Million Monk Strategy?

In this video I show you an interesting 1v1 that develops very differently for both players. One player decides to rely on monks, and the other expects it. Is expecting it enough when playing standard, or will the holy monks be too much to stop?
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This video was created under Microsoft's "Game Content Usage Rules" using assets from Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition, © Microsoft Corporation.

[@turais8865]

26:10 there's a sad face blinking in the minimap, which probably sums up red's feelings this game.

[@patriktragor7336]

lmfao

[@kherossilverlight8400]

omg this is so perfect

[@kavinarasu8197]

you are a legend dude lol

[@mysteriousshadow395]

111111111111111111

[@krishna1.097]

I saw this comment and this thing literally popped up at the exact same time.

[@LuxiBelle]

"You can't get armor against God"

[@docsurely6305]

God is going to get you

[@markburke1396]

Clearly he hasn't learned of 'Faith', or familiar with TEUTOOOOOOONS!

[@pathofbelisarius9709]

Kyrie Eleison!

[@CoranceLChandler]

@@pathofbelisarius9709 lol!

[@viniciusPatto]

Whats a god to a non believer?

[@jerryholden4317]

Damn he really went full Yololoo.

[@Shlonzs]

You forgot an O (wololoo)🤣

[@wildtrickster4135]

lmao good one

[@jerryholden4317]

@@Shlonzs good catch, edited appropriately

[@WestHaddnin]

Hahahahahha!!!!

[@brumedesuurey6151]

T90 : imagine how helpless you feel against this. Me : you know, I feel helpless whenever the enemy makes army

[@BlaDeKke]

"NOOOOO, my perfect city, with it's perfect layout."

[@adityashishodia5918]

@@BlaDeKke my ocd says yes

[@JR-do5cc]

I feel like this is something your older brother does to you after you’ve just started playing and he’s a veteran. No mercy. 😂

[@Connection-Lost]

Look at me. I am the older brother now.

[@whiter0473]

I thought the correct response was to hit alt F4 cause ain’t no one want to deal with that.

[@benwarford]

"It's turned into a team game!" LOL

[@matthewpopow6647]

T90: (shows blue base) This is the economy that won the game. No it wasn't, red's economy won the game for blue. Lol.

[@harukanan3565]

@@matthewpopow6647 😂😂😂💀💀💀

[@josiegoodwin2816]

Love how you know that we fall asleep to your videos lmao

[@le0fonzagoric164]

Why does he screams "Moreee monks! Moree mooonks!" Like a madman, and two seconds later calm as ice.

[@Keelyn1984]

For me it's the other way around. I wake up around the time his videos come online so they are the first vids that run on my third screen when I start working.

[@Martyste]

That's what I literally just did tonight and I had to rewatch XD

[@joedjudge]

@@le0fonzagoric164 because he is the king of cringe :D

[@hippocratesm.d.1543]

@@joedjudge stfu hater 😅

[@RaynmanPlays]

To everyone reading this: May your conversions be lucky ones.

[@Sirinoks8]

WOLOLOOOOO

[@Connection-Lost]

The scout line requires a minimum of 10 conversion attempts before it will allow a conversion. Every other convert-able unit is pure RNG. The only other rule is a conversion is guaranteed on the 20th failed RNG. That one applies to all including scout line.

[@brayden9908]

Hey T90, I actually enjoy seeing the chat and you interacting with them a lot in your stream vids! I work a busy schedule, so I can’t watch the streams often, but being able to see the chat and you interacting with them and stuff makes me feel like I’m not missing out.

[@Real_MisterSir]

agreed T90 chat is so wholesome compared to other Twitch chats 11

[@alicekohler9405]

@@Real_MisterSir shut up

[@roberthandle]

@@alicekohler9405 2

[@Real_MisterSir]

@@alicekohler9405 22

[@alicekohler9405]

@@Real_MisterSir 8

[@Pepenosoy]

23:35 the moment red gets so tired of monks he delets his own

[@TheCzimp]

Fire_de is from Germany and was also a professional Warcraft 3 - Player. I think he played for SK Gaming in like 2005ish

[@SchrodingerMil]

I’d swap to AoE too. Warcraft is dead and buried at this point.

[@Keelyn1984]

Thanks, I wondered why this name sounds so familiar!

[@gerg5555]

Well that checks out because this game definitely feels Nili man...

