-Build a house near your mining camp to have space for safe farms. (Minor tip) -Get wheelbarrow asap(the sooner you get it the better the pay off)if you plan on feudal aggression, followed by the 1st woodcutting upgrade, -As soon as you see the second tc that should be a sign to all in. Your opponent spent a lot of resources to build it. And you have a slight advantage in army. - an all in would mean getting siege engineer and plus1 ranged armor. And commit to a unit comp and pump out as much as possible. -imo going up @12:31 was a mistake. But ig it depends on your plan. You have to remember that with the second tc you are on the clock
Adding farms is good for English since it’s cheaper, but right now wood is in high demand. Really to wood and slowly add farms one or two at a time not one whole farm. 1 mill + 8 farms is 50 + 37*8=346. That’s nearly the wood required for a tc. You can translate some of that into archers or horseman.
Try to pull a few units from your main army and see if he’s trading, harass or to be annoying. Push them to the flanks and attack walls. Force him to react.
OK so I am only plat myself but here are my notes: As others have noted, your issues are 90% army micro and management during battles. You did assign hotkeys to infantry, ranged, and cav which is a good step 1. But from then on it fell apart in each battle. During the battle at 27:00 you right-click to have your infantry go after his mangos. However he had them well protected and that entire infantry mass was melted by his crossbows as they tried to walk around his army to get to the mango. At the same time, your ranged mass was just standing still eating mango volleys. By the time you realized it and moved them to stagger formation it was far too late. During the battle at 29:00 you split off your cavalry but then had them not participate in the fight at all, allowing his full army to have its way with your non cav units, then turn around and mop up your cav separately. You basically threw each half of your army away. Practice getting the cav into position and then hitting A-move. The battle at 32:00. You have more than enough infantry to keep his cav at bay. He has a huge mass of ranged units all packed together. Imagine if you had three mangos on your backline to say hi to them. Even one mango instead of the pointless bombard you sent out could have helped. During the battle like 37m on, you had your rally points set too far forward, and you were just feeding units to his arrows before they even dealt a single DPS of damage. Raids are absolutely key at gold level, most players get flustered by the distraction and over-react. Little groups of 5 horsemen on their own hotkey periodically sent around to the back of his base could have held his attention while you moved your main army in. The good news? Your eco was done very well, and on the back of that you managed to last far longer into the late game than I'd have expected after you got wiped at 32m. So overall: Move to being on the receiving end of siege damage to being on the giving end of it. Send in periodic raids. Always fight under towers. You're not far from what you need to move up!
Yo, thank you for all the great advice here.y micro during digital is something that has to get better if I want to keep moving up. It's something I really focus on so if you don't mind taking a look a a couple of my more recent posts and let me know if you see an improvement. I feel like this game was a turning point in how I manage my armies during fights. Raiding is another thing I want to be getting better at. In fact, my whole series of games lately are all aggression builds. No 2TC King Emglish normals stuff. So that instinct is at least getting better, maybe not quite execution yet. Good call on seige. I've noticed a big change in how I think about and use seige. All good stuff here for me to digest and I appreciate the time and the thoughtfulness of your response here. Really appreciate the support!
@@memyselfandi6303 disagree, playing aggressively he should have more on wood and add one or two farms as long as he can maintain unit production. The entire time
Early game to castle almost perfect. Love the relics, the sites. I would prefer your king to L shape Shift toward the berries because he love berries or gold. But you ran to his spear, it happen. No big deal. 23:03 that is a terrible keep. Move it up, I know you want the gold mainly but, that is a perfect spot for gold and protect sacred site. Big Mistake. 24:12 first big fight, why are you running away from your tower, you not fighting over gold or secret site. Watching you set up your tower for speed boost and running away from it is hard. 29:12 second big fight, what is this cavs movement? You have twice the amount of horse and you running? Some how his 10 horsemen end up at your longbow first, and your 20 cavs still searching for target. You have cavs superiority, take the fight or dive in, idk why you are dodging or zig zaging his cavs. I want you to consider sacred site victory as an option. If you somehow end up having map control early game like this, lock down the site with towers and keep. Which you did with mid tower, and replace the keep location up top, a few tower bots. Prefer you to be fighting over objective with tower and attack speed boost then randomly charging head on into enemy. Remember sacred site victory only 10 mins most of this booming civs want more time to boom, you putting them on clock.
