Ummm… toxic comments. I’m a professional farm-healing monk and everyone is acting like I’m some kind of unheard of freak. My father was a monk who healed farms, and so was his father before him… so, get over it.
@@riseALK oh they must have fish trap healing monks. A dear friend of mine whose family profession was farm healing was betrothed to a lady whose family healed fish traps. I reckon it must be the same here
1:07 - 1:28 You don't necessarily need to send trade carts/cogs to allied markets/docks, you can trade with enemy markets and docks too, though with the risk of getting the units killed.
good point, I try to avoid destroying markets and docks then if they resign I switch them to ally in diplomatic screen and then you have infinite gold (not sure how this works for online games)
for the sake of completeness: you can also trade with neutral players which might sometimes be relevant in the single player campaigns but less so against other players (maybe very rarely in diplomacy games)
A couple clarifications and expansions: When monks heal fish traps and farms, it costs wood as if a villager was repairing them. War galley upgrade not only upgrades the 3 types of ships, it also makes them train significantly faster (War galley: 60s -> 36s, Fire Ship 65s -> 36s, Demolition Ship 45s -> 31s)
I really wish there was an attack-move command that ignored buildings. So annoying when I'm trying to tell my troops to rush at the enemy and they decide to veer off and start attacking a lumber camp that is apparently more important than the enemy army that's bearing down on them.
@@baizen1 I did a map perfect for the Incas. It is a realistic ludicrous-sized map that has all of América except Alaska 'cause the diamond shape forces it out lest I shrink the rest. See my video on it if you want the map. I plan to learn Quechua, Náhuatl, Mayan, Pukina if possible, Lakota and more, and I want to be inspired by playing on that map, and also to practice words I might learn, while playing on the map. "KILL HIM!" would be one of the things I'd have to learn.
I knew 28 of those. Didn't know that monks heal farms and that you could cancel the queue by ctrl clicking the top. The first one is pretty arb, but the second one would be really useful when you select all 12 barracks and queue 20 militia instead of halbs.
If the food resets on a stolen farm, can you unally your teammate so that they can steal your farm when it's about to expire, then resteal it for infinite food farms?
These types of vids are great! :) I've just started making the transition from avid aoe watcher to an actual player and the amount of stuff you think you know from watching and actually being able to execute it, is crazy :'D Current Elo is like 1300
Nope. Which is why I'm surprised casters and pros keeps saying allied markets and docks. In fact, the very fact that you can trade with enemy markets should be the trick and tip in this video. Highly risky? Yes. But in a free for all not destroying an enemy market may be worth considering especially if you know you're going to take them out anyway.
@@curlywhites Because in normal RMs and EWs trading with enemy markets/docks is never a practical choice. When you're playing campaigns or 1 vs several AIs this might be worth looking into, but these scenarios don't concern casters and pros 99% of the time.
Be the kind of enemy who hates post imp trash wars as much as your opponent does, so you set up trade together just so you can vanquish each other with cool, powerful gold units and can have a wonderful, skirmisher-free game
Hang on Viper, I think it is possible for Mayans to get a stable in-game. They lack Redemption, but do get Atonement, and converted units keep their upgrades, so if you convert a Redemption monk and use it to convert a stable, you should be able to make Xolotls as Mayans, I think.
I just started playing a few weeks ago I gotta say there was still tons I didnt know like some of the binds and shortcuts. Also I never realized you could go to the 2nd page of a dock so...... great video!
I started playing aoe2 way back in the late 90s. I just got back into it and I never, NUH-HEVER knew you could garrison inside rams to increase their speed. Great vid.
@viper about the Ballista Elephants. They count as Cavalry units more than Siege. Monk heal. Monk convert w/o Redemption. Castle Garrision. Blacksmith techs (they do pierce damage, while Forging line provides melee damage, that is why they are unaffected). Bloodlines. Husbandry. I am saying this by seeing the game files. The game treats them Cavalry by default. The Siege Effects are done manually by devs.
