AoE2 1v1 Game - Pesky Villager on Golden Swamp

[@firockfinion3326]

I theorize that single villager didn't die from Blue's units, but rather died from back problems from carrying Red's entire strategy. XD

[@Binarokaro]

Damn, red's primary strategy was just "be as annoying as possible" and it actually paid off, that's nuts. Also I love how that one red flaming house stayed up the whole time

[@lopez.jacinto.6726]

It really shows how tough the medieval houses were.

[@stalwartarjuna]

That's the "This Is Fine" dog's house.

[@TZerot0]

Id be so upset playing against this and not being good enough to counter it

[@Mattstafford2009]

Shenanigans are OP!!!

[@1un4cy]

Good thing they didn't repair it or some vills would have died from smoke inhalation.

[@kumisz2]

SOTL: "Every decaying animal is like a villager stealing your food" Me: "Oh, he must have seen that video too! Wait, he *made* that video..."

[@sanmartinnomurio]

LOVE LOVE LOVE that you put the civ description when you were presenting the players. It was a great refresher which not a lot of streamers do

[@poyloos4834]

I mean, let's be fair to the streamers, it *is* a stream. It'd be a lot harder to bring up a panel like that and remove it cleanly mid-stream, but I do like it in this pre-recorded format.

[@Cra3ier]

Nick Almer there’s such streaming feature showing multiple pictures and various screens within the game out there, you just have to do some homework that’s all

[@poyloos4834]

@@Cra3ier alright, I don't think you need to talk down to me to say that

[@Cra3ier]

Nick Almer so sorry I didn’t mean to say you, I was saying that it’s a feature that streamers can search for out there. My apologies

[@arsmagisterii5317]

I don't know how long it's been since I've seen a simple apology about a misunderstanding on the internet. This is unexpectedly wholesome.

[@skumfisken]

Really like the commenting style, and i think the "elo lvl" is spot on

[@asterlofts1565]

Yes, Age of Chess 2...

[@barsni4779]

The famous "poke your enemy with the stick" strategy.

[@arrapippol3741]

The villagers could only afford the Monty Python School of Self Defence (no pointed sticks)

[@AzureKaioshin]

I love the commentary Spirit! You should at least make this a once a week upload! T90 doesn't cover mid elo legends! Its a lot of free real estate if you know what I mean!

[@Fnyx_BodyWorks]

You mean free farm? lol

[@sekharpriyansu]

I am pretty sure sotl is busy working on a mathematical model to figure out the real estate size 😂😂

[@PedoThaBear]

I have to agree. It's certainly more relatable for me who knows how to play (compared to low elo legends) but can't execute it well enough (like the pros). I would love to see more replays from this level (about 1100-1500)!

[@StevenArzberger]

I totally agree

[@xotl2780]

Gregstein's AoE2:DE replay manager lets you watch old replays if you use it properly. He has tutorials online showing how it's done.

[@ipasha3991]

I really apprechiate the extra work you did with the editing in this replay. Keep up the good work :)

[@HekateMGO]

The blue player in this game was the chillest guy. I’d have been so tilted by the harassment.

[@utterlyj1277]

I love your commentary vids, would be happy to see them more often :)

[@scottmitchellghost]

Spirit Of The Law , I was so happy to see you uploading a video and doing casting! Would happily watch more of your casting as well as hear you cast some tournaments.

[@neophyte1994]

I can honestly say that I enjoy your casting more than T90's. I would really advice you to do more since it probably costs less effort and editing than A10 minutes video with a lot of math!

[@greenoversight8021]

The blood on La Hire's sword is almost drah'.

[@tasse0599]

@Emperor AlHasan is this a HunterxHunter reference?

[@tazplay3476]

@Emperor AlHasan LOLOLOL

[@OlafJorigson]

I got an empire, what u got? A villager WE NEED SPECIAL FORCES!

[@ZugzugZugzugson]

that villager _is_ the special forces XD

[@EddyScbr]

I like that you put the civ bonuses on-screen for a moment. It helps people like me, who have a hard time memorizing it, pick up some extra context. Would be nice to see that b eing done in actual tournaments on occasion

[@artlix4790]

Spirit's chill cast gives the game a relaxing vibe. Like it

[@LJL85]

Blue was the better player, but he was playing Sim City.

