Same here, along with T90's videos. I bumped into them during the March lockdown and downloaded the game immediately!
@s.w59374 жыл бұрын
Same
@15OgLoc4 жыл бұрын
Spirit of the law is why I CAME , period
@cavejohnson59164 жыл бұрын
Same here, he got me and my friends back into HD and excited for DE.
@historicmetal14643 жыл бұрын
0:40 set "select all Town Centers" to mouse button 1:50 change "select idle villager" button from default to more accessible key 2:54 use Alt to select sheep/ villagers without selecting military 4:38 use "all stables", "all barracks", etc. hotkeys 5:16 use waypoints and command queues by holding Shift 6:09 select/ deslect specific units with Ctrl and Shift 6:46 don't stress over late game farm placement 7:14 use the market 7:58 make more military buildings in late game
@integralinsanity16413 жыл бұрын
Noice
@miradnu3 жыл бұрын
Gj this should be pined.
@Mangotiffy2 жыл бұрын
Thanks ❤
@MaryamMaqdisi Жыл бұрын
Missed 2:27 go to last notification, otherwise great
@thanhsonlenguyen610110 ай бұрын
Thanks, man!
@UrsielHauke4 жыл бұрын
Today I learned about the "go to last notification" button. I'm amazed and I think my play just improved instantly.
@andrewjohnhodge65994 жыл бұрын
I set it to backspace and use it quite often now, it's a good when you hear the attack notification but don't see the enemy on the mini map!
@criter964 жыл бұрын
It's cool, but it's easy to jump do different notification in post late castle age. E.g. You're getting raided while booming and producing military. There's a decent chance that even if You click almost instantly, Your screen will go to newly produced unit or if You ran out of food to an idle farmer
@karonteazt32864 жыл бұрын
That dont help a lot cos u hear a relic then u push that key and it send you to a barrack finished, villie created, wolf attack, farm finished and then it will send you to the relic..
@dominicstrong68873 жыл бұрын
Same
@jorgenav3282 жыл бұрын
@@andrewjohnhodge6599 That's actually default on Warcraft II at least that I know of
@OroborOSX113 жыл бұрын
I love that the AoE2 community has such dedicated, high quality content creators like SotL.
@scintillam_dei2 жыл бұрын
Huns did not have atheism. The reddit Age of EMpires 2 "community" banned me for saying the truth. Atheists can't take criticism. I did many videos proving atheists wrong about everything.
@noelnemo4 жыл бұрын
One more very useful tip : Use same hotkey for 'select all mills" and mills upgrade ; select all lumbercamp and wood upgrades ; select all mining camp" and gold upgrades. For example if lumbercamp Hotkey is K, you just need to type 'KK' once you are up into feudal age to get wood upgrade without moving screen.
@RaynmanPlays4 жыл бұрын
Spirit of the Law: *Uploads* Me, who does not play AoE2: "Interesting."
@criter964 жыл бұрын
That is how I started
@Coolnessman14 жыл бұрын
It's like 12 bucks on steam rn. Absolute worth. Multiplayer is more alive than some triple AAA games.
@Cra3ier4 жыл бұрын
just buy to support the devs and community is also worth it
@sgtjohnson494 жыл бұрын
@@Coolnessman1 I have 300 hours in and I really can't get into the multiplayer, even having followed SotL for over a year now, gotten all gold on Art of War, and playing in noob only servers, I just get my ass handed to me 9/10 times. Love the campaigns and historical battles though and am still only like halfway through doing all those
@jayvishnuvenkatesh8704 жыл бұрын
Wowww!! Great bro
@BenjaminKeller4 жыл бұрын
Does anyone remember the time when villagers used to just stand around after building a resource camp?
@zenohoogstijn39764 жыл бұрын
Yes
@jeremyleresteux20274 жыл бұрын
That's aoe1
@GepardenK4 жыл бұрын
@@jeremyleresteux2027 Nope, it was also in aoe2 before aoc
@Cra3ier4 жыл бұрын
@@jeremyleresteux2027 that's aok, Age of KINGS
@gwanael344 жыл бұрын
I remember my mind being blown when I could queue up farms for the first time. No more "age of farms" when they all go dead
@raspootin75554 жыл бұрын
That’s crazy and all, but I asked for a video about tree hp.
