Absolute BANGER of an AoE2 Game! Saracens vs Vikings! 

'Hera might not be happy despite saying LOL in chat' you are a true scholar of human condition

Can we all take a moment to commemorate the brave sacrifice of the spearman at 11:43, walled out to fend off a horde of crossbows alone.

- Sire, we have discovered farmland that the enemy uses to feed their troops! What shall we do? Take it over? - No, destroy it! *proceeds to shoot crossbows at the ground*

21:10 send that clip to spirit of the law for his Ontage

beautiful example of aoe2 counter unit balance. red starts with archers - blue counters with skirms & onagers - red adds cavaliers - blue adds camels - red adds berserks - blue counters with hand cannons - red adds skirms!

21:14 "HERA SHOULD SEE THIS! OH MY GAWWD, OOOOHHH MY GAAAWWWWWDDDDDD!!" That enthusiasm makes your content amazing man! Love ya!

38:15 that heavy cab that got converted must have an amazing story, im thinking Rollo from Vikings.

21:14 The biggest fail in pro history.Also the juiciest onager shot ever.It certainly turned the game upside down.

This has to be one of the most interesting and entertaining expert 1V1's I've seen. Great change in units & counters, amazing geoplay with a flavour of micro-mastery one can only dream of. Nice.

is no one going to talk about the traitor cavalier at 24:08 that survived the entire game

Cred to mbl for that vicious onager shot. With Hera pestering him for so long with those crossbows, he made a bunch of onagers, hid them on the hill and waited for the right moment. Beautiful! Not easy to pull off aganst an opponent with such good micro. Quit talkig of throws and such, this is the game played at the very best level, and that goes for both players.

2 years later and this is still my favorite game

43:45 They had the same amount of Stone!?

9:18 pause there and you can see the woodline isn't completely walled off. The Skrims could've walked right in and raid the woodline in Red's base :P

21:13 ... for everybody who had a bad day ;-)

One of the best 1vs1 I've seen. Thanks!

One of the best games I've seen in a long time. Thanks for casting! :-)

I've probably seen at least 100 of your videos including several multi hour streams. I would still say this is one of the best games in the archive.

First time ive watched a match ever since playing this game as a kid. All these years later it still looks so fun.

thanx to MBL for making saracens great again, with their team bounce they are the most powerful civ

i just got back into playing after a... 20+ yr break. game first came out when i was in high school, lmao. i remember why i loved it so much. amazing game and these commentaries are incredibly helpful as i re-learn stuff

These games of AOE2 are very entertaining, thank you for uploading them. This is what made me play AOE2 again, and install Voobly.

Im brand new to AoE comp/ranked so these videos really help with my learning. Thank you!

Damn... stumbled upon this oldie - AOE has really upped the graphics in the past few years

You did a great job of casting the game. The narration was accurate and delivered with enthusiasm. I subbed. Keep up the good work, that was a great game, too.

Thanks for uploading such an awesome game!

I really love your reporting of the games. Thank you

One of the games I keep rewatching every 6 months

What a great way to start my morning. Awesome game. Well play by both.

Badass game, I learned a lot from this and your commentary. Wow.

Watching this after their Wololo 5 set really puts into perspective how much both players have improved!

Superb casting :) Like the decision you've made here.

Haven't got to the end yet but so many misplays from Hera, not to take anything away from MbL's play.

Fantastic performance by both players!

great comeback and commentary

The aoe2 community will *NEVER DIE*

very good game! and a fine cast good sir! :)

Agreed, counters were spot on throughout.

this might be psychological but i always find myself routing for the blue player

21:13 Masters of Arena 3 flashbacks ! 11

there was a gap behind the woodline (9:18) an heras base when the skirms showed up at 9:10, this could have been soooo good.

32:20 that beserk charge tho

Lovin' the counters

I'm new to this game checking it out before 4 comes out and I absolutely love it

Mbl did the old zhuge liang's empty castle trick when he destroyed his arbalest army with the onagers

Damn! what a game!