[@Mattstafford2009]

No he's playing farmville!

[@shiniselune399]

well he had a better economy but it doesn't mean he is better in general.

[@NicolaxMinePs314]

love the extra touch of the little edition moments. Great video!

[@TZerot0]

Very good content, always love your commentary. Your voice is great, humour is entertaining and you come across as very cozy and charismatic. I'd easily watch one a week of these

[@napoleoncomplex2712]

I think Red fell victim to a trap that will be familiar to Civilisation 4 players. There's a strategy called a choke, where you don't focus on stealing an enemy's cities outright, but instead raid their tiles and destroy their economic units. You then focus on your own domestic economy until you are strong enough to overwhelm your opponent's hobbled empire. However, the danger here is that you lose focus on your domestic economy because all your energy is devoted to destroying your opponent's economy. I think one of the reason Red had a rough 'middle' game is because he was so focussed on disrupting Blue, he didn't notice things going wrong at home. Once he rectified that, he could take advantage of the choke he was putting on Blue and win the game from there.

[@ahuzel]

Well thats known just like the ol' kill the enemy eco and macro behind.

[@ahuzel]

What i see here is that most of people just cant see that the spearmen gave red the game, even tho they did not killed a lot villies it was the idle time which starved and tilted blue. People wanna epic LotR battles and they all lose to small disruptions. Great Game

[@Swarm_]

@@ahuzel You also don't seem to realise that blue threw the game by not making any military. Of course the knights can just fuck everything up if he's only making a ram and a mangonel.

[@ahuzel]

@@Swarm_ Thats the beauty of the low cost harass; if oponent makes military units he gets even more eco damage, blue needed to play perfectly in order to get ahead doable with only villies still hard af

[@EdwardNavu]

6:33 Now I've realized the TC (and other buildings afterwards like the lumber camp at 7:15) is making maths and chems when researching something. Love the visual effects lol

[@curtisrs]

Is this an update or a mod?

[@EdwardNavu]

@@curtisrs idk bc I don't have a copy of aoe2de but it looks like a mod if I have to guess.

[@vongola8902]

Every one:small tree mod Spirit:math effect when you researching techs mod

[@MikeEmpires]

T90 is great doing this, but you should also be doing commentary, man.

[@ahbraveconscript997]

he definately has more expirience but yeah the more commentary styles we have the better.

[@MarcelVos]

Agreed. T90 is good but his overenergetic style is not for everyone so it's nice that Spirit is bringing in some calm commentary.

[@esdrasminikoski]

i like sotl more than t90 in casting. t90 yells to much and do hypes call that doesnt exist. Sotl is just chill.

[@truebigboss]

f t90

[@Morrneyo]

That sole man made a lot of changes lol

[@ddewcifer]

I love your mid/low elo commentary vids, its cool to get your opinions on us regular players

[@markdowse3572]

@ 13:00 "If you can just be annoying. ... Poke them ... Run away." Oh, SOTL, that is hilarious! 🤣👍 You should do more commentaries, mate! Thanks. 😊

[@TheOriginalTuhat]

Glad to see Matthew Stafford has taken up AoE after getting booted from the Detroit Lions

[@juanbrits3002]

I thought "Wow, T90Official is upping his video editing game" meanwhile it's SOTL upping his casting skills!

[@mariusstorm2584]

Watching this really does inspire me to start playing AOE again! Well done!

[@gettinmoney1203]

dude uploaded just in time for my lunch break 🙏🏽 god is good

[@MidoriOfTheShuinsen]

The Emperor protects indeed.

[@zhatus]

Spirit's commentary give me a chess tournament commentator vibe, I like it

[@Bannanafighter]

I love the commentary Spirit! Please more of this. Maybe a low Elo one again.

[@cybersteel8]

I enjoy your commentary of these games!

