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Hi Dan, not sure why this is happening for you, as I don't have that data mod (or the new DLC for that matter). But, sometimes new updates to the game are not compatible with mods, so maybe your mod will not work until the mods' designer updates it =). Best guess, but talking out my backside.

@@VarrusAOE The thing is that i always update my data mod...but this time the game still doesn't allow it...i just wonder if is because i don't register to microsoft/xbox...maybe they force people to register..i didn't needed before,my data mod worked everytime...once this big update with roman civ came, it stopped working...i update my mod everytime and it worked...with new dlc's, not anymore...i don't want to buy dlc's...there are enough civs to pick with vanilla game.

Thank you, Jerimiah! I definitely wanted to use CaptureAge's perspective for most of the UA-cam stuff...I agree that first person AoE2 is very clicky and can be hard to watch.

agreed

Thank you very much, Danto! Very kind of you to say.

TBH he might just have been making suboptimal decisions. I agree with you completely that if he kind of pushed from the edges instead of rolling into the middle it would have bee a lot easier.

I think he was probably expecting a little bit less resistance from me and that if they did their strat properly he can GG me without significant investment. blue delaying himself and me by feudal rushing me should mean green can add TCs and wipe me, but didn't quite play out for them.

@@VarrusAOE That makes sense, he underestimated the tower spam 11

Thanks, Sam! To be candid, the TC drop really works best vs people who make mistakes vs it...probably not great to TC rush a TC rusher xD

Hi Corentin - Thank you very much for the feedback! Just the way I have always named the players in my head, but I will try to change it for the casts. Agree it doesn't make much sense to call them by number, probably most Age enjoyers don't have the numbers mapped to colors. Tyvm!

@@VarrusAOE​​⁠​⁠The thing is that player 1 can be yellow in a game and blue in an other so each time a game start you must redo the mapping. Have a good one

@@corentinchapellier399 yeah I really appreciate this feedback! I like clear feedback about things I am doing wrong. Doing a cast today and I'll be trying to not say "p1" etc at all.

xD thanks for watching, GC! More African Clearing today tho 11. But it's out of map pool now, so you will be pleased.

7 I like that thanks, Bel the Beast!

Haha love that you caught it wasn't clicked xD

And yet he is always clapping his Turkish homie BoyBlunder

Hey, glad you watched the game so closely. I don't mind the halb suggestion. After the game I chatted with Rubenstock, and he said probably I needed to go Cataphract so that we would have a legitimate cavalry unit vs camel & siege. I definitely needed forward buildings during p5 push tho, and forward rax's with some halbs to help out Smokey's Elephant archer push would have been a good contribution.

@@VarrusAOE Cataphracts' success against camels is an interesting quirk of the combat system. You did fight a lot of camels in early Imp. But I think Cataphracts are not an optimal play when the enemy has minimal infantry, unless you have plenty of gold - and you didn't in early Imp. This game was too messy for early trade, with no good corner control. To somewhat arbitrarily pick times, when you hit Imp, Rubenstock did have 28 Serjeants, but only because of First Crusade. He did make a few more after that, but by three in-game minutes later at 20:11 video time, the Finnish team had only four spearmen and three Serjeants out of 64 military. When TheMax hit Imp at 21:57, it was still just the same four spearmen and four Serjeants. At an arbitrary 25:00, we finally see infantry appearing again, with 28 Obuchs (and the same four spearmen and four Serjeants, and a Ghulam) out of 164 military. Granted, there were 49 camels: but the other units were Magyar Huszars and Polish Cavaliers. According to AgeArena's excellent tests (and no stat or cost changes since then), Elite Cataphract barely beats Elite Magyar Huszar, with 14% HP remaining, but this is with Logistica. In MikeEmpire's "CAVALIER (Poles) vs EVERY UNIQUE UNIT (Total Resources)", cavalier beats cataphract. But even if cataphract won, it would be a unit with 52% gold cost beating a unit with just 33% gold cost (Polish cavalier), or 0% gold cost in the case of Magyar Huszars. It's just not enough value, with too expensive of an upgrade path with Logistica, when you have another option available which can beat camels, Magyar Huszars, and Cavalier, all with a 25% discount. Although on further investigation, at 24:00 you did have the resources to switch into Elite Cataphract. What I criticize here is something that most players, including the best, do: focusing on your own situation instead of looking at the bigger picture. Near the end (when TheMax had 100+ paladins queued), you commented that you had managed to defend against red's push. But that was only because he stopped queuing units for some reason - his team was still floating 20k resources, and they slung him some just before the ended. Instead of focusing solely on defending your side, you could have requested specific units from your team (as necessary) while providing halberdiers to stop the cavalry-heavy push on the other side. To be fair, only making the unit your civ is good at is something that players sometimes do in excess, especially when they are not bothering to support both sides. (Again, pro players, like the winners of Rage Forest tournaments, make this mistake as well.) For example, I am not nearly as confident as you that arbalests were a good unit for Go-Toba to be making in this game. If the enemy was making halberdiers, then arbalests would have been fine. But they weren't: so longbowmen, which do the same damage against halberdiers but 1 more against siege onagers and cavalry and have 1 more range, would have contributed more in the sniping role, and Britons could still fill other roles like building siege. Dravidian elephant archers already filled a dps role against Polish cavaliers, having civ bonus and Thumb Ring attack speed upgrades over British arbalests, as well as 1 more base attack and, of course, much higher HP. Thinking of the amazing original AoE2 cinematic, treating the game like chess: chess is all about thinking ahead. The first step to building a lot of forward production buildings during a push is sending some villagers forward, before you need to start building those buildings. Though I also didn't notice how many resources some players on your team were floating throughout the game: this seems to be an area where most players could do better in team games, communicating when they have excess resources or a need for resources.

