Hey SOTL! I was IdleBrain, didn't really believe that I was playing against you. Had to admit, you carried pretty hard late game, blue held nicely. The protection against raiding on your trade while raiding ours was the nail at the coffin, even though I was thinking I had the game 15min earlier ggwp
Voxer i agree i am coming from league of legends where its so toxic... it so wholesome always to see how nice the age of empires community is this makes this game to my favorite game even if i am not playing so much
When we played you and hera yesterday I didn't know organ guns had such high pierce armor. Guess I should've watched your video about Portugese earlier. Anyway GG
@@fourcgames7568 Guessing that they meant "they" like a gender neutral type dealio, I do the same thing. This was such a badass match tho. Just getting into aoe2 aiming to go online. Comebacks like this put a huge grin on my face
SOTL: This is really bad, I should not have done this Me with 900 ELO: Haha yes of course what were you thinking All joking aside, love the vids dude. You're the reason I started playing ranked games in the first place.
For me it was his video about should you garrison archers in towers, I saw it a bit before DE got released and now I play ranked and have a super low elo but god, it's fun.
You would expect that from an experienced player on a so far unranked account. Hera is something like 30-0 in team ranked and just built a tower wall across the map against some 2k rated guys.
Spirit there is one thing you dont understand, we love your commenting, so even if you upload a video of you doing 1v1 against AI each week, your fans would love them, so making a road to 1800 or 2000 it would be great even if you think its repetitive, i watch theviper weekly and all pro games are very repetitive but we still are entertained, you should be a regular aoe2 regular player too. Love your vids and keep it up
Tip on paladins raiding trade lines, put them in one area and put the defensive setting on, so they stay in that area. You will disrupt the trade line more.
That was a nice comeback! Also, I liked that Town Center you built in the middle of the forest after seeing the way you boxed it in. I thought it was cleverly built, but the opponent was smart enough not to raid that area to get potentially trapped in with your knights.
SOTL I'd love to see you do something like a road to 1800 series again, really want to see more of your games! And btw you and Hera played well against Nilli and Zack, I wish you play together again as allies, 2 cool Canadians.
@@kartiksaraf4676 It hasn't been uploaded on TH-cam yet and I doubt it will. It was played on Hera's 12 hour stream yesterday you can watch it on the recorded stream on Hera's twitch.
Hi SOTL, can you make a video on "How much extra units you need to win against uphill?" I found it 29.1% in theory but not sure if that's the practical case in game. Edit : Wow. He did it. Thanks a lot, SOTL.
As soon as they took that high ground in almost center they had a massive advantage. I'm surprised they didn't take advantage of when you finally brought your army down to help ally and they didn't have a splinter smash and grab group blitz in at the wooden northeastern wall. I like your end game strategy and thought process a lot. You helped stop that massive center push by making them think about the units you put in their base. WOW Bravo gg Edit: I edited this as I watched the video. Well done.
Love that people still play aoe2 in 2020 i just bought it off steam a few days ago.. brings back so many memories of playing it with my gpa before he passed. Ggs
Yeah, definitely a very similar sort of strategy. Still not sure how we managed to throw that game after we both hit imp. If we'd both just attacked Nili right away I think we would have had it, but hindsight is 20/20.
I love seeing your gameplay and your channel! Might I suggest you to dedicate every weekend (or any other day) solely for gameplays? Also, I love your civ history & aoe2 vs history videos
I love how you mentioned having to work your way up because the game guesses that you're average. I'm having the opposite problem. I'm pretty new to 'competitive' AoE2 and the game has calibrated my rank after just over 10 games at 1300 but I know for a fact that i should be a lot lower than that. So I'm hoping that my rank will degrade pretty fast as I'm getting owned every game at the moment.
Really think the only thing I would have done differently is take out the trebuchets at 16:45 and then charged my knights beyond back towards the enemy bases, cutting off the flow of reinforcements and distracting them from the fight in front of Blue. That many knights, they would have to split their forces somewhere to deal with you.
@The Gordian Knot yeah but still, a lot of money to be made. No reason to not stream other than time i guess, he seems really busy and youtube is kinda of a hobby
I like how aoe games can always be fun to watch no matter what elo you are looking at. Once you have evenly matched opponents the strategies they come up with can be so entertaining
Love your gameplay videos. A road to 1200 style series would be well appreciated, whether or not you actually reach the goal / leave it off part way through. :)
this kind of videos makes me so pumped to fire up the queue, but i am nowhere near confident enough yet. still working on beating the AI hahaha. ggwp everyone!
