TheViper's Greatest Masterpiece

I’ve covered a lot of AOE2 over the years, and love the wacky settings AoE2 can bring. In this game we have TheViper attempt something incredible in a Sudden Death game mode, and it will absolutely blow your mind.
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[@ciskhan_]

Why remind me of this game? 111111

[@WackyConundrum]

It was a great game!

[@burnthompson286]

You played it well and it was honestly looking great for you until the last 30 seconds 11

[@justus8675]

Vipy would have gotten everyone else! Well played both of you!

[@rbhatt2247]

To remind u to stay umble

[@ciskhan_]

?@@rbhatt2247

[@hippasusofmetapontum6447]

Imagine if he would have put that elephant on no attack stance.

[@AndrewMeyer]

Would have been really shocking if Ciskhan didn't notice at all until after the petards detonated. 😅

[@jackwaite4035]

He did the game is bugged

[@jonathanbauman2236]

You can see from Viper's POV that the ballista elephant is on "aggressive" attack stance​@@jackwaite4035

[@OytheGreat]

@@jackwaite4035 It was clearly on attacking stance. See 17:07

[@EmilWall]

@GenSeanPatton To be fair, if you listen to what he says in his stream he didn't know how many petards it would take. But yeah, perfect intuition I guess. :)

[@RageFireMaster]

Love it how T90 frames it as masterpiece, viper such a pro, he calculated his every move, and then you see Vipers POV: "Oh I only got 6 left, not sure if thats even enough" 111111111111

[@grabik4402]

Viper is just being umble

[@fredericdehohenstaufen7874]

When you are live streaming with thousand of viewers, it's always better to assume you screwed up and the pressure of failing always make you assume you miscalculate something. Pretty sure if you ask Viper in a quizz the number of petards to kill a TC he will tell you 5 or 6 with confidence

[@BelialTnTn]

You went full petard, man. Never go full petard. Unless you're the viper.

[@ujuhlee]

HAHAHAHAHA!!!!! Underrated...

[@Ryo39]

Holy cow that was absolutely righteous

[@Shlonzs]

No holy ELEPHANT 😂

[@onikoneko]

"What a dog" I'm sure Viper will take that as a compliment

[@EliasHasle]

What a sneaky snake.

[@scuzzbucket8485]

The Viper is an absolute snake in the grass.

[@ryans8122]

I had Dave casting this on in the background and all I remember was just him saying how obvious and predictable this strategy is... Only to a clown 11

[@daveh6800]

Lol i was watching the Dave cast of this as well and he called exactly what was going to happen from the start #clownbrain

[@sebastianschmidt7268]

@@daveh6800 i could sense it the first second when i saw the civ and the map

[@slungellife]

@@daveh6800 maybe also because he knows Viper is a troll, and Viper told him privately before the match that he had a "sick specific civ/map strat prepared"

[@xXxIsmirWurstxXx]

well the settings + map + civ should scream "balista cut" to any player or not?

[@incogneeto2418]

​@@xXxIsmirWurstxXxi think you'll find your answer in this video. You think it's obvious because you now know the answer. It's not obvious without the answer.

[@aliceindotaland9026]

I don't think your earlier casting was bad T90. It got you to where you are now.

[@tomtenthij5676]

Agreed!

[@ElliotDronebarger]

That is a little bit of brilliant.

[@jordan3087]

This was sick, I'm glad I saw it live. However, I think ciskhan missed is what viper wasn't doing. You're playing the viper and he's defending with just 2 scorps, there must be something else going on

[@thanossnap4170]

Holy high risk, high reward, batman! Wow!

[@camolion7529]

"Did he say gg?" no he called you a dog

[@peterkirby7546]

you misspelt MASTAPIECE !

[@hippasusofmetapontum6447]

MASTAPIZZA*

[@AutomticHeart]

MUSTARDPIES!

[@lunatico5]

Love to see their reactions at the end. "What a dog!"

[@EliasHasle]

"Ah, I love AoE..."

