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Oh ok, first group is all monks on 1, then all monks minus the ones you deselected on group 2 and so on. It's hard to see your mouse cursor.

Its got to be TC idle time, just the amount of time your TC isnt producing villagers. Watch a rec back and see how much you have and youll see where you can improve and shift focus towards keeping it running more than anything else.

Thanks. I wish I could have more time to explain further, but I didn't want a ten minute video. I want it to be optional for people who want to see the gameplay to go and see it on another channel, without forcing anyone subscribed here sitting waiting on guides to be fed them. One of the things I dislike myself is just being force fed crap in subscriptions.

In this video, Magyars.

My mangonel micro was horrible this game, though there were a lot of instances with the pathing where they just refused to move anywhere in the direction I sent them this game. The best way is usually diagonally, mangonel shots are usually slightly more horizontal. I was mainly just mad that the mangonels kept pathing south around the house instead of directly to their target.

The one built into the game settings.

My discord is PlusNomad#9999 - You can also find me in the new Discord in the description.

Honestly, Teal was a bit late. A couple minutes or more late to imp and making knights when he really should have just reserved back a little to get more cavalier to paladin out much quicker. Not that his gameplay was that bad, it is entirely green's fault for not walling. A pocket saving a flank is just not something that should really be needed. Its much easier to defend - still be in an "im about to die" position but stone walls even in feudal prevent most of what happened here.

Well, its a clear green's fault, he's reaction was very poor. Teal is not obliged to help his flank and with correct execution he had a good chance for early imp steamroll and punish for castle age 2vs1. And first tg's rule - you never resign like that. Even if no way to avoid to be defeated, player still have to buy time and not allow enemy to hit his teammates right now.

@@valger3652 Reasonable. And thank you again for the game understanding you shared in this defensive scene.😃

For sure. Thought it'd just be a fun game to upload. Build was fine, wasnt the happiest but it is what it is. In the future Ill be uploading "good" games to the channel where the other team doesn't just instantly lose because one player is significantly lower elo than the rest - that's just noob bashing and no fun for anyone. Ill probably upload the games that are fun but far from perfect as unlisted and link them only in the discord from now on.

no ask enemy to build wall around himself

Depends on the players. A castle is always the wrong way to go around defending most things.

Castle could save green, but for strategy with mining stone early on have to be some offensive reason. Just blind defensive castle puts far behind on eco and it is bad decision on most scenarios. Few defensive trips for green: - scout information, it gives a lot of time for reaction - unit defence. Depending on civ it could be monks , mangonels or kts/ls. - important to make production buidings behind tc in safe spot, rebalance eco to make non stop military and if needed - to idle TC.

@@valger3652 u are right.i agree with you and ty for these useful defensive solutions.😃

@@fubaohong I think there are a lot of solutions to not dying to aggression, but a defensive castle is never the answer - unless its essentially an offensive castle (FC UU for example) for the use of going the unique unit. Scouting is always essential, but always play aggressive as flank. Expect their aggression, play to your strengths and counter to that - because if they arent doing what you counter, then they'll be booming and die to your aggression anyway. The thing is it can be a bit difficult to be aggressive. In this case my combination was easily beatable by at least three single unit counters that are either cheap or easy to turn around into a push on me after clearing me up. If you find yourself in these situations, you can delay TC production - keep one running, but dont run any more TCs. You're already ahead from the villagers you have produced, running one TC will keep you up to date with villager production (whilst being ahead) vs a 1tc. The only exception is if you've got a nice and easy wood/gold counter - you've already got the farms to run all of your TCs but you need to make solely mangonels or solely monks to defend against one/two unit combinations. The number one tip, which is why EVERY other defensive tip is irrelevant is: Don't boom as flank, if I do it its because there's a considerable skillgap.

@@valger3652 Monk treb from Japanese is a very valid reason to go for a castle in this case. Otherwise, mill before lumbercamp fast trush is really effective even vs celts. Plenty of options for Japanese with infantry/monks/range/sw against this.

