@@alecnolastname4362 Didn't stop the Ukrainian officials from claiming they were in an all-out war with Russia every chance they had, though. Even when that was an all-out war with their own shadow.
@@yekaterinasmirnova214 Sure, if you could call the Russian Army the Shadow of Ukraine... I'm not saying that it was 'Ukrainian Rebels' (now formally known as the Donestk Peoples Republic) But It there are also Certainly Russian militants. Ukraine has been shelling DPR Civillians for a long time now, too.
This game is my father's favorite game. So imagine when he invites me for a game of this, and i just use Tea powered tactics. Balanced, as all things should be
Watching this video reminded me: A friend of mine pulled off a Spiff-level exploit in Civilization III - the all-worker army. Never built a military unit except the first warrior unit. Spent the rest of the game building workers and settlers. When war was inevitably declared against him, he had massive carpets of workers, who basically got captured until the enemy got tired or distracted by another AI war. In the same game, he had a world-spanning war which lasted over 4000 years over his refusal to hand over 17 gold pieces in the ancient era. It was hilarious.
But how could he win any war without military? Doesn't make sense; the enemy can simply gobble up his settlements if there's no resistance. Simple as that.
TheKommunistKrusader valefisk and spiff will have war crime battle it will be glorious. They are gods we serve them in a death cult most people fear them we worship them
I'm in game design class, and we had to present our favorite game to the class, with an anecdote regarding it. I chose RoN, and the anecdote I told was forcing the AIs to economic agony and pushing back their borders so far into their country their towns would have paid taxes to me IRL. And once I secured 80%+ of world territory, they thought sensible to declare war on me. The I in AI has never seen more unfitting.
"The I in AI has never seen more unfitting." And yet it only makes the A in AI abundantly clear! Cheers mate, enjoy your course and have some great tea
When I played this when it was a fairly new game, I would get instant AI tech that would have the spawn point go directly to the enemies' base. Many would be sacrificed, but I would laugh every time the computer players would constantly be bombarded with infantry.
Yeah Spiff, that wouldn't be controversial at all. You're just gonna create a disease and you plan to have it spread all over the world and kill everyone. 😉
If you really want an easy victory, roll Chinese and rush to the 3rd age. They get gunpowder units 2 ages early. In that age, it's basically a ranged sniper that also does damage close to siege. Able to win fights even outnumbered.
Thank you a lot for showing me this game. This was the first game I have ever played on a computer but I didn't know English back then cuz I was little so I couldn't remember the name of it. I have so much wonderful memories playing it and learning it without knowing any English at the time. It was quite hard and fun. Much love Spiff
When I was young and naive, I thought the general must be the best unit in the game because well... he's the general. So I made an entire army of generals. It did not work out well.
ah yes, lakota were such an interesting faction to play. i always enjoyed hiding cities around the map. also its really great at blocking other people's expansion. of course, spy cheese is my favourite cheese. i cant micromanage it as well as i used to, but it was decently effective to build a wall of forts and spy spam. they cant artillery down your forts if you have a few citizens repairing them and spies stealing random units
Damage to bouildings counts also to the citisens rebuilding them. Sure you can stop the rebuilding at just the right moment, but if there are lets say 3 siege weapons that fire at slightly different time, the villagers can't do much and either they die or the castle falls. Also I don't know how you can afford so much gold and iron for this build, especially if you play against a high difficulty AI you basically get sieged with an evergrowing army between the 10 and 15 minute mark. At that point I could always afford only 1 castle (already built) and the units I steal always get instakilled and replaced to the point that it's easyly more effective to just build my own army. I once tried to build my city right next to my opponent's borders and it was swarming with enemy troops shortly after, cus I lost production time while transfering my villagers and the AI just built out of tower range.
1:00 *5h into a stellaris game curently in a massive war in heaven with 50 years left until end game crisis* well with the quarantine might as well make sure the galaxy burns
Played this game in elementary school thanks to my cousin, to this day its soundtrack is my favorite out of any game. Sadly not on Spotify, but hopefully someday this will get another remaster or something and the ost will be released somewhere.
This is one of my favorite RTS games at the moment. I have gotten a decent number of my friends to play it with me.Been playing this game since I was like 10 when I got it at my 5th grade book fair. Currently I play with a mod called the Rise of the Ages.
