So survive centuries later and invent liberalism so the liberals can rewrite in your favor. Or don't bother. How many possible worldlines start where we are now and end with North America under mostly indigenous control? Even if the liberals don't like it, they definitely won't actually make you pay for genocide anywhere near the potential advantages.
There aren't many potential futures where the US is worse off due to manifest destiny and many liberals don't want a future where Israel is worse off due to the Nakba. Unfortunately genocide has proved to be extremely profitable even in broad daylight.
Like, as long as your regime survives for even just a handful of decades after the initial conquest and atrocities, mass murder or forced deportations rarely get punished in a way that would actually deter them.
That's the way everybody was doing it actually. From peloponesian war to the very begining of middle age. I know I'm 4 years late but Alesia was like 2072 years ago so what's 4 years?
How the F where you this good at making AoE videos before literally having any subscribers? Have you worked on videos on an other channel or what? You just started being like this?
Jesus Christ 7 years after this video was posted and it was recommended to me, thinking oh yes SOTL makes quality content and I love his stuff. Then watching this and hearing "I have one subscriber" I understand why you're one of the top AoE 2 channels. Great strategies still useful all these years later.
+Cloud Strife Or the time-shift your military buildings into your enemies town strategy for Kronos, if you have a LOT of wood and gold to spare and quite a bit of time management skills. Bonus if you have Vortex and can put your military units in there too (does Kronos get Helios? I don't remember).
+Daniel Wells One of my fav god combos was as the egyptians: Seth, the guy with the shifting sands, the citadel power and either of the other last gods (tornado or meteor strike). You'd cast citadel to add extra toughness to your base, pile up your army in a tight spot, use Seth's reveal map to peek at the enemy's base then use shifting sands to instantly teleport there :D And use your meteor/tornado to wreck more shit
Would work better in this order, assuming you choose Horus (Meteor Storm): Citadel, build army, Vision, Meteor Storm (cause it leave LOS when it's done), Shifting Sands, wreck the rest of your enemy's city.
You and T90 (mostly you for the actual numbers you can showcase) are what got me back into a game I played so casually with zero understanding of as a child.
another great strategy I discovered over a decade ago was the use of creeping bombard tower clusters. The basic set up is three bombard towers in a wedge formation with the leading tower just inside the range of the two supporting towers. There are many fast-moving units that bombards just can't hit unless the stop moving, like the do to attack the lead tower. Once the first triad is in place, the next begins just inside the range of the previous triad's lead tower. I found this to be particularly effective against the AI, especially in taking control of choke points on the map, or seizing gold/stone resources away from the enemy. Typically, the AI will exhaust far more resources attacking the towers than it takes to build and repair them, setting the stage for a war a attrition. The towers also make for an effective advancing force to attack the enemy city. If repelled, there is just too many towers to fight through and the enemy army is exhausted faster than you can rebuild. To defend against the inevitable trebuchet counter-attack, I always kept a small cavalry contingent in reserve. There is also the case of a mass paladin or war elephant attack. So I also kept a contingent of archers that would initially set up in advance of the towers and then making a fighting retreat behind them. This strategy requires a LOT of gold and stone, and is obviously a late-game strategy that probably isn't that effective against the human player. As a final remark, I discovered this strategy after my town was decimated by a surprise force of persian war elephant's. On a humorous note, they emerged from the fog of war just as the music turned dark. With my army beaten, and my city in ruins, it was up to my villagers to devise a defense against the next wave. The bombard tower defense then became the creeping offense.
Love that wood one... sneaky like. But don't hit the units, so you keep it a secret. "Has Jimmy checked in yet?" "No, he was over at the lumber camp..."
Adding onto the wall strategy, walling in resources around the map at the start of the game is also a good idea. I'll sometimes wall in resources that aren't near any of the bases... when they run out and are in search of other resources around the map they'll come to find that they can't get them leaving them in a more vulnerable position (this ofcourse will take some time but if executed right will pay off). You can also wall in the gates in Arena at the start of the game to delay them further (this works best with computers ofcourse), with walling in the gates it gives you some time to plant an offensive castle down; in particular it works very well as the Celts (with their infantry speed and wood chopping bonus). Spam Woad Raiders, build a few rams to knock their wall down, send in the Woad Raiders to pick off the villagers and BLAMO! You got yourself an easy win (this also depends on what amount of resources you start with). If you're ballsy enough you can even do this: wall in their military buildings making their military units waste their time by having to destroy the wall to get out. ... It's also a sort of trollish thing to do which will no doubt piss your opponents off. The idea behind it: to delay and annoy your opponent as much as possible. Once annoyed and possibly raging... it'll throw his game off (it should). A ragging opponent would generally not be able to focus unlike a calm and collected opponent.
