have more hp so can't really snipe them like that man red is laming a lot this game already just very aggressive and see this is the value of militia i think it's not that he killed a villager i mean maybe got a few hits in but it's look at these weird awkward walls that you have to make it's blue here and then a lot of garrison time they come out they're all disorganized i don't know where these guys are going yeah look at this laming and he's coming in he's trying to palisade wall although i don't think this policy wall is going to work so but if you have it totally enclosed you won't be able to make units from it they'll get stuck on the building and they can't get out but he can just delete this palisade wall if he just deletes along here he can still get it out anyway and it looks like blue's first to feudal age because of course he didn't make any militia i think blue's gonna have a rough time here with the economy because he's basically out of food here how much wood does he have it's 120 wood yeah hmm kind of got messed up a little bit with that militia and had to react with way more houses than he needs so he's got so much popcorn right now i'm having to grab the straggler trees here red i like the aggression it's just it's a little over the top okay and even he's almost done those water buffalo we're gonna have to transfer okay so walling this area i'm still not sure how i feel about this lumber camp like it feels very forward and it's going to chop through there eventually and still what's oops oh just putting the yeah unless you're going by the town center gotta be a little careful okay so he's just gonna he's got four hp and he's just gonna hang out here okay all right and i do have some scouts coming in for blue that's kind of what i would expect more that would be more standard i think all right well they are both feudal aged now so let's see getting some upgrades here for red so if i'm playing it's going to hang out in feudal age for a bit i think that makes sense uh okay so this isn't collecting any gold yet okay interesting yeah he didn't even collect 10 extra gold for the third militia he just sent out the two militia and then got loom and i like the militia still live i i think this is good like you just gonna distract him a little bit he gets kind of alarmed he's just kind of paying attention here he's got to watch them like don't feel like you have to throw your units away into a bad fight if you don't have to and good job bowling up here although both i have to have a little bit awkward bases i got these like little tiny areas they're walled into this village just hanging out spearman here trying to get in sometimes you can kind of attack them diagonally there if they're in just the right spot apparently not this time and scout's coming in here yeah like trying to take down the palisade wall you might think to focus on the house but it's got three times as much hp so yeah focus on the policy wall i'm actually impressed he got five scouts out so quickly because it seemed like he was pretty low on food and he's finally getting his farming economy going now and having to take gold from here very front forward gold because obviously he's going to have a hard time reaching those and it's at least it's going to be very exposed outside his walls you can see neither one going for a dock i think that makes sense you don't really want to go for a dog too early when it's shaping up to be this aggressive yeah the scout's not getting a ton of value what why are these villagers going around oh is it oh the gate must be locked okay so he doesn't want to let the scouts in but unfortunately he's got some farmers that are locked inside the gate and he's trying to send more to wood and they're walking around the whole thing looks like he's going to lose three villagers to this which is pretty unfortunate man you can see blue's score you know for getting lamed a lot blue is kind of in the driver's seat right now he's got six kills and has lost zero units so far taking some nice safe deer in the back as well which is nice especially going scouts you want to go castle age relatively quickly and neck and neck for villagers even though six kills already for blue about to be seven yeah right you gotta figure out where you're first i just gotta unlock this gate we're just sending in lumberjacks the slaughter here man there we go i think it's figured it out there you go unlock the gate all right okay now we're on track again seven deaths though ouch and that was i think one scout i think there's two there's two militias died and he's made a tower with this villager oh he's even gonna heal the villager in that i like it forcing a tower in response interesting please like man come on i'm gonna basically move all of his farmers up to the other side that one villager is so pesky i love it okay i think i feel like we need some more units here as red uh does he have a stable out yet no he's just going spearman kind of defensively yeah so like i said he did have to make those spearmen from over here walk him across the map and so that's kind of one disadvantage of putting your military building so far forward and a little bit issue with some some idols here yeah almost over chopping i don't like this woodline anymore i think you gotta get out there grab a woodline down here or something and that tower is gonna go down uh we'll see if they can get to the villager i don't think they can't because yeah you kind of built that diagonally there that's a pretty annoying tower though that probably justified itself just with even just the response with the defensive power i think you could justify that and force him to go on stone i wouldn't think persians would really want to be going on stone that early i would think you want to be going castle age make knights and these scouts not getting a ton of damage