Beginner guide to the first 15 villagers [AoE2] 

I missed the Age of empires 2 dawn, now i'm here, finally learning, 20 years later

Andy Brinegar You’re not the only one. Hundreds and hundreds of other people also lol

I’m just happy I have a many new campaigns and civilizations to try out

Never stop learning.

Honestly same. I played this game so much as a young child, and now I’m like what is a villager?

colesy and bots fuck you up

Yeah, i played it like sim city lmao. I like to make my civilization look good.

I always play regicide 😶🤷‍♂️

With cheats on

@@dendiepie1547 lol I stooped cheats it's too easy with them doesn't give you the same feeling when u build things on your own and your dominanting

Hahaha so true

Is that the AI cheating?

@@drago939393 only on AoK. Fuckers literally use cheat codes

That's a death match, you already have lots of resources, so you don't need to invest in economics first as shown in this video.

right why do i suck so much

wtf

former smosh gameinge

This is the weirdest crossover i've ever seen

What's your steam handle we can play

Was not expecting this then

Same. I'm pretty solid up until there.

Me too

Well... There are 2 hugely common strategies: 1. Make them up to 22 pop. Mostly sent to food, 1 or 2 to wood. Age up at 22 pop, then rush. If u r going to archer rush -- then u'll need some vils on gold. 2. Fast-castle strategy. It may seem weird, but to hit castles faster u need to make MORE vils in the dark age. Usually, when i'm aiming to FC, i age up to feudal at 28 pop. Usually all the boars and deer and sheep put together provide just enough food. Useful hint: don't be afraid to take vilagers off your food and send them to wood, when u need to make farms and your wood is at zero. Ah, the most important: don't stop producing them. I usually go into castle age with 32-35 vils, and into imperial with almost 100.

"Improvise. Adapt. Overcome." XD 11:27

@@framherjabow5330 I always forget to build TCs once I reach castle because I am busy with some fighting and then I win a small fight but lose the game because my opponent has 1/3rd more pop.

ArcaneNoodles fuck I FELT that lmfao

Me with my eight lmao

Me with 4 on each resource and if i need extra 5

my father only playing on 25 population:

Maybe the PC version differs, but on PS2, the population is capped at 75

been playing since about 2006, started with the original version of age of kings on ps2.. still have idle time XD

@@MastersX99 Been playing since 1997 here. Still noob.

@@MastersX99 PS2? Didn't know they had this for PS2. I played this when it came out in '99.

@@IrishRepoMan yep age of kings was on ps2 :D

xD

Beginner's guide to Regicide. Start with too many villagers.

Is it normal that your comment was posted 6 hours ago, yet the video was posted in less than 17 minutes?

@@mcihay246 yeah what's up with that?

All on wood and you sell at the market to get everything else. Ah wait. That's another map

@@mcihay246 SotL Patreons get early access to some videos.

yes is sure does thank you very much sir

Wow this is actually beginners guide What a shame on video man

Queue first then build

@@Bhatonia_Jaat wdym shame SOTL explains these steps using maths. These steps mean nothing without justification to back them up.

@@spinyslasher6586this definitely not the best way to make beginners understand They seek for straight forward and simple steps to get started with game Just my opinion

Right 🤣 been playing for probably 13 years, just now deciding to try and play strategically

@@warriorlax3502 To be fair OG AoE2 had next to no tips or anything on the internet to help you improve and you had to rely on 144p videos on early youtube (which was not that known at the time), shitty forums with people who were nice but gave very bad advice and tips sometimes, and internet itself was harder to get, and it was not nearly as good as today. So it was pretty common for AoE2 players to play against bots or the campaign and be trash at the game, relying on cheats to see the story or thousands of trial and error and still be bad. There's no more of that in 2020, even for games that are not nearly as big and popular as AoE2 in comparison.

I actually like the way it looked way f better.

look like my first 20 minutes in game...

I just started playing AoE2 for the first time as well. It's my first RTS and I love the historical style of it all. I, too, am having a blast learning it and beating my last best game.

Aoe2 Fridays sounds fun

wait.... you have fun "learning" the game ? I can understand it's fun once you master it but bruh, i started it right now, learning, it's painful as fuck

The phases of every AoE2 player. Phase1: the blob of random units doing whatever Phase2: learn to form your random blob into random control groups Phase3: learning meta tactics from spirit of the law

Hahaha me 2

I watch this every week and I still forget when I'm actually playing. AoE is fun but stressful lol

Me since 2000 in grade 1. Now I finished engineering two years ago. I still play :P

In the Definitive Edition the population limit in those campaigns is 125 :-D

@@jomnix In all campaigns?