@bladactania4 жыл бұрын
Trees have 2 hp. Villagers do 1hp damage to trees when they chop them down.
@Dueilangoisseus4 жыл бұрын
@@bladactania Yeah but I need the maths. How many times do a villager have to strike a tree to fell it?
@tomscorpion62884 жыл бұрын
@@bladactania Trees have 100 hp
@Cra3ier4 жыл бұрын
then do another video about cow hp
@diegeigergarnele79754 жыл бұрын
@Emre Vural that's 100 percent some kind of a rickroll but I will click anyway
@Progeusz4 жыл бұрын
This is the best "tips and tricks" video I have seen for Age of Empires period. Actually important, meaningful stuff, that might not be obvious to many players.
@theraindog91413 жыл бұрын
So useful. Between you and T90 I've rediscovered this gem from my childhood and the buzzing community around it. Brilliant info
@Xardas1314 жыл бұрын
The real art of playing Age is to fight efficiently while building beautiful cities (like in the amazing campaigns!)
@hartesgeld4 жыл бұрын
when your aoe2 play style starts to look like you were playing piano, than you know that your getting closer to perfection :D
@ismaelsantos53784 жыл бұрын
Hmmm... I wonder if some wisecrack has figured out a way to play AoE2 with an actual piano
@RobotShield4 жыл бұрын
@@ismaelsantos5378 make this happen!!! And learn the music of war and peace
@ismaelsantos53784 жыл бұрын
@@RobotShield Like a symphony of frost and fire, but with less frost and more misplaced farms x)
@dalibormechura86784 жыл бұрын
nice one bro :D :D
@amoghthorave33854 жыл бұрын
@@ismaelsantos5378 mind blowing
@MrCosinuus4 жыл бұрын
Tricks I use to make YOU play faster: Settings->Playback speed -> 1.5
@William-B4 жыл бұрын
Peter Peterson play faster by playing slower
@fabriziomariano13324 жыл бұрын
Faster and a bit inefficient, just like late game farm placement
@claypitcher341118 күн бұрын
Tricks I use to make PLAYING FASTER play faster: "SHIFT + >"
@francovenica15314 жыл бұрын
I think the Idle villager button in my mouse and waypoints are the things I use the most, as well as "go to town center" specially in the early game. I love way points for, for example, when 4 or 5 villagers are in the last 2 bushes, I click both bushes in sequence and then I made them construct the farms or go for a deer, and with that I know those guys are going to be busy for the next 10 minutes. Also I like to use waypoints with the monks. Click on the relic, then monastery, then relic, then monastery and again, one guy busy for a while.
@BeyondDM4 жыл бұрын
4:42 I adopted the UIOP setup from one of your older videos and have been using it with CTRL to select all (fe. CTRL-U = all barracks) and this improved my game by a lot. I'm happy to see you making a video for newer players, I consider this a must watch for anyone looking to play online
@Dran_____4 жыл бұрын
2:37 "Whether that's the sound of a monk picking up a relic, an alarm that you are under attack, the sound of a university being built, unit created, unit created, unit created, unit created or unit created."
@calebcouch25974 жыл бұрын
I actually mapped my idle vil and TC hot keys to the 2 extra buttons on my mouse, definitely helped me speed up. Too bad I’m still terrible
@alexanderkopke24204 жыл бұрын
Same
@Cra3ier4 жыл бұрын
just keep playing. I'm also still bad, just keep playing
@sgtjohnson494 жыл бұрын
@@Cra3ier lol I'm glad I'm not the only one
@Gabrol4 жыл бұрын
isnt that default?
@jean-codex30814 жыл бұрын
my extra buttons wasn't recognized by the game
@Rodelero3 жыл бұрын
I see the comment to you Spirit of the Law, "I don't even playAOE2 anymore but i watch all your videos!" i see that as a perfect descriptor of your gift man, you are a born and engaging teacher! I only play against the AI since 1998 but I love your uploads, thanks!!
@scintillam_dei2 жыл бұрын
¿Rodelero? Ve mi vídeo "A conquistador refutes the 'Metatron' on Samurais VS Spaniards."
