But... but... the whole fun with AOE is to take a large area, build the perfect unpenetrable fortress and defend yourself untill they run out of gold and stone. 2-4 hours of gameplay depending of the map.
+josh Strunk I used to do that when I was younger. Me and my two cousins always played team games regicide against other AI's and whatever map we played, we just defended at all cost. When they only had Skirmisher and other cheap units left, we attacked combined with fully upgraded Paladins and a swarm of Trebs from 3 different angles. When you saw the battle chart after, there was like 4 hours with straight line, and the last 10-15 min the chart pointed at total destruction. 2000 kills and less than 50 death was not a uncommon scenario. Good times ;)
Lol I'm terrible at strategy games, but this guide took me from getting to castle age in 35mins down to 23'ish mins. I feel a lot more comfortable building my economy and I find myself being a lot more productive rather than finding myself just watching and waiting every so often.
Olav Haraldsonakadenhellige yeah if you are going to fast castle you want to be clicking that castle age upgrade around 13:30 to 14:30. Some high level players can do this by 12:30 but that takes a lot of micro.
I can usually get to castle age like first or second of all the players, but then my economy just gets fucked when everyone rushes me and I can't focus on both defending and my economy at the same time. Top that with my teammates complaining about why I'm not attacking.
Ugh thank you! I've been looking for a simple guide on how to go about your economy, but every video assumes a high level of knowledge and skips the basics. Cheers!
This is probably the first video I watched of Resonance. After watching 20 plus videos of his and being around for two streams, safe to say Resonance is legit. Wanted to show my support so I am making sure to like all the videos I have watched. Love your content, keep up the good work!
All these blind people saying he's on easiest/normal cuz he didn't get attacked... God damn it, first off you can see it's on hard. Second off - the computers don't attack if they consider you to be equal or more powerful than them.
@@apolakigamingandmore6376 its ok only if its black forest map, everyone plays it explored, the rest of the maps are played unexplored in mp. Unless rest of the players agree to play explored maps with u like for example Arabia but usually its unexplored
@@apolakigamingandmore6376 If you find explored fun, then absolutely! AOE2 is a game first and foremost so if you enjoy playing explored, all revealed, anything really, then all the more power too you.
For me its be get up to feudal a bit faster than the AI on standard, build some forward barracks, stables, and archery ranges for later, get rushed by 20 man at arms when the only military i have is my starter scout halfway across the map resulting in me scrambling to get my lumberjacks to build some towers.
Thanks! You can definitely do this on Arabia or other maps, but only if you're not on the edge (flank) of your team. Most Arabia players in the pocket typically go for a fast Castle Age though, and then fight other players while Booming. You can Boom on easy to defend maps like Black Forest, Michi, etc, and not make any military until the Imperial Age, but on other open maps you really want to focus on making a Castle Age military while making many town centers and villagers. :)
Still one of the best RTS games ever made, especially with the graphical update in definitive edition. Can't wait for the two new civ's coming out in 3 days.
This strategy is almost what I used to do instinctively before knowing any tactics or such. Wall in and focus on economy, saving the battles until later. Though in turn it gives the enemy time to build up too. I find it makes for a longer game [assuming they don't batter down my walls first!] :) Thanks for the video it helps me understand the tactics behind it more.
Thank you kind sir! I'm one of those noobs who get rekt early in the game. I am now learning to set hotkeys and such, and being respected as a player on Voobly, being able to fight, and not let my team down.
Just want to say this tutorial is still so relevant today. I was in a slump and wanted to get a new perspective. I used this strategy while also luring boar and deer patches/adapting to the situation. I had a 30 minute imp time and was cavalier rushing/castle dropping before they even produced any legit military or had the production buildings to defend!! Just what I needed! 15 year aoe veteran btw
this was the most useful video for me, cause for some days after first play i couldn't understand how to properly build up economy, all other videos i've seen skipped all basic stuff and used many pro terminology
That is actually a really good question and I should have addressed that in the video. When your gold deposits run out, you have to take a look at your current resource count and decide whether or not you could use more lumberjacks or farmers. If you do not think you do, then you can just delete the extra miners and queue up some more Trade Carts to be built to replace them. :)
Thanks for the video. Very helpful. I've played this game since I was a kid but never learned any of these basic strategies... So i'm very glad your channel exists!
Good guide. I really like how you sold your stone for gold to age up to castle instead of mining in the dark age. I think I like this strat a little more although this means you may not have enough stone to build 2 TC's as soon as you hit the castle age.
