So You Want To Play Cumans

Such a unique and powerful civ, enjoy!
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[@HeraAgeofEmpires2]

Trying out this premiere shit to see what its about lmao. If you guys like it, ill do it for every So you Want To Play from now on

[@rynominnie83]

I has the sad now... Clicked on the vid immediately when I saw it in my sub feed - even before the thumbnail showed properly only to find that it's a Premiere happening in 13 hours' time :( Gonna have to come back later then I guess On using Premieres: I think they will be a great way to tease video releases like this or other KZbin-only content - perhaps not uploads of regular ranked match streams so much. Would make it even better if you are reading and responding to the live chat while it's premiering. End of the Premiere will also be a great time to tell those in the "live" chat that you are about to go live on Twitch and they should go over there NOW

[@Fritsch90]

I dont like it. We watch the stream together but YT should be Click and Play

[@prathamingale7436]

Don’t like it either, it’s like i’m getting teased about the video

[@Pantera1001]

nah dont do it, i think it's useless. I persoanlly see all your vids as soon as they re updated and i think pretty much everyone else does the same

[@atomickipachaka821]

It's a nice idea but it might be better for exclusive KZbin content. Maybe a good way to keep content coming while lessening the pressure on you by making vids in advance and just staggering the release. Might be better if the alerts were more clear (hopefully something YT works on in the future).

[@TheDebater94]

*exhale* "KZbin does not pay enough for that kind of cont-" - Hera, 2020 Thanks Hera for making us this great vid!

[@maxter328]

*for that kind of crap Makes the sentence way better

[@HeraAgeofEmpires2]

Lmao

[@AnthonyNewen]

Yeah dude they dont but please keeping making these, this series is so good

[@HeraAgeofEmpires2]

@@AnthonyNewen ofc i will i was just kidding. KZbin is fine

[@AnthonyNewen]

Hera - Age of Empires 2 🤟❤️

[@danielbrown9813]

Dude i love the 'so you want to play' series, i think a cool collab would just be linking to SOTL videos for the relevant civ and (hopefully) vice versa. Again, thanks for all the great content!

[@jasperry.6254]

Love this Format :) keep it up Hera

[@sanyalitvyak9571]

I really think this is a great series and I enjoy the videos a lot! They are very instructive to new players. How about doing Aztecs or Franks next? They are really popular beginner civs so I think a lot of people would profit from some high level insight! I'd also love Huns :)

[@SuperSorcerer]

ב"ה Another important devensive ability of cumans is when they need to do a mangonel defence early on castle age, because they can build the siege workshop on their way to castle age and start producing mangonels as soon as they get to castle age. This is precious time when you are on defence when doing two town centers boom.

[@user-lu4ho6ie6x]

I would be happy to learn more about the Magyars. Loved to play them for there powerfull scout rush. But often I miss options/answers with them and I'd love to see an expert opinion about that

[@corneliusfriedrich4353]

Oh Hera, you are the only youtuber (for Age) where I have to slow down the speed of the video and still have to repeat many passages to be able to understand what you're saying... chill man :-D

[@trevorp875]

Tatar next? Love the speed and unit comp. Get to use those slow to fire CA's.

[@antoinepfen9904]

Hey man, really enjoying your videos ! I would love to see a So You Want to Play Magyars

[@Crushnaut]

Hoping for a Khmer vid next :) i think they are a really interesting civ, lots of options and the possibility for a really fast castle age

[@2010Failbrids]

Please no Khmer is brainlet civ way too strong and thus extremely boring

[@theovermansailor5519]

@@2010Failbrids agreed

[@cwmcamilo]

Hello From Colombia amazing channel Hera, congrats. I really like the Magyars, if you want to make a video of them for this serie, wil be cool.

[@Kreege]

I'm loving this series! Looking forward to the Celts edition whenever it happens.

[@szymonkuzniar501]

Hey Hera, I would not have anything against you showing us how to play the Magyars next :)

[@matsu11177]

Yes pleas

[@lucasb1904]

Amazing video Hera. Keep going bro

[@exinexi]

These tutorials are very useful for beginners that can micro like Hera

[@zyajs1106]

Best series ever. Keep it up

[@anirudhv5940]

Hey man I watched this live on stream and tried cumans a few times,I have to ask-Do you think kipchaks are good in imp? Like knights siege into cavalier seems to work much better with the cuman 2 tc boom than kipchaks do.I feel like kipchaks do nothing in imp,even with a hussar meatshield

[@Zircillius]

Hera at 22:50 : "I'm never lucky." 5 seconds later, game breaks and lets him kill a vil on the other side of a wall lol.

