AOE2: Total War 

"I had everything visible, cause otherwise everything isn't visible." Came for the slaughtering of Frenchmen, stayed for the wisdom.

"But I couldn't be bothered, so I built a wonder instead"

Me and my uncle always played against my other uncle who was an absolute god at this game. He always won but the 1 or two battles we won per game and the last hour of us hiding our hidden villages trying to hold out and with guerrilla warfare were always the highlights. You brought me a lot of good memories thanks!

Why AI are the greatest and should be kept in games, even if it's PvP. They're the only ones who will put up with your redicilous self imposed challenges for hours on end, time after time.

Philip Of The Law

a year ago this video single handily convinced me to get into age of empires

"I was pretty good! Obviously not as good as the people in the comments section of this video" I don't know what's more savage than that xD

Its the things like 7:57, where you can really see you make the extra effort for a little bit of content. I love the small things like that

If electricity always follows the path of least resistance, why doesn't lightning always strike in France then?

I really hope you do 1 kliks vs 5 AI without the handicap.

Never clicked off another video so fast in my life. I love AOE2 and couldn't believe my eyes when I saw the notification!

Beautiful!

Aww yeah i love the age of empires music

Philip, Original AI might be worse (and thus easier) but it cheats for resources. You can check this in game replays, where from AI perspective they suddenly get some of each resource randomly.

I remember playing aoe 1 (I think (helmet with a read feather was the desktop icon)) I was horrible at it. But one day my brother told me about the cheat console and the one mighty cheat to win every game... Big daddy. It spawned a cool black car with a rocket launcher on top, which rekt villages and entire armies. So I started a new game. Hopeful to finally achieve victory against the ai (I always played on the easiest settings, and lost :( I was that terrible at the game). So I launched the game and the first thing I did, was to create a huge army of big daddys. My plan was to destroy the enemys once and for all. It took me a hellalala long time (since I didn't know about ctrl+c ctrl+v and a pretty bad typer :D). After I was finished, I launched the attack. Dozens of rocketlaunching cars charged against the enemy bases. Mu first victims were the innocent villagers harvesting wood In a forest near the enemy base and then it happened. One of the priests of the enemy converted one of my big daddys(wolololo nananaaaa) and I didn't notice. Soon all my big daddys were gone. Destroyed or converted. Then they attacked my village and slaughtered every single living thing. Be careful what you create... it might turn against you (Philip, you always manage to make me feel nostalgic. Thank you

"The monkery" why did that make me laugh so much XD

I'd love to see Philip play some Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance. Seems right up this alley, and still has a really active online playerbase. I bet the good ol Kliks Spice would work wonders.

"but I couldn't be bothered, so I built a wonder instead" DUN DUN DUUUUHHHHNNNNNNNNNNN

2kliksphilp uploaded an AOE2 video. *ERECTUS*

Love your narration. You are worthy of my subscribe. :D

"... but I couldn't be bothered and built a wonder instead." xD hahahaha you killed me! It had been long since I heard AoE2 jokes!

"Posh Gollum" is a line you should be very proud of.

Aoe 2 was one of my first games too, my dad would have his friends over and they'd have massive lan parties. Then after he'd be still wanting to play more, so he allowed us kids to play (me and my brother) it was loads of fun, we only ever played against ai but that made it so we could custom trailer the difficulty so the players that would build a total of 5 spear men within the first 15 minutes (like my young self) would be just enough help to overcome the enemy as my father and older brother built hoards of paladins and trebuchets. Those were the best times, i wish i could turn back time...

This game was so much fun. I must have spent over a thousand hours playing this. I remember for a while this was competing with starcraft (another amazing game) to see which would be the longest lived competitive RTS game. AOE2 won.

I loved the editting and story telling , i hope to see way more aoe videos from you for a change!

Loving the presentation style of this video, instant thumbs up!

are you serious? My favorite fellow brit combining my favorite games and also mentioning HOMM3. Its like we had the same childhood phillip. Bravo young sir.

When Philip really doesn't want to play Empire total war

Thats exactly the kind of content I really enjoy coming from you, philip! A very interesting game, nice commentary with footage that matches the spoken words perfectly and of course the secret philip ingredient: nostalgia! Very nice video!

This is my childhood. I remember re-playing, playing against the AI and making my own levels there for ages. At one point i just didnt get the chance to play it again, but i will forever love it. One of the few 10/10 games in my life

you don't know how long i've waited for this video

Great video Phil! Shooting those extra shots of *what could have been* against the fortress was a nice touch!

Love these videos, they remind me of playing Battle for Wesnoth with family :) Always ended with the slow defeat of one of our troops haha

OH MY GOD. That horn at the beginning of the video brought back SOOO many childhood memories. My dad taught me how to play this, it was my first ever videogame.

The speed of the little fat king always surprised me. Good bugger.

Wow i like this, this is great!!! I now i want to play this game again!!

I was so happy to hear that "back to the past" music. It's fantastic!

AoE was such a massive part of my childhood and it’s so cool to scroll through all the comments and see how many others it effected as well

I just found this channel via your Skyrim video, now I cant stop browsing it! (Y)

Philip, this is the first game I ever played and I loved it. I still play various titles in this series to this day. Last weekend me and my best friend played the 2018 remaster of the original. Nobody will every read this but now my nostalgic feelings have been engraved on the internet forever so yay.

Video of my favourite game by my favourite RU-vidr, cheers Philip!

The slightly slower narration and slightly longer pauses than usual caught me off guard. It's interesting how abnormal it sounded at first. I still enjoyed the video, Philip!

This is the first vid I watch from you, now I'll no sleep for the entire night tyvm :D

Like your style man, you’ve got some good videos on here.

