The Bombard Tower Wall

[@worldf1re41]

"This is something made in scenarios, when you're 12 years old... and you want to kill the easy AI with towers." Why do I feel so attacked?

[@BlueShellshock]

It's like he's speaking to my soul. My 30 minute, imperial age, no-rush, easy AI soul.

[@SilentHotdog28]

@@BlueShellshock I still mak....*cough* used to make those sorts of maps when I was a kid, I loved giving myself such a massive advantage, like starting with heaps of relics trapped behind an impassable cliff, or an extra TC or castle at the start haha.

[@bigbakaboon]

i'm 35 and still like doing this

[@mickdejong]

Can confirm

[@anderskristian6220]

You all probably dont care but does any of you know a tool to log back into an instagram account?? I somehow forgot my password. I appreciate any tips you can offer me!

[@JBubbaloni]

I would sit on my dads lap and watch him play back in the early 2000s, Bombard Wall was his signature move.

[@wardahmalik1283]

Did that with my older brothers. Bombard tower walls became my signature move when I was little. This video feels previous to me for so many reasons

[@wardahmalik1283]

Adorable!

[@henrysmith1458]

I used to legitly do this in Empire Earth, in regular matches (vs AI), at least that was my initial strategy, but I had to mix things up later on as I got better. In AOE2 however ... dang that is hard to pull off haha (in Empire Earth the towers only cost stone, and they auto upgrade with each era)

[@Kiwiilockspace]

ahaha it was mine too XD

[@EventH0riz0n]

@@henrysmith1458 maybe you remember it wrong but... No they don't auto upgrade. ^^ every time the tower gets better you have to buy the upgrade in the capitol. Since theres basically infinite resources in the game it's really cheap but you have to upgrade it. Quote from the wiki on that matter: "They change appearance and Attack Type as epochs advance. Unlike other buildings, however, they have to be upgraded manually, by researching an upgrade in a Town Center or Capitol."

[@LokirofRoriksted]

"32 towers, each costs 100 gold... That's a lot of gold. I'll let you guys do the math" 11

[@shaifuseth5566]

1

[@eMpTy0911]

32 x 125 = 4000. Guess I'm a math wizard

[@AlCologne9]

@@eMpTy0911 good news is you are math wizard - bad news is he's talking about gold, not stone, lul

[@eMpTy0911]

@@AlCologne9 pretty sure t90 talked about both resources ;)

[@tomieilamo]

There was a lot of market abuse involved so it's not that simple tbh

[@The-Brocolis]

"This is something you do when your 12 years old to kill the easy ai whit towers" HOW DID HE KNOW ???

[@baptistelaporta7192]

Because we were 12 too once

[@martijn9568]

T90 does this every night, since he was 12, just to boost his ego

[@Rellana1]

Great wall of China,Meet the Great wall of Bombard. Now with extra cannonballs.

[@snipes2167]

So I'm not the only one

[@ifsaitamafacegetsyouageblo7198]

Though the disrespect from MBL side was heavy towards McLuffy How to mock your opponent intentionally or not? Turn entire game in to a comedy,which he succesfully did since i still keep laughing ever since i saw the tower wall come up

[@davidwie]

The only thing that can one up this... Imagine playing arena, suddenly seeing 3 huge foundations going up before your walls. Your opponent: "Here's Wonderwall"

[@iau]

Wonderwalling your opponent would be the ultimate flex. Someone please make it happen 🙏

[@phantomswordorpoo]

Remember guys T90s promise to cast the longest game ever when he touches 200k subscribers

[@kelloggswag]

He still has to wrestle and alligator from HC3

[@GuardforChrist]

What, low ELO forest nothing? Can take a full night's sleep and come back and he'd still be casting 😆

[@MatthewHopkinsWitchfinder]

I'm just glad people haven't forgotten he said that lol

[@Anzlan_Syntari]

he also said he would wear a salmon suit

[@Rainbow-Dash]

No its a Nomad FFA with RusDM, its the game mode Blue Coffee always plays

[@beleata74]

You know you've lost when MBL walls you with bombard towers.

