The funniest part is that I still will say 'Hera as Here-a' like the goddess, not 'Hey-Ra' as in you're saying hello to Ra the sun god of ancient Egypt. So it ends up rhyming somewhat nicely there... I like it!
Against mongols. Do NOT protect your siege with pikes. Mangudai are fast enough and have the range to avoid the pikes and enough fire rate to snipe your siege, and even if the mongol player loses a few mangudai to the pikes, you will be losing more resources in the destroyed siege. The best way to protect siege against mongols is, and I know it sounds weird, skirms, they shred mangudai, and have the range to keep mangudai away. Sincerely: An aoe2 player that plays mongols a lot.
I was suprised he didnt mention anything as regard their really fast feudal uptime, mongols can be very scary when going aggressive on early feudal (like 18pop no loom scouts or 19 pop maa)
@@majungasaurusaaaa Hussars lack +2 PA with mongols so Skirm + Arb works. Extra HP doesn't help their light cav as much as having the extra armor would. That's why turk LC is completely dominating in feudal and castle.
The Teutons tip reminds me of a game my brother played as Franks against Teutons at 1400 elo approx. Franks have crappy ranged units but he went cav archers to surprise his opponent and it actually worked. And now the cheap self promotion bit, the game can be found in my channel cough cough 11
Mr Hera, I know AoE2 maybe did your head in a for a bit, people got narky during aoe4, but that's all in the past. You took a welcome break but having you back is like the ice cube to your favourite drink. Watching you play LoL was like the time Usain Bolt tried to play football (soccer to you). Something wasn't quite right. You were born to play this game so enjoy the kudos you get back! Great seeing your updates again (I watched your archive in your absence).
I love the edition of each civ representation, it looks really easy to identify every civ even without their name or icon and in just one look you know what to be aware of, thanks for the info man.
Would love a video of what niche/meme strats to expect based on civ/map/team comp and how to counter. For example, if you see Spanish flank on Arena, prepare for castle drop, etc.
Against Goth. Much players struggle and so did I, but now Im super fine! My main civ right now is Britons and they get countered by Goth pretty good... I start with a standard 2-range-build, rush with early archers and try to get some vill picks... If he is titanicing, we can end the game right there. My base is fully walled asap and Im expecting to get MAA-rushed. The Goth player will always go to Castle to counter my archers with Huskarls. I build a 2nd baracks, start to make MAA when I click up to castle and try to get a good number of them. But try hard not to show them! I also add archers all the time. Once in castle, add 1-2 tc, upgrade to xbows and longswords. Now I raid with xbows and the Goth is coming with huskarls => Suprise, Longswords! The huskarls can decide to die, or getting back and we kill vills or idle them. Goth doesnt really have a good answer to that army, while Im on 3TC-booming. GG
I will have to rewatch this a few times to remember half this info. Solid vid. Definitively struggle with Korean late game. Need to learn how to setup eco for Eagle switch with Mayans.
My Sicilian tip would rather be... Villagers forward. The first time I got angry and launched my whole town to their donjons it was eye opening. It works better when they prioritize donjons in great numbers. I have yet to find a solid strategy if they prioritize sarjeant training so, just listen to Hera for that one
Just guns Guns are good Just do not go Siege and Cav Their infantry is fast and their Spears are cheap Honestly, the Goths start to gice ground once their opponent out techs them in the late game because the Goths lsck somr Blacksmith upgrades. But if they hit hard and wide enough Well Then you already lost.
@@HeraAgeofEmpires2 assume 40 champskarls vs 20 arbs and 20 hussars. how many champskarls survive until the hussars are dead? this question is probably quite straight forward to answer since it doesnt vary to much among micro. after that, x champskarls can approach the 20 arbs - which everyone can personally tell if (s)he is able to take that fight. in an equal numbers fight the (FU!) arbs would have to fire 9 arrows on the champskarls for each hit that they take. i believe you its not impossible, but the required micro makes it very hard to macro and defend against raids at the same time.
admittedly the scenario is not that realistic, since the hussars will just keep streaming in, so we kinda have to assume that the champskarl are just fighting against hussars. but that makes thinking, what do you need the arbs for? the hussars will do the majority of damage, so the task of the arbs is just to deal with pikes and camels? but even that is questionable since the champskarls can tank the arrows. considering all of that in a situation where we even assume that we get FU arbs (and hussars), i wonder how this can be a general tip vs malians, especially since hand cannons would perform better in almost all the scenarios presently considered.
