Feels weird to watch a guide video on my own map haha but aye it's a T90 video so ofc I'm gonna watch! Thanks for making this video! Please suggest any changes you feel need to happen for eg. balance changes, pop cap, techs, etc. I will discuss with our team to add them in the next updates! Edit: About the front gates and the towers, in the Requiem version we made it so you cannot delete those buildings instead of deleting them and getting defeated, so it prevents accidental deletions.
@@jellevermeulen1732 that would be big trouble. Sometimes we have mistake on placing building, we need to del the building plan; sometimes we need to switch to other units, like, from archer to cavalry, we may need to del those building plan; sometimes we need to give space to allys' villager for building too
@var. This is kind of a random suggestion but what about adding extra kill treshholds to gradually remove the limits on elephant units, say 1200 kills battle elephant limit from 60 to 90, 1600 kills from 90 to 120, etc. So those civs gain their full power over time. Also plz make Saracen non elite to start out, if needed give them some compensation like free bloodlines or iron casting, but elite on a unit that difficult to counter and that mobile is often a nightmare to deal with.
you might not remember me, but we used to play a ton of CBA on steam. I remember when we first met or recognized each other, we weren't on best terms and had a little rivalry, but eventually grew to respect each other as we were clearly the CBA regulars that were actually great teammates. miss those days of playing with you amigo, and couldnt be happier your channel has grown the way it has.
@@T90Official just saw I commented on a throwaway. but yea man, I am Crab Ass McGee, i am he. i remember we both loved soccer and shooting the shit. miss the old CBA crews and regulars! used to play a lot with OCSnappers and his guys, like 18 rabbit, Gary Oak, Henry IV. Me and The Guyot were inseparable, along with the ugly child Usion the Terrible. damn, nostalgic af right now. keymember, trebbing leppers etc.. fun times Just redownloaded steam on some new hardware gaming setup i just acquired this week, and will probably be PC gaming again in the near future. Had been console gaming for the past 3-4 years. keep killing it bro, hope to see you in a lobby out there
@@felipediaz9121 HAHA oh hell yeah, I absolutely remember you and the majority of the names you mentioned there. Thanks for the nostalgia trip, appreciate all the love!
That was really fun to watch and would like to see some of the other variety that AOE2 has to offer that I never knew existed. Also, I think you could have checked the buildings destroyed in the statistics after the rec was over to see if yellow had overdone it and harmed his team.
Hey T90 I haven't ever commented or watched you live but I have been watching your youtube for many years now. you're a boss dude. Thanks for making great content. I've watched your stuff through many life changes. Always very relaxing. I appreciate you staying out of drama and sticking to the game and fun.
Same story, I also played a lot of CBA in 2013. Back when you had to use some websites like gameranger in order to match with players and play. Also there were a lot of custom scenarios, some tower defences, some free for all-king of the hill with hero units. Allowing Britons/Mayans to take the gate when you're Huns felt so great.
One of my favorite scenarios from age of mythology was called mythodea, which was a lot like CBA but you got to select which unit you spawned, and kills unlocked stronger units. You'd start out fighting like spears vs slingers, but eventually reach heroes and myth units and titans and stuff. There would be huge shops that you could spend earned points on god powers, special units, permanent upgrades. Good times, even as a noob/kid who never won any games.
Those were the days I miss those full lobys, also missed the scenario Norse Wars. Very similair to this aswell and you had a goat to choose godpowers or armor or special units that you earned with your favor while constantly fighting
There sounds more like what the AoE2 scenarios were like back on the msn gaming zone. You'd have a king on an island and as you got kills, you can spend your currency on different things, which your castles automatically spawned. Your units would go from the basic stuff all the way to heroes like william wallace and roland. I dont remember ever building your own stuff either with vils.