[@Toonrick12]

@@SchrodingerMil Ironically, killed by it's OWN "Definitive Edition"

[@TheVindicar]

I'd appreciate a visual mod that replaces monesteries with circuses and monks with clowns. That would be... suitable. X)

[@satyakisil9711]

Red didn't optimise his eco at all. He had no idea what was going on. I was hoping for a second castle which he could have easily placed with his excess stone and treb the monks out of their range or something. He was clearly bamboozled by that many monks.

[@FortuneTellher]

Fire's light cav needing to jump on Modri's monk army early is just like Star Craft Brood War when Zerg and Protoss need to just throw unit after unit at Siege Tank armies to keep them from getting too huge to stop.

[@MikeHesk742]

Red had so long to prepare after seeing that many massed monks, and he made 18 light cav? Against 20-30 monks + pikes + siege? Thank goodness he used all that extra time to make more villagers and boom more

[@user-nv1px1ob6g]

yeah all I could think was make some more light cav, come on think fire_de think!

[@saiashwin26]

He didn’t know he had so many monks. It’s very easy to judge when you spectate and have an omnipotent view.

[@harukanan3565]

@@saiashwin26 indeed vro

[@Gaboxxy96]

@@saiashwin26 he did know. At a couple of times he was able to see that there was at least a dozen monks, which is a good indication that there was more to come, and he chosed to boom instead of massing light cav, even when light cav is very cheap and if massed highly effective against monks; he stuck to what, 15 at a time?

[@cptnscoob]

Im happy my ELO is shitty enough I don't have to deal with this lol

[@DanishCamp]

A mangonel shot at that monk behind pallisades garrisoning would have been sooo satisfying

[@ingrowsmith5148]

Awww, don't leave out twitch chat! Knowing that the cartoon terrier of possible demonetization is snapping its teeth in the corner of the video makes the experience just that much more "interactive"! Plus we get warnings for T90 being blind, farms, salmon, and strategic 3 archery range islands!

[@BlaDeKke]

i 2nd this, i think twitch chat is too valuable to leave it out.

[@patrick9498]

Realizing at the end of the game that they both had the same civ with this outcome was mind-blowing

[@EvergrowingYT]

Not only a very interesting game but also your comedy factor this video was awesome, had some good laughs :) keep it up

[@ryanvlastos4097]

“Dont let youtube know your here chat” as we all witness him get rid of them😂

[@NeverWokeNotASoiBoy]

This is exactly how i played it when this game first came out, a squat of Monks with light cav and a trebuchet - worked wonders

[@MystmaxkinnTV]

Loved the commentary at the very end when you say red eco is working for blue. It's a team game now lmao.

[@beanofknowledge2125]

Nice seeing this KZbin-exclusive content, never before shown on Twitch

[@dark_mage2]

I couldn't help thinking that building mass skirmishers against mass monks would have been a better choice especially if you have the better economy. After all, they can only convert one unit each and skirmishers are less effective against themselves than light cavalry are.

[@mrkv4k]

the main problem with that is range and speed.

[@QuietThePro]

He went Yololo with the Wololo to be a Trololo

[@X9Z17]

Seeing this reminds me of playing Red Alert 2 and just hiding Yuri's around my base in tricky to see spots, like behind buildings, trees, walls, etc, and then the opponent waltzing in only for their armies to start turning on themselves 🤣🤣

[@jishb2505]

Absolutely loved your casting on this one

[@alecluna4921]

I don't mind the bloopers 🤣👌 love your coverage on these games

[@markdowse3572]

Ahhh, thank you T90 !!! 🙏 What a GREAT game! 👍 I do really enjoy watching players try a new strategy. This is superb! 💎😃

[@PhirenFayt]

this was sheer clownery and i loved it

[@Adunapheth]

I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if MbL suddenly cried out in terror

[@lobolarson1333]

Drunk t90's math is impeccable😂😂 11

[@alpercetiner949]

I fell like I am busted when T90 mentions that people watch his videos to fall asleep. :D

[@soopaman2]

T90 makes a game I barely played, am not good at, very entertaining. Good caster.

[@robertpearce2064]

What mod/setting is used to get the line and triangle for each unit a monk is converting?

[@SuperSuccessfulTroll]

Just watched Feitoria rush vid and now millimonk strats LETS GOOOOOOO T90 dont stop you da MAN LETS GOOOOOOO

[@jasond.valentine5931]

just how hurt he sounded when he said "fall asleep to my videos, is okay" made me laugh out loud. Damn Tristan , I love this guy.

