Age of Empires 3 IS A PERFECTLY BALANCED GAME WITH NO EXPLOITS - Invincibility Exploit Is Broken!!!

Age of Empires 3 is often regarded as the less successful followup to the legendary powerhouse that is Age of Empires 2. Many regard it as the weakest entry into the age of empires series and yet it still has a decent following and a rather unique charm to it. Admittedly the janky rts strategy combat leaves a lot to be desired but when paired with exploits like the cavalry only challenge, you can create some rather unique situations. So today ladies and gentleman we dive into Age of empires 3 and see if it is a perfectly balanced game with no exploits. Or perhaps the game is relatively broken considering it has a rather effective invincibility exploit which creates the games most overpowered units yet. With a fair amount of micromanagement you can have an army with over 200% more health and damage than any enemy unit. Prepare yourself to watch the most broken and overpowered AOE3 army yet as it one shots almost every other unit in the game. Who would have guessed the most defensive army in the game was the one that cant build any defensive walls or towers. I cant wait to see what kind of overpowered exploits and glitches we will find in age of empires 4 once some gameplay gets revealed!!
What you have seen here today is part of a fantastic perfectly balanced series on youtube where I go from game to game and break them with wacky exploits to gain things like unlimited gold. If you enjoyed this then be sure to check out more. The style is similar to RT game and callmekevin in parts. A large influence on this series has come from Valefisk and The Killian Experience.
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Title: Age of Empires 3 IS A PERFECTLY BALANCED GAME WITH NO EXPLOITS - Invincibility Exploit Is Broken!!!
Last AOE3 Title: Age of Empires 3 IS A PERFECTLY BALANCED GAME WITH NO EXPLOITS - EXCLUDING Cavalry Only Challenge
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[@redomer91]

12:18 "We are not an AI." That is just what an AI would say.

[@danjbundrick]

PLOT TWIST!!!!

[@undrhil]

The Spiffing AI

[@rtg5881]

No, it wouldnt. Project Melody is quite open about being a rouge AI.

[@danjbundrick]

@@rtg5881 wake up, sheeple! Project Melody is a person trying to convince you it's a rogue AI

[@eternalvoid2678]

Hmm, I didn't expect someone to make such a reference

[@MrEarlSwift]

"There is nothing that you can do against this strategy" 'Laughs at Ottoman Great Bombard distance'

[@ShahTalks]

I know I love the Bombards

[@somerandomnesspoo8467]

*Laughs in trade monopoly victory**Laughs in Mortars of any kind**Laughs in villager raid**Laughs in mass Iroquois Warhut**Laughs in Chinese/Revolution combo surrounding lands in infinite forts*

[@crazy-tommy]

there are a lot of units to destroy this kind of turtle strategy as teepees only have 12 range for their bonus

[@turkishdelightpiano9336]

Laughs in rush when opponent checks your deck

[@elduquecaradura1468]

Portuguese mortars (50 range mortars that wipe the tipis, and the dragoons erase the cav. of the sioux) :/

[@jerleh261]

Fun fact: the Seminole people's are the only tribe to never actually surrender to the Europeans, they just disappeared into the Florida swamps and kept fighting a guerilla war.

[@hectorsanchez1377]

Then deanarys kinds forgot about the seminole tribe. Or Somehow the seminole tribe has returned.

[@the_SolLoser]

Well they're not fighting now. So, they either surrendered or got whiped out.

[@iainengland8058]

Blow blow Seminole wind, blow like ya never gonna blow again

[@iainengland8058]

@@the_SolLoser haha you think gators are the only thing killing in the swamp son

[@the_SolLoser]

@@iainengland8058 wut? Who said anything about gators? 🤔

[@BigBeakEntertainment]

It's pronounced "Sioux", not "Sioux"

[@isophancy5605]

OOooooooh!

[@illogicalbear6200]

@ as a man of the Lakota Sioux tribe,..... that shit is funny af. But not Spiff's flubs to pronounce it. That wasnt offensive, it just hurt my soul.

[@CJ_Brim]

Big Beak Entertainment that’s literallly how he pronounced it, so it must be correct then

[@yourmom9283]

Theres something oddly different in both of these

[@gyozanomics]

its pronounced "Suzy Sue" and the Banshees... morans

[@heartbeat4atinman]

Everyone is saying how he's pronoucing "Sioux" wrong but that pronunciation of "Seminole" is killing me.

[@Firsona]

I know. Sounds like he's talking about a kind of tamale... lol

[@crissagram]

I like that they are apparently Italian pasta or something

[@nyxionn]

Same dude.

[@firstname4097]

Both of them were equally awful for me, I didn't know what he was talking about when he pronounced Sioux 'wait, I've never heard of that particular group...'

[@user-qe8oc8vj3e]

*when you live in an American county named after the tribe

[@thedrake5072]

Just wait until he plays the Asian Dynasties expansion with all its Invisible Bomb throwing Ninja Archers Samurai with 1500 health War Elephants with Cannons Free units for Everything Flamethrowers that melt just about everything

[@sociopathicindividual6167]

14 words that don't go along together

[@italee]

european factory and fort is still too good, also european artillery unit still the best

[@bod7474]

@@italee Two words ASHIGARU MUSKETEER

[@anirudhviswanathan3986]

@@bod7474 I see your ashigaru musketeer and raise you something far more terrifying: Yumi archer behind walls.

