The AoE2 Game You'll HAVE to See to Believe!

[@tomthaxter161]

Me here at 1000 elo thinking that a 5 TC boom is what will win me games. Dracken demonstrating how 0 TC all in is what actually wins games.

[@Humanoidable]

You can't get 5 TC if the other side is all in

[@nothanks7475]

All in counters 5TC on arena. 3 TC is safer until you know what's going on.

[@shanerooney7288]

Persians, 0 TC all in douche.

[@tomthaxter161]

@@nothanks7475 All valid points which is exactly why I'm stuck at 1000 elo

[@pumppupappi]

you dont need tc if there is feitorias

[@birisuandrei1551]

Jokes on you T90 im watching this blindfolded.

[@Dave_The_Musical_Fisherman]

Now I'm wondering if their is a blindfolded speedrun of certain campaigns

[@christopherluke9658]

Good job writing that.

[@christopherluke9658]

I guess he can’t read this

[@SIGNOR-G]

@@Dave_The_Musical_Fisherman play Jan Zizka but blindfolded to get in the part.

[@birisuandrei1551]

@@Dave_The_Musical_Fisherman of other games, yes, of aoe2.... I doubt it...too hard and unpredictable

[@iambestthankyou]

29:26 T90: I know a lot of people are gonna say gg 31:51 Lierry: gg

[@DataIsBeautifulOfficial]

That was insane!

[@Zipped_in]

wat

[@Ayush-_-Sinha]

you have 1.38 mil subs !!

[@punbug4721]

Data starts at 33:30

[@Yora21]

I haven't really looked at the Portuguese yet, but them massively converting units is very historically appropriate. :D

[@varunmanjunath9123]

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[@nathanfranks1476]

They say clownery leads you down the path to powers some may consider….unnatural

[@markdowse3572]

Might it make a person a "JOKER"? 🤡 Ha ha ha M 🦘🏏😎

[@publicalias8172]

@@markdowse3572 Let me help you find the door.

[@markdowse3572]

@@publicalias8172 What the f*ck do you even mean?

[@unimportantcommenter4356]

Is there a way to learn such power?

[@horaceweatherby2910]

It’s not a story the Low ELO Legends would tell you…

[@DaylnBryant]

whole series was unbelievable, new Dracken fan.

[@PSTR.]

Omg, I couldn't take my eyes off this game till the very end. Insane game

[@metroidragon]

It was really confusing how dracken survived for so long until I googled what a faetoria did. Now that 13 eco doesn't seem so bad.

[@spinyslasher6586]

Feitorias are honestly quite broken.

[@RKBock]

@@spinyslasher6586 depends. they need time to pay off and are slower than the pop they replace. so... they are situational, but at elos which are unable to handle 100+ eco, they are definitely a force

[@spinyslasher6586]

@@RKBock yeah they're made for ultra late game situations where gold runs out . But in those situations, they're quite powerful.

[@bernard3303]

Plus he had 5 relics which is like 5 imperial age villagers on gold, with 4 feitorias that is like 9 - 10 villagers on gold and a bunch of guys on other resources

[@TimtrisTV]

Ended up buying AOE 2 DE because of your podcasts T90 and i have noone to play with or whatsoever but this game is a nostalgia to me so its still worth it and gonna enjoy it. Thanks for the podcasts and great work as usual

[@Mr_King96]

That's almost like a LEL game, at 20 minutes Dracken still doesn't have a single blacksmith-tech

[@covertjoshua9485]

He had the right idea of attacking blues base, but if brought some villagers over, they could dropped a castle inside there as well, and then tried to use both bases to echo from for the next army units.

[@dropeli]

I'm so glad i found this channel! I loved AOE since it came out and played it along with Eve online. Wasted too many years on Eve and should've just researched AOE to AOE2, lol

[@xxabc4xx]

Who else laughed at the wolf chasing Liereyy's knights into Drackens base? I for sure did.

[@Slothiz]

T90woo

[@gletscherminze9372]

This game I will never forget. It was pure peak performance in its own way!

[@adampiche9038]

Even though this was on T90 Extras, Imma watch it again bc T90 is bae

[@AS91ist]

The moment Liereyy had knights+crossbows and didn't do rear attack to kill those monks cost him gg.