I play a lot of CBA with a streamer called ShadowCrystallux. They're actually the person that introduced me to the gamemode, and just happen to stream a lot at Australia O'clock. Firstly, I'm glad you've made this video. It's a surprisingly popular game mode, even at Australia O'clock (when I usually play CBA). Regarding the whole "Building Delete" rules - around the ShadowCrystallux stream, it's more of a "House Rule" for anyone from chat that they cannot delete units (to deny kills) or fully completed buildings (foundation deletions are fine). Obviously, these are "House Rules", and they're virtually impossible to enforce on randoms when not enough chat can fill up the lobby. I actually considered sending you a CBA game I was in for you to cast a few weeks ago, because I was both aware you knew the game mode extremely well, and because it managed to be an absolute slogfest where it became a 3v4, I was on the 3 team, and we began burning resources down so much we began trying to trade to keep ourselves afloat. But with the game updates, I'm not even sure I could re-find the recording even if you were interested in it. If I ever find an exceedingly entertaining CBA game that I'm a part of again, however, I'll try to remember to send it to you. And yes, I mean actually entertaining. :P Either way, I've played CBA so often with the same group of people - that are some of the best Australian players when my 1v1 ELO wanders around 1050-1150 - that I've been less shy about pointing out to those 1k higher in ELO to me when something needs attention... but I also feel EXCEEDINGLY guilty every time regardless. Even though half the point of CBA is to be a massive ELO equaliser, hahaha. This game is definitely much laggier than most games I've been in. I don't know if this's because most games I'm in are confined to East Asian timezones (and subsequently low ping), however. Also 2/10 the Tatars player in this game not spamming Flaming Camel to nuke Castles. That is genuinely a terrifyingly powerful strategy.
I had been lost because, I could never think of a way to get my friends into RTS's, since we are usually a FPS group. This game mode is the perfect introduction point. Thank you for making this video and promoting new ways to enter this great genre and amazing game!
I'm a huge RTS fan but not usually a fan of the standard 1v1 gameplay, as a player at least. Custom scenarios are my jam, so i'd love to see more stuff like this. Custom scenarios are honestly the lifeblood of any successful RTS.
T90 you might be the only person with enough clout to convince someone to make CB Front Towers for DE! I'd have made it if I knew how to and I've been trying to convince anyone to make one for 2 years 😭
@@amankaushik005 also check out EternalPrince aoe2 on youtube and twitch. he does regular CBA content. theres a community that you can get involved with on his discord too
Dude this is great. I feel like there's a lot of casting potential in this mode too, it's really not that hard to follow, especially with masta90 explaining the whole way. I'm gonna go play it tonight. Watching high level play is amazing, but stuff like this now and again is a great change of pace. Love it brotha.
I never played AoE2 online, I did however play A LOT of Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds online, being effectively a AoE2 TC most of the custom scenarios were just clones/ports of AoE2 Scenarios, and CBA was absolutely my favorite scenario to play as a kid.
I've played years and ended up at a relatively high level. I played my first CBA game about a month ago. Quite an interesting setup. I like the 6x tech
The hectic nature of cba 6x slightly ruins the strategy aspect, as you said in the video. Instead, it gives you that crazy twist of over-powered units, and crazy civ bonuses that make it so much fun, similarly to your 10x shared civ bonus community games. In other words, it’s a stupider yet more awesome version of cba.
@@T90Official What 6x brings 1. More important to have positive KD. An age advantage equals at least 6x2 better blacksmith and is definitely devastating. 2. Easier to snipe vils from far range 3. Tower is fun to play thx to long range and arrow slits 4. Other mechanism in the mod, like wonder and trade is good tie breaker 5. Easier to raze and get vils
If you're curious about the higher pop cap, the reason is obvious: you're not having the true CBA experience if the game isn't laggy. As such, with computers getting more powerful and less laggy, increasing pop limit was the solution
I used to play manual Castle Blood on the Zone back in the day. Used to be 4 on the northwest vs 4 on the southeast so the distance was generally a little greater. No unit pop limits. Castle age start Generally ranged and especially gunpowder civs required lots of kills to get to imp, like around 1000 for spanish. Razes didn't give anything. There was an extra castle or two outside of the base. Vils were very hard to come by, and everyone had 2 paladins that respawned in your base as soon as they died lol. I loved this scenario like crazy and tried my best to replicate it from memory and FFA with the AI.
Oh and another thing, there would be clans that had their own versions of the map, like one with the 4 sided shape like this one, and they experimented with like 4 extra castles outside instead of 1 and stuff different kill requirements and stuff like that. Map sizes were pretty big and gave people lots of time to build up. Some maps also used bridges to connect castle areas to mainland so people would be forced to build more outside. You could also build siege workshops and towers, which you haven't mentioned but I assumed weren't in the game since you didn't try cannons or anything.