@@rlhariharan11 Yeah, I thought that too, but he said it works better with the AI. I suppose you could just wall the WHOLE wall, as opposed to just the gates?
i kinda sorta combined two of these just now it as a 1v1 on black forest and we both were mongols our armies basically clashed agains one another for exhaustingly long periods of time when i decided to troll the guy i took a siege onager and cut a way trough the forest to the back of his base and i sent a load of hussars and a bunch of petards through when the hussars attacked he sent a defensive party back and was like "ah fuck it i can deal with that whimpy shit" but when my disgusting force of suicidal winebarrels arrived be kinda resigned before i even blew up one tc he didnt even say gg and neither did he express his dislike towards my trick i guess he just went full ragequit
Love the intro, never gets old! It's awesome to see a great channel on one of the classic games I grew up playing, thank you for keeping up the awesome content
I pride myself in being one of your first hundred subscribers and I've always loved your videos, it's crazy how far you have advanced (pun intended) but past videos like these are still brilliant!
Hey Spirit of the Law, I watch a lot of your videos and wonder if you will ever make videos about Age of Mythology? I eat food while watching your videos because they are interesting and food makes it better. Just a food for your thoughts.
+TheCrimsonGears I'm honoured to be one of your food channels. I have several of my own, and I can appreciate the importance of the position. Never played Age of Mythology, though; sorry man. Maybe I have to try it when the expansion comes out? I have certainly had a few questions about it
+Spirit Of The Law You are missing out Law, Age of Mythology which I believe you know is made by the same developers Ensemble Studios. Way before Microsoft shut them down. horrible. But AoM and its expansion The Titans is amazing. now after 10 years we are getting Tale of the Dragon adding chinese pantheon civs. The AoM compaign (story) and everything else about the game is outstanding. it was great for its time and it still stands. you need to give it a shot. you won't be disappointed. :)
+Spirit Of The Law Age of mythology has an amazing campaign and alot of uniqueness to is over the other age of empire series. with each culture being very different from the others
+TheCrimsonGears I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE WHO DID THAT! I like to eat and watch TV, but I can never find anything interesting. I found SoL's channel when looking up Ao2 strategies. I was sucked in immediately. I love it.
7 is just metagame malice haha Nice list. Love the "In a box" strategy. I remember winding up with a whole lot of stone and making ever decreasing circles of ramparts and archers on an opponent once. He'd been the Huns and gone for massive cavalry but as the Byzantines I had arbalests and dirt cheap skirmishers conviniently behind a few walls of stone and wood. That's what you get when you don't maximise map control. ;)
If you've ever played the first and researched Jihad at the temple and wheel at the market, you know how lowkey deadly villagers can be. These guys can outrun and outfight cavalry all while building towers in the enemy base.
I actually tried to Persian Douche (Restless TC) someone that apparently knew what they were doing once- my opponent pulled all of his villagers off resource gathering and attacked my villagers. I was, of course, outnumbered, and he killed them all before I could get the TC up. Outside of that, in my opinion the best reaction to this one is to delete your own TC as soon as the enemy's starts to go up and rebuild it in a good position out of range of the enemy TC. Then you can ignore him. You don't lose anything against your opponent by doing this as he's already deleted and started to rebuild his TC. You're still up, though, because you haven't wasted time sending a large amount of villagers across the map and you have the opportunity to put your TC in a very efficient spot.
ep3lol haha, it's definitely easiest to pull it off against a computer because they don't attack the villagers. A villager counter rush is definitely the best strategy. You could probably throw down some houses around your villagers to protect them, though. I honestly don't know why the strategy isn't used more
Spirit Of The Law Well I think the strategy is pretty ineffective. Like you said in your video, you can counter a Persian Douche by just ignoring it. Even if someone is doing this strategy against you successfully, if you just let your initial Town Center be destroyed and build a new one as soon as your old one is gone, you''ll have had much more Villager gathering time than the opponent because: 1) He had to move a lot of his Villagers to the other side of the map; 2) He was the first one to not have a Town Center for a moment, so between the time he deleted his TC and he destroyed yours, you will have had more Villagers; 3) He had to garrison Villagers in his Town Center to destroy yours, making them idle. This should always cause you to reach Feudal first or reach Feudal with more resources. Then, like you said, you can destroy the opponent with Feudal army.
Spirit Of The Law It's high-risk and not conservative. I think high level players generally shy away from that. BBQTurkman has a great video on this strategy that shows a game where this was used that actually settled down and was normal after a while, though. Worth a watch.
