Age of Empires II: Cyprus Speedrun World Record (

Thank you all for the crazy views on the Lepanto video!
This run actually took quite a lot of attempts. The level requires you to kill the castles and any living military, which gives the ending some RNG. 1 villager would escape and build a barracks in the middle of the map to deny the win.
I definitely think this can be beaten by a lot, and I pretty much forgot to use the onagers. Let me know if there is anything you would like to see next!

[@RAMMY237]

Cool move with stone walling the left passing! If you brought onagers there earlier, you probably could even kill purple trebs with them and keep the wall closed :)

[@TheMcGreevy]

XD Thank you! Yes, the whole point of running around the right side was so I could keep the onagers but then I barely used them... Next time!

[@RAMMY237]

@@TheMcGreevy I tried it today, but purple trebs came from the above :D I used onagers the following way: set them on attack ground near their gate, it kills some approaching units, the rest try to dodge and snipers get them at the distance :)

[@TheMcGreevy]

@@RAMMY237 That's a great shout, please remind me if anybody ever takes this record to use my onagers like that :D

[@manansuthar9859]

Really nice execution but why you didn't pick up bracer earlier? You researched it around 27 min in game time. Also AI sometimes build production buildings outside their walls and they keep alive. Also fun fact is that around AI's TC there are 2-3 gold piles are there once they are finished it will respawn again and again. I think this is very difficult scenario because you can't gather gold easily in the western side as there will be pressure from land and navy and they train trebs, onagers, paladins, cataphracts, halbs, skirms etc. Building somewhat navy is fine to protect your fishing eco but can't boom safely as you will be on a timer and after sometime you will be overrun even if you are not speed running.

[@TheMcGreevy]

Thank you, had to watch it back but I don’t think I could ever afford it. Think I could only really afford trebs which felt more important as the longbows were already good enough. Maybe could have squeezed it in there but unsure. Yeah gold is tough on this map. I can’t remember now how I did before I speedrun it :(

[@TheMcGreevy]

The production outside the walls killed several runs because I couldn’t find them 11

[@manansuthar9859]

@@TheMcGreevy yes I also saw you sold initial resources to build castle and then you had most on wood and needed to invest either farms or fishing ships to get food so yeah more trebs is better but not sure if you squeeze in bracer may be after 3 trebs.

[@TheMcGreevy]

@@manansuthar9859 will try next time!

[@sirgodua]

I was wondering for a few minutes what felt weird (I felt like it was the AoK/AoC, but no, it has DE look and everything) and then I realized. The unit skins and movement animations are ported from the original game!

[@TheMcGreevy]

@@sirgodua Haha yes I play with the voobly units and sounds added from the mod zone. I always forget that it confuses everyone 😂

[@TheMcGreevy]

@@sirgodua Thanks for watching both videos!

[@sirgodua]

@@TheMcGreevy I watched more 🤫

[@TheMcGreevy]

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[@camaradeours1447]

Woaw that was fast, it's fun because this one have an half part without TC and another with one. Why you did ignore the fortress harbor, it's not worth it for the run ?

[@TheMcGreevy]

Thank you! And yes, I tried without Limassol too but you need the extra siege units. Appreciate you returning!

[@matiasaraya8083]

How did you manage to get the old sounds and graphics?

[@TheMcGreevy]

Hi! In the mod center I have these mods to use the old graphics/sounds: 21188_Original Death Sounds 19199_Original Sounds v2 Original units from Voobly HD

[@matiasaraya8083]

@@TheMcGreevy thanks :D