This was neat, reminds me of a scenario I used to play called Militia Evolution, not sure if it was popular but was a lot of fun, basically CBA but only militia line
Broooo I love this game . I probably have 10000 hours plus in CBA, CBA HERO, and KING TE. I hope you cover king Te cuz I’m one of top 10 players in the world “Robbin hoods”
i remember one game back in the day. was so long that we start getting farms to get food for paladins. Its a fun mode to play to be real. It's decent way to train controling a lot of military and knowing counters
I like the chaos of all of this. Keep up the vids. Love your channel man, I used to watch my dad play this when I was a kid and watching ur vids unlocked core memories within me. Thank you for ur channel!!!
I was introduced to your channel when we played in the same CBA game way back in the Voobly days and you asked me to check you out, here I am all these years later and you’re still making videos featuring this classic map.
Ahh fond memories of playing CBA on Gameranger back in the day. There used to be dozens of CBA's going at any one time, and a lot of variations of CBA, such as spawning varying hero units at certain kill counts, others where you get a Genghis Khan that slowly builds up stats over time to the point it can one hit castles, or where the end game turns into either a steady spread of towers and Siege Rams and cav or a mega defensive last stand type build of walls, towers and garrisoned/stacked archers. Tensions are very high in CBA games between players, one poor game and you'll often get blocked by ppl, used to get so anxious playing CBA, but, it is fun and exhilarating when doing well :)
I played a ton of a custom map in Starcraft 2 back in the day that was just like this, I didn't realise until now it was probably a staple for RTS. Really cool, thanks for the vid!
The most popular Custom Scenario map in Age of Empires, but there are so many more CS maps out there that deserve attention. Check out the mods and scenarios available in DE and try them out.
I have played CBA or CBA-Hero scenarios a little on Voobly. I sucked but still enjoyed them a lot. It was hard enough to keep in mind good/bad civ matchups with 8 civs. I cannot imagine it with the number we have now. Dunno if I want more of CBA content on your channel though as it is quite hard to actually know what is happening in the game. But, thanks for this video anyway.
Ah, this reminds me of footmen frenzy from Warcraft 3. Would be cool to see aoe2 evolve a similar wacky and insane modding scene, despite how implausible it is.
Love CBA. There was a brief moment in time when ZeroEmpires was slowly leaving the scene and T90 was slowly growing that there didn't seem to be many AoE games to watch. But I found some random dude who was into CBA and would stream his play. I'd never heard of hit and was fascinated with the game mode. That guy stopped posting much after a few months and I hadn't seen it since. Cool to see again.
I've always been interested in the custom map making scene in AoE2, as I've spent most of my childhood playing custom maps on Warcraft 3. Both games have their limitations and I just want to see what kind of game modes AoE2 can do.
Fun to see a different scenario on the channel! CBA has such a large playerbase and it’s something i played exclusively for a long time. Wish I had been in your lobby xD
Dude, I gotta say. I am having the exact experience you described in the beginning and this is the first T90 video i'm coming back to since being a longtime sub. Glad to see you're still making content man and it's good to be back :)
I always saw 2 or 3 CBA lobbies but I never knew what is was,and the name always was "no noobs" so I didn't want to join and drag people down,or be completely confused by it. Glad you made this video!
Dude this brings back memories. I remember watching Zero empires and then I switched to watching you T90. Awesome content thanks for the amazing content bro. Hope to be in one of your games one day.
This reminds me of a custom map of Red Alert 3 called Battle Arena which was very similar and always a blast. Neat, this was probably the OG inspiration for it!
I remember playing this as CBT (Castle Blood Turbo) on the MSN Zone in 2001-2005 time frame. It was like this except you had to manually queue up the units in the castle. I dumped a lot of time in that and just the custom scenario game room back then. Glad to see it is still around.
I remember playing hours of an earlier version of this game back in like 2004, no UA-cam at the time so obviously couldnt find any footage of the game but this confirms I wasnt crazy
CBA is my favorite scenario. But i think in the old version of the game there was more to do outside in upgrade etc. Might be wrong, it's been a while.
I fucking LOVE CBA SO many good memories of Castleblood auto. AND all the other "autos and store scenarios" oh AND the rpg scenarios players made , they were so creative. I just loved scenarios to death If I must be honest. Soldier Store and Archer Blood were two of my faves also. One creative player I met even made a 'halo-inspired' map, sidewinder. A glacier, icey kind of map :) Thanks again for your videos t90 you make me very happy brother
I used to make blood fest maps for SWGB way back in the day. Had a lot of fun with it in the old AOE2 days. Good to see there's still a scene! It's a bit different than I remember (we had some islands with flags in them, so you could set which unit would spawn at your base by sending your island unit into a flagged square to be replicated on the main map. Upgrades gave more unit options, but I don't remember having ages or unit upgrade buildings or villagers. Lots of innovations in the past 20 years!)
