The Bombard Tower Wall

hey what's going on guys and welcome back to a 1v1 arena game what is it 2016 people who watched my channel back then there were arena uploads on the daily not so much nowadays but this is a really special one and something I've never seen before that's saying something as someone who's uploaded almost 1400 videos now I think that's the number in this video there's obviously going to be the big unique climax very interesting ending in the Imperial age but I have other things I want to talk about like the fact that MBL has an idol villager yo one of the best players in the world by the way hello lady social distancing does not apply to video games what's funny is I just casted this for 10 minutes didn't like how I started the video and I didn't see this the entire time so now we're just gonna wait ok MBL figured it out finally that's that's funny anyways so this is a 1v1 arena game it's Turks for both players and MDL really likes Turks it's very strong sim and I actually want to start this off with a story because both these players will be going fast castle it's probably my favorite thing about arena games because I can really break down the games and the matchups and talk to you guys and chill before the action gets going but over the years I've had a few unique opportunities to have some meetups whether they're meetups organized by myself or Atlanta vents I have been able to meet many people who watch my youtube videos and might watch my streams in person and so the last time I did that was in January of this year in Hamburg Germany and it was really cool actually because there was an official area where people could come up and like you know talk to me and take some photos and whatnot which was really awkward for me because even though there's a lot of people who watch streams and watch videos I don't feel like the type of guy that anyone would ever wait in the line for I feel like the type of guy where if there's more than 5 people in line now we move on we're not talking to that loser right so anyways it was a cool and many people were able to talk to me and say thanks and ask me questions and whatnot and one question in particular has always stuck out because normally people are just saying thanks and saying like what's your favorite thing about Germany above all blah right well one guy came up to me we had a brief chat and then he said t90 why aren't Turks seen more frequently and he was really really convinced that Turks are one of the best cities in the game now I don't agree that Turks are one of the best cities in the game because it always depends right it depends on the situation I think Turks are one of the best sibs in unique situations and this right here is one of the situations that can be strong with arena I think a high level play the fact that Turks do not get elite skirmisher and pikemen and halberdiers is something that can be abused if it's Arabia and someone makes an archer switch and you don't have your own archer so you don't have a siege workshop out yet you're you can be dead and so often in one be ones elite skirmisher is something that high level players are able to to mix into their army compositions so on arena that's not really an option because Turks get a guarantee of gold if they run out of gold it's not a big deal on this map because by the time they run out they've already banked up gold that makes sense so to that person out there I just kind of wanted to start this video off and say here you go man you have Turks V Turks this is a dream for you and it is guaranteed that Turks will win this game it's also guarantee that Turks will lose this game but I can only do so much anyways McGuffey he's he's a very good player I believe he's from Belgium so I'm not sure he's in the top 100 and MBL you guys are probably all familiar with from Norway I want to fly favourite players to watch and I've been producing content his YouTube channel recently I don't know if I'll be able to but when I get an opportunity what I've been trying to do especially with people who have let's say less than like five thousand YouTube subscribers if I cast one of their recorded games and trying to put their point of view in the description so if he ever uploads that I'll try and get it there for you so you could see it and I can kind of thank them because I you know making content off of their content but you know without much else to talk about right now you know we talked a little bit about Turk options before I wanted to jab with you guys a little bit about what's gonna be upcoming as far as content goes in Age of Empires to the fact that Turks get free huh Sartre is such a strong early Imperial Age opening and that also extends to early castle II so what you'll likely see this is so common on arena in general is fast castle from both of them into a stable and then some Scouts and Turks getting the free light cab upgrade when they arrive in Castle age means that the Lightcap can pick off those mums pretty quickly and I've actually seen Turk wars on arena turn into this funny situation where both players have sent out ten different monks and they kept getting sniped by the light cab because like have such a strong bone is there so that that's what I'm expecting I also think that MDL might go for something a little bit different because right now he's building a an all-in-one mining camp multi-purpose mining camp mining camp between the gold in the stone not something you see too frequently from high-level players and gonna