I task 10 gold miners to go to wood by building a lumbercamp and expecting them to drop the gold. However, the lumber camp is built before 3 of the original gold miners reach the camp. Does it still give me that gold? Or is that lost?
You still get that gold, as long as they were tasked to build the lumber camp before it was finished and you don’t change their task (queueing up other actions afterwards is fine I think though). Once they reach the lumber camp and touch it (even after built) they will drop off the resources if those conditions are met.
My biggest problem are that I am always very slow, I also have a problem in late game where I always comes very far from all players In everything.. So far 11 games lose in a row, not a single won game in 1 vs 1, but I continues , it will be very interesting to see in what rating I start to win, right know I have 526 in rating, random maps, ranking.
- TheViper: what content would be the best? - T90: Casting... no doubt - TheViper: lets try then ... - TheViper: I would be better in other domain - SOTL: I challenge you to find new tips I never did - TheViper: Done :)
Viper keep doing what your doing bro. I believe you are heading in the right direction. Advice like this will help the community. This is coming from a guy who played the game as a 9 year old on MSN gaming zone.
Actually, it doesn't have to be an ally market for you to trade. I used to trade with a market of the enemy I had defeated in an FFA game, and I flooded the endgame with my missionaries!
It must feel good to play the game while understanding it this well! I'm impressed! I still stumble around like a child playing after all this time. Great video.
4.- Trading can also be done on an enemy dock or market... as long you have beaten them and made them surrender but not destroy the market Enemy friends can still delete the building tho? not sure
The legend that is the Viper, great tips. Anything on flaring locations for things? Can't find an instructional on it, like where to place a market or enemy sighted.
additions #1 This does *not* work for a Dock, sadly #11 scout units are also completely unable to attack prey animals (deer etc.) #18 even though monks can heal farms and fish traps you still need to pay the repair cost for doing so. Keep that in mind. #22 this has finally been fixed and TCs can now be repaired even if the player has 0 stone. #26 each garrisoned infantry unit adds a flat 0.05 speed (applies to both rams and siege towers) and +10 building class damage to the ram. Sometimes infantry units (especially champions) actually do more damage when attacking on their own, but that also exposes them, slows down the ram and might cause units to get in the way, so keep those things in mind.
Great video, I learned I can heal farms, who would have thought. Love the alt tip on military units to attack as well. Many thx for sharing your knowledge
Select a control group for the first six villagers, say ctrl+2 due ctrl+1 is the scout. At the moment to lure the boar assign ctrl+3 to this villager. Lure the boar, garrison the group 2 of villagers, put the gather point of the TC in the boar, shoot two rounds of tc firre, and load the villagers of the tc, not ungarrisoned.
Since I was a child I never liked the idea of finite resources. I wanted to play "simcity" so opponents attacking and resources running out were quite upsetting.
a few corrections. building towers castles tc's kreposts and docks will drop off resources when completed. you can even garrison in castles and kreposts to drop off res just like a town center. you can trade with enemy docks and markets not just allies. mayans can get stables due to the fact they have atonment. if they convert a monk with redemption they can then use that monk to convert a stable
In my scenario editor tests, building tower, castles or kreposts doesn't drop off resources. Garrisonning in a castle doesn't drop off res either. Finally Mayans can't convert a stable trough a converted redemption monk (own redemption research IS needed).
@@aoe2and3fan yea i made a mistake with the garrison in castles cause i knew you can garrison in kreposts. however i do know building a tower drops off res and i was so sure that converted redemption monks could convert buildings. i also know that the scenerio editor is notoriously buggy
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Ummm… toxic comments. I’m a professional farm-healing monk and everyone is acting like I’m some kind of unheard of freak. My father was a monk who healed farms, and so was his father before him… so, get over it.
What about your mother's father and his father. They also used to heal farms?
@@dogeofgreatness2222 Farms weren't invented back then
@@riseALK oh they must have fish trap healing monks. A dear friend of mine whose family profession was farm healing was betrothed to a lady whose family healed fish traps. I reckon it must be the same here
@@dogeofgreatness2222 no- that side of the family raised guide dogs for visually impaired petards.