[@BinnyBongBaron_AoE]

It's funny, the first game of yours I ever saw on KZbin some 5,6 or 7 years ago, you casted a Viper game. You described him as a guy who beats his opponents with a thousand stings. Here he did the opposite which makes me chuckle.

[@jvhotblast2706]

I love the casts of Viper's games, they are always fun!

[@someonesch4361]

That old T90 voice😌

[@nickbeltz8602]

scary

[@krugerstan]

I didn't even recognize it was him. It's really too bad today he sounds like Ben Shapiro.

[@EmilWall]

I thought he was trash talking someone else when he said "pretty crappy casting" and I was so surprised because T90 is always umble! Glad to find out he has indeed stayed umble.

[@TenkaEmpiresFFA]

Amazing mastapiece, those are the kind of strats you usually see in our low elo scene (I'm there) but very rarely see in the pro scene, Viper is the best!

[@IfonlyIwassmaller]

This is absolutely hilarious omg. The kings just staring at things until they get done. 😂

[@T2266]

How T90's voice changed over the years.

[@janhopis]

Maybe I've just seen a lot of silly play at my ELO but I've seen quite a few cheesy Khmer strats, if I see them picked on a closed map I'm always thinking "Ballista Ele cheese strat", especially in a sudden death tourney. And ESPECIALLY especially after seeing such an early castle (because he was surely already on stone...suspicious). I do think it was could have been predicted, I'd have at least outposted the woodline.

[@lancelotdulac6076]

Tristan, so profesh! inserting all those video parts and stuff, well done man!

[@MeQuerry]

This is a Viper masterpiece game, but also a T90 masterpiece cast. Thanks for your work, T90.

[@johntheknight3062]

You just can't make it up how Viper literally created certain amount of petards that were just enough to go through all these quick walls and then destroyed they TC. HOW? Viper is a god.

[@SweeetJohnny]

From the first moment I saw he is playing with Khmers I know ballista elephant will be part of the plan.

[@SocksyyAU]

I've seen the Taiwan [TAG] lads do this play cutting through forests in tgs on Hideout with Khmer so I could see this play potentially coming especially given the game mode when I saw civs 11 Really awesome when not only the strategy is cheeky but it also works out perfectly having just barely enough to take out the tc, I think you need 5 or so?

[@fedakyn1583]

man thats cool. and In a pro tournament game. Respect for the boldness to pull that off

[@enc3342]

Wow Tristan it's crazy how much your voice has changed over the years!

[@stooge_mobile]

Is it even possible? Is he taking growth hormones? XD

[@AndreyAntonchik]

Haha as soon as I saw Khmer on hideout I knew what was happening. That’s probably my favorite strat on ranked I’ve only played it once but still

[@Lodinn]

Ciskhan is really out there trying hard and getting bit salty at the end while Viper's having a good time with the game.

[@coxandrewj]

That MBL epic Pitard rush is legendary. I watched it years ago and it was one of the very few AoE2 videos I watched. Took me several years before I decided to play the game for myself.

[@The_Lag_Monster]

Brilliant play! I think it would have made more sense to garrison the town center and try to shoot down the petard.

[@tomscorpion6288]

I wouldn't be able to make it happen, I wouldn't be able to prevent the attack, BUT it was the first thing I thought of when I saw the map.

[@jacque3427]

that old mbl game was the first video of yours that i watched and its one of my fondest games lol, your casting was fine

[@ohlookanotheraccount]

That was wicked. Man did it perfectly!

[@RobinSongRobin]

that was amazing!! the only thing you can say in retrospect that could have tipped ciskhan off is -- where were viper's units??? He couldn't have been booming on 1 TC. I'm not very good at the game so I don't know what else he thought viper could have been doing, but I sure don't blame him for not imagining this strategy from his opponent

[@PainfullySubjective]

and it worked the first time too (petards into town center)

[@tomtenthij5676]

I like that petards are used in SD

[@umamifriends]

I love seeing viper mess around lol

[@MrAbgeBrandt]

I love the old graphics of that cast from the past! And the sounds are so iconic as well. Please cast some original version game some time just for the sake of it :D (non-Fatslob one I mean)

[@kevinkirschenheuter1479]

Im a simple man, I see Snake, I click.