[@bont3]

Really a great game, gladly watch it all over again

[@theodentherenewed4785]

Wow, this is an insane game. Liereyy adapted extremely well, just got too greedy with going imp. I think he should''ve kept on making army.

[@arandomwalk]

Good to see Dave back

[@amosdraak3536]

Me, too. He’s already great to have around.

[@historyben7122]

First full game I've watched in a while. Absolutely brilliant!

[@pax6833]

Draken almost threw the game when he failed to react at his own base. That was one of the most insane base wipes I've ever seen.

[@nothanks7475]

Advice for defending a castle drop on arena. Be on stone already: Since you're either going to do 4+ TC boom or drop a castle, you generally want to be on stone anyway. The exception is if you're going to contest the relics. Castle placement: When you see a castle drop you need to build a castle inside your base directly opposing the one being dropped. You can either build it within range or slightly out of range of the enemy's castle, depending on what kind of game you want to turn it into. This takes away as much space for your opponent to maneuver once inside your walls. Secure your base: Make a house or building wall around either side of your castle so when your opponent breaches the outer wall he can't immediately get into your eco. Keep scouting: You'll want to keep tabs on what the opponent is making behind it. A castle drop with nothing following is rare. If you see the opponent adding a siege workshop, you'll want to add one yourself (and match the number of mangonel). Make sure you make enough military so you don't get overwhelmed. Economy is your bet: Continue booming a bit but don't do 5TC anymore. Once you have eco going and you've avoided too much damage, go to imperial age and reclaim space. Don't take too long to do this or your opponent will collect all the important gold and stone on the map. Defender's advantage: as long as you're not caught off-guard you should be able to defend any castle drop. Consider buying 100 or 200 stone if it means getting your castle up sooner. I don't recommend buying more than that. (Goes back to already being on stone, if not going for relics.) If you are going for map control and relics, which most pros do, it means you have enough map presence to prevent a castle drop but your short-term eco will suffer (can't get 3rd and 4th TC upon hitting castle age.) Stall: your opponent has invested a lot to get the castle up. The longer you stall without taking eco damage, the better chances of winning you have. You'll want to boom as much as possible (3-4 TCs total) without falling behind in defences. The most common castle drop strategies involve 1TC aggression. If you survive you'll always be better off playing imperial age. Don't go rams in castle age unless there's a good reason to-It's too much of a wood investment (you need at least 5 probably along with army). The resources are better spent on trebuchets in the imperial age.

[@dragosdodon5199]

who are you giving advice to lmao? these guys are the top players and u have 1000 elo

[@taylorgletscher]

@@dragosdodon5199 For we low elo that are also watching and wondering how the hell do we counter that.

[@DarkPrinceNeo]

Making scouts on the way to castle age works for me.

[@SunShine-xc6dh]

So easy a top 50 in the world couldn't do it...

[@dragosdodon5199]

@@taylorgletscher you will never have to counter that, at low levels can't pull off a push with 25 vills

[@geeshta]

I've seen this game live and I came to watch it again. Absolutely legendary.

[@joelmiller2002]

Wow, lived up to the hype. Entire books could be written about these battles!

[@MichaelRGoede]

I don’t even play this game. I’ve been watching these videos for a bit now and this was a ton of fun.

[@rickbiessman6084]

You should try it out! =)

[@verdiss7487]

The Feitoria is the best midgame eco in the game. Barely any investment of time, barely any investment of res, hard to quickly raid, only costs pop space which you probably won't be capping out for a while.

[@runr1ckyrun113]

Clown Legion are such a great part of the aoe2 community. Amazing game

[@wyntonbedford9673]

You may not like it, but this is peak age of empires

[@abyssaljuggler]

so glad both Dave and T90 commentated this one!

[@andreidanielb]

As a feitoria fan, this was a masterpiece!

[@WhatIsSanity]

Close game and very enjoyable to watch. Was cheering for both players, wanting Draken to play their best to see Liereyy beat that castle rush fair and square. Which they almost did. I want to see this broken strategy get destroyed at it's strongest. Surely someone will figure out a way.

[@titusbaum9690]

Great play by both! Thanks for the treat.