Never heard of this until now but that was fun to watch. Nice comeback too since it seemed like it was over for you guys, but Mayan player carried gray.
So it looks like I’m the only one that noticed that after gray lost his vills he had their spawn point blocked. So… yeah, getting more raises wouldn’t get more vills unless he deleted the barracks he had blocking them. Also it looks like you’ll have to do some more of these. Looking forward to it!
Castle Blood was my childhood it has so many different version with litle island on the border with a monk and units you can spawn when you reach a certain ammount of kills
I played footman frenzy in wc3 personally but I like to think me and all the other people who did the same vibe with this scenario. Any other FF players agree?
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What do you think of CBA? Leave a comment below with any other scenarios I should check out!
I played more cba than normal game. I have played thousands of games since conqueror
Id love to see a cast of the LOTR scenerio, its crazy how balanced it is and you dont need to know anything about LOTR to play it
CBA is can’t be arsed
footman frenzy wc3
RTD!
I love watching CBA, we need more of it
Yea but this version sucks AF
No.
this brought me back, i played this so so much when i was 8 years old (2000) and StarCraft Brood War scenarios.
Feels weird to watch a guide video on my own map haha but aye it's a T90 video so ofc I'm gonna watch! Thanks for making this video!
Please suggest any changes you feel need to happen for eg. balance changes, pop cap, techs, etc. I will discuss with our team to add them in the next updates!
Edit: About the front gates and the towers, in the Requiem version we made it so you cannot delete those buildings instead of deleting them and getting defeated, so it prevents accidental deletions.
Preventing deleting any building where construction was started would be nice.
@@jellevermeulen1732 that would be big trouble. Sometimes we have mistake on placing building, we need to del the building plan; sometimes we need to switch to other units, like, from archer to cavalry, we may need to del those building plan; sometimes we need to give space to allys' villager for building too
You and your team have done gods work
@@therealdeal2242 thank you!
@var. This is kind of a random suggestion but what about adding extra kill treshholds to gradually remove the limits on elephant units, say 1200 kills battle elephant limit from 60 to 90, 1600 kills from 90 to 120, etc. So those civs gain their full power over time.
Also plz make Saracen non elite to start out, if needed give them some compensation like free bloodlines or iron casting, but elite on a unit that difficult to counter and that mobile is often a nightmare to deal with.
you might not remember me, but we used to play a ton of CBA on steam. I remember when we first met or recognized each other, we weren't on best terms and had a little rivalry, but eventually grew to respect each other as we were clearly the CBA regulars that were actually great teammates. miss those days of playing with you amigo, and couldnt be happier your channel has grown the way it has.
What’s your username? Still remember a lot of the old CBA names lol 😂 Thanks!!
@@T90Official just saw I commented on a throwaway. but yea man, I am Crab Ass McGee, i am he. i remember we both loved soccer and shooting the shit. miss the old CBA crews and regulars! used to play a lot with OCSnappers and his guys, like 18 rabbit, Gary Oak, Henry IV. Me and The Guyot were inseparable, along with the ugly child Usion the Terrible. damn, nostalgic af right now. keymember, trebbing leppers etc.. fun times
Just redownloaded steam on some new hardware gaming setup i just acquired this week, and will probably be PC gaming again in the near future. Had been console gaming for the past 3-4 years. keep killing it bro, hope to see you in a lobby out there
@@felipediaz9121 HAHA oh hell yeah, I absolutely remember you and the majority of the names you mentioned there. Thanks for the nostalgia trip, appreciate all the love!
@@T90Official add him man lmao
This is wholesome
CBA is so nostalgic, would love if you covered some more games of it!
CBA is such a great game :D
That was really fun to watch and would like to see some of the other variety that AOE2 has to offer that I never knew existed.
Also, I think you could have checked the buildings destroyed in the statistics after the rec was over to see if yellow had overdone it and harmed his team.
