Nothing is random with Ace, everything is carefully thought about and planned before the game even begins. Losing vils is a simple matter of arithmetic for ace, he already weighed out their values and decided their sacrifice was worth it for the greater war effort. Like when he sent 3 vils on a suicide mission to mine the enemy gold so that the monk can snatch the relic in relative safety as the enemy is dumbfounded and preoccupied with the incomprehensible aggressive mining camp.
Don't forget he had to distract reds army with a scout just to get those villagers to reds gold! That whole sequence was the funniest thing I've seen all week...
@@Arkanic For real dude. His strategy takes advantage of the different idiosyncrasies of lower level play and by being continually annoying during the mid-game he increases the chances of tilting his opponent. I hope t90 casts more of his games!
Ace of Emeralds is so good to watch, he is truly playing AoE his way and he is a beast at it. If he would play full meta for some time he could be 1.5k+ for sure. He has the tenacity to turn games, map awareness, always has a trickery up his sleeve and is great at multitasking. We want more of him!
@@arturillosmeriglia8029 Ehm... He‘s at 700 ELO. However, it has to be said that besides some of his questionable yet fun decisions his production is actually great once he gets rolling and in many situations he shows his creativity. Among all the LELs he does stand out to me.
"Hence a wise general makes a point of foraging on the enemy. One cartload of the enemy's provisions is equivalent to twenty of one's own, and likewise a single picul of his provender is equivalent to twenty from one's own store." -The Art of War
“That’s the commander elephant.” Monks in box formation with elephants. See stuff like that is so fun. Similar to another low elo player you did who had the “prison” where he walled in a group of villagers chopping stone and left one light cav there to be the guard. Stuff like that makes this game so fun and amusing. I enjoy that way more than sweaty hot keys and focusing on build order.
This is so true, it actually had me laughin in real life. :)) =]] Honestly, if he had some coaching from a pro, or if a pro adopted this strategy, it could become the new meta. I'm guessing that preemptively walling in the villagers and adding a tower to hide the villagers in from ranged attacks, could reduce Ace's villager loses and deal more damage to the enemy's troops, and he would have the stone for the towers and the gold can be used for archer upgrades for the towers.
I think the next step would be to wall around the forward mining, and tower the most forward ones as a distraction and to cause greater enemy loses and to protect more of his villagers. Having the tower inside the walls makes it so it takes more time to get so close to the tower that you need mrdr holes (censored), and by the time they get to the tower, the villagers would have gotten more kills or more resources, making the villagers all the more cost-effective and longer-lasting.
@21:45 Ballista Elephants attacking a stone gate while on the other side of the map an Elephant Archer attacks a stone gate. That's the true 700 ELO moment of this game.
They say that Ace of Emeralds is so sneaky that he has undercover villagers working for the enemy, which is most surprising considering that the game doesn't even have this feature.
that reminds me of a suggestion for a hebrew civ a while ago: quicker gold unit conversion, no chance of converting enemy villagers, but their own villagers converted by the enemy keep them line of sight and half the gathered resources
I think ace is an empire earth player, going around the map with 5 villagers on every resource is a must if you want to win (you can only put 5 villagers on a resource max in that game)
The entire game Ace was selling wood and food, so the prices went all the way to 14 gold And since there was no exposed gold, the enemy is left with little to no gold income Legend
After watching all these LowElo legends vids I feel like telling my whole story with AOE. Besides the base games that came on windows 7, the disk form of AOE 2 age of kings was my very first computer game that I played. It was my older brother's game and he stopped playing it long before I started playing it so I had no help in learning how to play. I loved to play against the AI in 4vs4 team matches because I didnt like the stress of attacking/defending from the enemy while I slowly went up to imp. I didnt fully understand the upgrades so I just got every single upgrade I could. All the blacksmith upgrades, all the uni upgrades, ect... I also did not like manually reseeding farms so I put all of my wood into the mill until it didnt let me anymore. and I would pretty much wait until imp to amass troops and sweep up the struggling AI. it was fun
I think T90 doesn't really realize how psychological Ace of Emeralds' game is He's not playing Age of Empires He's playing his opponent. Every move is calculated. Every step, carefully planned. It's not about winning. It's about crushing his enemies, seeing them driven before him, and hearing the lamentation of their women.