be all night shaken from it a little bit as he's going to stone and yes I've seen parts of this game but I always like to keep you guys on your toes okay so mech Luffy is on the way to the next stage the way he's farming makes me think this is either straight bull or he is gonna go for the approach I mentioned where he builds the barracks and builds a statement what I wanted to bring out I just kind of inform you guys and discuss with you guys is how my contents been structured recently and what to expect over the next month right because even though I'd like to stick to a regular schedule it's impossible for me to do that because things are always different in the Age of Empires 2 community some weeks I have days where there's not a lot scheduled coordinate wise I'm like just castrated games I love those days but they don't even happen all the time my motivation comes and goes for different things you guys your interest comes and goes with different things too so over the last few weeks I have upload I've been streaming a lot either lo ela Legend content on Tuesdays community games on Fridays or doing things on the red bull channel on weekends or like playing on the weekend right so I haven't had a dedicated weekend to just cast expert one B ones and break down strategy instead what I've been doing is I've been doing that in YouTube videos now this coming weekend into the next couple weekends there's a tournament called Battle of Africa - posted by memba and it's a team game tournament which is very unique to de it's the first team game tournament on de and so that's gonna take up a lot of my time on weekends and that also means that the best games will come to use it right so my plan for uploads for those that are wondering and maybe if you wanted to give input on this is obviously upload the best sets and it's definitely the final stages of what I cast in battle of Africa but also I'm gonna continue doing the YouTube only content for one B once I find myself enjoying streams when it's tournaments I find myself enjoying streams when it is low evil legends and community games but the ranked ladder right now is pretty hit or miss for me as far as good strategy goes because of the map pool and just a couple motivation factors I would say so instead what I've been doing is I've just been really particular about finding good games to bring to youtube so this is both me telling you that that's kind of my plan and this is also me once an input on that game plan if that makes sense so let me know I guess but I think it's a good game plan you guys have left a lot of comments and likes on the videos where I do dedicated time for YouTube and that normally says it not right so anyways back to this game it's crazy too because we're closing in on two hundred thousand YouTube subscribers so I'm trying to to find a rhythm that works for everyone and constantly trying to switch it up to keep you guys on your toes a little bit but McGuffey has gone for the standard approach the standard build now he knows MBL's reputation he knows how good MBL is he probably is going to try and beat him and this is the most he's not gonna come in here to lose but yeah this is the most meta approach MBL he's won a few thousand games in his career he he's not going for the minute he's going for something different different is why you come here I'm sure so he arrives to Castle age he adds a TC so he wants to boom a bit notice how he's banking up stone so he's thinking about the Janissaries and McGuffey he's running around with the light calves he sees all five relics on arena since the relics are in the middle it's really important to snag them up and as I mentioned like calves have a bonus against those monks so they can be really well MBL's not investing into more light calf so he wants to get good value from this one and he's patrolling on one of the closest relics to his opponent and maybe he figures if I can get a castle up and get a future nurseries out there quite good against like calves and so I just had to buy my time basically is what he's probably saying to himself I sees the gates there and he knows a month might be coming McGuffey doesn't see that this is this is something you have to pay attention to an arena it guard those monks with everything you've got especially in a turf war there's nothing more frustrating if you look back to your base to add a town centre at a farm and then your monkey goes down okay so there's MP Ellen and so he now knows McCloskey must have a monkey out here if there's that guarding like cap he must have a monk but he doesn't want to lose the light calves there's five relic cells so he's running back to his base where MBL has the castle already going up a club he doesn't see this McCloskey might think that MBL straight booming he doesn't really know that MBL's on stone but smart approach from MBL to loop around the stone run up to the edge of the stone wall and then hope that the like calf would stick around it's what I mean I want it anyways and they took some damage but nicoleff we noticed it that's one thing I hope you guys have been picking up on than some of these videos be the top like 150 100 players they're just they're so talented right just a couple small things that separate them from the top 100 the top 50 and at the top 50 to top 20 and a quick left he's a really good player I played a bunch of against him a bunch of times over the past few weeks I think I lost the last two times I played to him one was on arena and I don't know