[@MLandriganReid]

AoE2 is slowly becoming the Golf of video gaming (in the sense you can make a living from it even if you are on the lower end of top 200)

[@e11world]

Genius by the Viper. The vision to see these things so early is amazing!

[@CragHack]

I genuinely can't believe that was T90's voice at the end. Absolutely no way. Did he have a laryngeal surgery in the mean time??? 11

[@jerer6885]

Nothing beats the mbl game

[@ukulele177]

This is truly Grandmaster's Masterpiece

[@nyvisalays2475]

This is definitely one of the age of empires games of all times. Sadly I don't think you can do that one a second time.

[@ar1sm70]

Absolutely incredible!!

[@mathieucozien5736]

5:18 T90 casually doxxing Ciskhan

[@EliasHasle]

How?

[@Sigma-95715]

T90 for life! Sorry I missed the meetup but I was there in spirit.

[@xiphos2412]

gimme a slice of that cheesy MASTAPIZZA tastyyyyy 🍕

[@bsmith3506]

Girl I've been doing the ballista elephant tree-cut on hideout strat at 1000 elo for years. These so-called "pros" are so behind on their game.

[@mccm48]

Fucking Viper man, amazing. What a player.

[@Mike-vn3lt]

"Dare I say, en fuego." The great Dan Patrick 😂

[@Vazgen_Ghazaryan]

Let's do a community tournament. That would be a great gesture to all game lovers, and a magnificent spectacle to watch.

[@TheKrjack]

I want a tshirt with this.

[@joshs3499]

absolutely filthy

[@kwmcgreal]

I actually guess elephant through trees as soon as the game started! Didn't think of petards though cause I am still new to the game

[@benl5642]

MASTAPIZZA!

[@blarch2]

4:57 Hey T90, I was wondering if you could start your next youtube video with a resounding "Gauges!' in remembrance of how you have a good gauge of the way games are going to play out after all these years, you legend.

[@shouldvegonetobed]

TheViper = GOAT

[@mandurilravenous5324]

hell yeah, if viper didnt bring more than 5 petards that would have failed, amazing play !

[@blainewalton1210]

This is such a great play.

[@the-rogue-spartan]

As soon as you said 'petard', I kinda knew what was going to happen. lol

[@olivierl2172]

Great use of the Viper's logo in the thumbnail @Uglie 😅

[@squeakycleannnn]

an arena, instant like :) also how french, no gg, so salty :D

[@seancsnm]

The second you see the civs you'll know... But imagine getting memed on in a tournament.

[@julle4017]

That was so satisfying!

[@dapperdon2240]

He pushed in deer first thing really! Ate them before cows and sheeps

[@WackyConundrum]

The weirdest thing was that Ciskhan did not garrison in his TC. The arrows could have saved him!

[@ToneyTootenhiemer]

That was sick! hahaha

[@breg5993]

The enemy's gate is down.

[@tonyspare2468]

amazing

[@Hernqvist123]

Hey man, I saw someone that was looking so close to you in another youtube video, but he had longer hair. Do your brother do youtube? Anyways, thanks for all the awesome content, love every minute of it

[@thephelddagrif2907]

Is the fox team relatively new? Lots of high level fox players i have seen recently

[@lelekos9103]

Wtf thats completely Insane

[@mateocolegial5571]

*T90!!! 100/100!!! 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩*

[@crothert]

Anyone hear T90 voice at the end 😀 so young

[@IMBATMANANDIMCOOL]

OMG this is masterpizza .. woahsers

[@tonled6960]

the only critique i have was if only his elephant hadnt hit those vils, it would have been more sneaky, but still GG

[@cortexgreen12]

Won and walked off. Legend.