[@beleata74]

@roger kle for him to wall you with that many towers he is literally saying that he has beaten you and there is no way your are winning. It's the equivalent of building a wonder in a ranked match.

[@Ltulrich]

Or outposts lol

[@the_rover1]

or builds mass outpost towers right in your face.

[@PabloEscobar-vh6jq]

Perfect timing man i was just going to sleep now i can watch this right before sleeping

[@TheNickBasso]

Same man

[@gunfighter0103]

Why are you a drug dealer is my question!

[@monsG165]

Same story man

[@olivius8891]

Aren't we all?

[@Sophia-vk5bq]

T-napty.

[@julianadeau5797]

T90, you should create a "King of the Trolls" award for strategies like this, cause if such an award did exist, MBL would definitely be a shoe-in for 2020 "King of the Trolls". :p

[@bugs1yb1ins]

Shouldn't he have tried to treb that? It looked like pure hell trying to micro an army under that cannonball rain.

[@AlCologne9]

Canons would come forward and take them out, then it would be canons + hussars vs canons + hassars + towers

[@bugs1yb1ins]

@@AlCologne9 ah i c, guess he really had no good choice there.

[@AlCologne9]

@@bugs1yb1ins I was gonna say maybe he could walk and have trebs behind the wall and have canons as well but MBL's canons can just hit and run. I can't see a way, but note I'm nowhere near as good as some others here so I'm sure someone else could come up with something.

[@Real_MisterSir]

@@bugs1yb1ins I think when you're Turks you go for 15 range bombard cannons instead of trebs, but it would be a hell of a dance trying to outmicro MBL's own bombards as Alan mentions. Perhaps a mix of rams and bombards, but then again you need a lot of eco for that if you also want the meat shield for the rams. It's pretty much a scenario of "just don't let it get that far". MBL had already won before he put up the 1st tower, he just wanted to try it out since he had such a good lead.

[@Halvtooth]

@@Real_MisterSir to be fair MBL bombard canon are behind the towers, so you could probably get a few towers with your bombard canons and treb. But that would take time. Siege rams are cheaper and get down more towers faster.

[@daanwilmer]

"Social Distancing does not apply to video games" - I see you don't know about or remember the Corrupted Blood incident in World of Warcraft, when a virtual pandemic broke out and people fled to the lesser populated areas, effectively social distancing.

[@evanlaughlin6345]

You people believe the federal government and their media when they say "Covid?" Huh... Amusing... You guys will be the first to go...

[@Vitorruy1]

@@evanlaughlin6345 ok, dumbass

[@cmh6550]

... You actually know that you would be the first to be killed by the government in your stupid conspiracy theory?

[@cmh6550]

Yeah do you want to show these overwhelming evidence to men in white coats?

[@cmh6550]

Then why are you here?

[@derrekirwin9148]

I need more analysis about units that out-range hussars.

[@Martyste]

Hey T90, any chance you gonna cast that epic game where you carried Vipie, TatitoH and Nili? We gotta see how the actual best player in the world does his micro and let the snake become a caster man! Quote from Viper: "T90 hlep"

[@lucianoluciano5478]

"tristan help"

[@rkollege8379]

Quote vom TaToH: "TI NAINTIN" xD you really should cast that man !!

[@jaimecasal7532]

YES PLEEEEAAASE

[@JallenMeodia]

Ha I was just about to ask for that myself. Given the spec bug; the chat might not appear in his recorded game though, which is a bit of a bummer.

[@dominusalicorn3684]

Tristan plz help Yeah, you gotta cast that game (or even upload if you recorded it)

[@Kaocito1]

This is exactly how i played the game 18 years ago.

[@airbornefilip9139]

Never thought tower and castle walls I used to do 10ish years ago would end up in top100's ranked games.

