Drongo UNLOCKS The SECRET To The Byzantines

[@Bigable09]

It's admirable how much love you put into this game and your channel. I've loved the game since day one and was a little disappointed when it lost popularity after a few months. But with the updates and the new civilizations it has more potential again and you too are doing your part in this potential. Thank you for your great work

[@AnonLaughingMan]

It's a nice change of pace watching you play the game rather than just casting, don't get me wrong i love your casts, but this scratches a different itch, hope to see more of this from you. Great content as always

[@duncanbrewster439]

I’m amazed you can commentate so coherently while playing, very informative. Great game!

[@Alun_Fratenity]

usually I don't like watching games played, I love the commentary you do with the customs games, but you talk a lot during your game and it makes the game very enjoyable so..good job Drongo! Love it

[@Joshua-jc1oc]

Very nice gameplay but I couldn’t help but notice that you seem to think that your aqueducts need to be connected to one another in a continuous line in order to increase your cistern bonus when in actuality you only need your aqueducts to connect to the cisterns (and you can even use stone walls as a part of your aqueduct network).

[@khuntasaurus88]

The stone wall thing is awesome

[@ojikhan4582]

Can’t wait to see where Byzantines are in a year! Great build

[@kaiptn1211]

Love the foreshadowing humble bragging at the beginning of the video 😅 … NBD, just facing a RB wololo participant … In a couple of month nobody talks about the kid Voldemart any more, only about the caster dad who turned pro and won the next S tier tournament!

[@GG-gr2px]

I am flabbergasted by the exceptionally accurate GREEK voice overs they did with this Byzantines!! Whoever in Relic did the research, needs a full raise in their salary! SIMPLY AMAZING !

[@sirpengwin3640]

Absolutely loving this castle transition, great build Drongo!

[@piididii]

Very well played, sir!

[@dermenore7162]

I must said, I tried to watch the commented game and couldn't go into it. But this video, I watched it entirely without seeing the time. It was inspiring and frightening to see you play. The efficiency in the resource management, micro, the action by minute. I realize that I didn't know about some keyboard shortcut or some way to manage control group. In a way I have motivation to improve and train on that (and to try your start build with Byzantine). In the other I remember the emergency tier list of BeastyqtSC2 when he said that Byzantine couldn't be use efficiently outside of middle Diamond and higher. I never reached better than low Platinium and that was with the Frank during the first months of the game. A part of me wonder if I just shouldn't be humble and go with Order of the Dragon, Joan of Arc or Japanese. In the other hand, I don't want to just climb because of an easy civ, take a lot of bad habit, than hit a break wall because the civ can't carry me any longer and I didn't improve.

[@partydean17]

Awesome vid. Im betraying my Abbassids to be a Byz main now i appreciate the guide and this video especially.

[@TypeErrorDubs]

Watched this from SortOf’s stream live and yea… he was pretty incredulous about what Japan was supposed to do about this

[@Vulgaels]

I have cancer research PhD published in top journals aaaand.....totally fail at this civ

[@PaLaDinDen]

Sorry if I'm overstepping with analytics here 6:50 - 2nd aqueduct would've been better if placed between stone and wood on the north side, no?

[@NahThisIsPatrick]

every time they put me on a water map, my game somehow concedes within the first 2 seconds

[@marekburan1758]

"He is that SortOf player" Aussie_Drongo 2023 against SortOF XD

[@Fluffybamf]

May i recommend Make more pov over the other vids these are way more entertaining and also easier to learn Posting losses not even bad too if good game, the gameplay level is elite

[@martinseptimryden7272]

Wp bro! ❤

[@controlPriest]

Beasty and MarineLord are conqueror4 drongo . COME ON

[@flashgordonEZAF]

i want to see more games that you compete in drongo

[@DeSoLaToR22]

Wow! very cool strategy and close to perfected by you! very nice to see I was wondering, when going to the imperial age, would you go for the palentine school or the siege landmark with this build?

[@ap-dk5yw]

There are easier methods than this though? Build order Cistern with most rss coverage Mine 7-8 on food 4 on sheep more on berry with mill 3-4 gold Hippodrome 3 horsemen -> raid with upgrade Mo6 vills wood Make barrack or archy on situation Arsenal -> ram Ilmenti -> upgrade to elite (Mercenary) Cataphatact spam With either cistern wonder Or streltsy spam with Mercenary wonder Be flexible rathern than having a generalized playstyle and byzantine is good , since its basically all factions combind

[@VyBnSaturn]

I'im having a bit of trouble with the build path you do. I get to wheelbarrow at 1:05, but building 6 vills to sheep puts my food too low to reach hippodrome at 3:10. I'm off by like 30 seconds. Is it just my micro that I need to improve to shave that time off?

[@Im_Anthonyy]

Game played>>>>>> Game casted, helps a lot more to have the 1st person POV and the toughts of the palyer at the molent and what is he clicking or doing

[@reynaldolegaspi6624]

Drongo foe wololo when?