[@CoranceLChandler]

This is probably my favorite match so far

[@wheneverwherever2088]

He should have used either cavalry archer or onagers. Send a dozen onagers over, 2-3 hits its game over for the monks.

[@hankhillsdisappointedsigh]

How can you see the monk line of sight and target? Is that only for casting purposes or an in game mod?

[@jackierobinson7838]

12:23 woolooloo 😂😂😂😂

[@ohlookanotheraccount]

This game was absolutely brutal. I would have been SO tilted in red's position!

[@MikelKiriakos]

It seems to me like red sholdve gone onager and skirms to attack at distance. I think at that point he was heavily committed to scouts to think laterally

[@krazegaming9601]

Dang, How'd you know that we fall asleep watching your vids. Lol

[@threewestwinds]

Fire_de had so many good chances to engage against those monks, but kept backing off. It was painful to watch as he kept letting it spiral further out of control. ^^;

[@leer.4747]

He was hoping to catch Modri while he was looking at his eco, but Modri always reacted nearly instantly. Fire_de was correctly dodging losing engagements. Those monk conversions come in faster than you'd expect. Fire_de should not have invested in armor or pikes, and probably should have gone for heresy, but monk pushes are difficult to play against, and it's easy to second-guess the pros after they lose.

[@snarkygnome619]

Fire lost like I usually do: due to underproducing. He had the res and time to make an army of 50+ xbow to clear that up and instawin.

[@viniciusrodrigues1689]

I will always feel call out when a youtuber knows that I fall asleep to its videos

[@RUSSKIization]

just when you think you ran outa crap to watch on youtube the almighty algorithm get you hooked again

[@jamessvenningsen3769]

I dont mean to fall asleep, but I rewatch it when I wake up haha

[@littlerockbeltone1653]

When i first played aoe2 in the 90's this was how we always played, we knew monks were the meta.

[@modern5387]

Actually fell asleep to a LEL video earlier today, was an excellent experience. Would recommend

[@mikeyBe9]

Get well soon, man

[@partlycurrent]

24:10 Modri is dishing out some 2005 memes "ALL YOUR BASE BELONG TO US!"

[@siamesedreams1991]

Took a hiatus after playing this when I was in grade 5 or so since the Xbox port. My God, this works so well :D

[@aaronu2951]

I actually like reading chat on your video. please keep them for future vids

[@zeruzio1345]

Get better soon big fella.

[@josephstevens5489]

I actually hoped mid imp after the relic heist that red could push back and a new phase fair fight would begin of 1tc & 5 relics vs 4(?)tc & 0relic

[@balazsadorjani1263]

aoe 2 de yt tutorial: how to extinguish fire with the sheer willpower of god

[@dustinmoyer3337]

I dont play aoe2 since the early 2000s but i damn sure watch it! Most dominating game everp

[@matthieuleon310]

Just tried that at just 1k elo, the other guy held well and responded correctly so I cheated by adding some pikes then leitis. But 13m48 castle age with monks pumping out so fast is really fun. At some point I also bought like 800 food to get to imp. Anyway, I normally hate arena but it can be fun to go full clown strat

[@versipelio3623]

this man is a legend

[@nostalgicdouchebag1912]

I think you should make a series called *player's* Million *units* , Viper had one, you can add this one and make more in the future

[@NaldoP2C]

Love the KZbin content, and no stream chat calling me pleb😟. Also love how it was a secret he'd use monks but it was in the title.

[@kristianlykke]

I pray you are well T90 and that you are healing quickly from Covid. Take Care. We love you

[@mohammadmehaboob7055]

Do you think going maybe xbow would be better? They can snipe monks a bit easier due to range I think.

[@Tommy1nnovates]

That was awesome!

[@SeaBomb]

Why do the Lithuanian monks talk so sensually?

[@kenknowler5379]

red needed to sneak a mongonel or 3 to flank the monks when he attacked

[@hamstersmash]

i actually do sleep to these videos though lol

[@WSGtr12]

"Monk! I need a monk!"

[@Smith.S.E.]

Imagine being forced to play against that clownage

[@Thomas1238fedor]

Imagine making mangonels

[@Kokokekko7]

@@Thomas1238fedor yeah, imagine giving blue free mangonels

[@seedmole]

>makes light cav >too many monks, what do? >makes halberds? it plays out like the meme comic where the guy's riding a bike and shoves a stick into his own spokes

[@123feuerschwein]

16:28 hey T90 that is the new box formation to protect your monks ✌🏻🙃😂 Haven’t you heard of that?

