The best part about commentated AoE2 vids are how easily they can be watched/listened to. Cooking/eating-easy watch Driving-easy listen AFK’ing Miney/Runey-easy watch Lying in bed trying to sleep-easy listen Legit love the vids T90, keep up the great work you absolute Bradman!
The hour went by so quickly, holy moly. My head is spinning with the constant repositioning, flanks, rebuilding of bases, and constant fighting and alarm bells - I cannot fathom how anyone could play this for so long without their brains exploding. Hats off to both players, thank you T90 for casting this *insane* game. Definitely enjoyed it, there was not a dull moment in here. Now if you'll excuse me, I need to lay down and process all of this, 'twas too much. :D
Honestly LB10's mistake was going for those towers later on instead of putting down a castle or two. That one castle from Metal dealt with a fair few towers before the trebs and basically kept LB10 from pushing, the second one on Metals home island did exactly the same. They gave metal the breathing space against pushes all game long because even if LB10 built the stuff to kill them he would have had a lot of trouble protecting that stuff whilst attacking the castle without taking a horribly lopsided fight vs Metals army with castle fire support. Towers are great for spammable light defence or early game arrow support, but once they become available castles completely outclass them as arrow fire machines. Not to mention the crenulations potential. Thats basically one of the issues Korean's have, their towers don't get really beastly till castle age, but soon after Castles become available which outclass even imp age korean towers.
honestly, there were a lot of routes that he could've gone that would've ended better from my understanding. Going for atleast 1 castle is for sure one of them, or just cooling it for a second with the towers and transitioning earlier. For a while it was a good idea, but i feel like he kept it going wayyyyyyy longer than made sense to. Once metal was locked into a corner on his island with basically no protection, definitely could've just transported a couple of his knights and caused far more disturbance than his towers ever could have. (and thus saved the stone, enabling him to create said castle even easier). I think leaving the extra islands in the center unprotected (considering he plopped down 20-25 towers, and a lot of them were redundant anyways, I think its more worth it to have 2 towers on each of those islands just in case). He could've pushed for a faster imperial the moment he saw metal's tower, and, supposing he did build a castle, use trebs to reclaim his entire island (instead of the other way around) etc. I am by no means a high level player, and we're seeing this from spectator position, but considering the amount of map control, i think he had all the information available to come to the same conclusions, and i think he did make a lot of poor decisions.
I agree - I would have castled his wood line earlier - mind you I would have lost far eailer since the only thing I know how to do is Persian TC rush but still
I love how you rerecorded from the beginning instead of just continuing from where you left off, it would be completely fine to do that but you wanted to do it as perfect as possible, you're one of the best entertainers i watch/listen to, your content is really appreciated Tristan
I found your comment because I pressed CTRL + F and searched for the word "archery"--I wasn't just expecting comments like yours but also looking for them.
These islands were good, but best? I don't know about that. Personally I'm of the opinion that isle of man is the best island, beautiful, strategically located and all that, but naha island in Okinawa is a really good island too.
"I would resign, let me know what you'd do though" If I was tilted, I would keep playing just to spite my opponent. I typically play team games though, and when I do so, others may quit early, I never do. I'll try to fight 1v4 and I'll no joke play for literally 4 hours if it means I win or get better in the end.
19:50 do even know how tough is to be a construction worker xD of course they are gonna take a break, building towers under fire from the enemy while your god keeps telling you to build it even though you were programed to run when you are getting hit. Pls someone make a sindicate for villager constructors
So at 26:35 LB10 says "we won tournament mocking metal when he was in some 2v2 arena tournament against secret in the last game he says in team chat "omg we just won tournament" or something like that then they threw the game and lost the tournament. So he is probably making fun of metal in some capacity.
@@mauer1 Nope. Tower DO care for attack, but only of ranged units and villagers garrisoned. Non-Teuton infantry adds nothing to the building attack. I'm not sure what Throwing Axeman and Gbeto do, I'd assume them not to add any arrows.