1. Similar to the town center strategy you mentioned, is that I would find the enemy town, get enough stone quickly and build towers in their town before they have time to counter. While doing so, get resources and build an army to finish off the town. 2. Get a lot of stone and wood early on and enough food to create a few extra villagers to help get more food and gold. As quickly as possible, find the enemy town and get near it and start building barracks, stables and towers nearby. Wall off these areas and use the towers to protect the buildings. Add a gate so that your units can leave the walled area and then start creating units. If these buildings stand until castle age, create a couple of castles in between the buildings, wall it off and add towers and a gate. Doesn't work so well if the enemy gains an army quickly or quickly builds siege units fast, but while your building your military base near their town, you can build some military buildings, towers, walls and a castle in your town just encase your strategy fails. 3. Find all gold and stone (Maybe wood if the area isn't too big) and get some resources of wood and quickly and wall them off with palisade walls so that the enemy can't get to most of the the resources and can't advance (Don't wall off the resources close to your town so you can use them), then if you can do it quickly enough, delete the palisade walls and build stone walls around with a tower or two at each and add your mining camp and a put a couple of villagers inside to get the resources. Send some units to defend each area and send the rest to attack the enemy. Harder to do in maps like gold rush where there is lots of gold around or black forest which is mostly trees and you can't really wall off resources like this.
Also, another interesting strategy is in water maps, in which you have to defend islands. Or a long shore. I realized that if you build palisades too close to the water, the computer cannot land troops, thus leaving you free to focus your attention on other tasks, such as building towers. It may use fire ships to destroy them, but well, at least it doesn't land troops so quickly, and also, most of the time, it will simply focus its attacks on the area that you have chosen to focus your attention on. I don't know whether that could work with human players. I used it in one of the missions of the AOE2 campaigns and it truly worked.
I used a few of these against my former classmates back in the highschool days when we played at LAN parties. The "offensive towers", trebuchet+pike rush and the "deforestation" tactics were my favorites. I've only experimented with the petard rush against a PC, but you just can't do it if the PC elects to mass build archers or scorpions (which it often did with the Celts)
Nice, I've never thought of #5 before. I use #3 occasionally, but actually partly to mimic something I do in C&C: Red Alert 2 with Libyan nuclear trucks, which packs a lot more punch. Number 4 is my primary siege method as I've always loved their range, but often I'd also launch a tower/castle rush with a second flanking group as the target is usually too focused on stopping my main force's siege to worry about the villiagers until the initial set of towers are built, lol
"Why building catch on fire using knifes?": They have fire gems socket into all weapons like diablo and stuff, is just you can open the inventory to check their propertys but is there anyways. :)
I can't decide if I really like that Spirit used so many goddamn voice samples in his early videos compared to using none at all in later videos. The comedy of those samples here is great, they are only ever so slightly being overused though which mucks up the pacing of the narrative. Bring back the samples!
The 1 subscriber line floored me so much I had to sub. Your content is pretty damn good and as somebody who loves age of empires, but sucks at it, it's pretty sweet. (I have two strats: build a wall. If that fails build a navy. If that fails, hope I have better allies)
You have some cool videos man! I play this game since the original release with pauses froms years. I got back to it a few weeks ago and bought the hd with dlc, its nice. I play mainly dm because I like the speed and the rush of it, but you motivate to play some rm more. Too bad there are not that much good dm players out there.Good case is they improved the ai. The dm ai on hardest is now actually a lot more challenging
Actually the strategy of destroying all the enemy trees is incredibly effective when used right. All it takes is one sneaked onager/siege onager and you can break an entire team's late game.
In Black Forest maps, I really like taking siege onagers and using them to clear a long path through the trees (by destroying the trees themselves), thereby popping out an army right at the rear of my opponent's base. This is great with these maps because it allows me to circumvent my opponent's defenses entirely, catching them by surprise.
AHHHHHHHHHH I remember when i first started playing AOE3, some guy actually did this to me!!! Covered halft the map, then 1/4 and hurt my resources so bad and I couldn't do anything about it!! Cool video btw
I like surrounding the enemy with castles because it is a fast way to make routes for your armies safe and it would stress them out with constant streams of units attacking.
Woah Spirit, you've grown a lot. I never paid attention to your sub count after i subbed a few years back. You had like, a 100? Maybe 150? Now look at you, you're a big boy! Keep up the great work, sensei!
I like these strategies. Especially the first one it's kinda like what Caesar did to the Gauls during his campaign. If you're also an AOE1 fan you can see it in one of Caesar's missions
I used to do the chat miss info all the time in Command and Conquer and Starcraft. What you do is make two armies, one must be what you "accidently" told and you make it big enough to look serious but small to fail. The second army is the real threat.
I did the box one as a child😂😂 I knew that once my opponent got stronger I would lose the game in a matter of minutes, so I took measures against it. My father thought it was hilarious.