[@LordGopu]

rock on ctrl-c, ctrl-v

[@dbertalan]

aegis

[@wardahmalik1283]

LOL me too. Exactly 18 years ago and TO THIS DAY. 🤣

[@WhozWolfgang]

I'm glad I'm not the only one who has though i had selected the one villager on the house to move to sheep and didn't notice it just standing next to the house blending in haha

[@josiahlamb911]

One thing that's nice about the higher level 1v1s on KZbin, is that it gives you more of a chance to notice little things and point them out to us, like the idle villager in the beginning.

[@elonwhatever]

Each time you say "Janissery" I die a little inside.

[@SketchyBack]

Same. It's JAH-nis-sah-ry. I'm surprised more people don't correct him.

[@elonwhatever]

@@SketchyBack It's just annoying as a non native English speaker you learn how to speak the language correctly (or get shouted at), and yet if you're a native speaker you can do whatever.

[@Intravenous14]

Glad I’m not the only one who was suffering. I was expecting it to be too comment.

[@alyctro8158]

@@Intravenous14 it's not just this unit he mispronounces

[@gamaxgbg]

I was watching the live. The guy actually got very pissed off saying that because Mbl lost to Hera in the tournament now he wants to disrespect everybody else. He was as pissed off as Mbl when he realized the bombard towers weren't in line 1111111.

[@Real_MisterSir]

what a salty boi xD If he can't handle potential disrespect, then don't go up against a top 10 player 4head

[@airbornefilip9139]

I'd be pissed off too if my tower's wouldn't end up in straight line. :D

[@randomdude2026]

I don't understand that. What does it have to do with disrespect? MBL just played better and had the map control to do this. If the other guy had played better it would not have come to this.

[@gamaxgbg]

@@randomdude2026 I don't know if you guys know but the pro players don't always go against each other. A lot of times they go against 1700-1800 players who don't have a chance against them. It is not their fault, the problem is the matchmaking. If he were against another top player then it would be ok to do something like this if he played better, but against "noobs"?

[@randomdude2026]

@@gamaxgbg Is the other guy a "noob"? And even then I dont think this was disrespect. As long as he didnt say something rude... You can resign any time.

[@DamonNomad82]

This strategy reminds me of my playing style. For the record, I only play against AI (I never PvP in any game), and I am very fond of creating intricate, concentric wall and tower defenses. It warms my heart to see it in a high ranking game. Also, one of the big changes that I HATE about the post AOC versions of AOE2 was the balance-based, utterly ahistorical nerfing of bombard towers' damage to rams. (They used to do as much damage to rams as bombard cannons still do.)

[@DamonNomad82]

Also, I have been playing AOE2 since Age of Kings was first released when I was in high school, and I have never really grown up since then, at least not when it comes to AOE2.

[@DRawwrrr]

Yeah I feel like walls are way more effective against the AI, at least whenever I'm playing against friends it feels like they have much more of a specific plan than the AI and just blast a hole in a wall with 3 petards or a ram in 10 seconds

[@robertlewis6915]

4000 stone, 3200 gold.

[@bloodvue]

He lost some and rebuilt

[@jesuizanmich]

MBL flexing so hard he starts playing a tower defense game

[@akshatkanoi3704]

People finally started copying my stratergy

[@skeeter.1017]

Pft he copied me, but my dad just went around my towers and destroyed my town :(

[@greyfells2829]

nigga nobody knows who you are

[@shaifuseth5566]

Who are you?

[@akshatkanoi3704]

Think

[@Cloud.Strife]

"Let's play random map" *MBL joins lobby* "Let's play Arena"

[@marvinzornig6267]

Bro hahaha, I am ON THE TRAIN on my way to Hamburg Germany. When he said that I was like ... wait. Am I trippin'?

[@thenayancat8802]

"We can blame DE here because the option to remove tooltips removes tooltips." Haha yes epic

[@BigShnarff]

Great to see games get to imperial age and not end in the first 10min. More arena matches are needed

[@JLMCGLOTH]

T90 Hype! So glad to catch a video so close to release!