[@samukis272]

SOTL: Triple layered farms, if anyone can get away with it, Berbers with their fast walking villagers... *Khmer civ bonus has entered the chat*

[@brandonbrooks6780]

Matt Stafford played like a lion!

[@jliller]

The recently deceased retired pro wrestler Road Warrior Animal was a big fan of AOE2. His tactics were pretty simple: every game, no matter the map, no matter the opponent, he always attacked with Dark Age militia. But oh, what a drush!

[@liamkoehler8820]

Wow! Love the animations on the civ details at the beginning. Really awesome work there!

[@mattks1001]

When you going to become a caster man? Your commentary is good, your editing is great, and you already have a huge following. You have been good on T90 and Heras channels. About time you start your own twitch channel. Start your channel with a nice tournament. Japanese Wars 1v1s. Would be great. Get T90, Hera, etc over to co-cast games. In no time at all you would be one of the top 3 casters for Age of Empires.

[@getasia7915]

That's an amazing idea...spirit of the laws low elo tournament...I'd play all day

[@kaznrg]

I'd watch that.

[@mattks1001]

get asia Yeah! He can invite T90 to play.

[@Ltulrich]

I really like your casting, SOTL. Do more.

[@timgoossens2416]

I really enjoy your commentary man!!!

[@HobbertSharp]

All your videos are great, but I particularly love the game commentaries :)

[@Florusvanloon]

Learning a lot here! thanks SOTL! keep on the good work!

[@Evan-rj9xy]

I really enjoy your commenting style, Spirit! T90 is pretty good, but he has become a bit too zany and high-energy for my tastes. This was perfect!

[@DaroVHS]

Spirit of the 90

[@boreasreal5911]

red clearly wanted to pick Magyard Kappa

[@Armin-fo5pt]

You should cast more this was awesome!

[@DefinityHD]

Love this Spirit, love seeing your notification pop up, makes my day!

[@Fnyx_BodyWorks]

T90be careful SoTL is coming for that best caster title :))

[@truebigboss]

What about MembTV?

[@monsG165]

RichaDee AYAYAYAYAYAYA TITAAAANIC OMG AYAAYYAY. Yeah I like my casters to be less emotional and relaxing.

[@truebigboss]

@@monsG165 True, but to be fair t90 overhypes too

[@mikemee8002]

You should do more replay cast Law, this was very entertaining.

[@bbsonjohn]

9:58 when you play protoss in SC2 but decided to transit to AoE2

[@MartGameFails]

how on earth are they 1200, im 900+ and my matches are so insane

[@MR-og2nh]

same for me :) 1050 and this looks like nothing. but watching is different than playing :D

[@icecoldchilipreppers]

Depends on the server I think. 1200 Elo players in south america might not be in the same level as 1200 elo from east asia? I dont remeber how the servers work. It's the only thing I can think of and yes I agree, I feel like north america has a ton of players which will create a much more competitive ele ranking.

[@ahuzel]

900 elo walling properly? Ya sure.

[@Mrsimonmaxi]

@@icecoldchilipreppers Ladder is universal, so it doesn't matter if youre from SEA, NA, LA, or EU. Also watching is very different from playing. As a 900+ rated player you will probably notice mistakes in 1700+ play purely bc you don't have to pay attention to 200 things at the same time

[@icecoldchilipreppers]

@@Mrsimonmaxi thank you for the clarification!

[@BendyNarwhal]

i love the gameplay commentary videos

[@Self-replicating_whatnot]

This is yet another reason i prefer Age of Empires Online - animals there do not decay :)

[@learningguitar2693]

Thanks for finally explaining what my rank number actually means.

[@XempireX18]

blue just doesnt know the trade offs. wasting 200 wood for an archery range and 1 archer can gain you precious time for dealing with that stupid villager

[@ahuzel]

What noobie thing to say. It is even cute. Sounds great does not work. How do you stop berbers with archers? 235 wood for one villie? The mistake was letting the villie in.

[@pajakinthebox8928]

Please keep commentating! Your voice is appealing and your knowledge is sharp.

[@JazKaz]

Daddy Law casting? Yes please 😍

[@RavaTroll]

Well that was quite a fun game ! Loving this kind of games.