@@mauer1 I'm not sure if it's a conscient design choice (it would make sense due to TC fire protecting players' starting location in the super-early game) or if it's because they actually use a piercing ranged attack (when hunting).
Did they fix the bug that prevented the recording of a continuation? I wish somebody would have done that way back when. I still want to see the end of that epic match between Maimin Matty and ATSQ. Granted, everything devolved into TC wars back then (and Teutons weren't allowed because their TCs outranged everyone else's), but it was still an epic game.
Is there somewhere that we can download the recordings of these? I would really like to watch some replays of the knight skirmishes and transport landings that weren't caught here. Understood if you can't share, and thanks for the excellent narration.
Have you ever felt your life was like this? You have an idea, get passionate about something and find more GUARD TOWERS blocking your way? You might not know the way right then. Build those seige workshops, build those stables; Make those knights and rams. And smack life in the face and say im going to the Imperial age! T90 my life coach ❤️
Really triggered me that blue didn't put a castle on the woodline on the Northern island to zone that farming TC, kill the tower etc then build a treb... or you know knock the gate down with 10 knights. Whole game was kinda sloppy but fun I mean Metal didn't even get wheelbarrow until the 76th minute of gameplay lol (45:40) for those interested and horse collar was 80th minute.
@@TheStrangeBloke Well, you can say best player in the US. In Germany we use the term "US-amerikanisch" (US-american) but I am not sure if you can say that in English.
It's almost a shame LB10 resigned when he did. With 1k gold in the bank and control over water and the middle island you think he could've started pushing back on his island. gg anyway!
I'm still in the middle of the video but lb should've transported more of his own villagers to metal's island and do what metal was doing, he has all the resources secured by his towers.
it seems that lb is forced to do this later on, after depleting resources on his main island, but he really should've done it voluntarily much earlier, then he might get to castle age faster and prevent metal from regaining his control of the island
"Best islands ever" Expectation: Galleons, Demolition ships... Reality: The only action between ships in the first 40 minutes was when one fire galley kiled another at 7:35. This is great!
At 23:42 GAIA says ( in french ): I'm completely K.O. , I'm going to bed, hoping you're going to win. Is this how it works when a spectator sends a message, T90?
"Metal, he got screwed over with his map generation" I'm sorry, I was under the impression that the guy who's main gold is literally on a tiny neutral island vs japanese got screwed over by his map gen
i'm actually a construction worker and u were spot on XD that's actually how it is... sometimes it's hard to get work done because everyone wants to always take breaks constantly. we also have to work in hot buildings with no AC but even when it's not that bad, they are still pretty lazy sometimes
At 1:00:00 game time (35:50 video time) Metal finishes researching Halderdier and immediately invades LB10's eco, that was where the game was won. LB10 had no defense and no answer for Japanese Halbs. He drops from from 90 to 45 pop within minutes. Couldn't truly recover from there.
No one can destroy the Metal. Metal will strike you down with a viscous blow. We are the vanquished foes of the Metal, we tried to win for why we do not know.
Now after watching til the end, WOW!?!?!?!? and i say that with exclamation and question marks because well, so many great plays that made me wow and so many bad ones that made me wow as well hahaha! GREAT GAME!
LB10 overbuilt fast fires when he needed to build a couple bombards instead. The siege workshop was right there, and he had done chemistry earlier for the hand cannons.
this is actually so crazy. i never watched any aoe2 multiplayer games before. this is way different from playing against the ai. i'm not a construction worker but the 6 break thing is so real
14 minutes "this may be where the game ends!" about 10 minutes ago "i have seen 18 minutes of this game and its awesome! i dont wanna spoil[...]" haha xD
Small trees is a steam workshop mod that you can download for your game if you play the HD edition on steam, and the zoom of your camera is dependent on the resolution your display is set at. The higher the resolution, the more zoomed out you'll be! So use the biggest/nicest monitor you have access to. Some computers with certain graphics cards can set their resolutions higher than the screen normally allows to allow for more zoomed out game play on a not high res monitor.