Thank you! Hmm good idea, I think that is a very important aspect of the game. At some point I plan to make tutorials on the more advanced aspects of Aoe2, like scouting, map-specific strategies, what units counter each other, etc. In the meantime I'm just trying to get all the broader basic tutorials out of the way first. :)
Very good vid. Sure, im not a new player or so but this is still helpful, even to players who are not "noobs". Res you are an awesome guy and just wanted to thank you for your amazing videos and your lovely stream =) Keep up the amazing work youre doing and hope you are having a nice day. /haze
In the Dark Age, Pallisade Walls in the narrow choke points will prevent any early attacks made against you. Once you hit the Feudal Age, adding a layer of Stone Walls behind your Pallisade Walls will ensure that you stay safe until the enemy reaches the Castle Age. The best way to get through the walls is with Magonels and Battering Rams that are available only in the Castle Age. If your walls get attacked by Siege Weapons such as those, build a Siege Workshop immediately and make your own Mangonels. They will quickly defeat any enemy Mangonels and Battering Rams that attack your walls. If need be, you can always build another layer of Stone Walls behind your first one. If the enemy sees that you have Mangonels protecting your walls, he will usually back off until he hits the Imperial Age. This ensures that you get more than enough time to safely "Boom." :)
Resonance22Channel Thanks for your reply =D after watching my first video I was really impressed with your whole channel, it was absolutely brilliant! =] After watching a second video, I subscribed straight away! lol Your commentary really shows that you have a lot of experience with this game ^_^ I'm guessing when you hit Imperial then scouting, trebuchets/bombard cannons and troop choices/formations pretty much make or break battles (from my experience anyway lol) Do you have any advice on formations/how to control and micro units in battle (Especially melee units lol)? Do you use control groups for buildings only? Do you think 50% of pop size is regular for military units? How many of those do you think you would send off to battle in the field, and how many would you keep at home? And lastly, I think you can only select ~45 units at once!! Is it possible to effectively control more than that many units at once in the field? This video was amazing! Definately learning a great deal from your channel, you're probably the best AoE2 caster I've come across! Looking forward to more videos =DDDDDDD
+shyguy778 i know this is a year old, but a strat that i've used against my friends before and them to me, is to tunnel through the trees and around walls. This is even easier if you have Mangonels because they can destroy trees
+Resonance22Channel I just picked this game back up and you really simplified the understanding of it. I still can't get the part where my tc is idle down. Continuously working on that. Have you ever tried playing on Nomad? Last night I did and started with only foraging and chopping trees as the Britons. Just thought it would be a challenge for you since you play Black Forest a lot.
+Unique and Hilarious Username mangonels can't right? only onagers and siege onagers, which are available in the imperial age. As a result you can still safely boom. might be wrong here though, but i though only onagers and siege onagers can.
Absolutely, I am just making the tutorials for newer players first. Then after that I will do the more advanced stuff. This tutorial is mostly for people who are very new to the game. :) I can't give you a specified date, but I will definitely do a tutorial on "Booming" and Economy Management for more experienced players. (One that obviously includes hunting).
That is the standard Age of Empires 2, the Age of Kings soundtrack. It comes packaged with Age of Empires 2 HD Edition. However, in order to get it to play, you must go to C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Age2HD\Sound\music and rename music1 to xmusic2. Then it will play after The Conquerors soundtrack plays.
***** I would build a monastary as one of the two buildings needed to go imp. After you use your gold to go imp, spend the next 100 on a monk to collect up all the relics you can :)
No problem! At the moment, I stream whenever I have free time, so I do not hold myself to a schedule. I hope to develop a schedule for myself in the future though. :)
Great vid. One thing I just noticed is that hunting can really delay your advancement. I plan to try this method without hunting. Sure hunting brings a lot of food, eventually, but not immediately when you need it. Hunting is better done in the feudal age when you also have farms and berries to get food up as needed.
Really helped. I'm a new player and tested this on standart bots. Which are hard to me xD. Been playing for 2 days tho. At the end of the match I had the highest score and had about 50k wood 40k food 10k stone and gold. Reached all the ages first and upgraded my army to max really quickly in the Imperial age.
Instead of selling your stone to go to castle, wouldn't it be better to just mine gold in feudal? After all you need the stone for the TCs. I've seen others sell their stone for a fast Castle, but they were going for a knight rush, not a boom.
Excellent video. I'm still trying to cover the basics so this is a great help. I'd love to see an in-depth video on early game scouting if possible - I find it hard to locate all my resources and choke points quickly. Anyway, keep up the good work. :)
I don't get it why you don't queue your farm production. The new builds always have a small delay and your wood stock is sufficient enough to make the queue. Can you tell me what's the catch here? I am really curious. Thx!
