I've got to admit, i never watched pros play this game that i've played so casually my whole life, and my tiny monkey brain just couldn't comprehend what i was seeing most of the time. So many things to keep up with, so many actions every second of the match, and that's without mentioning small actions that have big consequences like not having any army of regular soldiers and only have seige weapons and controlling where they shoot, placing small buildings to block enemy units, and my favorite was using animals as scouts in the start of the game.
it's cool you're able to use the phrase 'professional player'. When I was a kid spamming cobra cars I could've never imagined that playing this game could ever be a profession
@@PauxloE No because then he would just get stopped by castles. If you try to fight castles with scorpions you might lose all of them and not even win. So you see, Hera wisely would rather pay the cost of friendly-fire than to do a lot less damage to buildings with scorpions only.
The team had Bohemians, which was kinda funny because Yellow could go full Houfnice's if other players would sling him. He forgot about Chemistry and probably picked Heated Shot. R.I.P
Yeah, thought so as well. They could have easily beat that SO strat with Houfnice's. And then also mass Bohemian monks with Redemption and Hussite Reforms (all Monestary stuff only costs food) -> RIP SO.
Definition of Greed: clicking "Loom" at the 25 (in-game) minute mark, RUclips video ~16:40. It was a smart play for sure, but risky. Newbie players tend to like to push to the endgame where 800 population vs 200 population obviously would be a crushing win. So Hera knew the beginners would go for late game, and then played the most extreme greed ever (No-loom fast-castle into 4x Town Center? Wow, greediest play I've ever seen). The best chance for the beginners is the unintuitive choice: they had to attack in Castle Age. Hera coming up with the counter to the "obvious" strategy was key here. Furthermore, late-game faster-firing Celt Siege Onager would cut through the map and avoid walls, while being the best unit for ~40 unit army vs a crushing ~400 man unit army from the 4x beginner players. Siege Onager (with +Attack speed from Celts) are probably the only late-game unit who can take 10-to-1 odds like this and come out on top.
This is AOE2 Celt SO hero wet dream, when you have to face multiple opponents but like movie grunts they come at you one at a time in turn and you crush them with superior skills.
Hera stopped doing what we all did against easy AI when we were children, became a top player at this game, only to start doing the same thing again but to all of us this time around.. Can anybody really blame him?! 11
What if you played four noobs but as soon as the game started they sent every single villager after you? How could you possibly defend against a 4x villager brawl?
Hello Hera, a long time ago a friend and I que'd up for ranked 2v2/3v3/4v4 (some team games), que pops and I believe we got a 4v4 game (maybe 3v3 its been a couple years), everything seemed normal at first... other team was being very defensive, and we had a bit of a score lead so our team did a bit of pressure early castle and kept building up to Imp ( I was goth and hoping to get a good eco before I built up a big army) .Then Imp came in and we started our major attack, and something interesting is noticed, for some reason the other team has wonders in each of the bases.... is this some kinda flex? who do they think they are? Well its at that point, and only that point I realized it was quite literally you on the other team as a pocket, and shit gets real. I tried my best to overwhelm you with goth spam, I would even argue I had your team a little nervous at one point (I think one of your edges was starting to cave in), then after about 30 mins of non stop aggression, the time came for your teams counter attack, and we all got decimated. I remember me and my buddy checking the recent players after/looking everything up, and sure enough it was the #1 ranked Hera on that team. Legend. Will never forget that beating lol.
Really cool to watch! And compliment to Hera to make it fun and above all explain here and there things despite being busy kicking Chevalier butts. Although I started playing this game in 99 I never played online (just LAN parties back then - I feel old). I was wondering what the platforms are today? Where do I get more info about the AoE leagues / tournaments etc? Would love to get into esport again as a spectator :)
Yeah love those games ! You are realy amazing ! Awesome micro WHILE macroing ! This is beautiful, you are very talented and you legit deserve your reputation for to be one of the best player ! Best greetings from Switzerland and I wish to you to have the best continuation ! :D
Best strategy for the beginers is to attack right away with 3 villagers+ scout each to deny access to resources while "building with one villager back at the base
so how the heck you counter those siege onagers? looked like they are bit overpowered units? you said that you can counter onagers with bombard cannons but is there any other way?
My PSU failed a few weeks back, and i spent a few days trying to get the hang of it on xbox. That was an interesting experience. Glad to have the pc back, hahaha.
Yo hera, when im late game with like 20k wood and shit wtf should i do with that. Or when im in a long as sieg fight i always have like 100 villigars with nothing to do cause the farm is dead
Hola, eres un genio del AGE, ya no juego pero me encanta ver jugar a los elites como tu. Ahora en adelante veré tus videos cortos y así aprendo ingles!! XD Saludos desde Corrientes-AR
i love how hera always says "i kinda want XY" and all the time it turns out to be the perfect call. and i hate it's the opposite when i feel i kinda want this or that 11
Youre right Hera! These guys have a perfect example of AOE greatness and will most definitely examine and attempt to replicate this. Maybe they will come and seek revenge some day?