The best part about commentated AoE2 vids are how easily they can be watched/listened to.
Cooking/eating-easy watch
Driving-easy listen
AFK’ing Miney/Runey-easy watch
Lying in bed trying to sleep-easy listen
Legit love the vids T90, keep up the great work you absolute Bradman!
I fell asleep watching AoE 2 videos last night. It's just so goddamn relaxing
i do it too...unscrambles my brain after a hard day
fucking the gf... watching this...
Sky Lible I did the same thing as you and I slept so easily 😂
@@hamsterpoop >AOE II
>gf
One of the rare times a potentially hyperbolic title is NOT clickbait. That was an incredible game.
I've been playing this game casually since its release in the 90's. I just discovered from this video that villagers can repair ships......
😂 crazy
The hour went by so quickly, holy moly. My head is spinning with the constant repositioning, flanks, rebuilding of bases, and constant fighting and alarm bells - I cannot fathom how anyone could play this for so long without their brains exploding.
Hats off to both players, thank you T90 for casting this *insane* game. Definitely enjoyed it, there was not a dull moment in here.
Now if you'll excuse me, I need to lay down and process all of this, 'twas too much. :D
T90: I would resign.
Me: I would cry.
14:30 "This could be where the game ends" there's still 50 minutes of the video... 11
40:00 "Surely it's over for him." 25 minutes remain... 11
1111
FRANCE NO 1
@@LucaSantarella1 what does 11 / 1111 mean?
@@Axillity there are some quick pre-defined commands in the game, that you can trigger by using its number, 11 its basically a "LOL"
27:34 I would love to see more fully zoomed out, periodic overviews throughout the games.
Your vhannel got me back into AoE II btw :)
It's amazing how a 20 yo game can still give us amazing matches like this one
Honestly LB10's mistake was going for those towers later on instead of putting down a castle or two. That one castle from Metal dealt with a fair few towers before the trebs and basically kept LB10 from pushing, the second one on Metals home island did exactly the same. They gave metal the breathing space against pushes all game long because even if LB10 built the stuff to kill them he would have had a lot of trouble protecting that stuff whilst attacking the castle without taking a horribly lopsided fight vs Metals army with castle fire support.
Towers are great for spammable light defence or early game arrow support, but once they become available castles completely outclass them as arrow fire machines. Not to mention the crenulations potential. Thats basically one of the issues Korean's have, their towers don't get really beastly till castle age, but soon after Castles become available which outclass even imp age korean towers.
honestly, there were a lot of routes that he could've gone that would've ended better from my understanding. Going for atleast 1 castle is for sure one of them, or just cooling it for a second with the towers and transitioning earlier. For a while it was a good idea, but i feel like he kept it going wayyyyyyy longer than made sense to. Once metal was locked into a corner on his island with basically no protection, definitely could've just transported a couple of his knights and caused far more disturbance than his towers ever could have. (and thus saved the stone, enabling him to create said castle even easier). I think leaving the extra islands in the center unprotected (considering he plopped down 20-25 towers, and a lot of them were redundant anyways, I think its more worth it to have 2 towers on each of those islands just in case). He could've pushed for a faster imperial the moment he saw metal's tower, and, supposing he did build a castle, use trebs to reclaim his entire island (instead of the other way around) etc.
I am by no means a high level player, and we're seeing this from spectator position, but considering the amount of map control, i think he had all the information available to come to the same conclusions, and i think he did make a lot of poor decisions.
I'll get back to you once I've finished if LB10 dont win I wont be happy
I agree - I would have castled his wood line earlier - mind you I would have lost far eailer since the only thing I know how to do is Persian TC rush but still
I love how you rerecorded from the beginning instead of just continuing from where you left off, it would be completely fine to do that but you wanted to do it as perfect as possible, you're one of the best entertainers i watch/listen to, your content is really appreciated Tristan
Depending on your setup the file can get corrupt if the drive has no space left and you lose the file. Wouldn't make sense to start mid game tbh.
