The Standard German Build Order [AOE3]

[@anonnymousperson]

This series is perfect to know what a strong opening is for each civ. It's really helpful. Thanks for starting this series!

[@Sharnoy1]

I love this new series!

[@kenb2957]

Thank you very much for this series. The opening two minutes of a game is always a clusterfuck for me down in the 1k elo, not sure if I should go for a TP or a market mostly, and having your calm voice explaining what to do will certainly help me be more focused and stable at match start.

[@RipperJack77]

Very nice video. Just some tiny additions. You usually want to drop the market next to your front coin mine to give you some LOS and protection. Also, once you click the age up, all vills should go onto wood (except 2 should go out to bring in the next hunts) and you should make a TP no matter what game plan you have.

[@DeepSeven]

In Germany we call the standard opening Blitzkrieg! 😆

[@albanismaili8271]

haha was für!

[@luxpi3096]

🤣🤣🤣🤣 Deine Videos sind Gold wert

[@CommanderTavos99]

Bewegungskrieg, Blitzkrieg was Allypropaganda

[@MrMerlinAoe3]

Germans are just so much fun, 10/10 would recommend to anyone that hasn't played them before! EDIT: isn't a TP meant to placed in transition, i think thats the current meta?

[@MrMerlinAoe3]

@@VanNguyen-hp1yz i meant its a 10 out of 10 civ, that i would recommend it it lmao

[@kalebhopewilcom8876]

Been playing for 2 days now never played before, Cards were a new concept for me. When watching this video I was beating Moderate AI without Cards yesterday, now I'm beating Hard AI today thinking about bumping it up all from this video. You have helped me Ascend. A youngling no more I am. Its crazy to think the first 3 minutes can take you from taking forever to beat Moderate to thinking about skipping hard straight to Hardest after 1 game of Hard. (after repeating the first 3 minutes about 6 times to get it right) GREAT LESSON "Do you want to know more?" YES!

[@BEanz911]

I miss the Aussie drongo song ,anyone remember ? It was so good bring that back bro

[@knorrkzk.4688]

Loved the new series, continue the good work!!

[@Noble_Duck828]

Man, I've been seeing so many German matchups you've been casting as of late and was trying to figure out how to get into playing them. I've been maining China and it's hard switching to the Euro civs. Praise the providence of Drongo.

[@ujkos_who]

As a begginer your videos has been the most useful and I enjoy them a lot, but I was wondering if there is some all around basics that every player has to know?

[@Superbird8]

Great new series! Also love the Office reference in there

[@aaltra101]

Very interesting series of videos

[@OmerFarukUcer]

How can you display the shortcuts? Like q is villager and etc.

[@rg03500]

Good timing, I just decided to try and pick up the Germans less than a week ago

[@teegrove8237]

Thanks again, another quality video!

[@greatscythe1116]

Market placement a bit debatable.

[@AaronMichaelLong]

I feel like you're being overzealous with killing/herding your initial hunts. A dead animal rots at 0.74 food per second which basically is an invisible settler stealing food off each dead critter and whisking it off into the ether. So, when you're gathering from 3 bison concurrently at 4:08, and then shoot a fourth, you're basically sending a negative food trickle to the tune of 2.22 food per second, using up your small number of nearby hunts, and hurrying the moment when you'll have to send your economy further away from your TC, and into harm's way. On maps where you've got a larger number of smaller animals, the waste can be even higher, if you're killing every animal, and gathering with one settler per corpse (using non-germany, non-french in this example), you're wasting 47% of the food in the animals you've killed. Now I know leaving your settlers exposed is also a risk, but especially in the early parts of the game, I feel like you're as safe as you'll ever become, you're not going to get raided at 2:27, so what's the benefit of killing and harvesting more than one beast at a time?

[@TruGarrettSmith]

The benefit is they don't wonder away. If you continuously herd that is idle time. If they stray a little further away from right underneath the TC each spawned villager has to walk to the new dead hunt which is idle time. Spoiling isn't a huge issue because you will soon be venturing out on to the map and gaining access to more hunts. At high levels of gameplay, the game is typically over by the time all the hunts dry up. The only caveat to this is if you are playing a defensive civ (i.e. dutch) and you know you are being rushed. In this instance it might make a bit more sense to be conservative with that starting hunt to your point. That said, I know that I used to be OCD about spoilage and would only have one dead hunt at a time. Once I got past this and shot several my openings became much more efficient.