[@d-sniperto5589]

Briton xbow and longbow absolutely destroyed me when I used this strat

[@wandraak58]

I tried recently and got countered by Mangudai... the anti-siege bonus does wonders

[@mathewraftery3328]

I really didn't know walls melt organ guns. T90 with the deep game knowledge

[@RiskyDramaUploads]

11:33 "Walls melt *to* organ guns"

[@paulk5670]

I'm really thankful that you do the T90 extras channel separately but link back to it. I only have so much time in the day and keeping the best and most entertaining in one place really helps me get my fix when I'm short on time while still letting do a deep dive when I find myself with more to spare.

[@JamesSmith-rq5iv]

Love it when Dave commentates❤❤ aswell

[@_SkaffaH]

gotta be one of the coolest games I've ever seen

[@berndbroot587]

can some one explain me why blue stil gets food without any villagers on farms/food? is it by the relics? for eg. min 25:00

[@ashplague6200]

The idea to kill all the vills when he has no tc also requires hersery to stop vills getting converted

[@cereal-killer4455]

I used to play aoe2 as a kid and don’t know anything but this was awesome to watch!

[@KingNik1994]

This was crazy, I was on the edge of my seat for the last 20 minutes

[@coreoncrack]

About the quitting comment! As a viewer I/we invest a lot of time into a watching a video, and i can be very infuriating when we finally get to the end and player red or blue is really gonna get it, annnnnnd they quit! And as a viewer I'm just like WTF, I wanna se the kill, there are so many vids where ppl quit when they are just on the back foot. like the CBA game. The best content for me is clearly when ppl don't quit like whiners, community and low elo games very often keep fighting, i love that ! This was also a early quitting :-(

[@Endrit719]

Holy f..., both players did the absolute amazing that I didn't expect at all, the moment Dracken got into his base, I thought that it is over for Liereyy then when he countered him with the knights and got his base I was woooww what a play it's over for Dracken and then Dracken just keeps with some monks and few units manages to win game, insane absolute insane, my noob ass resigns when the AI on hard difficulty destroys one of my castles

[@ChocolateMilkCultLeader]

Dave's idea of divebombing vils was the correct call. The best way to stop the push from snowballing. Those vils made so many Feitorias that swung the game

[@Cheximus]

How do you dive when they can just jump into the castle?

[@ChocolateMilkCultLeader]

@@Cheximus chip away. Keep attacking whenever they come out.

[@benl5642]

Liereyy needed to Castle drop the feitorias after raiding Dracken's home base. What a game!

[@WhatIsSanity]

I was thinking the same thing, but near suicidal with those trebs still up. Only after destroying the trebs would that be possible.

[@haosci1]

I don't think the Red is dead. He has a lot of resources banked in. Yes, his army doesn't have the imperial armor. However, he has enough resources to make semi-effective counter and build defensive buildings.

[@spinyslasher6586]

Since Lierrey hasn't upgraded melee armour, his pikemen are gonna melt to Dracken's upgraded cavalier.

[@rzero21]

31:44 Why he didn't put the crossbow inside the TC?

[@Anthony-nc8cq]

I've never seen such aggression before in AoE2. Crazy!

[@chrispaynter]

Great game. Cheers to T90, Dave and the two players 💯

[@YTYTYTY7]

The best use of Feitoria!

[@Late2dagme]

Played several games recently. I get to castle age, produce some units and the my appointemnt quits complaining im making castle age units. Am i missing somthing?

[@dimitrikemitsky]

Maybe you joined a lobby game with specific rules?

[@RiskyDramaUploads]

Everyone knows that making castle-age units is not allowed in AoE2 Edit: it sounds like they thought they were going to lose and that you were too strong of an opponent based on inaccurate matchmaking ratings.

[@Yora21]

Using a different microphone to record the intro than the game commentary? Now I will never feel sure what T90 really sounds like.

[@morgantaylor84]

10:38 I didn't know Call to Arms was in this...oh you mean the upgrade that's basically Age of Mythology's Ragnarok. Never mind then.