Occurs to me that one potential unit missing from AOE2 is Chariots. If they do add more civs, they should add chariots as unique units for a couple of appropriate civs. Very fast, multiple arrows/javelins in attack, but also expensive, slow to train and not good on hills.

Wow! Enjoyed this game.

Been watching AoE videos for awhile already and seeing MBL on this match after seeing one of the Blue Coffee videos give me a weird feeling.

That's how you counter an arb+ram early imp push. With onnies.

I played AOE as a kid growing up, and was never good at it. I play it from time to time, but it doesn't catch me. Watching these pro guys is so entertaining tho. Very nice game

@T90Official 11:58 If the positions had been switched and it was Mbl attacking into Hera's walls, it would've absolutely been worth taking down the lumber camp because of the Saracens amazing team bonus. Kappa

Tips: Dont build wild in 1v1 MBL way of building plays a very important role

21:14 DAAAAAAMN

21:15 still gives me nightmares to this day omfg

Historically, this happened somewhere in Spain 🇪🇸

Really entertaining game!

Today story time with T90.

This was an awesome game!

21:12 t90throw

Literally the perfect onager shot

one of the best games ever

21:16 BAHAHAHAHAHAHA REKT

Those are some quality onagers

Thanks a Lot

Such a throw 11.

do you play ranked on HD edition or standard?

Dude you’re just really awesome. I want you to know that.

I'm surprised relics weren't picked up already in the castle age

21:15 Ouch.

We should all throw in for a Saracens only show tourny

he didn't do the house trick, he only shot the boar once. he was attempting to do the house trick but it wasn't necessary.

I've been following you since the beginning! I love the video's! I have a question or like a request. An in eye from some games of good players.

Good shit

Time flies

Hera trying to lame the MasterBoarLamer? 11 Also Hera and MBL the dream couple Kappa

This is the fkin best game

I plan to play this again it’s fun am very good at just playing for fun.

Awesome game

I want to mitigate spoiling, so all I can say is that something explosive and unbelievable happened somewhere in the match.

Surprised Hera didn't get pikemen early in the game once the infantry upgrades were done for Beserks. Afterall, MBL had a lot of cav throughout the game and viking pikemen are stronger. Also, if you are having a 1 vs 1 treb war (1 treb each most of the time) to take down opposing castles and probably start a push that will win the game, the treb is vitally important and cav are taking it out constantly. Bring a few vils from your close woodline, build houses, even partially, in front and sides of the treb to force the cav around to the back and they won't survive the attack but your treb will. Simple stuff I would have done in my own games in years gone by and I was only 2k, these guys are top.

what benifit of making 5 or 6 stable or baraccs ? is it increase building speed ?

Red: IAmHera Blue: 'am'

i watch all your videos at x1.25

21:15 JESUS FUCK, LOOK AT THE KD RATIO CHANGE

how do you micro like that, DAMN

These guys played this game like Chess masters.

What a gam

Yikes T90 you sound different here hahaha

do saracens get husar in aoc? nice casting t90, sick game

Can someone explain to me why it's almost always Arabia? What makes it so popular? I mean, there are other land maps.

21:13 i came

Building camels over mamelukes as saracen is downright stupid. They cost almost as much however mamelukes have a range which allows them to kill any cav without taking losses, they're also strong vs any infantry, they kill siege very fast and they can deal with archers when played correctly. I know all these because I do them, and I also pair them with onagers.

Why cant these be watched with fog of war ON so we see what they see it helps learn the moves better

go Vikings... but not in the late game... the prob. was that Hierra did not mix in pikes (pointy bois) in the 20 minute mark.

The game turned on a single onager shot

Hera is 18 or 19 now

the blue must raid the archery ranges to win

Maybe they should remove a few of the expansion civ bonuses and give it to Saracens so we can see them in competitive games.

I am surrounded by geese :)