actually he always picks Mongols for whatever reason is the score is 1:1 the last two games but the point point is someone's gonna spin that like I'm trying to compliment myself I swear I'm not he's a solid player all right he knows what he's doing I like I brought that up because it was really good awareness with the life Kaplan Castle enough so here comes up me up economically he's on to TCS which is clean you could look at it two different ways MB L has invested into a castle which delays his town centers a bit because the enormous three or four and then McGuffey he went for the stable and he's actually adding another state point Janissaries are a really insane unit but at this time I think they're a bit bugged it's really weird like I don't know if they fire properly like right there how did four guys with bullets not kill with one shot initially I think the further you are away the less accurate they are like they're missing a lot of their shots here obviously it's the way the monk might be moving to but point is but has been some conversation about Janissaries there's been some conversation about conquistadors not being quite as good on de I think projectiles miss a bit more in general but here comes comes MBL attacking the wall now keep in mind there's just one relic from a Clough e he's guarding this one with his light calf and MBL he'll want them but he doesn't have his own monastery yet it's a good early pressure from him and that's really what this games gonna be about MBL he wants to take control he wants to hold control in this game nicoleff lee adding the third TC now it was a bit surprised to see the second stable at it and to switch in tonight and this is also a sneaky move to delete part of his wall allow the monk to come in with the rail and then just plug that gap he realizes that Janissaries can really snowball out of control if he would have not added that stable that would have just been more farms and more food income for a faster imp and what does imp gain you if MBL takes full control and maybe drops a second castle on your face MBL realizes the light cap from a puppy is over here did I hear monastery from him I did hear monastery from him so he's going to add some monks and hope to get the relics if you don't get good trash units obviously you get the hustler but if you don't get halberd here you don't get elite skirm having gold it's very important in late-game the relics are so close to both players McClung people be happy with to in fact does he not how does he only have 200 I'm sorry there's clearly three on the map right now whoops t90 blind moment but yeah he has two and he'll want more and what he really wants to avoid is MBL snowballing and monasteries and then building a forward castle and going fast in MBL's on his way to the imperial h already now can MBL see this he can see the knights and anybody else thinking uh-oh that's not good it's a lot of nights they have bloodlines and armor so extra 20 HP with bloodlines plus the extra armor it's only H industries the Janissaries are pretty low HP units only 44 HP so MBL's trying to get back to his base I don't know if it's better to fight and die here or save numbers if you if you stop and try and take out the Knights obviously you might kill one or two but then you lose we lose three more Janissaries cuz the ended up losing five but that's good for McGuffey as we can breathe a bit and to MBL now we'll add a few more monks I think Turks don't have the best monks but just anything to convert these Knights he's having two more monasteries which is very peculiar if when your opponent could just mix in light CAV it's very peculiar but at least MBL will know that McGuffey invested more into the castle age and i like the approach to do that because you know you have some room to breathe but you have to understand that if MDL is on his way to impaul red you're gonna be on the backfoot for the time being more eco for McClatchy more population for McClatchy he'll love more relics with the third relic I don't know if he'll get more than that actually that would be four relics for him sorry I guess he snagged that one in the middle behind that attack MBL building a TC out here MBL has very special plan for this game also what's up with this area back here I want MBL to chop through the trees so we can go into the back corner build some houses back there okay so let's talk traditional approaches like calf in to map control into relics in the 3tc boom that is exactly what McGuffey has done the only time that McGuffey has deviated from that meta and that plan and the norm with Turks on arena is when he went for the Knights and the only reason he did that was because how MBL plated and biallas probably too much confidence for his own good hear what he is about to do is a great way to win the game but it's also a great way to lose the game MBL has four monks behind which he's hiding and here he comes with Janissaries he's building to siege workshops in the middle now Turks get chemistry for free which means they can make instant bombard cannons if MBL is able to hold from these nights before they're upgraded or even convert some it could be very good for him and he has five monks I don't think mclubbe he was going was expecting that otherwise he might have added some light cast so I think what I would do in Mecca lucky situations I would back up you know you have more eco because your opponent's gone for a fast rim and I would probably mass not nights but liked having these stables and just