For AoE3 people forget Spanish Unction works on monitors. It is like dropping a nuke on the enemy army and town every 20 seconds (733 siege damage, 989 in 4v4 with the right allies, x10 vs. buildings, nearly 150/200 versus villagers). You can even build your own fixed gun on maps with a puddle big enough for a dock.
>When you have 1 sub and still produce the best AoE2 content on youtube.
There were so many extra game sounds added in, it was too much really but it was amazing.
Damn straight!
and look where he is today.
He is a hard worker i will say... puts effort in his vids...
Right?
"Heroes don't Use this strategy, but History is written by the victors." Mind blown! Love it!
Wrote by the victors then centuries later rewrote by the liberals. History is not set in stone.
@@mrcoiganable2988 Yeah he said the victors.
So survive centuries later and invent liberalism so the liberals can rewrite in your favor.
Or don't bother. How many possible worldlines start where we are now and end with North America under mostly indigenous control? Even if the liberals don't like it, they definitely won't actually make you pay for genocide anywhere near the potential advantages.
There aren't many potential futures where the US is worse off due to manifest destiny and many liberals don't want a future where Israel is worse off due to the Nakba.
Unfortunately genocide has proved to be extremely profitable even in broad daylight.
Like, as long as your regime survives for even just a handful of decades after the initial conquest and atrocities, mass murder or forced deportations rarely get punished in a way that would actually deter them.
your title says it's outside the box strategies but the very first strategy is inside the box! you liar!
Eembuster Rules are made to be broken. I'm a renegade for life.
Eembuster Ah but the person using the strategy will be outside the box!
CasualCactus Gaming LOL
+Spirit Of The Law You may think outside the box, *as long as you don't break the damn box!* :D
Truly he's thinking outside the box haha
Its kinda weird how much this channel has improved, and it started good
"Outside-the-box strategies"
*puts them inside the box*
Hah!
*Well he is outside the box and therefore is thinking outside the box* :P
This made me laugh out load
Somebody already made that comment b4 you
The last comment was made one month before mine, so I figured it would still be ok to comment on it
@@brasilballs I care, thanks for your comment. More people need to speak out against things.
Congrats on the 1 subscriber.
"Heroes don't use this strategy - but remember, history is written by the victor" - the most underrated statement I've ever heard.
top1 against ai.
1. build castles and bombard towers in allied base
2. switch ally status to enemy
3. enjoy the carnage
you are heartless
I just did that yesterday
>not building an army in your ally's territory then setting status to enemy
@John ok
this is epic
How to be a dick in video games. XD
the first strategies (walling your op) is literally what Julius Cesar used against Versingetorix (Gauls).
And people say history is boring ha
And whats more. Is that caesar bult two walls!
And slayed all them nude gauls
If it wasn't for Getafix, he'd have conquered all of Gaul!
That's the way everybody was doing it actually. From peloponesian war to the very begining of middle age.
I know I'm 4 years late but Alesia was like 2072 years ago so what's 4 years?
The amount of work you put into this video with only one subscriber shows why your channel grew so well.
I was looking for ASMR videos and just happen to find 8 years old videos from the channel I watch the most
How the F where you this good at making AoE videos before literally having any subscribers? Have you worked on videos on an other channel or what? You just started being like this?
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You okay buddy?
@@Warcraft383 lol
Benjamin Jones What?
I wonder who that first subscriber is... i wonder if he knows that he has a whole video dedicated to him...
Teh_ Diminator
Since no one has claimed to be the first subsciber, I claim it then. And yes I just watched the video.
lol
no it was me
I can confirm it was actually Storiaron, I was the video 👉😎👉
Jesus Christ 7 years after this video was posted and it was recommended to me, thinking oh yes SOTL makes quality content and I love his stuff.
Then watching this and hearing "I have one subscriber" I understand why you're one of the top AoE 2 channels. Great strategies still useful all these years later.
Nothing beats a good Norse forward base rush on age of mythology.
+Cloud Strife Hey, I heard you joined Smash Brothers. That's pretty neat.
+Cloud Strife Or the time-shift your military buildings into your enemies town strategy for Kronos, if you have a LOT of wood and gold to spare and quite a bit of time management skills. Bonus if you have Vortex and can put your military units in there too (does Kronos get Helios? I don't remember).
Daniel Wells i'm not sure, you can probably google it lol, what cant you google these days.
+Daniel Wells One of my fav god combos was as the egyptians: Seth, the guy with the shifting sands, the citadel power and either of the other last gods (tornado or meteor strike).