Good tutorial for the most part. Although I have to disagree with the strategy of not going after the boar or deer. The extra food boost that hunting provides allows you to reach castle much sooner. New players should search tutorials on how to properly lure boar
Hey man, good video I'm a nooblord and i can tell my AoE skills are increasing thanks to you. A few things from your game look different, are you running mods or re-skins? i really like them.
lol before this my record was 16 min to the last age turbo random max speed. but now havnt pplayed in years and im getting to how i used to be thanks to this
@Resonance22Channel why did you build multiple markets? just so you can build carts faster and to have extra ones if they get destroyed? or is there another reason?
This strategy seems to work pretty well on this map since not much walling is required. On more open maps you'd want to invest in some military a little earlier though, otherwise you'd get crushed. I noticed on the hard difficulties the computer will create a few trash units in the castle age as a defensive measure, then go all out in imperial age.
Watching someone play AofE, who can REALLY play it, such as yourself, is fascinating. Thanks for explaining how you do what you do! By the way how do you get such a good resolution, and full screen for the game?
Why not go for more expensive units that last longer? For example: 30 Elite Longbowmen (assuming you're Britons) and 4 or 5 monks to heal? Maybe a few Halbs to stop cavalry?
Does this work very well in SP campaigns? The AI tends to attack fast and is already very built up and often outnumbers the player so rushing them can be hard, but I thought maybe if I could come up with good strategies to stall them like walls and mangonels I might be able to boom in those hard mode campaigns and erase their advantage
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Hi, I have a question. As a new player, when is the best time to start building additional town centers. Sometimes I go games against the AI and they have 5 where I only have 2-3, so if there is a way to know when it's good to start making more I'm clearly missing the signs. Any help is appreciated.
+Fishe Remember buildings and units' hotkeys. They save you a lot of time. When you're preparing an attack, it's useful to hotkey groups of buildings, so all same type units can be controlled through the hotkey (production w/shift, rally point). Micromanagement benefits a lot from hotkeys. If a group of crossbowmen encounter a mangonel, you can split it in half through a formation, thus avoiding the mangonel shot, and their consequent death. Basically, learn to control villagers with hotkeys, to produce units from buildings, and you'll be fine.
guys i downloaded aoe 2 HD .. but in game styles i dont have standard i have all other moods ,, but icant find any mood that ican build more than 1 Tc .. any help plz ?
Was this video against orginal AI or AI? Also, do you have like a 'tips n tricks' video or something? Theres a lot of uninuitive things in AOE that a really annoying me. For example, when queueing tasks, that the last one you have to release shift. I also had no idea you could manually highlight multiple buildings for hotkeying until this vdeo (click and drag doesnt highlight multiple). Thanks :D
I'm an AoE3 player and recently bought AoE2 HD. Thanks for letting me know about releasing shift click, I was wondering why it didn't work properly in this game
AOE2 is a bit harder because there are four resources to gather and you have to make drop off points like the lumber and mining camps in AOE it's slightly easier.
Yes, as long as you have 2 villages building one of your first houses (or just 1 if playing Spanish). Exceptions are Chinese (start with no food) and Mayans (start off housed because of +1 Villager start) - those always start with Loom
What do you do if the opponent places castles next to your wall with pikemen next to it before castleage so you cant take it down with onagers or catapults? :)
Why is yellow Hard Bot at feudal at 44th minute? I like your video, really, but how is such a defensive scenario plausible in a game where the enemy directly above us is not braindead?
I'm confused how you're zoomed out so far... mine feels really close, the buildings are huge and I have to move around a lot. I am however playing off the original CD that my dad used to have lol. That could very well be the reason why.
in this vid.. you didnt farm.. and you didnt wait until feudal to build farms.. usually i just play a chill game with friends and i dont need heavy competition.. but is it a good idea to always wait with farms til i can make the farm upgrade thus saveing quite a bit of wood..? or cud i make farms at any point.. ive watched a bit of spirit of the law for math on diffrent things aswell.. but i just wanted your opinion.. is it a good idea to have as a minimum for farms? always wait til feudal with farms.. or how important is farming right away?
+karlspel In the early ages, every piece of food counts. Lure your two boar in the Dark Age, get the deer between Dark Age and Feudal. It really helps. You shouldn't build too much farms on Dark Age, 4 is ok, 6 is kinda too much.
How would you make it so that a villager has instructions to build 3 barracks one after another? also how do you do that hotkey thing with the barracks and stables so that your military units go to a set point after they spawn?
Holding shift you can build many buildings one after the other if they're close enough. You can set the place you want them to go by choosing the building then just right-clicking the place you want them to go.
Just subscribed thanks trying to break my three game losing streak since i started playing online. i play 1v1 so I am guessing that the role of the market is different. Who would you be trading with.