For those curious, the mods extends the play time of a game by increasing the price of everything (though civilians don't increase in price the more you build), re-balances all of the factions and changing up what bonuses each faction gets, and add new units and new buildings in addition to new unique new for every faction, so that every faction has at least 7 unique units. I forget if the mod does this or if the base game does this, but some of the same units between different factions do look different. Like the Greek hoplites look different than the Aztec hoplites. Some factions still look similar.
@TheReal RedWolfofDeath Key words: HUNDREDS OF YEARS AGO. Meanwhile USA using white phosphorus(illegal and causes long term damages), torturing and killing civilians all over the globe. And thats just in the last 70 years. Get the fuck out. Also if war crimes are made up, why did USA use it to convict german and japanese officers after ww2?
@@SomeoneStoleMyHandle911 Oh come on. Funny how there's more Vietnamese, Afghanis, Iraqis, etc. than before they invaded. In retrospect though they should've followed Washington's advice and "avoid[ed] foreign entanglements."
John Doe This is classic Krieg tactics from Warhammer 40k XD（DKK troops keep shelling a hive city to nothing many years after the city declare surrounder）
"this will work against human players" Sure if they let your unarmed citizens walk next to their base :D this is called tower rushing and it's quite common in strategy games
My favorite memory of this game is playing with my brother and two of our friends. It was a 4v4. The three of them held off the front and kept harassing the opposing team both front and their 4th rear player. This prevented them from having the ability and time to create nukes. I spent the entire match just building towards nukes and built multiple nuclear sites. The end game came when I launched all the nukes I had shy of 1 from nuclear Armageddon and just annihilated nearly all of them so the rest of my team could go and mop up the remains.
I remember buying this game as a kid. I found it as a secondhand copy and thought it's be like some knock-off empire earth. instead I found it to be the best RTS I had played thus far. sadly none of my friends back then were into RTSs (just like none of my friends are into CK2 nowadays :D ). Freakin great to see this game finally get some attention on UA-cam, even though it just entered the age to be considered nostalgic. This game still holds up, especially in multiplayer, allthough it can be whacky as hell. 10 out of 10, would Lakota again
I love doing this with the russian nation exploiting ridiculous atrition damage. Build a tower early on and the upgrades come free, expand agresively and build the attrition related marvels. Eventualy the enemy is reduced to a few miserable circles around their cities, and whenever an unit *dares* step out of it into my territory, IT MELTS. I like to call it the great microwave.
Finally! I've been looking for this game for so long! I remember playing it as a kid, but couldn't remember the name. Wow, so many fun memories. Thanks Spiffing Brit.
@@raptorhacker599 With on top of I mean they are basically full conversions, using the same engine, many identical assets like ground textures and trees, same diamond shaped map at the exact same place etc ;) There was a clone wars themed Star Wars RTS built in the same way too and quite a few others
This reminds me of how I used to "play" this game as a kid. There's a cheatcode that just spawns a machinegunner or something for you. I'd start the game and spawn a bunch and position them outside the enemy cities so they could never grow or expand.
This was one of my favorite games when I was younger. I used to play it with other people. I remember one time I was playing as the Chinese and almost won a game by just instantly popping out a ton of civilians, turning them into military units and rushing down a bunch of unprepared enemy cities/groups. You can also do some silly things with the iroquois ambushing or crazy mayan defense bonuses (their towers and cities are like machine guns with a garrison).
Normally I just watch Spiff's videos with an attitude of "that's clever" but this video just keeps getting funnier and funnier every passing minute! Great Job Spiff!
I have used the Lakota rush SO many times in my games.... it is gratifying to see someone else praise the wonders of the unrestricted tribe of the lakota. :D
Ah, my favorite real-time strategy game. I skipped Age of Empires II and went straight to this, I was in awe when I played it, the graphics, mechanics (borders and massive armies with formations), diplomacy and other wonderful stuff. I spent a crazy amount of time playing this and its expansion.
You can do this Romans too. They can't build on others' territory, but their border push is insane. I used to do this in multiplayer, and the attrition was insane. Raiding supplies was all that was needed to stop an invasion. Love this game, it's a shame more folks don't remember it.
There is also exploit in "Conquer the World" campaign. You capture province with "world wonder" card, and place two armies around. Then, you sell this province to AI, and immediately overrun it with two armies. Voila, you have extra "world wonder" card. Next turn, repeat the process.