Hey Spirit Of The Law my sister noticed you were online today and invited you twice and even though you didn't join it was quite exciting as she has watched all your vids and thought it a gift as it was her birthday, when we originally bought the game her goal was to beat you after a week she dropped that goal.
"(...) after a week she dropped that goal." Wow. Talk about second thoughts. Then again, fighting Spirit of the Law seems pretty intense, so I don't blame her. ^_^'
You're right. Italian is a simple language but can have some "flaws" due to its multicultural heritage. Sometimes the same suffix (-ia in this case) can have different accents. Lombardia follows a Grecized standard. Other names like Italia, Germania, Croazia don't follow that rule and have the accent in the middle "a".
As far i know people in DE starts with 1000 ELO (around 1300 Voobly/1600 HD), thats why the first 10 games easy, because then you will hit 1200-1300 ELO (1500-1600 Voobly / 1700-1800 HD) which is where all the people who knows the basic BOs and strategies sit in the ladder. From that point the difficulty spikes greatly in the multiplayer.
I banned Lombardia after my teammate accidentally lamed my boar. It took literally two games on that map for that to happen. Anything else I have to say has already been said by the rest of the comments section, so wp and I hope to see more of this sprinkled in with your other content.
i did this in 3v3 lombardia (bulgarian). 2v3 in the middle going on. I made good use of 1 and only castle i made the entire game by placing it in east flank when i hit castle age. feel that i have improved much after seeing u use the same strat and winning the game after that comeback.
19:50 here you should have deleted a part of your wall in order to bring your cav faster to the enemy trebs 25:00 you did a common mistake: You reached imp and stopped making vils. You surely know the optimal amount:) ok, after 30 seconds you start making them:D (still a bit late) 27:27 a second castle there would interupt their trade and you have enough stone
when you realise your vill is going to die to boar in one hit, try placing house under the boar and spam right click on it. It works unless you are huns!
If he altered his unit composition to not be cavalry archers right when they were punching through, that probably would have changed the outcome I think. I'm unsure, do those ballista elephants take bonus damage from the skirms because they were just countred so hard I feel once paladins with armour & the fact that it's Britons with quick archery ranges and such.
One of the first vids of AoE II I had watched. I spammed your vids then got some more high level games to watch, then finally got to play... Doing well in 1 vs 1s near 1200 (losing only to knights after 5 wins), but team games I'm struggling with. I've learned so much about this game and it's one of those games (1 of very few) that has so many tit-bits to learn from... that my original comment above is just all over the place. I still understand it (I wrote it), but I get so much more such as Cav Archers being MEH in Castle usually - especially 2 vs 2 unless the enemy DIDN'T wall or something. Although this game is 2 years old, quite newish in D.E. I do think late game Magyar Cavalry Archers can be really good against paladins still, but it's only if you've kept them behind. You always need a paladin civilisation I've been feeling. I've really like the idea of Magyars + Teutons lately... Teutonic Paladins with extra armour alongside fast extra range & damage Magyar Cav Archers. The Teutons just need food mostly plus Gold Trade, then Magyars just need food to help sustain in feudal, more in Castle & then boom out slightly later in late castle & just focus on good wood-lines & gold for cavalry archers in Imperial. Go skirmishers if you really need to, but the 12 into 5 damage cavalry archers actually are immaculate versus 7 armour paladins (unlike 10 into 3 damage arbalesters).
Hey SOTL! Really liked your first 15 villager guide, and was wondering if you could please do a similar sort of video about feudal. It would have to be a lot different, because with your first 15 villagers you usually do more or less the same thing every time, and by the time you hit feudal you could have a very different number of villagers depending on your strategy. It's just that I really really suck in feudal and have very little reference on how to build an army or boom or any other one of the myriad of things that you have to do in feudal. Any way, Love you Spirit of the law, you are the reason I play Aoe2 (other than the fact it's a great game)
Hey SOTL, I always wondered why good players always build lots and lots of lumber camps... I don't think you made a video about that : when should you loose the wood and villager time to build a new camp? I get it when the forest line gets more and more faraway, but it feels like it's often overdone. There's gotta be some math-optimum to investigate here.
