1 Pro Tip Vs Each Civilization | Aoe2

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00:00 - 00:42 Intro
00:42 - 00:59 Aztecs
00:59 - 01:17 Bengalis
01:17 - 01:36 Berbers
01:36 - 02:02 Bohemians
02:02 - 02:30 Britons
02:30 - 02:49 Bulgarians
02:49 - 03:13 Burgundians
03:13 - 03:35 Burmese
03:35 - 04:02 Byzantines
04:02 - 04:30 Celts
04:30 - 04:53 Chinese
04:53 - 05:14 Cumans
05:14 - 05:39 Dravidians
05:39 - 06:01 Ethiopians
06:01 - 06:29 Franks
06:29 - 06:57 Goths
06:57 - 07:18 Gurjaras
07:18 - 07:45 Hindustanis
07:45 - 08:10 Huns
08:10 - 08:47 Incas
08:47 - 09:12 Italians
09:12 - 09:42 Japanese
09:42 - 10:00 Khmer
10:00 - 10:33 Koreans
10:33 - 10:53 Lithuanians
10:53 - 11:22 Magyars
11:22 - 11:39 Malay
11:39 - 12:17 Malians
12:17 - 12:45 Mayans
12:45 - 13:06 Mongols
13:06 - 13:36 Persians
13:36 - 14:03 Poles
14:03 - 14:24 Portuguese
14:24 - 14:54 Saracens
14:54 - 15:11 Sicilians
15:11 - 15:32 Slavs
15:32 - 15:55 Spanish
15:55 - 16:27 Tatars
16:27 - 16:55 Teutons
16:55 - 17:23 Turks
17:23 - 17:45 Vietnamese
17:45 - 18:07 Vikings
18:07 - 18:48 Outro
Editing and Thumbnail by K1
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[@MisterPubichair]

i appreciate the timestamps. Content is great as always.

[@thesparkytv]

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 [...]"

[@HeraAgeofEmpires2]

😂

[@neelchaudhary6182]

ICONIC!!!

[@justincronkright5025]

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!

[@AS.47]

Straight to the point, not too long, not too short - quality content

[@MathewCowdery]

This is the best aoe2 vid I've seen from you yet. Will be referring back to this vid often.

[@cyberlemmingasaservice7740]

"as you guys play against all kinds of civs and strategies ... and Hoang" Hoang is now a whole civilisation himself

[@hemalthakker828]

Such a relief you are back to Aoe2.....one of the all time greats.....

[@sukmyaess5171]

Great content. Good to have you back. Love the new editing, such a step up.

[@scespinosab]

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.

[@pablochoren8230]

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]

And how are you gonna handle hussars?

[@thomasmuller546]

You don't 😂

[@Kawabongahlive]

@@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.

[@user-lg2kg5vo9v]

Thank you for always bringing aoe2 quality contents!

[@HeraAgeofEmpires2]

Thanks for watching and commenting :D just as important

[@jonsummers3453]

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.

[@HeraAgeofEmpires2]

Yeah these take us alot of time to edit and record but its worth it cuz the quality is solid imo

[@GKM6600]

Thank you so much Hera! Gotta try these out after finals :)

[@atomickipachaka821]

Great Content. Need more like this!

[@niks2584yt]

what a great video! excellent advice, wonderful production quality!! one of your best videos I’ve seen!! WP!!

[@lakhukharacha7354]

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

[@TheGiacomo12345]

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.

[@goncal7099]

I loved the video. I am pretty sure I was the one who suggested it in the previous one and this was awesome. Thanks!

[@lucassolari6102]

Great content. Great to see you back my friend.

[@riccardocorradini6713]

Great content as always! I'd love to see the "so you want to play" series again honestly

[@HeraAgeofEmpires2]

Coming soon bro

[@riccardocorradini6713]

@@HeraAgeofEmpires2 dude you are a legend. You were missed!

[@mastenox1891]

Nice this video helps me a lot thank you Hera. Expecting more content like this 😀😃😎😎.

[@marktgaydos]

Nice video. Nice to see you back in Aoe2, Hera.

[@metathanatos]

Hera, so nice to see/hear you :-)

[@carlostapia1101]

You are on a roll. Welcome back!