here although i don't know if you need four spearmen maybe i'd just stick with i don't know maybe two and i don't think blue's gonna go for that many more scouts and triple layering the farms wow you don't actually see that all that often though i guess if anybody's gonna do it berbers and their faster walking speed can get away with it yes let's think uh we got wheelbarrow coming in for blue i got to think blue's got to be close to castle each year doesn't he no he's pretty invested all right i think with all that farming he would have had enough by now but he's looking more long-term economy and upgrades and stuff i would think though after yeah so even brought the scouts back i would think after wheelbarrow we should probably be ready to click up the castle here pretty soon i think around 20 minutes if you're gonna go scouts and that's about when you should be thinking about going castle it's both on stone are we going for more towers why are we on stone okay i like finally getting the spearmint involved like you know just whittle it down force them to repair it every once in a while that one villager is just so annoying okay so we've got a spearman rush coming out to me might actually be able to pick some news off oh no blue saw it okay nice job the problem with spearmint yeah completely unupgraded like this is they're basically just weaker versions of the villagers that they're trying to harass hp three attack no armor against four hp three attack and one armor so i think a villager would actually win this in a straight up fight but if you can just be annoying just poke him run away i don't know man this is pretty weird maybe he's even in on the stone uh-oh this blue out of wood or how come okay well he's going castleage i figured that would be coming up pretty soon and whoa click up man look at these resources i wonder if he's got the buildings okay no he's going to make the market first there you go i remember those buildings now they're really caring i love how the builder just being up here has forced another tower wasted so much time is this repairing and even managed to heal himself back a little bit with the tower yeah they're having a good time this is so silly because i mean what are you going to do like make an archery range to make one archer to go in and kill him like no let's go for another tower well as long as he doesn't notice i mean yeah you kick him off wood you kick him off yeah all his farms i think it's hilarious it's so funny how blue is still winning oh nice he even got some a couple of kills because that was like a an eight to zero ratio of kills to death so we're actually coming up he got a villager pick with a spearman i think he's gonna get two he's gonna get another one here nice with a villager yeah red's got more villagers now and i mean you know enough enough attacks and they'll get there take some 20 hits oh no yep adventure a little bit too far this is funny though man and look at all these low hp villagers another one down what's with the spear invasion that's just what i was thinking what a weird unit to just try to rush with i mean it's working i thought it was byzantines i mean they're actually killing villagers see i don't know if i can trust out of these guys anymore i mean i feel like both of them lie constantly to each other in this and so many mind games going on okay but we gotta be going castle each year yeah okay yeah red is going cast leech and i would think some nights is that what we're doing what's the plan second town center uh what's no military units from blue that's interesting okay but going on three town centers obviously persians faster working town centers so we should be able to catch up red hasn't even done wheelbarrow yet still a really good kill to death ratio though i think that might be contributing some of the score but the score would say that blue is way ahead here uh yeah this is so silly man and even the spearmen fighting off the villagers here making this town center meanwhile not really raided at home yeah feels pretty safe okay i like this probably going nice maybe mix in a few camels i like that nobody's really prioritizing the middle like red's not feeling the need to go for the middle be a bit of a trap if it means that you're not putting pressure on your opponent [Music] but yeah this extreme aggression is this villager dead oh no well it had to happen eventually and yeah i i think blue's a little bit too focused on these walls i mean who cares just send your units forward see if you can braid i mean i think gaps have been opening up you could still sneak in here i mean you can get around i think you've got to be a little more assertive than this but i think blue's in a pretty good position anyway i guess my instinct would be instead of trying to just out boom red just send in a few nights and actually put some pressure on him so that's easy to say when you're watching somebody else play i mean i like the three town centers i think that's good so he's blue is actually ahead now in villagers and going for a siege workshop okay playing a little defensive thing i think blue could be pushing out a bit more but i can also understand if he wants to make a battering ram and okay mangano all right huh by manganella okay because i don't think berber's gonna be going archers or anything yeah he's gonna be going knights and camels so i'm not really sure because magnus can take out buildings all that well right it might go ramp but he's planning something else i don't know [Music] because yeah megan's wouldn't even be good against spearman i'm not sure why he would make manganese too many idols for blue though interesting with 12 idols where they oh got him in a tower we've got yeah this is what raiding does when you can just be pesky and have a few units everywhere and it's going right by okay yeah i think yeah the mangano