Amazing vid man. Many of your jokes got a genuine laugh out of me, they were on point with the game

2kliksphilip plays aoe2? Okay, this is the best channel ever

man my child hood one of the best game age of kings , used to mess around in custom game so much fun

0:20 This series just got perfect

Funny how I started recently playing this game with a friend and now I see you talk about it. I guess ao2 really is something we all go back to someday

Europa Universalis IV: TOTAL WAR next?!?!?

This gmae was my childhood, It was one of my first games and I bought it from the local library. when I was like 5, good times...

"They fooled me once... But then they fooled me twice ! "

2:18 Did Philip really take screenshots 5 years ago and save them incase he wanted to make a video? Or did he just put that much effort into editing those shots.

Love this series, fuck youtube for not putting it in my sub box even though the bell is rang. Great video as always

This man is the greatest aoe2 commentator. As funny as he is slick!

Spent many a days playing the AI on Age of Empires. I was able to beat 4 on hardest level. Great game! Nice narrative you gave there! 👍👍

An older video, but I enjoy the creativity of the map settings.

That music is triggering my PTSD. Thank you, Philip.

Me and my best mate used to LAN the shit out of Black Forest. I always went Vikings and he went the Teutonic Order. Our games would last upto 12 hours. He was a better player than me and won most games, but in no way did it take away the fun for me. The channels and bottlenecks we would create through the forests with our walls and castles. I often found myself sending workers off to random parts of the map in the hopes to build hidden bases - just like you mentioned. This gave me a good laugh. We found having one team of Huns and Goths vs another team of Huns and Goths against us with another random AI each ALWAYS gave the best and most brutal battles. So many great memories, so much fun.

i love your total war series so much :)

Love how you just do your thing, it amazes me how you can deliver these videos with so much confidence. Didn't even play AOE, but seeing how systematically you play through this and how much fun you have while playing, somehow makes me feel really good. Keep up the good work Phillip, because i'll be watching it

this is the first time i ever saw AOE 2 , i got it and it is the best rts i have ever played

That ending.... classic. Also, building a gate within the enemy walls? Brilliant.

Philip, please, please make another total war video. They did great for you and were really fun to watch for us. That's how I discovered your channel. Empire could be next. But Napoleon would be awesome if you don't mind skipping one game. Imagine putting an end to Napoleon and crushing his enormous alliance as the British. Anyway, thank you for all the unique content you make.

YES I AM SO HAPPY YOU MADE THIS VIDEO AOE2 is one of my favorite RTS games

As soon as I heard that horn in the beginning I had flashbacks, such a great game. One online match in particular stands out on a mostly forested map with an X shaped clearing running though the map. It was a glorious slaughter between four players that went on for what seemed like hours until I was finally beat back the last guy, destroyed his town center only to realize the bastard had a completely different settlement in the corner of the map hidden away! At the time it had never even occurred to me that you could do that.

My history exam is coming up nicely.

OMG this game is my childhood. love you for doing this

aah, hearing Synchobonk before a flashback sure brought back a lot of memories

AOE2 is my first PC game and I played it day and night and I've never been able to beat that many AIs, great job philip!

My God, this is a channel I can get behind

Thank you for reminding me I have this game on my laptop so I can play it while I'm away from my PC!

Your fathers music and aoe2... you just made me very happy sir

This game brings back so much memory, I remember my grandfather playing this game against 3 AIs on very hard

Here’s a list of cheat codes that is still somehow stuck in my head after 11 years: Aegis-instant building Lumberjack -1000 wood Robin Hood -1000 Gold Cheese steak jimmy’s -1000 food Rock on -1000 gold

I am a AoE-God. I spent years of my early childhood playing this and I don't regret it!

Came here from your Dirt Rally crash course. Awesome vid. Man, I spent so much time on AoE II in my childhood. Btw, if you loved AoE, you should try out Rise of Nations. It's kinda like a larger scale, longer-spanning AoE that goes into the modern age and each nation has a bigger unique trait in gameplay.

AOE series but especially the 2 is one of the greatest RTS games of all time, one of my first games as well. Love AOE2. Love philips.

Cheese Steak Jimmy's

3:50 you're goddamn right i don't regret saying that

beautiful as always! Thank you very much for this vid!

My uncle still play the first aoe.That victory sound is giving me nostalgia

This is the true definition of nostalgia

Not gonna lie, this was genuinely genius.

Trapping the King in the 4 walls with a battering ram....nearly died, you sick, sick human being xD

The great turkey pillage of 2016 😂 I love it!

Heroes 3 and Aoe2 have been one of my favorite games and i still play them.

More ideas - Pick Goths - +10 population. Pick Celts - Easier sheep stealing. Good siege units. Aztecs or Saracens - Monk Rush. Use Towers and Castles for extra cheese.

Yes! Two of my favorite things in one video.

Great memories playing this, and still jump in for a game from time to time!

Phallus on 00:55

Countless hours spent playing this game at internet cafes making good friends

Interesting approach, I have to say. I might be checking these achievements out sometime as well.

Used to play the hell out of this, AoE3, and Empire Earth 2. My dad (a computer programmer) found some way to install and port the latter on my computer, play it to this day. I miss AoE2-3.

Great turkey pillage of 2016😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

FYI for the non-AoE players, playing Britons on a defensive map like Black Forrest is actually a major advantage as they are an archery-focused civ and have the best archers in the game with the most range and DPS.

I thought this was a Sprit of the Law video for a second.

I used to play this game like theres no tomorrow! Good old times!

I clicked on this video thinking it was by Spirit Of The Law. I was surprised when I started hearing your voice.

I've been playing Age of empires my whole childhood and now I think there is not going to be any strategy game like AOE when I watched this video because I remember how awesome it was then...for me still awesome