You'd cast citadel to add extra toughness to your base, pile up your army in a tight spot, use Seth's reveal map to peek at the enemy's base then use shifting sands to instantly teleport there :D
And use your meteor/tornado to wreck more shit
Would work better in this order, assuming you choose Horus (Meteor Storm): Citadel, build army, Vision, Meteor Storm (cause it leave LOS when it's done), Shifting Sands, wreck the rest of your enemy's city.
You and T90 (mostly you for the actual numbers you can showcase) are what got me back into a game I played so casually with zero understanding of as a child.
another great strategy I discovered over a decade ago was the use of creeping bombard tower clusters. The basic set up is three bombard towers in a wedge formation with the leading tower just inside the range of the two supporting towers. There are many fast-moving units that bombards just can't hit unless the stop moving, like the do to attack the lead tower. Once the first triad is in place, the next begins just inside the range of the previous triad's lead tower.
I found this to be particularly effective against the AI, especially in taking control of choke points on the map, or seizing gold/stone resources away from the enemy. Typically, the AI will exhaust far more resources attacking the towers than it takes to build and repair them, setting the stage for a war a attrition. The towers also make for an effective advancing force to attack the enemy city. If repelled, there is just too many towers to fight through and the enemy army is exhausted faster than you can rebuild.
To defend against the inevitable trebuchet counter-attack, I always kept a small cavalry contingent in reserve. There is also the case of a mass paladin or war elephant attack. So I also kept a contingent of archers that would initially set up in advance of the towers and then making a fighting retreat behind them.
This strategy requires a LOT of gold and stone, and is obviously a late-game strategy that probably isn't that effective against the human player.
As a final remark, I discovered this strategy after my town was decimated by a surprise force of persian war elephant's. On a humorous note, they emerged from the fog of war just as the music turned dark. With my army beaten, and my city in ruins, it was up to my villagers to devise a defense against the next wave. The bombard tower defense then became the creeping offense.
The misinformation strategy is good, and I like the "Destroy thier wood" one too. Very close to real war tactics.
Love that wood one... sneaky like. But don't hit the units, so you keep it a secret.
"Has Jimmy checked in yet?"
"No, he was over at the lumber camp..."
Scorched earth warfare
He got his first sub and now this has 900k views. What a story. Love you SOTL
When SOTL had one subscriber, anyone coming back to this after 6 years? Damn, the age scene has grown.
Adding onto the wall strategy, walling in resources around the map at the start of the game is also a good idea. I'll sometimes wall in resources that aren't near any of the bases... when they run out and are in search of other resources around the map they'll come to find that they can't get them leaving them in a more vulnerable position (this ofcourse will take some time but if executed right will pay off).
You can also wall in the gates in Arena at the start of the game to delay them further (this works best with computers ofcourse), with walling in the gates it gives you some time to plant an offensive castle down; in particular it works very well as the Celts (with their infantry speed and wood chopping bonus). Spam Woad Raiders, build a few rams to knock their wall down, send in the Woad Raiders to pick off the villagers and BLAMO! You got yourself an easy win (this also depends on what amount of resources you start with).
If you're ballsy enough you can even do this: wall in their military buildings making their military units waste their time by having to destroy the wall to get out.
... It's also a sort of trollish thing to do which will no doubt piss your opponents off. The idea behind it: to delay and annoy your opponent as much as possible. Once annoyed and possibly raging... it'll throw his game off (it should). A ragging opponent would generally not be able to focus unlike a calm and collected opponent.
You can simply delete a part of the wall for you exit, can't you?
@@rlhariharan11 Yeah, I thought that too, but he said it works better with the AI. I suppose you could just wall the WHOLE wall, as opposed to just the gates?
i kinda sorta combined two of these just now
it as a 1v1 on black forest and we both were mongols
our armies basically clashed agains one another for exhaustingly long periods of time when i decided to troll the guy
i took a siege onager and cut a way trough the forest to the back of his base and i sent a load of hussars and a bunch of petards through
when the hussars attacked he sent a defensive party back and was like "ah fuck it i can deal with that whimpy shit"
but when my disgusting force of suicidal winebarrels arrived be kinda resigned before i even blew up one tc
he didnt even say gg and neither did he express his dislike towards my trick
i guess he just went full ragequit
HECKproductions is
That one subscriber
Congrats for being in the community for 3 years!
From 1 sub to 16k that's not bad for a bit over a year. :)
+Harry Make it 30k
+Quisl make it 40k
+FullOilBarrel make it 50k
make it 600 000k
+Gammelmann make it 70k
2019 right here, man you've come a long way.
2021 right here, man you've come even a longer way
Hey
one of the best "how to play" videos I have seen on youtube! I love the calm and clear way you explain!
Thumps up!