[@AlessAbreu]

Those gaps in the blue wall made me go crazy. Fucking close that

[@bdeb9299]

I am glad to see an arena game, thank you for casting it. With all the new maps available and played nowadays I feel I don't get to watch good old arena as much. More arena games if you can find them T90 :)

[@FlawlessRuby]

When you play a game of AoE2, but end up in a tower defense somehow.

[@Ran_Dodgers_music]

Got back into this game since everyone is chilling at home now. Love everything you do T90 Boiiiiiii.

[@bigskydude8068]

FINALLY, somebody that knows how to use towers!!!!💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻

[@AzuraiAeon]

This bombard tower wall speaks to my soul

[@tag180rotax]

4000 stone 3200 gold

[@ACID_]

Way to low, this needs to be pinned on top

[@MrAbgeBrandt]

"What does imp give you if MbL drops a castle on your base" Trebs and cannons.

[@Raederman85]

Three acceptable times for a man to cry. 1. Funeral 2. Grand Canyon 3. Sight of a Bombard Cannon Wall.

[@fajarn7052]

Dang, my dad use this strats against the hardest AI on skirmish. My dad wasn't even a gamer, he just played city building games like Caesar III, and duel the Caesar... One day he asked, 'what is that game?' I was playing AoE2, my uncle installed it on my dad's pc and I've been playing AoE2 all day long. I thought to myself, "Surely dad can't play this type of game" but I explain the game to him and leave him to his own devices. It was back when I was only a 3rd maybe 4th grader, so my dumbass self would maxed everything first before attacking the easy AI. Seeing my dad doing early raids, tower drops, and castle drops, it blew my mind...one particular map had the enemy surrounded by walls of bombard tower, similar to this one, with some space in between for trebs to shot down enemy trebs, light cav on front and bombard cannon behind. All of this are things that he thought himself...we don't have any internet or the likes back then, only got 56kbit modem that was rarely used. Man, if only he was born one generation later...but in hindsight, I might not have been born, so I'm happy it works this way, haha.

[@wander_boi69]

RE Mibble's comment about it being "very suspicious" when MacLuffy pushed out as he was putting up towers, hopefully on reflection (if he watches the game back) he sees that MacLuffy hadn't started making Siege Workshops until he saw the Bombard Towers so either he's hiding stream sniping well, or more likely, he wasn't stream sniping but instead it was just fortuitous timing to push out.

[@mrbatukhan6791]

Guy cannot outflank him because the enemy will bring the fight to his towers. Cool strategy

[@dimitrikemitsky]

Love to hear the content plan, sounds cool! Don't totally give up ranked ladder though, it can actually be cool to hear your take on more 'standard' high level games. Some random top 100, top 200 games would be cool on stream, even if no big names are on the field.

[@fishandshipsmusic7133]

Hey T90, low elo here, just wanted to say that I really enjoy your content for unique strats in 1vs1 games!

[@doccholo905]

Woo. That is ridiculous. Draw the enemy in and bombard them. Nice bottleneck too.

[@shaifuseth5566]

The cannonball rain on hussars looked similar to the scene in atk on titan when ervin leads his soliders to beast titan to die

[@pfrank012]

I haven't played AoE II in a long time and never have tried ranked but.. I love the enthusiasm and love you show for AoE. I've started watching all of your videos about a month ago and can't stop. Keep it up!!

[@josephvasquez8089]

MBL is a man after my own heart. Blessed by these bombard tower walls

[@Isolanporzellator]

This is what it looks like when I play Portuguese on Arena. Had one game against hardest AI that lasted 6 hours with hundreds of Bombard Towers built. The game ended when the AI had chopped all the trees on its side of the map. At that point it was just tasking villagers to run into tower fire until it resigned.

[@gunfighter0103]

Love your vids! I enjoy LEL the most cause I want to learn how to play the game better. I got micro and build orders down but I still need to practice hotkeys. Cant wait for the straggler trees vid!

[@BleachWizz]

at 20:20 the problem with AoE2 meta is that unless it's executed perfectly other strategies might perform better... that's why I loved the wall-less game, it brought back the rock paper scissor of army composition. PS.: that might be a good video idea. like a look into the tech tree to show what's good against what plus theory vs reality

[@bharathyogaguru]

From the thumbnail i was able to guess that would be our master MBL..