Yourself actually, all you need to do is place the markets far enough from each other so that they will actually make gold, if your markets are too close to each other it wont work
+sir Philip Because you need to wall choke points. In that way, you close yourself, and you start to boom. You can only see choke points with an Explored map.
would be interesting to see you discuss the finer points of your strategy and then use multilayer game-play for the demonstration. Not trying to doubt that they work just prefer watching mp game play :)
Nice video, big help for new players who have no idea how others get such a huge score lead. So we make 100 villagers out of 200 pop, what about the trade karts? Do they count inside 100? normally how many trade karts do you make?
Ankur Bedi Trade carts and cogs and fishing boats all count as villagers (albeit specialized ones). I like to get at least a dozen trade carts going if I can, and at least 25 or more after the gold on the map runs out. At that point, whoever has the best trade is probably going to win.
I used to build farms at dark age and boom like this. Now if don't have an awful start and I go well with only hunting (and berries), I manage to get to feudal and the mill upgrade before starting to mass farms, and to castle and the two upgrades if the map has lots of food.
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But... but... the whole fun with AOE is to take a large area, build the perfect unpenetrable fortress and defend yourself untill they run out of gold and stone. 2-4 hours of gameplay depending of the map.
+Morten Bakke my friend does that and i hate him for it :P
+josh Strunk I used to do that when I was younger. Me and my two cousins always played team games regicide against other AI's and whatever map we played, we just defended at all cost. When they only had Skirmisher and other cheap units left, we attacked combined with fully upgraded Paladins and a swarm of Trebs from 3 different angles. When you saw the battle chart after, there was like 4 hours with straight line, and the last 10-15 min the chart pointed at total destruction. 2000 kills and less than 50 death was not a uncommon scenario. Good times ;)
+Morten Bakke I am from Austria, I want to play age of empires 2 multiplayer, if you want to play with me please tell me
+Morten Bakke Ever seen competitive AOE playing? There's no time for walling. Try the same strategy against a 2k player, consider yourself dead.
+Gonzalo Salomon I think he's being sarcastic
Personally I don't enjoy doing that doing that, the game gets boring pretty fast
I'm no good at being efficient in this game. My city needs to look good, I need straight rows, military areas, ect ect.
You should try out caesar III too then!
Yeah I'm the same strangely enough. Empire appearance comes first then military units
i think that your perfect game is Sim City
can you screenshot your city?
You should play Banished! You can make a massive medieval town, however you want.
Lol I'm terrible at strategy games, but this guide took me from getting to castle age in 35mins down to 23'ish mins. I feel a lot more comfortable building my economy and I find myself being a lot more productive rather than finding myself just watching and waiting every so often.
You should google "fast castle build order". It helped me get from 23 minutes to 18 usually.
Olav Haraldsonakadenhellige yeah if you are going to fast castle you want to be clicking that castle age upgrade around 13:30 to 14:30. Some high level players can do this by 12:30 but that takes a lot of micro.
I can usually get to castle age like first or second of all the players, but then my economy just gets fucked when everyone rushes me and I can't focus on both defending and my economy at the same time. Top that with my teammates complaining about why I'm not attacking.
***** Now I can get to castle age like 14:30 if I get a good civ :D Progress
Zero-G-Worx I generally go up 16 to 18 mins if im not rushing
Ugh thank you! I've been looking for a simple guide on how to go about your economy, but every video assumes a high level of knowledge and skips the basics. Cheers!
The basics is: never stop creating villagers until they're atleast 60 and don't forget to research shaft mining, wheelbarrow, hand cart...
This is probably the first video I watched of Resonance. After watching 20 plus videos of his and being around for two streams, safe to say Resonance is legit. Wanted to show my support so I am making sure to like all the videos I have watched. Love your content, keep up the good work!
All these blind people saying he's on easiest/normal cuz he didn't get attacked... God damn it, first off you can see it's on hard. Second off - the computers don't attack if they consider you to be equal or more powerful than them.
play the hd..... also map on revealed????
@@jaapburgers7581 its normal to be explored when u play Black forest, the most pro players of this game play explored Black forest map
@@matiasguzman7635 I always play with an Explored map is it okay?
@@apolakigamingandmore6376 its ok only if its black forest map, everyone plays it explored, the rest of the maps are played unexplored in mp. Unless rest of the players agree to play explored maps with u like for example Arabia but usually its unexplored
@@apolakigamingandmore6376 If you find explored fun, then absolutely! AOE2 is a game first and foremost so if you enjoy playing explored, all revealed, anything really, then all the more power too you.
Me: Gets second farm up... 10 knights rush in and kill all my people...
Everytime!!!!!
Every game...
