1 Greeks vs 7 Hardest AI [4K]

1v7 skirmish match in Age of Empires 1: Definitive Edition with Greeks against 7 random AI / Computers on the Hardest difficulty setting. I'm playing on a random Gigantic "Coastal" map with 250 population limit on the "Very Fast" (2x) game speed.

[@HexLabz]

Centurions getting their orders like, "You 20 men are going west to pillage and have fun. You other 3 are going east, and it was nice knowing you."

[@kylethomas9130]

There's something about the original AoE aesthetic I really enjoy, even if it isn't my favorite strategy game from a mechanical standpoint, I really love how they brought pre Roman wars to life.

[@Quitarstudent]

i always preferred AOE 1 aesthethics to aoe 2

[@DmytroBogdan]

​@@Quitarstudent its something about building from nomad tribe to a centurion death robots :)

[@Quitarstudent]

@@DmytroBogdan i just really like antique and hoplites/greek aesthetics

[@Kxz716]

It was your first love , dude. Face it.

[@DmytroBogdan]

@@1funnygame EE is completely different, c'mon

[@Orkillester1]

Those walls went up exactly on time holy shit

[@georgebarbarian4793]

OMG that immediately brought me back to 1997... Actually, AoE was one of the biggest revelations in my gaming life. Thank you very much for that hardcore content!

[@AngelArm1110]

That was beautiful dude!!! My grade 5 teacher had us all play the Egyptian learning campaign back in 97 in history class. She was a huge tech nerd, and felt that it would be a good teaching tool. She even had one of the first digital cameras! And let me tell you, those pictures looked like crap!! Very skillful play though. Worlds above my level lol.

[@ObiwanNekody]

One of the digital cameras from the 80's?

[@imranabbas111]

Coolest teacher ever maybe?!!

[@JM-ct9mx]

Pffff what a bs comment for Christ sake! You don’t really expect anyone to believe this nonsense,do you? KZbin is THE platform with the largest number of losers desperate for likes who make up stories.

[@santiagohernanfalcione1657]

It's not very difficult... you just have to do everything perfect and you will be fine ! Awesome video and awesome game !

[@tonybamanabonitomatopowers6057]

AOE1 content now? Awesome. I return to AOE1 sometimes just for some simple AI matches and it still remands fun.

[@raulsouza8226]

"Common guys, that gonna be easy, what can he do against all 7 of us"

[@Novous]

How can you be THIS GOOD at so many games?!!?

[@saoghail9769]

Our mere mortal minds cannot begin to comprehend Stu's skill level.

[@kylethomas9130]

Tbf they are all strategy games, but to Stu's credit he has a broad knowledge of their unique mechanics, and is willing to exploit whatever he can to get the upper hand.

[@zerglilngvet5428]

lets see him in rocket league :)

[@jamesschaller753]

So many RTS games* bro would get big bodied in the fps world. Only playing one genre of game for years youre bound to be good

[@branaden]

There’s also a HUGE difference in just playing against AI rather than human players.

[@messybe]

The game that got me into RTS games. I remember downloading the 25mb trial version. Took all day on dial up. Worth it.

[@PInnHeAd]

I love this game, even the remastered version makes the member berries hit god damn hard, the one strategy game i would LOVE to see develop further than it was was dark colony.

[@villie86]

Damn dude that was pure chaos at the end. But the eco and the lures were amazing! I used to love that avalanche effect in AoE. Thanks for bringing me down on memeory lane! (Of course my pc would have bent over the amount of units here. 50 pop was all I could handle)

[@Nihiliste-]

The atmosphere in AOE 1 is unrivaled by any other AOE game !

[@MajorDumai]

ayoyo! wololo!

[@nicholasthompson6152]

I think the original aoe 2 had a good claim

[@grigorsamsa6564]

I put on your video, but forgot that you don't do audio commentary, then got too busy to change the video. Long story short, the last half an hour has been a _very_ strange cooking experience. Thanks Stu!

[@MysticalEnd]

Can't wait for AOE Fight Club

[@kylethomas9130]

Just wanna see a massive villager macro with all their elephant femur clubs

[@Brukner841]

loving this channel, you my friend have a gift!

