Beginner To 2k Guide Aoe2 | Defending Tower & Maa Rushes 

Everyone on board with a guide a day and nothing else until DE comes out?!?! Also be sure to check out the tourney and the discords, next couple weeks will be a blast! Let me know what you guys think about the rec analysis compared to live games. I can cut it out altogether for future episodes or i can keep it as every 5th episode like we're doing now!

Best thing about this guide in my opinion; you’re actually continuing with the video’s! Lots of these initiatives start out very well, but then die down quickly. Keep the quality content coming 🤩

I like both live and record commentary and think you should do both since in the live we can see where you put your main attention and in the record we can learn more about the strategy and stuff. Great job!

hi can i have the guide to beat hera thanks

Daily content is great news! Also, keep these up! they give you the chance to play around with fog of war and give us a different insight on how you plan strategies.

Thanks a lot Hera, this is golden content for a player like me. Kind of feel bad for the players you rekt for this series but it has to be this level for the purpose of the series as the probable opponent quality and what's one loss anyway.

Great series bro really lapping this up!

Love these tutorials! #roadto1300

Hi Hera. Love the videos, especially this series, really informative. One question though. I see on this video, and also on the video where you played Viper and lost (Paladins vid I think), you built a forward monastry. Why? Why not build it at the back of your base and make it harder for your opponent to destroy it and then take the relics as Viper did?

Thanks dir the great content

Great videos Hera! Some small feedback: I like the recording, as long it remains focused on your perspective. For me, the main draw of your videos is "How do I decide what to do at different points of the game?". Crucial for that is that you can only base those decisions on information you actually have. For example, at 4:10 you discuss your opponent's map, before having actually scouted it at that point. If your opponent's map would have influenced your decision to go men at arms instead of scouts, you would adapt your build, starting with 4 on wood instead of 3 (or at least that's how I learned it, looking forward to your men at arms vid!). You would only do this though if you had actually scouted his map. This didn't really matter in this video, I'm just pointing out that not being an all-knowing game commentator is what mainly differentiates your videos for me :)

I see this video and like. Then watch it

Useful content!

really enjoying these videos man, thanks for showing your skills!

Another superb video! Really appreciate the content! Keep it up!

Nice Content... and now daily.. POG Thanks to your vids i made so much progresses. Hope to reach 1.8K soon at the Moment i'm at 1768!

High quality content

So good tips!

Simply great stuff! Fingers crossed that I will feature in next episode 1750 rating :D

At 16:51 you make a little mistake by killing two sheeps. But how do you normally prevent this from happening? Do you manually assign them to one sheep or is there a logic game mechanic?

I do like rec analysisesisesises. Live games capture "in the moment" type of thinking, whereas recs are better for demonstrating a bird's eye perspective of what is happening.

I'm loving these guides and the insight that comes out of them. Thank you Hera.

So.....there's not enough mistakes from your opponents to talk about, then you make up some by your own. Good guy Hera.

A pro-am, what a great idea. So is Daut your noob?

Good work man! Was interesting how you didnt react to the sheep, just keep gathering under tc.

I really liked your idea of the 15 video uploads.

Eres un lindo :') , gracias por explicar tan bien

Good job Hera, great series of videos, much appreciated!

Both great announcements!

really like the new announcements. i feel like i need to get a computer again and start AOE'ing

Hera you are doing something unique here! you are combining excellent casting with solid professional tutorials. I used to watch T90 channels most of the time but I find myself these days watching your content more because first you upload regularly and you provide in-depth tutorials. The only thing your channels is missing now is more subscribers who will probably join if they knew that your channel exists. So I advice you to go to viper and T90 channels and make comments in their posts about your channel to get more subscribers because you deserve it. Finally, thank you and keep up the good work

very nice idea to do a video each day. But could you in the end of a game saying what your opponent should have done to win? For example where the first opponent should have put his towers to pressure you more

Sounds great 👌👋

When is stone walling advisable? I have seen pro players only palisade wall majority of the time. In what scenario is stone walling more beneficial in terms of expected payoff minus the time and resource invested ?

One guide a day , what a god damn treat. Also I hope this event isn't a one time thing and is recurring again in the future! I don't even feel ready to qualify as a beginner, but i'm sure down the line i'd love to join to get a better feel at becoming better at the game!

Wow, already 83 comments on a video from a channel that just has been started. Congrats, hera! And I really like the idea of the 15 videos

I actually like the recorded games more, cause it gives you more time to explain stuff and since you know whats gonna happen, you can prepare the situations

I just did as you showed here and it worked perfectly. 6 towers in my base, denying a woodline and 200 food left on berries. I klicked up wit decent eco, and then my game crashed -.- pauito, in case you see this: i would have owned you..

Hello hera! i’m always in your stream, always nice to see you playing! Just an ideia, in the first game of this episode u could have used his point of view and analise his mistakes.

If anyone knows LS from League, he would call Tower rushing a ''sinning'' strategy.