I feel like you shouldve definitely made trebs earlier, the enemy kinda placed those forward castles without any good reason, didnt repair or protect them (i guess one of them denied your gold and thats it) and it also left them unprotected at home and red was just making everything except battle elephants (he did make a few i guess) which is definitely the best late game option for khmer (this game scorps wouldve been also good vs all the trash blue was making and longbows as well) while yellow just lost too many cav archers to trash units and didnt micro propertly (he also made too many magyar huszar when blue was mainly making halbs) but still wp to not give up
Yeah, I think Yellow or Red could've built some Onagers to deal with Blue's Halbs. Definitely overestimated their own strength there, going solely with units that Halbs counter *hard.* (well, except for Skirmishers, but then again, they're not _that great_ at taking out Halbs either)
Cav Archers aren't countered by Halbs tho, it's supposed to be the other way around but yeah he wasn't paying attention and let those cav archers forward and paid the cost
Nice game. In your position I think I would've tried raiding with light cav much earlier on that forward position you had, it looked like you were floating enough food to afford a few light cav raiding parties while keeping the paladins on the main fight.
CA is an easy trap to get stuck in if you play lots of Magyar, I do it all the time, I scout rush, expect spearmen retaliation and then switch into CA, if the enemy does not retaliate with spears I'm usually like, "uh, don't know what to do, guess I'll switch into CA because that's what I know"
I'm surprised they _didn't_ go for Halberdiers. Worse still, when *Spirit* started raiding them, they had only PIKEMEN. _AT IMPERIAL AGE!_ I guess they focused a little too much on their cavalry (Elephants, Cav. Archers and Hussars) and ended up neglecting their infantry. Not a good idea against Franks.
In the bigger picture, the real MVP was KNIFER tbh. He countered that assault one-over-two like a Pro, which gave Spirit enough time to get those upgrades.
Your voice sounds perfectly clean! Do you have your recording setup discussed on video? I wonder (1) what is the mic, (2) preamp or any additional processors and (3) how you got rid of that reverb we typically have in our rooms.
Spirit can you do a video about militia line vs thrash units? In one of his recent videos T90 said they are the thrash killers and sure looks that way, they don't get countered by any of the thrash units. So would be possible if I just sell/buy gold to keep making champions in very very late if both players are out of gold?
That's kind of a limited outlook on learning. You have something to learn from everyone you meet, even if it's through seeing their mistakes. The fact we still won the game despite that must mean I did something right lol
Getting a group of paladins into to an enemy's base next to a hundred of their vills is easily the funnest part of aoe to me lol so satisfying because I know how it feels on the other end 😂
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Hey SOTL! I was IdleBrain, didn't really believe that I was playing against you. Had to admit, you carried pretty hard late game, blue held nicely. The protection against raiding on your trade while raiding ours was the nail at the coffin, even though I was thinking I had the game 15min earlier ggwp
Ballista eles are terrible man, you win this game if you just go regular eles.
Prove that aoe2 have one of the best communitys out there /\
Voxer i agree
i am coming from league of legends where its so toxic...
it so wholesome always to see how nice the age of empires community is
this makes this game to my favorite game even if i am not playing so much
Also you broke the rule about Franks. You see Franks, send in the trash. You’ll lose the trash but that’s what the cav archers are for.
@@voxer3060 if It were any other community it would be a lot more toxic.
When we played you and hera yesterday I didn't know organ guns had such high pierce armor. Guess I should've watched your video about Portugese earlier. Anyway GG
Yeah, that was a well played game on both sides. It's definitely surprising how good organ guns are against skirms.
KNIFER was the absolute MVP that game. They held up amazingly well under that 2v1 pressure.
>Battle Elephants, Hussars and Cavalry Archers storming in<
*KNIFER:* Hold the line! HOLD THE LINE!
*He held up.
Spirit was kinda not helping very much lol.
@@fourcgames7568 Guessing that they meant "they" like a gender neutral type dealio, I do the same thing. This was such a badass match tho. Just getting into aoe2 aiming to go online. Comebacks like this put a huge grin on my face
SOTL: This is really bad, I should not have done this
Me with 900 ELO: Haha yes of course what were you thinking
All joking aside, love the vids dude. You're the reason I started playing ranked games in the first place.
Same, SOTL made me ready to play ranked. T90 improved me. SOTL's vids are also the reason why Slavs are my favourite civ
For me it was his video about should you garrison archers in towers, I saw it a bit before DE got released and now I play ranked and have a super low elo but god, it's fun.
me with 800 ELO: hahaha, these guys suck!
