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00:00 - 00:38 Intro
00:38 - 01:39 5
01:39 - 02:28 4
02:28 - 03:20 3
03:20 - 04:22 2
04:22 - 05:12 Honorable Mention
05:12 - 06:16 1
06:16 - Final Talk & Outro
Edits by @TOPSRoundnet

[@Oakenlix]

The dock: - What is it? This is not fish. Go away, peasant! The villager: - Wait, I'm a fisherman now. Therefore it is fish. The dock: - Alright then! We'll take it.

[@nicholase2868]

The Dock: This sure is a weird fish. The villager: Yeah, its a Sea Cow. The Dock: Oh, that makes sense.

[@jefffinkbonner9551]

Farmer: these are sea cucumbers. Why wouldn't they be?

[@jean-yveslamour4631]

The Dock: What is that? Looks like lettuce to me! The villager: No. This is seaweed The Dock: Oh, ok. I'll take it then

[@justincronkright5025]

Modern Cuisine my Fishmonger friend... Bacon Wrapped Speckled Trout. Or Lamb Stuffed W- Anchovies.

[@alvarosierralta5569]

The Dock: This sure is a weird fish. The villager: Yeah, its a Seabra The Dock: I'll take it

[@eriqborg]

For me, number two with petards was an unexpected reminder. The fact that I knew the rest is just a compliment to the community that managed to educate me a lot. 😀

[@ar1sm70]

Watched so many pro games, that I actually knew these. Whether I'm able to utilize them in my own game is of course another matter 11

[@jokoska]

A couple even tinier tips: If a deer starts to walk back you can reset it by shooting it with one vil. This comes in handy when you are pushing near your mill on hideout. When you spam farms click the new mill last and the vils will auto distribute rather than build the farms as a mob. Now if I could only remember what % of heavy plow I should place farms at.

[@Madoxbeatbox]

Holy shit how did I not know you not losing the wood when making a farm. Constantly was shift clicking to town center and then make a farm - already worth to watch the video after a minute. 🤩

[@valger3652]

Yeah, it works with constucting almost all eco biuldings (TC, farms, mining/lumber camps, mills; but exept docks - vil save gathered resourses but didnt drop to main bank) Also if villager was tasked to build eco building before it was finished, he still drops all type of resoureses that he had on hands to main bank , even if that villager arrives when building was already constructed.

[@stuartmacaulay5761]

Its not the most obvious :p original aoe2 you lost the res as soon as you tasked a new resource (without even gathering). If I'm being lazy with deer luring or losing my scout, I often like to use 4 hunters from afar and build the mining camp for gold which saves my walk back to the tc.

[@nachoantunez]

If it makes you feel better, i've seen people doing exactly the opposite: losing their resources bc they don't deposit them before changing

[@justincronkright5025]

Only thing I didn't like about the video was it made it sound like it's 10 wood ONLY and therefore it's like 50 wood from the stockpile for a farm + 10 in hand... although it would show up as minus 60 in the main stockpile. But maybe that's just my slow morning head working the gunk out of my gears/getting the wheels spinning up.

[@changyanwang1625]

Hera you are a blessing to the AOE KZbin scene. Easily the strongest content creator for competitive learning

[@ChrisMSpoerl]

You should check out Spirit of the Law as well

[@bluesight_]

@@fgnoyola Spirit of the Law digs into statistics like none other

[@HeraAgeofEmpires2]

@@fgnoyola bro we do not disrespect spirit of the law here. Hes one of best aoe2 youtubers

[@HeraAgeofEmpires2]

@@fgnoyola i mean its true hes not top 500, but hes a very respected content creator who makes some amazing videos

[@jimmyjones2901]

@@fgnoyola I didn’t see him comparing them? That’s the douchey part. It’s because you made assumptions to the fact that he was being compared when the way I read it, he was promoting another content creator which I believe is imo in top 5 for English speaking teachers of this game. Absolute precision when it comes to explaining the information we’re looking for. A worthy mention as I’ve also viewed his content😊.

[@woodslboi2072]

Thank you for the great output lately, Hera! You are a very important pillar in the aoe-community and we all appreciate your work! Keep it up and the best of luck to you!

[@bsn_cs]

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[@nelsonmejiaslozada9362]

another good tip is that u can garrison vills in your allies tcs and they will add up the resources that they carry to your stockpile, sometimes i do it in nomad

[@fuyoutubeck]

This one is very important for nomad for sure

[@valger3652]

Indeed, guess Mr. Hera dont have much experience in tg's migration gameplay. That trick helps a lot to gather needed resources for TC without asking for sling.

[@redmatte92]

Didn't know about the petards having a bonus Vs rams, Thx man!