[@Dominus_Umbrae]

At first i thought i was getting a t90 LEL video... bout to enjoy a familiar voice for this one. It’d be cool if you did this more, t90 yells a lot when he does his but i could probably fall asleep to this. Usually just watch general sam to sleep

[@kishi8774]

you should record all the games that people send you, and upload one at week.. really interesting..

[@florianzippel6778]

Hehe, that is exactly my own rating! Love to see some games at that level too :) I'm excited to watch!

[@davidnio_42]

Red is LAMER Blue is defender Red is aggressive Blue must be annoyed Red must be HAPPY!

[@lordfabulous6198]

Hey SOTL, I hope you're doing well. Could you do a top 5 best unique units in AOE2 definitive? You could also consider a few honorable/dishonorable mentions. This could also just be an opinionated video. While this might be challenging to narrow down, I'm confident YOU of all people could achieve it!

[@emilyding2496]

I agree! Please make one !

[@waaedalord6474]

I don't think that's possible cuz every unique unit compliment only it's own civilization strength and weaknesses , so i think they are not comparable with each other

[@helmutthat8331]

Hera has already done a video about that. Check out his channel.

[@emilyding2496]

@@helmutthat8331 , Thanks!

[@lordfabulous6198]

@@helmutthat8331 I see

[@zazo100]

Normal trees look so enormous after only playing with small trees XD

[@Weldedhodag]

oh shit, i watched like 5 minutes of this before I realized this wasn't T90, lol

[@sethheristal9561]

Red victory could be forecast from the first moves in feudal age, even. Power of aggression and exceptionally high player morale, Sun Tzu would say. It's hateful because i'm a bluish kind of style player, but this is life

[@ahuzel]

The militia was an small invest which got an overreaction. Then the tower fucked up hard time the wood resource; new farms and idle time for the lumberjacks. Then the spearmen sealed the deal. The knights had open field after all that. The Castle was just the forced GG. Great Game indeed.

[@MarkusNemesis]

This is a funny sounding T90 video...

[@hansweibel1959]

Hey Spirit of the Law. You' ve made a video about 2 years ago, about getting the same map twice. That happend to me, I played a random map game with continental as map selected and the next game I played, I got the exact same map. How likely is that?? Anyway thanks for making all those videos.

[@craig8727]

Great job! More please

[@matiriko23]

really good content spirit! keep it coming!

[@alexanderjones7769]

SOTL could you make a version of Romans V Barbarians for AOE1DE with accurate civs and time setting?

[@Firebird377]

Matt Stafford is better at AoE2 than football, apparently

[@fuzzy-02]

omg that single villager lmfao , he went in built shit ton of stuff around blue, then walled and towered his building😂

[@elliejohnson2786]

This was really interesting.

[@sarhoscamasrasks9391]

Spirit of The T90

[@lucasmarchezim881]

Really enjoyed this, thanks man

[@TopRanger237]

I like how they both killed and lost 21 units

[@adambenk0]

Please, do more of these :D

[@hotjavalava]

Can you do a video comparing the best and worst skirmishers? There’s debate about who has the worst skirmishers.

[@Drrobverjones]

Well done with the commentary

[@nymets1104]

You should cast more SOTL, great stuff sir :)

[@ekimoleksander6068]

I think a lot of people watch these at 1.5 to 2 times speed so maybe ditch the music? Anyways, hope to see more of these.

[@eclecticsound5596]

You should definitively cast more matches!

[@borkwoof696]

Blue really should have been more aggressive with his scouts

[@KingArcanni]

Good to see you do this chief! I have one question though, what tree mod do you use, it's so beautiful!

[@jacobpeden2273]

I enjoyed the video, but I definitely feel like a script would work better for a commentary like this, instead of reacting live. My favorite parts were when you displayed the civ information or the elo stuff on screen at the beginning, you should do that more often, like when you're talking about upgrades and stuff.

[@minikawildflower]

Spirit coming for t90 again lol

[@feeblemind]

you should cast more games including some of your own. be nice to learn from your thought process and things you see.

