Ultimate Guide To 2k | Archer Build Order & Early Game | Aoe2 DE

hello everyone and welcome back to another video this is gonna be part three of our road to two guide road to 2k guide definitive edition i've done the series in the past on voobly but i'm gonna refurbish it here on the definitive edition for you guys especially those who are new and didn't quite catch the old series i made this is gonna be the new one and this is gonna be part three in where we can be talking about the bracket of 1100 yellow to 1200 yellow so if you're 1100 something this is the place for you to be i'm going to show you guys what to work on in order to get up to that 1200 and continue improving the hello those on youtube and hello to those on twitch let's go ahead and move on to uh our second game of the day here so i've got some notes here that i want to you know just quickly uh send off before going into the game and it's going to be very so much of the previous uh previous episodes points but this time we're going to take it a step further so the first point is going to be to continue improving the dark age last video or last episode i talked about building placement some basic scouting but i didn't really get into anything builder related i'm still not going to worry about builders right now oh actually sorry i'm going to be worrying about builders right now excuse me a little glitch in the system i'm going to show you guys the proper way to do the dark age to efficiently allocate your um to efficiently allocate your villagers to be able to afford military in the feudal age at a very struck in a very structured way so we're going to be taking a look at a basic build order i actually have these available for subs to my to my stream to my twitch stream and i have them available in my discord i'll leave links to both of these in every single episode in the description i'm going to go ahead and pull up the builder though and actually show you guys what i'm talking about here uh and you know obviously this is going to be free access to builders guys so definitely um you know definitely keep your eyes peeled i'm going to show you guys a few builders today so that's going to be quite nice but the builder we're going to start out with here i'm going to quickly show it to you guys here it's going to be uh okay sorry about that it's going to be the straight arches builder okay so this is the straight archers builder again i've got tons of builders available here i add one every month so definitely worth subscribing to if you're interested um and there this is the one i'm going to be focusing on for this episode so i've got uh straight archers and feel free to take a look at it so it shows you exactly where you want your villagers to go all the way up to castle age i'm telling you what you need to focus on what you need to get you know when to make your archer range when to make your archers and how many villagers on each resource to have so notice in the first episode i just told you guys do don't worry about where your village is going just think of it logically take what resources you need in order to i don't know in order to find um i'm sorry let me focus on what i'm saying here in order to uh fit your plan which is my plan last time to make knights this time i plan to make archers but this is called a bulldozer and this is literally just a structured way to go about the early game highly recommend you guys master these not learn them you master them you focus on this but again i'm an 1100 player i've just subbed to hera and i'm just picking these up for the first time let's go ahead and take a look at them and follow them step by step obviously i know these but if you guys don't know them practice it i recommend you guys print this out and keep it next to you and literally just practice uh you know playing the game and pausing to look at them to look at the builder and seeing and try to follow it step by step practice versus the ai it really helps working on your builders before you go to the ranked lobbies yeah this will be on youtube so this this builder will go out there again i've got tons and tons of builders here i'm only going to be showing a few basic ones on the stream so of course there's still value behind the subwall of course if you guys want to support me further all right so that's going to be the builder i'm going to be using for this episode so i'm going to be going for 21 pop archers that's the builder i've just showcased um you could do 22 pop basically when we talk about 21 or 22 pop it just means how many villagers plus the one scout in the dark age that you have before clicking up to the feudal edge i highly recommend you pick in archer sif guys i'm gonna be very honest with you guys i want you guys to pick sieves that you enjoy playing and stick to one or two maybe three sieves don't play random civ from the start it's not a good idea other people might tell you different things this is my opinion and i feel strongly about it pick sieves and stick with them because it really helps you learn them and learn the game instead of just taking a new sip and being like oh i don't know what to do with this if i'm going to lose because i don't know what to do where can we find the builder question you just have to subscribe to my twitch stream which costs 4.99 it's behind the paywall uh but of course it supports me directly and then you have to join my discord and uh you'll be able to access the uh builders there i add a new one every month there's always an incentive to go check it out okay so i'm going to be doing some archers a few steps come to mind ethiopians britain's are really good um what other archery ships can be uh you know really really strong to take a look at vietnamese can be good vikings can because of