[@OPiguy35]

I’m only 800 elo, so would appreciate a better players thoughts on the following: If you’re defending against this, would it make sense to put a villager out during feudal (with some protection from a scout) and place a few random pieces of palisade (or wall) to block potential castle foundations right around your base? I’m sure if the pros don’t do it, there is a reason…just don’t know why this wouldn’t be effective at deferring your opponent from castle dropping right into castle age

[@krystofcisar469]

Im also LEL but thinking about it and why it wont work lot of times its u need to just enough guys on woodlines for good fast castle build. A since u cant secure all thespace around your base with pointless palisades it would be bad to invest wood and villager work on that. U will be better placing more farms and adding some archers or scouts which can defend from castle drop since usually people ddoing it dont have any military by the time. I would consider it only if i had really bad spot forward gold/stone.

[@sratnatozmrde]

just make few scouts to loop around your walls and you will be fine. Also if your vill leave a walls he can be easily sniped by scouts which is really unnecassary at the early ages.

[@MySayThingsNStuff]

It's a great thought and I've seen it used successfully to stop building drops in tight spaces many times, but on arena, the front is just too open - even you add defensive towers in fuedal as an additional measure. You might prevent a couple drop locations but the castle always goes up somewhere if there's no army to stop it. And its not the initial castle location that makes this strategy strong, its the organ gun follow up and 2nd castle that really hurt... and you can't use the palisade trick on the 2nd drop because of the organ guns. Typically its best to get that defensive castle up and stone wall like lierry did, then try to imp first and prioritize bombard cannons. If you don't have bombards start massing something (redemption monks/knights/eagles/archers) and wait as long as possible before taking a fight and attempt to overwhelm the OG mass. Either way its a race against death. Hope this helps! What a game!

[@rzero21]

18:00 Oh man, you didn't focus on the key play

[@thepersonwhocomentz]

This match is the very definition of "Clowned On."

[@taisst2186]

The build order of dracken blew my mine 😮

[@nilecaprez9801]

Honest question as this strat is now getting spammed in every arena match, what do you even do? Is it even possible to win?

[@sratnatozmrde]

it is, in theory you can make scouts to loop around and kill vilagers that will go for forward castle but you will have to delay castle age for it.

[@flow333job]

tr monks mangonel works

[@dri6328]

Bulgarians->fast castle->Siege WS 6 tiles from wall with 10 vils-> Siege tower into base with krepost on TC

[@euviumsapogrande4092]

Sergeants---> Siege Tower---> Donjon everywhere

[@TheSpiritof76]

Holy crap what a game

[@negojiboia]

"Youll have to see it to believe it" Me seeing it: I dont believe

[@diegochuhan9847]

Dave screaming gg in the back 11

[@lanejohnson6658]

great game, I think it was an early gg. Liereyy had more villagers, resources, and had just clicked up.

[@JohnLeePettimoreIII]

*_Bring on the Piano Cannons!!_*

[@rickbiessman6084]

That IS what they’re called! 🤩

[@spacegeeking]

I wanted to see this to believe yesterday, but i fell asleep. So i still don't believe. Will have another go now.

[@HeraklitNorborakk]

This is my favourite aoe game ever!

[@ALDS-zk9ko]

Holy heck, WHAT A GAME!!!

[@karladajca3205]

Brilliant clown game by Dracken! Seriously though, very well used the Portuguese civ very well, and kept pushing Liereyy. Gg! lol

[@cleanerben9636]

I still think scout spam is the way to go to stop this. Even if all it accomplishes is keeping the Portuguese player's castle at home it's at least not trapping you in your base and strangling your eco. Wouldn't even have to spam I think, just make it look like your going to.

[@JohnLeePettimoreIII]

that was *_NUTS!_*

[@4everdex]

Dracken played this really well but he just lacks quite something to keep up with the top players in this game. As soon as lierrey did something out of the ordinary, his strategy completely fell apart. He had zero vision ob the biggest chunk of the map, even though he had full map control for the most part. And absolutely no idea what to do, once the knights arrives. Im pretty sure he could have been able to defend his base with the right idea in mind. Very impressive game though. Would have failed the same way against a much (!) weaker opponent. Edit: Did not expect Liereyy to lose there. lul Even better game now.

[@MadnessTW]

How to deal with this as a player? No idea. As a dev? Redesign the Feitoria or make it scenario-only (give them a new bonus or increase one of the others, perhaps only in IA). The cheap way is to give Organ Guns -10 siege armor or something (whatever it takes for Mangonels to one-shot them).