[@bod7474]

@@anirudhviswanathan3986 True true😅

[@patrician1082]

I played age of empires 3. We even had the dlc with the Asian nations. I once played the Chinese against my brother. The Chinese hero is a monk and has the ability to train up to 5 disciples. The resulting army is 1. Crappy and 2. Wildly superior to anything any other nation can field before age II I burned his town center before he even unlocked the barracks. :)

[@kumosi9437]

The dog soldier would take an entire army to defeat! Hatamoto: Allow me to introduce myself

[@armandodechiara5612]

you mean the ronin mercenaries? They get blasted by muskets, how are they effective?

[@sandorvas3954]

@@armandodechiara5612 by using the 15 ronin card with japan. set Tokugawa as a drop off point and flank into the middle of the musket spam as they arrive. or do that at enemy TC-s for total eco destruction

[@armandodechiara5612]

@@sandorvas3954 nice! kinda

[@egonieser]

Mortars would like to have a word with your Teepees.

[@MaHaHzias]

portugal mortars with the extra ranged card

[@egonieser]

@@MaHaHzias Even ordinary ones would suffice. But yeah

[@helheimrgaming2547]

Tipis

[@PotatoSmasher420]

Or Monitors, if you dont wanna your enemy to even see you. (as long as you have at least a pond on the map of course)

[@Stalaur]

Sioux, pronounced ‘Sue’

[@Stalaur]

It’s ok, I apparently can’t spell pronounced.

[@dakotaowens747]

I don’t think anybody would blame you for mispronouncing that.

[@Snakegg2]

I'm going to blame the french

[@haraka8123]

@@thespiffingbrit You'll get sued for misrepresenting the game and the video will get claimed.

[@patrickaycock3655]

Thank you. Im a native descendent and i cringed everytime spiff mispronounced it. Almost couldnt watch because i thought he was trying to make fun of us.

[@mad7medieval7]

Spiff, i could cry in pure Awe at the beauty you have created in this video. You used exploits and pushed the limits so ellegantly you actually helped rewrite hidtory for the native american people to actually win against their enemies and live eternally. Magnificent

[@Shambles_44]

I always thought this game held up really well, at least graphics and mechanics, the building/ship destruction and cannon animations still impress me now when i think about how old this is and what came out around that time.

[@MaxxMcGeePrivate]

The Definitive Edition is a lot of fun actually!

[@magnuscritikaleak5045]

@@MaxxMcGeePrivate definitive edition is fantastic and has sick modding

[@ashina2146]

"There's no unit in the game that have 1000 Health" French Players: "Sacre Bleu"

[@gummiebearish]

Random FatCat I literally came here for this comment. Thank you.

[@Vincrand]

Also Mamluks, Spahi and Hatamoto Samurais, Daimyos & Shogun.

[@RustingPeace]

dont forget the great bombard and all cheat units!

[@surgeonsergio6839]

And the elephants, mercs etc.

[@joshuanaylor3831]

This whole video really annoyed me

[@liliyum8315]

Me: spends hours trying to look for a tactic to defeat the hard ai spiffing brit: I see no god up here aside from me

[@haraka8123]

That's just because you're useless, Aqua.

[@joxerd]

@@haraka8123 She is not that useless at all, she make ours ears bleed a lot

[@scrublord09]

What he doesn't tell you is that any decent player would have killed him in the first 10 minutes with a deck like that

[@Sarah-gp3xh]

There's one thing that could actualy defeat them. Another exploit where you get 3 imperial huge bombards every minute for free. One shot deals 750 multilpied by 3 vs buildings and they are resistant to gun fire :D You can have like 50 of em btw and remember they are 100% free

[@kristiangibson106]

@@haraka8123 that's not true, she's the entertainment for the guild.

[@catherine_404]

Settlers 2. It's an ancient game, really, really old, from the early 90', I think. It was remastered. It's a strategy, and or looks like it has a solid exploiting potential. I love it, I used to play it all the time. I don't know whether this franchise is older than HoMM, but it's about as old as HoMM2 or so. It ran on MSDOS, and later on Windows 3.1 maybe. I played it as a kid, and as an adult. It's campaign is definitely challenging.

[@skyrimisforthenords8312]

The Mary Sioux tribe can one-shot any enemy

[@keizervanenerc5180]

Here is the actual best was to kill the Expert AI: at game start, send your Explorer to the enemy town, and shoot at an enemy villager. The AI will retreat all its villagers to its towncenter. Wait for them to come out at a save distance, and repeat. In this way the AI will never have enough resources and will be forever stuck in age 1 without the possibility to ever make a single militairy unit.

[@user-co2li5qd4p]

Yep, thats totally legit. But you always have to jump between your tc and your explorer. I would not do it for eg 25mins. But cntrl1 for explorer and cntrl2 for tc makes it very easy (some beginners who dont do the cntrl -number because they do not see the assigned unit - will not)

[@ryomaanime4563]

Oh you meant as an exploit. Because it seems so boring ! I don't know why i would ever play like that

[@patrickaycock3655]

Im going to try that next time i play. I usually put a wall up at the start. Ai cant attack you if they dont know where your tc is.

[@Dogtaatti]

Doesnt work on TAD

[@tehdanny682]

@@patrickaycock3655 whut, seriously? I might try that some day. Is this for some specific expansion?

[@MikuJess]

Sioux is a name given to them by the French, so of **course** less than half of the letters are pronounced.