it as an archer siv uh there's a lot of good ones mines as well it really depends on which ones you want personally it doesn't really matter to me i'm gonna go with a very simple one let's choose um let's choose mines let's choose mines and again if you choose mines it doesn't matter which one you choose choose one you like and stick with it it's going to make it very simple actually mines are a little bit complicated in the start sorry let's choose a different one let's use ethiopians okay basically the archers their arches fire faster and you get uh really really uh strong firing units so again this is going to be i have to update my dex my text document this is going to be for 1100 elo so i'm going to go ahead and take a look at that all right so this is going to be for 1100 yellow and let's go ahead and hop into this guide so ethiopians with the archer build and let's play against the xtreme ai nowadays we're we've been playing online for a little bit and we're you know feeling pretty good and ready to learn some builders and take um you know kick some extreme ai uh butt pretty much okay let's hop into it and see how it uh how it goes down all right so to start here i'm gonna be uh you know using more hot keys because as always you want to use more hotkeys when you're learning things so i'm going to be adding more hotkeys to my build and my game and notice i'm adding now i go to hotkey go to tc hotkey that's going to help me really get my start down pretty well so again we're going to focus on basic scouting and we're going to focus on uh you know adapting to this builder as much as possible i'm not going to scout with my animals just yet focus on the builder don't focus on getting that perfect dark age but focus on constantly improving your dark age slowly so do things at your own pace if you want to scout with these guys feel free to do it but again not really needed all right good stuff again just going around in circles i'll mention it again you start with four sheep in this case three cows and now i'm looking for either another set of two cows and another set of one cow or another set of two sheep and another set of one cow it's really random how they do in this cows i have six on food let's go ahead and go to wood very nice and again i'm picking ethiopians if you pick any other stuff there's different bonuses but uh we're not too worried about adapting just yet i found my board very important i found my deer but i'm not gonna be worried too much about the deer right now in fact they're not very important at the moment i highly recommend instead of luring deer instead of taking deer you stick to the other food sources which is your sheep your boar and your berries and then farms you don't need the deer at this current point in time okay so i'm going around here and i'm picking up you know my my resources notice how i'm scouting in an arc and notice i'm a lot more efficient in um in the way i'm actually um scouting i'm scouting in an arc and finding my resources a lot faster and my scout isn't stopping it's constantly being moved if you guys will notice that i'm actually tabbing to my tc and going back to my scout fast this is what we call a contr a control group and this is going to be your introduction to control groups for you guys control groups are very important in this game and they're basically manually made hotkeys that you do in game yeah you set the hotkeys in game so the standard one is to just click a unit and click control one that will make its control group one if you take another unit let's say villager and you click control two it'll make it control group two so right now my scout is control group one and when i learn a board you're gonna see later that i make that villager control group two and i'll show you guys how i tab between those tab to a control group you double click that number so if i have uh control group one is my scout i'll double click one and i'll go to it you guys saw that another way to do it though is we do one plus space and that makes it faster actually so one space so notice how you can do it really fast by just tabbing between those and this is how you play faster people always ask me here i can't play as fast as you help look learn practice doing this this is how i play fast i don't i don't have a third hand i'm not playing fast just because i'm genetically able to play faster i play faster because i practice using these build these hotkeys and practice getting my fingers used to do these clicks quickly so again one space to go to the scout and my go to town center button is tab but again it could be different for you guys okay so just thought i'd do a quick lesson there and showcase how i'm doing this kind of having uh very quick very quickly i'm gonna make him control two okay so this village is control two this scout is control one i'm gonna be tabbing between all of them here and meanwhile while i'm learning the board i'm gonna get my next village ready to make a house all right let's there are a boar now and again a lot of people have trouble with the bordering my advice is while the village is running you get anything out of the way done make villagers and then when it's under the town center you shoot it and then you garrison when the boar is under the town center don't scare us in the villager before the the boar is exactly where you want to kill it okay and that will constantly make villagers as you can see i'm putting a lot of emphasis on actually making villagers here a lot of emphasis on continuing to make my village my town center work i'm not just going to be idling it and i don't want to have any villager that's actually idle okay so very nice i'm just looking at a lot of things okay and again well my board's about to run out let's pick up the