[@rickbiessman6084]

Seriously. Screw feitorias. At least the way they are atm.

[@gildeddrake1479]

should have walled in red after dropping the castle. this blue game is every low elo legend dream game: win with feitoras, no tc no vill, not having to worry about eco

[@rakkodupont9783]

Guys, what's the last version of this game, If I want to play with many people ?

[@bryanrocha2035]

i love so much feitoria ideia and see this is awesome for me.

[@CubeBrik]

this game was CRAZY

[@Nialija]

Absolutely Sick game.

[@Yogi_Bear69]

Why does nobody hit the houses? that would have stopped this or slowed it enough to catch up.

[@19alive]

They are cheap and fast to replace

[@Yogi_Bear69]

@@19alive Still one more thing you have to do when you're under attack. It can stop unit production long enough to win the war.

[@Dorfjunge]

That was disgusting! All of it!

[@the_SolLoser]

Such a good game that i watched it twice! ✌🏽

[@palofar9115]

Yippee. I was hoping Dracken wins. What a game gg!

[@LACHIEBART0N]

Whoa! What a game!

[@nathanryan12]

Amazing game!

[@chadl3031]

I'm extremely curious about what effect the new update has had on the Portuguese win rate. This was a closed map so the Portuguese civ was not out of its element here.

[@IndexInvestingWithCole]

This and Daut were two of the best series I’ve seen

[@jordanazevedo5688]

Can someone explain what elo means?

[@andreidanielb]

is the rating of a player.

[@jordanazevedo5688]

@@andreidanielb it’s the actual rating from the game?

[@Rob-ct4xp]

It's actually chess terminology! It's a way of ranking players' skills via a points based system to be used as a matchmaking system. If you beat someone a higher rank than yourself you gain Elo and if you lose then you lose Elo (proportionally to the skill gap). The system was designed that players with the same Elo should have a 50/50 chance of beating each other. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elo_rating_system

[@josevicentecopajavelasquez6121]

I have to tell that i sent you a gameplay for LEL that was turks vs portugese and it was like this one, but in a LEL level….. so it was also funny, hope you’ll find it on discord 😢

[@josevicentecopajavelasquez6121]

You will see that it went kinda like this, big ups and downs…..

[@brandonfisher2350]

Can’t have a high Idle TC stay with no TC 🤔🤔🤔

[@tag180rotax]

14:40 anti-foreshadowing

[@amara139]

13 vils in imp, and opponent gg's. wild.

[@Kaboose-fb7bk]

At low elo I have much more problems with janissaries than organ guns. I've discovered that a ram rush with strong infantry, like samurai or champions, will counter the organ gun ball.just rush the rams up to the guns and drop the infantry on top of them. I got the idea from Survivalist using siege towers +infantry to counter janissaries.

[@karthiksrinivasan5120]

I am speachless.

[@hoplite6164]

T90 why dont you stream on youtube as well?

[@bameno6641]

i thought there is a real chance against portogiese.!

[@nathanfranks1476]

Okay….ill rewatch it if i must….like that is a hard ask!!

[@TexanMiror2]

Utterly insane that one could look at the population numbers at 20 minutes, and still go "yep, about equal position, both can still come back", simply because of position/buildings/age. The mistake to let Liereyy out of his base made it really interesting. What a game!

[@fredericomartins3dartist255]

I watched it live, as a Portuguese, I rejoiced :p

[@shanerooney7288]

AoE2 games ~ list of literally best games ever (Mk.2) The Legend of Snippy... Snipes! kzbin.info/www/bejne/i3urpZibhtp0rbs&lc=Ugw-JozF-t1a0W4CHrF4AaABAg.9KHIwFQs_IW9KThiZW9ZX4 a FFA that was basically Snippy vs the world. Hidden Cup 4 | GRAND FINAL & Reveal (Best of 7) [game 2] kzbin.info/www/bejne/jqjZm4ZrhNd9idk Islands that legit could have ended in a draw. The AoE2 Game You'll HAVE to See to Believe! kzbin.info/www/bejne/ppmqo42emst4qrs Arena game where converting ONE vil is a huge improvement to Blue's economy.

[@Augustus_Imperator]

love the 4K