@@charlsman18 ,no, saladin for example is 75/100 depending on the chapter

fuck the campaigns for having a 75 hard cap ;_; edit: grammar

@@jomnix Not in William Wallace's campaign

AHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

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=))) made my day !

Wholesome.

I started doing that on my own as well and then you realize which strategies work the best. It really helps to analyze other people's bases

I'm still dealing with "moderate" problems. Haha. Thanks for the inspiration. :D

interesting! Very handy so it works that way and not block buildings ever though its not collected yet

I did the same. Still do that sometimes.. Always remember it takes a real king to build a civilization worth living in.

Well walling is done with buildings because it makes it harder for your opponent to attack you if they have to destroy some buildings first. You have to make those buildings and place them somewhere anyway so you might as well put them in a place that will make it more annoying to deal with for enemy players. A ‘rush’ is exactly what it sounds. Making lots of scouts really early to harass an enemies villagers before they’ve made many defences. Same thing with towers except instead of building scouts you build towers near where your opponent’s villagers are working to deny them using that resource until the tower is destroyed.

1) Cant be answered easily because it depends on your strategy and what you opponent does. If you want to reach Castle Age quickly, you advance to Feudal at 27 population. When you reached Feudal you queue up 2 villagers, build Market + Blacksmith and click up Castle right away. If your enemy goes for early aggression what you must scout first, you have to adapt. Make units to counter your enemy or go on stone to tower up your base and protect your resources. Just make sure if you want to attack your enemy getting important blacksmith upgrades first is the key to succeed. Like armor for the knights or damage + range for your archers etc. Meelee units need armor first by the way. 2) Walling with buildings is very important. You have to build them anyway and they got a lot of hp so wall up the smaller gaps with palisades and houses, while building barracks for example infront of your berries if they're exposed. Use treelines or cliffs to wall because you save a lot of wood. If you accidently walled out resources like an extra gold or stone pile dont hesitate to open your walls a bit so that villagers can go out later. Dont make your base too small and stick with that because you lose total map controll and the enemy could build foreward military stuff and you don't see it. It is common once you go for Imperial Age to start build outposts around your base and further out to see the enemy coming miles away what gives you much time to react. 3) Best army compositions are individual to every civ and their current matchups. This is very advanced knowledge and not easy to write that down in a few sentences. 4) When you rush your enemy early you optimise your eco from the start to produce 1 unit and rush your enemy with it to make him react, waste resources and losing time. Noobs often are kinda dead after a simple rush because they have no clue how to react on that. How they're played? I recommend you T90 Officials videos on RU-vid. You will find them I am sure.

It would be nice to create a video series similar to Art of War

@@alfredong6850 there is a lot of content to build in youtube..one only has to find it

RT

I mean, it CAN be a viable strategy.

@@hanshintermann1551 yep. Fast castle, then spam Knights

Go for enemies gold and stone it's risky but taking even 10% it's worth it

@@AlexanderGeorge lol... Knight is no good vs pikemen 😂

@@jimalfauraq388 comes down to numbers and upgrades then. 1:1, especially upgraded, yeah spears/pikes will win, but usually you don't encounter as many spears/pikes as you have knights, because they're only useful for one thing: countering knights, whereas knights are an all-around power unit.

its the same for me :)

In DE there is a complex tutorial.. you should want to take a look...

@@ersinculdur4401 I don't own it yet, so can't check it now, but will definitely do as soon as I buy the game

Make the playlist public please, I'm I'n the same boat!

It sounds very cute

Things change, soon they'll be eating our lunch.

Saw it too haha

Lol. 😆 I can't un-see it now.

i took a break from studying to play aoe2 after watching this video i decided to take a break from aoe2 and continue to study

You are in charge of a bunch of illiterate shepherds, old monks and men carrying gunpowder, you have to at least act like you know your stuff

Ikr

This video is overwhelming as hell. Imma just not 😅

Also, franks can clinch it simply because their farming techs are free, meaning they spend less wood on the farms for more food income overall. If you can handle just a bit of a tight play in the dark age you'll be thankful you not amassed wood for no reason

Don't forget Malians

@@twohandedswordsman852 What are you doing here? The Malay ordered 80 more of you 30 seconds ago.

@@thescribe509 Oh damn.

Fronklin B. Ronasavelt sheehoow

@@tunnelvision5851 aegis sheesheesheesheesheesheesheesheesheesheesheesheesheesheesheesheesheesheesheesheesheesheesheesheesheesheesheesheesheeshee HOOOOOOOO

Ever wonder how villages in are are made

some of these comments are too much gold

Twice as fast as a Minute Man... reference to American independence times.