second board and again this is part of the billboard i say send three to berries and then take one villager to boar and then the next villager will go down to uh to the barriers to make four and again so you know next next board will come in and you'll put this guy under your town center and we're gonna go ahead and shoot him and only garrison him again when the board is under the town center that's when you garrison okay don't garrison before it's a complete it makes it a disaster okay next villager has to make a house okay so next village will make a house it doesn't really matter where you put it again i'm not gonna put too much stress on that just yet okay so at the next step here we're going to send one villager to woods and again this builder is pretty much you know perfected by me at this point i've done it so many times it's literally second nature but if you need to take a pause and figure out when the next village is going to go definitely do that don't don't hesitate next to those will go and make a second lumber camp very good all right so make a second lumber camp again this is all part of the builder i'm not inventing anything i'm not doing anything crazy i'm just following the builder step by step very important and when my ball runs out i'll take some sheep okay so again notice that there's been a big jump in the dark age i'll get loom at the end of it notice i did it with a hotkey there if you guys don't have a hockey just click it obviously i don't recommend your hockey text until you're comfortable with other hotkeys though okay and we're gonna try to limit idle time so drop off your food before the loom finishes and then right away click feudal age okay so you'll notice that there's been a pretty huge increase in dark age between last episode and this episode last episode i was like all over the place i was barely doing anything this episode my dark age is very very clean don't worry if your dark age isn't perfect don't worry it's okay you'll get there but just practice the build orders this has been a pretty standard i don't want to say perfect but very very very well done builds and again this is where you're working towards if you're 30 seconds slowly head out of time if you're losing wheels to board don't worry that's okay it's gonna happen but the more you play the more you'll you know the cleaner it's gonna be and the closer to this kind of time you're gonna get to okay so the builder is available again in my discord guys and hopefully people in chat can help each other i'm just answering some questions here real quick um but the idea is in this early game uh if you remember recall in the last episode i split the age of empires into five parts one for each age dark cage uh feudal age castle age imperial age and post imperial age that's how a standard game of 1v1 arabia 1v1 agent power game goes when you're just starting to learn the game you learn the dark age first okay you do it every time and it's the easiest portion of the game so again in this in this yellow jump of below 1 000 to 1100 your dark age has to get better it has to get better focus resign the game do the dark age reverse the ai then resign then restart work on the dark age work on the builder it takes practice keep trying until you get something similar to this or you get as close to this as you possibly can alright let's keep it going here so after you click up the feudal age now we need to find my opponent so i'm going to continue scouting and looking for my opponent now it's a good time actually to talk about what the map means or how to find your opponent because i do think it's quite important at this elo as well to find your opponent's location not necessarily to do much else so we're going to go ahead and do that but first i'm going to fix the build order and i'm going to send five votes to the second lumber camp and i'm going to take three bills to the gold oh oh sorry oh god i completely messed that up i already had my second lumber camp um so i sent three mills to gold and two bills uh to make five here to my uh it's my second lumber camp oh man speaking of perfect builders today even i made a mistake right now but it's no big deal i also need a barracks at this point as well let's go ahead and send our healthiest bill to make a barracks on the front and notice i have hot keys if you don't have hotkeys for it don't worry you're not going to have a hotkey for everything at this point but you're adding them slowly so that's very good once again a quick recap the mill was touching the berries lumber camp was touching each wood line and the gold there's a one tile space recap from the first episode all right so how to find your opponent basically you want to scout in places so let me talk about this for a second you want to scout in places where your opponent's town center can't be so again your challenge your opponent's downstairs look at my town center it's not near a wood line it's not on top of a gold it's not near the deer it's not near the berries it's near tragler trees and there's nothing around it for a while it's the same thing for your opponent's town center so if i'm looking at my scout here there's no way his town center is going to be right here there's no way and if i run to the town center i can risk losing my scout i don't want to lose my scout but i want to find my opponent so i want to find his you know other resources berries gold he's got some gold here some gold here that means he's in the vicinity and there's some wood here he's in the vicinity i see another stone but he can't be right here okay he's not gonna be right here so i can continue scouting with my scouts in this area and actually not lose my scout to the town center very good tip scout near places where your opponent can't be also