For me its be get up to feudal a bit faster than the AI on standard, build some forward barracks, stables, and archery ranges for later, get rushed by 20 man at arms when the only military i have is my starter scout halfway across the map resulting in me scrambling to get my lumberjacks to build some towers.
just started playing age of empires, your tutorials are great.
Thanks! You can definitely do this on Arabia or other maps, but only if you're not on the edge (flank) of your team. Most Arabia players in the pocket typically go for a fast Castle Age though, and then fight other players while Booming. You can Boom on easy to defend maps like Black Forest, Michi, etc, and not make any military until the Imperial Age, but on other open maps you really want to focus on making a Castle Age military while making many town centers and villagers. :)
Did you know you slowly turn into a Russian Czar as you play?
My new nightmare created
lol!! i hear that too sometimes
Still one of the best RTS games ever made, especially with the graphical update in definitive edition. Can't wait for the two new civ's coming out in 3 days.
This strategy is almost what I used to do instinctively before knowing any tactics or such. Wall in and focus on economy, saving the battles until later. Though in turn it gives the enemy time to build up too. I find it makes for a longer game [assuming they don't batter down my walls first!] :) Thanks for the video it helps me understand the tactics behind it more.
Thank you kind sir! I'm one of those noobs who get rekt early in the game. I am now learning to set hotkeys and such, and being respected as a player on Voobly, being able to fight, and not let my team down.
Just want to say this tutorial is still so relevant today. I was in a slump and wanted to get a new perspective. I used this strategy while also luring boar and deer patches/adapting to the situation. I had a 30 minute imp time and was cavalier rushing/castle dropping before they even produced any legit military or had the production buildings to defend!! Just what I needed! 15 year aoe veteran btw
this was the most useful video for me, cause for some days after first play i couldn't understand how to properly build up economy, all other videos i've seen skipped all basic stuff and used many pro terminology
That is actually a really good question and I should have addressed that in the video. When your gold deposits run out, you have to take a look at your current resource count and decide whether or not you could use more lumberjacks or farmers. If you do not think you do, then you can just delete the extra miners and queue up some more Trade Carts to be built to replace them. :)
Thanks for the video. Very helpful. I've played this game since I was a kid but never learned any of these basic strategies... So i'm very glad your channel exists!
still relevant in 2019
Thanks Gwyn! :)
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Good guide. I really like how you sold your stone for gold to age up to castle instead of mining in the dark age. I think I like this strat a little more although this means you may not have enough stone to build 2 TC's as soon as you hit the castle age.
Great video!! Felt like I was in some sort of gaming lecture wanting to take notes on everything you were saying XD
Okay firstly: JUSSTTTTT DO ITTTT and I wish there were gaming lectures.. I would actually like school :D
I just did ;)
Thank you! Hmm good idea, I think that is a very important aspect of the game. At some point I plan to make tutorials on the more advanced aspects of Aoe2, like scouting, map-specific strategies, what units counter each other, etc. In the meantime I'm just trying to get all the broader basic tutorials out of the way first. :)
Very good vid. Sure, im not a new player or so but this is still helpful, even to players who are not "noobs". Res you are an awesome guy and just wanted to thank you for your amazing videos and your lovely stream =) Keep up the amazing work youre doing and hope you are having a nice day. /haze
What would you do if you got attacked at any stage? And would you react differently depending on which age you get attacked in?
In the Dark Age, Pallisade Walls in the narrow choke points will prevent any early attacks made against you. Once you hit the Feudal Age, adding a layer of Stone Walls behind your Pallisade Walls will ensure that you stay safe until the enemy reaches the Castle Age. The best way to get through the walls is with Magonels and Battering Rams that are available only in the Castle Age. If your walls get attacked by Siege Weapons such as those, build a Siege Workshop immediately and make your own Mangonels. They will quickly defeat any enemy Mangonels and Battering Rams that attack your walls. If need be, you can always build another layer of Stone Walls behind your first one. If the enemy sees that you have Mangonels protecting your walls, he will usually back off until he hits the Imperial Age. This ensures that you get more than enough time to safely "Boom." :)
Resonance22Channel
Thanks for your reply =D after watching my first video I was really impressed with your whole channel, it was absolutely brilliant! =] After watching a second video, I subscribed straight away! lol Your commentary really shows that you have a lot of experience with this game ^_^
I'm guessing when you hit Imperial then scouting, trebuchets/bombard cannons and troop choices/formations pretty much make or break battles (from my experience anyway lol)
Do you have any advice on formations/how to control and micro units in battle (Especially melee units lol)? Do you use control groups for buildings only?
Do you think 50% of pop size is regular for military units? How many of those do you think you would send off to battle in the field, and how many would you keep at home?