That's T90s point too; Ace is a 1K player held back only by his suicidal mining approach. If he had 10farmers and 2miners instead of the other way around (around 20min gametime), he'd outboom and overwhelm this enemy.
@@SenselessUsername Or if he just stopped sending villagers forward to collect resources (which takes a lot of walking time), concentrated his eco around 2 mining camps instead of 7 (which takes a lot of wood), and read a little bit about army composition, he would be 1k.
some people love winning longer games and don"t feel much about a short game going either way, this is how he can succeed through wearing down the enemy in the long term
@@AnarchistMetalhead Interesting position on his play style. I think any player worth their salt would crush this guy quickly, especially if they knew who he was.
Maybe with walling around the stone and gold, and maybe even placing a tower here and there early game inside the walls, Ace wouldn't lose as many villagers early-game, which could make the situation a lot more manageable.I mean, even palisade walls are better than nothing, and a well placed walled-in tower could protect 2-3 resources, especially early game. And he's rushing those resources, so he would have the stone for those towers, and it would also kill some enemies, keeping the enemy army busy even more. At most, a few meele troops would be needed, to defend the towers, optionally quickly followed by cavalry to move from attacked place to attacked place quickly, to defend the towers, but if pros refined this strategy, it could become the new meta!
the incredible thing is that after ACE was attacked on the middle mines, after he had already taken most of the resources from them he didn't just switch to the ones at home knowing he was ahead, he knew he could squeeze out more and refuused to relent
If you're going for mass mining camp map control on Arena you need to wall in your opponent's 3 gates so he's trapped in his base. Gating his gates is probably the quickest way. Then you tower siege. And if you're going to do all that you should probably play Koreans.
i wonder if ace plays arena mostly because people on his elo like to turtle inside walls so he feels safe taking outside resources, because otherwise it makes no sense to play arena if you are gonna mass mining camps outside.
This. I've seen a hillforts and an arena from Ace and I think you're right. I think also that these players are counter-attackers, so they don't know what to do when nothing comes. Then they go around wiping out Ace's mining camps, while Ace builds up. Not much more gold colleced, which was interesting. Still, red should have won. Trebuchets on the first castle, grab all 5 relics, Those knights wasted on the gates! I was going to ban maps like this when I start online, but perhaps a rethink.
@@Jimmy911ism I used to be really bad at arena, I had it banned for a while, then I learned how to use my civ well on arena. I still haven't figured out how to Arabia yet... I will keep it banned for now.
This reminds me of legend of iSit. He does a similar thing early snagging the resources. The difference is he walls them all off. This guy just straight up goes for it and migrates around. And somehow relies on stealth. Like buildings in the corner the enemy just doesn't see.
I didnt watch the legend of ace video because it wasn't obvious to me it was LEL. I only realized this one was LEL when I was sharing this playlist with my brother and it was listed on the cover. Thanks, this was a very entertaining game
Ace of Emeralds. More like Ace of Memelords. Maybe that distraction to get the villagers to the gold was actually to create that second distraction so the monk could take the relic. Maybe Ace has seen Inception too many times and has adapted it to AoE2.
It was probably a combination of both. He used the scout to lure reds troops away cause he wanted to send villagers down to mine the gold and send a monk out to snag the relic. When the villagers started building the first mining camp and got attacked they ran back for a short while before he realized that if red chased he would led them right into the monk. So he turned the villagers back and built a new miningcamp as far away as he could get. Brilliant =)
omg I was crying when Ace trolled both T90 and red for 2 minutes fucking with a mining camp while his monk snaked that relic from right under red castle!!!!
