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@kudoushinichi14129 ай бұрын
I would add a mistake that I have seen in almost all ELOs: FIGHTING UNNECESSARILY. There is something in our mind that makes us want to fight even when we don't need to. We see a mango "alone" and we get desperate to kill it, we try and lose our whole army, when we would have won that game by waiting 1 more minute gathering army.
@krystofcisar4699 ай бұрын
impatience truly lost me a lot of games :D
@daarom34729 ай бұрын
I don't have this at all (1600 ish elo). I always wait too long before attacking and don't punish enemy greed enough xD
@kudoushinichi14129 ай бұрын
@@daarom3472 Everyone
@daarom34729 ай бұрын
@@kudoushinichi1412 I'm a special case. I have 2K+ macro and strategies but 1K micro and build order ^^ I mostly excel at non standard maps and inventing new strats and making perfect use of the map.
@ntamsma9 ай бұрын
I am terrible at this. I panic and send half sized armies. Terrible fights.
@italianlawyer19939 ай бұрын
Your background video also gives me another example: disregarding an enemy option (transition) just because their civ is bad at it. Like the Celts Paladins. A good counter is good even with some upgrades missing (this happens with civs with bad cavalry in general as one mever expects them to go for it).
@beetoven81939 ай бұрын
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! I asked for an all-Elo tournament and 3 days later, you deliver. I also feel like you've been watching my games: just a couple nights ago, I managed to collect all 5 relics as Lithuanians, held them for about 2 minutes, then an opponent smashed my walls and stole every single one in the space of about 30 seconds. It was so humiliating! Fortunately, my team held on, but it was an embarrassing lesson! You're a great teacher, Hera. Keep 'em comin'! And thank you for all the content that includes hopelessly slow players like myself!
@DrRobGilles9 ай бұрын
Another mistake I see pros make all the time is how they strategically place farms. It seems silly to some but there is no reason why you should ever build farms on the side of a TC that is vulnerable to an attack before you place them on the safer side first. Not only did you waste wood on an idle farm but you often lose a vill too. I see this stuff all the time. You have a TC on a wood line. Guy builds a farm next to wood line not on the inside of the TC away from woodline Same thing with TCs outside of base. Guy builds a farm towards where they are gonna getting push by a Mangonel or castle dropped instead of away from it. Then you have to delete them or leave them idle Or you make a mill after you already have a mill. Or make 5-8 farms when you have 8 idle farms from dead vills. I know the games are fast paced and you can’t make perfect decisions but it’s just bad habits and fundamentals that add up and lead to many dead vills and hundreds of wasted wood.
@gabesfrigo9 ай бұрын
A common mistake I see quite often is tunnel vision. People losing track of the whole map, focusing on a single hill or just both players spamming the middle of the map while there might be gaps on the flanks that with a couple of units can change the tide completely.
@MacTheKnife9 ай бұрын
Very interesting and informative as always man. I suffer from many of these, so it's great to hear a quick condensed version of how to avoid them. Great analysis
@JonasW-zc5th9 ай бұрын
„Because knights counter pikes in early castle anyways“ (knowing about that nili situation of the past) we love that banter man xD
@myic909 ай бұрын
T90 catching strays.. NOWHERE IS SAFE!
@jasonsmith19509 ай бұрын
I recall a pro game where 1 Mayan player had a castle near the front of their base. The opposing team saw the castle and prepared to fight Plumed Archers. They hadn't seen the barracks behind the walls and so were caught off-guard by El Dorado Eagles. Giving away info may be a mistake, but only if the info is accurate (otherwise, it's a feint)
@ponchopalmera49179 ай бұрын
Haha, "knights counter pikemen in early castle age". I got the Nili's argument joke 🤣
@Bogues_889 ай бұрын
My top one mistake ... Watching to many videos on KZbin and not playing the game. 😂
@raulpetrascu26969 ай бұрын
Watching this I think you should make a video using the Art of War by Sun Tzu to win in AOE
@firemyst90649 ай бұрын
Oh man I was totally thinking about listening to a KZbin explanation on that and thinking about it in aoe2 terms. That's a great idea, from someone who also understands fundamental mechanics.
@ns-islandsroblox9 ай бұрын
Hera, please make a guide on how to play nomad. It's by far the hardest map to learn for people who only play Arabia
Check his channel. Hera has already did it. Also I recommend you Sitaux's nomad tutorial. He makes really good videos.
@HeraAgeofEmpires29 ай бұрын
I already have a guide for it! Check it out
@daarom34729 ай бұрын
best advice: don't play only Arabia
@TimWilson899 ай бұрын
Celt paladin, honestly what a time to be alive that was 😅👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻
@Holoether6 ай бұрын
Great stuff. Thx. Hope you do your own tournament - Hera’s Cup or something - where you play show matches with all the non-qualified or something, in between. Your casting and analysis and sense of fun would make it rock. Could you be just a caster for two weeks? Challenges challenges.