wait for HUS R to kick in before engaging what MBL wants to do is he wants to take this map and he wants to keep this map and you'll start to notice he's sending villagers to stone here he'll be sending villagers to stone here he wants stone now if Turks get free chemistry they could build at university and research bombard tower which is pretty pricey actually and the confidence remember yell that just sit here and you know what he wants he wants those relics and there are the relics so everything else think you hold on a second you thought you were getting the relics uh-oh can I get it can I get it yep see uh it's just so funny to watch the monks run I love it I don't know if he could snag these two without losing the monks and I think he he realizes he might need conversion so if he makes it three to two he'll be happy of course temporarily mack fluffy won't have that golden come to also didn't have the gold on the front make love he is like no no no no no I'm not happy about this I don't want to let him get too far away how will this engagement goes it is before hustler comes in or how will this engagement go excuse me MBL gets some conversions the other monks are on the way there they go like the like cab and now hustler will chase them down but in general that engagement was pretty good forever yo that's a lot of Genesis reason that was before any Imperial age upgrades I guess I said that before the ball Martin's went down which really sucks but if he gets the relics adds oh oh here he goes if he gets the relics there we go now he has a little bit more golden come so it's fine actually there's still a relic down here by the way so it will be - 2 - unless someone sags that and now the huh stars are into his base which is awkward that was a funny moment right there a taste envy I'll tried to Walt if there's a hole there somewhere actually could take some losses to that ok so uh all part of the plan for MBL all part of the plan a good rating from McGuffey machlup he won't be happy that he lost those relics but in theory he should get more but the other one that's just pretty close by still can't take out the Janissaries and can't switch into scurbs right so if he's only making huh SAR and think then goes into Cavalier MBL's making camels jew necessary camel is probably better than a lot of what they love we can make so I I just it's just been so well played by MBL up to this point guys I truly think that the meta still clearly is to go stable into this boom but MDL had faith ninja nurseries in the monks and he just held on and now in this composition just straight-up counters what mcguffey's making pretty crazy now it takes so long to get that death ball rolling if it was Turks versus another civilization might not be so strong because your opponent could go for skirmishers but you can't do that in a turf war here comes MBL now and I guess does Mackel if he not see that or what now he sees it but I think he lost his mum Kowt there actually to that hustler that's really good work from MBL and that glove he's now thinking well shoot what do I do sometimes when your opponent's going for a unit a composition that counters you you just have to match the composition so he's making Janissaries and he's gonna make camels because if you make Cavalier and obviously dies to the heavy camel if you make well virtually anything else this counters it so he goes okay I he's now behind in this and he's not gonna have the relics but still he's alive and well in this game he is behind slightly in eco but 115 population first one move forty it's not going to be easy but there's possibilities let's put it that way now remember what I said earlier if you get more relics you take map and arena you start building castles you start expanding you eventually win the game and the meta way there's a way you can invest those resources it's the way you can use your gold and use your stone that can straight up make life miserable for your opponent but if that way that expensive way that bombard towers doesn't work but they Trev it down or make bombard cannons against the bombard towers it could be a way to throw your advantage and BL is getting plate parting now on the camels so he wants to max out on upgrades there and you're gonna see something soon you'll see a research come in the bombard tower research should come in at the University and MVL is going to try and send a message to make luffy like hey I've won this game get out let me go play Arabia whatever whatever message Mecca loafie might receive from the actions of MBL I'm not sure but heavy ploughs stone mining from a fluffy who's still trying to expand that eco back here spending a lot of time doing that still has plenty of gold back here all this gold all of this gold and plenty of opportunity to make a push also will snag those relics and now MBL will start to make this game difficult to win for his opponent he's making stone walls now I only saw this match briefly I don't remember all the small little details but knowing MBL I think he's researching sabahi thinking that's artillery I could be wrong but Zapata he gives Turk CAV archers plus 20 HP and he doesn't have an archer one of my favorite quotes from Dave who most of you know if you don't know I'd be surprised but my buddy my co caster is when he said pro players can be so stupid sometimes and I've made a mistake too I remember I played it 3 B 3 just this week I was tunes and I researched crenellations thinking goes ironclad we can actually blame de on this one