Supremely Unexpected Game vs Extreme AI

The "Supremely Unexpected" achievement requires creating ONLY villagers as Spanish and still winning the game. Of course, Spanish have the Supremacy tech, so they have a fighting chance. I decided to try it out against the Extreme AI - surely, the AI won't expect it!
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Patreon: / spiritofthelaw
Game: Age of Empires II Definitive Edition

[@ameliacrossley8485]

the AI saying "gg wp" was the highlight

[@informitas0117]

I liked that it blamed it on losing a villager to the boar.

[@satyakisil9711]

At least it is not the feminist AI who would complain about having male villagers at the start.

[@onetwothreefour3957]

imagine it saying "no re", you start a new game and the ai on start immediately goes "reeee"

[@jellyfish0311]

@@satyakisil9711 i thought it was about them not reproducing

[@jayvishnuvenkatesh870]

Yeah does the ai do that?

[@naveenonpaper]

I got this achievement when I was just a noob with less than 10 hours in the game. It was a multiplayer game. I was a pocket in the black forest. And my allies finished the game by the time I started to boom and built some military buildings. Truly supremely unexpected, this one. But that was one hell of a game from SOTL though! Lots of love.

[@moxy4923]

well and now me with noobs can't win against hard ai

[@T-West]

Your Villagers reign supreme even when the AI is extreme.

[@DuringDark]

With reversed bereavement, You got the achievement, unexpectected was your scheme!

[@tvremote9394]

@@DuringDark good limericks like that are one of the reasons to live for honestly

[@abhishekparmar6702]

Colab with sotl

[@hansenhartono7426]

I never thought to see you here.

[@jayvishnuvenkatesh870]

I never knew u were here t west... hello

[@AgeofNoob]

SOTL overboomed here, way too many villagers Kappa

[@juliofranciscogomezstoppel1860]

We need a mod that makes supremacy give aggro when attacked (like boars). No formation or anything, just aggro. That alone would make the tech INCREDIBLY more usefull

[@filosofiaefecrista225]

Maybe vils could shoot too

[@MarcAmengual]

That would be too OP

[@unukbigwall2279]

damn, villagers at arms

[@poyloos4834]

That’d make them basically post-imp halbs with 20 more hp and no bonus vs cav I think. Idk the exact stats on supremacy though

[@juliofranciscogomezstoppel1860]

@@poyloos4834 i should check it again, but probably better than that, they are much better at taking out buildings. Halbs aren't great for raiding, but supremacy vilg are real monsters, close even to Huskrls given their cost.

[@RazorWinter]

I would like to see an future update where Supremacy gives Villagers an Aggressive Stance option

[@nemosgaze]

The easiest way to get this achievement is to do a 7vs1 game and just sit back and do nothing. Tested.

[@adwans1491]

Lol

[@VioletPrism]

Lmfaooo

[@frorkbrunk6422]

I did 1vs1 AI with post imp and instantly attacked him with my hussar and kept him from building anything.

[@Palmar.001]

I did it and built a wonder, then just castled like crazy.

[@nemosgaze]

@@frorkbrunk6422 That's too much work :P better let some allies do all that heavy lifting

[@ShiroAisu10]

Extreme AI vs SotL: "I shall defeat my enemy by building nothing but skirms :)" Extreme AI vs me: "Enjoy the cavalier, lol."

[@ignacio1171]

AI loves to spam archers and skirmishers in Feudal Age. It's insane how much they can mass

[@derrmeister]

it's kind of hard for incas to send cavaliers though

[@anthonygozali8058]

@@ignacio1171 huh, i thought i was the only one with this kind of problem

[@CrnaStrela]

@@derrmeister I'd resign immediately if they managed to spam cavaliers to me

[@lightingman117]

score lead, I tried this and led in score by a ton and AI attacked me with everything. I quit and retried with huge score loss. It attacked with skirms once...

[@GalteroLP]

Nobody expects the spanish supremacy

[@estellebright2579]

Or inquisition from villagers/peasants.