@aleckim93378 ай бұрын
Bro, I play this game since I was 4 and am still a noob, just found your chanell hopefully it will get me bettrr
@lonewolforigin9 ай бұрын
Monks and relics is my problem. I often forget they exists, especially on arena. I got a big eco and getting the army ready when the relic victory countdown begins for my opponent. 😅 Then desperation and mistakes follow
@benjaminbarth6639 ай бұрын
"I didn't get to make Bodkin... I wasn't that stupid". Shows footage with bodkin researched 11 Great video though!
@Tembies-jk4tx9 ай бұрын
Very good tips and things to be reminded of at all levels of play.
@R3stor9 ай бұрын
5:11 and therefore it's wiser to build your three ranges on a neutral island where your opponent never finds them 😂
@pedrocarvalho74809 ай бұрын
Best comment 😂
@JasonPTA9 ай бұрын
Everything in this video sounds like common sense BUT When you start to play and you start exploring the dark and your getting attacked it just goes out the window 😂
@TheCamusVerseau9 ай бұрын
As a low Elo peasant, I do all of this so many times and also I tend to hold a grudge against a unit that did significant damage, i.e. lose 20 kts to kill that treb that downed my castle 11 Great content as always my friend!
@Max-we3gc4 ай бұрын
Veangance!
@epicseadragon16929 ай бұрын
Being
@DJBrothers559 ай бұрын
Okay listen about the phantom units, let's say you're in a 4v4 arena with Turks as the enemy next to you. He hits castle age fast, you are expecting him to imp rush you. Am I not supposed to make skirms? Only had the opposite happen to me once out of the fifty times it happened to me.
@HeraAgeofEmpires29 ай бұрын
on arena its harder cuz u cant scout, but u can make outposts or keep ur scotu around his walls so u see him as soon as he moves out, also u can tell if he clicked imp if his score suddenly drops by like 160, AND u can tell hes fast imp by him being very late to feudal age. You should still never blind skirms expecting the fast imp without using the other tricks i listed here
@DJBrothers559 ай бұрын
@@HeraAgeofEmpires2 I forgot about the score drop when transitioning. Anyways Hera thank you.
@Polymachaeroplagides9 ай бұрын
Feel it, I have a honourable mention: When I´m looking at pro videos, I think they feel often to save. For example sending a troop of undefended vills to build town centers on the side of the base and to expand the base/sending vills build unprotected "sneaky" mining camps in imp/late imp. At least I would let there some pikeman or build some buildings to defend my vills against light cav/hussars.
@thetiguy91209 ай бұрын
Great vid, I have to disagree on the elo arguement tho somewhat. Never underestimate your opponent, but theres a much bigger difference from a 1100 or 1000 elo player to a 1300 or 1400 player ect versus a 2k6 or 7 vrs a 2k9. Even more so from a 700 elo player to a 1000. Lower the elo, more of a skill gap
@Umdeuter9 ай бұрын
#5 means for slow players that you NEVER take a fight and it is directly going against the core idea to always be active with your army. #4 is extremely difficult to apply if you lack map control (would be an awesome video if you could explain this for some concrete examples). #2 is huge! #1 and #2 is basically underlining how terribly important (and difficult) effective scouting is
@Omni04046 ай бұрын
Lmao, my plan C is "hope the enemy disconnects."
@kekstruppe12639 ай бұрын
Hera, love the fact that you are hosting a tournament for all players. Thanks man (bro fist) 🤜
@paulbuschmann70929 ай бұрын
Please someone tell me what mode Hera was using at 1:44! seems really cool and simple i like it
@eisel13139 ай бұрын
Try looking up 'smooth terrain' in the mods settings menu Edit: Not sure what the actual mod name is but try searching things like that
@Edelweiss11029 ай бұрын
Not sure how common it is, but I sometimes feel like there can be too much focus on trying to micro everything. Obviously, it's part of the game and if you see an opening to gain an advantage, go for it. But there should always be a balance between micro and macro and if you focus on micro too much, it can lead into things like taking unnecessary fights, focusing too much on one spot on the map while losing track of everything else and stuff. I've lost count of how often I've seen people losing their starting scout trying to get some villagers on berries they were never gonna get, trying to save 3 archers with 10 hp in late Castle, wasting 10+ units to get 1 mangonel or trying to secure and hold one place in the map while leaving the other 90% of their base wider open.
@jakoboka9 ай бұрын
Maybe a few additional ones for noob players like me: - Forgetting to make vils, or making vils under high pressure while there is need for military - Forgetting to make siege/trebs while no possibility to raid.
@EliasHasle5 ай бұрын
I feel ambivalent to the #1, because the argument is really based on anecdotes about lost gambles. I think that taking responsibility for a loss, as you do, rather than blaming it on bad luck, is a healthy mindset to have in order to improve what can be improved, but: Luck will *always* play a role. In the first case described, if you had no way to know that the Huns were *not* going cavalry archers, and you knew that the other player would try to hide their transition, and that your current composition would be absolutely steamrolled if they made the transition, was it really that bad to hedge against it with some skirmishers? Also, was there a possible middle ground approach available, such as building the archery range and idling it while still making knights and reinforcing or closing gaps in the walls? Or a different and more versatile approach, like walling better and adding a siege workshop?