Love the intro, never gets old! It's awesome to see a great channel on one of the classic games I grew up playing, thank you for keeping up the awesome content
Congratulations on your first subscriber bro
grew up on this game, just got back into it recently and you're helping me learn new strategies. subscribed, keep it up man
Ha, the first subscriber. Well done for the 49999 others
60561 others*
yeah, but I thought the 50 000 milestone was of higher relevance
65602 others*
You can't count either. Moron.
(And yes, that's a joke. Calm the hell down, TH-cam)
Bloodbath and Beyond too late, calling someone a moron isn't a joke, it's an insult. Try learning humor before trying to make a joke
LOL. You're right. I clearly need to to learn from you, because that triggered response was hilarious!
It's so funny with all the voices you add !
wololo
Hello fellow red friend!
just have enter+30+enter on a macro so it just says wololo whenever you want
Monk, i need a monk !!!!
Appreciate the attention to detail by inserting in the game narrator's voice where appropriate
I pride myself in being one of your first hundred subscribers and I've always loved your videos, it's crazy how far you have advanced (pun intended) but past videos like these are still brilliant!
Hey Spirit of the Law, I watch a lot of your videos and wonder if you will ever make videos about Age of Mythology? I eat food while watching your videos because they are interesting and food makes it better. Just a food for your thoughts.
+TheCrimsonGears I'm honoured to be one of your food channels. I have several of my own, and I can appreciate the importance of the position.
Never played Age of Mythology, though; sorry man. Maybe I have to try it when the expansion comes out? I have certainly had a few questions about it
+Spirit Of The Law You are missing out Law, Age of Mythology which I believe you know is made by the same developers Ensemble Studios. Way before Microsoft shut them down. horrible. But AoM and its expansion The Titans is amazing. now after 10 years we are getting Tale of the Dragon adding chinese pantheon civs. The AoM compaign (story) and everything else about the game is outstanding. it was great for its time and it still stands. you need to give it a shot. you won't be disappointed. :)
+Spirit Of The Law Age of mythology has an amazing campaign and alot of uniqueness to is over the other age of empire series. with each culture being very different from the others
+TheCrimsonGears I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE WHO DID THAT! I like to eat and watch TV, but I can never find anything interesting. I found SoL's channel when looking up Ao2 strategies. I was sucked in immediately. I love it.
+TheCrimsonGears I also watch his videos and eat, mostly chips or anything salty :)
Haha like it how u thanked the first sub, now look at how well u doing, keep it up!
7 is just metagame malice haha
Nice list. Love the "In a box" strategy.
I remember winding up with a whole lot of stone and making ever decreasing circles of ramparts and archers on an opponent once. He'd been the Huns and gone for massive cavalry but as the Byzantines I had arbalests and dirt cheap skirmishers conviniently behind a few walls of stone and wood. That's what you get when you don't maximise map control. ;)
How about killing your opponent with 40+ villagers in the dark age?
Try castle age
If you've ever played the first and researched Jihad at the temple and wheel at the market, you know how lowkey deadly villagers can be.
These guys can outrun and outfight cavalry all while building towers in the enemy base.
Their TC will wreck your villagers.
@John You put inside a few villagers and it has arrows.
whit incas work so well
Really puts into perspective (even further) how high quality your stuff is now, even though it was fine even back here. Nice stuff
You, sir, are an AoE tactical wizard. Very intriguing and impressive strategies.
congrats for one.....hundred thousand subscribers !!!!!!
I actually tried to Persian Douche (Restless TC) someone that apparently knew what they were doing once- my opponent pulled all of his villagers off resource gathering and attacked my villagers. I was, of course, outnumbered, and he killed them all before I could get the TC up.
Outside of that, in my opinion the best reaction to this one is to delete your own TC as soon as the enemy's starts to go up and rebuild it in a good position out of range of the enemy TC. Then you can ignore him. You don't lose anything against your opponent by doing this as he's already deleted and started to rebuild his TC. You're still up, though, because you haven't wasted time sending a large amount of villagers across the map and you have the opportunity to put your TC in a very efficient spot.
ep3lol haha, it's definitely easiest to pull it off against a computer because they don't attack the villagers. A villager counter rush is definitely the best strategy. You could probably throw down some houses around your villagers to protect them, though. I honestly don't know why the strategy isn't used more
Spirit Of The Law Well I think the strategy is pretty ineffective. Like you said in your video, you can counter a Persian Douche by just ignoring it. Even if someone is doing this strategy against you successfully, if you just let your initial Town Center be destroyed and build a new one as soon as your old one is gone, you''ll have had much more Villager gathering time than the opponent because:
1) He had to move a lot of his Villagers to the other side of the map;
2) He was the first one to not have a Town Center for a moment, so between the time he deleted his TC and he destroyed yours, you will have had more Villagers;
3) He had to garrison Villagers in his Town Center to destroy yours, making them idle.