[@hathawaydj1]

Help help! I'm being repressed!

[@devilhearts007]

Can someone plz recommend some good AI for DE apart from default DE AI

[@rvkice23]

Our chief weapons are surprise, and pocket knives, and an almost fanatical devotion to the church!

[@Leitis_Fella]

Gotta love the Male villager's power stance when you tell him to attack something

[@kumisz2]

Holy crap, those villagers razed his base amazingly quickly.

[@7teen7t79]

Don't sleep on Supremacy

[@Namelesswhirl]

@@7teen7t79 Or Sappers

[@GraveUypo]

yeah looked like starcraft for a bit there

[@hansenhartono7426]

Everything gets messy very quick.

[@IschmarVI]

9 attack +18 vs standard building +21 vs stone defense yep, thats a siege army for you

[@kris1775]

Okay hear me out this must be a hint that new Supremacy movie trailer is coming

[@Spunney]

yeah, because why would THIS be the christmas video?? good catch XD

[@MohammedAl-Lamy]

We hope that, 25 years is a pretty long time for the movie

[@tvremote9394]

Only 25.5 years left!!! SUPREMACY HYPE!!!!!

[@devilhearts007]

Can someone plz recommend some good AI for DE apart from default DE AI

[@Spunney]

@@devilhearts007 why are you asking this on a month old youtube video's month old comment, both of which are entirely unrelated to the subject youre asking about?

[@RobtheYuppy]

Puts me in mind of the Shawshank quote. "I'd like to think that the last thing that went through the AI's head, other than that pitchfork, was to wonder how the hell Spanish villagers ever got the best of him."

[@digitalconsciousness]

ahahahahaha

[@alphaadhito]

AI: Nooo, you cant defeat me without the military! SOTL: *Haha, TCs goes sssh ho*

[@codiserville593]

Haha, great comment

[@nox_luna]

sssh ho

[@madarabindustries]

best comment

[@USMailman.]

joined a match and the other dude resigned immediately, and that's how i got the Supremely Unexpected achievement

[@HTJFilms]

Lol

[@fearanger1]

Love the horde of archers backing off immediately as soon as the tower they were aiming for was garrisoned.

[@jefffinkbonner9551]

28:53 "I think he's just up at the top, hiding at the north pole. How festive." lol

[@Hamanuna]

Merry christmas Spirit and for everyone too!

[@plastoaide]

Merry Christmas to you too dude, hope the holidays gives you chance to rest and recharge 🎄

[@helaba2957]

22:18 green thinking: “I do not like the looks of this”

[@jasv49]

0:24 hey guys, Spirit of the Achievement here

[@ironfur2000]

Something ive learned here is, when walling, to drag the build into the trees

[@yoyodude-aoe2726]

16:13 I think I am colorblind now. Thanks Spirit of the Law

[@SpaceMissile]

what did he do there?

[@yoyodude-aoe2726]

@@SpaceMissile look harder You will find it.

[@SpaceMissile]

@@yoyodude-aoe2726 I see the blue (obviously); I mean what button did he press? I didn't know you could swap colors on the fly

[@yoyodude-aoe2726]

@@SpaceMissile well dear that's the joke.

[@SpaceMissile]

@@yoyodude-aoe2726 jokes are supposed to be funny tho 🙄

[@no1ofconsequence936]

"Pictured, the great elf strike of 2020." I actually got this game for Christmas, so I'm excited. Probably going to try out the Bulgarians first.

[@WidespreadKnown]

"Hiding at the North Pole... how festive." haha

[@forgottenbow]

Top quote of the video right there!

[@anayshembekar5464]

16:14 Enemy's Skirmishers and Archers turns red for a sec

[@BMikesLife]

Legit thought I was color blind for a sec 😂

[@thealpacaa]

and his units turn blue!

[@gustavogoesgomes1863]

he pressed his key for friendly/foe color switch, he even lets a "woops" out

[@thealpacaa]

@@gustavogoesgomes1863 i didnt know there was a hotkey like that, whats that even for? why would you wanna change colours mid-game :p

[@HandsomeGamerGuy]

@@thealpacaa Makes all good and enemy player's the same colour, thats why.