Thanks for watching Sam! It was really painful losing that wave of cavalier to the castle age mameluke xD

@@VarrusAOE any reason you didn't do teutonic knights vs the mamelukes? I saw he also had xbows so I guess probably not worth the gold?

@@samwisegamgee8318 xD cause I didn't think of it. Probably better to go ETK in this game with the gold access than to play how I did.

@@VarrusAOE if the game went on longer it would've been your move for sure with all that gold in the center map. ETK plus your SO would have been a 'get out of my game' army comp lol

111 true, completely shameful behavior.

Yeah they are super tough. I think monk mangonel + cavalry is often the way...get a splash hit, convert one, poke one down with knights, run back...heal...but so hard. The super tanky ranged unique units just ask so many questions of enemy team.

Thanks Blake! Appreciate it.

Thank you very much. I appreciate your support :)

I mean tbh, I don't recommend it xD

Thx Sam. XD I was just worried all the nomads would yell at me for doing an areeeeena game

Also I like the build notes! Helps us less intuitive players.

I'm glad! I hope it's helpful (for the few us of who like to fish boom on AC haha)

Hi Champ of Horde, thanks for the kind words. Yes, I think it can be worth it to push deer. I think the best time to eat a deer is as your first huntable, as you don't have to spend time shooting it with the TC like you would a rhino/boar/ele. If you have some deer really close to TC, definitely can make sense. I LOVE to have a deer as my first huntable on Nomad where you start with a dock, I find it really helps get the eco rolling to have deer instead of boar, but only if they are quite close to TC. PS I like the Medivh Icon. I played WC3 Frozen Throne back in the day, and have played some TLV and Samuro in HOTS.

​@@VarrusAOE Thank you so much for the tip, I appreciate it a lot! Will be applying them in my games from now on. Damn you play HOTS too? That is my main game a long with AoE 2, been playing for 10 years and still going, anytime you like to play hit me up, I am main Vikings, Rexxar, Medivh player (love all the quirky heroes, Samuro is sick as well). I have been GM several seasons in the past so I can give you some tips there too!

of course, and I've been pushing deer more since your post haha. TLV Rex and Medi are some cool toons! Sadly it's been about a year since I played HOTs. I discovered it kind of after it was already dead, but I used to play Warcraft 3 a lot, so it really hits a big nostalgia button for me.

​@@VarrusAOE Don't listen to the people saying it is dead, It just got a great balance patch a couple of days ago and you wont have trouble finding games. It is never late to play this very fun game.

@@champofhorde9479 Haha as an AoE2 player, I don't mind dead games xD. I just have been enjoying age too much recently to play many other games

xD hey Box! I haven't gotten that mod yet but probably should.

Hi Teunis It's called "[KoBHV] Dark Age Town Center". I like it a lot, helps with exactly that issue, and it changes back into regular TC by feudal age.

Thank you, Sam.

Haha yeah it feels so helpless when they start sieging your base xD

Thanks for watching Sam! And yes I do agree - With how many Hybrid maps there are and how often boats fight vs land units now, navy just feels OP in these positions

@@VarrusAOE I think they might want to up the cost of naval units. I mean, a war wagon costs more wood than a galleon right now. AOE4 does a good job of making ships seem 'bigger', taking up more pop space and costing more. We may be heading in that direction depending on how the pros leverage boats going forward. You guys will probably be at the forefront of that given the maps you play on. The fishing ship boom would've sounded insane even 6 years ago.

@@samwisegamgee8318 Haha War Wagon is basically a boat + wheels so that one almost makes sense. But in all seriousness, I could definitely see warships being more expensive as you suggest.

It's called fire ships

@@cliffordcrimson7124 fire ships don't counter mass CG, especially spanish CG. There is no proper counter to them if you mass enough of them. There's entire strats around massing fires in the middle of a lake on a map, transporting vills to the middle, and waiting out the opponent.

Glad you enjoyed!

Thanks for the feedback, Sam! I wanted to keep this video laser focused on the Spearman Drush - but in the future I'll try to get the full game posted as well - I know it kind of "hide the ending" of the story to show just the start of the game.

Thank you, Sam!

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Thanks!

Thanks for watching, HJYIMN. I wanted to cast a partial games so that I can keep the video laser focused on the strategy identified in the title, but I can tell that you'd like to see the conclusion of the game as well and I will keep that in mind in the future (I'm making a follow up video for Red's archers, but next time I do something like this, I'll try to post them both together so that you have access to both on the same day).

@@VarrusAOE At least some summary would be nice to hear if you don't want to make full game video.

Thank you for watching and for the kind words, Cryptogamer!

Thanks, pteeto. I'm thinking you must be ptee from this game, and you did an awesome job of getting a eco lead while contesting player 1 for map control.

Hey Golden Canine! Thanks for checking out the content! Great to hear it's being being watched by the nomad community!

Thanks for watching Matt, and thank you for your kind words! Funny story regarding people who don't play this game watching it...AoE2 was first released in the 99, but in 2016 a UA-camr/caster called T90Official dropped this absurd, seemingly unrelatable video called "AoE2 - Forest Nothing". The video blew up to 2 Million views, and is largely considered t90's breakout video which convinced Microsoft AoE2 was still commercially, and Microsoft re-released age of empires II (DE) in 2019, resurrecting the game. A lot of us have come back to the game or discovered it since then. Thanks again for watching!

Hi Jorge! Thank you for watching and I'm glad you enjoyed the castle age denial's. They were good fun for me too.