4v4 No Farms Challenge

[@stretchedmetaphor3238]

Those two green villagers were like Frodo and Sam going to Mordor. What a game!

[@atullyabaid3172]

Damnnn😂😂😂

[@mattiabovina6264]

bruh i'm reading this comment even before watching the video. What should i expect? ahhahahaha

[@feudal_age_spearman_with_i9410]

Lmaooooooooooooooo😂😂😂

[@studiosbonsoir]

TheViper used this same expression in one of his recent videos lol

[@Wanderer1258]

I didn't expect that move from green to succeed a lot, but it acually distracted the whole squad of paladins. Sadly Frodo and Sam had a better ending!

[@Maajadah]

I can’t help but appreciate the lack of lag in this game. The same combat several years ago would have been painful to experience. Now it’s just beautiful.

[@Wanderer1258]

Yes, I thought exactly the same! This whole game was just like an endless performance stress test. Thank you T90. :D

[@jorgenav328]

I wouldn't be able to tell if the players actually had lag during the game

[@SoakieCat]

~I remember playing free for all with 7 AI as a child and units just couldn't move

[@crylune]

The wonders of dedicated servers instead of P2P.

[@Gaspa79]

It's a replay, so lag (network latency) will not affect it. Only engine lag or fps drops.

[@Clairvoire]

Those two villagers, getting run over by an entire army of paladins, yet ultimately defeating them and ending the war... beautiful

[@CornBredCrusader]

I've been mocked many times for saying that higher level players and pros play off of "feel" that comes from having played thousands of games. And Red stalling paladin production around 30:00 to go Hussar even though he has 5K gold just screams that his natural reaction after thousands of games was telling him that he should be out of natural gold at this point and to stall while adding in trade, but he had tons of gold because he sold food for such good rates at the market

[@SWDennis]

One of the best games I have ever seen. I wish more players would be this daring.

[@SIGNOR-G]

This begs the question of how much more stronger this team would have been if they had farmed.

[@mauer1]

@@SIGNOR-G very, the trade bonus are offsetting the no farms, but the opponents obviously had military bonus and thus a clear advantages

[@acehughj4527]

@@SIGNOR-G they'd be dang near invincible with the offset of the market prices that climbed ridiculously for their trade only team.. at some point their gold was worth dirt and they still held.

[@alexanderschoenbrunn6696]

Fancy seeing you

[@kathartic_youtube]

I'm 28 minutes in and wondering how it goes on for over an hour and a half. This is awesome!

[@whossname4399]

I opened comments to say the same thing

[@blakelivesay]

Hit 31 minutes and had the same thought

[@FirstLast-wk3kc]

Sounds like hard focus on trade

[@whossname4399]

@@blakelivesay for me it was pretty much exactly 28 minutes

[@proflns8558]

27 minutes and I'm thinking the same XD

[@dbe14]

Best AoE2 game I've watched so far, absolutely insane game. Pure meat grinder in the choke point. Hats off to green for just building towers forever.

[@Incommensurabilities]

this is like 80 minutes of non-stop meat grinding, quite satisfying to watch tbh 😅

[@kelvinsomnia]

When the price of stone hit the 800 range, I kept expecting green to finally switch into cav archers or something, but I salute the absolute commitment to those towers.

[@williamedstrom5681]

@@kelvinsomnia He Is a Man of Focus, Commitment and Sheer Fucking Will

[@ATrustInThrust]

This is one of the greatest games you’ve ever shared. I love this so much

[@hamelconsultancyllc]

This was the wildest game I’ve seen in a while - rarely see so much back and forth in a high level game. Loved it!

[@mauer1]

Also the emotional damage of knowing that the opponent just had 30k gold in spare change

[@Chadok89]

Well, it didn't took long for the GG to be call after

[@axesofebil]

Nice touch editing in the trade bonuses T90!

[@kostadinpantev]

Caravanserai literally means a "palace for caravans". It was like a big motel for travellers and traders.

[@botondbenyovszky6621]

To answer T90' s question at 56:14 (1:30:00 game time), The blue team had 493 more kills than the red team had deaths. So effectifely they (as blue team) already did (at least) 493 friendly kill

[@Incommensurabilities]

Interesting! Though considering how important the houf were, that's not too bad. Maybe 5% of total kills?