because if you remove tooltips which pops up and is crazy annoying which I do when I cast it doesn't you can't see the name of the tech so anyways I can relate MDL and I believe he was thinking about artillery and I believe at this point he starts to actually buy a bit of stone with that gold it really starts to use the market selling some of the food and then buying some stone because he's saving for those towers so he's gone for full Stonewall first this this is what McGuffey Seesmic luffy knows that he's penned in here MBL just sent in the the Janissary as a scout yeah what he doesn't know wait a second ok wait oh oh da you knows these walls I'm here those are the original walls yeah so he doesn't know about the extended wall into this area yet getting iron casting both players getting full upgrades before they go for a big engagement it's a lot of tennis Ares here they're not elite and there's Palmer tower okay so I have never seen this before MBL did the castle wall a few weeks ago and obviously MBL can't take credit for this I think the people who who will take credit for this come from the scenario editor like me when I was a noob but MB chill not only has buffered cannons as opponent will leave his base he's researching bombard tower and there's gilts so after guild you can sell food and get more gold to return and then buy stone and get like the trade at the market is much better for yourself again you you have more gold than your opponent you're going to with the relics you have the extra golden stones here you can close out this game just by starving them out and waiting for another half hour you can do that it's a mirror matchup you should win however MBL's thinking nope I want to make sure that he sees the most ridiculous wall towers he has ever seen when he shows up here comes my coffee now Mike Luffy doesn't know I was there for MBL's comment when he was like the soup team type build towers she shows up very suspicious yeah here it comes it's a lot of stone and a lot of gold put in building bombard towers guys it not cheap and there's a lot more units there for McClatchy in fact he has doubled the amount of units and yes he has Cavalier and hussar against heavy camel but he has more to history behind this so the fight while ends up being probably a decent trade for MBO is worse for MBL and McClatchy is coming for the spam now now the issue is he thought that this area was going to be open land he didn't know that there was going to be towers here and he doesn't have siege to back this up and these turf bombard towers have insane range and did their the siege workshop style so he realizes he has to take these out because this will get out of hand quick MBL has the bombard cannons behind he's now adding his own hussars and his own camels he doesn't have a lot of gold though and this is the risk I talked about I can tell there's many people here on the YouTube video right now some people are thinking well MBL deserves this for trying this strategy it's too cheesy it's too uh it's too much of a flex and then there are other people thinking well high-risk high-reward MBO went for it if it if it works it wins in the game and it's awesome if it doesn't it's just it's how the game should be played right so anyways he's building bombard towers here we have four failed bomber towers here and then four completed on this side and it's not cheap to make those things all the stone and gold costs required on the towers that's just a building also the towers don't hit every single time so there is that aspect of it I think when I would go for here is ramps so MBL's now behind in population and the big one is military population but the clucky's just don't get in capture him if he had five ten rams mixed in with that push he clears up all the towers and he could possibly win the game but he didn't have that initially and now the bombard towers are slowly going up now he goes in and thinks all right well if I could just run past the towers I can raid uh-oh there's walls back here and this is probably something that MBL should have done I think players should do more frequently towers are no towers that extra layer of stone walls is quite nice and he just sent forward more villagers to finish the towers so now we have one two three four five six seven towers eight nine ten eleven twelve about to be fifteen bombard towers for MDL the tower wall look at this look how sick it looks from Blue's point of view man and they're the towers go up in MBL's I okay I still have the stone I have the golden come I'm gonna make more now and if he gets just enough hustlers to take out the siege just enough all bark ends to take out the siege should be okay now bombard towers are really bad against siege ends they think they do one damage to a seed room so you need to have some other units mixed in I hear those villagers yeah villagers being slaughtered McGuffey has a lot of gold and a lot of food he wants to use needs more population space for his military so we can push this back look how many towers are going up look how many towers are going up oops I just miss clicked my bad this is ridiculous it's so risky you saw him almost get pushed there again if Mac Luffy just had sea dreams it would have been crazy he would have mopped it up he would have taken the extra gold to the north and all that you see on the mini-map alright here he comes now behind this MBL has bombard cannons and in front as he's going to build more he's just gonna snipe the siege he's getting architecture