Purple make you Celts from Wexford, Ireland. They're the only team in the country that have that in one of their two GAA jersey colours. Imagine if they had used this strategy of using onagers against the Anglo-Norman invasion of the 12th century.
Now out of curiosity : when faced with this kind of deathball how would a light cav spam fare? Maybe like 2 players sending waves of hussars to hold you out while the other 2 build some serious eco / army to raid you to death?
Bombard Cannons / Hoofneice (I know it’s spelled wrong lol) is my thought, that an maybe having one team spam trash an another circle around with cav 1v1 tho… it’d b totally smashed haha
keep these coming! best series!
this noob should dump aoe2 and play 4
love this series homie - GoldenSkeeter
no u @@schwarmi9804
Hera: it’s great that Xbox players are embracing the game. Love to see it
Hera 2 seconds later: *absolutely obliterates the spirits of 4 Xbox players*
This Is like Normal He has to go 5 or 6 Players
Maby with some PS Players also haha
I've got to admit, i never watched pros play this game that i've played so casually my whole life, and my tiny monkey brain just couldn't comprehend what i was seeing most of the time. So many things to keep up with, so many actions every second of the match, and that's without mentioning small actions that have big consequences like not having any army of regular soldiers and only have seige weapons and controlling where they shoot, placing small buildings to block enemy units, and my favorite was using animals as scouts in the start of the game.
hope u enjoyed it, it gets easier to follow as u watch more
Same bro, play since I was 4 and still cant keep up with these guys
you are going to love starcraft pros xd
I legit thought the same thing, animals as scouts is genius 😂
u should see starcraft players lol, this is nothing
''Maybe I inspired them?''
*quits playing the game forever 🤣
Lmaooo
We are still playing don’t worry haha we’re at almost 1300 elo on Xbox but yea he smoked us
@@garrettehoffman5374 Nice, glad to hear it, use it as fuel to get better!
@@garrettehoffman5374ngl i thought I'd see the pro saying maybe it was a mistake going against, but when he attacked i felt 'this was unfair' lol.
That’s about where I am on Xbox.. started playing cross platform recently and I’m like 900 elo.. lolll
it's cool you're able to use the phrase 'professional player'. When I was a kid spamming cobra cars I could've never imagined that playing this game could ever be a profession
Hera killed the most of his own units this game. 21 kills 11
I guess going scorpion-only (with a few onagers to cut trees) would have been better here.
@@PauxloEthen we wouldn't get to see all the onager shots
@@PauxloE No because then he would just get stopped by castles. If you try to fight castles with scorpions you might lose all of them and not even win. So you see, Hera wisely would rather pay the cost of friendly-fire than to do a lot less damage to buildings with scorpions only.
bro the Imma go professional got me dead🤣🤣
Same😂😂😂
Dude this was sick… never saw your micro in pov before… i can see why you are number 1!
thank you and welcome to the channel!
The team had Bohemians, which was kinda funny because Yellow could go full Houfnice's if other players would sling him. He forgot about Chemistry and probably picked Heated Shot. R.I.P
lmao yeah
Yeah, thought so as well. They could have easily beat that SO strat with Houfnice's. And then also mass Bohemian monks with Redemption and Hussite Reforms (all Monestary stuff only costs food) -> RIP SO.
I thought that was going to be their plan from the start.
Seeing entire armies melt to siege onager shots is one of the most satisfying things in this game for sure. Keep them coming, Hera! GG!
Hitting a good shoot with a bombard cannon on a single unit is also pretty satisfying
I'm an Xbox player and it's great to see you playing against some of us. Great content!
do you play with controller????
It is amazing the pc legends are able to cross play with you guys. Brings some real fight to the death hard core modes into the Xbox world.
This is clearly Hera embracing his evil arc.
Definition of Greed: clicking "Loom" at the 25 (in-game) minute mark, RUclips video ~16:40.
It was a smart play for sure, but risky. Newbie players tend to like to push to the endgame where 800 population vs 200 population obviously would be a crushing win. So Hera knew the beginners would go for late game, and then played the most extreme greed ever (No-loom fast-castle into 4x Town Center? Wow, greediest play I've ever seen).
The best chance for the beginners is the unintuitive choice: they had to attack in Castle Age. Hera coming up with the counter to the "obvious" strategy was key here.
Furthermore, late-game faster-firing Celt Siege Onager would cut through the map and avoid walls, while being the best unit for ~40 unit army vs a crushing ~400 man unit army from the 4x beginner players. Siege Onager (with +Attack speed from Celts) are probably the only late-game unit who can take 10-to-1 odds like this and come out on top.