Hey T90 I haven't ever commented or watched you live but I have been watching your youtube for many years now. you're a boss dude. Thanks for making great content. I've watched your stuff through many life changes. Always very relaxing. I appreciate you staying out of drama and sticking to the game and fun.
Same story, I also played a lot of CBA in 2013. Back when you had to use some websites like gameranger in order to match with players and play. Also there were a lot of custom scenarios, some tower defences, some free for all-king of the hill with hero units.
Allowing Britons/Mayans to take the gate when you're Huns felt so great.
It happened sooner than i tought you would cover this, also ur spot on when u said their community is very "gate keepe".
I mean, have you seen people quick gate? 11
@@Toonrick12 they are very hostile to newcomers and blast them to no end rather than helping them improve.
One of my favorite scenarios from age of mythology was called mythodea, which was a lot like CBA but you got to select which unit you spawned, and kills unlocked stronger units. You'd start out fighting like spears vs slingers, but eventually reach heroes and myth units and titans and stuff. There would be huge shops that you could spend earned points on god powers, special units, permanent upgrades. Good times, even as a noob/kid who never won any games.
Those were the days I miss those full lobys, also missed the scenario Norse Wars. Very similair to this aswell and you had a goat to choose godpowers or armor or special units that you earned with your favor while constantly fighting
@@arthurreede4478 Aww yeah, norse wars were always awesome! I rarely won them, but they were always a blast even if you ended up losing.
Holy shit i miss those. Too pity that 90% of these scenarios don't work with AI
There sounds more like what the AoE2 scenarios were like back on the msn gaming zone. You'd have a king on an island and as you got kills, you can spend your currency on different things, which your castles automatically spawned. Your units would go from the basic stuff all the way to heroes like william wallace and roland. I dont remember ever building your own stuff either with vils.
I play a lot of CBA with a streamer called ShadowCrystallux. They're actually the person that introduced me to the gamemode, and just happen to stream a lot at Australia O'clock.
Firstly, I'm glad you've made this video. It's a surprisingly popular game mode, even at Australia O'clock (when I usually play CBA).
Regarding the whole "Building Delete" rules - around the ShadowCrystallux stream, it's more of a "House Rule" for anyone from chat that they cannot delete units (to deny kills) or fully completed buildings (foundation deletions are fine). Obviously, these are "House Rules", and they're virtually impossible to enforce on randoms when not enough chat can fill up the lobby.
I actually considered sending you a CBA game I was in for you to cast a few weeks ago, because I was both aware you knew the game mode extremely well, and because it managed to be an absolute slogfest where it became a 3v4, I was on the 3 team, and we began burning resources down so much we began trying to trade to keep ourselves afloat. But with the game updates, I'm not even sure I could re-find the recording even if you were interested in it.
If I ever find an exceedingly entertaining CBA game that I'm a part of again, however, I'll try to remember to send it to you. And yes, I mean actually entertaining. :P
Either way, I've played CBA so often with the same group of people - that are some of the best Australian players when my 1v1 ELO wanders around 1050-1150 - that I've been less shy about pointing out to those 1k higher in ELO to me when something needs attention... but I also feel EXCEEDINGLY guilty every time regardless. Even though half the point of CBA is to be a massive ELO equaliser, hahaha.
This game is definitely much laggier than most games I've been in. I don't know if this's because most games I'm in are confined to East Asian timezones (and subsequently low ping), however.
Also 2/10 the Tatars player in this game not spamming Flaming Camel to nuke Castles. That is genuinely a terrifyingly powerful strategy.
I remember playing Castle Blood back in 90's. tbh I miss those days.
“Path Blood” is the best! My favorite was the hero versions, but v22 back in GameRanger days was great too.
Yeah I only ever played the one with hero’s was always insane especially with FFA.
Everyone would always go wide path for Ghengis. True pros would go Aztec and chase down Wallace hahaha
Yes, more CBA! More scenarios in general! That was epic! What a beautiful and eclectic world we have in AoE
I had been lost because, I could never think of a way to get my friends into RTS's, since we are usually a FPS group. This game mode is the perfect introduction point. Thank you for making this video and promoting new ways to enter this great genre and amazing game!
This rocks! Reminds me of playing custom SC:BW and WC3 maps until 3:00am.
I'm a huge RTS fan but not usually a fan of the standard 1v1 gameplay, as a player at least. Custom scenarios are my jam, so i'd love to see more stuff like this. Custom scenarios are honestly the lifeblood of any successful RTS.