@@ElazulKnight yes SOTL, Hera (awesome tutorials) and T90 I learned the most from!!
@@RobotsWithKnivesCartoons If you would like a game to practice I'd be happy to help out :) I'm 970 elo
"I have played 9 games and they were all wins" - Big Flex
My allies carried me all 9 times
@@SpiritOfTheLaw that self burn tho....but what if they used the calculations from your vids?
@@noidontwantthat7237 that would even bigger flex
@@SpiritOfTheLaw it seems it worked out a few times more... not it is a streak at 13 wins
You would expect that from an experienced player on a so far unranked account.
Hera is something like 30-0 in team ranked and just built a tower wall across the map against some 2k rated guys.
Spirit there is one thing you dont understand, we love your commenting, so even if you upload a video of you doing 1v1 against AI each week, your fans would love them, so making a road to 1800 or 2000 it would be great even if you think its repetitive, i watch theviper weekly and all pro games are very repetitive but we still are entertained, you should be a regular aoe2 regular player too. Love your vids and keep it up
As someone who doesn't actually play the game, I really enjoy these types of videos!
*whispers in ear*
Plaaaaaaaay
@@alexbrowne9566Not everyone is as rich as you
same
@@alexbrowne9566 I would but I've only got a shitty laptop from 2005 that I prefer not to use! I've got plenty enough to play on my switch anyways
@@Jay-fs2nw I mean yeah,nothing beats mario Odyssey
Tip on paladins raiding trade lines, put them in one area and put the defensive setting on, so they stay in that area. You will disrupt the trade line more.
Paladin: "No, I must kill that camel specifically!"
That idea is not what Frank Spencer would come up with. LOL
This was a cool game to watch, and I appreciate you pointing out your mistakes
I agree Henry
Your voice is so therapeutic. It always sooths me. Don't ever stop.
my favourite channel to watch while going to bed
That was a nice comeback! Also, I liked that Town Center you built in the middle of the forest after seeing the way you boxed it in. I thought it was cleverly built, but the opponent was smart enough not to raid that area to get potentially trapped in with your knights.
SOTL I'd love to see you do something like a road to 1800 series again, really want to see more of your games! And btw you and Hera played well against Nilli and Zack, I wish you play together again as allies, 2 cool Canadians.
Did I miss some game? I generally watch all TH-cam uploads
@@kartiksaraf4676 It hasn't been uploaded on TH-cam yet and I doubt it will. It was played on Hera's 12 hour stream yesterday you can watch it on the recorded stream on Hera's twitch.
Those cows have serious LOS.
They've got a big pair of eyes yo. Moo moo I see you
'teal', 'cyan', what I'd give to have my friends call it something other than light blue
Official name of the colour is “cyan” in AoE II. Though everyone I know also calls it light blue.
happy squid pfp, very cool
turquiose ?
Aquamarine?
I just call it p5(player 5). I don't even bother with calling people by their colour names.
I LOVE your commentaries. No macho chest puffing. Steady and calm in any situation. Please post more of them.
I love watching your gameplays! I'm trying to get better before I get to play ranked, it scares me.
Hi SOTL, can you make a video on "How much extra units you need to win against uphill?" I found it 29.1% in theory but not sure if that's the practical case in game.
Edit : Wow. He did it. Thanks a lot, SOTL.
This seems like a great topic!
The answer is longer range or don't take the fight.
(I meant this is a joke. I would be interested in seeing that video for real)
@@welldeweye4233 I don't think this has to be a joke.
@@welldeweye4233 Yeah, that's the most practical answer. 11
nice try
As soon as they took that high ground in almost center they had a massive advantage. I'm surprised they didn't take advantage of when you finally brought your army down to help ally and they didn't have a splinter smash and grab group blitz in at the wooden northeastern wall.
I like your end game strategy and thought process a lot. You helped stop that massive center push by making them think about the units you put in their base.
WOW Bravo gg
Edit: I edited this as I watched the video. Well done.
SOTL, I love watching these games. Fascinating strategies. Keep making them!
Franks and Briton allies? Someone hasn't been paying attention in history class.
Enemies would generally make very good allies.
@@ritwikreddy5670 Ottomans and Byzantines? Spanish and Aztecs? Koreans and Japanese?