This is AOE2 Celt SO hero wet dream, when you have to face multiple opponents but like movie grunts they come at you one at a time in turn and you crush them with superior skills.
7:58 I‘m literally professional at this game. 😂😂😂😂
The realisation tho!
I was thinking SO will not work, Hera is worrying about monks, but there will be Houfnice!
But then I saw the bohemian longswords xD
Hera stopped doing what we all did against easy AI when we were children, became a top player at this game, only to start doing the same thing again but to all of us this time around.. Can anybody really blame him?! 11
Just started watching - Had to slow the video down to 0.25 speed to keep up with all the things you are doing! Very impressive.
I think beginner players are much more passive compared to more experienced ones.
no shit
They're slower. Turtling is good for them because they don't have the speed to deal with raids etc. I suspect on xbox this is just increased.
ywah we like to do it slow
What if you played four noobs but as soon as the game started they sent every single villager after you? How could you possibly defend against a 4x villager brawl?
We did no attacking in dark age
4x Berbers for the fast tc drop
TC?
one word:
garrison
love this map. lookes like typical red alert 2 maps
Hello Hera,
a long time ago a friend and I que'd up for ranked 2v2/3v3/4v4 (some team games), que pops and I believe we got a 4v4 game (maybe 3v3 its been a couple years), everything seemed normal at first... other team was being very defensive, and we had a bit of a score lead so our team did a bit of pressure early castle and kept building up to Imp ( I was goth and hoping to get a good eco before I built up a big army) .Then Imp came in and we started our major attack, and something interesting is noticed, for some reason the other team has wonders in each of the bases.... is this some kinda flex? who do they think they are?
Well its at that point, and only that point I realized it was quite literally you on the other team as a pocket, and shit gets real. I tried my best to overwhelm you with goth spam, I would even argue I had your team a little nervous at one point (I think one of your edges was starting to cave in), then after about 30 mins of non stop aggression, the time came for your teams counter attack, and we all got decimated.
I remember me and my buddy checking the recent players after/looking everything up, and sure enough it was the #1 ranked Hera on that team. Legend.
Will never forget that beating lol.
Xbox player here, complete noob to aoe 2. Your “Afraid to Play Ranked” video inspired me to just get in there and try. Thanks for all your vids
The moment you know it's Celts on Amazon Tunnel you know it's going to be gruesome
That cavalry getting melted by the onagers was heartbreaking 😂
That was absolutely GORE
*game starts*
*some Ultra Instinct type shi*
*JAW HITS FLOOR*
Really cool to watch! And compliment to Hera to make it fun and above all explain here and there things despite being busy kicking Chevalier butts.
Although I started playing this game in 99 I never played online (just LAN parties back then - I feel old). I was wondering what the platforms are today? Where do I get more info about the AoE leagues / tournaments etc? Would love to get into esport again as a spectator :)
For AoE2 I would say T90Official is your guy
Yeah love those games ! You are realy amazing ! Awesome micro WHILE macroing ! This is beautiful, you are very talented and you legit deserve your reputation for to be one of the best player !
Best greetings from Switzerland and I wish to you to have the best continuation ! :D
ha ha ha. mowed through those trees was good stuff. figured they would have had some kind of eyes/patrol in the mid for SA. 21:00
They were so passive and had so many cavalry to work with 😅 my favorite strategy is to cut through the trees behind their armies
Green had a score of around 2300 when Hera hit the 6000 points mark!
Love these videos so much! It's nice to see some fun starts. Have you tried the 10x tech mod or other UGC stuff?
I think my nightmare would be facing that deathball while holding an Xbox controller 11
111111 It's like you had a delete key for their units, micro so good.
Best strategy for the beginers is to attack right away with 3 villagers+ scout each to deny access to resources while "building with one villager back at the base
I thought something similar. I mean they had 4 scouts why not just rush with that and set him back.
23:32 The kind of strike that we love with onagres xD
Poor yellow but it's the coming job in AOE
so how the heck you counter those siege onagers? looked like they are bit overpowered units? you said that you can counter onagers with bombard cannons but is there any other way?
Old comment but you just get in there with Calvary but don't bunch them up.
Light cavalry hard counter siege onagers because they only cost food compared to the super gold intensive siege onagers
How do you make those boars and relics marked with special icons on top. Is it in game options or do you install something for it ? :)
It’s a mod you can access from the in game menu
You can easily charge $1000 for this service. Pretty unique to play against Hera!
Dude your seige work is amazing
Sick quickwall vil save ! That Jaguar was ferocious!
are the xbox play plays with controller or with mous and key?
You're such an insane player, your brain power has to be insane to work this quickly and precisely!
How were you building TC’s in feudal?