[@RipperJack77]

You are right about that. The reason he kills the hunts so close to the tc is that he doesn't want them to walk away which will increase your villager walking time.

[@AaronMichaelLong]

@@RipperJack77 As opposed to having to bog off to a distant hunt much earlier? That seems to me like a zero-sum game.

[@RipperJack77]

@@AaronMichaelLong The idea is to get the perfect age up time by having minimal walking distance in age 1 at the cost of maybe a 100 food of unnecessary decay

[@harry0able]

Trees = wood mines

[@balazsfenyes3880]

Is Solingen Steel Card useless? It gives a big hp/dmg buff to dopps but they become slow as samurai. Without it with temple upgrade they have 5.95 speed which is super good for an infantry deadly in close range.

[@97Felype]

Classic german opening, never fails.

[@kevinhunter1280]

what do you do when you make a mistake? do you still follow the same build order or do you adjust and create a new strategy?

[@levi_defensive]

bro i mtrying to watch a tut slwo down bro pulling mortal kombat combo's

[@weirdchamp7790]

Love the series now where is spain?

[@silmaril96]

I wonder how long till Sioux strat will come out? I suppose first you will do all European civs?

[@xDanilo0]

Ty sr

[@SisuBjörk]

Me doing this and wondering what to do next

[@justinisenberg1841]

Watching KZbinrs to play the game reminds me why I don't play online. It's not a game of strategy online, it's a game of micro management. Whoever cheeses game mechanics wins.

[@duartecanotilho7773]

Dont you need a TP?

[@nirfoona1106]

yes, but build it in transition to 2nd age

[@Schnitzelklopfer]

Do inca next please

[@AfgTopak92]

Why do you put your settlers always into Ur TC end get them out all the time. I dont get it.

[@shining7733]

Is the market essential for the Germans? Why didn't you build one in your Dutch video?

[@Makofueled]

He's buying wood with his extra 125 gold to get hunting dogs + a house. Dutch settlers cost gold so there's not the same need to rush hunting dogs, the wood can be then used on a bank or whatever.

[@thepick5663]

17 pop till age up is that just for Germans?

[@dolphincup]

that's for germans. In general the idea is to not let your TC idle at all. The correct number of vills to age-up with will depend on how efficiently you play. more efficient play means you can age with fewer vills because you'll simply have the food sooner. The priority is to minimize town center Idle time though.

[@samadams9581]

why do you put settlers in the TC and back out? im lost on that

[@andreashillitzer2291]

its faster than walking around tc

[@agustinmolinas5121]

Can you do brits next?

[@lorddarkkill5135]

It's basically dropping 2 houses or 1 house and 1 market - all villagers on food till age up and then switching to all wood for a house boom. Those extra villagers will collect mostly food - little bit of coin. and either go for musks or gren. At least thats my favourite way of playing brits (since 2005) - as age up ill go for the 200 gold and the outpost but it really depends on your playstyle. Timing for Market upgrades for food and wood depending on what treasures you can get. 1st card are 3 villagers and then cheaper houses. The rest is up to you ^^

[@agustinmolinas5121]

@@lorddarkkill5135 Ah yes I do that aswell but I'm trying to implement a TP and I don't know if it's better during the first age or in transition and like the also how to manage different type of starts. Sometimes you can staet with more wood crates sometimes less

[@lorddarkkill5135]

@@agustinmolinas5121 Interesting. I guess u would implement it after big villagers switch food -> wood. Altough I am not sure if a tp for brits in early game is really necessary/better. I mean - thats 2 houses you can get earlier ^^

[@agustinmolinas5121]

I guess it's better takikg a TP in transition if you wanna get Virginia Company but also that's alot of wood

[@nirfoona1106]

when i'm doing a VC boom i go for 1 house 1 TP, that way you can send VC in almost right after you clicked up to 2nd age. Age up with 500 food and all villigers on wood. Just collect 100 food extra after age for gangsaw upgrade. The TP also gives you enough xp to send in the 700 wood straight after aging. 500 food from age up is just for villigers after aging and to que first musks

[@MTuground00]

What is a build order ?