[@mathieudextradeur3076]

That is the sad truth. I'm a french speaking Canadian where writing correctly is impossible.

[@shay.w.5812]

French travelers: what is the name of this tribe? Native Americans: Oceti Sakowin French travelers: What did you say? Couldn't hear you over the sound of me surrendering. Fuck it, here's an unpronounced x.

[@mingelcoac]

In French you pronouce the s i o u and the x is here to mark the plurality: more than one siou

[@mathieudextradeur3076]

@@mingelcoac well, yes in this case. We use s or x to indicate plurality.

[@Pepecigar]

And then in English you have "queue" who pronounce like the letter "q"

[@jordanandrew218]

As someone who is Sioux, I didn't even know how to pronounce it until I was like 12 lol

[@Dr.Spatula]

Being from SD I've always known how to say it but spelling it.. not so much

[@brocksnyder5889]

Then you're not Sioux. Don't pretend like because your great great great great grandpa plowed a settler and now your 0.000000000000001% that you're "Sioux".

[@Dr.Spatula]

@@brocksnyder5889 don't pretend like everyone gives a shit about their heritage

[@adamdobry5517]

now yer both just being dicks

[@charlymaxx4318]

There is an counter: European Motar atillery They can fire at Tipis from waaaay away. Ai never use them, but players will ( motar ships are uncounterable)

[@ltsaudio6390]

Mortar ship counter: Chinese Fire Junks

[@tyazze6390]

@@ltsaudio6390 well, you have to find them for this...

[@BB-uo1qy]

Mortar ships are weak as fuck if unprotected, their attack is too slow, they die to galleons

[@pedromoura1446]

@@BB-uo1qy they die to caravels which is basically a fishing ship with cannons XD

[@professoremeryeetus5292]

Or just walk around the Teepee big Peepee area like it's the maginot line. No bonuses if you just pretend they don't exist.

[@LieuFang]

"Remember food is no worry whatsoever because we have infinite quantities of it. There we go we have 23 villagers on the fire pit." -Spiff, 2020

[@PieBoy4242]

I'd love to see more Age of Mythology exploits. It was one of my first RTS games alongside Warcraft III and Starcraft. Plus, you said (ages ago) you'd make another video of the original reached 10k likes, and it's at 61k

[@Saviliana]

The only memory I have on that game, is that the disc could melts in summer days, and Microsoft refuse to refund even then they had the disc with recipe.

[@EzekiesAcheron]

Two years later, he still waits

[@bman6198]

When youre from Florida and hear his "Seminole" pronunciation. 😭 love you Spiffing Brit

[@mateuszbok4466]

Ofc these tents are broken, there's "tea" in the name for a reason

[@lain-ih6jj]

Aoe 3 literally marked my childhood. I remember playing it for hours non-stop. Thank you Spiffing Brit, you made my day

[@EzekiesAcheron]

AoE2 is vastly superior, imo

[@RustingPeace]

@@EzekiesAcheron It's not. aoe3 is unique, has faster gameplay, more personality and the nations are WAY more different.

[@avengeddisciple]

Well, now you have the DE coming out soon to look forward to 😉

[@ThornyPickled]

I still play aoe3 all the time

[@lain-ih6jj]

@Artuurs Z. chill down bro

[@f22_dude68]

I vote option C: Any Dark Souls game. There's some amusing "features" in those games. Then again, It's hard to go wrong with more Skyrim.

[@HarlesBently]

I want to see him do dark souls, any of them

[@zc8211]

Inb4 he just makes giant dad

[@alephkasai9384]

If he ever does Dark Souls it's probably gonna be about putting a ridiculous amount of damage buffs and also red tearstone ring

[@alephkasai9384]

Or maybe a ridiculous amount of defense?

[@montecrysto33]

Well, despite the fact that I LOVE the Dark Souls series, I don't think that'd be fun, there are too many ways of being OP, and that's not breaking the game, players are meant to do it, and so many people already did

[@superdupergrover9857]

As an American, I can say that learning how to say Sioux as a child is a strange experience.

[@Roketsune]

I didn't see Sioux artillery. If they lack the means of producing or buying artillery, they couldn't shoot back against heavy artillery without closing the distance, right? If so, couldn't another civilization just use artillery against the tipi squares and force the Sioux to either stay in place and be obliterated, or leave the tipi zone to try to destroy the artillery?

[@bearteddy1527]

yes. most native factions in aoe3 can't build siege weapons and also he put game difficulty on moderate which makes this work.

[@josephdouglas5242]

"Incredible exploit with no counter!" Except, you know, not attacking the Sioux at that exact spot.

[@phoenixlordx4625]

or using mortars to oneshot the tipis.

[@josephdouglas5242]

@@phoenixlordx4625 Or getting a trade monopoly to punish extreme turtleing (something that even the AI knows how to do). Really, the list goes on.

[@danjbundrick]

I was expecting him to actually attack and defeat an AI to demonstrate the "mobility" of the tipi's defensive bonus. It was strange that he didn't. Made me think that maybe it wasn't as feasible as he said.

[@lusians3]

@@danjbundrick it is "cute" stratgey but ultimatly it wont give you win yust a minor anoyance to enemy.

[@Veellinn]

Or shooting from mortar distance at the tents...

[@BerzerkAce]

as a native american, i loved the term "teepee troopers". best name every lol. thank you for this.