[@mauriciom5555]

you are right jajajajaj best comment so far!!

[@griffinj1204]

Your videos are awesome, you’re a great teacher of aoe2

[@pillbox2079]

Hey, Hera! I have watched most of your episodes of this series. I wonder how to play Britons. I mainly play Bulgarians, but I feel like they have limited options for their strategies.

[@matheusgaldino3976]

Hello Hera! Great content man. If you could do Japanese or Magyars would be great.

[@archae0n656]

Id like to see a how to play celts as so far I only know how to Hoang, except im not Hoang. I wish i was Hoang.

[@VonKrauzer]

Don't we all?

[@juliendaligault1787]

Haha you had me laughing soo hard at 22:59 "BILL GATES...WHAT HAPPENED" XD

[@derikaem8021]

What do you think about MAA+rams in feudal? Seems more sensible to me than scouts/archers+rams, since it is harder to counter and you can also garrison the MAA into the rams

[@cybersteel8]

I'd love to see a feudal age siege workshop with rams to prevent your opponent getting into castle, that'd be a heck of a match to watch

[@paulybuschmann819]

Lithuians would be cool for next time. Hey great series by the way!!

[@guilhermebraga9773]

I have literally just discovered your channel. Great game there. I havent played the expansions yet, but from the looks of it, they “feel like the Mongols”. Who is better now? Mongols, Cumans, Tatars or Huns?

[@lukasg4807]

Killing the villager through wall is how the game has always worked. You can fight diagonally if they're at the corner, same way you can kill a tower if they only walled the sides

[@fernandoduarte4143]

Hi Hera! What about picking Celts on the next So You Want To Play? 😁

[@miaowmiaowchowface]

why did you make a "spearman to keep him open?" I didn't understand that part. Thanks!

[@CapnWilly]

First time back to AoE2 in 20 years. Love this series. Would love to see it updated with the new balances and the Roman civs. PS: Really enjoyed your gameplay in KoTD5, and Nations Cup.

[@nymets1104]

great video

[@HimanshuJindal1989]

This was really useful. You should do portugese. I find them pretty hard to play with

[@GermanLoLVidz]

23:00 "Bill Gates" AHHAHAHA

[@jimmylok]

My reaction seeing a new video "So you want to Play" : 14 14 14 14 My reaction after clicking the video and its a premiere: 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7

[@SM-bb4hx]

My reaction after reading your comment : 11 11 11 11 11

[@prathamingale7436]

Hey hera, why don’t you use the community tab “voting” feature for this, the results might be easier to see.

[@HeraAgeofEmpires2]

Because i dont have 35 options for the poll. When there are less civs left. Like the last 4 or 5 i can do that

[@prathamingale7436]

Hera - Age of Empires 2 you could always just choose 5 that you would like to do and do those in the poll, but yea until there are less civs the comments seems like the way to go

[@tomasangel797]

Hera, you may be lacking in the push ups department but your content is great as always. Keep it up! Ps: Italian Civ masterrace.

[@aaronishappy]

Would love to see Burmese. I'm all for the unorthodox civs in AoE and Burmese fit that with their high powered inf, monks, elephants, siegecav and Arambai. Or Turks, what seems to be the most unpopular civ in the game!

[@hahahanicce]

thats because turks are muslims

[@demiserofd]

Could you use Cuman Mercenaries to feint like you're going into elite kipchaks and then pivot into something that counters their counter, instead? They let you get elites without needing the research.

[@daniele7406]

Discord bot: "hey guys check out Hera's new video" KZbin premier: Go fu*k yourself, come back tomorrow Twitch Vods: ...yo

[@fenrisvarg5563]

Finally!

[@lukasg4807]

What should you do if you already opened fuedal against cumans and you see they're going for the 2tc boom?

[@tobiasmittermeir5803]

Would you mind doing a Build Order Video for the Map Four Lakes?

[@tag180rotax]

Theory- Cuman scts into map control into siege shop fwd on the way up to super fast mango push How does this sound?

[@RaggedyHead]

Man I really wish I watched it live, but my internet was too much for me too handle and I rage quitted.

[@markmcnair5864]

Fire

[@EHCordes]

means it is live or what is it?

[@ZippoHappy]

nice format, next berbers pls

[@PauxloE]

16:55 pushing deer with scout and scouting with sheep - I wonder whether it's possible to do it the other way around, i.e. push the deer with a sheep (or goat, in this case)? It is likely slower, but you lose less time on your scout. Not a comment about the video, but about the presentation of the tech tree: 3:44 We know that Cumans can get siege workshops + battering rams in Feudal age, but the tech tree still shows both in Castle age. They should have been moved one age up (and the capped ram Imperial → Castle age).