And lastly, I think you can only select ~45 units at once!! Is it possible to effectively control more than that many units at once in the field?
This video was amazing! Definately learning a great deal from your channel, you're probably the best AoE2 caster I've come across! Looking forward to more videos =DDDDDDD
+shyguy778 i know this is a year old, but a strat that i've used against my friends before and them to me, is to tunnel through the trees and around walls. This is even easier if you have Mangonels because they can destroy trees
+Resonance22Channel I just picked this game back up and you really simplified the understanding of it. I still can't get the part where my tc is idle down. Continuously working on that. Have you ever tried playing on Nomad? Last night I did and started with only foraging and chopping trees as the Britons. Just thought it would be a challenge for you since you play Black Forest a lot.
+Unique and Hilarious Username mangonels can't right? only onagers and siege onagers, which are available in the imperial age. As a result you can still safely boom. might be wrong here though, but i though only onagers and siege onagers can.
Still useful 2021
Very informative
reached castle age at 18:45 on my first try :) thanks for your informative videos!
Dude you are AWESOME
This strategy helped me soooo much in the game. Thanks man.
I love this video, I've watched it about 4 times in total. It still forms the framework for how I start every game, so thanks for that!
Absolutely, I am just making the tutorials for newer players first. Then after that I will do the more advanced stuff. This tutorial is mostly for people who are very new to the game. :) I can't give you a specified date, but I will definitely do a tutorial on "Booming" and Economy Management for more experienced players. (One that obviously includes hunting).
my biggest mistake when I started playing was just focusing on getting to feudal too fast.
Died because lack of rescources
I have the opposite problem of not making enough villagers. Like, 14 villagers at 12 minutes.
Same
I mean with Tatara
That is the standard Age of Empires 2, the Age of Kings soundtrack. It comes packaged with Age of Empires 2 HD Edition. However, in order to get it to play, you must go to C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Age2HD\Sound\music and rename music1 to xmusic2. Then it will play after The Conquerors soundtrack plays.
You have a perfect voice for these vids brother, love them
In the booming method do you ever go to retrieve relics?
***** I would build a monastary as one of the two buildings needed to go imp. After you use your gold to go imp, spend the next 100 on a monk to collect up all the relics you can :)
I find relics essential to any game that drags on, so yes.
No problem! At the moment, I stream whenever I have free time, so I do not hold myself to a schedule. I hope to develop a schedule for myself in the future though. :)
Some advice. Always try to do a fast Castle time. Reasons are, more TCs, and a mangonel or two to keep rams away from your walls.
You Know, it would be easier without those stronk knights whooping my ass as soon as the opponent hit castle
Great vid. One thing I just noticed is that hunting can really delay your advancement. I plan to try this method without hunting. Sure hunting brings a lot of food, eventually, but not immediately when you need it. Hunting is better done in the feudal age when you also have farms and berries to get food up as needed.
started playing two days ago been lurng boars since day one have only benefited from guides that told me to do si
Really helped. I'm a new player and tested this on standart bots. Which are hard to me xD. Been playing for 2 days tho. At the end of the match I had the highest score and had about 50k wood 40k food 10k stone and gold. Reached all the ages first and upgraded my army to max really quickly in the Imperial age.
I've missed these tutorials, it's literally been years!
Instead of selling your stone to go to castle, wouldn't it be better to just mine gold in feudal? After all you need the stone for the TCs. I've seen others sell their stone for a fast Castle, but they were going for a knight rush, not a boom.
yeah go for gold
Excellent video. I'm still trying to cover the basics so this is a great help. I'd love to see an in-depth video on early game scouting if possible - I find it hard to locate all my resources and choke points quickly. Anyway, keep up the good work. :)
How do you see the timer? I'm very new in this game, sorry
hit f11
Drakon Lorek If you are playing against AI, u can also use F3 to pause the game and make more tasks at once.
Thanks! There are plenty more on the way! :)
I don't get it why you don't queue your farm production. The new builds always have a small delay and your wood stock is sufficient enough to make the queue.
Can you tell me what's the catch here? I am really curious. Thx!
Good tutorial for the most part. Although I have to disagree with the strategy of not going after the boar or deer. The extra food boost that hunting provides allows you to reach castle much sooner. New players should search tutorials on how to properly lure boar
damn speed racer, you're clicking everywhere so quick
Hey man, good video I'm a nooblord and i can tell my AoE skills are increasing thanks to you. A few things from your game look different, are you running mods or re-skins? i really like them.
I am running HD btw
lol before this my record was 16 min to the last age turbo random max speed. but now havnt pplayed in years and im getting to how i used to be thanks to this
@Resonance22Channel why did you build multiple markets? just so you can build carts faster and to have extra ones if they get destroyed? or is there another reason?