[@papyrustheroyalguardsmen3446]

Native Americans Exist?

[@asherdevin]

@@papyrustheroyalguardsmen3446 From my understanding, after we nearly exterminated them we felt bad so we gave the few survivors small plots of undesirable land that they already owned as an apology. We also did the same to the Hawaiians I hear. If Britain didn't do Africa I'd say we're actually worse than them.

[@Peachrocks5]

@@papyrustheroyalguardsmen3446 damnnnnnn.... too harsh man.

[@Peachrocks5]

What tribe if I may ask? Always try to learn more about native culture. I’m white Australian, so I’m interested in all sorts.

[@megameafwa392]

Im a native too

[@CopperPopperComputers]

who's here after the announcement of AOE3 Definitive edition LOL

[@Daemien21]

lets get it golden see you on the field

[@mackharrisiii3306]

I love these age of empire based videos. Still playing them and enjoying it. Now with your addition, I might finally beat an expert ai. I usually play Aztec and would love to see what this faction does in spiffs hands

[@JimRFF]

Me: *enraged at the way Spiff pronounces native American tribe names* Also Me: *stares blankly at Welsh and Scottish place names* ... yeah, ok, fair enough

[@captaindonkeyballs]

If it helps, I know Welsh and Scottish people that can’t pronounce some welsh and Scottish words

[@aierune8201]

I haven't had trouble pronouncing Welsh names. Then again Im Welsh....BUt.....UHHH....Look at arabic!!! That's just scriggle lines!!

[@JimRFF]

@@aierune8201 ... I mean, technically, all written language is just scriggle lines... it's just a matter of assigning pronunciation value to particular patterns of scriggles...

[@squaredup1800]

What makes you think he knows how to prononunce Scottish and Welsh names? He sounds like a 5/6 year-old kid learning to read who just reads the beginning of a word and then guesses how the rest is supposed to sound.

[@Programmdude]

@@squaredup1800 I'm pretty sure that's how welsh people do it too, it would explain a lot.

[@JcoleMc]

I like how he constantly puts down Aoe 3 every chance he gets.

[@scrublord09]

Except that he's super slow and this "exploit" takes so long to pull of that would die in the first 10 minutes against any decent player sending cards like that early in the game. In reality, this "exploit" is actually an intended mechanic and it is was intended to stack up 200% HP and 200% damage because if you actually manage to build that many teepees and get that many shipments without dying to a rush you Deserve to win. "Hop on with your friends in multiplayer because it doesn't particularly have any counter" my ass. It has a counter. It's called a rush.

[@coleandhisvideos]

@@scrublord09 Someone's salty

[@jasonblack2760]

Jackson Lawler calm down Bertha.

[@alack3879]

@@scrublord09 granted culverins plus musketeers means that he can just be starved out and picked off at liesure.

[@tiaandeswardt7741]

@@scrublord09 Not to mention that Sioux is excessively weak in competitive multiplayer. You aren't likely to get to Fortress Age if faced with a rush

[@jamesveitch4170]

You need to show off the Calvary box glitch in this game. You activate advanced unit formations from the settings, make a box of melee Calvary, put a single ranged Calvary in the middle, activate defensive command, and then move all the Calvary at once. It makes a tiny condensed box of Calvary that can get into extremely tiny spaces and pretty much one shot buildings. It’s a beautiful little exploit

[@davidwest3630]

I love your content Spiff but calling this an exploit or somehow an indication of poor game balance is a massive stretch. This strategy requires way too much set up and you would be absolutely shat on in a multiplayer game, especially if your opponent simply puts straight up soldiers and resources in their deck and puts on pressure early. In fact, I could see this strat failing horribly in a 1v1 with the AI on expert difficulty; or even hard for that matter.

[@GamePandaXXL]

But he always says his exploits work on every difficulty, i mean, thats why he plays on the lowest ones Also he said that it's unbeatable and since he plays vs basic AI that doesn't even use mortars or just bash his Teepees with canons he is obviously right with the insane exploit he found here

[@thomasharrison1567]

the Spiffing Brit normally - Normal The Spiffing Brit when my mother walks in - Bugger me sideways with a teabag

[@SephirothRyu]

The spiffing brit when he accidentally makes something up in a video, and then vocally hopes people don't ever say it: WHY ARE YOU ALL ASKING "Whats up my guges?" NOW?!

[@gabbygabbe1894]

This thing: *exists The monster truck cheat code: You dare challenge me, mortal?

[@HeadhunterKev96]

tuck tuck tuck. Won't ever forget that

[@neocortez9254]

The cannon that shoots sheep is way awesome

[@JustinKoenigSilica]

@@neocortez9254 gotta make do with what ya got My fav is still George washington

[@jordan3400]

I’m really annoyed I watched 25 minutes of this video and you didn’t even attack or win the game. Saying “yes we’ve won” doesn’t actually make you win.

[@mlopez5393]

Jordan he’s playing against moderate difficulty. He would get rektd using this strategy against a human player

[@jordan3400]

Michael Lopez I don’t think it would even work against AI tbh. Which I wouldn’t mind if the entire video wasn’t ‘WEVE WON WEVE WON EVERYBODY LOOK WEVE WON’

[@LegendKingY2j]

@@jordan3400 yeah there's no way you can play defensively with Sioux lol, they don't even have forts or outposts, and being honest, the warhuts do little damage, with the Iroquois is a different story

[@Yntec]

Me: I can't wait for him to unleash this force! :D Also me after realizing he'll never unleash anything: :'(

[@harryeast95]

@@jordan3400 The AI loves trade monopoly victories so it doesn't seem viable.