the edge of the map you know your opponent can't be in the edge of the map my town center is not near the edge of the map so his won't be either so again a little little tip like that you want to find your opponent's resources because you'll be around those ones but he's not going to be on those ones so you're not going to lose your scout again i see a straggler tree i'm going to be careful this dc might be there i'm going to stick near the wood line and i'll stick to the edge of the map once you get to the feudal age we're going to go ahead and make our ranges and again we want to get our ranges down this is according to the builder now that you guys will practice so we're going to make our ranges here on the front towards your opponent because the idea is to rush him and at this point in futile age it's going to get messy all right i know a lot of you guys probably don't have the feudal age down completely but we're going to try to follow the build as close as possible we'll pick up double bit axe here and we'll send villagers over to the golds until we have seven this is all part of the builder and we'll make a couple farms here just to keep our village production going strong okay so this guy will go ahead and take that and now we're gonna make two ranges and look at that i actually forgot to make a house and these things happen so i'll make a house right now and i'll make some archers so again notice how it's not perfect up to this point i focus on perfecting the dark age but i'm not quite at a perfect feudal age the thing i want to tell you guys is just work on your feudal age try to do it as as good as you can as as as perfect as it possibly can be and i'll use one villager to make some houses i don't know where let's just find a good place for them if that's too far out let's make them in our base again i'm not really too worried about where we place our buildings just yet i'll explain that a bit later on at this point it's just good to get your economy down and notice how you know i'm i'm quite exposed i don't my my villagers are if you come to attack me at any point i could actually be quite exposed so what you could do is start learning how to wall your map so you get some palestine walls down and again i keep talking about house placement you could if you wanted to make some houses as part of your wall it's not something that's very important right now but it's something to keep in mind i'll talk about it a lot in the next episode at 1200 yellow where we focus on being fully walled at certain times all right so notice this is a straight archer builder we're not worrying about if you heard drush or meta arms these are advanced builders we're not worrying about that we're 1100 currently we're not looking to have the most you know hard to do builder we just want the basic stuff and our plan is a bit more than a basic plan remember our first one our plan was just to make nights this time our plan is a little bit more complex than that our plan is to make an arch rush and attack our opponent early with a few archers okay so let's move out here and i'm gonna constantly i'm listening to the builder seven on gold and i'm making farms now with the uh the villages remaining i'm listening completely to the builder right now i'm just doing it well but do it like i said as well as you can alright another big big lesson guys really open up your ears unstrap the helmets sure out the heads just a little bit really make sure they're nice and snug in there this is probably the most important lesson i can ever talk about patrol or attack move let's just let's just get this out of the way as fast as we can now if i send my archers and i right click them if i right click them i want to attack here i right click to the gold what's going to happen is that i walk the gold and if at any point i run into enemy units i'm going to walk past them okay so the problem is if you walk past enemy units you're going to be not attacking them and if they're patrolling they're going to be attacking you okay and if that happens you will lose your army for absolutely no reason other than the fact that you did a patrol well hera what is patrol what does it do well patrol just makes your army patrol back and forth again i'm using the same word to explain it not the best but it basically makes your army go to one spot and go back that's what patrol does you can patrol back and forth so they'll go from one area one end to that end back to there but what it does when you move across the map it does another thing it makes your army fight enemy units as you approach them that's the important part so when you patrol or attack move it's whatever you want they're both very similar attack move they just don't go back to the same spot patrol they'll actually eventually go back to the same spot once they reach the destination but the whole point is you patrol to where you want to go example this wood line or this gold and if at any point you run to enemy units they're going to fight automatically okay let's give an example so if i just move to this gold let's see what's going to happen okay meanwhile i'm going to continue making uh you know adjustments at home obviously that's important okay i i want to go hit this gold i really want to hit this gold and look at this i'm running right through villagers i'm running under a tower i have no idea anything of this happening let's do another one now i'm going to patrol towards the gold i'm going to patrol towards the gold and look at that my army fights so right away your army will fight back and attack enemy units just because you use the patrol command and it's very important to do that so you don't lose your army randomly you see me using formations i probably shouldn't do that it's not very important right