Its like spraying the wasp nest and all the wasps frantically come out trying to do something
My PSU failed a few weeks back, and i spent a few days trying to get the hang of it on xbox. That was an interesting experience. Glad to have the pc back, hahaha.
Yo hera, when im late game with like 20k wood and shit wtf should i do with that. Or when im in a long as sieg fight i always have like 100 villigars with nothing to do cause the farm is dead
Do you have any civ guides?
Hera: Siege onagers kill all the enemy units.
Me: Siege onagers kill all my units. XD
That is sooo amazing bro 🔥🔥🔥
21:40 omg I'm so sorry guy 🤣🤣
Those enemies are gonna be having onanger nightmares for a couple of years
They literally had bohemians and not one houfnice
so satisfying to watch SOs clearing everything :D
Elephants are a pretty good seige counter. Great video! 👍
Very nice "comparison"! Hopefully we get more like this. Such a fun to watch
Hola, eres un genio del AGE, ya no juego pero me encanta ver jugar a los elites como tu. Ahora en adelante veré tus videos cortos y así aprendo ingles!! XD Saludos desde Corrientes-AR
Best game ever loooool! Good effort from the 4 other players
Hera with the evil MBL-laughs throughout the game 1111
I love the HOANG joke at the end.
what was the micro video Hera referred to, I dont remember seeing it, can someone link it ?
type in youtube: Rapid fire Siege onager hera
@@HeraAgeofEmpires2 : Perfect !! found it and excited to try it out in the game :D
If there is a prize to win for the most clicks and map movements at the same time, this guy's gonna win it.
7:55 I love humble Hera 11
Hi iam playing on vooplay , there is just few players , what the name of the site they playing at now?
Is it possible to connect keyboard and mouse to an xbox and play aoe2 *normally*
my dad played this game since 2001 and is astonished seeing a pro player for the first time lmao
Maybe they should make farm foundations invisible and intangible to enemies after all. With auto-eco on xbox that might become necessary
Are they playing on controller?
Yes
Why are all the trees the same in def Edition?
Hello Hera, don't you include the community chat anymore in your videos? I liked it.
Agree, would love to see chat on these shots.
These are recorded offline so no chat
@@dejuren1367 He meant that he wasn't onlinein twitch atthetimeof rekording x'D
They made the mistake of letting you boom. Well played sir.
Is this possible on xbox? I ask because you're using a controler and not a mouse and keyboard
i love how hera always says "i kinda want XY" and all the time it turns out to be the perfect call. and i hate it's the opposite when i feel i kinda want this or that 11
What’s the best defense against onagers?
Los jugadores nuevos: Usan varias unidades para su ejercito
El profesional: La vieja catapulta y el viejo escorpión, nada le gana
If you've got spare monks in castle age and you really aren't expecting them to make military you could start abducting vils en masse
Have you ever considered using an xbox controller? Might help even things out a little.
hey hera love ur vids these ones are my favourite
Seige pushes like this are so satisfying to watch. 30+ mounted units just gone with the wind
Eso fue brutal...y entretenido!
The numbers are phrases that pop up as spoken words in game on xbox
Finally, hera is embracing the best map of aoe. Eventually he will become a pro on michi😂
It’s funny because I remember playing this on my old flip phone. I knew it looked familiar, just a lost more APM like StarCraft on pc
Hoang would be proud
I think that was the most fun AOE2 game I have ever seen.
how do u not gain map control in a 4 vs 1, im talking about the 4 players...
keep the vids coming!💯
Youre right Hera! These guys have a perfect example of AOE greatness and will most definitely examine and attempt to replicate this. Maybe they will come and seek revenge some day?
I see a lot of Pointfarming lobbys in costum games now. Do Xbox players get rewarded just for being online and what are these points for ?
man those siege onager kills are so satisfying
Purple make you Celts from Wexford, Ireland. They're the only team in the country that have that in one of their two GAA jersey colours. Imagine if they had used this strategy of using onagers against the Anglo-Norman invasion of the 12th century.
This was absolutely crazy and scary as well..
$1.50 to challenge you on a video?
G, let's go
insane SO micro...could some one link the video to the SO micro Hera was mentioning
Deeply upsetting they didnt take advantage of their numbers in Feudal Early castle age and rush.
Now out of curiosity : when faced with this kind of deathball how would a light cav spam fare? Maybe like 2 players sending waves of hussars to hold you out while the other 2 build some serious eco / army to raid you to death?
Bombard Cannons / Hoofneice (I know it’s spelled wrong lol) is my thought, that an maybe having one team spam trash an another circle around with cav
1v1 tho… it’d b totally smashed haha
I also want a shot on this, I'm 950elo and promise that I'll not be that passive...
27:00 thats some character development
Anne HK, made some great mods honestly especially the boar mod with the little piggy icon