Annoyed construction worker chiming in. I dont think T90 knows about second breakfast
Elevenses?
Afternoon Tea??
Luncheon? Dinner? Supper? He knows about them, doesn't he?!
I wouldn't count on it..
Best. Comment. Ever.
With respect to the other AOE2 casters, you Sir, are The Viper among the casters! Keep it up Thee90!
They tried to kill the metal, but the metal wouldn't die.
imagine his opponents name was new wave or something :D
I'm expecting comments in the chat about how 3 archery ranges should be placed on the centre island.
I found your comment because I pressed CTRL + F and searched for the word "archery"--I wasn't just expecting comments like yours but also looking for them.
29:48 Inspiring.
These islands were good, but best? I don't know about that. Personally I'm of the opinion that isle of man is the best island, beautiful, strategically located and all that, but naha island in Okinawa is a really good island too.
Bornholm my man, Bornholm.
what are you guys talking about, Malta is the best, strategically located and very easy to defend
@@khorps4756 Blockade, duh.
Nonsense, the Isle of Hans is the best island. Perfectly positioned, disputed by absolute gentlemen and the cause of copious amounts of drunk seamen.
I know it's sort of the normie vanilla answer, but as far as the best isles go Britannia sort of conquered all the others.
Three legs of Mann!
"I would resign, let me know what you'd do though"
If I was tilted, I would keep playing just to spite my opponent. I typically play team games though, and when I do so, others may quit early, I never do. I'll try to fight 1v4 and I'll no joke play for literally 4 hours if it means I win or get better in the end.
T90, 1h in « how is medal still alive ?!! »
Well, first of all, obviously he didn’t resign. That helps.
Without error there is no masterpiece... this game is breath taking
Schatten GoodLuck no, you’re breathtaking
19:50 do even know how tough is to be a construction worker xD of course they are gonna take a break, building towers under fire from the enemy while your god keeps telling you to build it even though you were programed to run when you are getting hit.
Pls someone make a sindicate for villager constructors
That was the video that got me back to the game after 10 years
Thanks T90
So at 26:35 LB10 says "we won tournament mocking metal when he was in some 2v2 arena tournament against secret in the last game he says in team chat "omg we just won tournament" or something like that then they threw the game and lost the tournament. So he is probably making fun of metal in some capacity.
John Biggs Forgot about this 😂
@@T90Official Honestly one of the top memes of the past year.
"69 population. Nice."
...nice.
Man, that three archer build on neutral island was insane! Almost won him the match.
50:00 "...you smack life in the face and say 'i'm going to the imperial age!' "
more like 30:00 - cheers!
One thing you forgot to mention (or at least before 20:32) Teuton pointy bois (and infantry in general) can shoot arrows from towers.
towers care for the attack not if the guys are ranged or not.
@@mauer1 Nope. Tower DO care for attack, but only of ranged units and villagers garrisoned. Non-Teuton infantry adds nothing to the building attack.
I'm not sure what Throwing Axeman and Gbeto do, I'd assume them not to add any arrows.
@@Alche_mist okey
Villagers are just special then.
@@mauer1 I'm not sure if it's a conscient design choice (it would make sense due to TC fire protecting players' starting location in the super-early game) or if it's because they actually use a piercing ranged attack (when hunting).
@@Alche_mist it is the protecting aspect.
Did they fix the bug that prevented the recording of a continuation? I wish somebody would have done that way back when. I still want to see the end of that epic match between Maimin Matty and ATSQ. Granted, everything devolved into TC wars back then (and Teutons weren't allowed because their TCs outranged everyone else's), but it was still an epic game.
Is there somewhere that we can download the recordings of these? I would really like to watch some replays of the knight skirmishes and transport landings that weren't caught here.
Understood if you can't share, and thanks for the excellent narration.