[@BodkinArrow]

You cant push deer with sheep, the deer dont run away from sheep.

[@user-ky7jf7wi5y]

@@BodkinArrow However, they will bump off of them. So you can build a sheep-path for your deer to run through.

[@braintv495]

Nice Counter

[@MrHeorhe]

Can you do magyars next?

[@alokinrainborn]

there's no Geneva Convention for AOE2 crimes, so...

[@LawHawk-pu3is]

Magyars or Lithuanians next would be great!

[@stebanjack]

So you want to play Berbers next, please

[@lucaa.6406]

I spoiled it by going to the twitch 😂🤣

[@jii9991345]

My vote is for Khmer next. I just think they're neat.

[@andyh7777]

I want to get aoe2 but watching how fast you click about is scary! Is it hard?

[@imakebeatsxwillfrmda6230]

It's not a hard its just alot to focus on starting out

[@AnthonyNewen]

Tatars!

[@lucianopugliese2747]

Hera, please do lithuanians next

[@obastob5]

How to counter mass halbs?

[@beng8079]

Byzantines please

[@mattiaracca1272]

Thanks Hera! what about Celts or Khmer next?

[@adnanhuzaifa6391]

omg this is my favourite civ

[@sebastianbrauer608]

BRITONNNNNS

[@Polux77]

Huns next pls. The start is weird. Thanks for the video as usual!

[@diegeigergarnele7975]

Huns start is easier than normal. Chinese start is weird

[@vladimirmarkovnikov8729]

Quick question; will turks be able to produce imperial skirmishers if they have a Vietnamese ally?

[@mastodonstrengthandperform6346]

no, unless the game starts post imp

[@tengu6160]

No to upgrade to Imp Skirm you need to get the Elite Skirm upgrade first

[@mastodonstrengthandperform6346]

however turks get fantastic genitours with a berber ally, giving them great trash option

[@nemes1s_aoe]

Nice one! Lets not take those bugged snipes it can only be considered unethical. Lets go Burmese next

[@derik4126]

Let's go with khmer for the next episode!

[@aoba421]

Hoping for Japanese next

[@jonathanedwards9981]

Dont want him todo japanese, because then he'll expose their POWER

[@sireagle60]

Awesome Series Hera! Love Spanish. Please do “So you want to plat Spanish!”

[@dsanzo]

Man, Hera needs to BREATHE. Talks way too fast without taking breaks.

[@andresmiranda6762]

Byzantine

[@rickwandre]

Aztecs pls The Gods are hungry for sacrifice

[@danielmcgann86]

Aztecs

[@senpinali]

Next one should be turks

[@Lohabquas]

if I don't see Malay next I will be disappointed in KZbin community

[@cannaba420]

Please do CELTS!

[@CasaVoid]

Killing the quickwall vil is OK imo, but if you try to figure out how to do that so you can abuse it more often that's not OK. Unless you only figure it out to report to Microsoft and don't abuse, of course.

[@R1C4RD097]

huns next

[@s3vro_au_barca864]

attack thru wall~~screw it

[@theimperialowl1011]

My vote goes to the Lithuanians. One of my favorites and I'd love to hear your thoughts.

[@MohammadHossainMD]

Cuuuuuuuuumans

[@capybara9351]

Malay in landmap

[@MultiMajoris]

@milian_aoe danke mein Enkel!

[@martinteasdale542]

Khmer !

[@WiggglezMr]

It wasnt enough to just HD the game, they had to complain about balance to only introduce new civs that are not even close to being balanced. Remember Yuri from RA2? Yea its like that basically. Thanks for the HD re "build" and not a re "make".

[@jakegingrich7214]

What about youtube not paying enough lol

[@wackiechan300]

How's this a hera series without the huns?

[@ThangHuynh10]

I think he gg because he accidentally deleted 1 of the TC at the end. He already has 3 TC and is building the 4th one.

[@50-FIFTY]

Magyars please

[@jano6156]

Do Berbers and Indians!

[@alian6965]

Lithuanians plz

[@kylepersing3327]

magyars

[@mihaibelu3912]

Next should be the magyars plecase!!!

[@mihaibelu3912]

*please

[@scones9294]

I'd love to see Turks next

[@SchlimmShadySmash]

turks pls

[@theovermansailor5519]

Japanese next

[@777Gam]

I would like to see Malay, Tatars or Khmer

[@alejandrocanelo3058]

ceeeeeeeeeeeeeelts