This strategy seems to work pretty well on this map since not much walling is required. On more open maps you'd want to invest in some military a little earlier though, otherwise you'd get crushed. I noticed on the hard difficulties the computer will create a few trash units in the castle age as a defensive measure, then go all out in imperial age.
Best "AOE" I've seen so far! Thanks!
Watching someone play AofE, who can REALLY play it, such as yourself, is fascinating. Thanks for explaining how you do what you do! By the way how do you get such a good resolution, and full screen for the game?
This is AoE 2 HD
Why do you TC next to the resources instead of just building a mining camp for example?
Is it just because of the villager production?
Used to play a lot but forgot the little things lmao this helped
I always go half pop cap as villagers too, it's so very important to keep resources up.
Extra tip, a few minutes before advancing make gold mines, then you can build the buildings and then advance
Why not go for more expensive units that last longer? For example: 30 Elite Longbowmen (assuming you're Britons) and 4 or 5 monks to heal? Maybe a few Halbs to stop cavalry?
I play as goths and struggle with my economy.
Thanks, now I flood map
you make it look easy. played 600 hours still get rushed. good video. i just suck is all.
I just got the game ! Thanks for the tips
Does this work very well in SP campaigns? The AI tends to attack fast and is already very built up and often outnumbers the player so rushing them can be hard, but I thought maybe if I could come up with good strategies to stall them like walls and mangonels I might be able to boom in those hard mode campaigns and erase their advantage
after you wall off and you get think you could be attacked would building tiers to defend yourself out just stick with the siege weapons for defense?
I don't see you doing anything that I am not, yet on the campaigns on standard difficulty, within 10 minutes I am being massacred by the AI !!
DUDE you are my Hero !!!!!
your videos are so fricking good with all the tips and the advises and what to do and what not to do
i have a competition with 3 teams , the winner team will get 100$ , and the Top player of all gonna get 50$
with your videos i can easily get the top team and the top player !!!!
Thank you So MUCH
Hi, I have a question. As a new player, when is the best time to start building additional town centers. Sometimes I go games against the AI and they have 5 where I only have 2-3, so if there is a way to know when it's good to start making more I'm clearly missing the signs. Any help is appreciated.
How do you auto assign villagers to do a task once they are created?
Is he just moving the rally point?
yes thats how you get them to di it as soon as they are created.
Eric Forman thanks
Tom R np my friend.
Press where you want them to go along with shift and after they finish that they go to the point you set
Great Video, thanks for that!
Would this strategy work exactly the same if playing hungarians or Mongols?
What was the difference?
I didnt get the farm part. How many farms do I have to build until I send the new villagers back to wood?
MisterZocker I believe he said until you get 500 food to age up.
How do you add more than one of a building at a time? Without clicking and having to reclick everytime
Any guide on how to hotkey everything effectively? :o
Just personal preference, I wouldn't use hard or even annoying to reach keys, though.
+Fishe Remember buildings and units' hotkeys. They save you a lot of time.
When you're preparing an attack, it's useful to hotkey groups of buildings, so all same type units can be controlled through the hotkey (production w/shift, rally point).
Micromanagement benefits a lot from hotkeys. If a group of crossbowmen encounter a mangonel, you can split it in half through a formation, thus avoiding the mangonel shot, and their consequent death.
Basically, learn to control villagers with hotkeys, to produce units from buildings, and you'll be fine.
guys i downloaded aoe 2 HD .. but in game styles i dont have standard i have all other moods ,, but icant find any mood that ican build more than 1 Tc .. any help plz ?
Was this video against orginal AI or AI?
Also, do you have like a 'tips n tricks' video or something? Theres a lot of uninuitive things in AOE that a really annoying me. For example, when queueing tasks, that the last one you have to release shift. I also had no idea you could manually highlight multiple buildings for hotkeying until this vdeo (click and drag doesnt highlight multiple).
Thanks :D
I'm an AoE3 player and recently bought AoE2 HD. Thanks for letting me know about releasing shift click, I was wondering why it didn't work properly in this game
Seb King np man, I found on out accident from a secondhand comment as well
AOE2 is a bit harder because there are four resources to gather and you have to make drop off points like the lumber and mining camps in AOE it's slightly easier.
Why would you ignore buiding Monastery and collect relics?
Thank you so much for this video, really helped me getting started and learning the game
I have a question: If you start producing villager at 0:01, can you manage not to get housed?
No, maybe you can get Loom at that point, though you'll "lose" some seconds after the first house is finished and it still getting researched.