Hey Spiff. Got a great exploit for the world map part of the game. Not sure if it's quite as OP as your usual standard. In the game mode where you play back and forth between a Risk-style map and the RTS game: 1) control the Pampas. 2) Position 2 armies in the neighboring territories. 3) Use diplomacy to give an enemy the Pampas. Get whatever value you can, but it doesn't matter. 4) attack/overrun the Pampas with your 2 armies 5) receive a Wonder Card without a fight. 6) build wonder. 7) repeat steps 3 - 6 each turn. Note: you are giving the enemy a wonder card when you do this, so make sure you've built all the wonders from that age or give them to an enemy you can vanquish soon.
This was my third big RTS outside of Starcraft and the AoE demo. So much cool stuff in this game, and the flavor of the nations is so good. I loved the borders mechanic and influencing the push and pull of territory with buildings and research. Also Russia, who gets gigantic border pressure and makes enemies take massive attrition damage inside their borders. That's always good fun.
Too late my family stop playing games with me about 17 years ago when I beat them at ages of empires, Warcraft orcs and human, Warcraft 2 and 3 and StarCraft.
Ah, I remember the first time I played this game. It was against a friend who had actually played it for some time, so he was confident in victory. He invaded my capital when it looked like my tech was getting a tad too far ahead of his, and he thought this would be a major setback for my research. Little did he know, that as someone literally playing for the first time, I'd assumed building a library in every city was a reasonable way to go about things. Fast-forward to the endgame, and he's got a huge army that I can't possibly beat, on account of not actually knowing how to play the game all that well, but I've got enough nukes to reach Armageddon by myself and force a draw. Fun times.
Been playing this game (Gold Edition) since like ... 2005? super long time. I still go back to it every few years and it still holds up, which is rare for a game.
i already test it 20 french muskeets vs 20 highlanders which mean 60 vs 60(both side with 3 general and 3 supply wagon) ,the french musket survive the battle even highlander have bonus damage againts infantry
Absolutely love this game, and Spiff is fucking brilliant at helping me feel nostalgic, while also finding new twist's and all in all original content anyone can enjoy. Keep it up Spiff!
NGL, im only 19 and this game is still a childhood fave. Love the content and keep it coming. BTW mt nan bought me a copy from the Salvation army wen i was 10
Back in high school I used to play this in a computer lab with the game club after school, my physics teacher was pretty good at this game. I wish I knew this strategy back then! I wouldn't have gotten the chance to use it much though, we often set up custom games with resources/economy turned off or way down for the sake of time so the matches went faster.
Spiff: "Oh no, you thought it was safe to have your citizens walking out and about inside your own borders? You were greatly mistaken" So basically he's the C O R O N A , for the other civ
The AI try to rush down your weakess character no matter what,With the propers set up you can cheese the enemy by having them throw their leader and heroes into overwatch and ambush non-stop
There was a similar exploit in one of the black and white games where you could throw scaffolds which would give you a small area where you could interact with things so you could chain two of them to build new town centres much further away.
Spiff I have excellent news! As of the isolation and panic buying I ventured to my local stores and I saw the most wonderful yet sad thing, I went to get some more delicious tea and alas all the Yorkshire tea was sold, gone nothing left except for the other ones it is a joyous day to know many people know the abilities of Yorkshire tea over others!! But I could not get any sadly as it was all bought
"Its not a warcrime if no one survives" Its not an exploit its how it was meant to be played
Well, look at Russia and Ukraine.
Its Not an Invasion if you don't declare war.
No one including the criminal.
I think I'm obligated to make a darkly humourous comment about bank loans and concentration camps... Better nah, UA-cam doesn't like jokes.
@@alecnolastname4362 Didn't stop the Ukrainian officials from claiming they were in an all-out war with Russia every chance they had, though. Even when that was an all-out war with their own shadow.
@@yekaterinasmirnova214
Sure, if you could call the Russian Army the Shadow of Ukraine...
I'm not saying that it was 'Ukrainian Rebels' (now formally known as the Donestk Peoples Republic)
But It there are also Certainly Russian militants.
Ukraine has been shelling DPR Civillians for a long time now, too.
This game is my father's favorite game. So imagine when he invites me for a game of this, and i just use Tea powered tactics. Balanced, as all things should be
Ruthlessly cheesing your father at his favorite game is a textbook example of how to get written out of a will.
