The Fastest Castle Age EVER on Arabia?!

[@shawnhayes1259]

The greedy castle was sick but it just goes to show off dauts decision making skill. He countered perfectly.

[@Aravanus]

That was a really clean up from Nicov but Daut has been in rare form of late. I mean, a year ago that castle would have been the very definition of a DautCastle, but he somehow was right where he needed with right what he needed. Great to see.

[@giantWario]

The difference is a year ago he would have sent like 6 villagers to build that castle. He sent 11 this time.

[@TheJim9191]

@@giantWario 11

[@Cheximus]

@@giantWario A year ago Daut won RB3, pretty much his only S-Tier victory in DE, no?

[@runr1ckyrun113]

Summoning Salt: in late 2022 a player by the name of Nicov posted a fast castle time on Arabia of 13:10. No one knew it at the time but this would lead to a pursuit that would dominate the speed running community for 10 years.

[@sandmaenchen]

I have a feeling there would be a lecture on frame rule system using a bus as an analogy... :D

[@cataphract11]

I did it 13:05 in arabia but with malays

[@carlantaya175]

Honestly Daut just played this perfectly. Especially when it comes to the scouting. Really adapted to the opponent decisions and punished them. He pushed out at exactly the right time and got all the information he need to place a perfect castle. Nicov lack of scouting hurt him this game, he was just playing according to his plan he wasn't adapting to what Daut was doing..

[@brownpeoplegetup1243]

exactly what i saw, too~

[@thelatestartosrs]

13:41 chat overlay goes crazy

[@killerangel4160]

Ever since you mentioned Veggie Tales on your stream, I now only hear Bob the Tomato when you speak and I can’t unhear it.

[@tag180rotax]

Fc boom into gg is my strat, I didnt know nicov knew that build too!

[@nicolasflamelflamel]

One of the fastest castle times ever just to get bodied.

[@giantmarmoset]

Perfect counter by daut, definitely a bit of an overboom/ greed by blue. Follow that massive villager lead up with not enough military production buildings and you got yourself a gg.

[@andreibirisu4280]

Amazing play, daut is something else.

[@the_dude_josh]

3:19 Does anyone know how this setup works? Just curious on if this is a personal setup with a soundboard and a separate audio track or if it's an actual product that is made for placing markers?

[@JoycenatorGaming]

I don’t know how it works with Facebook but twitch has the feature for placing markers built in. It only works with the saved copy of the broadcast on twitch though, so I’m sure there’s also third party software out there for marking your own “hard copy” saved recordings like T90 uses for KZbin uploads

[@zepwafels]

15:07 Am I the only one who thinks Nicov souldnt have fought this with his army? He has 6 monks behind he couldve used for converting vills building the castle THEN snipe the rest with the army, he could still lose the army but deny the castle.

[@Klautsche]

Exactly, or just convert 6 units instead of trying to go for the siege, he'd probably have won the game

[@markburke1396]

I think Nicovs army was too small to be able to snip the remaining vils. Nicov had 6 knights and 6 monks. Daut had 6 Camels, 5 Knights, 2 Magonels, 3 Monks and 11 vils building the castle, even if he converted all 6 vils with the 6 monks, there is still 5 vils remaining and about 15 army vs 6 knights. its just not enough. I think he needed to stop producing vils a bit earlier and get more army.

[@thrashobi]

yeah just convert the Units, not the siege, abd kill the vils with that. Maybe use 1 monk for the monk trick to deny the vils building the castle

[@thrashobi]

but converting the vils is actually not the best idea. you run out of faith, loose your army, loose all the control and DauT can just send new vils

[@0oShwavyo0]

I was saying this as well, felt like forcing vills off the castle would have made daut have to go for a bad position instead of the other way around

[@executable3]

4K video? When did that happen? Very nice, I noticed the bump in quality immediately and was initially confused. XD

[@MorleyGames1]

I just got a 12:48 FC lancer rush with mongols on arabia

[@dimitrikemitsky]

I absolutely love Titans League. This was such a great addition to the community.

[@tjones2112]

I think these Daut vs Nicov maps are just ranked, but yes TTL is great, if you just meant that as a statement on its own as well maybe

[@dimitrikemitsky]

@@tjones2112 it could be, Daut v. Nicov was on the schedule and they were talking about the last game, so figured they were in that set. But no score on top bar so I guess just ranked.

[@hamishrobertson6997]

@@dimitrikemitsky plus T90 mentioned nicov went random so seems like its just a friendly series or ranked , i agree though, titan league is awesome

[@Xaelyrion]

2:47 BLASPHEMY.

[@chenxxl]

Nikov should drop castle 🏰 immediately then spawn knights to protect his offensive position

[@captainsunshine64]

What's the fastest theoretical time for Fast Castle? With perfect Vic etc

[@christoskaragiannis7973]

13min 35''

[@pizza-for-mountains]

@@christoskaragiannis7973 is there a tas for this? would love to see the insanity of pre-made inputs

[@TheGuykilla]

@@christoskaragiannis7973 weird cos this vid is 13:12 so beat the TAS?