T90 you might be the only person with enough clout to convince someone to make CB Front Towers for DE! I'd have made it if I knew how to and I've been trying to convince anyone to make one for 2 years 😭
Me and a friend ported the HD version for someone who is fixing a few final things at the moment (I never played it so I couldn't do this for them)
There's a working version of Front Towers on the mod center right now, search for "HappyInsideOut" aka SpiRaL's version
Yep, that's the one, SpiRaL is still working on it though I believe
@@cuckoochou is it the same as this map?
I still play HD and don't ever want it to die. I don't want to see Front Tower get ported into DE.
I just got home completely drunk and you brought me back to my beginning of aoe2, thank you so much
I've played CBA for 3 months now. It's so much fun! It's true about the lobbies are more intense! Deleting the castles is something new I learnt.
Extreme noob here. How can I play this scenario? Can I practice this with BOTs first?
@@amankaushik005 also check out EternalPrince aoe2 on youtube and twitch. he does regular CBA content. theres a community that you can get involved with on his discord too
Dude this is great. I feel like there's a lot of casting potential in this mode too, it's really not that hard to follow, especially with masta90 explaining the whole way. I'm gonna go play it tonight. Watching high level play is amazing, but stuff like this now and again is a great change of pace. Love it brotha.
I never played AoE2 online, I did however play A LOT of Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds online, being effectively a AoE2 TC most of the custom scenarios were just clones/ports of AoE2 Scenarios, and CBA was absolutely my favorite scenario to play as a kid.
CBA is easily my favorite form of AOE. Just very fun and the matches are quick so even if you lose it's not such a bad feeling.
Lovely! More scenarios and CBA please!
I've played years and ended up at a relatively high level. I played my first CBA game about a month ago. Quite an interesting setup. I like the 6x tech
What does 6x tech bring to the equation that normal lacks in your opinion? Might check it out again, wasn’t initially impressed.
The hectic nature of cba 6x slightly ruins the strategy aspect, as you said in the video. Instead, it gives you that crazy twist of over-powered units, and crazy civ bonuses that make it so much fun, similarly to your 10x shared civ bonus community games.
In other words, it’s a stupider yet more awesome version of cba.
@T90Official - Age Of Empires 2 about the same mainly rushing next age so you can get the advantage. But 6x thumb ring and such can get nutty
@@T90Official What 6x brings
1. More important to have positive KD. An age advantage equals at least 6x2 better blacksmith and is definitely devastating.
2. Easier to snipe vils from far range
3. Tower is fun to play thx to long range and arrow slits
4. Other mechanism in the mod, like wonder and trade is good tie breaker
5. Easier to raze and get vils
@@semi59o I guess after 20 years of standard CBA, its nice to just mix it up a bit aswell.
Thats such a blast from the past and lovely memory for me. I feel like CBA is the main reason I got into warcraft 3 custom maps a few years later
If you're curious about the higher pop cap, the reason is obvious: you're not having the true CBA experience if the game isn't laggy. As such, with computers getting more powerful and less laggy, increasing pop limit was the solution
I used to play manual Castle Blood on the Zone back in the day.
Used to be 4 on the northwest vs 4 on the southeast so the distance was generally a little greater. No unit pop limits. Castle age start Generally ranged and especially gunpowder civs required lots of kills to get to imp, like around 1000 for spanish. Razes didn't give anything. There was an extra castle or two outside of the base. Vils were very hard to come by, and everyone had 2 paladins that respawned in your base as soon as they died lol. I loved this scenario like crazy and tried my best to replicate it from memory and FFA with the AI.
Oh and another thing, there would be clans that had their own versions of the map, like one with the 4 sided shape like this one, and they experimented with like 4 extra castles outside instead of 1 and stuff different kill requirements and stuff like that. Map sizes were pretty big and gave people lots of time to build up. Some maps also used bridges to connect castle areas to mainland so people would be forced to build more outside. You could also build siege workshops and towers, which you haven't mentioned but I assumed weren't in the game since you didn't try cannons or anything.
This was neat, reminds me of a scenario I used to play called Militia Evolution, not sure if it was popular but was a lot of fun, basically CBA but only militia line
cba was my comeback mode too when i started. great times.
Broooo I love this game . I probably have 10000 hours plus in CBA, CBA HERO, and KING TE. I hope you cover king Te cuz I’m one of top 10 players in the world “Robbin hoods”
I would LOVE to see more CBA vids! Quite entertaining!