[@AndrewMeyer]

The enemy's gate is down. 😁

[@Malaman1979]

Genuine question from a noob... at about 09:30 Ciskhan's archers are a bit stuck with nothing to do and he takes them back to base. But there are 2-3 houses he could shoot down. I know it's not going to be a game winner and Viper could just rebuild them further back but why not do that rather than walking them all the way home. It could pop cap viper for a moment, it means he has to commit some villgers and resuorces to re building them which overall adds a bit of slow down to vipers game. I often see moments like this and wonder why players don't just try to get some pickings from the edges of someones town.

[@brianensign7638]

There are a few reasons I can think of. 1) Houses would take a while to destroy with archers, even with Saracen bonus. That’s time the archers aren’t spending on other things, and the damage to Viper would be very small. 2) Ciskhan doesn’t see the whole map like we do. He doesn’t know what Viper is doing, so he doesn’t know if there are enemy units sneaking toward his own base. 3) He doesn’t want his archers to get trapped inside Viper’s walls. 4) Retreating keeps Viper guessing about Ciskhan’s unit count and position. He might approach from the other direction, or set an ambush for Viper if he decides to counterattack. 5) Every archer that dies doing low-value things in Viper’s base is an archer that won’t be available later for either attack or defense. 6) An archer costs more than a house. If burning down two houses costs one archer, that’s a bad trade. It’s not worth the risk.

[@Malaman1979]

Thank you for the detailed response. To be honest I hadnt really thought about any of those, apart from point 1 a bit. Point 2 and 4 particularly make sense. As someone who hasn't played for... probably a couple of decades now apart from one try a year or so ago that was pretty pathetic :D it's easy to forget you can't see what your opponants doing when all I do is watch these stream videos. Makes sense when you explain it like that though. Cheers.@@brianensign7638

[@Cheximus]

@@brianensign7638 You made six points but the main one is that Viper is in Castle age a lot earlier and Ciskhan doesn't want to risk losing his army to a castle age push. He wants the safety of his base and a bigger ball of archers.

[@ravigadhwana11]

Perfect 7 Stratagy Player

[@wattihrvolt-pn3pf]

baneling busts now coming to aoe

[@ozziey52]

Masta vaipur with the spreadsheet play

[@Mak_atakA]

1111 you: "some pretty crappy casting" - I'm thinking jeez thats mean - I go and listen - huh why is this on T90's channel....20 seconds later - oh shit it's T90! :o

[@zthefarmer]

This is going down in history. This.

[@peterziaja8666]

Why are some houses on fire right from the beginning?

[@gebhard128]

Someone didn't watched the transport petards on Canberra against DauT

[@steve_aoe]

I came to comment the same

[@RAMMY237]

Sudden Dessasterpiece ❤

[@kerkireos]

Warcraft 3 vibes

[@matthieumenard8149]

To those non french that thinks that calling viper a dog is highly insulting, in recent language slang, it's more used to mean "moron".

[@lagg1e]

Isn't moron also an insult?

[@Zagrakhen]

I think in context, he meant "bastard" in a gentle but frustrated attitude. More precisely "what a gigantic bastard!"

[@jarradwilder]

In Australian "dog" is a friendly taunt. Like "Get out of my base ya dog". Can be used aggressively as well but there's no racial connotation at all

[@freshrockpapa-e7799]

Why would dog be offensive? Dogs are very nice, I'd be much more offended at being called a moron

[@ciskhan_]

Nothing was mean in the way I spoke, I meant that Viper's play was strong 11

[@arjunsatheesh7609]

At this point I've seen so much T90 and Viper that ...(spoilers)... when I saw the map, I knew that the centreline of trees would be cut. I was not sure about the petards but the trees being cut and ciskhan being caught off guard was a certainty.

[@Adam-oh1ds]

More sudden death!!

[@xMav44]

wouldnt he hear it? Thats how i know to look *shrug* maybe disguised by scorpions?

[@glens1800]

I’m more amazed people are still playing this game 😅

[@cipherw0lf]

Insane!

[@pocketgroyper9301]

I thought this title would be clickbait and underwhelming and boy was I wrong lmao.