@@johnorsomeone4609 I hope your guide dogs cost gold as it would be a pity that the player only has to pay food or gold.
2:25 so that's what Ornlu says about me...
Hey guys, Spirit of the Viper here.
Viper of the law here
Law of the viper
liper of the bow
Hey spirits, Viper of the guys here
Haushalt but the monks tips are Not Important if you beginnen or middle Good Player
Damn I'm getting the feeling this guy knows a thing or two about AoE
Yeah, he sounds like a pro or something
@@greatstag yeah he feels like he'll have a bright future
@@greatstag When I was young I used to have a lot of hair like him
lets keep an eye on him, he's going places i bet
This guy should do some tournaments, it sounds like he might have a chance!
1:07 - 1:28 You don't necessarily need to send trade carts/cogs to allied markets/docks, you can trade with enemy markets and docks too, though with the risk of getting the units killed.
good point, I try to avoid destroying markets and docks then if they resign I switch them to ally in diplomatic screen and then you have infinite gold (not sure how this works for online games)
This is exactly why you send trade carts to a teammate because it’s free gold as it goes back and forth
Exactly
for the sake of completeness: you can also trade with neutral players which might sometimes be relevant in the single player campaigns but less so against other players (maybe very rarely in diplomacy games)
20-year-old game; I'm still learning new things.
and im still trash despite playing this game since it released lol
To be fair some of these are DE only
!!!MONKS can heal FARMS!!!
@@livclw040589 likewise...
This was actually a wonderful video, carried by the moustache
A couple clarifications and expansions:
When monks heal fish traps and farms, it costs wood as if a villager was repairing them.
War galley upgrade not only upgrades the 3 types of ships, it also makes them train significantly faster (War galley: 60s -> 36s, Fire Ship 65s -> 36s, Demolition Ship 45s -> 31s)
When you know the technical details so well that you can't stop yourself from sharing it with others XD
Thanks for the tips!
@@musicalmogul6740 Couldn't help myself 11
Also the Teutons Farm discount bonus and Byzantines faster healing team bonus both affect Farm healing.
I really wish there was an attack-move command that ignored buildings. So annoying when I'm trying to tell my troops to rush at the enemy and they decide to veer off and start attacking a lumber camp that is apparently more important than the enemy army that's bearing down on them.
I'm a relatively new player and never realized we've a second dock page😂 those fire galleys always got me wondering. Thanks mate :)
You are 15 years too late.
I have played for 5 years and have not known this now I feel like a noob
It took me years to find that page on my own.
I discovered this second dock page 15 or 20 years ago, now I played with Scottish, French and Mongols and forget this second one!
I have learned this at age 10, even before i care about hunting animals
4:05 noticing Lord Daut for the 1st time. Beautiful.
I actually just realized that
"Meaning your team bonus can still be very helpful in 1 v 1 games"
*Cries in Spanish*
Cries in quechua (inca), bonus is useless in both 1v1 and TGs
*marketplace is a thing now*
@@baizen1 I did a map perfect for the Incas. It is a realistic ludicrous-sized map that has all of América except Alaska 'cause the diamond shape forces it out lest I shrink the rest. See my video on it if you want the map. I plan to learn Quechua, Náhuatl, Mayan, Pukina if possible, Lakota and more, and I want to be inspired by playing on that map, and also to practice words I might learn, while playing on the map. "KILL HIM!" would be one of the things I'd have to learn.
You are always so positive and with good energy, your videos are so relaxing to watch. Thanks for great content!
Perfect timing for me, I've just started practising build orders vs the AI yesterday. Hoping to get going in ranked over the weekend!
Just play ten games. What's your in-game name?
I knew 28 of those. Didn't know that monks heal farms and that you could cancel the queue by ctrl clicking the top. The first one is pretty arb, but the second one would be really useful when you select all 12 barracks and queue 20 militia instead of halbs.
If you also hold shift then you can cancel 5 units at a time :)
That annoyance of those surprise cavemen with their sticks (militia) joining to the party when the fierce post-imperial battle happening...