I'd love to see you play more of this.
This is awesome. Please do more scenarios, and please do follow up videos on strats in these scenarios!
Thank you for making this. Nice detour from regular staff.
i remember one game back in the day. was so long that we start getting farms to get food for paladins. Its a fun mode to play to be real. It's decent way to train controling a lot of military and knowing counters
I like the chaos of all of this. Keep up the vids. Love your channel man, I used to watch my dad play this when I was a kid and watching ur vids unlocked core memories within me. Thank you for ur channel!!!
I was introduced to your channel when we played in the same CBA game way back in the Voobly days and you asked me to check you out, here I am all these years later and you’re still making videos featuring this classic map.
Castle Blood is great, love to see it. Two other of my favourite scenarios from back in the day were also Rambit TD and U Da Prey
I really missed playing CBA. Just got DE and can’t wait to play it.
Ahh fond memories of playing CBA on Gameranger back in the day. There used to be dozens of CBA's going at any one time, and a lot of variations of CBA, such as spawning varying hero units at certain kill counts, others where you get a Genghis Khan that slowly builds up stats over time to the point it can one hit castles, or where the end game turns into either a steady spread of towers and Siege Rams and cav or a mega defensive last stand type build of walls, towers and garrisoned/stacked archers.
Tensions are very high in CBA games between players, one poor game and you'll often get blocked by ppl, used to get so anxious playing CBA, but, it is fun and exhilarating when doing well :)
I played a ton of a custom map in Starcraft 2 back in the day that was just like this, I didn't realise until now it was probably a staple for RTS. Really cool, thanks for the vid!
The most popular Custom Scenario map in Age of Empires, but there are so many more CS maps out there that deserve attention. Check out the mods and scenarios available in DE and try them out.
I agree. So many fun coop or vs scenarios besides CBA type games
I have played CBA or CBA-Hero scenarios a little on Voobly. I sucked but still enjoyed them a lot. It was hard enough to keep in mind good/bad civ matchups with 8 civs. I cannot imagine it with the number we have now. Dunno if I want more of CBA content on your channel though as it is quite hard to actually know what is happening in the game. But, thanks for this video anyway.
I loved playing scenarios as a kid playing the old AoC, being CBA one of the main ones! Its amazing that you are giving it some love!
I remember playing this on MSN games
I loved CBA when I was younger. I was rootin' for johnny as I was watching, because his teamwork and then the hold from him and teal were just huge.
Thank you for your content T90! Been playing AoE2 HD for about 11 years and was always scared of multi-player. Def gonna be giving it a chance now :)
T90, you have triggered a nostalgic travel back to when I also played cba. I follow you for several years and you are still my fav AoE2 caster bro
Yeah mate.
More scenarios from time to time would be awesome.
Thanks T90
Was great to see you cast this, used to play when I was a kid. never very good at it but scenarios were my favourite thing to play
Thanks for uploading this - last I played CBA was maybe 12 years ago. Video brings it all back, thank you t90
Definitely post other scenarios! You can even post them to the extras channel if you're worried about the algorithm for the main channel
Amazing that you make a video on CBA! This really helped me to get to the start of it!
I was playing cannibal escape scenario 😅
Ah, this reminds me of footmen frenzy from Warcraft 3. Would be cool to see aoe2 evolve a similar wacky and insane modding scene, despite how implausible it is.
Love CBA. There was a brief moment in time when ZeroEmpires was slowly leaving the scene and T90 was slowly growing that there didn't seem to be many AoE games to watch. But I found some random dude who was into CBA and would stream his play. I'd never heard of hit and was fascinated with the game mode. That guy stopped posting much after a few months and I hadn't seen it since. Cool to see again.
Holy shit I totally forgot about CBA. Haven't played it in way, way too long.
I've always been interested in the custom map making scene in AoE2, as I've spent most of my childhood playing custom maps on Warcraft 3. Both games have their limitations and I just want to see what kind of game modes AoE2 can do.
We need more CBA! I loved playing it in the past. You making videos on it will bring more CBA lobbies.
T90CBA finally!
Very cool! I'd love to see more scenario play like this and the one where single units fight each other in the middle and try to kill outposts
Fun to see a different scenario on the channel! CBA has such a large playerbase and it’s something i played exclusively for a long time. Wish I had been in your lobby xD
cbf and cba will forever be the absolute best modes
CBA looks fun. Might try it sometie. GG
Always wanted to understand this game, and this has been super informative! Thank you for breaking down a CBA game for us!
