How To Beat Extreme AI in Age of Empires 2 (2023)

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[@redbullmax662]

Only Hera can make extreme AI looks like us playing against easiest level LOL!

[@vibhavvashishtha1484]

i love how hera was explaining everything like we explain things to children. love the vids

[@HeraAgeofEmpires2]

Theres a reason children learn fast, nobody has patience with adults!!

[@jacobbos2208]

😂

[@jamesedghill3726]

I play like a child so it works out

[@ns-islandsroblox]

​@@jamesedghill3726I am a child so it works out😂

[@mateusengler7760]

​@@ns-islandsrobloxfinalmente hahaha, pensei que eu estava sozinho como menor de 18 jogando esse jogo

[@makataka7]

I love that you slow things down and still achieve a 9:15 dark age. Just really solid game mechanics and knowledge - it's a pleasure to watch

[@Vulcan-vs1rf]

Now do a "How To 1 vs 7 Extreme AI in Age of Empires 2 (2023)" video thank you Hera

Ultra small forest nothing, gg eazy :D

[@EliasHasle]

@Elephants nothing works too.

[@GotchaPlaysGer]

I loved how hera was able to slow down his apm so we could see better what he does

[@B1ackwood]

I played AOE2 as a kid back when it first came out and i used to blame my slow internet.. your videos got me back into playing again and it turns out im just terrible at it. I love how easy you make things look. Going to hunt out your patreon and get hold of those cheet sheets to see if i can beat hard consistently. Thanks for rekindling my love of the game

[@ahmednakhala6372]

Hera: how to win easily against extreme AI Me: still suffering with Hardest AI

[@luklambeir875]

I'm stil suffering whit hard AI . Lol.

[@ahmednakhala6372]

@@luklambeir875 lol

[@hotdogfingerz9674]

Same, still haven’t beat hardest

[@edesbalazs]

I can comfortably beat the first non-peaceful AI :D

[@clubas1]

Makes it look so easy! Great video. That movement from attacking in feudal back to making farms at home though is what kills me. Very hard to do.

[@ns-islandsroblox]

BRO I JUST PICKED UP MY PHONE RIGHT NOW AND U POSTED UR VIDEO. PERFECT TIMING THANKS HERA

[@Cratosuarez009]

BROOOOOOOO LIKEEEEEE WTFFFFF BROOO IT BLOWSSSS MY FUCKINNNNG MIIIIINDDD BROOOOO

[@ns-islandsroblox]

@@Cratosuarez009 lol

[@SirAmnesia]

ive just picked up my phone and read your message, perfect timing, thanks ns-islandsroblox

[@michaelkinley6422]

This is extremely helpful. I've been playing ranked games for a couple years now and have over 2000 ranked games but still struggle with some of the basics. I've definitely learned a couple things from this video!

[@NightFury9030]

Literally you can beat multiple AI Such a good attitude.

[@theverybestof5352]

This was really interesting! Thanks for that! Would be interesting to see this for maps like Michi, where the forest barrier forces you into the late game when the opponent has already gotten super strong 😢

[@j.davidsapp6212]

You definitely made that look easy! I enjoyed watching -- thanks for the video!

[@Shoz3344]

Your way explaning things is fantastic!

[@marctre6320]

Nice video Hera ❤ could you do something similar with a scout opening? I always struggle with the transition to castle age. With archers, it's good to keep producing while going up and researching crossbow. With scouts? Do I keep producing them while going up? Do I safe the resources and build knights? Then the opponent could overwhelm me when breaking the walls like he did here and I just started knight production

[@taylankammer]

Great guide, thank you!

[@brolafdanaross9787]

Came back to AoE after a few month, this video was really usefull to help me regain control over the AI. Thanks for the evergreen good content Hera.

[@bassegoder]

I do exactly this same thing for ages against AI. Even 2 of them. That said, when i go archers, i preffer to develop ballistics before the third town centre, especially against two, for the extra edge in combat. But that's a great tutorial. Super clear.