[@christoskaragiannis7973]

@@TheGuykilla He skipped loom. He should have done 13min 10" without it. He is slow lol xd

[@Jacks_Suffocating_Nihilism]

Quite a bit faster than this. As T90 mentioned, walling can be avoided, wood and stone can be sold, the TC can be idled instead of creating villagers. There are probably civ bonuses which would be better than Khmer's for suicide FC. Malay, Ethiopians, Saracens?

[@mateocolegial5571]

*T90!!!*

[@JuanGR1992]

An actual Daut Castle

[@NashaatKabz93]

I love your vids and you inspired me to try playing too but I want to know what is the best siv to main as a starter in AOE2

[@louispearson8306]

franks, scout rush

[@louispearson8306]

Britons M@a into archers (hard)

[@Whokare]

Lithuanians ! Free 150 food makes it really easy and smooth so u can get good at your dark age

[@Cheximus]

@@Whokare Liths you really have to go for he relics though which is really hard for a noob to do. Franks is the easiest civ by far and then perhaps Teutons.

[@Whokare]

@@Cheximus I think it’s good to practice getting the relics. Also at low level you’ll probably end up with 4 or 5 and have the strongest paladins in the game. The main thing that gives them an advantage up to about 1000 Elo is how clean your dark age will be and you can actually focus on the build without force dropping much.

[@danisetien7466]

did you guys notice Nicov's score when he clicked up to Castle age? 👀

[@Druid_]

Perfect castle

[@g-3609]

480p , YT y u do this

[@arjunsatheesh7609]

Another StanDauT castle

[@TheJim9191]

press C to DauT

[@ryanforgo3500]

12:00 i did not se anything faster than this guy yet, but As one who really enjoys saracen, i've practiced FC and been able to pull it off in 13:40 WITH SARACEN "more or less" in ranked games. But saracen FC feels better than khmer because you literally buy your way through whatever it is you crucially need once you hit castle age. Some games i hit FC at such a fast time and throw down 2 extra tcs. Zero food for vills, bur guess what? We buy the food, and build farms until eco stability is achived"and a 4th+ 5th TC 2-3 mins after and then buy a defensive castle even. Khmer, on the other hand, i don't enjoy FC with them.

[@bl3ivids]

Watched a vid from a couple of months ago, onto this, why has youir mic setup worsened? Too airy and quiet I think?

[@bsktblmasta31]

The FC was great but he was adding TCs from which he couldn't support vil production. Maybe since your opponent knows you're all eco at that point, invest into some knights until you have the food eco for 1 stable 2 TC?

[@Cheximus]

He could support vil production... he overboomed. He was 40 ahead at one point.

[@arcan762]

you guys still talking about that insta convert on the knight lol??

[@ManuelJGR14]

What a game

[@fiable262626]

20+2 no loom into 3tc boom is possible.. with Saracens

[@0oShwavyo0]

Anyone feel like Nicov would have been better off not forcing the engagement and trying to use monks to force vills off the castle? It’s very hard to get it built if u spam click conversions because the vills run away when the conversion starts. He could have baited the fight under the TC potentially if the monks held off the castle while sitting under it. Not saying it changes things necessarily but I was screaming for him to do that with one monk lol

[@brianmonteleone602]

Are you paying hardy enough? Or is he just a slacker? Was expecting the clip man

[@tauridborn2777]

Nicov's choice to go for knights was unfortunate. Once Daut started spamming camels, it was over

[@alexbarac]

converting the vills instead of army would've won Nicov the game

[@Humanoidable]

Won*

[@alexbarac]

@@Humanoidable Ty, fixed my mistake!

[@alexstraz]

I haven't played since the old 2000 time period of Aoe2, but after looking at this civ's perks being no building requirements for advancement and villagers don't have to carry food to the TC (no traversal time) it is no surprise the quickness of the castle age.

[@LeftJoystick]

Please tell me it’s going to be Daut who has the insane Castle Age time. Please god please Also T90, LOVING the 4k/60. Nvm just saw civs. 11

[@MiGluXHD]

yeah with lithunians in arena u can do 12min castle age time.

[@ThisIsMyRoad]

Great game. That's how AOE used to look like 2019. Before devs butchered the meta into a pseudo aggressive Skirm wars.

[@Th3UprightMan]

Why is watching pros just. so. boring? I live for LEL/community games.

[@Toonrick12]

It's because at the highest levels, it's less a test of thought and more on reaction time. Sadly, that leads to little variation on build orders. LEL/MEM/COM games are more natural and interesting because they are unpredictable.

[@stijnhintzen]

What do you find boring about these games? This game was incredibly entertaining imo

[@tombrown3533]

Lel is the worst. So slow, no strategy.

[@stevenglikin3219]

@@Toonrick12 You got it backwards dude, at the highest levels they've all got insane reaction time, the difference comes in decision making and strategy. At low elo, you can wipe out a dude's whole economy before they react, the reaction time makes the difference in that case.

[@Combinebobnt]

LEL is basically playing with 1 hour treaty before attacking