Something Ive always tried to get across in builds is that the "you need (x) villagers on (y) resource to afford this unit" applies to much more than units. I know I want to go 25+2 minimum for the economy to afford spears and mangonels (a food costing unit means its quite expensive due to farm count to run TC and it). I know a standard 25+2 is possible with 6 on wood. I know with 6 on wood I can click up to feudal age with 0 wood, and have enough for a market and blacksmith when I'm up. I know since Im celts even with 6 on wood I can make a farm after clicking up due to the wood bonus and still have the wood I need in feudal age. I know an extra villager on berries when you do 25+2 or less is needed because you will have a lot of villagers under the TC taking food, possibly too many to fit around sheep and you can't afford many farms with faster ups. If you know those things, you can win with macro - you can play as slow as a potato like I often do and still take good Ws just based on knowledge. Build orders are not fixed, the same way you change up whether you get 3 deer and 8 sheep, vs 4 deer and 6 cows (more food), and change for civ bonuses. You craft your build order based on the loose guideline generally by learning what a generic civ does with it with the minimum resources, and look at each thing that comes up that changes that to adjust accordingly. If a civ has a bonus for a resource like hindustanis save food, you can up one villager earlier with one less on food. Even just doing this build was just a "generic good opening as celts in Arena" from back in the day knowledge. Terrible against Japanese if he had reacted properly. His own 6 spearmen would have pretty much wiped it, if he decided to go aggressive with xbow siege forward, smush, monk treb, lots of different things - he'd have had a big advantage over this. Booming as flank in Arena vs equally skilled opponents is difficult, let alone the elo difference here. (I want to say Kjalmari is only 1400? Really nice guy though, I remember him from years ago) To me, this was as smooth as riding a sandpaper horse in the Grand National. My wood float was huge and I simply just didnt make farms when I really needed to, to run things well. But I had a lot to drink, and with 20/20 hindsight at the end of the game I knew I could have done better. My mangonel shots were poor, my control group/hotkey management compared to my usual was frankly abysmal. But we still had a lot of fun playing yesterday evening and that's all that mattered. Only takeaway I want people to have from seeing a lot of different build orders is that they demonstrate what you need to do to achieve certain things, after that you have the building bricks to build the order for any strategy that you think is a good idea.

@@AoE2Arena Thanks for the explanation, the first mango push of yours was pretty devastating to take out those two tc's almost straight away. i saw a few struggles when he got some mango combos in and the spears just decided they absolutely had to take that house out. Looked pretty good from where I was. I always take note of your vids whenever i have to play arena, but i struggle with just dying to three units thing about it sometimes, and my wolomango micro is bad.

Only with the most premium build orders

I have a lot of BO. Will try my best to get more content out.

You're welcome.

The map is mostly what makes this a bad matchup here. It makes other strategies unviable, I didnt have good options, I cant monk treb if he does anything aggressive and denies all of my resources etc, so I trushed to shake up the options. Though I did a lot more damage than required, so that was a good bonus.

@@AoE2Arena Thanks for your reply. Do you have any video of this monk treb gameplay? I would like to see it.

@@marceloromano8774 I've actually been recording most games we play and Ive been trying to get a good monk treb clip but to no avail. Usually when Im playing at night its after a busy day, tired, I'm not playing well enough to want to put that content out. I only want to put out gameplay to a high standard - still not as good as guides, but only when I'm on my A game and I'm not demonstrating how to do things wrong in large ways.

I did quite like that it happened. I wanted to showcase trush but I am glad I got to show that if someone sends a villager forward to steal a boar it doesn't really cost you anything - but it costs them quite a bit. As you can see it didn't interrupt my playing and I just kept clicking away making the build happen - that's something I do want to work on teaching people over time. Not specific to this event but just generally to not change your gameplay attitude when odd things happen and adapt casually and smoothly. If you need ideas, just keep playing and think as you go - but keep enjoying playing the game.

Skill difference. Me and my friends are all on quite different levels, and playing 4v4 lets us balance out a bit. 2v2 is a very different beast. It's also just not as enjoyable for me - I much prefer the flank/pocket dynamic in a TG with those options. With 2v2 you focus more on doubling, and generally always a scout to knight player + xbow siege from the other. Possibly UUs depending on civs.

You got that right.

Its easy, but for another day.

Thanks man, always busy and then just incredibly sick for weeks, not had a moment to get anything done. Will try get things back on track ASAP.

Happy new year, hope you're well.

It is.

That also helps to subconsciously funnel your opponent to wherever you "want" them to attack you. For example if you have houses against your wall everywhere except the gate, they're going for the gate which is substantially stronger than a regular wall section. And also you can go through a gate (obviously) and meet them head-on, or build a 2nd layer. If your opponent doesn't think they can get in and make an easy raid they might not even try!

@@djjazzyjeff1232 i didnt mean right next to the wall dude.

@@Popito1707 Well you should.