@@agencccc imagine the perspective of the militia, just casually going out on a suicide mission haha
Same
Wondered how to cancel global queue for about a year, thank you Viper for teaching
Fish trap: "Evolution theory kinda doesn't make sense."
Monk: "Let's have a talk that will change your life..."
11
If the food resets on a stolen farm, can you unally your teammate so that they can steal your farm when it's about to expire, then resteal it for infinite food farms?
If you have the APM to do that, in theory yes
@@TheViperAOE YOU have the APM to do that 11
@@TheViperAOE You don’t need APM for it, you just need to sacrifice playing the other parts of the game… and therefore probably lose
You don't even need to unally your teammate. You can steal ally's farms as well.
Two can play the infinite food trick, Malay
He even got the caster beard now
These types of vids are great! :) I've just started making the transition from avid aoe watcher to an actual player and the amount of stuff you think you know from watching and actually being able to execute it, is crazy :'D Current Elo is like 1300
wait, it doesn't have to be an ALLIED market or dock for trading, does it?!
Yeah, it can be any market that's not yours.
Came to look for this comment
Nope. Which is why I'm surprised casters and pros keeps saying allied markets and docks. In fact, the very fact that you can trade with enemy markets should be the trick and tip in this video. Highly risky? Yes. But in a free for all not destroying an enemy market may be worth considering especially if you know you're going to take them out anyway.
@@curlywhites Because in normal RMs and EWs trading with enemy markets/docks is never a practical choice. When you're playing campaigns or 1 vs several AIs this might be worth looking into, but these scenarios don't concern casters and pros 99% of the time.
Be the kind of enemy who hates post imp trash wars as much as your opponent does, so you set up trade together just so you can vanquish each other with cool, powerful gold units and can have a wonderful, skirmisher-free game
High quality tips from a real and experienced pro
Thanks a lot for this Bipah!
The voice and music combo sounded like an infomercial, and I'm definitely gonna mail order this Viper's tricks and tips guide, yessireee
6:36 mayans can use atonement to convert a monk who is upgraded with redemption then use that monk to convert a stables.
Monkception.
Thank you, I love watching videos like these no matter if it's anything new or not. Have rewatched beginner tutorials countless of times just for fun.
Bro i love how you give us your best in any way possible, nice content
Been on a couple years hiatus from AOE and come back to the VIper's content to see he's upped his production game! Looking good man!
Great production value here! Can’t believe i forgot about alt-clicking after so many hours playing, cheers viper!
2:49 I didn't know that Gaia units count as buildings. Interesting...
That video is Gold! From the tips to the production. Wonder-ful
2:33 - #10 Target Behind Buildings that no work here
Hang on Viper, I think it is possible for Mayans to get a stable in-game. They lack Redemption, but do get Atonement, and converted units keep their upgrades, so if you convert a Redemption monk and use it to convert a stable, you should be able to make Xolotls as Mayans, I think.
So tricky xD but should work !
7:39 from two different civs? how SCANDALOUS of those two
You can send Tradecards to enemy Markets as well.
Monks heal farms and fishtraps...ooookay.
Was this even a thing in AOE II / Exp? I think that farms, ships and rams etc should be done by a village not a monk.
Nice moustache
Wait, for the last tip if you put those two in the house for a while you don't get more villagers? :'(
his energy is on working :(
I was hoping he'd make a joke about it considering...
for tip #11, you can even lure deer with villager by using exact same trick
Great video, great content, always! Thanks Mr Viper.
With respect:
#23 “organ guns are only *land* unique units requiring redemption to be converted”
Hussite Wagon and Houfnice beg to differ.
I actually love to see more of your casting style approach, that's for sure something where you can improve a lot
I wonder how valid are those advices in Age of Empires 2 HD version, cause I have only this :(
I just started playing a few weeks ago I gotta say there was still tons I didnt know like some of the binds and shortcuts. Also I never realized you could go to the 2nd page of a dock so...... great video!
I started playing aoe2 way back in the late 90s. I just got back into it and I never, NUH-HEVER knew you could garrison inside rams to increase their speed. Great vid.