[@chrispaynter]

Nice work. First high level aoe1 game I've watched, cheers!

[@joroa7151]

This video just makes me interested in seeing galactic Empire vs all computers in Galactic Battlegrounds

[@Sinclairelim]

I really like thi game, but this expemplifies why I hated the remaster so much. The AI was left untouched, it's the same hellscape of micromanaged individual units acting separately. Game is about AI abuse and patience. Not to say that's any easy. Amazing job man. Mad skills being shown here.

[@mxd500]

Damn, man! You have to be as fast as you can with your fingers and keyboard shortcuts! AMAZING! 👏

[@Astroga159]

First time I EVER saw AOE1. Had to look at the description to recognize it (thought it would be Age of Mythology)

[@StuGames]

A true classic. Unforunately not that many people play it today! Although I hear it's still big in Vietnam.

[@Derek8487]

I believe they're making an age of mythology remaster .

[@broadside1713]

"Finally! We have breached the wall!" (CENTURIONS) "OH GOD NO WE BREACHED THE WALL!" Cyan: "Those towers are gonna fall soon and then Blue is ALL MINE! They obviously have NOTHING LEFT, unless they have some kind of massive force navigating around the map MERCILESSLY MULCHING my allies that will attack us from the rear, but that would be PREPOSTEROUS!"

[@kylethomas9130]

Cyan's Zapp Brannigan strategy was amusing to watch.

[@broadside1713]

@@kylethomas9130 Cyan: "STOP EXPLODING YOU COWARDS!"

[@sickdawg22]

i'm just realizing this 25 years later but this game should have been called empire of ages

[@treasuretrails]

That 35 minutes flew by while stoned, so much action lol

[@KetunpesanPelailut]

aah... those old AoE1 sounds..... so many memories

[@teo8279]

0:20 -Alama , Alama , Alamo Sweet home Alabama

[@MajinZarak]

Loved to play this game before, also my fav civilization to play was greeks. Also, *very* nice timing on the walls, that was the decisive play in the game.

[@PaulAntoineLM]

In my country, Vietnam, we still play AOE1 version 1997. And I can proudly say that we are very good at this game, may be no1 in the world :D .

[@TheTrooperMB]

I have watched your top players, amazing gameplay in 1v1 and 2v2 ! Real pros!

[@ObiwanNekody]

This is so much harder to do now, with 200 pop and better AI, than it was back in the day. Nice job.

[@JOHNizSiK]

Damn. One transport ship from doom. Great gameplay here. This is the kind of guy that wrecks me with micro managing archers lol

[@Orkillester1]

idk why watching CPU scout ships melt to the trireme deathball is so satisfying

[@Sam-ey1nn]

AoE 2: DE speedruns would be good content to make. The quality and breadth of existing AoE2: DE speedruns on KZbin varies a lot.

[@enkerzan3755]

Goddamn, Teal must've took all the map's resources, they just kept on coming with wrecking crews. Great run though, and I hope one day Empire Earth Gold will get a remaster, I miss that game.

[@StuGames]

A lot of Teal's resources were actually tributed by his allies, when you look at the end screens.

[@TheNovicek]

@@StuGames That's interesting, did the AI do it because it was the closest one? Pretty smart if so.

[@cybruiser57peti]

@@TheNovicek if there is Palmyran AI whit other AIs it usually tribute to a offensive civilization which was teal (persian) in the match.

[@FluffyFractalshard]

3:18 oh this music is so nostalgic! 💜 I loved this game as a kid! 12:48 another one of my favourites! (although I still prefer the original soundtrack)

[@deathwingelitegantz5264]

Big Daddy x 60. 🚗

[@zxbzxbzxb1]

Good game! Still play the original game from time to time but the remastered version seems to have improved quite a few things 👍👍

[@StuGames]

They have added a number of QoL features and they made the civs a lot more balanced (nerfs to overpowered bonuses and new bonuses for previously weak civs like the Greeks). The pathfinding is still quite poor unfortunately, units still love getting stuck. 😉

[@bizzhat]

truly beautiful -- question: do u use some kind of pathing mod? cause your vills and centurions .. wow. so fluid and they dont get stuck in the farms or obstruct another senselessly. + if you could make a game against monk civs on hard - would be cool. ai conversion is a whole new world.