[@AhmadBokhari]

Watching Hera explain things has made me a much better tutor for calculus. His patience and tone is just the best. I still suck at aoe though

[@parthadeka6677]

superb guide...loved it

[@latestcentury8374]

Man, you really broadeny vision towards gameplay.. i love you for this video.. so much to learn

[@miguelangelcosiorangel2617]

This has to be the smoothest tutorial I've ever seen, yeah maybe there is a couple of steps, but when you play like ten or fifteen games you start to do things automatically so you now can focus on the more attention demanding things like micro

[@jacobbos2208]

i'd love to watch team deathmatch against a fully boomed extreame ai! Great guide btw!

[@Dg_5437]

I used to think I would never be able to beat the Extreme AI, but after months of playing the game, I think it’s surprisingly easy once you get the right strategies and execute them well.

[@StefanAndjelkovic-iu5pb]

Thank you so much, once I master this I will be finally able to beat Hard Ai as that is my next step. You are just great teacher man!

[@AvyScottandFlower]

I've never passed the point of battling "Hard" A.I. on Arena, sometimes winning, lots of times losing This video is VERY interesting to me

[@danielperkins9347]

I can beat hard on closed maps but often get rolled on open maps.

[@AvyScottandFlower]

@@danielperkins9347 Same.

[@humphreybumblecuck5151]

Hardest spams hella stuff, you just need to know the right units to build against any given opponent and roughly the correct ratios to build them in. Easier said than done. But you should know what your generic “strongest army” looks like vs civs you have little to fear from. But some civs may require you to have different compositions for an ideal setup if they pose serious challenge to your fundamental units. And then roughly what ratio is needed between melee/meatshield, ranged, and siege as you change between defending, advancing, besieging, marauding

[@eriqborg]

I'm currently fighting Hardest on like 80%/20% win ratio - whenever I lose, I restart the game and either try to win it right away, or save it at the beginning so that I can attempt to win it later. I usually lose when I let the AI breathe, so it's often a practise of being super aggressive and always producing units.

[@EliasHasle]

Just close the opponent's gates with walls and plant towers outside. Their whole boom and development will stagnate. Then add monks to convert everything inside (or soften the base with ranged siege or whatever). Then take your time to build your giant doll house and Imperial super-army before breaching the walls. OK, that qualifies as "cheesing" and exploiting weaknesses of the AI, but in my opinion, the AI has unfair advantages too... 😁

[@scottyP1672]

You’re incredible. I also think your full potential is not even close to being unlocked 😂 awesome commentary also. Hard work pays off.

[@the1ucidone]

I learned a ton just now! That was awesome.

[@fwosti3548]

Thank you for this, Hera. Don't know why it's taken so long for someone to make this.

[@saladink9987]

Great content! Also, I would like to have how to beat AI 1v2 or 1v3, etc. to covered.

[@e11world]

It took me so long to break past hard level and even then still not there yet with many civs but these videos just make me want to try more and more and prefect the guide then go for extreme 😊😊😂 Thank you Hera 🇨🇦🇮🇶

[@brentmoeller8764]

Very informative !!! Thanks

[@andrewparr2297]

Thank you for these! Would you consider a more advanced version of how to beat 2 extreme ai? This is what I have difficulty with as a 1200elo player.

[@thomasandrews5278]

Great video. Im 600-700 elo and beat them yesterday with a really suboptimal Inca Tower rush.

[@prankishsquire2663]

I've been waiting for this one

[@hugoclarke3284]

I'm studying different approaches to logical thinking. Great to discover your awesome content Hera!

[@derickcuento2026]

What a perfect time to get back to aoe I just found this at the perfect time

[@airpancho]

Waiting for the day when you can select Hera or Viper or any other player as an AI, which has learned from all their games. Imagine playing against yourself or the "yourself 6 months ago". Would also be cool to have an interactive "Helper" in your game telling you things like "Your opponent has skirms, I recommend siege", "Options where to build your next TC" or simply highlighting your civ's strengths etc. Would be amazing way to learn the game. Anyway :) Great video!

[@giovanifatobeni2495]

Hey Hera, could you consider doing playthroughs of any of the single player campaigns that you like? I think it'd be really fun to watch. If you happen to find them too easy, maybe you could create your own challenges or your own unique spin on things with some commentary

[@LongBoy.0]

+1 for this. I'd Love to see the huns campaigns, maybe some of the other hard ones.