Yes, as long as you have 2 villages building one of your first houses (or just 1 if playing Spanish). Exceptions are Chinese (start with no food) and Mayans (start off housed because of +1 Villager start) - those always start with Loom
Question, what mod did you use to have such of large view ?? In my game I can hardly fit a single castle on that ?
What do you do if the opponent places castles next to your wall with pikemen next to it before castleage so you cant take it down with onagers or catapults? :)
Why is yellow Hard Bot at feudal at 44th minute? I like your video, really, but how is such a defensive scenario plausible in a game where the enemy directly above us is not braindead?
lol, you have your booming economy army ready faster than i have my first knight rush attempt
11.55 "I haven't built any new farms since the dark age and you're not going too for a really long time"
14.37 *builds new farms*
Great video. I'm going to go and try this now.
I'm confused how you're zoomed out so far... mine feels really close, the buildings are huge and I have to move around a lot. I am however playing off the original CD that my dad used to have lol. That could very well be the reason why.
Okay thanks! I changed my resolution and the "zoom effect" worked:)
in this vid.. you didnt farm.. and you didnt wait until feudal to build farms.. usually i just play a chill game with friends and i dont need heavy competition.. but is it a good idea to always wait with farms til i can make the farm upgrade thus saveing quite a bit of wood..? or cud i make farms at any point.. ive watched a bit of spirit of the law for math on diffrent things aswell.. but i just wanted your opinion.. is it a good idea to have as a minimum for farms? always wait til feudal with farms.. or how important is farming right away?
+karlspel *facepalm* i mean he didnt hunt.. im basicly wondering if farming cud keep the food decent til feudal..
+karlspel In the early ages, every piece of food counts. Lure your two boar in the Dark Age, get the deer between Dark Age and Feudal. It really helps. You shouldn't build too much farms on Dark Age, 4 is ok, 6 is kinda too much.
How would you make it so that a villager has instructions to build 3 barracks one after another? also how do you do that hotkey thing with the barracks and stables so that your military units go to a set point after they spawn?
Holding shift you can build many buildings one after the other if they're close enough.
You can set the place you want them to go by choosing the building then just right-clicking the place you want them to go.
Just subscribed thanks trying to break my three game losing streak since i started playing online. i play 1v1 so I am guessing that the role of the market is different. Who would you be trading with.
Yourself actually, all you need to do is place the markets far enough from each other so that they will actually make gold, if your markets are too close to each other it wont work
xxthelastdragonxx oh wait you can trade with yourself? thats really good to know xD
2020 still relevant very useful video thanks for the content
I used to play this as a kid, would build a wall and a gate just to keep all of the sheep safe... yeah im vegetarian now 🤣
why get double bit axe but not the windmill improvement?
Why always set Reveal Map to Explored when playing Black Forrest and that custom map you mentioned?
+sir Philip Because you need to wall choke points. In that way, you close yourself, and you start to boom. You can only see choke points with an Explored map.
29:25 "I'm gonna build another castle just in case.."
right where 2 castles are already built
You see only those two castles...dude the game was over.
"just for kicks" not just in case.
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would be interesting to see you discuss the finer points of your strategy and then use multilayer game-play for the demonstration. Not trying to doubt that they work just prefer watching mp game play :)
What's the best tactic beating a 27boom pop castleAge player.Then defends with pikes onagers till Imperial age. Heavy feudal -attack scout archers ???
Longbows
Nice video, big help for new players who have no idea how others get such a huge score lead. So we make 100 villagers out of 200 pop, what about the trade karts? Do they count inside 100? normally how many trade karts do you make?
Ankur Bedi Trade carts and cogs and fishing boats all count as villagers (albeit specialized ones). I like to get at least a dozen trade carts going if I can, and at least 25 or more after the gold on the map runs out. At that point, whoever has the best trade is probably going to win.
why do you not get the mill-upgrades. And when do you decide when to get them eventually? Can someone help me out here please?
til weber Try to find "How to make an economy boom in AOE 2"
til weber m.wikihow.com/Make-your-economy-boom-in-Age-of-Empires-2
thank you this will help me look less noobie on stream
Is this video still accurate for the AoE 2 HD Forgotten expansion? Because I know they changed a few things in the game. Love your videos, btw!
I used to build farms at dark age and boom like this. Now if don't have an awful start and I go well with only hunting (and berries), I manage to get to feudal and the mill upgrade before starting to mass farms, and to castle and the two upgrades if the map has lots of food.
How to get that clock at the left top i don't have that in my game
Someone please explain what all the different colors and widths mean on the timeline screen
i constantly click my binds to check if the villagers are creating after i saw this video.
Can you somehow destroy/delete your own buildings?
Thanks for tutorial really helps the aoe2 community.