[@__---__----__---__]

One of the reasons I watch your videos is because unlike many others in the gaming sphere you are not afraid to show empathy and your own emotions. The clickbait titles and titlecards also helped to give you a chance in the first place of course.

[@BrownFoxWarrior]

"I've never seen this before." I've had to deal with layers on layers of bombard walls in games with my friends before. I couldn't rush them because they always outvoted me on having a treaty, but it takes so long to grind down even with an insane amount of siege.

[@benlittle5543]

Good game plan. As a primarily you tune person, I like the highest level 1v1s. Low Elo can be great too

[@elliotstratton6986]

I like the plan!! I like hearing you talk about it in the recorded setting.

[@nymets1104]

T90, loving the YT Content lately and I still catch the Twitch streams when I can. Just keep the content coming, we will watch it anywhere :)

[@ViljoenvdMerwe]

Macluffy doesn't know 25:28 that MBL has built a wall of bombard towers ♪♪♪

[@jonathanwilson5747]

Make AOE great again. Build a wall, make them pay for it!

[@mac_neil4840]

My leader: ME GREAT WARRIOR ...proceeds to deploy bombard wall

[@verdipoggi7434]

dude, I really enjoy your videos. Proud to have donated to the channel!

[@B3Band]

I once had a game with 7 AI as kid, with a treaty so nobody attacked anyone. I built bombard towers in everybody's base and all over the map. When the treaty ended, I won within like 10 seconds lol

[@charleyruwart8983]

Really like this older capture age aesthetic

[@bleggsbleggs]

man, stealing those relics was a ballsy move

[@lomenado]

T90, you really should cast Game 1 from the KYO All Fallen v. New Chapter match last Sunday. It was by far the single most exciting game of the 18 played in the BOA2 pre-qualification phase last weekend. Total slobberknocker.

[@Krebzonide]

Could a strategy for macluffy have been to get an onager or treb and chop through the trees on the left side? I know that would come with the risk of a raid to the back of his base.

[@gabrielmelnik6796]

Turks don't get onager. And to chop with trebs I prefer resigning.

[@jefffinkbonner9551]

Turks don't get onagers? Bombard tower walls? Someone call Fatslob!

[@AlCologne9]

@@jefffinkbonner9551 KZbin doesn't let me like on mobile device, so I just wanna say "like"

[@stfnknbb]

After watching every match in Hidden Cup 3 and the qualifiers, I am jonesing for more tournaments!

[@Dethleffff]

T90: Crazy range on that turkish bombard tower Bombard tower: 8+1 T90: They have insane range! Bombard tower: 8+2 I guess sometimes, pro players are stupid, other times pro casters are blind 11

[@diegeigergarnele7975]

MBL was missing all the upgrades lol

[@Schafe44]

I’m mostly on KZbin and I like watching community games the most.

[@Sometimes_Happiness]

Man I loved to spam bombard towers when I was a kid. I would still love to if I could... lol

[@Entenuk1]

Dude. The title reminded me of my 8 year old self. Great game, nice commentary :D

[@Sy0exec]

I haven't watched your videos in some time and noticed how far CaptureAge got. Looks amazing.

[@weylin6]

I feel like he could have used trebs or his own bombards in the mix, as it would force his bombards to come forward but be in range of his cavalry, and his cavalry to be in range of the cannoneers

[@RSG11111]

This was my favourite thing to do in black forest vs AI 15 years ago :-)))

[@Casketkrusher_]

Love the bombard towers!

[@initial-a4132]

I've been seeing your vids lately and I tought I was seeing old vids haha but it so cool to see this games now a days soo cool man I currently playing AofE II Definite Edition so I get soo many ideas to play and don't feel soo alone haha

[@Santibag]

When I was a kid, I was making BBT trains in BF 2v2v2v2 AoC after the hardest AI loses steam. Games would be 6 hours but I would easy win.