[@jeffery_tang]

sotl: farm upgrades are overrated also sotl: gets them as soon as possible

[@nickstone1167]

*Spanish Supremacy horde comes over the hill.* Recipient: why do I hear boss music? Spanish Supremacy horde: CONCONCONCONCONCONCONSRTUI!

[@Mexican00b]

there needs to be a specific AI that solely goes full supremacy on a game... imagine a super hard AI controlling each villager as a regular army... no delayt btw attacks... that would be... op AF

[@GraveUypo]

@AlekzHertz i think he wrote op right supremacy villagers easily the best value unit in the game. if it could auto attack it would be broken beyond belief.

[@Wanderer1258]

13:51 That snowman scared me for a second. I like how Spirit won that game in pretty chill manner. 11

[@julianxamo7835]

I think supremacy vills should get special graphics, maybe attack with pitchforks or torches instead of knives

[@nickpavia9021]

The kitchen knives are funnier though

[@TopRanger237]

I could never pull such a thing off since I'm bad at mutlitasking in aoe. Also one thing for sure is that you won't need to worry about AI getting spies xD

[@willlewis6622]

"What did Spies cost?" Everything

[@ArawnOfAnnwn]

If you just want the achievement, just make a 7 vs 1 post-imperial game on a tiny map with All Visible. Then attack the AI with your starting units to prevent it from building up. It'll resign eventually. And if it doesn't, just sit back and let the other AI's finish it off.

[@reubendias18]

Literally every pro player when they miss something at the start of the game: "What a good start!"

[@tyranitararmaldo]

I was trying to get this achievement and do the winter challenge at once, but realised Christmas dinner was going to be soon and couldn't cut it that tight. So I had to just drop a castle on the ai's town centre called it a game xD

[@hotjavalava]

Actually taking out incan houses is better cause they lose 10 pop instead of 5 pop.

[@ThorsShadow]

But they will also need less houses to get that pop back up. It really doesn't matter. Incans get 10 pop per house built and lose 10 per house destroyed. Other civs get 5. The rate at which you get pops is the same at which you lose them.

[@nasusgg8274]

@@ThorsShadow Well yeah but u forgot building time and u assumed that they already have more than enough or can rebuild instantly which is not valid

[@ThorsShadow]

@@nasusgg8274 And you assumed I assumed something. A civ, that gets 5 pop per house ALSO has a building time and cannot rebuild instantly. What's your point? Yes non-Incans have to build 2 houses for 10 pop, but that was never the discussion made here. I'm talking about Civ builds house, house gives X pop, house gets destroyed, civ loses X pop. And this is the same for both Incans, where X = 10 and other civs (let's say Spain), where X = 5. On a "per-house" basis, it really doesn't matter. Incans gain as much population per house built as they lose per house destroyed. Spain gains as much population per house built as they lose per house destroyed. That was the entire point I tried to make. Both have building times and cannot rebuild instantly, so you can take that out of the equation.

[@nasusgg8274]

@@ThorsShadow I understand but what i mean That if are attacking and doing x number of damge The x number of damge is going to destroy y number of houses Spanish houses have double the value so that means your x number of damge/second is going to get hin closer to the food cap faster So if u can destroy 2 houses with that time and u are fighting a random siv u can only cost him 10 foodsupply and this is not enough to hit food cap But with vs them u are making him lose 20 which will reach the food block Now they need to rebuild Okay they may rebuild faster (2x speed) but this time he is going to lose production time for viligers or units In other sivs destroying 10 food supplies (2 houses for example) su is not a granted food block So the answer is yes it have more value because your dps is going to destroy more food cap per second and may increase the chances of making them hitting supply block

[@METALFREAK03]

@@ThorsShadow still worth attacking if you have 150 idle villagers.