now and let's just go ahead and fight our opponent's army it's not important to focus too much on micro but very basic archer micro is just hit and run and if you want to have skirmishes you run a little bit further away back home i should have constantly been making uh you know army constantly been making a lot of economy keep following the builder again the builder tells you exactly what to do at this point it really it's just exactly what you should be doing uh so let's go ahead and do this all right we're gonna pick up wheelbarrow as well it's part of the builder at around 16 minutes you want to pick that up and yeah that's pretty good so notice that for ethiopians i get an extra 100 food 100 gold so on a generic sieve or a different sieve you might not have as many resources as i have now oh i actually forgot fletching that's a big that's a big downside generally you want to pick up fletching before moving out that's part of the builder i forgot it which i'm happy i did because it shows that i make mistakes right it shows i was too busy patrolling i made mistakes i forgot fletching that made you know that made the rush actually weaker your berries will run around 16 minutes by the way i literally tell you in the build order when the berries went out and my builders are actually insane by the way if anyone wants to check them out highly recommend you do so it's not i'm not even selling them i'm just saying it's literally a guide it's my my builders are literally a guide to 1400 and no one knows it basically and no no one is or a lot of people know it but a lot of people also don't know it it's it's such such a hack to get up to elo a lot faster okay so again highly recommend check those out it's it's a little bit greedy for me because it it is behind a paywall so it's a sellout it's a sellout but it's uh it's again very useful for you guys okay so now i'm going to constantly making archers and again i saw my point of having skirms so i'm not really too keen on attacking right now but i have a lot of archers and hmm i could attack but honestly i'm a little bit scared i saw skirmishers i'm not sure what he's doing let's go ahead and just scout what he's doing and i'm gonna keep these guys at home i'll wait to cast legs where i get crossbow all right so now i'm gonna wait till i get the 800 food okay let's look up the castle now okay perfect and again i would recommend at this yellow don't obsess over how fast you're getting it keep in mind that the faster you do this build the faster you would go to cast is the better it is generally generally speaking but don't obsess over the times just focus that you're doing everything correctly and you're doing things in a logical way oh i'm scouting yes he's got a lot of skirmishers okay i'm gonna continue looking around here uh he only has two skirmishers he has two skirmishers i'm gonna attack him i have more army let's go attack him i'm gonna control group my archers archers are now control one we talked about this earlier i'm gonna patrol towards the wood line if i find anything in my path i'll attack it meanwhile back here when i get the upgrades that i tell you guys always to get on the way up again more builder stuff and we're gonna go ahead and send our villagers to not worrying about too much more for now just worrying about our attack now with these archers again i'll patrol to the wood the scout oh it's kind of looking around feel free to scout your opponent here and i'm not worrying too much about civ matchups we're worrying about just what we have and oh beautiful we found our opponent we're attacking them very nice let's go pick up some stuff and again basic archer micro nothing crazy hit and run you hit and then you move forward okay oh a lot of skirms a lot of scrims i don't think that's a lot i scouted two before now he's got a lot of skirms i'm gonna back it up i don't want to lose my archers i'm about to upgrade them here i don't want to lose them so let's go ahead and back them up here real quick and i'll wait till i get my upgrades in castleage i want to take a quick moment to pause here this is where the builders generally end at the start of early castle age i have two tips from now on again very important that up until this point i have a detailed builder in dark age we have a detailed builder and we have a lot of ideas in our mind that we know we know where to place buildings we know what to do in castlage there's only one tip i give you spend your resources on anything that makes sense and don't stockpile the resources one tip cast is all you have to focus on all right and i'm going to show you guys what i mean of that in a second and for imperial age we've got another tip get the 200 pop as fast as possible and don't stop making bills until you have 140 of them at least okay 140 of them don't stop making bills until you get there i see a lot of people stopping at 80 bills very very bad may get in the habit of making bills up until 140 pop and then at that point you'll have you know 60 pop remaining for military and hopefully you'll have enough there and obviously continue to add in hotkeys as you see fit okay so now the builder will end after i tell you guys which upgrades to get in castles which is pretty much these three very important to get them remember this is an economy upgrade it's an investment of resources this is to upgrade my military and notice how i'm getting the body cleaner first not the armor because it's more efficient for archers if you're not sure the general rule is that attack and range for archers is best and armor for melee units is best as well that's the general rule but i have videos on my youtube explaining these in detail at this point you also want to get two town centers because it's important to get up to three