[@changyanwang1625]

Omg hera really is back

[@TheCptNutter]

Love the video, tank you. For future content, perhaps could you consider making a video one about best tips for different maps?

[@da_ghoul9432]

I love when Hera gives us just the tip!

[@The3OfSwords]

lol

[@Nysyarc]

13:44 Moonwalking farmer. Great video, found it very helpful!

[@juanm223]

didnt expect the viking advice! great video!

[@FatalSkeptic]

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.

[@christopherwoodjr235]

Awesome video, thanks for the tips!!!

[@Gyrant]

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.

[@toannxt]

I remember suggesting this!!! Thank you!!! This is great work!!!

[@maxbarbour2982]

Thank you Hera! You tha man

[@HeraAgeofEmpires2]

My pleasure man

[@sumnerpeterson2796]

This is really really useful and entertaining aoe2 content

[@thekroks5068]

Great video!

[@Weylyn27]

I love how the tip vs Incas is just : "Don't suck lol."

[@spoody4789]

glad to see ma boi got the spirit back

[@abreviated1460]

Thanks, Hera. I will be sure to revisit this video from time to time *cough* tactical pause *cough*.

[@HeraAgeofEmpires2]

111

[@SirLaurenceNZ_2]

Good format :)

[@210ATO]

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).

[@SantiagoHatchet]

Goths: I fear no civ, but that thing... * points at Teutons * ... IT SCARES ME.

[@baron_xd4633]

goated content right here

[@terraminator4379]

i like this new series!

[@SpikexSpeigel]

Nice concept

[@user-ky7jf7wi5y]

That's a great video idea. Just way too many things, best to split into a few parts. And some are really vague.

[@hykelgoh6174]

Drinking game: take a shot everytime you see a bad mining camp 11

[@fakemiketyson4111]

Hera the hero tho!

[@ninggengjapchae]

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.

[@youcanthandlethetruth5433]

Good vid

[@tokenmanager9162]

Dude lets face it.. you are a great content creator :)

[@fabianschulz1125]

thanks for the tips i´ll try to remember them

[@ilovesen]

Bro we missed you!

[@Wobbuffet0]

Do a video about when to use a civ's unique unit. Jaguar warriors are cool, but they rarely used.

[@thekroks5068]

I love when you talk about civ you show their strongest units and for Poles you just show us folwark 11

[@acarrot589]

For Turkish he shows spears and skirms lol

[@madeiraislander]

So the strongest unit for the Saracens is the market? :P xD Market rush!

[@hahaureadmyname]

isnt folwark pretty much the strongest food bonus in the game aside from japanese turbo fishing ships?

[@tigertigercheng]

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 ❤️

[@HeraAgeofEmpires2]

I want to yeah!

[@user-eq7bd5oc4w]

Welcome hera молодец

[@SC2noHope]

this maybe the best tip video for player in my life

[@0344478]

I loved the advice v the Chinese! ^_^

[@anilkarakaya9343]

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.

[@MoRDekai1364]

Great fan of Bulgarians, too /as a Bulgarian I have been waiting for this civ to come up since Age of Kings/😉

[@davidlindinger2874]

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

[@Kawabongahlive]

That strat will definitely work against any goth player that doesn't go for cavalry for a bit and delays its infantry.

[@G31GER_AOE]

@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.

[@G31GER_AOE]

Imo they die to cav archers always especially in imp

[@Notexpected222]

“Civs, strategies and hoang” 😂

[@nicon666]

underrated comment 11

[@garioldwin]

Noticed that too, went to check comments if he really said that! Lol

[@kristianburys160]

Britons - Rams

[@dirkauditore8413]

Yee, ram pushes are deadly vs britons.

[@mizwequazl]

Magyars, dont build wolves agaist them!

[@jokerpenguin9429]

what is your fav civ to play against? and with?

[@Gashahn24]

I thought you would recommend to rush Teutons before Castle Age. Since they dont have any strong military bonuses before Castle Age.

[@Finnatese]

3:38 "Next up is the Byzantines... there is no counter for them, they are invincible. No.1 Civ"

[@Xardas131]

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?