[@masterreaper115]

Wouldnt it be better to just place the Tipi's in a U shape and have your units all inside it? they should then get the bonus from the max number depending on ranges?

[@MiloWildfire]

Spiff: Su.. Sue... Soo... Anyways, your name from now on is Tipi Troopers **Imperial Marsh intensifies**

[@piotrwojcik6277]

marsh

[@asonofliberty3662]

Mars

[@wesss9353]

Marshmallow

[@IrishRepoMan]

"Soo" is actually the correct pronunciation. That was the one thing he didn't say.

[@MiloWildfire]

Hsram

[@dreadpenguinlord340]

Despite the pandemic-hoarders, Spiff has solved the TP shortage all on his own

[@ryilevalcore7508]

*slow clap* you’ve done it you’ve made the best joke ever. Congratulations.

[@drunkendwarf]

Haha funny af

[@yuriyu123]

* builds Teepee * ... This is my swamp now...

[@RafaelSeifferMelazzo]

i'd love to see you breaking Populous: The Beginning

[@glorygladiator4483]

Spiff: (Hears American Voice) "Ah, now that's just boring."

[@Zamandius]

As an American, he's not wrong.

[@Hubert_Cumberdale_]

@@Zamandius I dunno you guys do have some interesting accents.

[@SephirothRyu]

@@Hubert_Cumberdale_ YEEEEEEhaw! That there's some luvin' soup! And lets go fry a shrimp on the barbi-...wait, I think I teleported halfway around the world at some point there.

[@gg-gamers]

@@Hubert_Cumberdale_ Only New York and Baaaahstan.

[@AlexK-sk4qb]

Half of America doesn't have an accent. It's just bland and monotone.

[@yuritarded669]

Are we just not gonna talk about the fact that his homecity is level 99999

[@zn4rf]

He showed that in a previouse AoE3 vid. Basicly wrinting in a text file.

[@habibainunsyifaf6463]

Classic txt cheat

[@patrickdias8921]

@@habibainunsyifaf6463 fact, but it wont work in eso

[@MarkGlowInTheDark]

Basically in every game he puts or the ai on easy or some other stuff to show the exploit but on simple enemy ai's or is having alrdy 10 hours of gameplay for finding the cheats. But still most vids are rlly enjoyable xD

[@Joshua-yp9gf]

I noticed that right away Kinda sus

[@kingnolos666]

As an American, seeing you stumble through the native American tribe names, like I used to to, was hilarious. You got yourself a like my friend.

[@ED-yy4te]

This is late but there is an Aztec exploit. If you dance with healing with max number of people, you can have an immortal army. The chief gets knock down and gets up in less than a second.

[@betolicks4071]

But are the soldiers healing while fighting

[@ED-yy4te]

@@betolicks4071 No. But if they step back for 1 sec, their health becomes full.

[@marcwillis236]

I was actually playing this game with my siblings yesterday. Also, 6:17 The French Cuirassier unique cavalry, with full upgrades, has 1150HP.

[@noxi1272]

not to mention pretty much all the elephants...

[@elduquecaradura1468]

And the cuirassiers can be spammed, with one of the best eco in the game, with also decent skirmishers and a great variety of troops, if the cuirass alone doesn't feel that strong xD

[@LegendKingY2j]

@@elduquecaradura1468 war wagon or dragoons, doppelsoldner or halberdiers and many cannons can still hold the French, adding musketeers or highlanders as help. Cuirassier is great but expensive, slow and uses a lot of population, so killing an army of them rapidly will leave the rest of the French army defenseless, Hussars and Uhlans can also deal a lot of damage to Cuirassiers as the Hussar and Uhlan has more attack which is different than Age of Empires II Paladins as Paladins there have double attack than an Hussar and almost triple HP, i think in Age of Empires III the Hussar kind of units have more relevance than the light cavalry from Age of Empires II which was mostly used to kill monks or siege units

[@elduquecaradura1468]

@@LegendKingY2j well, for that are the skirmishers ^^' Also, consider that the courier des bois are better gatherer, so 40 of them work a lot better than 40 villagers. It's true that porto dragoons and war wagons are the best counters to cuirass. But again, it's up to the eco of one itself to see who wins on the long run. Also, aoe3 hussars are like the riders/knight/paladin of aoe2, some civs have their own units related to aoe2 functions, but beyond that the comparison doesn't have sense

[@iuryvieira1024]

@@LegendKingY2j They have a good rush combo with Mongols, but other than that Light Cavalary really isn't much worth it in Age 2.

[@trygveplaustrum4634]

Behold, as the great Spiffing Brit does his best yet fails to pronounce *"SOO."*

[@twothreebravo]

Actually...it's pronounced "Sue"

[@patrician1082]

Pronounce it like you're French

[@bellspeppers]

and Seminoles lol

[@Black_Claw175]

@@twothreebravo at least he was pretty close on the first attempt, I'll give him props to that. I know people who have butchered that name worse than what he did

[@feddyvonwigglestein3481]

Next time a brit talks about 'dur stupid Americans' show them this video of a British man who can't pronounce native american tribes that every American knows...