This should always cause you to reach Feudal first or reach Feudal with more resources. Then, like you said, you can destroy the opponent with Feudal army.
Spirit Of The Law It's high-risk and not conservative. I think high level players generally shy away from that. BBQTurkman has a great video on this strategy that shows a game where this was used that actually settled down and was normal after a while, though. Worth a watch.
this is where the legend began folks
And now you have around 120,000 subscribers... good job man!
Ive used a lot of this strategies, never thought of them as "outside the box". This made me feel special
Dedicating the video to your first subscriber is really cool! You have my respect, sir!
"You played two hours to die like this?" @ the onager part lmfao
I am very surprised that you only had 1 subscriber at this point. These are very high quality videos
The shock and awe of that sudden petard rush is unmatched by anything.
Oh, you have a nice base here, and in 15 seconds it all turns to dust.
That's a nice Zander in your profile pic!
1. Similar to the town center strategy you mentioned, is that I would find the enemy town, get enough stone quickly and build towers in their town before they have time to counter. While doing so, get resources and build an army to finish off the town.
2. Get a lot of stone and wood early on and enough food to create a few extra villagers to help get more food and gold. As quickly as possible, find the enemy town and get near it and start building barracks, stables and towers nearby. Wall off these areas and use the towers to protect the buildings. Add a gate so that your units can leave the walled area and then start creating units. If these buildings stand until castle age, create a couple of castles in between the buildings, wall it off and add towers and a gate. Doesn't work so well if the enemy gains an army quickly or quickly builds siege units fast, but while your building your military base near their town, you can build some military buildings, towers, walls and a castle in your town just encase your strategy fails.
3. Find all gold and stone (Maybe wood if the area isn't too big) and get some resources of wood and quickly and wall them off with palisade walls so that the enemy can't get to most of the the resources and can't advance (Don't wall off the resources close to your town so you can use them), then if you can do it quickly enough, delete the palisade walls and build stone walls around with a tower or two at each and add your mining camp and a put a couple of villagers inside to get the resources. Send some units to defend each area and send the rest to attack the enemy. Harder to do in maps like gold rush where there is lots of gold around or black forest which is mostly trees and you can't really wall off resources like this.
I've been binge watching your shows this last week. It's come a long way since this but I will have to try these strategies.
Also, another interesting strategy is in water maps, in which you have to defend islands. Or a long shore. I realized that if you build palisades too close to the water, the computer cannot land troops, thus leaving you free to focus your attention on other tasks, such as building towers. It may use fire ships to destroy them, but well, at least it doesn't land troops so quickly, and also, most of the time, it will simply focus its attacks on the area that you have chosen to focus your attention on. I don't know whether that could work with human players. I used it in one of the missions of the AOE2 campaigns and it truly worked.
From 2014 to 2017 you went up over 100k subs, from this your first sub :) :) GJ AND CONGRATS
And a *Legend* was born!
omg you're so cute thanking your one subscriber 😭 why didnt i found your channel earlier?
Wow Spirit, you came a long way since then... Great job!
from 1 sub to 98,000 in 3 years. Well done!
did you ever do the aoe philosophical questions video? I can't find it.
Marcus Bond oh yea, forgot about that. Maybe some day I'll make it? haha. I have the list written out somewhere around here...
Spirit Of The Law Ok. I hope you get around to it someday, I'm really enjoying your videos. :D
Spirit Of The Law Still waiting!!!
haha, I kind of got away from the Top 20 videos early on and haven't really come back. I should probably give one more a go, hey?
Spirit Of The Law Absolutely!
I used a few of these against my former classmates back in the highschool days when we played at LAN parties. The "offensive towers", trebuchet+pike rush and the "deforestation" tactics were my favorites. I've only experimented with the petard rush against a PC, but you just can't do it if the PC elects to mass build archers or scorpions (which it often did with the Celts)
Now you have 65,569 subscribers! Congratulations! You've come very far in just a little over two years.
Nice, I've never thought of #5 before. I use #3 occasionally, but actually partly to mimic something I do in C&C: Red Alert 2 with Libyan nuclear trucks, which packs a lot more punch. Number 4 is my primary siege method as I've always loved their range, but often I'd also launch a tower/castle rush with a second flanking group as the target is usually too focused on stopping my main force's siege to worry about the villiagers until the initial set of towers are built, lol
Anybody in 2019?
Currently 189k.... thats 189k Times the followers from the date of this video
Lol got it recomened today
Me too...
This type of thing happened for many TH-camrs' videos about their first few subscribers.
I love how Spirit has grown over the years.
