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I'm a pretty casual player, but I have one single advantage over other casuals: boat good, boat fun 😊

wood please

this right here is called min maxing and its what's killing rts. new people coming into the game don't know this and don't care to know it but will be immediately turned off when they face an opponent that knows this as a base rule. its way worse in starcraft but it applies here too. having randomness like that prevents min-maxing and the death of rts. I will die on that hill that ultra min maxing things on rts will always bring death to the genre because otherwise you could play the windows calculator instead of a game. A game needs to feel organic and real, min maxing destroys that.

Also you can deconstruct an enemy villager to get huge advantage!

Common atlantean W. *cries in 150 wood farms.

really great video, love your content but it's hard to carry you on tgs, amigo :))))))

Thank you. This video helped me realise how newbie I am. Very informative.

3:17 lmao

"bro, yes I use windmill method." 7:50 : the windmill method

One thing that could be added: the impact of floating resources. It doesn't matter how many extra resources you have if you aren't spending them. And you can also waste resources by spending them ineffectively (like getting a tech that doesn't influence anything you have or throwing lone units into an enemy army). The floating resources can be explained by saying that the race is resources spent rather than resources collected. The wasted resources is basically pushing yourself backwards in the race analogy.

Very interesting and well presented. Great video, thanks! I will never use these strats, but I love how people come up with these ideas

this is awesome and super applicable across all RTS

Great video, very much a casual player myself, just finished the campaigns, be it on titan difficulty. Competitive play just never really appealed to me in RTS, I rather play single-player just have to deal with some efficiency but also just build up an overwhelming force. Glad AOM also caters to an audience going for that.

Automatons are cool

Really cool and helpful video, thanks for your work!

I don't really see what the one concept is that every new player needs to understand. Many concepts were presented here. Like you can outgrow with economy, you can slow the economy of your enemy with raiding, it's only relevant how your economy does in relation to the enemy's. You can calculate defensive abilities and transfer its effect into ressources, you can do the same with offensive abilities. Yeah sure. Still players need to be aware that those abilities scale completely different and need player awareness to be casted at the right time etc. So the only way I see to have 1 concept that is teached here is the concept: "You can calculate and compare things in RTS" :D Which is so generic, I don't know if it counts as advice. BTW: Imho the most important concept is missing, which must be teached to beginners: Lanchester's Law, especially that there is a linear and a quadratic version of the law. It's the reason why 20 Knights vs. 10 Knights does not end with 10 Knights left and the other army dead but rather 15 Knights left. The quadratic version is even wilder, but only applies if you have ranged units all able to attack together. Without it you cannot really understand why Fire Galleys win vs. Galleys in low numbers and lose in big numbers.

You may brag about your clicking ability, but I will continue to build a nice house for my single sheep!

Seems like this mf can explain uni level macroeconomics only talking about aom

Refrain from using Soyjacks next time. Otherwise good video.

you have a great sense of humour! made me laugh a lot, pretty frequently too. subbed

One of my favorite bits of new player advice is from Day9 - the "just kill him" principle. This is his response to "what if my opponent is doing some weird, off-meta strategy?" His point is that the meta strategies are generally good because they are strong, and they are strong because - if your opponent isn't prepared for it - they will just die to the meta strategy. Stepping back from the "just kill him" principle, I think a lot of new players often find themselves in a difficult situation and want to know "what should I do from here to win this game." When, in a lot of situations, there is nothing you can do NOW because you lost the game 5 minutes ago. If your opponent over-booms and then comes out swinging with a big, deadly army, well, you should have had a timing attack earlier and killed him before he got his big, deadly army. This also ties in with your "skilled players look at replays" thing. You didn't lose the game when your last town center is destroyed. You lost the game the moment you fell irretrievably behind in army and econ, which is typically at least a couple minutes earlier.

No build orders, just vibes, got it

go play like 2 games of StarCraft and you'll learn all this stuff immediately

nice

Coming from AOE3. Very insightful video. Thanks!

Subscribed at the dark knight meme 😂❤ Great video!

Thanks 🤗🤗 I wholly enjoyed this video! Somehow I didn't subscribe after the previous two videos I watched some weeks ago, so here I go subscribing 😁😁

You just got another subscriber!!

Seems like the bulk of Automaton's audience is also smart enough to be playing the youtube algorithm meta. If you sit there quietly and don't engage less people will receive this vault of game changing information

because of my affection for aom, retold was the first rts ive tried to play online. i had some pretty great success early on. i played almost exclusively kronos and had a lot of fun. but i started losing as my elo rose, and suddently i dropped below 1000 and stopped playing. now i cant even beat the hardest ai anymore because i overcorrected my playstyle into a more defensive one, without having the macro skills to back that up.

thank you!

Im an AOE2 player, but i geto you so much!! and i think that this happens more in AOE2 than in any other game, becouse i have had casual convesations with people when AOE2 is mentioned and maybe they go like oh yes i play that game sometimes im pretty good, and if you ask more, they say that they always beat their friends when they play, or the pc, but they never play ranked ladder, so they are like good casual player, but not eaven close to the competitive world and madness that we love and crave.

Interesting, I was considering making a video on this exact topic. It took a long time for it to occur to me that there was a conflict between economic and military progression. I've always enjoyed the economic side far too much to even consider slowing it down. And of course this understanding naturally leads to understanding timing attacks.

Nice video as always

What elo would you say you should start practicing raiding?

3:47 I wholeheartedly agree with you, king

I sincerely appreciate you and the extremely high quality you deliver with content.

0:00-4:00 strong. 4:00-endgame weak...I feel personally attacked

aah fuck that story of 6 year old Automaton made me grin from ear to ear. Love your content! I hate hate raiding since I always pity villagers, but I'll definitely try and use my army asap. I always find myself panicking when three enemy units enter my base but I feel like using three units myself is not enough of a threat. :D

meanwhile, all viewers after watching the video: *builds only villagers to maximize ressources and loses every game* also these exact same viewers: *suprised pikachu face*

Wait WHAT! Im 20 minutes in and I just checked the view count. That's wild man, this deserves more views for sure. You're crystalizing some ideas I've been vaguely aware of for a while now in such an eloquent way. Framing it as a race makes perfect sense to me. It's like I already knew this but I didn't realize what it was I knew. This is definitely gonna improve my gameplay. Subbed.

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You didn't really show how you wanted people to place farms though, without the corner farms...

aaaand they patched the exploits.

I wanted to turn on subtitles but it's so filled with typos like apostrophes in plurals and its/it's that it's completely unreadable. TH-cam's auto-subtitles would've done a better job at this point.

The originals visuals are unparalleled. Retold is very nice, but nowhere near as good as the original.

I didnt know cats play aom so good 😂

Really thanks

French guy saying fuck*** thanks