[@gefiltafish2187]

You know there was a very similar bug like this in the first civilization game ever made, where some antique infantry units with bonuses could take on modern tanks and missile units. Though I find your style of editing much more amusing. Kudos for finding this one

[@Dajudge06]

Its actually really strange, hearing people talk about not knowing much about native americans. Growing up in school we had many classes having to do with native american history, even some field trips to sites of our more local tribes history. I suppose it would be the same with other countries that may have their own histories that maybe I would know very little about.

[@Pman353]

Well he is from Britain. American schools don’t teach about Britannia, for example.

[@NPCDoomer]

nobody: some briton drinking tea and hacking game loops: SEHMEENOLAYS

[@bman6198]

Me living in Florida my whole life: 😭😭😭 but I forgive him

[@Viperbashman]

Yeah, I live in Wyoming (rare I know) and him pronouncing Sioux was just killing me

[@Mihomiti]

I f'ing love that you're giving this game some exposure! A criminally underappreciated game.

[@wyattx008]

I'm pretty sure you were supposed to create the TP's in a line and slowly 'worm' towards the enemy bases. Build one in front of the line, of like ten TP's, and sell the one in back. You should be able to actually win the game by worming through the map to destroy all of the enemy bases.

[@klawypl]

or get attacked and have no deffence, this teepee strategy is... very poor

[@rileyrogers8309]

I love this game, I’m so glad you’ve made the video of this

[@Zoeyyyala]

"No unit with 1000 HP" *laughs in French*

[@lordnamelessofsomnium5824]

balance is when your instant training heavy cav that have an aoe attack have as much health as an unupgraded galleon

[@llexades.387]

Lmao

[@glenmcgillivray4707]

Uuuuh Chinese crossbows. And pikes. Spawning for free, with 400% bonus stats because reasons.

[@lordnamelessofsomnium5824]

@@glenmcgillivray4707 you act as if imperial gendarmes give a shit about pikes, no unkindness meant to you, only the pikes

[@ozisponas1593]

spawns 1500hp war wagon bois that tokyo drift on great plains

[@NolDragon]

I'm sure you'd find a way to break Supreme Commander.

[@empousa8680]

Cough anti air 2 cough

[@Chino56751]

Do what I do: build a wall of point defense towers

[@Xtoxinlolinecronomicon]

Technically the game has console commands, so you can break Supcom as much as you want, but mechanic wise, you can do some other cheeky shit with floating units, bombers and projectiles. Other than that, well it's gonna be hard to find for sure. Supcom 2 is a broken piece of garbage however.

[@igamable9576]

@@Xtoxinlolinecronomicon Once I did the test, with 36 ground turrets behind 12 shields, you can stall and defeat an army of any number of universal colossus + king kriptor + any constant flow of 500 regular ground units. If you buil it in the correct format in a bottleneck . The damage output is so huge that they kill faster the experimental units that they ready a shoot, and the lesser units are unable of actually breaking too, which makes land wars imposible in some maps if someone knows this. Tested againts 3 enemies that focused all their armies on me for several hours. Also tested in 1 vs 2 players, still unable of overtaking the place with ground units.

[@cutemutadedbearwithtwoheads]

My favorite AoE 3 nation is Finnland (you have to make a revolution as Russia) because you dont have a limit for the barracks but you have still the russian Barraks which are shooting

[@Nopenotatall]

Swedes >

[@thememeking2399]

thank you so much for making a video about AoE III

[@frozentiger2175]

Having grown up in a town of 70% Navajo, this video hurts my soul. Navajo: Nav-uh-Hoe Sioux: Sue Seminole: Sim-in-Ol Coyote: Kiy-yo-Tee

[@jamesrwinters]

I'm glad someone else caught the goofy coyote pronunciation.

[@frozentiger2175]

Hey man, I just wanted to spread some knowledge lol

[@beanburglar9345]

I've rarely heard people pronounce it kiy-yo-tee, I live in North West Iowa, usually people say Kiy-yoat. Idk if that's just Iowa though. I also live near souix city, which is founded after the souix tribe which was cool to watch him use the souix.

[@outrageddeer2101]

@@beanburglar9345 in new Mexico I've heard people use it interchangeably

[@Wogix26]

Bean Burglar tbh i didnt realize a cyote was a coyote until i was 16. killed tons of cyotes though

[@stephenvarholy3755]

I love the Sioux, favorite civ next to Aztecs for sheer "My God, this is borked." cheese. I love AoE3, Spiff. Hell, if you ever want to play a round I'd be glad to. I think I have around 2K hours invested, and that's just on the Steam version. Disc wise, probably 4K hours.

[@sebygandila4972]

"there is no unit in the game with 1000 health" actually there are a lot of unit with that hp, maybe even higher

[@jahrazzjahrazz8858]

memelukes say hello

[@andhy5114]

Oh god forbid that unit have good mobility, splash damage, high resistance, and can be trained near-instantenously wait

[@jahrazzjahrazz8858]

@@andhy5114 if you really think whatever bullshit the spiffing brit can come up with is remotely op, you have never actually played the game behind a spiffing brit video...

[@andhy5114]

@@jahrazzjahrazz8858 I was talking about fully-carded gendarme. and yes i've played age of empires 3. been playing since my childhood even

[@ZedemMonk]

I'd love to see what exploits Civ one has beyond being able to build any tile improvement in 1 turn (works by repeatedly canceling and then selecting the tile improvement you want built).