[@HeraAgeofEmpires2]

U got it man

[@kazogai]

I just never thought of petard but I knew others. I would probably take a few vils to fight rams in that situation 11.

[@retrohunter06]

I never thought of using petards for rams, thats really clever

[@hds8315]

The last one I never thought about doing. That sounds nice for nomad maps. Great video

[@jandrenth570]

Apparently I know my shit 11, finally something which I do know. Great tips for someone who is newer and/or didn't know this yet, keep up the good work hera!

[@HeraAgeofEmpires2]

Thanks, well done!!

[@jandrenth570]

@@HeraAgeofEmpires2 thank you!

[@niks2584yt]

funnily enough, I knew the #1 tip but didn’t know the #2 tip 11 I watch a LOT of competitive AoE2 and have not often (in fact, never!) seen Petards defending against ram rushes! I guess that’s because most high level pros are always scouting the opposition and thinking one step ahead, so they’ll often have a mangonel ready to EZ kill those rams! (or BBCs in Imp vs. Siege Rams)

[@hunterdianovich4620]

Great tips!!! I didn’t know any except number 1. I learned that by accident on nomad, I built a dock, than lamed an opponents boar, forgot about it while my guy was collecting, put him on shore fish and I got the food!

[@MetalKingII]

I thought I knew my stuff about aoe2 but I actually did not know the last one. Well played Hera

[@IAmBael]

I did know all of these! Only learned the last one a couple days ago though.

[@praevasc4299]

Thanks to you (and T90 and SoTL) I started to play ranked and I had more successes than I would have imagined at the beginning, thanks to all the hints and practices I learned here. So thank you for playing a big part in re-invigorating this community! There is however one topic I haven't really seen discussed: how to decide when to take a fight? Especially as we can't have perfect information about the enemy. Sometimes after reviewing a loss I realized I could have won the match right then and there if I took the fight, but instead I waited too long to gather more units. Or that it should have been obvious that I should have retreated instead of wasting my army and making myself open to a counterattack. But with the fog of war it's often difficult to decide when to take the fight and when to wait a little more for reinforcements. Even if I sacrifice a unit to run forward and scout, it's often hard to decide on the spot. Maybe worth a shot if you run out of video ideas :)

[@Cacun]

I would say I know my stuff… BUT that last tip man, that’s a new one for me ❤ many thanks!

[@ezrahn]

yup, I didn't know about n. r 1

[@lanetomkow6885]

I knew none of this stuff, but I have played this since the beginning. Just started again after years. So thanks for the tips my friend. Cheers all.

[@Othello484]

I only knew 4, but it was nice to see it demonstrated. I suspected 3, but I didn't know exactly what was going on. 5, 2, and 1 were new to me. Thanks. :)

[@MrMagikool]

Great video! I’m loving AOE on console! You have yourself a new subscriber 🎉

[@HeraAgeofEmpires2]

Welcome bro❤

[@thenedley0913]

I just discovered the dock/food thing today! So funny to see it in your video. I didn't fully understand how it worked so thank you!

[@alerionlynx3579]

As a long time aoe player I do appreciate the effort set in the controls Aaaaand as a long time aoe player im also having fun squishing all the newbies. Can absolutly learn alot playing someone ages beyond your skill level, and I have 0 problem being that guy. That being said it is quit interesting holding back just to see what or how someone reacts. Especially someone with 0 rts game *WP!

[@christophersanford2139]

I had no idea petards had a bonus against rams. What a game changer. With my rock-solid 1k elo there's no way I'm going to have the APM to drop off hunt at a dock. Looking forward to seeing you do it in the next tournament as a flex

[@let203]

Thanks for the tips. Im new to competitive aoe with the console release. But thanks to your KZbin I’ve been climbing the leaderboards

[@surg23]

Thanks for sharing these. The farm depot mechanic is most useful for me. I've been curious how that works for some time now. :)

[@undefined6341]

I never thought about the sicilians one.. I have played them a lot, but only for donjon rushing people :)

[@olivertate4983]

Knew them! I suspect many others are like me, we watch lots of AOE2 - so we know stuff, we're just not very good at playing :'D

[@Dawnrim]

When the tough realities of life are captured in a YT comment... :,(

[@Dawnrim]

You got me at the end there! Aware of all of these - almost - but didn't know you could do the dock drop off trick with deep fish. I thought the villager had to reach the resource, realize its food capacity was reached and then take the venison (in enthusiastic French accent) to the dock. Apparently that's not the case :O

[@Nobodypg]

Nice tips : especially the one with the dock xD

[@davidgretzscheldailyreview6459]

Petards don't do "a tiny bit of splash damage". They do full damage in a 0.5 tile radius.