for anti-building like battering ram yeah there you go okay i'm making a battering all right i won't harp on it too much do you think red's being better about not focusing so much on booming but focusing on military because you can come in you can get some some kills it's still a two to one death ratio but uh yeah i think red can clean that up pretty quickly so many upgrades here okay yeah actually these are pretty good upgrades yeah nice damage i agree he's done a really good job at applying pressure even though he's been behind for a lot of this uh yeah because basically like it's got bloodlines and all the armor upgrades so these are stronger than you might think like early castleage and forcing so much idle wow 23 idol units against zero for red another villager almost down not quite gonna lose the manganell and certain a flood in with knights this is uh this is getting interesting we got a three town center boom i think by both yep and just so many arms not being used a little surprisingly actually that blue's still in the score lead because i feel like half his economy shut down right now [Music] lose it in pickle right now because he's got no food income and there's so much wood and gold i almost said you need like a market and to rebalance a little bit here do over shops i don't know what that means overshot oh over chop i think red did a pretty good job actually with keeping an eye on that and kind of walling it up as if it's going yeah these scouts yeah i think they could have come in a little bit earlier and maybe done some damage down here but now this town centers around and stuff is a little more well defended at this point and score is narrowing we've got a castle drop [Music] okay i i love this castle drop because you take him off the woodline that he's been fighting for the whole game this is good walling in a little bit lizville just might break this down and this also puts pressure on this town center where two of his golds are his other gold is very forward oh disaster losing all these villagers who are going for the middle yup i can actually understand why you're going for the middle in this situation because you're starting to lose access to some of your gold here and now is when if you want to i think you could add a dock as red if you want to start adding you know sort of control the middle a little bit and the gg yeah nice wow i was actually thinking blue was going to win that for a while but red did send it in usually people send it in when they win but sometimes not yeah that was that was such silly like all the laming at the start and the fact that yeah like blue hit castle age first i think i kind of feel like that's where it was lost it's right at the beginning of castle age for blue i think you just had to be a little bit more aggressive getting nights out it's hard to say because like this food economy wasn't the best and kind of throughout the game like partially because of being lame uh and yeah once that castles up that's gonna be tough to fight out although i'm not really sure i don't know i don't think you'd use it to make units i think this is more about map control and then coming in and about to kill death so the kill death ratio was actually just 50 50 or 31.31 interesting you can just see that that boom that red ultimately have even second to castle h ended up coming out with more villagers and you know like i said like you don't really have to care about the middle if you have an aggressive game like this probably still lots of gold and the rest of the maps pretty boring it's not too much a little bit of stone here and there but yeah it's kind of a it's just a silly game but i liked it yeah the tiniest little armies never really got got big armies going yeah none of these really jump about to i guess the food's the big one that jumps out at me fifty percent more food yeah it's just because of how long the yeah the villagers where garrison seemed throughout the game but you know better castle times or just better advanced times i do think that cass lakes could be a little bit faster and maybe doing a little bit more damage with the scouts and then going straight into knights in castle h but i mean it's so easy to watch somebody else play and say oh they should have done this right i mean it's a lot harder when you're actually in the middle of it it's funny in the email that this was sent in uh the red player sent it in he said that this is another guy that he plays a lot of games with they play a lot of team games together and he says that the blue player wins about 80 of their games when they play one versus one so it kind of felt like you had to make things happen and between like the tower in his base and just all the random shenanigans going on there yeah i definitely made it a messy game and i think that can be an effective way to deal with a stronger player is to just throw them off their game by just hyper aggression so it really worked out for him in this case at least you know what's so funny i feel like all through feudal and castle age blue had the higher score and so it shows you that score can actually be a little bit misleading sometimes as well so anyway if you guys have a good game that you want to send in to me i'll put the email down at the bottom that you can do that at and just keep in mind like i do kind of spread them out a little bit and then every update you know i can't look at the old ones but that's gonna be all for this one thanks for watching guys i'll see you next time [Music] [Music] you

Channel: Spirit Of The Law

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Keywords: aoe2, age of empires 2, definitive edition, aoe2de, sotl, spirit of the law, gameplay, commentary, sneaky, pesky, viewer, elo

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Length: 23min 27sec (1407 seconds)

Published: Wed Oct 07 2020