[@botondbenyovszky6621]

@@Incommensurabilities No no. You might have misunderstood me. The Houfnice player killed 2000+ unit at this point. Blue only created Houfnices then. But out of the 2000 kills, the friendly unit hits were in the range of 500! So about 25%. This is just an estimation, because friendly fire could also come from teal's onagers, but a lot of frienly fire is also hidden by the turkish team's own friendly fires from cannons and onagers. The only certain data is that the Farmless Team did 493 MORE friendly kills THAN the Turkish Team!

[@EliasHasle]

@@botondbenyovszky6621 Still worth it, though... :D

[@havingyarr]

Fun fact based on your comments at 42:00 In Age of Kings balance, bombard towers did full melee damage against rams but they were way too OP with that. Age of Conquerors changed this.

[@inhumanedasher]

I think it did even upto 1.0c in conquerors

[@kelvinsomnia]

I only ever played the original age of kings as a kid. I finally got back in when the forgotten expansion came out, and I was very disappointed when rams came for my bombard towers.

[@99Teutons]

@@kelvinsomnia LMFAO same for me

[@RennieAsh]

51:24 that's the most contested neutral gold I've ever seen

[@Incommensurabilities]

if the bodies were persistent, the gold would be buried under a mountain like you get in UEBS

[@AxelCross]

hahahaha

[@sephirothbahamut245]

The "corner bug" is always that corner, because it's the corner with coordinates x = 0, y = 0. Anything you don't know where to put goes at 0, 0. For instance, the sound source of a dying unit could move at 0, 0 when the unit is deleted.

[@minikawildflower]

Def thought no farms would be a T90 troll challenge lol

[@RennieAsh]

It's probably not much of a challenge for him due to his super efficient farm placement xD

[@Ayush-_-Sinha]

@@RennieAsh good one

[@N1ghthavvk]

You could try a "vegan" challenge, only take Berry Bushes and Farms, keep your Sheep, Boar, Fish, etc alive

[@minikawildflower]

@@N1ghthavvk as a kid I played like this bc killing the sheep made me sad 11

[@herearewe]

@@minikawildflower Gurjaras are a good civ for you

[@shoonseiki]

I think the big things that won at the end were Bohemians player finally getting to 200 pop (was around 100 most of the game) and the players really pumping out wood/gold units and saving food for power units like the Battle Eles

[@Josuegurrola]

I think he was on one towncenter the whole game...

[@planescaped]

That decision to start making scorpions really paid off. And the distraction from green seemed to super tilt the other team. Regardless, that ending was such an insane and sudden turn.

[@sreeharica6527]

One of the greatest 4 x4 team games I have watched. Simply insane!!! Thanks for the upload and the great casting as usual.

[@shadowninja6689]

Wow, this was the most insane game I've watched in a while. And what a comeback, I thought for sure that one of the teams was goners 30 minutes in until they started to push back.

[@fivefivefivethreethree9777]

T90 would love to see you cast that 3+ hour nile delta game Cant imagine how that game goes with so little wood on that map 11

[@Oakenlix]

I was upset they only sent a couple villagers into the enemy trade, I would've thought you want horse archers there, but then again, maybe such a small investment into that raid allowed them to push the middle and get the win. Amazing game, thank you t90 and the players.

[@CalebShimomura]

Yeah, there was a massive overreaction by red because of the potential damage that could be done. Obviously T90 said it himself that without the meat shield the onagers were sitting ducks, but even if green had sent like... 10 villagers, it could have caused massive damage with bombard towers. he probably would've needed to send something like 10-12 paladins anyway, and if he under-reacted and cavalry archers came in to raid the trade, 10-12 would've gotten eaten alive and then their whole eco is exposed. I think red had to gamble that this was part of a big raid, and unfortunately, it was just a distraction. Outstanding play.

[@Josuegurrola]

Those are not normal orcfodder villagers, those are urukhardenedspanish villagers

[@billywhelan8053]

Love having the chat and economy stat during the game 👌🏻

[@JFGraham26]

amazing game. absolutely amazing. it was hilarious, great back and forth, good chat banter, and I loved the amount of thinking this had to take with the team bonuses and everything

[@lightfallonthehead3842]

i am so happy i found this community, i get to sit for 2 hours in joy and anticipation watching horses and arrows fly in the air

[@zmdeadelius]

I haven't started watching this one yet. T90, wanted to let you know that your coverage of the game is much appreciated and the remastered AOE2 is so polished and nice to look at. Just can't get enough of it.