Didn't think it was a huge surprise that Metal won. Ever after the first tower rush, he ruled the map.
T90: Now if you're a fan of metal...
Me: Hell yeah
Have you ever felt your life was like this?
You have an idea, get passionate about something and find more GUARD TOWERS blocking your way?
You might not know the way right then.
Build those seige workshops, build those stables; Make those knights and rams.
And smack life in the face and say im going to the Imperial age!
T90 my life coach ❤️
Really triggered me that blue didn't put a castle on the woodline on the Northern island to zone that farming TC, kill the tower etc then build a treb... or you know knock the gate down with 10 knights. Whole game was kinda sloppy but fun I mean Metal didn't even get wheelbarrow until the 76th minute of gameplay lol (45:40) for those interested and horse collar was 80th minute.
This is what war does to the simple people. It really makes you think. We truly live in a society.
"The best American player in the world" - USA in a nutshell
USA is the world. What ? There are other nations? Ridiculous.
Wait America isn't the entire planet?
-americans
Well you can't really say USA-ian right?
Metal is best in US, Hera is best in NA and probably best in the New world
@jocaguz18 Fuck off
@@TheStrangeBloke
Well, you can say best player in the US.
In Germany we use the term "US-amerikanisch" (US-american) but I am not sure if you can say that in English.
It's almost a shame LB10 resigned when he did. With 1k gold in the bank and control over water and the middle island you think he could've started pushing back on his island. gg anyway!
"69 HOUR LONG GAME"
can't wait for the three day long cast
97.1% of people won’t believe how great this islands game was!
Click here to find out why real doctors hate him for revealing this simple trick!
11:58 "Tootin' towers are no joke"
“At least you get exercise.. when you’re not on break”
-T90
Only recently found T90's channel but glad I did, this was one of the craziest games of AOE I've ever seen
T90: I would resign.
Metal: For Frodo!
jesus christ that was giving me some real anxiety by the end, just no end in sight.
30:00, what a beautiful way to compare life and towers in AOE. I top my hat to you Sir, T90.
I'm still in the middle of the video but lb should've transported more of his own villagers to metal's island and do what metal was doing, he has all the resources secured by his towers.
it seems that lb is forced to do this later on, after depleting resources on his main island, but he really should've done it voluntarily much earlier, then he might get to castle age faster and prevent metal from regaining his control of the island
"Best islands ever"
Expectation: Galleons, Demolition ships...
Reality: The only action between ships in the first 40 minutes was when one fire galley kiled another at 7:35.
This is great!
At 23:42
GAIA says ( in french ): I'm completely K.O. , I'm going to bed, hoping you're going to win.
Is this how it works when a spectator sends a message, T90?
26:41
He wont come back.11
He will come back.
9 // no
probably
I think he had enough of this game
"Metal, he got screwed over with his map generation"
I'm sorry, I was under the impression that the guy who's main gold is literally on a tiny neutral island vs japanese got screwed over by his map gen
That was not his main gold.
correct...there were 3 7 tile gold piles on the map
@@5950155 Technically I'm pretty sure those were two 3-tile golds that just happened to generate next to each other.
good call ...i did not count them
six it is
This game caused me to rebuy aoe2 for the first time in 20 years. Awesome video
Kudos to Metal; seeing him go fills me with *determination*
Was rooting so hard for metal and happy he won this round, he deserve the glory
i'm actually a construction worker and u were spot on XD that's actually how it is... sometimes it's hard to get work done because everyone wants to always take breaks constantly. we also have to work in hot buildings with no AC but even when it's not that bad, they are still pretty lazy sometimes
At 1:00:00 game time (35:50 video time) Metal finishes researching Halderdier and immediately invades LB10's eco, that was where the game was won. LB10 had no defense and no answer for Japanese Halbs. He drops from from 90 to 45 pop within minutes. Couldn't truly recover from there.