[@thebiper5847]

Great tips, the n.1 and 2 are new for me, i look forward to use both jaja. The n.1 is really usefull in nomad as well

[@CoffeeAndBusiness]

Bruh… can we talk about that farm placement though 😆😆

[@icethresh]

Awesome tips! Didn't know the first and second place.

[@nickbeltz8602]

At mid 500 elo its going to be funny for me to set up a farming spread around the dock haha. Do it just to see if they take notice lol. Love the video.

[@ClaireIsLiterallyMeFrFr]

Only one I never heard of was the honorable mention, though at the same time I feel like I did know it 1111

[@haribogencel]

Tx for supporting community..

[@marceloledesma8027]

Wow the last one is sick!!! Did you notice that now you cannot place a foundation where there is a unit? I don't mean build it, but place it, so that if the unit moves, you can inmediately build it. Now it doesn't allow you, so it's harder to quickwall.

[@jennystrandqvist1568]

Knew all but one, and thought the castle one would be to body-block the rams. Or crazier once, like bring a villager with your archers to put down houses/buildings as walls against melee charges.

[@LeicaFleury]

Lol thank you for this little top 5; massively appreciate tip n°1.

[@0skaremil]

Damn. Really thought I'd be able to comment that I knew everyone of these, but the last one got me

[@westernaoe]

The honorable mention, I just assumed if you were at 200 pop it wouldn't work, that's quite handy to know and use.

[@exeonx6561]

Knew about all of these except #1, I recall the patch stating that previous resources collected would go into the deposit when you tasked your villagers to a different resource. Upon testing I noticed this didn't work, so I never tried it again, I guess it must have been farms only. My main issue is AMP, handling both my army and my eco, and for some reason waypoints and shift tasks don't always work as i'd like, for example I'll task 2 villagers to build a market, then I shift click them back to the resource they were gathering, so build first, then go back to work. After 30 seconds I realise they haven't started building yet.....

[@0344478]

Thanks for another great vid Hera! 👍 P.S. I knew all 6. 😊

[@pez4]

Nice video! here are the ones I knew and the ones I didn't 5. Knew it 4. Had seen it but didn't know I had to spam the house!! that's what I was missing 3. Knew it 2. Didn't know it D: 1. Knew it ;)

[@EaglebeakGaming]

Never thought of petards… that’s a good one

[@BigAmp2012]

Been playing this game since 1999 and knew 0 out of 5 tricks, at least I'm still getting better....thanks to Hera

[@Glaciatio]

I subscribed because of this. Thank you

[@AlphaSections]

Man deposit's venison at the dock Dockman: What are you doing? That's not fish? "Fisherman": Uh...yeah it is. I may have gotten my license two seconds ago but clearly you don't know what deerimeanFISH meat looks like!

[@pacificsalmon1504]

I knew 1, 2, 3 and honourable mention. 4 I would never have thought of! 5 I sort of knew but for some reason I though I had to start collecting the fish. But all that has to be done is to click!

[@BrentZahradnik]

These were so great thanks

[@Ismail-sz5pj]

I knew all tips. That means I am watching WAAAY too much aoe.

[@mertyilm_z]

I like that there is a music in the background

[@jerejarvinen625]

Didn't know farms work as drop off points!! I've always have the vills dump their resources before building a farm.

[@GOOSEpooo]

I love your videos hera keep it up

[@herotalib9556]

Knew them all. The number 1 been using it on nomad for hunt for a long time just alot of micro so if you forget your vill will walk back to your base. 11

[@Razius33Officiel]

Wow, just fell short of having them all, missed #2

[@coryconley7598]

Great vid!

[@manen.1350]

Hera you are the man

[@HeraAgeofEmpires2]

no you are buddy

[@shresthaditya9731]

1:00-Farm Can be used as a drop off point 3:45-Make petards to avoid getting your castle rammed if you can't deal with it 5:30-Dropping food in dock

[@jeremysavonet6702]

that number one OMG

[@girishkamath642]

I've got three questions: 1. What happens to the wood a lumberjack is carrying if they're tasked to farm an already built farm? 2. Can I task a miner to build a farm and have the stone/gold added to my stockpile? 3. If multiple resource carrying villagers are tasked to build farms, do the resources get added to the stockpile when the first farm is built or when they start farming on their individual farms? If four lumberjacks are tasked to build four farms with shift command, the fourth villager stays under the "builder" label until the fourth farm is built. But the first lumberjack goes from builder to farmer as soon as the first farm is built. Hence my question 😅

[@estellebright2579]

1. For an already built farm, as soon as villager starts gathering resources, your wood would just disappear. 2. Yes you can. That trick works for all four types or res. 3. Didn’t notice but I think the resource would just add to the stockpile when the first farm is built.