[@fran3ro]

Repost: Would you consider to do a "How to counter" series? For example "how to counter aztecs" with each of the other civilizations and maybe map's specifics strategies?

[@DeagleXY]

7:15 anybody else found something weird the next 10 seconds ? :D MATH IS EVERYWHERE

[@matthewjinks3590]

You should continue your road to 1800 again. I know 1800 is a lot harder now adays. Still miss hearing you commenting on your own games. Xox

[@nbrocx4216]

Unfortunately, he isn't super interested in it anymore. He explained it in one of his....i think it was the "answering comments" videos. Also, it is much harder to get to 1800 elo on DE when compared with Voobly. Tbh, while i do want to see that series continue, i can kinda understand why he isn't interested in it.

[@Naverb]

@@nbrocx4216 the series was 1800 HD, not voobly. 1800 HD ~ 1500 Voobly ~ 1300 DE (with a decent margin of error on each of those conversions). Getting to that point is basically equivalent to basic competence in all the basic facets of multiplayer along with comfortability with the basic build orders, so I imagine Spirit could reach it if he really wanted to grind. It's a nontrivial time investment to even reach that point though.

[@nbrocx4216]

@@Naverb Thanks for the correction. 1800 HD elo it is. Tbh, i'd say that the "basic" competence that you speak of isn't very basic after all. Half the playerbase is around 1050 elo in DE. If your conversions are assumed to be correct, 1300 de elo is in the top 20% of the playerbase, something which, while not impossible, is, like you said, "nontrivial". And, he has already answered, somewhat indirectly, to another comment under this very video, that he hasn't played a ranked game in DE at all. (I'm sure he means 1v1) Idk if spirit is a full time youtuber or not. But, looking at his upload schedule, it is very likely that he has a job outside YT. For a KZbinr like Spirit, he can either focus on only the analysis part of the game, or the competitive side. Doing both will put a lot of strain on his already busy schedule, since he barely gets free time in the day. If he were to start the road to 1800 (or, 1300 rather) series now, it will slow down his frequency of analysis videos. And you and I both know how much he loves analyzing the game. If he were playing ranked even on a weekly basis, it wouldn't have been a big deal. Although, he would still have had to focus on one at a time. (I am in a somewhat similar situation. I had to stop playing ranked because i didn't get the time to play aoe2 anymore. I haven't played properly in almost 6 months now. Work can take its toll. ) Again, you don't have to accept my answer. You can hear it from Spirit himself in one of his 'answering comments' videos. He wasn't that interested in continuing the series then. Now, if he isn't playing ranked on DE, he probably still isn't in the mood to continue that series. Although, we can always wait and see. Who knows, Spirit may change his mind in the near future.

[@autodidacticartisan]

I love t90 and all but sometimes his over the top style get to be a bit much. You should cast more. I could listen to you cast for hours

[@petersmythe6462]

Can you discuss Fortress map Fast Feudal and Fast Imp strats? Fortress is such a weird map to be in ranked play and at 600 ELO level play a 20 minute imp or like a 5 minute feudal is definitely doable. It's SO WIERD.

[@monsG165]

They need to fix that one random villager going to kill that one sheep

[@RTFosmark]

Love your vids, SOTL. BUT, can you please tell me what "ELO" stands for/signifies?

[@Eunostos]

It's the name of the dude who came up with the formula for keeping games evenly matched (which is what ... most?... games with matchmaking use some variant of: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elo_rating_system

[@RTFosmark]

@@Eunostos Ah! Thank you!

[@jeremyleresteux2027]

15:43 Spearman teleport

[@Gonzalo_105]

nice catch

[@SD-ft5xj]

Pls do more casting, you are so good

[@emilyding2496]

Hi Spirit, I was wondering is there still a to get the 256x tech mod in the "mod" option in game? Or is it just over of you didn't unlock it in the May event.

[@-Garaf-]

For a second i thought it was a return of your road to 1800, then i saw it wasn't you playing. Would love to see you playing some games (even if they are just some friendly matches) Still though, love your commentary Spirit