@Tiramis_4 жыл бұрын
SOTL : "The market is not a replacement for well balanced economy" Hoang : "Naniii ?!?!?!?!?!"
@ezio_aoe8214 жыл бұрын
Saracens: "What does i mean"
@kvlpnd4 жыл бұрын
Hoang : What is economy? 😂
@annakotwica19124 жыл бұрын
Market EAT economy.
@berndberndsen56804 жыл бұрын
Austrian Economists: "REEEEEEEEEEEEEEE"
@2cunem4 жыл бұрын
@@annakotwica1912 Jakas ania gra w age'a?
@NoName_x.-___-.x_04 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for this! It's easy to peruse the hotkeys and controls in game, but knowing exactly what they do and when to use them is a different story.
@Skott624 жыл бұрын
I'm in the process of playing AoE DE. Its been many years since I played and I'm really enjoying it. AoE 2 DE is next and then AoE 3 DE. Its bringing back a lot of wonderful memories.
@Brigada91RealBriggy3 жыл бұрын
Fun fact: You don't need to play faster when you play just the campaigns, cause you can pause the game all the time :D But seriously, some of these are going to help me improve a little. I played this game back when I was a kid. in 2013 I got the HD version off Steam and now I'm playing the DE. Am 30 years, by now, lol. I wouldn't say, I'm a bad player in this one, but surely I can improve a little more. Thanks for that Specially the shift button thing will come in handy, that's one I didn't know yet and I really never made use of the hotkeys, tbh. But might set them up and see how I do then.
@johnryanmuldoon36314 жыл бұрын
This is pure gold. Thanks Spirit! Breaking into the game for the first time since childhood and this is addressing my bottlenecks.
@Reignor994 жыл бұрын
I have one those "MMO gaming" (G600) mice. It has 12 buttons on the side. It makes control groups extremely easy. I usually put barracks, ranges, stables, and castles on 7,8,9,0. Being able to select stuff instantly with your thumb is pricelessly useful. I highly recommend 12 button mice, it comes in handy in most games. (edit: It takes a few days/weeks to get use to using 12 buttons, but you'll never go back once you learn it)
@neildutoit51774 жыл бұрын
dope video. Have you tried using the "select all millitary units on the screen" hotkey? I set mine to spacebar and I use it all the time. Especially if you are good at using shift/cntrl to select/deselect, I find the easiest way to grab units in a big fight with lots of different units is just jam spacebar and then figure out which portraits to click. It's easier than trying to double click on a knight that's running around when you're fully zoomed out.
@SuperJamSports4 жыл бұрын
Your content lately has been on 🔥🔥🔥
@T3AMKILL4 жыл бұрын
I haven’t played AOE in years but always enjoy watching your videos!!
@ubellubo4 жыл бұрын
Start playing again. It is so much better now, especially online play. The matchmaking system is great. You always get a good game with someone around your level (it takes about ten games to find your true Elo, ie level)
@ZugzugZugzugson4 жыл бұрын
this one might be obvious, but i didn't see you mention it; if you are planning to mass produce a certain type of unit (like pikes or skirms) select your buildings, then hold shift + the unit production hotkey to queue up 5x that unit at once. this way, you only need to hit the hotkey 3 times to queue up 15 units. depending on how many of the same type of building you have selected you do have to press it more though. say you have 5 barracks selected and you want to queue up 5 pikes in each, you need to hold shift + hit the hotkey 5 times to queue up 5 in each, but its still faster than hitting the hotkey 25 times.
@fredhurst25283 жыл бұрын
That alt + box to ignore military is not something I knew existed, real nice feature. Glad I tuned in.
@bsmith35064 жыл бұрын
SOTL: Here are some tips to help new players improve! Me: :D SOTL: So first off, use control groups on thr extra buttons on your mouse. Me: Looks at £5 mouse i bought on ebay 5 years ago* ok
@krystofcisar469 Жыл бұрын
well you have still keyboard with at least 32 alphabet letters, 10 digits and some symbols :D
@johntheknight30623 жыл бұрын
Me watching this video: OOooOOooooOOOOhhHHhhh... Every 5 seconds.