24:22 T90 i wanna let you know that for low ELO players Elephant units are some of the hardest to deal with because of how much HP they have, i can say from experience as i played against hard AI and it spammed elephants at me and my army got crushed.
I think Red sealed their fate at 21:28 by attempting to destroy the remaining wall using their knights. If that second gate dropped, it would have been much more difficult for Ace to bounce back.
Another very impressive aspect about this game is that Ace actually won this game without making a SINGLE military unit other than meme elephants and a handful of trebs. Any normal player would have at least mixed in some halbs but Ace is like screw that, my way or the highway!
i remember when i played this game when i was a kid it was one villager per sheep and i tought boars were just like wolf and always killed them with military lol
Nothing is random with Ace, everything is carefully thought about and planned before the game even begins. Losing vils is a simple matter of arithmetic for ace, he already weighed out their values and decided their sacrifice was worth it for the greater war effort. Like when he sent 3 vils on a suicide mission to mine the enemy gold so that the monk can snatch the relic in relative safety as the enemy is dumbfounded and preoccupied with the incomprehensible aggressive mining camp.
When extreme AI tries to aggressive mining camp, Ace already had 3 vills there for 5 minutes snitching those res. 11
Ace uses his vils like Elon Musk uses his employees to mine lithium
I lost it at "incomprehensible aggressive mining camp."
@@theotv5522 I don't think starving African children are "employees"
@@theotv5522 wait....Elon musk doesn't own a lithium mine!!!! This makes no sense ! Just like them agressive mining camps.
Ace is such a gdamn legend. The monk play with the villagers as distraction at the gold was incredible.
Don't forget he had to distract reds army with a scout just to get those villagers to reds gold! That whole sequence was the funniest thing I've seen all week...
@@Arkanic For real dude.
His strategy takes advantage of the different idiosyncrasies of lower level play and by being continually annoying during the mid-game he increases the chances of tilting his opponent. I hope t90 casts more of his games!
Distracting all the viewers too lmao it’s like a 1 in 10,000 play or something
Ace of Emeralds is so good to watch, he is truly playing AoE his way and he is a beast at it. If he would play full meta for some time he could be 1.5k+ for sure.
He has the tenacity to turn games, map awareness, always has a trickery up his sleeve and is great at multitasking.
We want more of him!
An avant garde prodigy shifting the paradigm of the game, a modern day Picasso
Honestly makes me want to dive back into the game. What a genius.
@Carlos Boozer do you think he could do this against high level players? BTW just wanna tell you AND OOOONEEEEE
@@arturillosmeriglia8029 Ehm... He‘s at 700 ELO.
However, it has to be said that besides some of his questionable yet fun decisions his production is actually great once he gets rolling and in many situations he shows his creativity.
Among all the LELs he does stand out to me.
haha. golden!
"Hence a wise general makes a point of foraging on the enemy. One cartload of the enemy's provisions is equivalent to twenty of one's own, and likewise a single picul of his provender is equivalent to twenty from one's own store."
-The Art of War
"My Empire is not a place; never was. This could be my empire. My empire is where our people stand" - Ace of Emeralds
Exactly. xD
“That’s the commander elephant.” Monks in box formation with elephants.
See stuff like that is so fun. Similar to another low elo player you did who had the “prison” where he walled in a group of villagers chopping stone and left one light cav there to be the guard. Stuff like that makes this game so fun and amusing. I enjoy that way more than sweaty hot keys and focusing on build order.
So much more entertaining than high ELO games you actually see unique strats
Ace the Based always planning 5 parallel universes ahead of the enemy.
This is so true, it actually had me laughin in real life. :)) =]] Honestly, if he had some coaching from a pro, or if a pro adopted this strategy, it could become the new meta. I'm guessing that preemptively walling in the villagers and adding a tower to hide the villagers in from ranged attacks, could reduce Ace's villager loses and deal more damage to the enemy's troops, and he would have the stone for the towers and the gold can be used for archer upgrades for the towers.