Please try this, I wanna hear the results 😂
Any Results? PogChamp
so did your dad leave you
maruftim I think he did something even worse than just leaving him
"... the amount of self-isolation we'll now be doing in the coming weeks... " weeks, yeah
Wanted to comment that, too.
Insert 1 year later tile lol
Hmm yes. If only we know
video uploaded 1 year ago
...yeah
that aged well
I worked on this game for over 2 years. It's awesome to hear that it's still a favorite.
This game played huge part in my childhood. It'll always have a place in my heart.
I just found this gem, played AOE for years and am not sure how I missed this
I would love for a remake or remaster this game was my favourite RTS
thank you for making a part of my childhood
Watching this video reminded me: A friend of mine pulled off a Spiff-level exploit in Civilization III - the all-worker army. Never built a military unit except the first warrior unit. Spent the rest of the game building workers and settlers. When war was inevitably declared against him, he had massive carpets of workers, who basically got captured until the enemy got tired or distracted by another AI war. In the same game, he had a world-spanning war which lasted over 4000 years over his refusal to hand over 17 gold pieces in the ancient era.
It was hilarious.
so bascilly ghandi without nukes then
@@josephdedrick9337 More or less, yep!
I'm totally gonna try that on Civ 5
Your friend loves to play the dutch?
But how could he win any war without military? Doesn't make sense; the enemy can simply gobble up his settlements if there's no resistance. Simple as that.
Spiff: _uses nukes_
Valefisk: finally a worthy opponent our battle will be *LEGENDARY*
TheKommunistKrusader valefisk and spiff will have war crime battle it will be glorious. They are gods we serve them in a death cult most people fear them we worship them
@@aaronford4159 We are the cultists.
that need to happen
@@thespiffingbrit you cant commit warcrimes if no one is alive to witness it
@@thespiffingbrit i would certainly Love some more
I'm in game design class, and we had to present our favorite game to the class, with an anecdote regarding it.
I chose RoN, and the anecdote I told was forcing the AIs to economic agony and pushing back their borders so far into their country their towns would have paid taxes to me IRL.
And once I secured 80%+ of world territory, they thought sensible to declare war on me.
The I in AI has never seen more unfitting.
when you have to play on toughest difficulty so their incompetence is negated by them being just given what they need
"The I in AI has never seen more unfitting."
And yet it only makes the A in AI abundantly clear!
Cheers mate, enjoy your course and have some great tea
"Researching existentialism helps expand our borders." I'm going to read Sartre at the edge of my property and see what happens.
underrated
it does expand your horizons for sure.
You’ll accept the abject meaninglessness of your existence so as to forge your own stronger personal identity and goals?
Get ready to boot the neighbours out your new houses
When I played this when it was a fairly new game, I would get instant AI tech that would have the spawn point go directly to the enemies' base. Many would be sacrificed, but I would laugh every time the computer players would constantly be bombarded with infantry.
Hey Spiff, I think whole audience would agree it's the best time to exploit Plague Inc.
Yeah Spiff, that wouldn't be controversial at all.
You're just gonna create a disease and you plan to have it spread all over the world and kill everyone.
😉
Plague Inc is boring as hell. The only exploit is not playing it so you have time to play something good. It’s time everyone realized that.
Oh yeah. Even the Queen would approve that
Hey I'm ALWAYS glad to see Rise of Nations getting more attention! :)
If you really want an easy victory, roll Chinese and rush to the 3rd age. They get gunpowder units 2 ages early. In that age, it's basically a ranged sniper that also does damage close to siege. Able to win fights even outnumbered.
"Salute that picture of the queen you have hanging above your computer"
Well apparently my queen is three fish
Mine turned out to be Vaas from Far Cry 3...
All hail fish queen
Mine seems to be the demon watching me whenever I sit on this chair
Mine is Jeanne d'Arc Alter Swimsyit Berserker
The Hatsune Miku one is behind me
mine is a picture of Yoda the master Jedi.
Wait, Spiff didn't jump into the middle of the video, I wasn't expecting that.
He jumped into the video when you least expected it.