[@AiurMedia]

kills extreme AI with workers faster than me killing hard AI with military

[@lucasgarcia5427]

Nadie esperaba un comentario en español Feliz navidad!

[@TPS19891225]

You made this meme strategy looks so easy against the extreme AI while i am having a hard time winning against hard AI playing normal. I kind of hate you for that LOL

[@cubbyhoo]

I just watched your "Tricks I use to play faster" video about making sure to use the market if your in the position your in in Feudal. Then I watched you with a market on screen and 200 wood wondering what to do to get 50 food to go up to castle xD A perfect illustration of your point 😊

[@pedroenriquetorressese4301]

During the Daut stream, there were two questions about the game. I'll let them here. 1º Does the hill advantage affect villagers when they are taking the boar? 2º Does the hill advantage affect villagers when they are cutting trees? (The hits before they collect wood)

[@TriRemo]

Yes and yes.

[@biaslina]

Yes and never tested that one before

[@kamikazefrancais]

Y E S

[@ad3z10]

I remember watching Viper get the achievement in a ladder game. The amount of micro required is insane but they are absurdly powerful when fully set up with 15-20 TC's pumping out vills, some civs (particularly meso) really suck against killing vills. They take twice as many FU arb shots as halbs whilst being cheap as chips and doing nearly as much building DPS as a mangonel.

[@MrChrissA]

The perfect Christmas upload! Merry Christmas, man.

[@thomaswielgus8609]

I got the achievement earlier today by trying the wonder race game mode with random civ, I only bought the game last week so it was indeed unexpected

[@madeiraislander]

i think we have different DE versions, this is like Moderate Ai for me. My extreme Ai booms like crazy and then 20 minutes in sends a swarm of cavaliers and champions my way lmao

[@demonlime4713]

I think the AI focused more on army because it realised sotl had no army and tried to finish off early that's why it didn't boom

[@IschmarVI]

sometimes the AI goes for that weird skirmisher archer spearman mass trash rush. sometimes the AI goes for completely wrecking the living crap out of you with knights. Its always the one you expect the least

[@spinyslasher6586]

The AI will either annihilate your existence with cavaliers and champions or get absolutely trashed trying to build skirmishers, there is no inbetween.

[@IOUaUsername]

I'd love to see you play Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds (a very similar RTS by Ensemble on the same game engine). It would be really interesting to see you finding your way around the differences and similarities with AoE2.

[@juanxg]

supremely talented

[@Palmar.001]

I've got to say, I thoroughly enjoy your breakdown videos, but I enjoy your gameplay ones even more if that is even possible. I hope you do more, even if they are just achievement runs in the campaign and custom battles!

[@kpeleent]

actually for most red-green colour"blind" people it is way harder to see the difference between: yellow and light green , blue and purple , pink and grey. that are mostly the troubled areas. i speak out of experience :)

[@Reg_The_Galah]

Neato mosquitoes

[@GraveUypo]

you speak out of your experience. not all colorblindness is the same. my father has trouble with orange and green, bright red and bright green, brown and green, purple in general. he said my brown dog was the same color as grass, which was super green at the time. and said my orange dune buggy was "avocado green" (granted it was a kind of faded orange, but very clearly orange for people with normal color vision), and also called a bright red jeep lime green.

[@niknitro8751]

Did you ever hear of Enchroma glasses? When you are colour blind that is, because the overlap of the spectrum of 2 of your colour receptors is to big and that confuses your brain. Thos glasses filter out that certain part of the spectrum and after a few minutes of wearing them you will see colours like someone who isnt colourblind.

[@jussi3378]

@@GraveUypodid he ever wonder why you got a green dog

[@Battledongus]

This was such a fun video and that's some impressive micro!

[@orbmac]

I also got that achivement yesterday in online game. They did dc before the game even started, probably in fear of the Spanish rush...

[@Fenet2000]

There is a much easier way: just lock the game to dark age and do a villager rush. The AI can't handle that. Villagers with loom are even better than militia.