I LOVE T90
29:50 thanks for the pep talk T90 :)
"POVERTY NOTHING" - T90
No one can destroy the Metal. Metal will strike you down with a viscous blow. We are the vanquished foes of the Metal, we tried to win for why we do not know.
What an awesome game! Well done two both players.
I've just started liking your videos even before I watch them, great content man, keep it up!
Now after watching til the end, WOW!?!?!?!? and i say that with exclamation and question marks because well, so many great plays that made me wow and so many bad ones that made me wow as well hahaha! GREAT GAME!
Amazing game, loved your jokes as well, laughed a lot. Thanks T90!
That game was so good that I'm going to watch it again.
What a game! Your commentary is always spot on, dude. You're truly insightful and entertaining.
What a game. I think it would be a great addition to the video to add time lapse of the map to the outro.
He was making hand cannons...pretty sure he must have had chemistry...
Better then a movie , well played champs
Ahahah that rant about construction workers was kinda funny
LB10 overbuilt fast fires when he needed to build a couple bombards instead. The siege workshop was right there, and he had done chemistry earlier for the hand cannons.
at least you recognized my natvie language
This game must be a result of these two hearing about T90 calling MBL the cockroach of AoE 2. Both want desperately to take his title away.
Great cast man! Loving it!
this is actually so crazy. i never watched any aoe2 multiplayer games before. this is way different from playing against the ai. i'm not a construction worker but the 6 break thing is so real
Each player made a base on the other's island.
THAT is madness.........
Love T90 official but this felt like watching movie with someone who has seen it, ruining every twist before it comes.
All the plot twists make this video feel like an anime.
49:03 to me it looked like this treb just wants to go over the water to the other side.
How did you notice something like that lmao
Is it best to make 2 or 3 archery ranges on the small islands in the middle?
the indecisiveness of blue is killing me
Construction workers know the deal, they probably got a laugh.
14 minutes "this may be where the game ends!"
about 10 minutes ago "i have seen 18 minutes of this game and its awesome! i dont wanna spoil[...]"
haha xD
yeah he sounded really fake excitment at that phase
Well, we can also see the length of the video. :D haha
feudal age research in imperial age hahaha, its a good game, loved it!
I have never played AOE2 ，but I enjoyed this video， good work ！
You need to run this through the old spectator overlay that tells you cumulative idle villager time for the game.
This game is like 2 people smacking eachother faces until one of them falls but it end in someone starting punching.
I love Metal, Heavy Metal, Power Metal,..
When you said the best ever I just think that it gonna be a good game so don’t worry to much 👌.
i can say from first hand experience that it's much more fun to watch these games than play them lol
Every time you say fishing ships I hear "fish and chips"
your low ELO twitch stream a few days ago brought me here!!!
Metal not building a monastery with that gold eco after landing on his opponent's island is really giving me anxiety
56:30 they both need wood.someone call an doctor.
#T90unsullied
Did anyone notice the villager hammering the spearman to death at 18:31 ?
I can't wait to stop by the twitch channel on the 24H stream for the first time
Canadian Ninja Me too 😍
town centers and castles as soon as you can go for lots of them watchtowers don't work so well
I truly enjoy your videos, thanks for uploading
ever heard T90 so excited about a tower rush! :) :P
"One of the best Americans in the world" because you know, we discovered Americans on the Moon. 😂
How do you get that set up with small tress and so much doomed out
Small trees is a steam workshop mod that you can download for your game if you play the HD edition on steam, and the zoom of your camera is dependent on the resolution your display is set at. The higher the resolution, the more zoomed out you'll be! So use the biggest/nicest monitor you have access to. Some computers with certain graphics cards can set their resolutions higher than the screen normally allows to allow for more zoomed out game play on a not high res monitor.
@@lukenawrocki5042 Ok thanks will sort that out 👍
Why is noone talking about the farm practice?
I love your commentary
Before work i always watch t90 and eat a cheesteak sandwich... Now when I hear t90s voice I smell cheesteak, making me hungry