Thank you a lot for showing me this game. This was the first game I have ever played on a computer but I didn't know English back then cuz I was little so I couldn't remember the name of it. I have so much wonderful memories playing it and learning it without knowing any English at the time. It was quite hard and fun. Much love Spiff
Man I need to replay it. Also Rise of Legends for Steam when? That game is horribly underrated. Hell, RoL itself is also underrated.
I would love to see rise of legends on steam.
Who do I kill to get it on steam? I will kill for it on steam
I was certain it already is on steam
@@Darius_III Not that I can find
@@jfarrar19 I just searched and found it in my own steam library
Stop it spiff. You’ve stumbled upon my absolute favourite games of 10 years ago. I can’t handle it.
When I was young and naive, I thought the general must be the best unit in the game because well... he's the general. So I made an entire army of generals.
It did not work out well.
Yeah, that's general-ly a bad tactic.
@@tim3172
I see what you did there. And I approve :)
@Chooey Sooares why would you think that
If everyone is the general, then who’s the one leading them?
@@ZKP314 general
ah yes, lakota were such an interesting faction to play. i always enjoyed hiding cities around the map. also its really great at blocking other people's expansion.
of course, spy cheese is my favourite cheese. i cant micromanage it as well as i used to, but it was decently effective to build a wall of forts and spy spam. they cant artillery down your forts if you have a few citizens repairing them and spies stealing random units
Damage to bouildings counts also to the citisens rebuilding them. Sure you can stop the rebuilding at just the right moment, but if there are lets say 3 siege weapons that fire at slightly different time, the villagers can't do much and either they die or the castle falls. Also I don't know how you can afford so much gold and iron for this build, especially if you play against a high difficulty AI you basically get sieged with an evergrowing army between the 10 and 15 minute mark. At that point I could always afford only 1 castle (already built) and the units I steal always get instakilled and replaced to the point that it's easyly more effective to just build my own army.
I once tried to build my city right next to my opponent's borders and it was swarming with enemy troops shortly after, cus I lost production time while transfering my villagers and the AI just built out of tower range.
1:00 *5h into a stellaris game curently in a massive war in heaven with 50 years left until end game crisis* well with the quarantine might as well make sure the galaxy burns
you forgot one thing: There cant be a war in heaven if you kill the fallen empites
@@christianschultz9715 war in heaven is one of my fav events
Played this game in elementary school thanks to my cousin, to this day its soundtrack is my favorite out of any game. Sadly not on Spotify, but hopefully someday this will get another remaster or something and the ost will be released somewhere.
Family Jules has done some guitar covers for the game music. Across the bog and high strung are my favorite
Its on youtube
This is one of my favorite RTS games at the moment. I have gotten a decent number of my friends to play it with me.Been playing this game since I was like 10 when I got it at my 5th grade book fair. Currently I play with a mod called the Rise of the Ages.
For those curious, the mods extends the play time of a game by increasing the price of everything (though civilians don't increase in price the more you build), re-balances all of the factions and changing up what bonuses each faction gets, and add new units and new buildings in addition to new unique new for every faction, so that every faction has at least 7 unique units. I forget if the mod does this or if the base game does this, but some of the same units between different factions do look different. Like the Greek hoplites look different than the Aztec hoplites. Some factions still look similar.
@@posterus4413 Might try this out later. Wonder what other mods exists
"Ha! You don't have any borders!"
Lakota: "Borders? What borders? All I see is plains of land for us to keep."
"Quite possibly the only game in existence where you gain active benefits for murdering civilians."
*Somewhere the entire GTA franchise sneezes*
Every copy of gta should have been stolen so rockstir hindertainment could get a taste of their medicine since they sell evil as fun. PS rap is crap.
Spiff: "How are they able to research without a library? They only have universities!"
Me: "Can Spiff exploit this?"
“They can’t report war crimes if they are all dead”
What are you? The US military?
@@zwartvalk2738 our only regret is those countries are still there.
@@zwartvalk2738 what you got a problem with art? The glass craters would look like crystal wind chimes from space.
"It became necessary to destroy the town to save it."
@@zwartvalk2738 The strong do what they will and the weak suffer what they must, that is the natural order of things.
@TheReal RedWolfofDeath Key words: HUNDREDS OF YEARS AGO. Meanwhile USA using white phosphorus(illegal and causes long term damages), torturing and killing civilians all over the globe. And thats just in the last 70 years. Get the fuck out.
Also if war crimes are made up, why did USA use it to convict german and japanese officers after ww2?