also i see you spam uprade boiling oil, springrald every thing from berk. No need, No one is going to torch down your berkshire, they will treb that thing from a mile away. I want university uprade. I want fire arrow, legit will melt anything in that comp with that range. Or infantry from university. Skip the cavs because you look kinda bad with it. I want you to funnel rss into your army, because if you win fight, your berkshire will never get damage.
Great call on sacred victory. For sure against booming civs like this it is an aggressive move that forces them to have to react. Will definitely be thinking about this in the future.
Try to build a stonewall in front of the ememys base. Put in your troops that need protection from cavalary. Build some mangonels and trebuchets in there. This needs some practice. But it's a alternative to the useless meat grind, thats not working if the enemy's eco is up too.
For real. I was trying to flank the horseman around onto his huge crossbow mass and just took so many unnecessary losses. I'm going to work hard at control grouping my armies so ranged is in a separate command than frontline. See how that changes my control. Thanks!
For SURE! I find myself pulling back at the exact WRONG times all the time. I wipe and army and I think, "Ok, I'm way ahead now, let me work on my eco for a minute..." when I should be just dropping 3 rams and pushing into his base for damage. Good mindset. Thanks for the support!
-Build a house near your mining camp to have space for safe farms. (Minor tip)
-Get wheelbarrow asap(the sooner you get it the better the pay off)if you plan on feudal aggression, followed by the 1st woodcutting upgrade,
-As soon as you see the second tc that should be a sign to all in. Your opponent spent a lot of resources to build it. And you have a slight advantage in army.
- an all in would mean getting siege engineer and plus1 ranged armor. And commit to a unit comp and pump out as much as possible.
-imo going up @12:31 was a mistake. But ig it depends on your plan. You have to remember that with the second tc you are on the clock
Adding farms is good for English since it’s cheaper, but right now wood is in high demand. Really to wood and slowly add farms one or two at a time not one whole farm. 1 mill + 8 farms is 50 + 37*8=346. That’s nearly the wood required for a tc. You can translate some of that into archers or horseman.
These tips are for if you plan on playing aggressively.
Good job raiding. Try to be annoying the whole game.
By 17 minutes you can see the clock ran out.
Try to pull a few units from your main army and see if he’s trading, harass or to be annoying. Push them to the flanks and attack walls. Force him to react.
OK so I am only plat myself but here are my notes:
As others have noted, your issues are 90% army micro and management during battles. You did assign hotkeys to infantry, ranged, and cav which is a good step 1. But from then on it fell apart in each battle.
During the battle at 27:00 you right-click to have your infantry go after his mangos. However he had them well protected and that entire infantry mass was melted by his crossbows as they tried to walk around his army to get to the mango. At the same time, your ranged mass was just standing still eating mango volleys. By the time you realized it and moved them to stagger formation it was far too late.
During the battle at 29:00 you split off your cavalry but then had them not participate in the fight at all, allowing his full army to have its way with your non cav units, then turn around and mop up your cav separately. You basically threw each half of your army away. Practice getting the cav into position and then hitting A-move.
The battle at 32:00. You have more than enough infantry to keep his cav at bay. He has a huge mass of ranged units all packed together. Imagine if you had three mangos on your backline to say hi to them. Even one mango instead of the pointless bombard you sent out could have helped.
During the battle like 37m on, you had your rally points set too far forward, and you were just feeding units to his arrows before they even dealt a single DPS of damage.