@bensonrabe67289 ай бұрын
I did the phantom counter in heras colosseum. I built 3 ranges that i didn't need for another 6-10 minutes.
@thefire-nanceguy44409 ай бұрын
great video, but if they watch your video and know to hide their transition and only showing it at the last min with like 40 elephants, wont it be too late to do the counter units anyway if you wait for confirmation?
@derikaem80219 ай бұрын
imo #1 is not necessarily a straight mistake. you can prepare yourself for a phantom unit if you are prepared for the case that something else shows up. you may sometimes use your investments in upgrades and building in yet another way. this is especially true at elo where resource management is not as tight
@hansoskar19119 ай бұрын
Daut is where he is bc he almost enver makes any of these mistkakes.
@DudeStone9 ай бұрын
I thought over micro would have been #1 not incorrect strat
@GeorgeMasterclass9 ай бұрын
Hey man have you tried the new civs in Aoe4? Byzantines are amazing, would love if you made a couple of Aoe4 playthrough.
@maddenplaya20978 ай бұрын
That game sucks mainly because you are so damn zoomed in compared to 2
@KaoticPhoenix9 ай бұрын
That last tip is really a hit or miss though right since it can also be a game changer if correct
@lightyagami62519 ай бұрын
what happened to *so u wanna play* series dawg ?????
@ns-islandsroblox9 ай бұрын
He stopped it because he had a shortage of games to show and made a new series where he just explains the civ rather than showing a game he played with it.
@jotfohm46449 ай бұрын
So about No.1, what could have you done better when you had no clue whatsoever of your opponents' transition?
@Sparesheep2 ай бұрын
whats it called wen u make a unit ur not going to use to psych out ur opponent? like lets say im going heavy camel and siege, but the first thing i attack with is like 7 crossbows, hoping for them to counter the bows
@JustinGun8 ай бұрын
any guide on how to wall in feudal age?
@nicksturzz9 ай бұрын
You did T90 dirty there. 😂
@andrzejnawalany1989 ай бұрын
THE NILI BURN IN THIS OH MY GOD HAHAHAH
@shuchisingh82439 ай бұрын
Possibilities are endless he can also make hun long swords
@kevinlecavalier97209 ай бұрын
the hardest for me is #1, at one point I can't keep up!
@myopiniondoesntmatter70689 ай бұрын
number 1 I do all the time. it's a really hard habit to break especially at lower elos where people dont always know unit comps running into a britan scout into knights for example. you shouldn't lose to it, but you lose due to the sheer stupidity of them ignoring civ bonuses. it wasnt until I hit 1700 ish that openings were standard and you didnt run into Frank archers or some weird crap
@gamesview33134 ай бұрын
How do place so fast houses. I must click once at time?
@postblitz8 ай бұрын
Ah yes, the PHANTOM Menace. Appropriate name, it is. What happens if both you and your opponent are waiting to see what they're doing i.e. wanting to counter each other - in that scenario aren't you both waiting for a phantom menace? what's the main gameplan when there's no counter-gameplan?
@nicholasallan5737 ай бұрын
What about walling trebs?
@justxavier99999 ай бұрын
5:17 3 ranges in the middle what? 3 ranges in the middle island!?
@Jompa109 ай бұрын
Could you please post the tournament link?
@HeraAgeofEmpires29 ай бұрын
Its there now!
@Jompa109 ай бұрын
@@HeraAgeofEmpires2 Thank you!!
@resu20263 ай бұрын
Why the hell shall one delete walls when there is a building called: Gate
@nicolasspray9 ай бұрын
i thought u said that there was too many aoe2 tournaments and that's bad for the community... but then a week later u host a tournament?
@italianlawyer19939 ай бұрын
Numer 1: not favouring Migration in ranked. Best map
@titan_ltu72479 ай бұрын
what mod is at the start?
@sirgodua9 ай бұрын
How can you KILL a monastery? I mean ok, ppl do use verbal shortcuts when talking about events in the game, but killing a building is a nonsense. Apologies for being so direct, I just needed to say this today.
@kekstruppe12639 ай бұрын
I better start training 😂
@I_like_flying9 ай бұрын
No matter what elo you are because you will get housed anyway☺️
@maxba83809 ай бұрын
I think point 5 is particularly important, as it can be very deceptive. If you attack, your opponent has to defend and you are successful in attacking, it feels good. However, if you neglect your own economy, the resources you lose are often greater than the damage you inflict on your opponent with your attack. Especially for us less skilled players, it is an enormous challenge to attack and keep your own economy running at the same time.
@donjoncraig68049 ай бұрын
win a game using chat gpt
@MichaelMahaffey-w3y9 ай бұрын
Anyone wanna play computer or multiplayer 2v2
@lildreng9 ай бұрын
9:20 11111
@moritzmonska99129 ай бұрын
Love this one. All the best for the new generation, im thrilled for whats coming 🏕️🛡️⚔️