Late comer from your new series. Many pros do analysis on lower level players and tell them what mistakes they made. Apart from pure mechanical ones, what separate noob and pro is the mindset. And you did a great job not just showing how well you play, but more importantly how you think and prioritize tasks, which I think is lacking for most normal players. Thanks for the series

Sorry for the question on the oldish video, but what would you do in the case of a tower hitting a really painful spot on your map? Like if you don't have the best map and get towered on a hill hitting both of your forward golds? Especially in builds when they follow up the tower with forward m@a it feels so crippling if they can get their first 1-2 towers up. Love the guides man you're a huge help crossing that gap from casual into trying to get better!

Even though it is before De, that is some high quality educational content! Thank you Hera!

Like this guide Hera, just faced a tower rush at lower level, and was easy to defend. I actually watched the video afterwards but still useful for the next tower rush I face!

Great video Hera, thanks

Hera do you shop for Adidas? You should use Wikibuy.

Dear Hera, I openly challenge you to a friendly 1v1 and intend to roll you a bit. Best regards.

I would have liked to hear how to react to the TRush if the towers are actually placed well and pose a real threat? But very helpful video though =)

3 years later I am seeing this for the first time, I love your honesty on your mistakes and the enemies as well as the strengths for both

i kinda thought i was watching at 1.5x but he's just talking quick

It would probably take a year of solid play to understand the pros and cons of each civ.

Yaaaa i have been waiting for this xD

The rec analysis every 5 episodes is perfect.

yeah, but what if he places the towers near your TC

How to defend a tower rush: enemy doesnt know how to tower rush

What do I do against man at arms plus towers.

i m at 12+ , actually so many opponent use maa + tower , i really need this video , help me alot. thankyou 👍👍

Any reason to play this instead of DE?

Love the idea of a guide a day, but please don't burn out to just get there :)

How are there only 7k views of this video?? This is a brilliant series. Thank you.

i like ur vids *thumbs up emoji

what I don't get is why the opponent headed back out again at 5:25. He could've easily huddled the woodline at the inside of the house, walled the vills in, built the tower, and then built the next tower in range of your berries. This seemed like a very bad trush. Also your map was very favourable. I can easily imagine how someone would try to apply what you've shown here, but then just get blown out by someone making better tower locations against a worse map. Not that it's your fault mind, you don't preselect the mapgens exactly (dunno about the opponents).

I am really loving this content. I always very liked your playstyle in tournaments and only found out very late you made this high quality content on YT (from Spirit, if you ever need the feedback). This is gold, thank you!

Smooth games! If you do double-kill sheep by mistake like in the 2nd game, isn't it better to take both? You'll get 80 extra food compared to leaving one to completely rot out.

Hera, if somente makes a Tower behind your lumber Camp what should be the reaction?

I like these reviews. Your knowledge of what is about to happen gives a clear reason for choices you make. I dig it. I like you doing multiple ways of teaching. I still want you to do a video with Spirit of the Law. I love his analytical breakdowns of the mechanics of the game and I believe the two of you can sort through some of the mechanics verses practicality.

Ive been watching this series lately and its fot some great advice. Thank you! I had a question on this one - you guessed correctly that a man at arms rush was coming. Why didnt you wall your base completely? Wouldnt that have been safer when defending? Or is there another advantage of not doing that?

Love the content man, keep it up! (Also love watching the higher level POV games) would be great to see some monk play videos describing what techs you get and when/why.

How will you choose beginner players and what makes them beginners?

Hi Hera, would love a DE version of this, with shift clicking, and being able to easily see your macro/queues

Thanks for the guide, Hera. I like the rec analysis more because you can talk more about your thought process

This helps a lot man! Thanks. I have been struggling with man at arm rush the last couple of days after relying to much on fast castle

Damn son, that tournament game would be super intimidating but the reward would be dope.

im fucken pumped.

This has been a great video even though DE has been out for a while :) thanks Hera

im like number 111

Great videos!

The content is perfect as it is, some record game is needed, good job!

I bet that torunament was hilarious. Adopt me next one haha

Great idea

Boss!!!!!

This is such a great series, loving it :)

Keep these coming. Please

Awesome youtube plan

Hera quick question. Would it be worth it to upgrade to light cav once you hit castle since you still had 7-8 alive and also why or why not?

Hera this is awesome. The best aoe tutorial series on youtube my far in my opinion. Keep it up! Looking forward to the next episodes.

I have a question Hera. When I should do rams or mangonels to destroy the towers and what is the better option?

Thank you for the great content man!

Hi hera! How can i turn the ingame time on? Im playing in steam.

edit out the dead time this took way too long. you're good at aeo2 tho gj you are gr8

He is so good he doesn't even need his hands on the keyboard. I have much to learn

Hi Hera, You might want to consider playing all of your games vs 2k players. You should be able to describe a lot of the same things, while at the same time not having an opponent that titanics minute 15. Keep up the good work! JoRo

lol he quits w 120 to 130, almost even pop and even kd.. ok