[@Mootown211]

this kid Drongo is gonna be at the next Red Bull Wololo, mark my words

[@KorEditing]

nice drongo man

[@alcerscruro6107]

How do we change or remove the numbers from the top of the units and buildings? I never found how we do that, and i messed up a lot with 1,2 or 3,4 etc. Also how we select the numbers 2,2 or 4,2 and the rest?

[@MoRaXSCV]

Yo drongo i have a question, altho i know u probably wont see my comment but il try anyway xd So i have a huge problem with micro i always forget to make more villagers and i age up with less then 15 or 20 i always forget to get the production research of the food wood etc always always i am playing half a year and i still cant micro. Barley the min of microing i cant get it down how can i practice? Just trying to micro over and over untill il get the hang of it or is there any tricks for improving? I am dying to play byz but with the level i am on its just not working for me, too many things to manage

[@cptr3db34rd3]

Mmm sometimes I struggle with this (stuff like upgrades) myself. For villagers I would say that two main things come to mind are: 1. Place the town center (or all town centers if you happen to have more) on a control group. This way it becomes much easier to just select a town center to even see if you forgot to produce villagers 2. Keep a decent amount of villagers in queue unless you need those resources to age up. Only keeping one or two might be optimal resource-wise but doing so seems just a waste of APM to me Once you do these things you should "train yourself" to constantly go back to town center after everything you do. You build a few barracks? Let's go back to town center and spam a few vills. You got a relic to bring back to base? Let's spam a few more vills. After all it's just pressing 2 buttons. Select TC from control group and press Q a few times. Then again, in more stressful situations I think it's quite normal to be focused on something else and to forget about training villagers. Oftentimes this happens later on though. The only thing that might help with upgrades is to set yourself a goal. Beforehand, (if possible of course) try to define a moment in the game where you get the most important upgrades. If you know that immediately after you get to age 2 you want to research wheelbarrow (and you see that you generally have the resources to do so), it should be easier to remember to do so. An alternative way might be to look at the time. If you know you might want a certain upgrade by minute 6-7, around that time it might be easier to remember. "Oh, look we're 7 minutes in. I should research XY then!". Then again, these things can work only up to a certain point, and probably only for a limited number of upgrades to begin with. That's what comes to mind anyways, good luck ;)

[@MyriadColorsCM]

I used to think chinese was hard, then I tried to play Byzies and jesus, that was confusing as fuck.

[@Devin1364]

Do you have this posted to build guide?

[@partydean17]

He does!

[@Devin1364]

@@partydean17 where is it - is it on the patreon?

[@makingivan]

tried Byzantine for the first time yesterday. It was really good but I struggled with resource management since too many things to focus at once.

[@t3ss33]

So true. The local cistern boni often skews the 'common' vill distribution. Additionally, I am often too concerned with base building that my scouting or map awareness suffers xD

[@matigolazo80]

Obviously I’m a Gold plat player but I feel this BO gets punished with aggression which is what I’ve struggled with as the Byz. Then again I’ve been going into longbows but I do think Keshiks are better

[@dermenore7162]

Earing Drongo spoke about Age of Empire III make me wonder if I should try the game. I did long ago but wasn't convinced. But that was before I become somehow correct in RTS by playing Starcraft. Can some people tell me how is the game today? Does the solo is good compared to Age of Mytholygie and Starcraft II? How is the multi scene? I assume most of the multi players had moved to AoE IV.

[@arthipex8512]

The campaigns are really nicely done in my opinion. They are shorter than AOM's and Starcraft 2's (especially with the DLCs, but I liked them nevertheless. The multiplayer is quite active with active players, streamers, tournaments and changing metas. The recend DLC again added a lot to the diversity of the game with 16 civs compared to the previous 10. They all feel and play very unique from one another and I think the game has never been in a better state. If you have played a lot of AOM you will be very comfortable with the pace and feeling of the game.

[@ramphislopezortiz3024]

Drongo 🐐🔥

[@APcraft747]

i have said this before and ill say it again now- drongo is better when hes playing than when hes casting

[@baloncestojadimi]

Why building houses radomly around the map? For vision? Nice gameplay.

[@partydean17]

It only takes 3 seconds for the House to build for Byz and they have vision range around that of a watchtower so yeah. Might be a bit dangerous tho against mongols

[@baloncestojadimi]

@@partydean17 Is that building time so fast due to cisterns?

[@partydean17]

@@baloncestojadimi no it's a tech you purchase from a house. Not sure which age

[@baloncestojadimi]

@@partydean17 Didnt know about it. Its called border settlements and can brñe researched in feudal.

[@khuntasaurus88]

It's funny how you lose your aussie accent a bit while you're focusing. 😂

[@cannibrel]

this video is so much better no adhd rambling or annoying jokes, its well paced and informative of your actions

[@cohiba1982]

How can you have more likes than views?

[@Soudrah]

👻

[@NovaGamingX4]

Third

[@raynightshade8317]

It kinda sucks that all the early access people figure out the metas before the rest could try the civs and learn them lik everyone else

[@wurzelbert84wucher5]

That's modern gaming in a nutshell :(

[@raynightshade8317]

@@wurzelbert84wucher5 i guess but when AOE2 had is early access it was just a few days i think