Or shit has really hit the fan for those two to actually team up. XD
Oh boy, is Road to 1800 coming back?
It will be a long long road, considering you start at 1000 now :)
@@gosphor2826 road to 1300 lol
I can only be so erect
Great! Keep posting tour gameplays! Love to see you with the other guys like Hera, Viper, Daut AND si forth! Thanks!! Loved this one!
Love that people still play aoe2 in 2020 i just bought it off steam a few days ago.. brings back so many memories of playing it with my gpa before he passed. Ggs
Really enjoy watching your game replay and commentary
I loved seeing you on Heras Stream! I watched this Video before and I was reminded of game 2... just that you were on the loosing Team on Stream
Yeah, definitely a very similar sort of strategy. Still not sure how we managed to throw that game after we both hit imp. If we'd both just attacked Nili right away I think we would have had it, but hindsight is 20/20.
I love seeing your gameplay and your channel! Might I suggest you to dedicate every weekend (or any other day) solely for gameplays? Also, I love your civ history & aoe2 vs history videos
Everybody all gangsta til Spirit of the Law shows up at a world tournament with an undefeated record
At 13:15 your ally takes revenge for the stolen berries by pinching the relic right by your monastery.
Underrated comment 😂
I love how you mentioned having to work your way up because the game guesses that you're average. I'm having the opposite problem. I'm pretty new to 'competitive' AoE2 and the game has calibrated my rank after just over 10 games at 1300 but I know for a fact that i should be a lot lower than that. So I'm hoping that my rank will degrade pretty fast as I'm getting owned every game at the moment.
Jup. The ELO system doesn't always seem to function well.
I had to lose about 20 times in a row before it decided I was ~600-700
Really think the only thing I would have done differently is take out the trebuchets at 16:45 and then charged my knights beyond back towards the enemy bases, cutting off the flow of reinforcements and distracting them from the fight in front of Blue. That many knights, they would have to split their forces somewhere to deal with you.
Nice to see some more ranked games.
Only recently moved from extreme AI to ranked games.
MAN YOU NEED TO START TWITCHING. SERIUSLY. YOU HAVE YOUR FAN BASE. YOU CAN MAKE MONEY.
@The Gordian Knot youre a tryhard
twitch is interaction. aoe2 is not interactive. except your micro is on viper niveau
@The Gordian Knot T90 has a lot of success streaming low elo content, and SotL isn't a slouch. It would still be competitive with good commentary.
@The Gordian Knot sotl has youtube fanbase for that, we cool and chill with sotl
@The Gordian Knot yeah but still, a lot of money to be made. No reason to not stream other than time i guess, he seems really busy and youtube is kinda of a hobby
I like how aoe games can always be fun to watch no matter what elo you are looking at. Once you have evenly matched opponents the strategies they come up with can be so entertaining
Great comeback, very entertaining game
Any day you see Spirit's gameplay is a good day.
SOTL: “I don’t wanna hold a promise *again* “
Also SOTL: *Never held road to 1800 episode 4 promise
Please stream. I'd love to watch you play live. Or just upload some of your games we live your content and strategy of playing
Love your gameplay videos. A road to 1200 style series would be well appreciated, whether or not you actually reach the goal / leave it off part way through. :)
I remember that gameplay that you said about the Franks are your least favorite, they were my least favorite too but now I like them
this kind of videos makes me so pumped to fire up the queue, but i am nowhere near confident enough yet. still working on beating the AI hahaha. ggwp everyone!
Love this videos. Really like you speed up some moments
ELO does not necessarily reflect players' skills, strengths, and victories.
I felt like you were losing the whole way and then won 😂
5:32 stealing the berries of his ally 😂😂
Hey Spirit Of The Law my sister noticed you were online today and invited you twice and even though you didn't join it was quite exciting as she has watched all your vids and thought it a gift as it was her birthday, when we originally bought the game her goal was to beat you after a week she dropped that goal.
"(...) after a week she dropped that goal." Wow. Talk about second thoughts.
Then again, fighting Spirit of the Law seems pretty intense, so I don't blame her. ^_^'
Lol
Lombardia has the accent on the "i", not the middle "a".
You're right. Italian is a simple language but can have some "flaws" due to its multicultural heritage.
Sometimes the same suffix (-ia in this case) can have different accents.