[@HeraAgeofEmpires2]

Ill think about it, feels like campaigns are overdone but not sure

[@LongBoy.0]

@@HeraAgeofEmpires2 There's alot of campaign content out there but not alot of it has been done well IMO.

[@FriedMetroid]

I've only really seen Viper do the campaigns, which was good but I'm down for another take

[@LaBandaRoja9]

@@HeraAgeofEmpires2I haven’t seen anyone speedrun them as well as they probably could be. It’d be cool to see how fast you adapt to the objectives and multitask different objectives You can probably beat most levels within 10 minutes!

[@JamesStaffthepro]

Great video!!😊

[@smellyhhh]

This is the best video on this topic.

[@diegoramirez7901]

You make it look so easy. Solid guide Hera

[@EliasHasle]

I tried it, but my archers ran through the opponent's horde of skirmishers on their way to the opponent's base... Maybe that's what the scout is (was 😖) for. I made almost no damage, and the AI beat me to Castle Age and breached the walls with knights, then killed my villagers with cavalry archers. GG Of course, there were a few details I could have executed better (constant production, building farms rather than floating wood etc. 🙄), but on the other hand, I added deer pushing to boost the plan!

[@apdj94]

Great explanations. No wonder thou art victorious.

[@OCinneide]

Could you go through what keybinds/clicks you're doing? I noticed you're setting production buildings to hotbar, are you always clicking that and queueing units in the background, e.g. with the mangonel?

[@thesippedsapper]

Well explained 😊

[@nicolaorsi4862]

Cool! Can you make challange videos trying to beat 4-5 AI?

[@Thugslife50]

Hello Hera, would you consider making a video about building placements and/or map control ? I think it's an interesting topic both in arena and open maps. More often than not I find myself questioning where to build what.

[@HeraAgeofEmpires2]

I have one or two about map control u can chwck out

[@Thugslife50]

@@HeraAgeofEmpires2 oh okay I tried searching for building placement instead of map control my bad

[@jameskelly945]

damn neat vid i was actually looking for a vid like this a few months ago but i since got gud enough to beat the extreme ai

[@superh22]

I recently stared beating hard but this video gives me hope to improve

[@Womblewobble1321]

I don't play the game anymore, but those guides are looking very clean and easy to understand.

[@zbsuds]

Fantastic video for a guy who has picked the game up after 15 years , thanks a lot!!!

[@eternalgaming862]

Im trying this on hard difficulty, and at about 26 minutes i have 20 or so crossbowmen with the first two blacksmith upgrades and thumb ring, and they have like 10 light cav and 25 archers/skirmishers, i try my best to fight them but im getting ahhnialated. Do you have any advice for me? I am very new to the game, started about 2 weeks ago but im doing pretty well keeping my tc and archery ranges producing at all times

[@JD-hk9cl]

Pleasure to watch 👏🏻

[@JBarG22]

To get the achievement to win against the Extreme AI, I had to totally cheese it. Picked Michi and chose Huns as the Ai civ, since they haven't got Onagers and the Ai can't treb cut through trees. I opened a narrow way and filled it with halbediers and Longbowmen, the game took a few hours but I got it :)

[@cheems418]

Thank you bro for all your instructional videos and build orders. I owe my elo to you and SOTL

[@chih-hsuanwang3538]

It would be interesting if Hera make a low EAPM rank game challenge (like 20-30 EAPM). This challenge could demonstrate the potential ELO of low EAPM players.

[@axeldep.1458]

That could be a nice mod. Each players starts with a limited number of actions and they get new possible actions at a fixed rate. Actions would be a resource that trickles in.

[@TheInvertedDonkey]

I like how the AI refuses to micro vs pros :). LOL just did this and shot 3 mangos at a clump of like 20 archers and hit like 2, shot them in different spots too

[@TheInvertedDonkey]

btw I'm half trolling, I messed up a lot in my scenario but still lol

[@jamesthetutor731]

I started playing Ranked matches once I was able to beat the Moderate AI reliably and the Hard AI occasionally. Predictably I lost most of my initial games, but I still wanted the experience of playing against a human opponent. I'm now able to reliably beat the hard AI and haven't yet beat the Hardest AI, and I'm expecting to have an ELO of 800.