“They can’t report war crimes if they are all dead”
Classic British/american war tactics
Just blow up the place they report the crimes to
-spiff 2020
@@SomeoneStoleMyHandle911 Oh come on. Funny how there's more Vietnamese, Afghanis, Iraqis, etc. than before they invaded. In retrospect though they should've followed Washington's advice and "avoid[ed] foreign entanglements."
"We could capture it...Or we could just keep bombarding it for fun I guess"
**Citizens of Kirkuk** "WHY IS THIS HAPPENING!!!!"
John Doe This is classic Krieg tactics from Warhammer 40k XD（DKK troops keep shelling a hive city to nothing many years after the city declare surrounder）
Death korps of krieg has entered the chat.
"this will work against human players"
Sure if they let your unarmed citizens walk next to their base :D this is called tower rushing and it's quite common in strategy games
My favorite memory of this game is playing with my brother and two of our friends. It was a 4v4. The three of them held off the front and kept harassing the opposing team both front and their 4th rear player. This prevented them from having the ability and time to create nukes. I spent the entire match just building towards nukes and built multiple nuclear sites.
The end game came when I launched all the nukes I had shy of 1 from nuclear Armageddon and just annihilated nearly all of them so the rest of my team could go and mop up the remains.
Always love the RON content, keep it coming. :D
It was fun seeing the Lekota included in something, I grew up listening to stories from the Lekota so, all the good feels
You NEED to do Rise of Nations : Rise Of Legends, I remember playing it each time I was coming from school.
This game and Civilization III 😍
There are so many things wrong with this that I won't even :P
@@masterdrewanthony :P
He will claim the word for the British Empire
I vote he claims the word "tea" first.
*Great Lakota tea empire
One of my favorite games of all time. Really wish they would remake it for modern pc’s.
It’s on steam
I mean it works just fine on steam edition for my pc.
why remake
I remember buying this game as a kid. I found it as a secondhand copy and thought it's be like some knock-off empire earth. instead I found it to be the best RTS I had played thus far. sadly none of my friends back then were into RTSs (just like none of my friends are into CK2 nowadays :D ). Freakin great to see this game finally get some attention on UA-cam, even though it just entered the age to be considered nostalgic. This game still holds up, especially in multiplayer, allthough it can be whacky as hell. 10 out of 10, would Lakota again
Do love Spiff's first city is just over there minding it's own business while Spiff is conquering the world.
"No borders."
*Happy V2 noises*
What has borders given us?
BELKAN WITCHCRAFT
A world with no boundaries :))
Lakota Wing Pixy
I love doing this with the russian nation exploiting ridiculous atrition damage. Build a tower early on and the upgrades come free, expand agresively and build the attrition related marvels. Eventualy the enemy is reduced to a few miserable circles around their cities, and whenever an unit *dares* step out of it into my territory, IT MELTS. I like to call it the great microwave.
Finally! I've been looking for this game for so long!
I remember playing it as a kid, but couldn't remember the name.
Wow, so many fun memories. Thanks Spiffing Brit.
It's so fascinating just how many games were build on top of AoE2
I cant decide between empire earth and ron.
@@raptorhacker599 With on top of I mean they are basically full conversions, using the same engine, many identical assets like ground textures and trees, same diamond shaped map at the exact same place etc ;)
There was a clone wars themed Star Wars RTS built in the same way too and quite a few others
@@raptorhacker599 I would chose RoN
This reminds me of how I used to "play" this game as a kid. There's a cheatcode that just spawns a machinegunner or something for you. I'd start the game and spawn a bunch and position them outside the enemy cities so they could never grow or expand.
Sounds like a Dystopian Hellscape.
I love it.
14 seconds old? I need to keep up with the channel more.
This was one of my favorite games when I was younger. I used to play it with other people. I remember one time I was playing as the Chinese and almost won a game by just instantly popping out a ton of civilians, turning them into military units and rushing down a bunch of unprepared enemy cities/groups. You can also do some silly things with the iroquois ambushing or crazy mayan defense bonuses (their towers and cities are like machine guns with a garrison).
So you had militia armies? "To arms, to arms!" Don't think it would work at higher levels though.
I played this back in like 2010 on my dads computer while he worked lol. Best memories ever.