"Why building catch on fire using knifes?": They have fire gems socket into all weapons like diablo and stuff, is just you can open the inventory to check their propertys but is there anyways. :)
Congrats on your first subscriber. You deserve it.
CONGRATS on 165 K subscribers, Spirit Of The Law !
I am looking forward to actually playing AOE 2.......
bro long time sub, always great getting recommended your old classics, the Peee tarda so funny
Can't believe it took you eight episodes to gain one subscriber, I subscribed after seeing just one video. Great stuff!
The first subscriber of almost 70,000. You do great work, I don't even play this game but I watch a lot of your vids.
I can't decide if I really like that Spirit used so many goddamn voice samples in his early videos compared to using none at all in later videos. The comedy of those samples here is great, they are only ever so slightly being overused though which mucks up the pacing of the narrative. Bring back the samples!
The 1 subscriber line floored me so much I had to sub. Your content is pretty damn good and as somebody who loves age of empires, but sucks at it, it's pretty sweet. (I have two strats: build a wall. If that fails build a navy. If that fails, hope I have better allies)
theese strategies are hullarious. may try walling my oponents
You have some cool videos man! I play this game since the original release with pauses froms years. I got back to it a few weeks ago and bought the hd with dlc, its nice. I play mainly dm because I like the speed and the rush of it, but you motivate to play some rm more. Too bad there are not that much good dm players out there.Good case is they improved the ai. The dm ai on hardest is now actually a lot more challenging
OMG! Are you trying to give me a siezure @ 2:30??? So Glad you've calmed down since I started watching. :P
2:53 Where is that voiceline from? It sounds like the TF2 Soldier.
Actually the strategy of destroying all the enemy trees is incredibly effective when used right. All it takes is one sneaked onager/siege onager and you can break an entire team's late game.
Spirit of the Law
2014: Hurray, I've one subscriber!
2021: 875 575 subscribers
Congrats man. You make an awesome content!
In Black Forest maps, I really like taking siege onagers and using them to clear a long path through the trees (by destroying the trees themselves), thereby popping out an army right at the rear of my opponent's base. This is great with these maps because it allows me to circumvent my opponent's defenses entirely, catching them by surprise.
Guilty of almost all of these. Lol! Boxing in and using massive amounts of trebuchets are probably my top 2. Congratulations on nearing 200k subs!
most dangerous thing about the wall strategy is forgeting about your own base
AHHHHHHHHHH
I remember when i first started playing AOE3, some guy actually did this to me!!! Covered halft the map, then 1/4 and hurt my resources so bad and I couldn't do anything about it!!
Cool video btw
I like surrounding the enemy with castles because it is a fast way to make routes for your armies safe and it would stress them out with constant streams of units attacking.
By far my favorite video and i love it. I would appreciate more strategies and guides how to do them.
I used to team up with a friend in MP, i played Teutonic and he played British. Knights + Longbowmen, we never lost a fight.
Or goths
mr spirit of the law you are such an inspiration
Woah Spirit, you've grown a lot. I never paid attention to your sub count after i subbed a few years back. You had like, a 100? Maybe 150? Now look at you, you're a big boy!
Keep up the great work, sensei!
Congrats on making it from 1 subscriber to 129k!
I like these strategies. Especially the first one it's kinda like what Caesar did to the Gauls during his campaign. If you're also an AOE1 fan you can see it in one of Caesar's missions
Wow! You have ONE subscriber! Congrats!
I used to do the chat miss info all the time in Command and Conquer and Starcraft. What you do is make two armies, one must be what you "accidently" told and you make it big enough to look serious but small to fail. The second army is the real threat.
I did the box one as a child😂😂 I knew that once my opponent got stronger I would lose the game in a matter of minutes, so I took measures against it. My father thought it was hilarious.
Checking in in 2019... Current subscriber count is 152K. So glad spirit got popular! Go spirit!
Great sound effects!
Roberto Melgaço very funny
i don't even play this game (last time 2008) but i still watch this strategy
Get back on it
Haha this popped up many years later. Awesome video!
Thanks for this Video, watched all yours and you do a good job!
Greetings from Germany :)
Holy crap you have grown since 2016.
the strategy in the intro at 0:36 is op ^^
Age of Empires brings back good memories from childhood. Love the music on this game. 😌🙌🏼
Wow I actually love the sound bytes from the game thrown in there 😂 wish you still did this in current vids lol
For AoE3 people forget Spanish Unction works on monitors. It is like dropping a nuke on the enemy army and town every 20 seconds (733 siege damage, 989 in 4v4 with the right allies, x10 vs. buildings, nearly 150/200 versus villagers). You can even build your own fixed gun on maps with a puddle big enough for a dock.
that last strategy with town center is so cool.