[@StuGames]

This is the unmodded Definitive Edition. They changed the farms for this version so that you can walk through them!

[@TheBrazilianHue]

I just love how the ships move around with no handicap at all. These things make nowadays cars look like they are incapable of steering.

[@michaeljoseth]

Hola stu 😁, eres el mejor KZbinr de Starcraft que e conocido, te mereces mi suscripción 😌👍, saludos desde Honduras 😇

[@samuelgelinas6855]

The music is out of this world

[@AzureKaioshin]

Is there hill advantage for those towers? (More dmg on a hill) or did AoE2 start that?

[@JerryCricketGaming]

As someone who loved playing the original AOE but never ever played it well, this is amazing watching you play! I'll record a commentary reaction to this soon. Thanks for inspiring me with your gameplay. I learned a lot from watching you play!

[@Derek8487]

Those choke points were a real meat grinder

[@aceshighdueceslow]

did they re-record the unit voices for DE? These all sound...different from what I remember

[@StuGames]

Just tested it in the first Egypt mission of both games, they are different.

[@zivunknown]

Holy crap it's AoE 1! I haven't seen this played in ages!

[@PiterKucharski]

How do you have that resolution? Mine is like zoomed in and i see maybe 3 building and then must scroll XD

[@Zloi_oi]

Nice game thoug. This AoE looks so good!

[@Repafun]

35 minutes of elephant genocide

[@AEKTZIS2121]

With all those buildings bro you actually built Athens! Glad I'm not the only one who mixes up the hotkey for tower and farm! Great Vid!

[@user-vd8uu1ef4w]

Cyan was attacking like you owe him money

[@CptSquirrel]

Great video!

[@CIPHERFLEX]

Goddamn that eco ramp was so satisfying to watch. AI couldn't keep up

[@TheSpiritualRiffologist]

Always wondered what it would be like if Alexander played age of empires...now I know...the exact same thing that happened in his time hahaha

[@skipperxiv9401]

Man, I wish they'd give some more love to AoE1. It's my favorite of the three in terms of time period and the last patch for it was a *year* ago. The AI is still bonkers, even on easy, some of the civ bonuses are just dogwater, and the pathfinding is mind-boggling.

[@qgamer2266]

I played AoE1 yesterday as well, 1v7 is so impressive! Can you try it on a map without rivers as well?

[@StuGames]

I will try it sometime! Although, I did notice the AI intelligence and agressiveness seems to vary quite a bit depending on luck and map type. On the "Inland" map type they were especially bad, so I went with "Coastal" instead to make it more interesting. For an open map, I can't seem to think of a way to survive if they start attacking as early as in this video (~11 minutes) and you're not able to wall them out. You might have to get lucky and have them start attacking later instead.

[@qgamer2266]

@@StuGames I've had the same experience. Last i played all Villagers of all AI players stopped moving in bronze age, just standing around the town center. On hardest AI. That was disappointingly easy. 😂 A good way to defend alot of war elephants are priests. Once they are converted they can help defending the wall.

[@phoneniyerur3973]

I saw "Greeks" and thought this was Age of Mythology. I wasn't disappointed, anyway!

[@charlesedwardandrewlincoln8181]

This is an expert player.

[@blimberryjuicy2607]

If the greeks ever stuck together for more than 5 years...

[@kayp8477]

Great job!

[@RizalBoon]

Wow it must be really difficult to micromanage with this speed. I am very impressed

[@Fingolfin3423]

Bravo!

[@claytonbigsby7609]

My and my friends are so bad that we have to 3v 1 the hardest ai and still lose most of the time but it’s always so much fun

[@Gabbosauro]

Is it also possible to win in a open map without being able to build walls and towers?

[@unicronplanet7408]

Best game ever it was perfect for massive fights with a endless number of troops.

[@alexmercer7970]

i feel braver after this and i guess ive learned new tricks. i will try to 1v1 easiest ai to see now. thx

[@Smugsmol]

Stu I have some question Are you the same person with Stu rose who work for blizzard ?

[@milo7463]

oh man I want to play this right now

[@Zandonus]

How exactly does the AI cheat? Build/tech speed? Resource multiplier?