[@MrSyrical]

i would love to see a binding of isaac episode, the combinations u can get in that game are crazy.

[@pjhussar2038]

Lovely ladies and gentlemen *at home* has taken on a whole new meaning

[@jukahri]

IKR, I was like THANKS FOR REMINDING ME

[@ellgro]

Why?

[@joythegeek4571]

That "Oh dear, Oh dear, Oh dear!" Was so evil and British. I love it.

[@CommissarMitch]

6:32 Does anyone know what the name of that stock Photo is called? It looks waaay to specific to be a generic stock photo.

[@sparks2222]

Let's get some more CK2 going! You got me hooked on the game, you damn limey! Oh and for the record: it's Sioux, or "Sue".

[@MALEMization]

This is true depending on where you live: If you're French, it's Sioux: You say it as you see it (with a mute X)! (This is how I always say it btw!) If you're English, it's Sue: Why? I have no idea!

[@caedus4751]

“Sioux”=“SUE” like the Sioux are about to Sue you for defamation lmaoooo

[@michaelpeila8794]

I always think Sue like a lady lol

[@pztgst]

He is a Britt. Sioux is too close to french so it does not compute.

[@MallKidSigma]

I'm ashamed to say that until recently I have been a coffee drinker, but due to your constant pushing of tea I now have a box of 100 bags of Twinings Earl Grey tea. And I'm loving it. Next trip to the store I'll be spending most of my time browsing the tea isle. Thank you for liberating me from those dark times, sir. Also, Age of Empires 2 all the way. I loved the campaign for Age of Mythology, but I never really played random maps, not like I do in 2.

[@Halollet]

Would love to see They Are Billions. It even has a small man in a top hat riding a giant mech talking about tea. I'm sure you would love it Spiff!

[@kratos9524]

I played this game when Rocket league came out, a friend of mine and myself loved playing a match after 2 hours of rocket league I always played Dutch bank strategies

[@Sunlight91]

Dutch are the best

[@antbroome1129]

Being a Dutch turtle is the way I play the game too and I enjoy it so so much. I’d be kinda embarrassed to find out how many hours I have in AoE3 just as the Dutch

[@crypticblitz9844]

Pleasantly surprised to see Rocket League mentioned even if it has nothing to do with anything lol. Me and my cousins play this game once a year at family reunions for hours on end. AOE3 is great

[@kratos9524]

@@crypticblitz9844 what I meant to say, AOE was a relaxation from competitive games

[@syfilis2655]

spiff, i was wondering what is the mest interestin tea you have ever had exept for the yorkshire tea?

[@superanimeniac]

yorkshire GOLD

[@syfilis2655]

@@superanimeniacthat's still yorhshire, I mean except for the different Yorkshire teas

[@lelnub6912]

Yorkshire premium

[@mathieuxlaflamme2322]

Yorkshire Silver

[@toddconn915]

Brit- "I bet none of you have played it in the last 5-10 years" Me- But I just played it yesterday 😂

[@GHosTinWild]

Spiff! Could you do another throwback strategy game and have a go at Civ 4 beyond the sword? Really love your Civ 6 content and Civ 4 has a special place in my heart and I'd love to see it broken. XD

[@geekdude1]

I still play aoe3 occasionally, especially since I recently discovered the wars of liberty mod!

[@elduquecaradura1468]

Awesome mod. Here you got a big fan of argentines and maltese

[@louistostmann2049]

Where can I download the mod?

[@elduquecaradura1468]

@@louistostmann2049 look for it, it's open in web, I think it's compatible with steam and cracked aoe3

[@beanburglar9345]

I live near souix city which is a city in northwest Iowa and it was founded after the souix tribe. Some families that live in Sioux City have great great grandparents that were part of the souix, so it was cool to watch him use the souix and know that I live really close to where the tribe was. The tribe was a travelling tribe and lived in the teepees which were very portable. The souix usually didn't live in one spot, but they always stayed in the Midwest area.

[@willwisnoski4094]

As an aoe player this video almost gave me a heart attack

[@willwisnoski4094]

@@J685C because it's so wrong and he clearly doesn't know the game

[@tomastrmata5481]

@@willwisnoski4094 As with most his videos, he admited himself, he found most exploits on reddit.

[@ryanmartin1810]

Another fun one is the Aztecs. Full building hp/damage w/building dance and you have walls with 38k hp and huts with 29k that hit for 500. It's great.

[@Flangdoodler]

First persons here from the US. It’s pronounced like “sue”, close enough to it at least lol

[@KentHambrock]

Came here to say this. His pronunciation sounds like Microsoft's default TTS xD

[@encycl07pedia-]

Microsoft Sam RIP

[@encycl07pedia-]

RIP Microsoft Sam. He tried so hard to pronounce soy (not Sioux) but said SWAH every time.

[@titus1365]

Roller Coaster Tycoon would be nice! I hope you fine something in there ^^

[@juanestebangrimaldosleon3393]

I dunno why I 'm sooooooo addicted to your videos.

[@freecastelman1]

Overlord Spiffco, after giving the video a like, inviting my friends to play and do as the mastear arranged, none of them want play with me anymore. I would say job well done. You say considering comments about old RTS suggestions... what about an brand new Early Access RTS like "War Selection"? Having great fun since a few weeks, I can't help but wonder and scavange for knowledge in hopes the great savior of gamebreaking will look into it.