Normally I just watch Spiff's videos with an attitude of "that's clever" but this video just keeps getting funnier and funnier every passing minute! Great Job Spiff!
THIS GAME WAS PART OF MY CHILDHOOD AND NO ONE KNOWS IT EXISTS.
THANK YOU!
You keep showing me amazing rts games for me to play . Thanks for the great content man.
Spiff: time for another video!
Random AI: a sh*t, here we go again
I have used the Lakota rush SO many times in my games.... it is gratifying to see someone else praise the wonders of the unrestricted tribe of the lakota. :D
I can't imagine any other person in the world who is Tea-posing his dominance all over the enemy as much as you are.
The nostalgia from this game I loved this back in the day still have the box.
old memories
playing in easy just to attack archers with missiles :)
Ah, my favorite real-time strategy game. I skipped Age of Empires II and went straight to this, I was in awe when I played it, the graphics, mechanics (borders and massive armies with formations), diplomacy and other wonderful stuff. I spent a crazy amount of time playing this and its expansion.
"When in doubt, cheese them and squeeze them"
-Sun Tzu
Spiff: describes the game in relation to Age of Empires.
Me: It's like Age of Empires but better in every way.
Nintedno did a copyright strike on spiff cuz of animal crossing exploit, wtf nintendo
so Animal Crossing is broken?
They dont want there flaws shown
@@GertrudeFilthbasket yeah there is an exploit with bells and by title its pretty fucking broken i havent got the chance to watch it
@@lelnub6912 he makes infinite tarantulas by spinning a box and buys peaches for days...
@buffalo wt i really dont know
You can do this Romans too. They can't build on others' territory, but their border push is insane. I used to do this in multiplayer, and the attrition was insane. Raiding supplies was all that was needed to stop an invasion. Love this game, it's a shame more folks don't remember it.
In my recommended: The real estate market is a perfectly balanced market with no exploits.
Date of release: 2008
There is also exploit in "Conquer the World" campaign. You capture province with "world wonder" card, and place two armies around. Then, you sell this province to AI, and immediately overrun it with two armies. Voila, you have extra "world wonder" card. Next turn, repeat the process.
that's brilliant.
“The French are never good”. As a French Canadian, I cannot more agree.
Ben la la tabarnak
Ou est la bibliotheque?
As a french french, I agree too.
@@francoisviard4031 french french :) the good kind of French. I actually have a French flag here. Oh look it's just my bed sheet.
The good kind of french lol
Hey Spiff. Got a great exploit for the world map part of the game. Not sure if it's quite as OP as your usual standard.
In the game mode where you play back and forth between a Risk-style map and the RTS game:
1) control the Pampas.
2) Position 2 armies in the neighboring territories.
3) Use diplomacy to give an enemy the Pampas. Get whatever value you can, but it doesn't matter.
4) attack/overrun the Pampas with your 2 armies
5) receive a Wonder Card without a fight.
6) build wonder.
7) repeat steps 3 - 6 each turn.
Note: you are giving the enemy a wonder card when you do this, so make sure you've built all the wonders from that age or give them to an enemy you can vanquish soon.
im so glad i saw the animal crossing vid before it got taken down
This is absolutley my favorite rts of all time. It truly is worth picking up if you've never played it before.
Sir Spiff are we supposed to fulfill order "T.E.A."yet?
I can't resist liking Spiff's videos when he uses a compliment. It's just so nice.
Rest in peace to watching the spiffing brit enhance animal crossings gameplay by means of glorious capitolism
This was my third big RTS outside of Starcraft and the AoE demo. So much cool stuff in this game, and the flavor of the nations is so good. I loved the borders mechanic and influencing the push and pull of territory with buildings and research.
Also Russia, who gets gigantic border pressure and makes enemies take massive attrition damage inside their borders. That's always good fun.
Shoutout to Nintendo for being the new Gestapo on UA-cam
Back to camp for you
Sony does what nintendon’t:
Encourage fan creations!
I would love you to make more Rise of Nations videos. It's just a fantastic game and lovely to watch. Thanks
Came back to see if anyone is commenting about the copyright claim Nintendo made on Spiffs latest video
One of my all-time favourite RTS's as well.
As a fan of Carmageddon I am insulted to hear the claim that this is the only game that gives active benefits for murdering civilians.
I immediately need to see a Carmageddon exploit video
17:50 I don't remember the mission where you burn the weed fields in Far Cry 3 being viewed like an RTS game.