Lombardia follows a Grecized standard. Other names like Italia, Germania, Croazia don't follow that rule and have the accent in the middle "a".
YAAAS!! NEW LADDER CLIMBING SERIES PLEASE
Sotl your videos are great, would love to see you play more. Enjoyable. :)
As far i know people in DE starts with 1000 ELO (around 1300 Voobly/1600 HD), thats why the first 10 games easy, because then you will hit 1200-1300 ELO (1500-1600 Voobly / 1700-1800 HD) which is where all the people who knows the basic BOs and strategies sit in the ladder. From that point the difficulty spikes greatly in the multiplayer.
This was fun. Very much interesting match
always liked your gameplay videos; happy to see a new one~! :)
This is why you always mix some pikes on whatever army you have against paladins. Those things are way too tanky without pikes.
I love your commentary game like this !
I banned Lombardia after my teammate accidentally lamed my boar. It took literally two games on that map for that to happen.
Anything else I have to say has already been said by the rest of the comments section, so wp and I hope to see more of this sprinkled in with your other content.
Don't even play this but still enjoy your commentary game videos
Would love to see an elo climbing series :)
Loved this video. Cool to see your strategy
i did this in 3v3 lombardia (bulgarian). 2v3 in the middle going on.
I made good use of 1 and only castle i made the entire game by placing it in east flank when i hit castle age.
feel that i have improved much after seeing u use the same strat and winning the game after that comeback.
19:50 here you should have deleted a part of your wall in order to bring your cav faster to the enemy trebs
25:00 you did a common mistake: You reached imp and stopped making vils. You surely know the optimal amount:)
ok, after 30 seconds you start making them:D (still a bit late)
27:27 a second castle there would interupt their trade and you have enough stone
Hi SOTL, we had a chance to play a few weeks ago in a 3v3. enjoyed playing against you! -AgeofEmpiresDad
NICE :D Please continue with the ranked games!
when you realise your vill is going to die to boar in one hit, try placing house under the boar and spam right click on it. It works unless you are huns!
If he altered his unit composition to not be cavalry archers right when they were punching through, that probably would have changed the outcome I think.
I'm unsure, do those ballista elephants take bonus damage from the skirms because they were just countred so hard I feel once paladins with armour & the fact that it's Britons with quick archery ranges and such.
One of the first vids of AoE II I had watched. I spammed your vids then got some more high level games to watch, then finally got to play... Doing well in 1 vs 1s near 1200 (losing only to knights after 5 wins), but team games I'm struggling with.
I've learned so much about this game and it's one of those games (1 of very few) that has so many tit-bits to learn from... that my original comment above is just all over the place. I still understand it (I wrote it), but I get so much more such as Cav Archers being MEH in Castle usually - especially 2 vs 2 unless the enemy DIDN'T wall or something. Although this game is 2 years old, quite newish in D.E.
I do think late game Magyar Cavalry Archers can be really good against paladins still, but it's only if you've kept them behind. You always need a paladin civilisation I've been feeling. I've really like the idea of Magyars + Teutons lately... Teutonic Paladins with extra armour alongside fast extra range & damage Magyar Cav Archers. The Teutons just need food mostly plus Gold Trade, then Magyars just need food to help sustain in feudal, more in Castle & then boom out slightly later in late castle & just focus on good wood-lines & gold for cavalry archers in Imperial. Go skirmishers if you really need to, but the 12 into 5 damage cavalry archers actually are immaculate versus 7 armour paladins (unlike 10 into 3 damage arbalesters).
I am really impressive!!! I dont know how to exit of that hard situation!!! Great game!!!
Your english was really off in that comment, but i'm sure you got a lot better in these 6 months
Happy new year!
Seeing SotL got raided and losing vill to boar, and winning is very encouraging to a noob like me. Really shows how you can come back from a bad start
Wow what a come back
Hey SOTL! Really liked your first 15 villager guide, and was wondering if you could please do a similar sort of video about feudal. It would have to be a lot different, because with your first 15 villagers you usually do more or less the same thing every time, and by the time you hit feudal you could have a very different number of villagers depending on your strategy. It's just that I really really suck in feudal and have very little reference on how to build an army or boom or any other one of the myriad of things that you have to do in feudal.
Any way, Love you Spirit of the law, you are the reason I play Aoe2 (other than the fact it's a great game)
I always end up trying to salvage a ruined fast feudal into a fast castle and crossbow rush.