[@MajinZarak]

AI controlled players will tribute other AI players so the latter can attack you faster, the results screen shows massive amounts of resources being given to the persian player (Teal with the war elephants and catapults)

[@MartialGUITTENY]

Amazing

[@LucasSantos03.12]

Se loco mano da até vontade de voltar a jogar, mais aí você vê uns player desses até desanima kkkkk cara é bom 👏👏👏

[@leng1903]

How did you get AOE 1? So desperate to relive this game

[@Mirae_Somang]

you are real RTS pro.

[@Zloi_oi]

Remember our "Old times" when we played AoE all night long with my friends. Only we AoE and beer. Oh those times...

[@st88080samm]

Good play🎉

[@pouchang1978]

Awesome.......

[@vaultdude4871]

I kind of wish for a historical RTS game that covers late neolithic to contemporaneous times. Yes I know about Empire Earth, I want something modern.

[@FlorentCOMBE]

Wow, it's going at a thousand miles per hour in his brain 😲

[@skipperxiv9401]

Also how do you counter elephants? My experience in the game is fairly limited but some AIs seem to build only elephants and I have no idea how to take them down; they're just so tanky.

[@thegimlichannel]

Wololo! That is, priests spring to mind, as they can convert the slow and expensive elephants. Any ranged unit with a faster move speed (which isn't hard, moving faster than elephants in this game) can kite them around forever I reckon. Like chariot archers, which also have the benefit of not costing any gold. Mind you, I don't know how the game is played at competitive levels, but using general knowledge of the game and RTS's, this makes sense to me :)

[@skipperxiv9401]

@@thegimlichannel Yeah i just play SP. But I may just need a bigger force next time

[@MajinZarak]

Aside from priests and heavy barrages of long distance fire, centurions can destroy them fast, specially since greek centurions cost about a 1/3rd of a war elephant.

[@mistospapa5575]

ggs man fantastic game

[@Lord_Kazzak]

A little low on the commentary side but all together nice to watch. Apparently the AI don't know how to upgrade ships, thanks for this information because i play AoE 1 definitive too.

[@StuGames]

They know how to upgrade but they don't seem to place a lot of importance on it, so sometimes it takes them very long to do it. :D

[@RR18475]

What in godsname is that sound at 2:40? Sounds like "Ooray" I hear it so many times and still don't know what it is! I'm not talking about the warning sound. Again at 2:54 btw. Edit: Think it's the fishing boats finish production.

[@Kxz716]

Why catapults didn't collapsed the defenses?

[@tomatron5880]

HA that elephant on the right defences sew a thousand battles take place that day never mind thought the poor bugger was gonna survive the war

[@igroman4998]

GG!)

[@jimmyquan737]

I request the viper vs this guy. I think this youtuber can beat the viper. In this aoe franchise. Greetings the last judge from aoe.

[@furioni333]

Best I can do is beat 3, so good job on this one.

[@user-tq1xt2ct8s]

Was this sped up or did you legit have 7 fingers on each of your 4 hands?

[@user-zj9tv5tk5q]

Can you play 1 vs 7 in AOE2:DE? That would be nice to see))

[@cristobalsapiain2709]

I really love the concept of art in this game, is something we don't have anymore (I'm not a boomer btw)

[@kevindegraaff9875]

Not gonna lie that's fucking awesome

[@Ewerboweski]

Sheeeesh

[@shikilin3873]

Has path finding fixed?

[@agy3504]

This is Spartaaaa!

[@lukeknopp4267]

hey Stu do you play the new one (aoe4) and do you like it?

[@StuGames]

I played through the first campaign recently but to be honest I wasn't terribly impressed. My biggest issue with AoE 4 (as well as 3) is that you can't increase the game speed like in 1 and 2, so the gameplay is fairly slow.

[@vorca8442]

Hi. Are you from Canada stu?

[@tiagomonteiro8519]

Mestre

[@NaxoStreamsYou]

I LOVE GAME PASS! Installing right now!

[@Dawnhikari06]

Rogan?

[@creatorleo7578]

Please upload more 1 vs 7 in AoE 1 !!!

[@jonashormann5700]

At some point you make so many units all you hear is: HO!