@darthcabs3 жыл бұрын
The ALT key tip is really new to me. Had no idea. Putting buildings in control groups is also useful, and somehow up until now I only thought of assigning to military units
@Crowbar4 жыл бұрын
Select all Idle Villagers is also a thing. In late game where you created a few villagers back home but are fighting in the front, instead of going through all idle villagers, I just use the select all idle villagers hotkey and send them to a lumber mill or spam farms or something. I use CTRL+TAB for that, which is easy to remember, because Tab is select next idle VIllager like for you.
@coxxen4 жыл бұрын
After years of just looking the new remaster, I can finally play it
@thefrickenchicken1417 Жыл бұрын
Recently started playing this game online with friends. These videos have been sooooo useful. Thanks so much!
@Pyroclasm13384 жыл бұрын
When you have 10 stables creating units, and you want to stop all production asap, is there a way to select all stables and stop the production of them all at the same time? Or do you have to select each stable one by one?
@orCana4 жыл бұрын
Pls top comment!
@skipperkat1234 жыл бұрын
A classic power move is to just demolish the lot of them. "bye bye barracks, I'll be dead before I need another spear anyways"
@frenchgalloglass4 жыл бұрын
@@skipperkat123 Big brain move
@tomasferraz76554 жыл бұрын
@@skipperkat123 noice
@TheNovicek4 жыл бұрын
Sadly no. This is one of the big qol features that the devs completely overlooked so far. No hotkey, can't do it from the global queue, just have to go through individual buildings and click.
@rasmustagu4 жыл бұрын
Just finished the playlist - been playing DE with tons of friends in private lobby's for the past few days; first time I've touched AoE since mid-00's when it used to be pretty much the only real game I had at my disposal during my childhood. This guide is great, all in the playlist are. Known about you for a while now and I'm glad there's finally a reason to binge all your videos, definitely feels like I've learned a lot (especially about siege and hotkeys). While by the time it comes out (if it does) it probably won't be necessary to me personally, I'm really hoping you'll make a naval guide at some point. Nevertheless, awesome work!
@gosphor28264 жыл бұрын
"Select all x" building hotkeys are my favorite additions in DE actually. Seeing 1:16 made me realize that.
@freundlichermensch75404 жыл бұрын
yeah, I feel so op, since I use it. especially for TCs; it feels like i just got 1300 just because i can boom better... i am awfull at mirco units 11
@suddenllybah4 жыл бұрын
sounds really good to macro whilst microing
@abeylugo3 жыл бұрын
This is a big help. If you add up all the seconds saved within a matter of 20min game play you could have added a total of 3mins of extra command activity...which is a major advantage
@mattlittleales954 жыл бұрын
Few others I've found really helpful is the 'select all military units', this really helps if you are feudal rushing with a few units and want to select the reinforcements without jumping around the map. Also the 'idle military' key is great too. Works just like the idle villager key. Helps find them odd units in the corners of the map during a post imp trash war. 😁
@Tepalus4 жыл бұрын
Also allways patrol rams into your opponent's base, when you cracked his defence. This way the rams destroy all buildings and you don't have to worry about it.
@Pentix514 жыл бұрын
just set to aggressive.
@nonnaurbisness30133 жыл бұрын
Also for defence. Getting pushed by archers handcanons or seige? Start adding rams they fuck other seige and soak up gunpowder and arrow units attacks. They are also super good at defending archers vs an opponent that doesn't micro battle his melee units and archers will attack the rams while your archers kill the melee units
@KedViper3 жыл бұрын
@@Pentix51 I think the problem with that is they don’t travel very far to search for buildings whereas you can set the range of attack to your liking with patrol.
@eeeeefffff3 жыл бұрын
0:40 Select all TC 1:51 Assign idle villager TC 2:29 Go to last notification often 2:52 Use ALT with sheeps & villagers 4:37 Use "Select all stables", "Select all barracks" etc. 5:18 Use wayponts & command queues (shift) 6:08 Quickly select/deselect units 6:45 Don't stress over late game farm placement 7:12 Use the market 7:58 Make more military buildings
@aceh28584 жыл бұрын
A recent thing I have picked up is control group your ship villagers when they reach 6. It makes dropping food off easier and shooting boar becomes that much simpler. You can also control group luring villager to help garrison him while luring.