First tip blew my mind. I would always drop the lumber from stragger trees before seeding farms.
¡Ésto es una belleza!
Ya voy a alcanzar los poderosos 900 de ELO con estos tips.
There was actually a technology called cartography... Ok man. I am old. Thanks for reminding that
Good RUclips content, as always Mr. Viper
#10 and #11 are Daut's favorites, the Daut castle and the Daut lures
@viper about the Ballista Elephants. They count as Cavalry units more than Siege. Monk heal. Monk convert w/o Redemption. Castle Garrision. Blacksmith techs (they do pierce damage, while Forging line provides melee damage, that is why they are unaffected). Bloodlines. Husbandry. I am saying this by seeing the game files. The game treats them Cavalry by default. The Siege Effects are done manually by devs.
Thank you Viper for shared your knowledges.
I have a degree from the Spirit-of-the-Law University. Bring it on.
It does not give the experience to use the information in game but sure I know the faster way to gather food are fish ships with big fish.
Food boats.
2:40 OMG YES! I've had so much trouble targeting villagers castle dropping me. Thanks for the tip!
Sweet stache! Monks can heal fishing traps and farms?!? *head exploding emoji*
I task 10 gold miners to go to wood by building a lumbercamp and expecting them to drop the gold. However, the lumber camp is built before 3 of the original gold miners reach the camp. Does it still give me that gold? Or is that lost?
Its lost. They have to "tuch" lumbercamp before it get finished
only builders that touches the camp will drop food gold or wood to drop off zone.
You still get that gold, as long as they were tasked to build the lumber camp before it was finished and you don’t change their task (queueing up other actions afterwards is fine I think though). Once they reach the lumber camp and touch it (even after built) they will drop off the resources if those conditions are met.
Viper is forever the GOAT
A really helpful video, thx! Especially the repaircosts and the conversiontime were something i wondered about 😊
Monk healing farms and fish traps has me shook
My biggest problem are that I am always very slow, I also have a problem in late game where I always
comes very far from all players In everything.. So far 11 games lose in a row, not a single won game in 1 vs 1, but I
continues , it will be very interesting to see in what rating I start to win, right know I have 526 in rating, random maps, ranking.
- TheViper: what content would be the best?
- T90: Casting... no doubt
- TheViper: lets try then
...
- TheViper: I would be better in other domain
- SOTL: I challenge you to find new tips I never did
- TheViper: Done :)
Viper keep doing what your doing bro. I believe you are heading in the right direction. Advice like this will help the community. This is coming from a guy who played the game as a 9 year old on MSN gaming zone.
You don't need an allied market or dock for trading, can be the one of a enemy too
Actually, it doesn't have to be an ally market for you to trade. I used to trade with a market of the enemy I had defeated in an FFA game, and I flooded the endgame with my missionaries!
It must feel good to play the game while understanding it this well! I'm impressed! I still stumble around like a child playing after all this time. Great video.
nice stache bro, grow a full viking beard now :D
The alt right click to ignore buildings is a game changer for me
4.- Trading can also be done on an enemy dock or market... as long you have beaten them and made them surrender but not destroy the market
Enemy friends can still delete the building tho? not sure
I literally just found this game. And I’m so hooked but people are so advanced so thanks
Good video! Don't think I didn't notice you using all those T-West clips though 11.
thank bro! the guy who put this game in a very professional way!
Part 2 awaited 😊
The legend that is the Viper, great tips. Anything on flaring locations for things? Can't find an instructional on it, like where to place a market or enemy sighted.
@TheViper please do more videos like this,gr8 job m8.
TheViper: Monk can heal... farms and fishtraps.
Me: no!
TheViper: ...yes.
Me:
Viper a real one glad to see him on the throne 👑
Second page of the dock blew my brains, ty
additions
#1 This does *not* work for a Dock, sadly
#11 scout units are also completely unable to attack prey animals (deer etc.)
#18 even though monks can heal farms and fish traps you still need to pay the repair cost for doing so. Keep that in mind.