[@yuthetinywitch4092]

but he wanted it to not be easy ;-;

[@kutaysirius5885]

İ did iti with starting from imperial age. with upgrading villagers research.And spammed villagers

[@shigekisun3922]

Set the AI to very easy. They surrender as soon as you kill any of their units

[@TheLive100]

actually milita attack quicker.

[@QWERTY-gp8fd]

@@TheLive100 they still lose to vill with loom

[@_extrathicc]

I got this achievement the other day in a ranked 1v1 game. It was hilarious.

[@mrguysnailz4907]

for a no castle drop attempt, you can try to wall your enemy in so you can force favourable fights

[@nick3xtremegaming212]

My Strategy to get the achievement was to play entirely defensively build up and economy and make my village as heavily defended as possible with walls, towers, and castles, then build a wonder and wait 500 years until I automatically win the game. might not be a popular method of completing the achievement but it worked

[@tommylau7457]

16:13 those skirms turned red for a quick sec

[@mozarteanchaos]

23:00 ah, the ol' forward university. classic

[@mauriciofontes]

Hahaha brilliant. I remember at one least one other SOTL video where he also built a forward univ. while fighting an Extreme AI.

[@mozarteanchaos]

@@mauriciofontes that's what i was referencing! i don't recall which video that was, but it's kinda funny to see that "strategy" pop up again

[@Jarethkun]

This was beautiful, Spirit :_) I really enjoyed it haha Thanks for the present and happy holidays!

[@Mr_Kiwi_the_Wizard]

You should do this as burgundy with the intent to do a flemish militia spam at the end.

[@benjamindonnot3902]

Really nice. And I'm just sitting here getting smashed by extreme AI 😂

[@antthegord9411]

What a great Christmas present, spirit mahman. Thanks!

[@dfhy65]

Every time i see you playing i feel like your making all the calculations of all your videos

[@TheKingWerwer]

These constant villager created noises are giving me asthma

[@sebastiancarrera4532]

SOTL: Hiding at the North Pole... [Mocking tone] How festive...

[@6zslim627]

I'm just here to like the video, SOTL commentaries are the best, have a paper tomorrow, will see the video after the paper. Keep the uploads coming!

[@mrm8896]

Its the time for forward university strat!!

[@gabrielclamens3151]

Ironic to see that one of spanish worst match up is Incas

[@MonsterHunter267]

Would be neat if there was a mod that can deploy garrisoned villagers as a unique villager-militia unit. They get a bit of armor and can come out as infantry or with their bows.

[@javierititin]

What an absolute mad lad. Merry christmas!

[@redcastlefan]

16:12 Anyone else think that they suddenly went color blind too ?

[@yahyamusseb]

Yeah I thought I was the only one but a lot of comments mentioning that too

[@lightingman117]

Thx, after seeing you do it, I tried. Went reasonably well! You're too right about score lead as I tried once and had score lead and AI crushed me. I did a 2nd time and just boomed quietly at home...was hard fought as they went eagles; but in the end I won. Got both achievements! :) woot.

[@Brian_Crow]

What?!?! I had no idea you could place a town center over a lumber mill! 13:58

[@FighterANB]

I remember that in one video, Spirit of the Law said gg to the AoE II HD edition AI, just in case if the robots ever organized an uprising, he would be on their good side. AI replying this time, made me think... What if Spirit of the Law actually was on to something?

[@deathglare2455]

I like the way you flexing your skill bro XD That was fun tho. Keep it up.

[@joachimelenador6259]

well played, I'm impressed by the speed you use shortcuts, thanks for video, see you next time :-)

[@AlbinoPanther]

The nice thing about a villager war is that the only resource you need is food!

[@EngMadison]

Spirit beats the extreme AI with villagers and castles. I still cant beat the AI on hard mode. Impressive, you make it look easy!

[@Namelesswhirl]

If you're fighting with villagers you need to fill your command groups.

[@aboalhasanal-lawandi269]

2:58 SOTL says “aaahh” just when the sheep says “maahh”

[@markhunter3533]

Merry Christmas dude!