I get that this is how the competitive players have to play, but this can’t be fun. I just want to hang out y’know.

@@jacobj297A couple of our buddies are little sweatsack meatbots, so I'm gearing up to put an end to their shit

To be fair, there is a difference between cutting the straggler trees right next to your Town Center and cutting those further away.

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-lH1mQ_UXRzY.html

An iconic game like this... how on earth can you forget this game!? ;D

Yeah. Been playing for 20 years and some people new to the game kick my ass regularly.

As a teacher, i smiled

So if I type 60 words/min... that's 3 words/1000 food which = 20k food/min. Yep, the math checks out. Very efficient!

@@daledo8604 Isn't it 10000 Food now, I'm pretty sure they changed in the HD Edition.

@@threeofakind9933 I dont know man - haven't used cheat codes since 1999!

😂 you know this game actually taught me how to type, back in 1999 (when I was 12 and had just got my first pc), by repeatedly typing out ‘cheese steak jimmy’s’, ‘lumberjack’, ‘Robin Hood’ and ‘rock on’ in the chat. And of course when all else fails and your still getting slaughtered by the ai, ‘how do you turn this on’ (x20 times).

@@87PLS lol, literally the exact same thing for me. I learned how to type by putting in cheats when I was 12 or 13 with my first PC that I bought.

:(

The intro was too long, imo. The videos are already long enough because of the rich content. Maybe a quick logo show and/or 5 seconds of intro would be ok, imo.

@@Lou_NZ_ Certainly, the little tidbits of past videos and of the video itself were a treat, and the music was the hook for me. I still remember fondly the gothic game plan, and the villager one-shooting the cobra was the high of the theme.

@@alejandroromero6464 what a fucking heresy comment, the intro is the shit bruh.

SotL has said before he doesn't use the intro on videos he hopes or expects will reach a wider audience. This is a very good general guide so better to make it more accessible to non-subscribers.

You'll get it eventually! shoot em twice and run!

@@zez124696 in the DE you only need to shoot once. However it happened with me a couple of times I was too quick, and I ran before the arrow hit the boar so I was not in his Line of Sight. Delay for 0.5 seconds I would say.

Use scout to block boar from damaging villager

because it's not a generic civ

Man why do you have to throw me off like this lol my favorite civs as a kid were mayan, briton, chinese and japanese. The youtuber mentioned the first three have odd starts so I was going to learn this build with Japanese. Goddamn it lol

agreed

1. Place your buildings (especially houses) as a wall groundwork. Finish the wall with palisades. 2. Scout your enemys feudal building. Stable means scouts so you can make a few spears. Although your walls should keep scouts out. Archery range means Archers. Melee units in feudal can not get in without a tower rush which the AI doesn't do. You can build a new house while they attack your wall. Archers prevent new walling but can be fend off with a few of your own skirms. 3. If the enemy manages to rush in with a few scouts then quickwall. Your vils will be between your resource building and the resource. Close the openings with palisades or houses. 4. Don't panic and send solitary units against a group. 3-4 scouts can kill a spearman easily. wait until you created a few more to send them together. Hope this helped a bit. Remember: what I said sounds easy but can be difficult to pull off in panic mode. I'm not that good myself. Practice does it.

One important piece of advice I can give is make sure you're not building your town too far away from your Town Center. Garrisoning your villagers to counter archers/etc is pretty important for ensuring you can keep up your economy with minimal loss. Another is always be sure to utilize your scout cavalry, particularly in Feudal. After you hit Feudal Age your scout moves faster, and can secure more information quicker. Ideally you want to know where your enemy is in Dark Age, but if you know their position in Feudal you should be constantly checking to keep tabs on them, seeing if they're making archery ranges/barracks/etc. If you see that they're making archers for early game aggro, make skirmishers as counters, or additional scout cavalry. If you notice that they have buildings like smith/range/etc, but no units, it means they're probably going for a knight rush or a straight boom.

@@Crim3onWolf im having trouble beating extreme ai i can take it all the way to imperial, but after that its micro is too fin good think i just have to do alot more damage early so it cannont rebound

@@frostbitedodo2243 Pretty much what I've noticed about it is it's economy is near perfect if it can get to Imperial Age. With it being a program, it makes sense that it isn't going to make the same mistakes as often as a human player, but it'll also continuously bombard you everywhere on the map with a flood of units. My strategy is to make sure it never gets to that point by smashing their economy with early castle aggression, or picking a Civ that can out produce them, like Goths/etc.

same here

You guys are getting ratings? 😂😂

@@Deoeffect please bitch

hotkeys are very valuable and cut out a lot of time in the long run. Also marking certain troops with the numbers