for extra HP have you ever seen anything so ridiculous in a high-level game just two huh stars and some camels mixed in to keep the Rams away and the Clough II is not only on the clock because he has less relics and less extra gold he's on the clock because if he doesn't kill the towers now will he ever kill the towers the bombard our wall this is amazing if I was in Mecca few shoes I would not be feeling too good about myself and so the human aspect makes me feel bad for the guy and I get it but in terms of sheer strategy and strength this is unreal I haven't seen this many bombard towers in Black Forest team games where you have traded times an MDL somehow through crazy market abuse has lined up this many towers who have 31 bomb Bartel in a 1v1 game he doesn't even have all five relics he just has to I feel really bad look at these cannonballs here dude ball good good my car there so I guess what he did was he blocked he blocked really well there but you know what does do quite well against the seed Rams the bombard canons get five or six of those and the seed Rams will go down MBL even left a gap they're serving someone melee units can run through and not a single tower went down and the tower number just grows is MBL his letting his towers do the work against the hustlers on the front he was running back and forth there these things also have beautiful range so I need a out range student sir he's obviously out range too huh stars who they don't have range and now that gold counts looking dangerously low for McGuffey MBL has a stone wall to the towers on the left he is fortified wall on the right there's no Reno's none of that stone remaining there and you just you just don't break this this is something made scenarios when you're 12 years old and you want to kill the easy AI with towers this is not something you see in 1v1 games certainly at this level it's crazy now at this point of the video I've already run out of different ways to say that this is unique and crazy so what we're just gonna watch McGuffey struggle as he tries to push this I'm sorry I try and be more more creative but I kind of ran out of things to say here but I think McGuffey is officially run out of steam he's not doing too much here stopped creating maybe a bit of frustration on his part maybe disbelief and yeah Gee Gee how many towers was it 30 to bombard towers I think he lost one or two still had gold in the bank and still had gold to mine - I actually would like to go to the tech tree an embarrassing moment I don't remember the exact cost of a bombard tower I believe it is 125 stone and 25 gold but we'll find out together here I'm a professional um it's gonna show me right okay oh it's a hundred gold whew glad I checked so one a hundred gold per tower he had 32 towers and then 125 stone of Pavia those things are so expensive so I know you math whizzes out there you guys probably gonna do all the math on that right now I didn't pre plan for this video so I'm not gonna do math on that but it equals a lot of resources and a lot of resources that could have easily been put into military he didn't need it MBL just abused and I can appreciate him having a little bit of fun with it hopefully his opponent didn't didn't take huge offense to it it's a good strat it's just impossible to face up against it works for impossible to face up against if the towers go up obviously it's impossible if it works every time okay map exploration MBL didn't explore much she didn't need to I think that exploration probably comes from the time McGuffey got the hustlers into MDL Zico ah more stone collected for MBL and more cold collected I think he sold a lot of food and wood to get that number that does show up there three to two with relics we talked about that mid game and then this timeline does not show the bum bar towers it's insured the bombard towers I think to be a lot more red therefore MDL McGuffey tried maybe maybe if he saw the bombard towers initially what he could have done was backed up and Tecton the secret however it was almost too late at that point right he tried to push in deny them which makes sense because the longer he waits the more towers are gonna go up and even if he had seed Rams five minutes later and he L still would have reached that point so I hope you guys enjoyed this video I don't know if you're like me and used to build bombard towers in Scenario games I used to do it all the time and we don't see it too frequently because of the cost in pro games so I thought it was pretty cool I thought it was unique and that's the end of the video I have some really cool youtube uploads coming over the next few days though I have a video where pros deleted their villagers in-game which I've never seen before and I have a legend of the game who's been playing some fantastic one we once went one of his games as he's recently returned and I can talk more about that once the actual video comes but wherever I see you whether it's on twitch streamer YouTube video as always much love everybody and I'll see you next time for some good Age of Empires 2 content or mediocre or garbage whatever you

Channel: T90Official - Age Of Empires 2

Views: 309,497

Rating: 4.9200544 out of 5

Keywords: The, Bombard, Tower, Wall, Arena, Turks, 1v1, Castle Wall, Bombard Tower, Siege, Architecture, T90, T90Official, 200k, Commentary, Strategy, Kitboga, Most Annoying Strategy, wtf, no, omg

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Length: 35min 31sec (2131 seconds)

Published: Wed May 13 2020