[@victordimitroff6457]

This was the most entertaining AoE II game I've ever seen.

[@blitzmonster1]

For camparison on D-Day the germans had been estimated at 4,000 to 9,000 causalities. Allied casualties were documented for at least 10,000, with 4,414 confirmed dead. The amount of units killed surpassed both sides during the morning invasions lol. INSANE GAME

[@michaelellis2480]

Great to see you cast an Amazon Tunnel TG, truly a hidden gem in the non ranked format scene, been one of my favs since I discovered them a while ago. Calls for v different play style, intense!

[@kevinn3611]

I did NOT expect this level of carnage and amusement with what I thought was a 'joke' strat lol. Beautifully played by all

[@hds8315]

That was easily one of the best games I've ever watched Really Fun!!

[@jorsonroctel5768]

This is the stuff my friends and I do when we stack in like 1600 lol. Never expected to see this at this level tho.

[@--Ghost--]

This was wild. I didn’t expect green’s plan to be so effective. I thought it would be a short lived distraction lol

[@blakelivesay]

Absolutely incredible. It really all game down to a few vills causing a distraction in the trade and then it just snowballed hugely once they could take out the front line and start one-shotting production buildings with the houfnice. I think it was a mistake for the farming team to sell food as early and often as they did.

[@whoami8247]

They did not know about no farm challenge😂

[@EliasHasle]

@@whoami8247 They kept doing it even after the challenge was apparently disclosed.

[@The10nthdoctor]

Best game i've seen in a loooooongggg time. Amazing

[@ichhabe330]

Yup, maybe one of the best games I've ever seen. This was impressive and insane.

[@zmdeadelius]

This was a game for the history books. I literally spent the majority of the video grinning and giggling because of how amazing and clever those players are. Hats off to both teams! And thanks for not telling only blue will be doing the challenge :D They won against a great team who has farms!! This was AMAAZZINNGG

[@christianstonecipher1547]

It was amusing to hear T90 start talking about how the game was in an unwinnable state @27:53 and going @29:38 "it was a nice attempt man, it was a really nice attempt". And then seeing the video length of an hour and a half.

[@TKainZero]

Got to be one of the most memorable games ever

[@creativeheadroom]

This was an amazing game and I loved the challenge the No Farms team gave themselves. Everybody played really well. By the way, the fact that you didn't realize all Relics had been collected by a single player until you saw the stats at the end, says a lot about the quality of the rest of this game.

[@Alchemist1330]

THIS IS THE FIRST HIGH ELO KZbin GAME WHERE SPIES IS RESEARCHED.

[@Kandraith]

Got Fields of Verdun in the middle, and an ant farm in the back. Truely the mullet of AoE2

[@drflufypanda1967]

I love these types of games where it's just nonstop fighting. Crazy game. Loved every second.

[@blakehansen3230]

I haven't played this game since CD edition, but I've watched hundreds and hundreds of t90 videos. I can't believe I missed this one. This game is, in my opinion, the best game I've ever seen on this channel. What a masterpiece. I was so inspired today that I bought the game and went through all the hassle to figure out how to install AoE II:DE on my Macbook.

[@kOaMaster2]

BTW when you buy res, it "counts twice" in the summary. E.g. buying 100 food with 137 gold collected means that you will have at least 237 res collected. meaning that in this game, you could see how much food they actually bought from gold, roughly 16k-40k, removing the ~2k initial food (but you can't really see how much it has cost them).

[@-42-47]

I imagine those generals sitting there drinking tea planning on where to send the bodies. - Ground is getting too uneven, it's getting harder to get new tower foundations down. - Ok how many bodies do you need? - Hmmm....probably around 500m3, but I can work with 300m3 if you can get them to die in the right places. - Ok got it! - Ok men see those two piles your friends made yesterday! You need to hold that ditch between them or their sacrifice will have been in vain.

[@w0nd3rnut]

All of the lumberjacks, miners & builders going at once is great asmr. Productivity.