town centers and castle age because you want to get more village production the general rule is that you want to make one town center on the gold it doesn't matter which bills you use and another one is you know town another town center on another wood line so you're using two wood lines we're gonna take a third one here and it's just so happens that's touching the stone that's just a benefit notice how i took bills off the farms to do these so i'm gonna put those back to the farms it's only logical and i have so many resources i don't like this i'm gonna spend them i'm gonna get archer armor i'm gonna get the heavy plow the mill upgrade because it's an eco upgrade i'll make a university because i might get you know ballistics from that it's an upgrade that helps your crossbows and makes them uh hit moving targets and let's make one let's make sure one villager is constantly making houses another tip for castlage the house villager i always like to call it but we'll call her i don't know sandy sandy is going to be a house builder the whole game she's gonna be making houses it's just the way to knock the house and again let's patrol across the map era patrol look at this i patrolled and i'm fighting without even telling them to fight they're patrolling and they're fighting this is so good continue fighting very nice okay but back home while you're fighting common mistake you stop spending resources bend your resources i'm using my select rtc hockey and making villagers okay i'll get ballistics now very nice i'll make farms where i can okay very important let's get these upgrades and spend these resources i've got too much gold too much gold i don't like this let's take some of these guys off and let's send them to wood instead very nice and okay continuing to attack very nice continue making archers as well i make a bunch of archers i'm going to try to keep look at my resources as low as possible here as low as possible make villagers and attack your opponent okay why no thumbing i can't afford it if you want to get thumbing you can oh he's got a lot of skirmishers maybe maybe this is not a good fight let's back up okay let's make some more farms get my eco going there's a lot of skirmishes i have to run away because skirmishes counter archers generally speak we have to run away dandy keep making houses sandy don't don't worry about it okay knights we can hit hit and run very basic very basic archer micro hit run hit run very cool hit run notice how ballistics i hit moving targets very effective very efficiently now okay so at this point my economy is looking obviously quite uh you know more or less pretty clean probably better than eleven hundreds can do it i'm gonna be real i can't imitate 1100 perfectly but just play at your level right if your level is to have 10 idols constantly try to work on that the ideal thing is to have zero idols and pretty much spending resources constantly i can fight skirmishers on the hill because i get the hill bonus so that's a good way to deal with counter units another way to deal with counter units is to make the counter to that unit if your opponent if you're playing rock paper scissors and you go rock your opponent goes paper you then have to make scissors if you can switch your move would you switch to play paper okay if you go rock he goes paper and you can you can some for some reason you can switch you don't go paper you don't go rock again you go for scissors you go for the counter to his counter if he's going for skirmishers we can then go for some knights to counter the skirmishes we can go for some siege to counter those as well okay so very important this game is a lot about counters and a lot about unit compositions and all that stuff i i put it in simplest terms for you guys now in this episode sandy banks and villages okay make some villagers type sandy in the youtube comments if you aspire to be like here one day when you grow up maybe after university or make some houses in the corner for your ethiopian empire to thrive under a ruler like me who can micro archers like it's his daytime job and uh yeah and then contribute absolutely nothing to a real life society pretty much okay i'm not spending resources i'm playing really poorly let's spend resources here okay this is how you gauge it okay let's let's let's get there make some nights yeah what else can i do i have no idea what to do hera well let's get a siege workshop the really good building lets you make some siege you can even get a monastery monastery lets you pick up relics which gives you infinite an infinite trickle of gold very important in the late game as we all know gold is very important for late game it's the most important resource in the late game golden stone that is okay so let's go ahead and attack at this point oh look at that thumb ring is good i'm making knights so let's visit the blacksmith well i've got some buildings i've got some things from the blacksmith i can get but i've got too much gold too much gold let's make a market i'm going to balance that out oh i don't want to attack a tower that's not good around all right and i'm going to continue making some nights here make them want i'll make a monk notice how i'm expanding my base now from skirmishers oh i've got the scissors to this paper let's use them let's use them look at that very good i'm using too many formations that have happened i'm sorry about that we'll get into formations later on let's refresh the lumber cap it's something to spend my resources on think of it think of refreshing your lumber camp oh there it is we're fighting now i should pick up armor though right now my scissors are sorry what was my night supposed to be the scissors my scissors need sharpening let's get some let's get some armor um to be able to