I mean, I have a hard enough time telling my non-English speaking teammates to save/give them to me. (One player actually brought me 3 relics, one game. What a righteous dude!)
My best tip against meso civs: try your best, once you find out you can't win, put ur villis into corners, wall them in and go grab some chocolate to help your frustration. 😜
They are otherwordly... newworldly! 😁 Like ~1% towards StarCraft. 👽 I get instant xenophobia whenever I have to face any of them. 😰 EDIT: This was supposed to answer a comment about Eagles.
16:37 (against Teutons) "play ca against them cowboys absolutely destroy students at all stages of the game and castles don't have husbands in their knights to chase you down and appear late they don't have husbands on their cavalry to chase you down and they don't have bracer heavy cap archers even if your slave isn't the best with them it's then absolutely destroyed two-ends even cav archers and castles do just fine as well" 🤯 ...rrrright! 😅 That was a heroic effort by the automatic captioning. I honestly don't blame it in this particular instance. I understand and appreciate that Hera's mind breaks speed limits 😎, so I am fine with his fast speech, but the sloppy pronunciation (partly an accent?) sometimes becomes a major obstacle, at least for me. 😵💫 It could perhaps help a bit to turn down the volume knob on the por... 😳 *background* music, or get rid of the percussion. 🤔
@hera when tower rushing Sicilians don't they crush you with the higher garrison amount like teutons do and if they make a sergeant they can repair or fight? Just wondering.
I hope u make as/vs videos on closed maps like arena or hideout. Most of tips u gave us are also useful on closed maps, but some of tips not. Like vs poles, punishing in feudal is almost impossible, even they r shine, cuz poles can excute towerrush and age up quite quickly by their civ bonuses.
Could you make a video with tips for and against every civ for only imperial/ postimperial age? No nooby rushing, boar stealing stuff but real military tips for the endgame?
Hera could u explain y u dont like things with charge attk ljke coustiller and urumi swordsmen and say they r bad for the game.i dont understand ur angle of thought.
For Italian Xbow is counter just skirms??? Or is there a better counter? Played someone online who massed these Xbows and even with 30+ skirms he was melting everything
it's kinda pissed me off that flamish malita as a tech is still in the game. Flamish militia should just be a UU that can be trained in barrack starting castle age. And give them a tech that return 33% gold cost from cavalry units, which they were supposed to have back then. Of course, the price tag should be high.
2:45 Are Bulgarians cav archers really that bad? I think they get all upgrades except the last armor one. So they are Mongol CA without the extra attack speed (which is huge, I know), I wouldnt call those horrible. Their CA is probably better than 80% of the other civs
Against Vikings definitely have to play agressive, almost all -in it i'd say. If you sit back and play defensively their insane eco is gonna kick in and you'll find yourself like 1k points behind without them even attacking you cus their eco is that insane. In late game though I agree they're weaker but they still have the berserk and siege rams.
Yeah, I once randomed Bulgarians against Vikings and was nearly gg'd after a terrible feudal and early castle but was able to push their pikes and crossbows back with elite skirmishers. At that point I figured they wouldn't be able to resist booming on several TCs, so I punished them with all-in knights and skirms on 1 TC and kept their archer numbers low enough that going Imp wasn't enough to save them.
@@teddyhaines6613 Yea man, i'm glad u won that game. I think elite skirms are really good vs vikings lol but you gotta do a lot of damage so they cant go imp + arbs. If game drags to imp but you did decent damage then their arbs become generic and lack thumbring so rlly not that great. Berserks are their only power unit but it requires castles
How to counter fc serjeant rush? If you are late to castle age is too hard to defend, cause no time to get enough monks. They can dive tcs essily with 3/3 rmor
Straight to the point, not too long, not too short - quality content
i appreciate the timestamps. Content is great as always.
I honestly thought with that fade in you were going to start with "Hey guys Spirit of the Hera here, in this video we are gonna take a look at [...]"
😂
ICONIC!!!
The funniest part is that I still will say 'Hera as Here-a' like the goddess, not 'Hey-Ra' as in you're saying hello to Ra the sun god of ancient Egypt. So it ends up rhyming somewhat nicely there... I like it!
This is the best aoe2 vid I've seen from you yet. Will be referring back to this vid often.
"as you guys play against all kinds of civs and strategies ... and Hoang"
Hoang is now a whole civilisation himself
Such a relief you are back to Aoe2.....one of the all time greats.....
Against mongols. Do NOT protect your siege with pikes. Mangudai are fast enough and have the range to avoid the pikes and enough fire rate to snipe your siege, and even if the mongol player loses a few mangudai to the pikes, you will be losing more resources in the destroyed siege. The best way to protect siege against mongols is, and I know it sounds weird, skirms, they shred mangudai, and have the range to keep mangudai away.