[@ryand5436]

So the typical MBL "RESIGN ALREADY!!!!! JUST RESIGN!!!!"

[@joelferguson9324]

@T90 Your plan sounds good. but honestly as long as your casting games I will be here watching.

[@xXCOTTLEXx]

Hi. Lurking viewer here. I love your content T9 and I’ve been waiting for the bombard tower strat, it’s my go to move against the computer XD

[@mtcoiner7994]

I used to build massive bombard walls. It was so effective.

[@hotjavalava]

He actually never got artillery. 11

[@picopanpipe9]

BEST MOMENT at 18:51 ... I burst out laughing!

[@SalemAlawi]

More unique uploads like this please 👌🏽

[@noahthomas4341]

so, bombard tower wall, i see this all the time when i play with my friends every Wednesday...

[@ACID_]

You had me at "Bombard Tower Wall"

[@whitedaydevi6917]

So do what you enjoy the most a few days a week, hope you keep it up for a life time

[@BigSteelThrill]

Hey T90, How does MbL bring the deer close... and have a 3-4 villagers pop into the townhall and come out shooting at the deer? What is the proper keyboard functions to use for such quick actions?

[@spider69420]

Me at 0:33: Haha MBL doesnt notice this idle villager Also me: loses to AI on moderate

[@Mahrac126]

Joke's on you. As a 12 year old I built castles, with a wall of six bombard towers on the side facing the enemy and then two hooking back from the longer parts.

[@jaredfuqua2503]

The t90 and mbl love story continues.

[@BalgaBear]

16:34 - awww man, I lost.

[@_fuzzywuzzy8481]

4125 Stone, 3300 Gold. He lost an unfinished tower at 27:06, and then built another one there later.

[@nemes1s_aoe]

Refreshing vid like a cool drink in a hot summer while i still recover from the viper spanking

[@hikemartman7971]

🧠💥 Really nice video. I used to love this game, and clown my friends and their A.I. handicap allies. But your empathy and love of the game are contagious. I might have to get back in the ring and show these young heads a thing or two… Much love

[@alexdog6878]

I watched this game live, it was absolutely hilarious

[@Franziskaneification]

T90Official - Age Of Empires 2 200.000 Abonnenten well, grats T90 :)

[@davepokemon]

I always use to make tower/bombard tower walls.

[@spider69420]

Me building bombard towers: "OMG bombard towers are the strongest thing i can build and they barely hurt rams. I'm screwed" T90: "those bombard towers only do 1 damage against rams so he needs some other units"

[@busshock]

I'm definitely hyped for some DE team games!

[@l33tpie]

The fact that cannon towers don't do anything to rams anymore is silly though and really makes them not worth it 99% of the time.

[@QbiKz]

They need a balance to be fair. They wreck almost everything else

[@l33tpie]

@@QbiKz The big problem with bombard towers is that the one unit that they can reliably hit, they don't actually do any damage to. Sure they have bigly numbers attack wise on paper but in most situations, barely any of those slow cannon balls are going to hit. Of course, like with any defensive structure, if you let your opponent build a literal map spanning wall out of them, it's no longer an argument for balance, rather, a skill difference between the players as this should never be allowed to happen in the first place and what are trebs.

[@JSTM2000]

Bombard Towers +5 bonus damage to Ram armor class. Then Bombard Towers would deal the same DPS to Siege Rams as any unupgraded Feudal age Watch towers (they currently deal less DPS to Rams than arrow towers).

[@humanbass]

Around 40 or 30 damage would be fair.

[@superstar5042]

@@l33tpie only True if you leave bbt alone. If you have your units fighting enemy uniths under bbt they would hit and kill all.

[@fluffzzz]

Liking the plan for the next videos. However, since we have some team games coming up I am missing any guide for what to look out for (team compositions, maps, various common strategies and timings). It will be full on action from the start and I do not know if most people who joined with DE and follow your channel can enjoy it without some kind of help beforehand.

[@marc0s158]

Haha, yep, totally built that scenario. can't believe it worked!!