really shred through his paper okay this uh this analogy is getting way too deep at the end of the day we're gonna be uh experts at rock paper scissors and be pretty much completely terrible at age of empires but that's okay uh okay let's go ahead and run back and uh continue making some nights and notice my resources are stockpiling because i'm not playing fast i'm not playing fast enough this is okay don't panic just work on it yes sandy to continue making houses make more buildings don't be afraid of military production buildings i know a lot of people get really bent out of shape uh when they make like two military productions they feel like they have enough they feel like you know i'm satisfied um this is this is enough i'm like make more they get bent out of shape and i tell them to make more that's it i don't need it's 175 wood that's doing literally nothing if you don't make the building make the building it's not a big deal right you make the building and now my resources are getting too much i can't spend them fast enough let's go to imperial age i have a lot of i have a lot of army i'm going to go to imperial age the reason you want to make army first and not go straight to imperial age is because imperial age is a big investment 1800 uh resources split between food and gold if you just get there randomly like you just randomly click it you're not gonna have a very efficient time doing so um because well you're going to have resources invested into it and you're going to have absolutely oh let's finish making three houses and absolutely no army to even upgrade with imperialism okay let's let's attack i'm not doing anything i'm getting bored with my military sitting on a hill so let's go ahead and attack and again on patrol oh now he's got pikeman and he's got skirmisher hmm so now you might be thinking this is an important time to pause here you might be thinking well he's got i don't know he's got pikeman which counters my knights and he's got skirmishes to counter my archers so i'm dead there's no way i can win this fight he has two counter units oh my god hera you didn't prepare for this actually i did hold on because let's go back to the rock paper scissors analogy actually let's look at a different way i've got archers that counter his pikeman and i've got knights that counter his skirmishes so all of a sudden i'm countering him right i'm completely countering him so who wins because we if look at it one way he's got the counter if you look at another way i've got the counter the person who wins is the person who takes the engagement the best i'm gonna hide my my rock i'm gonna hide my rock from his paper i'm gonna hide my sisters from his rock which is the pikeman okay so again i'm using my counter which is archer's tequila spikeman i'm going to use my knights which is the kind of skirmishers to kill his skirmishers and whoever does this better will win the fight so let's go ahead and do that i'm going to use my archers to kill the pikemen and the knights to kill these skirmishers and it just so happens that gold units tend to be slightly better or way better actually than non-gold units in terms of raw stats and so my gold army is in an absolutely decimates it absolutely decimates his army look at that i lost like literally no units okay but during the whole time never stop making villagers again you wanna try to get the 200 pop now oh get this uh you know farm upgrade here very good and again that's just how you play this monk is converting my knife let's run away again that's a counter we're gonna use our counter to his mouth to snipe it see that very very nice let's make more uh army i'm lacking gold now let's sell some wood feel free to use the market here at this stage in the game it's okay and constantly make villagers at this point i might want some castles so let's maybe take some stone that could be a pretty good use and oh i can get a hand card that's a pretty good upgrade it's a it's a upgrade that's helped your economies let's get it oh i'm missing upgrades that's not good okay well we don't need any more houses because sandy did a hell of a job over there uh we need more sandy's in the world that's for sure um okay let's go ahead and take out his army and again i'm waiting for impurities because i'm going to be getting more upgrades now let's go ahead and get cavalier and let's go ahead and get our blessed from the um blacksmith we're going to prioritize our armor i'm sorry an attack on the uh on the rblist and we're going to go ahead and get chemistry as well because that's all the upgrades for it i got all the upgrades for my units pretty much nothing too crazy going on but i'm not looking to expand my map now i'm looking to just attack my opponent okay i'm looking to attack my opponent and one more thing i want to talk about here so in dark age buildings are way stronger than military waves way stronger think about it your military is a militia you can never kill this town center with militia you need like 60 or 70 militia to kill it very very unreasonable in feudal age it's still pretty unreasonable you have scouts meta arms you can never really kill this town center but those guys they're too weak in cast slade you have nights nights in pretty big mass like 20 nights can actually take out a town center you have a lot of pierce armor so you don't take a lot of retaliation from um from the arrows that it shoots in imperial age units become way stronger than buildings in fact the the castle the strongest building in the game uh or maybe maybe bomber tower and castle can be easily taken out by trebuchets you can easily run under them with you know cavalier with paladin so again don't be afraid of buildings now and now that i'm in imperial age and getting my imperialist upgrades i