Raids are absolutely key at gold level, most players get flustered by the distraction and over-react. Little groups of 5 horsemen on their own hotkey periodically sent around to the back of his base could have held his attention while you moved your main army in.
The good news? Your eco was done very well, and on the back of that you managed to last far longer into the late game than I'd have expected after you got wiped at 32m.
So overall: Move to being on the receiving end of siege damage to being on the giving end of it. Send in periodic raids. Always fight under towers. You're not far from what you need to move up!
Yo, thank you for all the great advice here.y micro during digital is something that has to get better if I want to keep moving up. It's something I really focus on so if you don't mind taking a look a a couple of my more recent posts and let me know if you see an improvement. I feel like this game was a turning point in how I manage my armies during fights.
Raiding is another thing I want to be getting better at. In fact, my whole series of games lately are all aggression builds. No 2TC King Emglish normals stuff. So that instinct is at least getting better, maybe not quite execution yet.
Good call on seige. I've noticed a big change in how I think about and use seige. All good stuff here for me to digest and I appreciate the time and the thoughtfulness of your response here. Really appreciate the support!
You do really well with your eco side of things, it is now just your control of your armies
@@memyselfandi6303 disagree, playing aggressively he should have more on wood and add one or two farms as long as he can maintain unit production. The entire time
Early game to castle almost perfect. Love the relics, the sites.
I would prefer your king to L shape Shift toward the berries because he love berries or gold. But you ran to his spear, it happen. No big deal.
23:03 that is a terrible keep. Move it up, I know you want the gold mainly but, that is a perfect spot for gold and protect sacred site.
Big Mistake.
24:12 first big fight, why are you running away from your tower, you not fighting over gold or secret site. Watching you set up your tower for speed boost and running away from it is hard.
29:12 second big fight, what is this cavs movement? You have twice the amount of horse and you running? Some how his 10 horsemen end up at your longbow first, and your 20 cavs still searching for target. You have cavs superiority, take the fight or dive in, idk why you are dodging or zig zaging his cavs.
I want you to consider sacred site victory as an option.
If you somehow end up having map control early game like this, lock down the site with towers and keep. Which you did with mid tower, and replace the keep location up top, a few tower bots.
Prefer you to be fighting over objective with tower and attack speed boost then randomly charging head on into enemy.
Remember sacred site victory only 10 mins most of this booming civs want more time to boom, you putting them on clock.
Sacred site victory is very common in aoe4, don't need to be burning TC.
also if you Full screen, on the map there is a relic by the wall on the south side just laying.
also i see you spam uprade boiling oil, springrald every thing from berk. No need, No one is going to torch down your berkshire, they will treb that thing from a mile away. I want university uprade. I want fire arrow, legit will melt anything in that comp with that range. Or infantry from university. Skip the cavs because you look kinda bad with it. I want you to funnel rss into your army, because if you win fight, your berkshire will never get damage.
Great call on sacred victory. For sure against booming civs like this it is an aggressive move that forces them to have to react. Will definitely be thinking about this in the future.
Try to build a stonewall in front of the ememys base. Put in your troops that need protection from cavalary.
Build some mangonels and trebuchets in there.
This needs some practice. But it's a alternative to the useless meat grind, thats not working if the enemy's eco is up too.
For sure. That's so tough to do in thay circumstance but I see where you're coming from for sure. Thanks for all your tips!
You need to practice controlling your army better my dude 29:00 you lost a lot of troops that could have just been pushed back to the Berkshire
For real. I was trying to flank the horseman around onto his huge crossbow mass and just took so many unnecessary losses. I'm going to work hard at control grouping my armies so ranged is in a separate command than frontline. See how that changes my control. Thanks!
You need to play like ur trying to finish ur opponent early as possible
For SURE! I find myself pulling back at the exact WRONG times all the time. I wipe and army and I think, "Ok, I'm way ahead now, let me work on my eco for a minute..." when I should be just dropping 3 rams and pushing into his base for damage. Good mindset. Thanks for the support!