Sincerely: An aoe2 player that plays mongols a lot.
I was suprised he didnt mention anything as regard their really fast feudal uptime, mongols can be very scary when going aggressive on early feudal (like 18pop no loom scouts or 19 pop maa)
And how are you gonna handle hussars?
You don't 😂
@@majungasaurusaaaa Hussars lack +2 PA with mongols so Skirm + Arb works. Extra HP doesn't help their light cav as much as having the extra armor would. That's why turk LC is completely dominating in feudal and castle.
Great content. Good to have you back. Love the new editing, such a step up.
Great video! Must have took you a long time to get all the varied video clips of every civ. Glad to see you back in AOE2.
Yeah these take us alot of time to edit and record but its worth it cuz the quality is solid imo
Thank you for always bringing aoe2 quality contents!
Thanks for watching and commenting :D just as important
I love when Hera gives us just the tip!
lol
The Teutons tip reminds me of a game my brother played as Franks against Teutons at 1400 elo approx. Franks have crappy ranged units but he went cav archers to surprise his opponent and it actually worked. And now the cheap self promotion bit, the game can be found in my channel cough cough 11
Great content as always! I'd love to see the "so you want to play" series again honestly
Coming soon bro
@@HeraAgeofEmpires2 dude you are a legend. You were missed!
I love how the tip vs Incas is just : "Don't suck lol."
Drinking game: take a shot everytime you see a bad mining camp 11
Omg hera really is back
Goths: I fear no civ, but that thing... * points at Teutons * ... IT SCARES ME.
I remember suggesting this!!! Thank you!!! This is great work!!!
Great Content. Need more like this!
Thanks, Hera. I will be sure to revisit this video from time to time *cough* tactical pause *cough*.
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Thank you so much Hera! Gotta try these out after finals :)
Mr Hera, I know AoE2 maybe did your head in a for a bit, people got narky during aoe4, but that's all in the past. You took a welcome break but having you back is like the ice cube to your favourite drink. Watching you play LoL was like the time Usain Bolt tried to play football (soccer to you). Something wasn't quite right. You were born to play this game so enjoy the kudos you get back! Great seeing your updates again (I watched your archive in your absence).
what a great video! excellent advice, wonderful production quality!! one of your best videos I’ve seen!! WP!!
I love when you talk about civ you show their strongest units and for Poles you just show us folwark 11
For Turkish he shows spears and skirms lol
So the strongest unit for the Saracens is the market? :P xD Market rush!
isnt folwark pretty much the strongest food bonus in the game aside from japanese turbo fishing ships?
I love the edition of each civ representation, it looks really easy to identify every civ even without their name or icon and in just one look you know what to be aware of, thanks for the info man.
13:44 Moonwalking farmer.
Great video, found it very helpful!
I loved the video. I am pretty sure I was the one who suggested it in the previous one and this was awesome. Thanks!
You are on a roll. Welcome back!
“Civs, strategies and hoang” 😂
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Noticed that too, went to check comments if he really said that! Lol
Magyars, dont build wolves agaist them!
Would love a video of what niche/meme strats to expect based on civ/map/team comp and how to counter.
For example, if you see Spanish flank on Arena, prepare for castle drop, etc.
Nice this video helps me a lot thank you Hera. Expecting more content like this 😀😃😎😎.
Do a video about when to use a civ's unique unit. Jaguar warriors are cool, but they rarely used.
didnt expect the viking advice! great video!
Against Goth. Much players struggle and so did I, but now Im super fine!
My main civ right now is Britons and they get countered by Goth pretty good...
I start with a standard 2-range-build, rush with early archers and try to get some vill picks... If he is titanicing, we can end the game right there. My base is fully walled asap and Im expecting to get MAA-rushed.
The Goth player will always go to Castle to counter my archers with Huskarls. I build a 2nd baracks, start to make MAA when I click up to castle and try to get a good number of them. But try hard not to show them!
I also add archers all the time.
Once in castle, add 1-2 tc, upgrade to xbows and longswords. Now I raid with xbows and the Goth is coming with huskarls => Suprise, Longswords!
The huskarls can decide to die, or getting back and we kill vills or idle them.
Goth doesnt really have a good answer to that army, while Im on 3TC-booming. GG
That strat will definitely work against any goth player that doesn't go for cavalry for a bit and delays its infantry.