@mikeymaui18854 жыл бұрын
Was literally watching one of your videos when this one dropped👌🏻🙌🏻
@criter964 жыл бұрын
Besides the fact I was drawn back to AoE2 by Spirit as I Saw couple times in this comment section, I love how a lot of those tips I introduced to my gameplay on my own ^^ As a bonus I will add small tip that works for me - might not for others. I use mostly grid setup (most hotkeys resemble in game grid in a q-b square on keyboard) so building a barracks is q, arch range is w and stable is e. With that, making all barracks/ranges/stables is ctrl + q/w/e. The uiop that he uses as 'all' hotkeys I use as additional control groups. Mostly useless, but works miracles with monks.
@dvdrocks434 жыл бұрын
Tip Number 11: Just make random actions and track your apm, see apm rise, no problem!
@solar44834 жыл бұрын
How do you track apm?
@ZugzugZugzugson4 жыл бұрын
i never understood why people do that... just seems extremely stressful and at times inefficient and nauseating. like repeatedly picking a town center > house > town center > blacksmith > town center in extremely quick succession. like why... whats the frekkin point!? people do this is starcraft as well and i just don't get it.
@dvdrocks434 жыл бұрын
@@ZugzugZugzugson For many pros it is to warm their fingers up. In starcraft the game doesn't require as much thought in the early game so they spam hot keys to keep their fingers warmed up
@trevorp8754 жыл бұрын
Seriously, who the heck thumbs down these videos? The pros that don't want you to know these tricks? These are awesome vids.
@nintai61014 жыл бұрын
Spirit of the Law! you don't need to be so humble. These are great tips and I appreciate them. Thanks for the hard work!
@lelekos91035 ай бұрын
After 3 Years this Video is still a Gem
@jafirahad58585 ай бұрын
YES
@jeroenvdw3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the tips, hotkeys are really the most useful to learn I guess. When I play on Hard and have a great start, I always find my opponent to move on to the castle age first and also have an insane army while I'm still gathering stuff to advance, and making units prevent me from advancing.
@mrosskne Жыл бұрын
you know you can pause right
@leandroledesma40992 жыл бұрын
I wasn't sure about watching your videos, the logo made me think it was a 13 year old trying to explain things to me... I gave you a shot and i can't stop watching your videos, I'm very thankful for the tips you give in this video, they're so useful to me who played this game when i was 14 and I'm now re-discovering it (31).
@NTclaymore4 жыл бұрын
Fend for thy self ye peasants! I done that so many times in the past! All hail the Alt key!
@sambam82134 жыл бұрын
When you have 10 stables creating units, and you want to stop all production asap, is there a way to select all stables and stop the production of them all at the same time? Or do you have to select each stable one by one?
@Ghanemq84 жыл бұрын
I never played the game, probably never will, and I don't even know a single person who does but I'm still subscribed for some reason
@thomasfplm4 жыл бұрын
I played over 10 years ago, but besides that, I'm the same.
@teutonicson16484 жыл бұрын
I believe you're here for the intro 😆
@MrRohde974 жыл бұрын
Wanna play together?
@markdougherty99174 жыл бұрын
@@MrRohde97 count me in
@michaelandreipalon3594 жыл бұрын
@@teutonicson1648 Yeah, that's probably it.
@enfynet4 жыл бұрын
Me, playing since the demo came out: Hot keys? 😬
@HarrisNMeo4 жыл бұрын
Really helpful Spirit! Great video, as always!
@seizan884 жыл бұрын
There is also a "jump back to last screen" or something like that which you can use similar to the aelect all tc button. While raiding go back to your eco, add some farms and whatnot. Then just back right where you left your army. Or the other way around. You might not need it depending on the controll groups yiu are using. I found it quite helpfull despite using controll groups a lot.
@Duchess_Van_Hoof Жыл бұрын
Actually, this is my main problem with raiding. So thank you, this will help.