Next step is: ace is going to take stone and gold in the enemy’s base 😂
I think the next step would be to wall around the forward mining, and tower the most forward ones as a distraction and to cause greater enemy loses and to protect more of his villagers. Having the tower inside the walls makes it so it takes more time to get so close to the tower that you need mrdr holes (censored), and by the time they get to the tower, the villagers would have gotten more kills or more resources, making the villagers all the more cost-effective and longer-lasting.
Siege tower over the walls
Thats what I thought after seeing his dark age performance, that by feudal he has to be mining in enemy base already
Ace the LEGEND expanding faster than the universe
Ace is my hero. You can tell his moves are well thought out.
@21:45 Ballista Elephants attacking a stone gate while on the other side of the map an Elephant Archer attacks a stone gate. That's the true 700 ELO moment of this game.
They say that Ace of Emeralds is so sneaky that he has undercover villagers working for the enemy, which is most surprising considering that the game doesn't even have this feature.
that reminds me of a suggestion for a hebrew civ a while ago:
quicker gold unit conversion, no chance of converting enemy villagers, but their own villagers converted by the enemy keep them line of sight and half the gathered resources
For LEL games you could add the icons for supplies and murder holes, that information is vital to know who will win
I think ace is an empire earth player, going around the map with 5 villagers on every resource is a must if you want to win (you can only put 5 villagers on a resource max in that game)
huh
6 vills, not 5. But you have a point.
The entire game Ace was selling wood and food, so the prices went all the way to 14 gold
And since there was no exposed gold, the enemy is left with little to no gold income
Legend
OMG, not even T90 saw that... pure genius
Incredible. I saw some of those sales and wondered why he wanted more gold when he didn't appear to need it.
That boxed formation of Elite Elephants Archers with a bunch of monks in the middle is a thing of beauty.
Ace always playing the long game. The guy must have an IQ of 1000.
I’m down for more Ace content
MOAR ACE CONTENT!!! Pretty please?
“What is your name warrior?”
“Ace. Ace of Emeralds. “
“Ace. I’ll remember the name. “
Great movie!
My god, this strategy actually might just work at lower level. He has 2.6k gold and 2.3k stone half way up to castle! I'm loving these.
You see, outposts are not productive enough. He gets map visibility AND resources.
31:40 Ace of emerald even distracted T90 Official lol. The monk took the relic
After watching all these LowElo legends vids I feel like telling my whole story with AOE. Besides the base games that came on windows 7, the disk form of AOE 2 age of kings was my very first computer game that I played. It was my older brother's game and he stopped playing it long before I started playing it so I had no help in learning how to play. I loved to play against the AI in 4vs4 team matches because I didnt like the stress of attacking/defending from the enemy while I slowly went up to imp. I didnt fully understand the upgrades so I just got every single upgrade I could. All the blacksmith upgrades, all the uni upgrades, ect... I also did not like manually reseeding farms so I put all of my wood into the mill until it didnt let me anymore. and I would pretty much wait until imp to amass troops and sweep up the struggling AI. it was fun
Man, look at that handsome face at the beginning
naughty big bang
Is it wrong if I smiled out loud when I saw it?
DONT LOOK AT IT
I was cracking up when I saw Ace finished that 2 tile stone. Thats what the whole strat is about, literally took that resource off the map
I think T90 doesn't really realize how psychological Ace of Emeralds' game is
He's not playing Age of Empires
He's playing his opponent. Every move is calculated. Every step, carefully planned.
It's not about winning.
It's about crushing his enemies, seeing them driven before him, and hearing the lamentation of their women.
Funny xD
31:24 THE MONK!
To me this looks like a 1k elo player intentionally playing like a 700 by doing all of his funny little things
That's T90s point too; Ace is a 1K player held back only by his suicidal mining approach. If he had 10farmers and 2miners instead of the other way around (around 20min gametime), he'd outboom and overwhelm this enemy.