Thank you Hera! You tha man
My pleasure man
Hera, so nice to see/hear you :-)
Love the video, tank you. For future content, perhaps could you consider making a video one about best tips for different maps?
glad to see ma boi got the spirit back
3:38 "Next up is the Byzantines... there is no counter for them, they are invincible. No.1 Civ"
I wanna add, slavs also die to cavalry archers. Also its important to keep in mind the man at arms push of bulgarians, and potentially slavs.
Nice video. Nice to see you back in Aoe2, Hera.
Britons - Rams
Yee, ram pushes are deadly vs britons.
Great content. Great to see you back my friend.
Dude lets face it.. you are a great content creator :)
I will have to rewatch this a few times to remember half this info. Solid vid. Definitively struggle with Korean late game. Need to learn how to setup eco for Eagle switch with Mayans.
If ur facing goths and ur mayans, dont let it go to late game
Fact
Good content although a few too many of them are: they are good so put pressure :')
Lmao i tell u how to put pressure at least ;)
@@HeraAgeofEmpires2 True true welcome back mr Hera :)
That's a great video idea.
Just way too many things, best to split into a few parts.
And some are really vague.
This is really really useful and entertaining aoe2 content
Saracens "Make sure you understand how much they're USING not "abusing" lol
Awesome video, thanks for the tips!!!
My Sicilian tip would rather be... Villagers forward. The first time I got angry and launched my whole town to their donjons it was eye opening. It works better when they prioritize donjons in great numbers. I have yet to find a solid strategy if they prioritize sarjeant training so, just listen to Hera for that one
uhm go arbs vs champskarl? in my experience that works in 0% of cases :D
and supporting hussars can be dealt with with pikes or camels
Just guns
Guns are good
Just do not go Siege and Cav
Their infantry is fast and their Spears are cheap
Honestly, the Goths start to gice ground once their opponent out techs them in the late game because the Goths lsck somr Blacksmith upgrades.
But if they hit hard and wide enough
Well
Then you already lost.
@@MrDwarfpitcher He means the Malian champions, we call it "champskarl" as it's a champion with pierce on a similar level to huskarls
Arbs hussar beat champskarl easily, HCA aswell, champskarl is situational unit at best
@@HeraAgeofEmpires2 assume 40 champskarls vs 20 arbs and 20 hussars. how many champskarls survive until the hussars are dead? this question is probably quite straight forward to answer since it doesnt vary to much among micro. after that, x champskarls can approach the 20 arbs - which everyone can personally tell if (s)he is able to take that fight.
in an equal numbers fight the (FU!) arbs would have to fire 9 arrows on the champskarls for each hit that they take. i believe you its not impossible, but the required micro makes it very hard to macro and defend against raids at the same time.
admittedly the scenario is not that realistic, since the hussars will just keep streaming in, so we kinda have to assume that the champskarl are just fighting against hussars. but that makes thinking, what do you need the arbs for? the hussars will do the majority of damage, so the task of the arbs is just to deal with pikes and camels? but even that is questionable since the champskarls can tank the arrows.
considering all of that in a situation where we even assume that we get FU arbs (and hussars), i wonder how this can be a general tip vs malians, especially since hand cannons would perform better in almost all the scenarios presently considered.
Unsubscribed when u switched to LoL but just from the title alone it deserves a like+comment!
im back to aoe2 full time now
Thanks for telling everybody to swipe my relics. I really liked Lithuanians... once.
I mean, I have a hard enough time telling my non-English speaking teammates to save/give them to me. (One player actually brought me 3 relics, one game. What a righteous dude!)
Tip against Incas= GIT GUD.
this maybe the best tip video for player in my life
My best tip against meso civs: try your best, once you find out you can't win, put ur villis into corners, wall them in and go grab some chocolate to help your frustration. 😜
They are otherwordly... newworldly! 😁 Like ~1% towards StarCraft. 👽 I get instant xenophobia whenever I have to face any of them. 😰 EDIT: This was supposed to answer a comment about Eagles.
16:37 (against Teutons) "play ca against them cowboys absolutely destroy students at all stages of the game and castles don't have husbands in their knights to chase you down and appear late they don't have husbands on their cavalry to chase you down and they don't have bracer heavy cap archers even if your slave isn't the best with them it's then absolutely destroyed two-ends even cav archers and castles do just fine as well" 🤯
...rrrright! 😅
That was a heroic effort by the automatic captioning. I honestly don't blame it in this particular instance. I understand and appreciate that Hera's mind breaks speed limits 😎, so I am fine with his fast speech, but the sloppy pronunciation (partly an accent?) sometimes becomes a major obstacle, at least for me. 😵💫
It could perhaps help a bit to turn down the volume knob on the por... 😳 *background* music, or get rid of the percussion. 🤔
Best/worst matchups for each civ!