@gravity81203 жыл бұрын
Command queues are great except for when you have one or two villagers decide that walking around their coworkers to gather from a herdable is too much effort so they skip ahead to the next sheep on their own.
@mayaneko1094 Жыл бұрын
For selecting units it's also good to know, that when you've already some units selected, that holding shift while clicking more units will add them to the list instead of deselecting the old ones. Can sometimes be helpful in cases, where your army is already out of view, but you still need to add newly generated units to a control group.
@integralinsanity1641 Жыл бұрын
Not me beating a friend who has been playing the game for years when I hadn't touched it in over a decade simply because SOTL keeps me up to date and has the best guides xDD Love this guy.
@pspboy73 жыл бұрын
The extra mouse button for all TC was really informative. Thanks.
@david_oliveira714 жыл бұрын
Such immensely important and helpful tricks - thanks a lot!!
@jamesgarritson67094 жыл бұрын
a simple video that almost seems like secret information (at least for a newb like me : )). So great!!!
@RobotShield4 жыл бұрын
I really like the “select land military units hotkey” the ones on screen. I set it to 1, It’s basically now group 1 = whatever military I can see. If like me you don’t use regular control groups well this is a great fast way to move your army.
@borrell14824 жыл бұрын
Yep unless you have to retreat quickly bc the enemy is counter attacking hard and you just happen to have rams or monks or teutonic knights in your army, then everyone is going away slow 😂😂
@RobotShield4 жыл бұрын
@@borrell1482 true, my worst experience is when trebs are in the group and you can’t patrol/attack move
@TheDebater944 жыл бұрын
I'm surprised typing "aegis" into the chat didn't make the list
@botond31414 жыл бұрын
No matter what the program is a video from spirit of the law is always welcomed. 😍😍
@Nightmster4 жыл бұрын
Oh wow. Go to last notification is MIDDLE MOUSE BUTTON? I just started getting back into the game and somehow space was ingrained into my brain. Great video! :D
@CanSpqr4 жыл бұрын
Dude this video is gold
@iamthomasleffler4 жыл бұрын
Such high quality content as always - thanks SOTL
@alian69654 жыл бұрын
Useful tip: Select all idle vills at once
@RobotShield4 жыл бұрын
Yep, I set “5” to this
@martijn95684 жыл бұрын
@@RobotShield That's a strange Delete Key.
@krystofcisar469 Жыл бұрын
and press shift+delete :D
@SeLu19873 жыл бұрын
This is the most useful AoE video I've ever watched
@Zzannez4 жыл бұрын
I don't even actively play the game, but came here anyway
@dimpie10004 жыл бұрын
thank you for the video, definitely a few good tips I did not know. Keep up the great content
@twosnakse4 жыл бұрын
I woke up at 3:30am and couldn’t get back to sleep. This video did the trick, thanks Spirit 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
@Taydris04 жыл бұрын
Thank you! I wanted a video like this for years.
@Cra3ier11 ай бұрын
4:20 Tip: Can hold Alt and select all villagers, then continue holding Alt key + right click TC to garrison into TC
@FloosWorld_AoE2 жыл бұрын
5:45 I know this video is already almost 2 years old but I recently found out that it's enough to command queue both farming villagers to one farm as they then will spread out to any idle farm :)
@maxs7134 жыл бұрын
5:57 For shift-clicking for building a wall, it's useful and I think the only way if you want your villager to go back to gathering a resource at the end.
@aoe2and3fan4 жыл бұрын
Hi SotL, as a suggestion to your hotkeys, I use as "select all [certain production building, eg barracks]" the same hotkey as for the normal production building, except with "shift" stuck in front. :-) I use "a" for barracks, so it will be "shift+a" to select all my barracks. :-)
@noelnemo4 жыл бұрын
Same, really useful. You never need to go to barrack when you have only one barrack. The less screen movement you have the better you can focus!
@whoami8247 Жыл бұрын
Or remove the shift!! Just use a for all, barracks!! 🤣
@aoe2and3fan Жыл бұрын
@@whoami8247 Double-clicking "a" centres the screen to the (only existing) barracks. Especially helpful in the early game.