Ah, SpiffingBrit repeatedly saying my name? Solid ASMR.
Yay, Rise of Nations is back!!! Thanks, I love it!
Too late my family stop playing games with me about 17 years ago when I beat them at ages of empires, Warcraft orcs and human, Warcraft 2 and 3 and StarCraft.
Ah, I remember the first time I played this game. It was against a friend who had actually played it for some time, so he was confident in victory. He invaded my capital when it looked like my tech was getting a tad too far ahead of his, and he thought this would be a major setback for my research. Little did he know, that as someone literally playing for the first time, I'd assumed building a library in every city was a reasonable way to go about things. Fast-forward to the endgame, and he's got a huge army that I can't possibly beat, on account of not actually knowing how to play the game all that well, but I've got enough nukes to reach Armageddon by myself and force a draw. Fun times.
I've never had a like make me feel so majestic. Well done.
Been playing this game (Gold Edition) since like ... 2005? super long time. I still go back to it every few years and it still holds up, which is rare for a game.
"French never good"
laugh in Versailles+French heal buff
i already test it 20 french muskeets vs 20 highlanders which mean 60 vs 60(both side with 3 general and 3 supply wagon) ,the french musket survive the battle even highlander have bonus damage againts infantry
@@pancapana0190 thats why you make sure you have 30 highlanders instead with the extra money you had from not building versailles :P
My favourite part is when cavalry archers and tanks shoot while running, I remember doing this a lot RoN Thrones and Patriots.
Lol hands down one of the most funniest and relatable video i ever watched
Absolutely love this game, and Spiff is fucking brilliant at helping me feel nostalgic, while also finding new twist's and all in all original content anyone can enjoy. Keep it up Spiff!
I love Rise of Nations. XD I would love to see a sequel or remaster, because it does show a little age.
This is a limited remaster
Keith Donovan I wishhhhh they would make a new version of this game
Really lovedte game, but its defintly aged.
NGL, im only 19 and this game is still a childhood fave. Love the content and keep it coming.
BTW mt nan bought me a copy from the Salvation army wen i was 10
Love how the animal crossing video got taken down..... that video was gold almost as golden as, dare I say Yorkshire tea Gold?...... I’m sorry I’ll go
I have to wait untill april 11 to get more tea
Back in high school I used to play this in a computer lab with the game club after school, my physics teacher was pretty good at this game. I wish I knew this strategy back then! I wouldn't have gotten the chance to use it much though, we often set up custom games with resources/economy turned off or way down for the sake of time so the matches went faster.
Coffee, check.
Picture of George Washington, check.
Let's do this.
i will never forget the drums that play after unlocking something its drilled in to my head
Spiff: "Oh no, you thought it was safe to have your citizens walking out and about inside your own borders? You were greatly mistaken"
So basically he's the C O R O N A , for the other civ
Highly enjoying constant uploads much needed in the time of quarantine thank you spiff ! 👌🏼
Spiff: the only game that rewards the player fore killing civilians
Imprator rome: am i a joke to you?
I just want another rise of nations game tbh, it was fantastic and still is fantastic.
Thanks for the video!
Hey Spiff, you should see if there's any exploits in Mordheim: City of the Damned.
I suspect there's a couple in there to have fun with.
The AI try to rush down your weakess character no matter what,With the propers set up you can cheese the enemy by having them throw their leader and heroes into overwatch and ambush non-stop
There was a similar exploit in one of the black and white games where you could throw scaffolds which would give you a small area where you could interact with things so you could chain two of them to build new town centres much further away.
Day 21 of asking Spiff to play Battle Realms. More RTS please, Battle REalms is next, I suppose.
Istanbul: (Exists)
Spiff: *(Inches borders closer, menacingly)*
"the french are never good"
Bold words from a people who named their regions after defeats suffered during the hundred years war.
*insert triggered meme here.
The French are never good
@@lieutenantsupascoop2126 what country you come from I'll diss it
Spiff I have excellent news! As of the isolation and panic buying I ventured to my local stores and I saw the most wonderful yet sad thing, I went to get some more delicious tea and alas all the Yorkshire tea was sold, gone nothing left except for the other ones it is a joyous day to know many people know the abilities of Yorkshire tea over others!! But I could not get any sadly as it was all bought