can easily kill his buildings if i just sit underneath them and uh completely take them out so don't be afraid of these guys and let's continue making more and more units i can take this goal then i'm actually lacking some goals let's go ahead and take that never stop making bills constantly make bills i haven't done a great job of making bills this game again continue making bills at your own pace and really now take out your opponent don't be afraid of his buildings in imperial age okay i've got a lot of wood i can't keep selling the price gets weaker and weaker let's make a mill and six farms that way i get more food and i get less wood because i don't really need wood at this point i'm floating too much of it i'm just trying to spend my resources and get the 200 pop as fast as possible in fact i'm making too much cavalier it's too much gold let's get light cap just to tone down the gold a little bit and make our blessed as well all right gifting some uh gifting some subs here is atomic slashes just wanna say thank you real quick and thank you to all the people who supported the channel meanwhile we're just wrapping up this episode here and hopefully we've uh we've all learned something uh about the rock paper and scissors uh dodge the mega oh taking the big shots well it happens to me as well uh okay now i've got enough for castle where do i put my castle um generally speaking it's good to make it on hills because it lets you control the map i'm not going to be worrying too much about castle placements so bottom line is make the castle anywhere you want it um i want to end the game so i'm going to make the castle forward if you want to defend yourself make it in your base let's do it here okay so let's go ahead and just completely run over the ai now and again i'm doing my best to get to 200 pop now remember that was the thing i talked about before the video started you want to get the 200 pop an imp that's your main goal so let's get to 200 pop as fast as possible here we're going to constantly try to balance my eco and get up to 200 pop as much as i can i don't like a lot of wood wood does nothing in this late game okay so let's go ahead and completely destroy our opponent now raid him all all over the map and and again don't be afraid to trade units oh that's that guy's bugging out uh don't be afraid to trade units you have so much so many units on the field right now that if you lose one or two for you know to be under his town center it's worth it you're completely idling everything he's got and you're completely overrunning him okay all right so again i'm not focusing on composition right now i'm not focusing on anything too crazy i'm just focusing on getting uh to imperial legend getting to 200 pop as fast as possible while constantly making villagers okay notice if i got too many villagers here i can just simply expand to other resources cool very nice i can do some more villages on this gold as well refresh the lumber camp um make more farms i'm just investing my resources trying to keep spending them pretty much that's what you should do cassidy onwards and yeah just uh just waiting for him to resign at this point i've got nothing else to say at this point um i really i feel like i've said it all for what i want to cover this episode all right that that's that that's a that's a preview for the for the next episode that's when you're like in cal one class and your teacher shows you what uh i don't know what an integral is you're like oh [ __ ] uh what is that he's like don't worry about it you'll learn it later that's what the split is basically okay and gg wow very nice play there from hera he hey ai stood no chance at this point and uh yeah it was a very nice move to end up the game here with the good old black death guys the game was over i just didn't know when he was going to resign and i don't want these episodes dragging too long okay so don't use black death but use it in pure lag if you just if you know the game is over okay the game was over don't hate it don't hate on a cheater the game is over if anything he was wasting all of the time so i just wanted to you know quickly destroy the ai here but just a quick recap here on what we learned today we learned a little bit about army micro patrol basic basic stuff when it comes to attacking our opponents and we also perfected our dark age well not perfected but we improved our dark age and we started to learn our feudal age in our builder i want to i really want to emphasize in this yellow range 1100 all the way up to like 1100 1200 maybe 1300 i really guys don't focus too much on castles and imperial age focus a lot on feudal age put your energy into learning how to do a proper feudal age and put your energy on doing a proper dark age as well cast legs if it's really messy it's okay don't worry about it if you're not spending research fast enough practice it but definitely don't lose sleep because you're not getting the perfect times or because you're you know you're you're not making you know the most efficient micro moves and all that good stuff in castle age really just focus on the feudal age at this point it's going to be much more beneficial for you and then in castlage focus on spending your resources as fast as possible at your own pace do it as best you can and in a purely try to get the 200 pop as fast as you can again as you can see this game i didn't even get there so i it's okay if you don't get there you just focus on getting as fast as you can by doing this i put emphasis on creating units on attacking your opponents and are actually constantly making villagers and that's the things you need to work on pretty much

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Length: 40min 41sec (2441 seconds)

Published: Sun Jan 10 2021