#22 this has finally been fixed and TCs can now be repaired even if the player has 0 stone.
#26 each garrisoned infantry unit adds a flat 0.05 speed (applies to both rams and siege towers) and +10 building class damage to the ram. Sometimes infantry units (especially champions) actually do more damage when attacking on their own, but that also exposes them, slows down the ram and might cause units to get in the way, so keep those things in mind.
The monks converting the teutonic knight was so hilarious 😂
Correct me if I'm wrong, but you can trade with enemies too, so if you find a market from a defeated enemy, you can do some sneaky trading with it.
You can trade with enemies, but I wouldn't recommend new players to focus on that :D
@@TheViperAOE Ok from now on, everytime I'm dead in a game, I will :
- Give all res to my ally
- DELETE MY MARKET(S)
@@thibautguerquin4526 Not that simple. Your allies can also trade with your market.
@@JonGunnarssonDotA and you can aslo delete buildings of your ally that resigned or got defeated
Great video, I learned I can heal farms, who would have thought. Love the alt tip on military units to attack as well. Many thx for sharing your knowledge
Thx viper, some important tips i didnt know yet
Zero bs. just pure and straigt on tips. Nice one!
Love the Daut monastery and Daut faith mods in such a serious video. Only thing missing would have been MBL vulululu monk sound mod.
What I'd love to see is a very precise boar luring with TC fire, with hotkeys explained and everything, please
Select a control group for the first six villagers, say ctrl+2 due ctrl+1 is the scout. At the moment to lure the boar assign ctrl+3 to this villager. Lure the boar, garrison the group 2 of villagers, put the gather point of the TC in the boar, shoot two rounds of tc firre, and load the villagers of the tc, not ungarrisoned.
My elo is 1200 and this video really helped me fine tune things I was lacking
Just when I get start to get my head around Red Alert 2 gameplay I pick up AoE2 again and the pain really begins.
these hotkeys explain the smooth gameplay all pros have in common. playing the game for over 10 years and 40% of the video were completely new stuff😮
5:08 auto aubtitles : villagers can steal anime farms and fish and ships can steal anime fish traps. Orjan's way of pronouncing "enemy" 😀
Since I was a child I never liked the idea of finite resources. I wanted to play "simcity" so opponents attacking and resources running out were quite upsetting.
Just got back into aoe2 after forever of not playing. You got a sub from me man super helpful vid!!!
The face of Daut min 4:38 was hilarious hahahaha xd
Played this game for about 15 years and I didnt know the Alt. + Right Click to target units and not buildings!!
Same here. Just the other day, I was cursing my army for attacking unfinished tower instead of the builder making that tower. :-D
Pretty sure it's a new feature with DE, so it's only two years old
Great stuff, definitely learned a couple new things. Thank you!
Thanks Viper! You're my favorite AOE2 player!!
What a legend to make a video like this.
a few corrections. building towers castles tc's kreposts and docks will drop off resources when completed. you can even garrison in castles and kreposts to drop off res just like a town center. you can trade with enemy docks and markets not just allies. mayans can get stables due to the fact they have atonment. if they convert a monk with redemption they can then use that monk to convert a stable
In my scenario editor tests, building tower, castles or kreposts doesn't drop off resources. Garrisonning in a castle doesn't drop off res either. Finally Mayans can't convert a stable trough a converted redemption monk (own redemption research IS needed).
@@aoe2and3fan yea i made a mistake with the garrison in castles cause i knew you can garrison in kreposts. however i do know building a tower drops off res and i was so sure that converted redemption monks could convert buildings. i also know that the scenerio editor is notoriously buggy
Hi Viper thanks for the viideo. Do you know if the Hussite Wagon is now the second unique unit that requires redemption to convert?
This was great! Thank you!
They fixed the needing 1 stone to repair town centers thing in the most recent patch.
Thanks for the tips Viper! Nice video and I'm looking forward for the next one. Btw, with the moustache you look like zuppi's brother
Thank u viper !! U are the best !!! Huge fan over here !
Really useful! Thanks, Viper!