@@SenselessUsername Or if he just stopped sending villagers forward to collect resources (which takes a lot of walking time), concentrated his eco around 2 mining camps instead of 7 (which takes a lot of wood), and read a little bit about army composition, he would be 1k.
Intentionally becoming a 'legend', perhaps? 🙄
some people love winning longer games and don"t feel much about a short game going either way, this is how he can succeed through wearing down the enemy in the long term
@@AnarchistMetalhead Interesting position on his play style. I think any player worth their salt would crush this guy quickly, especially if they knew who he was.
Besides fatslob and onion strat this is my favorite legend by far
You only considering 1-vs-1 and LEL, not community diplo? Because BlueCoffee comes to mind.
@@SenselessUsername snippy too if we're straying from 1 v 1
@@codyyoungberg5291 okay you guys are right team games blue coffee and snippy are very satisfying, but not my style of play
Man this was an epic game, I'll watch it again
I needed this, that last game was the game that kept on giving
Maybe with walling around the stone and gold, and maybe even placing a tower here and there early game inside the walls, Ace wouldn't lose as many villagers early-game, which could make the situation a lot more manageable.I mean, even palisade walls are better than nothing, and a well placed walled-in tower could protect 2-3 resources, especially early game. And he's rushing those resources, so he would have the stone for those towers, and it would also kill some enemies, keeping the enemy army busy even more. At most, a few meele troops would be needed, to defend the towers, optionally quickly followed by cavalry to move from attacked place to attacked place quickly, to defend the towers, but if pros refined this strategy, it could become the new meta!
Ace out here doing actually siege strats. Starve them of resources while you weather their counterattacks and then make a big final push.
This is the greatest piece of Age of Empires i ever witnessed.
Thanks for the content T90.
Amazing! I laughed so hard at that relic snag with vills distracting opponent!
31:24 - That was brilliant.
the incredible thing is that after ACE was attacked on the middle mines, after he had already taken most of the resources from them he didn't just switch to the ones at home knowing he was ahead, he knew he could squeeze out more and refuused to relent
If you're going for mass mining camp map control on Arena you need to wall in your opponent's 3 gates so he's trapped in his base. Gating his gates is probably the quickest way. Then you tower siege. And if you're going to do all that you should probably play Koreans.
That may work against low elo players that don't know how to delete their own buildings.
You definitely need to wall in their walls as well to prevent that.
Lol never thought low elo would be so entertaining. Thanks T90.
0:00 Love the face T90
The man, the myth, the legend
9:39 bot right corner! dancing on horses
Casual moon-walking scout from Ace at 9:38.
Double feint for the relic heist. Pure tactical genious.
i wonder if ace plays arena mostly because people on his elo like to turtle inside walls so he feels safe taking outside resources, because otherwise it makes no sense to play arena if you are gonna mass mining camps outside.
This. I've seen a hillforts and an arena from Ace and I think you're right. I think also that these players are counter-attackers, so they don't know what to do when nothing comes. Then they go around wiping out Ace's mining camps, while Ace builds up. Not much more gold colleced, which was interesting.
Still, red should have won. Trebuchets on the first castle, grab all 5 relics, Those knights wasted on the gates! I was going to ban maps like this when I start online, but perhaps a rethink.
@@Jimmy911ism I used to be really bad at arena, I had it banned for a while, then I learned how to use my civ well on arena.
I still haven't figured out how to Arabia yet... I will keep it banned for now.
@@heroslippy6666only psychopaths ply Arabia
Those heists with the monks were incredible
"You've gotta make sure your monk doesn't trip over a mining camp"
That sums up Ace of Emeralds pretty well
You thought he was crazy, but it worked. New meta confirmed.
That art is something else, man!
26:06 "pervert gives the monks more speed"
What a wholesome experience!
This reminds me of legend of iSit. He does a similar thing early snagging the resources. The difference is he walls them all off. This guy just straight up goes for it and migrates around. And somehow relies on stealth. Like buildings in the corner the enemy just doesn't see.