[@OlegGolubev_yolo]

thx, didn't know about farms 11

[@tominoakachudak]

Thumbs Up for including rams!!!

[@HeraAgeofEmpires2]

LETS GO!

[@ryans8122]

Entertaining content, and I am actually getting better too

[@terrab1ter4]

1. 80 Farms 2. Be Hera 3. Drush into Walls 4. Micro 1 xbow to kill 4 vills in the back of the opponents base 5. Kill all vills so they can't open the gate to the enemy Allright now I'm gonna watch the video EDIT: You're points are way better, thanks for the insights as always!

[@Ashadowtotheworld]

Is the video blurry for anyone else?

[@Cacun]

Nope, kindly check ur stream quality / glasses cleanliness xD

[@Ashadowtotheworld]

@@Cacunhmmm weird… seems fixed now, musta been an issue at my end then. 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@goombathegrey2664]

I didn’t know about dropping food off at the dock!

[@joepearson1177]

As a very very new player I feel there’s not a simple enough video to rly get a good grip of more of the numbers side.

[@nachoantunez]

Didn't know n1. Thanks a lot

[@jefffinkbonner9551]

I didn't know you only needed to click the villager to fish of any kind to let them drop off at the dock! I thought the vil had to collect at least 1 food from the shore fish on top of whatever they were already carrying for it to work. I thought it wasn't worth it because hunters carry way more than shore fishermen can, so I never even tried.

[@CJ-111]

If only i knew about the petards yesterday

[@MarianoGianni1]

Just helping the algorythm ! knew all but 2nd

[@MrFahad-bk7jq]

You are the GOAT

[@Mr-Vee]

Awesome

[@Blackbelt1]

Thank you

[@rs31]

@Hera when did you start playing the game? WHich other pro player do you get on with the most?

[@AxDhan]

the petard one was pretty good

[@vvmcmurdo]

I never understood what hera says for his intro. a. "Hello everyone and welcome back to a video" b. "Hello everyone and welcome back to another video" c. "Hello everyone and welcome back to THE video" Which one is it? Vote now!

[@ZhenJi88]

I actually knew all of them and im not even playing the game :D Watched every video of spirit of the law though

[@TheKringgle]

Thank you for thre videos

[@CBBGVHL]

The last one 🤯

[@Igor369]

130 food 40 gold worth of petards to kill a ram costing 160 wood and 75 gold ram sounds like it should not be a thing tbh. Especially that fast imping for trebs is already preferred way of dealing with castles.

[@tonywender9316]

Almost at AOE X and you here finding for tips to AOE ll, what this game have!!

[@idkmybffjill9682]

I was with you until number 1, that’s new

[@rdcdt6302]

You should add viking boat are build faster when you do the castle age upgrade for war boat. Load monk attack with a building or scoot and switch to the unit you want for instant convert. Use scout or cav as shield when there is boat fight. Boat with Canon have large range and often better idea than treb because they are faster

[@derikaem8021]

I kinda knew about each, but... The foundation drop on boars is something i rarely tried, and if it didnt work, so Im probably doing sth wrong. OTOH probably the devs will eventually remove this feature/bug anyway. Regarding #1 I didnt know that it is sufficient to only click the shore fish but not to actually walk there. would it also work with clicking deep sea fish?

[@PauxloE]

Converting crops into fish. Nice.

[@d-sniperto5589]

I'm a 1350 and I knew all but the last one 😁

[@smaruhmaruh6955]

To help with the deer to dock trick, is it possible to shift click a vill from deer next to the dock so it will appear as idle and than you can grab it and drop the food of?

[@HeraAgeofEmpires2]

unfortunately no because shift queue will make the vil continue to take deer till the deer is done

[@atomickipachaka821]

Teach a man to fish; Feed him for life (or at least Feudal)

[@modimihir]

Commenting for algorithm

[@Festus_Clamrod_]

Maybe not Petards for the win but damn I underuse them bad mamajamas!

[@nixxblikka]

Played for two years didnt know any of these

[@Felix_EN]

New Editor? Something seems off

[@HeraAgeofEmpires2]

yes new editor

[@andrehoffmann9048]

Wow knew nothing about that xD

[@chessplayer6176]

nice i didn't know number 1 and 2....rest i know....thanks

[@ethanbrown4167]

wow i knew all 6 im kinda suprised

[@HeraAgeofEmpires2]

wpwp

[@wiggsplittah]

cool story bro but... ADD MORE CAMPEIGNS