Are u really gonna make a video of the play style of every top players as well 🥰 rmb to add urs into it as well ❤️
I want to yeah!
now we just need to get vipey back
Next up is Incas: don't suck and you'll likely win
Great fan of Bulgarians, too /as a Bulgarian I have been waiting for this civ to come up since Age of Kings/😉
goated content right here
Summary: play a solid game
@hera when tower rushing Sicilians don't they crush you with the higher garrison amount like teutons do and if they make a sergeant they can repair or fight? Just wondering.
Imo they die to cav archers always especially in imp
I hope u make as/vs videos on closed maps like arena or hideout.
Most of tips u gave us are also useful on closed maps, but some of tips not. Like vs poles, punishing in feudal is almost impossible, even they r shine, cuz poles can excute towerrush and age up quite quickly by their civ bonuses.
Nerf BRITONS pls
Could you make a video with tips for and against every civ for only imperial/ postimperial age? No nooby rushing, boar stealing stuff but real military tips for the endgame?
Just know what units counter what and play around that and remember what imp techs you don't have
@@sebastian_blair6685 I mean a clear guide to: "How should an imperial vietnamese army should look like?" And this for every civ.
i like this new series!
It's sad that I just want to Vietnamese right now... AND the scariest thing about me is that I might take a few of your sheep, because I'm lonely!
Good format :)
thanks for the tips i´ll try to remember them
Skirms absolutely shred conqs!?!?
I need this video as an Add-On in the Game. That shows me the Tipp in the loading screen for The Civ I play. ; )
Great video!
Hera could u explain y u dont like things with charge attk ljke coustiller and urumi swordsmen and say they r bad for the game.i dont understand ur angle of thought.
Its just so easy to abuse and so snowbally idk its just a personal preference it feels off to the game
@@HeraAgeofEmpires2 i see
Hera the hero tho!
"Go Always arbalest against Malians"
Me when I find Malians: Spanish
we need a new video for this
Good vid
SOTL said stats show Tatars do poorly against Meso-American civs. Probably because they don't have a very good counter to Eagles.
'.. and Hoang.'
Persian advice is funny. "git gud".
Dravidians - Use siege as much as you can against them. They can't counter siege effectively.
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For Italian Xbow is counter just skirms??? Or is there a better counter? Played someone online who massed these Xbows and even with 30+ skirms he was melting everything
it's kinda pissed me off that flamish malita as a tech is still in the game. Flamish militia should just be a UU that can be trained in barrack starting castle age. And give them a tech that return 33% gold cost from cavalry units, which they were supposed to have back then. Of course, the price tag should be high.
what is your fav civ to play against? and with?
I thought you would recommend to rush Teutons before Castle Age. Since they dont have any strong military bonuses before Castle Age.
2:45 Are Bulgarians cav archers really that bad? I think they get all upgrades except the last armor one. So they are Mongol CA without the extra attack speed (which is huge, I know), I wouldnt call those horrible. Their CA is probably better than 80% of the other civs
I loved the advice v the Chinese! ^_^
the tip vs byzantines sounds bad on paper, i mean they have cheap trash that can outproduce your gold units.
by the way, onagers shred organ guns
Nice concept
Against Vikings definitely have to play agressive, almost all -in it i'd say. If you sit back and play defensively their insane eco is gonna kick in and you'll find yourself like 1k points behind without them even attacking you cus their eco is that insane. In late game though I agree they're weaker but they still have the berserk and siege rams.
Yeah, I once randomed Bulgarians against Vikings and was nearly gg'd after a terrible feudal and early castle but was able to push their pikes and crossbows back with elite skirmishers. At that point I figured they wouldn't be able to resist booming on several TCs, so I punished them with all-in knights and skirms on 1 TC and kept their archer numbers low enough that going Imp wasn't enough to save them.
@@teddyhaines6613 Yea man, i'm glad u won that game. I think elite skirms are really good vs vikings lol but you gotta do a lot of damage so they cant go imp + arbs. If game drags to imp but you did decent damage then their arbs become generic and lack thumbring so rlly not that great. Berserks are their only power unit but it requires castles
How to counter fc serjeant rush? If you are late to castle age is too hard to defend, cause no time to get enough monks. They can dive tcs essily with 3/3 rmor
Will you be back on aoe? havent seen you for months