[@tylersafaric130]

Man that's the most insane game I've seen in a long time!

[@NathanSkifton]

This is one of the best Age games I’ve seen in a long time.

[@_nishantk_]

"You can't stop this" - T90, I looked up and there was still 1 hour remaining in the game

[@EvilDoresh]

This is like the medieval equivalent of WWI-style trench warfare.

[@RoyalFusilier]

Incredible game, glad I decided to come back and check this one out. I love 'jokes played seriously' like this, and this map basically made for one huge, continuous running battle. Leading to a surprisingly and highly satisfying conclusion too. "As the drum roll started on that day, heard a hundred miles away A million shells were fired and the green fields turned to grey The bombardment lasted all day long, yet the forts were standing strong Heavily defended, now the trap has been sprung and the battle has begun Descend into darkness 303 days below the sun Fields of Verdun And the battle has begun Nowhere to run Father and son Fall one by one Under the gun Thy will be done And the judgement has begun Nowhere to run Father and son Fall one by one Fields of Verdun Though a million shells have scarred the land, no one has the upper hand From the ground above to trenches, where the soldiers make their stand As the trenches slowly turn to mud, and then quickly start to flood Death awaits in every corner, as they die in the mud, fill the trenches with blood Fields of execution turned to wasteland from the grass Thou shalt go no further it was said they shall not pass The spirit of resistance and the madness of the war So… Go ahead! Face the lead! Join the dead! Though you die! Where you lie! Never asking why!"

[@volbla]

There were two things i expected to see in this game but didn't. Firstly monks from the farmless team. They only cost gold and have the third longest range in the game, only 1 less than the Bombard Cannons / Houfnices. Maybe the team just preferred a straight up brawl to wololoing, which i can respect :) The second thing is Warwolf Trebuchets from the Britons. They have _the_ longest range in the game and could semi-reliably snipe the enemy's slow, valuable units like Houfnices and Scorpions. They would also handle the bombard towers or any villagers building them. The lack of british trebs feels like the biggest missed opportunity of the game. Still an amazing game! Big props to come up with a challenge like this and actually pulling it off, and props to both teams for really solid play!

[@AravindNaick]

Wanted to see a team game with Spanish team bonus + Caravanserai trade in action ever since the new DLC was released. Well, this was awesome!

[@timv12345]

Couldn't believe the effectiveness of that cut through and 3 spanish villagers...

[@waynesmiley2207]

This was epic!! I beyond respect the commitment to strat.

[@TheKevtherev11]

Incredible game. Fair play to them. I did not think they’d manage to pull it off but it seems they basically played a perfect game

[@DryTEKGI]

It was quite interesting to watch a commentary of this game.. because.. name reasons :D

[@alejandrogarcia9637]

This was so entertaining. Thanks for casting this t90

[@JudgeEomer]

I don't think Green killed a single trade cart but the panic they created won the game. Red overreacted because they assumed more would have been committed to the raid; instead it was full commitment on the middle still.

[@paulfitzpatrick8288]

Watching Blue's score climb like it did was crazy to watch by itself! Thought it was GG at about 25 minutes then realized it was 1 1/2 hours 11

[@Incommensurabilities]

Yeah I love how T90 thought it was over at 27:54, then we actually get 30 cannons later on

[@AyeBeAPirate]

Absolutely nutty game. I normally don't have the patience to watch a feature film-length AoE game, but this was worth the exception.

[@shivanshbisht9439]

It was an epic struggle which ended with the cutting of wood 😅😂 absolute joy to watch 😂

[@the_SolLoser]

Great game! That was a lot of fun!

[@frostcano8844]

Great game, worth the hour and a half at normal speed!

[@biggerandbetterthings7222]

Lol that market action, and what, no farms = perfect map for t90 :P cool game tho!

[@erkan2413]

This strat blew my mind. And what an execution from the team

[@simonengel9767]

teutonic tanks had a 0.8 k/d while playing pure meatshield for his team. can we just appreciate that! IBY (red) in the same role with spanish pala had a 0.5 K/D. (against kannons and tower tho, but u have to also think about friendly fire in teutonics case) .