@whoami8247 Жыл бұрын
@@aoe2and3fan yeah but combat in early game happens at high elo.. I am at only 900-950 elo
@ernie52294 жыл бұрын
What about double-clicking to select all of that type of unit/building? The tips listed work great, but often double-clicking can be even simpler and faster. (Although your selections do need to be visible.) For example: at :50 to select all TC's at 3:16 to select all sheep at 3:45 to select all vill's (then right-click to garrison) at 4:37 to select all military buildings at 6:11 to select all of one type of military unit. I'm not saying this is a better way, it's just another option.
@zenec_4 жыл бұрын
Concerning the "Go to the last notification" hotkey, it would be really nice to have the possibility of choosing what we want to be notified about, like not having one everytime a unit is made which is almost constantly the case post imp for example, would love to use this hotkey but can’t really most of the time because of this...
@errrzarrr3 жыл бұрын
Ignore it in that case
@Chadthaboss4 жыл бұрын
Your channel helped me so much man, appreciate it
@Rafasz19833 жыл бұрын
Thats exacly what I was looking for, thank you. What make a good player a pro, is knowing as many hot keys as possible. Eficiency is the secret.
@Luis.Lopez964 жыл бұрын
"Fend for thy self ye peasants!" that killed me hahahaha
@mckenziecalhoun3164 жыл бұрын
Another use for ALT is to move over farm fields, target units surrounded by buildings and move closer to castles, Towers etc by making the target cursor ignore building (if you go on a building it becomes a move command)
@wmdee91033 жыл бұрын
Hey guys, spirit of the law here... one of the best intros in KZbin history
@clefspeareiii17104 жыл бұрын
@Spirit of the Law - I noticed recently that the Vikings have a unique tech giving Inf bonus damage vs Cav. Would you consider looking into anti-cav bonuses (like “who has best halbs” or something) for a future video? Thanks dude, and I love your content!
@Infinite_Jester4 жыл бұрын
I think he deals with the Chieftains unique tech in the Vikings overview video. Vikings don't get halberdiers, but the elite berserkers can trade cost-effectively against Frankish cavaliers if I recall correctly. Viking pikemen are still objectively better than the Aztec pikemen (Aztecs also don't get halberdiers) because Garland Wars only gives +4 attack (although it applies to all infantry and versus all armour classes, so it's much less situational). Chieftains gives +5 attack versus cavalry and +4 versus camels. Chieftains is also much cheaper. Viking infantry also get more HP. Both of them are worse versus cavalry than regular halberdiers though. Halbs get +32 bonus damage vs cavalry while pikemen only get +22. The best halberdiers are probably Slavic halbs. Druzhina gives them an area-of-attack damage (5 damage to each adjacent unit), which I think is easily the strongest bonus in big engagements. It falls off quickly as the number of units in the engagement diminishes. In general, I think the answer is "it depends". Other notable bonuses: Lithuanian spearmen are faster and benefit from Tower Shields (+2 pierce armor). Burmese halbs have +3 attack. Byzantine halbs are cheaper (-25%). Celts have faster halbs (+15%), but Celts don't get squires. Japanese halbs attack faster (33%). Tatar halbs get the factional hill bonus (+25%). Teuton halbs get more melee armour (up to +2). This kind of video would be pretty cool though. Without having made any experiments, I think the best halbs overall would be a toss-up between Slavs, Teutons and Japanese. The Burmese bonus isn't as good because halbs are pretty bad against anything that isn't a cavalry unit, and most of the damage they deal comes from the massive bonus damage and so the bonus really only comes into play when you have halb vs. halb fights and similar. Lithuanian and Byzantine halbs are also great for trash wars.
@clefspeareiii17104 жыл бұрын
@@Infinite_Jester thanks for that! That’s a lot to look up 😁 I guess that means that my question is answered, though I agree - it’d still be interesting to see a dedicated video about this anyway
@edenoftheworld10902 жыл бұрын
your videos are super valuable man, much obliged.
@ivanfuhr0004 жыл бұрын
7:33 the animation in the town center when advancing to next age is a mod? Can you tell me which one is it?
@gosphor28264 жыл бұрын
It was available ~6 months ago in an event, not available after the event finished.