I didnt watch the legend of ace video because it wasn't obvious to me it was LEL. I only realized this one was LEL when I was sharing this playlist with my brother and it was listed on the cover.
Thanks, this was a very entertaining game
so adorable the knights saving that scout
Rescue operation
Woolybois ☺️
Ace is definitely a smart player, great to see such an unconventional style!
I would love it if you could review more games of ACE!
He's back!!
Now I want the t90 sheep mod.
This is what a true legend looks like
''Kim young ....Fun'' It's ''Kim Young FUUUN'' (ooo). That one just flew over his head.
I see so much of myself in Ace. Not the fastest or technical player, but a lot of thinking and thinking :D
This game had everything. What a complete player!
I wanna see more of Ace and what he's up to now lol The dude is a legend !
Ace of Emeralds. More like Ace of Memelords.
Maybe that distraction to get the villagers to the gold was actually to create that second distraction so the monk could take the relic. Maybe Ace has seen Inception too many times and has adapted it to AoE2.
It was probably a combination of both. He used the scout to lure reds troops away cause he wanted to send villagers down to mine the gold and send a monk out to snag the relic. When the villagers started building the first mining camp and got attacked they ran back for a short while before he realized that if red chased he would led them right into the monk. So he turned the villagers back and built a new miningcamp as far away as he could get. Brilliant =)
WHAT. A. LEGEND.
Would be awesome to see Ace and DarkElf on the same team in 2v2 :D
I now chop straggler trees just incase I end up in a T90 video 😉
I knew it!
31:24 I am actually crying of laughter
That moon walking scout in the bottom right corner at 9:39
I'd really like to see a top tier player try to adapt Aces strategy for high level play and see how well they can do with it.
This is LEGEND OF SPLITMACRO!
9:40 scout does moonwalk
This. This game is why I find Low Elo legends to be more entertaining than pro tournaments.
Yeah, I'm here for more from Ace. These are great. MOAR
T90sheep was pretty good!
I like playing blue and cyan on water maps, yellow and orange on desert maps, green on forest/green maps, and grey on snow.
To this day, that scout is still waiting for rescue.
Is it risky, or is it asserting dominance?
When I bought Age of Empires II back way back when, it came with this really thick strategy book. I want that book.
omg I was crying when Ace trolled both T90 and red for 2 minutes fucking with a mining camp while his monk snaked that relic from right under red castle!!!!
GG to Ace once again an amazing match!
Damn I don't remember the last time I played AoE, but this is just great to watch. T90 enjoy your commentary, great job 👍
31:00 epic relic heist
24:22 T90 i wanna let you know that for low ELO players Elephant units are some of the hardest to deal with because of how much HP they have, i can say from experience as i played against hard AI and it spammed elephants at me and my army got crushed.
I think Red sealed their fate at 21:28 by attempting to destroy the remaining wall using their knights. If that second gate dropped, it would have been much more difficult for Ace to bounce back.
9:40 Moonwalking scout, lower right
@ 43:35
T90: Villagers, where are the villagers?
Me: SOCIETY! SOCIETY!!
My neighbours: hello, police?
Back at it again! Love it, need more
Hell yeah he does!
because of T90 i now know that Emerald is yellow and not GREEN lol love it
Love the T90stache
31:20 i feel like watching Ocean's eleven
i've been waiting for his triumphant return for a while now
The confidence is frightening
im having the best night with some weed and low elo legends. laughing my ass off.
Another very impressive aspect about this game is that Ace actually won this game without making a SINGLE military unit other than meme elephants and a handful of trebs. Any normal player would have at least mixed in some halbs but Ace is like screw that, my way or the highway!
I think AoE2 classifies monks as military.
this guy know something we don't
Ace of Emeralds = AoE
i remember when i played this game when i was a kid it was one villager per sheep and i tought boars were just like wolf and always killed them with military lol