[@andrewporter1236]

This isnt an exploit feels like he playing sioux for the first time since 2007 you be amazed how many glitches are in older games this isnt one of em tho

[@Unpixelt]

Yeah, like, this isn't even good against normal players. The moment someone would do this, they would just bomb your ass away with heavy artillery. it's a meme and surprising the first time you see it, but other than that it's just a shitty pylon/cannon rush.

[@DillonMeyer]

Found myself a lovely exploit usable in the current version of Stellaris to have invincible ships. Albeit it's a bit mid-game, but it's literal invincibility. First, you're going to need all the major expansions, and the Lithoids race pack. Secondly, make a Terravore civilization. (Devouring Swarm Lithoids) By base, they regenerate 0.25% of their hulls and armors of all their ships (and starbases/defensive structures) every day. That's not a lot, but it gets better, trust me. Next, you'll want to personally create versions of all your ship and defensive structures that have no shields, but massive amounts of armor. Focus on upgrading your armor technologies, getting them to level 5 armor, and armor +5% bonuses whenever possible, as well as hull upgrades for ships. The last two steps have to do with psionics. You'll have to learn Psionics and make your entire civilization be psionics via the Transcendence ascension perk. Learn to make and create at least one Titan or larger ship, and of course, give it only armor. Finally, the part you've been waiting for; the nigh-invincibility. This one takes a bit of luck with communing with The Shroud. Commune with The Shroud until you run into an option that says "Ship Repair". For the next 60 months after every time you activate the "Ship Repair" Shroud event successfully, you will increase your daily hull and armor regen by another 0.5%. This means all of your ships will be healing for 0.75% of their maximum armor and hulls every single day. How does this make you invincible though? It's just simple health regeneration, right? Titan ships have a 10,000 base hull. That's 100 health regenerated a day, which means 100 damage is negated, by base. This is of course, an unupgraded Titan ship with no armor, no bonuses from admirals and technologies. Lastly, the final piece of the puzzle, a Juggernaut. After you build a Juggernaut, units it's in the same space as will never die, ever. Juggernauts are unique in that you can only build one, it counts as a space station with the ability to directly repair ships and create new ones, and come with a special aura effect of your choice. We're of course going to choose the one that mimics our Terravore bonus of 0.25% hull and armor regeneration per day. In total, all of your ships near the Juggernaut are going to regenerating 2% of their total health bar per day, which means any damage an enemy can deal under that number is effectively zero. To make it even better, the Juggernaut by itself has a 100,000 health hull by base, meaning the enemy would need to do over 1,000 damage a day to it to even begin to scratch it. It is possible to do more than 1,000 damage daily with a ship, but when you're not regenerating 2% of your lifebar, you're going to lose to the enemy who is.

[@ravenknight4876]

That is very nice, but not really an exploit, rather the game working ad intended.

[@hunternelson8619]

I’m Cherokee Apache in Blackfoot and I love teepee troopers😂 I think ill start going by that

[@SerunaXI]

Your first guess at Sioux was pretty close. You can also go with Lakota.

[@InfinityWarriorInc]

Spiff--there's a game I want you to try very badly, has so many exploits and glitches but it's a timeless classic--Stronghold 2.

[@demonaardvark6326]

Elysian Prince I literally passed up Stronghold 1 on GOG to download Master of Magic a week ago.

[@posterus4413]

To everybody reading, I highly recommend the Wars of Liberty mod for AOE3; lots of new cultures and civilizations.

[@posterus4413]

@@jacksoneiggstudent5015 PR?

[@posterus4413]

@@jacksoneiggstudent5015 Oh. I don't actually p[lay ranked. Most of the time I play this game, I do so with friends.

[@posterus4413]

@@jacksoneiggstudent5015 Really? They were mod of the year on moddb a couple of years back. It's not really that hard to find. Just search for AOE3 mods on moddb. I think the issue is that a lot of people don't do modding, and not as many people play AOE3 anymore. I hope the mods gets more attention. They 12 years on it and they still coming out with updates.

[@splinte111]

next week on armchair admiral "we are going to be playing age of empires 3"

[@zg4705]

i play this piece of art every day, thank you very much

[@skippychurch2965]

They way spif says "three" sounds like "free."

[@watzkeen]

You must try to break "Yes, Your Grace" :)

[@nmpsmith2817]

Play on expert where the 7 ai are on the same team, if you can win that then yes, it's broken.

[@fishyjishy2867]

Surprisingly I played this game a lot and this was the second game I actually properly got into.

[@benjaminlandgren9708]

Age of empires 3 is the shit! I played it 5 times more than ate of kings. Literally sank a full two weeks worth of hours into it! Since I re-purchased the game

[@seanbegley7575]

Love aoe3 so fun

[@moch.farisdzulfiqar6123]

Oh yeah, AoE 3 is the real shit indeed, I love this one the most, especially because it's different.

[@dalimilmatousek4074]

try wars of liberty modpack

[@LevCallahan]

I remember you once told us a while back that you had exploits for Rome Total War (the first game). That's basically a childhood-memory game, and I'm sure there are many of us who'd like to see you destroy that childhood.

[@bfufhryrrhtjhxbdgkjgutitjh7877]

He did it

[@LevCallahan]

@@bfufhryrrhtjhxbdgkjgutitjh7877 I know. ♥

[@NullyBird]

That Sioux fire dance though...

[@OvAeons]

TP is also what Bevis wants for his bunghole! :D