[@razor-538]

Fully walled, humanity already worried about the AI taking over the world in Feudal Age.

[@na99ab]

Thank you Hamzah 💚

[@SirFunkyton]

That extreme AI pushed deer!?!?

[@HeraAgeofEmpires2]

Theyre crazy these days

[@merlin5960]

If you're playing Britons your 5 vills on sheep are better than 6 for generic civs so you can go on wood a bit early

[@Totial]

please some games against multiple extreme ais. Viper did this kind of series and i think it was pretty popular

[@castrogonzalez614]

Castledrop the AI. It doesn‘t know how to deal with that.

[@Dfdm7]

Hera out here easing past extreme AI while making a video and heres me playing against standard AI while being G-fueld to the max and getting demolished 😂 crazy how people can be so good 👏

[@maciejd.3782]

Hera was actually housed. My world has crumbled

[@Endrit719]

Hera: No worries guys you won't be so fast I've been playing this game for 10 years. Me who played the game for 15 years and still is trash

[@thomasov2004]

Thanks for the informative and unbaised piece of content. I think I speak for millions when I say we are extremely happy to have observed and learned from the content you so graciously provided.

[@indigochiever]

beating ai with agression is a small exploit i think, i never played a game online but can beat the ai on hardest wit agression, but trying to play castle age with "perfect" eco balance is where the problem seems to start. edit: amazing video, also showing macro and micro inbetween fights helps a lot

[@theelitecombine1715]

the easiest and most fun way for me is just spam monks and f3 for pause, so you can target fire every single monk, then unpause. thats also the way I beat every single campaign on hardest difficulty.

[@sssp3066]

what do you think about extreme AI's elo? any range please?

[@omgwat]

This is exactly the kind of video I wanted! I've only beat the hardest AI once but they keep steamrolling me every other time. Thank you for this video!

[@HeraAgeofEmpires2]

You are very welcome!

[@poisonshift78]

Hera could be eating dinner while recording a tutorial and still smoke me

[@fernandomontesdeoca2433]

Which command or keys do you use to move the screen back and forward between your army and base?

[@GreatComposer1]

You can assign a number to a selection group with ctrl+#. For example, your scouts can be storaged on 1, archers on 2, etc... and all the buildings have special letters. Select a TC with "H", barracks ctrl+b, etc. Check out option - acces keys in game.

[@thesenate957]

Just watched this and beat my first extreme 1v1 straight away

[@Ray9render]

Anyone noticed the last couple of days a significant increase in AI strength? Me and 2 others have been playing against Hard AI (HD version) for a while now, and lately it seems the difficulty has risen!! AI with 110 villagers, constant production and so on!!! We used to win almost easily at this level and now we struggle! 😅

[@fredq6118]

AI (CD) and AI (HD) are from the original and HD version of the game and doesnt really get updated afaik. Their play also relies on cheating on resources and such... I'd recommend playing against the modern AI instead as they use legit strats that you can learn from and get better at yourself :)

[@FettYT]

Does this also work with the hardest AI? I'm having trouble with that. As a new player myself

[@Yassir833]

U remind me of myself teaching my little brother how to beat the moderate AI, he said:< this is not how they play against me>😂😂

[@LongBoy.0]

dude he makes it look so easy lol

[@HeraAgeofEmpires2]

Years of practice, but i hope i can make it easier for you guys too ❤

[@leodalkey651]

19-20 vil Arch rush is about all you can do to reliably take down extreme ai. Its almost always going to make a bunch of scrums and a few archers around the same time. Its not that engaging since you can just make archers and jump to castle and overrun them. But if you try to go like classic 30 vil castle age you will get overrun everytime. The actual trick here is alot of early pressure. AI doesn't hang with that very well since all it really knows how to do is snowball. The sooner the better for ballistics, if you still have a deathball its basically game over.

[@ZeusDurrant]

If you rush them they don't cope well, you have to go early though and keep on the pressure!

[@codzilla360]

How different does the HD version of extreme AI behave? Is it harder to beat?

[@maxmajor8704]

Now its Time to show if Hera can beat 7 extreme Ai`s. Since Viper couldnt make it

[@insslava]

Waiting for 1v2 AI guide :)

[@Janisurai]

thanks!