[@Deneblikethestar]

This is like the equivalent of a promi diss track

[@IAmBael]

If anyone else is going to try this, keep in mind that villagers can be shift-queued to attack, unlike military units. Can help slightly with micro!

[@kgxkwk649]

It's a nomad map type achievement, I've met ranked players (low elo) that did actually fight only using villagers for first 50 minutes, after that losing one did make military so winning one did as well and completely shut him down :P (non of them was spanish though xD) Winner did two TC drops, first one was success and was random, as he didn't know enemy TC would be in range lol and other one was on purpose, as they did a lot of villager fighting so I guess he decided just to keep it up for fun and dropped another TC which was fend off and destroyed thanks to support tower. Anyway it was incredible to watch, especially that the winner didn't build first TC for long, putting two villagers on lumber and one on fish with port, then making some fishing ships and after he build TC he went straight faudal with still 3 starting villagers lol

[@NBsTube]

I love how the video's title sounds extremely clickbait but it's literally what you did

[@EliasHasle]

The TC at 11:22 opened up the whole base for a wave of cavalry... 😬

[@PyroBeef]

Merry Christmas and great video!!

[@RAMMY237]

Wow, AWESOME, that was a lot of fun!! ))) Thanks for the vid! ;)

[@niceaccount1234]

I was trying to get this exact achievement today. What a coincidence :)

[@flakstruk-8481]

I got it last night

[@Morrneyo]

Who needs conquistadores to conquer America when you have villagers?

[@satyakisil9711]

Out of everything the AI could've made, it chose skirms. That itself is Supremely Unexpected.

[@carbon1255]

Its built to counter you. Villagers have no counter.

[@satyakisil9711]

@@carbon1255 It has. It's called rushing.

[@eyadsalman1737]

You have gotten better with pushing deer technique 😂

[@vladleahu8657]

Spirit, my advice to maybe do this more efficiently just do some woden walls so you close his running around :)) I usually use this tactic walling around my opponent so he cant run or hide

[@aoefsmrap]

I'm just a casual player, and this is the first time I'm watching an expert player play. I'm confused by SOTL making a farm while he still has 4 sheep, a bunch of berries, and 3 deer available. What the hell, is this normal?

[@SpiritOfTheLaw]

This definitely isn't expert play, but adding a few farms in dark age is fairly common. Once the boar are done you usually have too many villagers to take from a sheep at once, so it helps to have a few villagers farming and makes the rest of them more efficient. Slowly adding farms also lets you avoid having to pay for all of them at once when the last sheep runs out, and means they won't all come up for reseeding at the same time later.

[@aoefsmrap]

@@SpiritOfTheLaw Thank you. Amazingly entertaining video by the way, I loved it. And I love you.

[@gravity8120]

*SotL:* _Wins with Villager Army_ *Statistics:* _Largest Army: 1_

[@OldVikingSchool]

Got my achievement being randomly Spanish and my opponent instantly resigns from building 2 mills at start.

[@StealthySpace7]

You had a larger and better build in 20 minutes than I have in 40 lol, I have a lot of work to do

[@togafu3681]

Merry Christmas everyone!

[@hordenmeisterAO]

I envy Spirit's dear pushes. With me, they never keep standing around for that long :D

[@GrannySoupLadle]

The AI said gg wp... that hit me in the heart

[@ericsmith9800]

This is one of the most entertaining things I have ever seen.

[@semi59o]

Having 801 food ready for castle Sotl: Horse collar it is. Otherwise how do I build more farm? I highly doubted sotl might have some OCD.

[@GraveUypo]

it annoyed me so much to have him click the last arrow upgrade like 4 times before it actually went through. he always used up all the food before trying to research it.

[@semi59o]

@@GraveUypo You seems to have a bigger ocd issue 11

[@niknitro8751]

One of the first Achievements i got on De. Also works against Humans in Ranked games both 1v1 and Team games. But I did it as Tower rush into decently fast Imp because getting to Imp is impossible otherwise.