@ivanfuhr0004 жыл бұрын
@@gosphor2826 i found it www.ageofempires.com/mods/details/15945/
@AgeofNoob4 жыл бұрын
Hey folks, one thing to add to this list is "Select All Idle Villagers" - sometimes, it's quicker to send all idles to do something while you're microing your army, then come back to balance your eco. Going through each idle takes too much time during a heated battle, so it's good situationally!
@Casowsky4 жыл бұрын
Shift+Period, but I think that's just all on screen and not globally (I could be wrong)
@AgeofNoob4 жыл бұрын
@@Casowsky Yeha you can set it to something easier so it's handy. Shift + Period is awful :D
@Friedtunafish773 жыл бұрын
Spirit of the La Hire never disappoints
@ryanforgo3500 Жыл бұрын
7:10 about replacing lumber camps i actually started doing 1 camp per 2-3 vils ONLY during late game "imperial age specifically" because it is actually impossible to keep up with the vils speed in the wood line. To the point where you will lose effeciency even 1-2 mins after the new wood camp and remembering to rebuild over and over is a nightmare + you lost some wood anyway cuz of the vils being bumping or walking far. Instead i'd spend the wood 100 wood per 2 vils "maybe 3" which pays back very sooon after it feels to me.
@miguelinileugim4 жыл бұрын
Remember when Spirit posted a video once every few months and it felt like he may just disappear any day? Yeah I still have nightmares lol.
@integralinsanity16413 жыл бұрын
The flashbacks... The shivers...
@lewys920410 ай бұрын
Currently playing the campaigns on moderate difficulty. Half the time I fail, because either I don't knownthe nap for resources or enemy positions or the enemy attacks early with a squad of 8-12 when I can barely muster 4x. I've found it easier to build early 1x Tower and a bunch of pikemen cause the ai sends cavalry every time and they always attack the Tower over units.
@sebastianbrinez43154 жыл бұрын
Gr8 video, the TC queueing trick is priceless, thank you! Suscribed
@leeburns86543 жыл бұрын
I'd no idea Shift+C was a thing and thank you for this video!
@PeterMaddison24833 жыл бұрын
As a noob to AoE (DE) in general, I find this VERY helpful, but overwhelming at the same time as theres so much to remember. Theres far too many actions for the hotkeys as each unit/building has their own set to deal with. I love the game (II). I started off by playing AoE DE I but after playing for a while and beating it, I decided to see what the other ones were like and after having a play with all four, I really like II as it feels easier to play and the graphics are better, though I feel the zoom could be better as I would like the ability to zoom out much more to be able to see more as I'm not too fussed about seeing a battle or whatever really that close up that I can see the blood when someone gets killed by a knight or whatever.
@dom82864 жыл бұрын
Thanks Spirit! I just got the game today and I plan on getting my ass kicked by playing my very first game Online xD I think THIS video will help a lot. Wish me Luckkkkkkkkk!!
@tigerstripey48852 жыл бұрын
Too many pros/geeks online, you will become frustrated and the game wont be fun, especially for a noob or casual gamer. It seems in this day and age, if you were not playing the game when it first came about to become good you fall far behind, and the experts love nothing more than noob crushing. It's the same for literally any game. Casual gamers stand no chance against jobless players who spend their lives playing a specific game.
@iforgot878723 жыл бұрын
One thing I like, this may be blasphemy, but mapping scroll to the central left handed finger keys W A S and D. I found it has sped things up for me since moving the mouse across the screen all the time just to move it doesn’t feel efficient. Of course that’s losing some prime hotkey space but I think it works. Also- idle villager on mouse 3 is pretty sweet.
@Cysubtor_8vb4 жыл бұрын
I've always played causally back in the initial days of OG Age of Kings, so I never developed much of a tempo of play. Fell out of playing for over a decade until I learned of your channel and the HD edition to get back into it. Still don't play consistently to keep a good pace, but at least started adapting things you've talked about to have a bit more haste and purpose in my building strategy.
@scintillam_dei2 жыл бұрын
Use my giant realistic maps.
@RedBarDragon4 жыл бұрын
Spirit of the law is why I STILL try to beat my friend in multiplayer.