Dude, I gotta say. I am having the exact experience you described in the beginning and this is the first T90 video i'm coming back to since being a longtime sub. Glad to see you're still making content man and it's good to be back :)
I always saw 2 or 3 CBA lobbies but I never knew what is was,and the name always was "no noobs" so I didn't want to join and drag people down,or be completely confused by it. Glad you made this video!
I played some much CBA back in the Voobly era! T90, I’d love if you could also cast some CBA Hero (if that also exists in DE)!
Lets hope this vid will bring more custom games.
Dude this brings back memories. I remember watching Zero empires and then I switched to watching you T90. Awesome content thanks for the amazing content bro. Hope to be in one of your games one day.
This reminds me of a custom map of Red Alert 3 called Battle Arena which was very similar and always a blast. Neat, this was probably the OG inspiration for it!
I remember playing this as CBT (Castle Blood Turbo) on the MSN Zone in 2001-2005 time frame. It was like this except you had to manually queue up the units in the castle. I dumped a lot of time in that and just the custom scenario game room back then. Glad to see it is still around.
Ive seen some of it on Dave’s channel but never understood it, so thanks T90 for this. Nice slide show btw
I remember playing hours of an earlier version of this game back in like 2004, no UA-cam at the time so obviously couldnt find any footage of the game but this confirms I wasnt crazy
CBA is my favorite scenario. But i think in the old version of the game there was more to do outside in upgrade etc. Might be wrong, it's been a while.
I'm happy to see this video doing well. CBA is a lot of fun and it needs more players.
Would Love to See this in Community Games!
I fucking LOVE CBA
SO many good memories of Castleblood auto. AND all the other "autos and store scenarios" oh AND the rpg scenarios players made , they were so creative.
I just loved scenarios to death If I must be honest. Soldier Store and Archer Blood were two of my faves also.
One creative player I met even made a 'halo-inspired' map, sidewinder. A glacier, icey kind of map :)
Thanks again for your videos t90 you make me very happy brother
I used to make blood fest maps for SWGB way back in the day. Had a lot of fun with it in the old AOE2 days. Good to see there's still a scene! It's a bit different than I remember (we had some islands with flags in them, so you could set which unit would spawn at your base by sending your island unit into a flagged square to be replicated on the main map. Upgrades gave more unit options, but I don't remember having ages or unit upgrade buildings or villagers. Lots of innovations in the past 20 years!)
That scenario is still around
I remember playing this as a kid and not understanding anything, so confused on how units spawned automatically.
CBA was pretty fun to watch!
Never heard of this until now but that was fun to watch. Nice comeback too since it seemed like it was over for you guys, but Mayan player carried gray.
I have been waiting for a video on this
Neat, I think I have seen Dave playing another one where you change your unit by moving to a different flag.
I love seeing these scenario videos! please make more of them!
Its nice to see some different game modes and scenarios. Keep the wacky and weird coming!
I did not find any tutorial when I tried to play CBA. Love ur video
So it looks like I’m the only one that noticed that after gray lost his vills he had their spawn point blocked. So… yeah, getting more raises wouldn’t get more vills unless he deleted the barracks he had blocking them.
Also it looks like you’ll have to do some more of these. Looking forward to it!
i played this for 11 years.
I never knew you got vils from razes. I thought it was time lockes. I've played like 5 CBA games and in all I've only gotten like 4 vils in total.
Holy shi... played this so much
Gameranger FTW!!!!
It was very fun to watch, teamwork very important indeed. We need more of those.
CBA has always been the best part of aoe2 multiplayer
Castle Blood was my childhood it has so many different version with litle island on the border with a monk and units you can spawn when you reach a certain ammount of kills
Interesting it has such a strange name. This is very much like the Evolves, footman frenzy or marine wars from starcraft and warcraft custom games.
I played footman frenzy in wc3 personally but I like to think me and all the other people who did the same vibe with this scenario. Any other FF players agree?
Used to play this back in the day ! Awesome.
Hero Fest next?👍
Oh my god, please bring more CBA, I loved it!!
People always used to ask me what CBA is, and I was always disappointed by the videos on UA-cam. Finally I have something to show them! Thank you!