[@Klautsche]

THis is basically one of the only games where the Bohemian tech "Hussite Reforms" would actually be detrimental

[@sakanagakyoko]

To think the yes-farm team was selling food to their enemy the whole game 😂

[@WiglyWorm]

i'm still learning the game by watching but i like the resource pane always being visible and it's less busy than the previous UX with so much on top. I think you can play with the opacity of the overlays, but i think it's a good upgrade.

[@Havreflan]

This is for sure a must see game

[@vkm090]

Thank you T90. Such an amazing game. One of the best i have seen hands down. Also kudos to the bohemian player with his houfnice. They are OP. But for me the MVP was the Bengali player with his Rathas who took most of the damage but acted as a perfect meat shield for those houfnice and later scorpions. Fantastic overall. Such a wholesome feeling :)

[@kurthuber7639]

Really funny to hear T90 basically call it over at 29 minutes 😂

[@seandouglas7848]

What an insane game! I thought the battle was surely won on probably 3 occasions before it actually happened

[@dembro27]

Bruh-hemians! After finishing this, I went back to the YT homepage and saw Spirit of the Law's Bohemians overview. Fitting!

[@-Keith-]

Green's market sneak at the end of the game was so well coordinated with the frontline push by his teammates, they conquered so much territory in such a short time thanks to that distraction.

[@Nysyarc]

Playing a game of the random cost mod on any given day could be the “no farms challenge”, they exclusively cost more resources than the food they provide, and horse collar is always the price of a wonder

[@abeda6852]

Props to green for carrying this through 👏🏻🔥 & creating that opening to the west at the end of the match distracting those Turks to a humiliating defeat XD and the answer is "No" , that chat message wasn't good spirit, but actually red was cursing them & the game

[@danielebbersmeyer5087]

That was soooo crazy... incredible what you can do in AoE2, when i read the title i honestly expected both teams going no farms and because of the lack of food less army... that was insane...

[@industrialvectors]

The power of friendship is strong! Look at all that friendly fire. Elephants lasted less than karambit warriors.

[@epicseadragon1692]

Wow, that's an impressive game! Just trying a No Farms challenge is already impressive, but having them winning it is even more so! Hats off!

[@Matt-km7yk]

With that corner bug, I like to imagine all the online games are playing somewhere in cyberspace all adjacent to each other and you are just hearing someone else's game

[@Lobbelt]

I love these kinds of team games - awesome creativity by the trading team and great casting as ever.

[@andywebb4861]

Absolutely incredible that they pulled it off

[@MFluffums]

This looks like a custom map I would have made when I was 10 and took 11 hours to play as my Windows XP hunk of junk struggled to get 1 FPS. I know damn well that T90 loved it for the same reason and it brings a chuckle out of me.

[@tommybear4458]

They need to make surviving troops rank up after kills that would be cool for this. I wonder if any troops on the field survived for long

[@ernie5229]

The booming noise in the corner of the map isn't a bug. It's the next game over. Much like when you can sometime hear the movie next to you at the theater.

[@seanmckagan1716]

Loose lips sink ships. It became so much harder for blue once they started telling yellow their weaknesses.

[@IshaanNyatiJi]

The houfnice was just bonkers...

[@AFourTeen]

One of the most intense games I've seen in your channel, good stuff!!!

[@Jaageful]

This game showcases the power of Indian civilizations. Fast trade, Rathas etc. But great team game also was a big factor. Houfnice was also a massive asset. Great game plan.

[@Riodhan]

Really glad I watched this, absolutely insane how well they held the Turks off for a solid 2 hours! Props to the Turks for the fast push and constant pressure! Not a single moment of downtime once that push started! But the cut by Green was by far the most important moment of the game! One single act managed to undo a full 2 hours of pressure in a matters of minutes! gg

[@callanbrown8571]

Love it T90. I could watch these games daily

[@justsaying7979]

This one's way up there with Blue Coffee taking that wonder with the halbs on the water... Wow, good game.

[@paterson90]

Great fricking game, so entertaining!

[@Ultraelectromagnetic]

this was amazing. just pure carnage from start to finish

[@laxphenom20]

Dude I have never played this game and probably never will….why do I enjoy watching this so much?

[@whitehatdao3216]

O boi !! O really Boi !! Brutality !! Total and Brutal Domination !! Fook !!