Is nobody going to comment @27:57 Paladins are faster than trade carts?
I really enjoyed it. Not using the small trees mod does a lot for aesthetics.
Hey SOTL, I always wondered why good players always build lots and lots of lumber camps... I don't think you made a video about that : when should you loose the wood and villager time to build a new camp? I get it when the forest line gets more and more faraway, but it feels like it's often overdone. There's gotta be some math-optimum to investigate here.
Yes! Please do the Road to 1800!
I feel like you shouldve definitely made trebs earlier, the enemy kinda placed those forward castles without any good reason, didnt repair or protect them (i guess one of them denied your gold and thats it) and it also left them unprotected at home and red was just making everything except battle elephants (he did make a few i guess) which is definitely the best late game option for khmer (this game scorps wouldve been also good vs all the trash blue was making and longbows as well) while yellow just lost too many cav archers to trash units and didnt micro propertly (he also made too many magyar huszar when blue was mainly making halbs) but still wp to not give up
Yeah, I think Yellow or Red could've built some Onagers to deal with Blue's Halbs. Definitely overestimated their own strength there, going solely with units that Halbs counter *hard.* (well, except for Skirmishers, but then again, they're not _that great_ at taking out Halbs either)
Cav Archers aren't countered by Halbs tho, it's supposed to be the other way around but yeah he wasn't paying attention and let those cav archers forward and paid the cost
Cool game, nice hold.
Maybe some rams would have helped but other than that, amamzing.
Nice game. In your position I think I would've tried raiding with light cav much earlier on that forward position you had, it looked like you were floating enough food to afford a few light cav raiding parties while keeping the paladins on the main fight.
Cav archer of enemy isn't right call I think.
And blue guy did awesome job, while franks needs some time.
CA is an easy trap to get stuck in if you play lots of Magyar, I do it all the time, I scout rush, expect spearmen retaliation and then switch into CA, if the enemy does not retaliate with spears I'm usually like, "uh, don't know what to do, guess I'll switch into CA because that's what I know"
Castle/Stable drop saved the day
SOTL back at pvp FINALLY
Your opponents should have guessed that you will go for Paladins and should have made Herbardiers
I'm surprised they _didn't_ go for Halberdiers. Worse still, when *Spirit* started raiding them, they had only PIKEMEN. _AT IMPERIAL AGE!_
I guess they focused a little too much on their cavalry (Elephants, Cav. Archers and Hussars) and ended up neglecting their infantry. Not a good idea against Franks.
In the bigger picture, the real MVP was KNIFER tbh. He countered that assault one-over-two like a Pro, which gave Spirit enough time to get those upgrades.
Look forward to seeing you on the battlefield
23:47 from this moment on sotl's score jumps
what a cozy little town center
'collect those internet points', im glad i stayed that long to hear that
You play without tinywood? I allready forget how the Game really looks like xD
There's a reason it was called the "Pussywood" mod on AoC
Your voice sounds perfectly clean! Do you have your recording setup discussed on video? I wonder (1) what is the mic, (2) preamp or any additional processors and (3) how you got rid of that reverb we typically have in our rooms.
ProTip: if you need to delete a building, delete a house, not a lumber camp, unless you're close to a pop cap.
O0 believe that it’s the first time I catch a video the same day is published
yes, road to 1200 would be fun!
this is exactly the video i needed
Well played SotL!
Good stuff keep it up man
What's the point of multiple town centers?
Pumping out villagers
Spirit can you do a video about militia line vs thrash units? In one of his recent videos T90 said they are the thrash killers and sure looks that way, they don't get countered by any of the thrash units.
So would be possible if I just sell/buy gold to keep making champions in very very late if both players are out of gold?
love these vids dude
how about another road to 2000 elo?
You could have called this video road to 1800 extended cut.
Uphill fight under castle fire.... had to pause to question if i should learn from you
That's kind of a limited outlook on learning. You have something to learn from everyone you meet, even if it's through seeing their mistakes. The fact we still won the game despite that must mean I did something right lol
Paladins are really good at soaking up arrow fire, so yes he made a good call
Getting a group of paladins into to an enemy's base next to a hundred of their vills is easily the funnest part of aoe to me lol so satisfying because I know how it feels on the other end 😂
The War of Teal VS Cyan
Official name of the colour is cyan in AoE II.
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO FINALLY SOTL GAMEPLAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!