[@sebastian_blair6685]

Just know what units counter what and play around that and remember what imp techs you don't have

[@Xardas131]

@@sebastian_blair6685 I mean a clear guide to: "How should an imperial vietnamese army should look like?" And this for every civ.

[@ovrava]

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. ; )

[@BiGSMOKE-dn1lc]

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

[@gatoreptiliano8785]

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

[@Leichensalat2]

Will you be back on aoe? havent seen you for months

[@ThatGuanfranco]

Best/worst matchups for each civ!

[@EliasHasle]

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. 🤔

[@MrDiehardNoob]

Good content although a few too many of them are: they are good so put pressure :')

[@HeraAgeofEmpires2]

Lmao i tell u how to put pressure at least ;)

[@MrDiehardNoob]

@@HeraAgeofEmpires2 True true welcome back mr Hera :)

[@mitchellbaker4847]

Have you changed your mic? Audio doesn't seem as good as your usual setup. Still gonna watch this multiple times.

[@K1AoE]

unfortunately there was an ongoing background noise, and for removing that i had to use an effect which lowers the overall sound quality of the mic by a bit. i hope you can still enjoy the video

[@mitchellbaker4847]

@@K1AoE definately will enjoy.

[@jeffery_tang]

If ur facing goths and ur mayans, dont let it go to late game

[@HeraAgeofEmpires2]

Fact

[@ThangHuynh10]

Summary: play a solid game

[@Jimmy.J.]

we need a new video for this

[@torec8794]

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

[@alexmuller6752]

now we just need to get vipey back

[@billiramone]

😍😍😍

[@pedrobarroso8330]

Skirms absolutely shred conqs!?!?

[@vladimirvatkov4100]

Unsubscribed when u switched to LoL but just from the title alone it deserves a like+comment!

[@HeraAgeofEmpires2]

im back to aoe2 full time now

[@rs31]

Saracens "Make sure you understand how much they're USING not "abusing" lol

[@thomasmuller546]

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. 😜

[@EliasHasle]

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.

[@onurs.4581]

Tip against Incas= GIT GUD.

[@beetoven8193]

Thanks for telling everybody to swipe my relics. I really liked Lithuanians... once.

[@beetoven8193]

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!)

[@pepperet5216]

by the way, onagers shred organ guns

[@Achilles75]

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.

[@HeraAgeofEmpires2]

Its just so easy to abuse and so snowbally idk its just a personal preference it feels off to the game

[@Achilles75]

@@HeraAgeofEmpires2 i see

[@GuilhermeBerger42]

Can you make a video with a tip against every champion in League?

[@HeraAgeofEmpires2]

Not making more league vids atm sry

[@huythiennguyen2264]

'.. and Hoang.'

[@dirkauditore8413]

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.

[@teddyhaines6613]

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.

[@dirkauditore8413]

@@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

[@derikaem8021]

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

[@MrDwarfpitcher]

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.

[@stuartmacaulay5761]

@@MrDwarfpitcher He means the Malian champions, we call it "champskarl" as it's a champion with pierce on a similar level to huskarls

[@HeraAgeofEmpires2]

Arbs hussar beat champskarl easily, HCA aswell, champskarl is situational unit at best

[@derikaem8021]

@@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.

[@derikaem8021]

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.

[@terraminator4379]

[@romamgebrishvili7188]

if cuman goes 2 tc, u go fc and fwd sw? and if cuman goes 2 tc they still can produce 1-2 extra scouts while u are uping to castle age so walling res and still try fwd sw? does fc boom ever works against them?

[@Meloncov]

A perfect fast castle into 3 tc boom will end up with roughly as many villagers long term as a Cuman two tc boom, which is why you don't see it much on Arena. But it's kinda a waste to be playing catchup during a window that you could be winning the game.

[@HeraAgeofEmpires2]

Great question, my favorite response to cuman boom is man at arms into 1 range arch. Harass them a bit use the maa to kill mill/mining camp and houses. Then i just go castle age and continue with pressure (just watch if theh are doing kipchak or knight))

[@MrPsilva95]

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

[@justincronkright5025]

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!

[@brutalarmy4179]

Never been this early

[@nolanbannon3101]

can you post games again