[@LongBoy.0]

Dude I swear to god I cannot get the archer rush to work above moderate AI. Even with 7-10 archers massed in late feudal, the AI always comes with 20+ units and overwhelms me :(

[@RysioACF]

Which civ / type of civ is the hardest to master?

[@krobro1627]

TEH AI REVOLUTION HAHAHAHAH

[@ar1sm70]

I can beat the Extreme AI, but only if I'm aggressive in Feudal Age and manage to do some damage or at least harass its Vills. If that doesn't work and the AI is "left alone" to boom, I can never beat them in late game... I would love if you could do a video, where you deliberately don't attack them early and try to beat it mid-Castle Age onwards.

[@gytux0258]

I think i beat it with a TC drop as persians. But im not sure. I dont remember exactly which difficulty it was

[@kooroshrostami27]

I actually beat the Extreme AI as a 500 ELO player with Persian douche. If you TC drop a spot which reaches their TC and berries, they will keep suiciding villagers and you win. I know it's cheese, but at least Ruben will be proud.

[@LuxMasakrator]

Pretty funny how extreme AI is hopeless against mangonels and don't even bother to try picking them off with vills but the moment they see rams they go berserker.

[@vinconssier4224]

I kept trying to finish him in fuedal, but he would always have a massive army of skrims and archers and would mop my army, then come and slowly kill my base. Now I know to just kill a few villagers and then go back home, wait for xbow, then come back and mop the fuck out of them

[@agustinfranco0]

me: "yeah, this doesnt look so hard" also me: * loses to moderate *

[@clintonalver2715]

So well thought out, everything is optimised but I have a question, if you were your own opponent for this game, how do you think you could have won against this strategy?

[@AzuSwe]

Drush or maybe m@a or scout rush to delay his archers to arrive to your base so you can wall up or even tower your gold. This is at least how i would have counter it.

[@HeraAgeofEmpires2]

Scouts into skirms or just pure skirms on defense, but then arch player switches to stable or longswords in castle. Game is very complicated at high level, no one strategy auto wins against another

[@EliasHasle]

@@HeraAgeofEmpires2 The opponent had a bunch of skirmishers, but they failed to meet in time where they were needed most. Also, unlike human players, the AI never walls properly.

[@krobro1627]

Teaching anything makes you better at it. Teach some 1k rating stuff please, also Ill sub for your PDF once I get paid

[@evanjacob8463]

I was kind of hoping to see fast castle into UU, hera. 😢

[@Agooddaytogame]

Is this possible on Xbox with controller? Seems almost impossible the last few times I’ve tried, just can’t pump out enough apm

[@xavierpironier59]

4.22 MISTAKE it costs 60 WOOD to make a farm, just add a note or sth, itll confuse new players else

[@HeraAgeofEmpires2]

Oh shoot good catch

[@xavierpironier59]

now if only i was as good at aoe as i am at catching others' mistakes xDD @@HeraAgeofEmpires2 btw i got an idea for your dc, start making a random monthly raffle, kinda like t90s commie games, but it'll be a random 2-5v1 with twists, and the way to enter is by a bot on your dc, or by dropping a comment on your ytb or so. it would take a bit of organisation, but you let the 'picked winners' make a group and you give them like a week to decide when they'd wanna do it (at times when you'd be playing anyway) 2 days after you picked the winner (could be at end of vid to boost the 'time peeps watch a video'), if sb hasnt replied, you draft new random peeps to fit into the missing one. if you were to do that, you could hold the raffle after 2 weeks so you'd for sure have peeps who wanna play and would be there. It'd also make interactions on both your video and wherever you're holding the draft bigger. now it would require some setting up and work on your end, but that'd be a cool way to keep new players coming in, kinda like how new players come into t90s community cuz theyve seen commie games and t90 explain everybody can join since it's a draft lmk whatchu think of the idea if you read this anyhow, Comanda out !

[@GreatComposer1]

On hardest I get to feudal at 10:00. Then i get 3 scouts and 2 militia as fast as possible and try to raid... but then at the same moment i reach his base i get a thousand of archers in my base trying to get in and its hard to attack and defend. I'm walled buy still if i dont defend i get more and more army at my base and the castle and well, everything is messed. idk how it seems so easy to beat EX IA.