[@AngeloMorandini]

Lmao this was so epic I didn’t even sleep while watching it

[@kOaMaster2]

fire_de aka [pG]fire aka Andrew Regendantz was the best German (well actually he's Australian) Age of Empires player back in the days around 2000-2004. Among other things, he qualified for the WCGC in 2000 (probably one of the youngest players back then), twice for the WCG 2001 and 2002 in AoE2 (reaching quarters each team I believe), won the AoM WCG in 2003 before then eventually switching over to WC3 where he was also quite successful for sk mid 2000s. you can even watch him winning the WCG on youtube here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/g3nTk6Kqq8lshq8 So in terms of history, definitely one of the best AoE2 players up there

[@AR-qc9bw]

True story!

[@gadgetkarepro7831]

how to get this mod, to look interface like yours?

[@sergeantmemeswaraj7048]

One of the topic I am interested is in best slingers, not factional but aor/merc

[@Camtrain1989]

Them: "Wololooo" Me: "Wololooo" You: "Wololooo" Us: "Wololooo"

[@sparda169leon]

t90, why must you wake me up at the end when you call us out :P Now I must go watch hc4 stuff to fall asleep :(...making me watch more videos just to fall asleep. You are a sneaky content creator lol I probably would have just went, "well, time to counter with the real counter. Monk wars!" Yeah, I'll lose, but it'd be glorious.

[@acg6350]

I like chat, and I like youtube only videos. This wasn't either, but it was both at same time.

[@baerververgaert1308]

I've been literally awake for one minute.

[@muteunmute5902]

Wouldnt heresy for red, have been a descent counter, since then all the troops wouldnt switch hands

[@beetoven8193]

Excellent game!

[@socks876]

I'm no where close to an AoE expert on how much things costs or strategies but...it looked like red wasn't trying do anything military wise. He's stockpiling wood and gold into the 1000s while he's being attacked and having buildings destroyed. Why did he not also get heresy so his units would die as well also?..

[@Que-F1-23]

I understand for you T90 that it is saver to upload content to KZbin without the Twitch chat. However, as someone who doesn't always has the time to watch you on Twitch that chat always gives some extra humor to the video's. I missed Twitch chat :(

[@atharvanayak3880]

Why didn't Fire drop 2 stables instead of 2 monasteries and prevent modri to reach the unbeatable comp of halbs and 40 monks?. He could have taken favourable engagements in the early stages with greater scout numbers. He should have stayed 1 TC IMHO.

[@averestless]

13:08 Murmansk!!

[@landoncore92]

Damn if I didn't fall asleep watching T90 last night

[@rodgeriangames]

"This is the Eco that won the game" i cant stress enough how funny it is you keep saying that. :D

[@wtf1313wtf]

How do you appear in a low elo legends video or community games?

[@benjaminloyd6056]

Red needed onagers and commit to more army (light cav.) I think he was afraid of overcommiting.

[@dorondenson6535]

Watching this at 5 am before work

[@letswaveabook3183]

I think there are a lot of people around here that think Goth spam outproduces a monk rush. Actually I think the monk player has the advantage on 1v1 arena. I used to be an arena player and I can remember one game where I was Britons vs Goths. I imagine him thinking:´´ I boom and I outspamm easy points!´´. My opponent did not like monks in the end of that game. I also was monk rushed once as Goths by Saracens, which did not go well for me either.

[@Harun-bj6js]

Modri really knows how to do monk rush

[@audigex]

“He has the score lead, he has the population lead”... but he doesn’t have the wolololead

[@alexweisbeek5335]

During one of your recent videos I fell asleep. And apperently so did the player as you started shouting hello? hellooo? heeelllooooooo? which woke me up. Literrally unwachtable.

[@jliller]

An Arena spawn where one side of the base was actually the edge of the map!

[@RobotShield]

I for sure would not cope well with this. But knowing all the info and looking back with hindsight; why didn’t firede make more light cav than 6 or 8?

[@nullifier_]

My guess is that he was trying to boom with two TCs spamming villagers, so basically no food to spare.

[@leer.4747]

Fire_de was really struggling for food. He built a stable, 2 monasteries, and a town center, and that left little wood for farms to feed all those scouts and villagers. You can watch him struggle to keep up production in the top left corner.