Best Booming Civs in AoE2 

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This guy is math genius

Integration isn’t that hard. It is still cool tho :)

@@jppudlymcgowan8445 intergration isn't that hard once you learned it but mate, i haven't learn it yet

Nope, it's not cal2.It's just a small part of cal1 or some teacher teach that in high school

Calculus 2? We get this level of math in highschool

Based and monster-pilled

[Boomers dancing to "Tazer"]

No. It's a GREAT game.

Yup.

So say we all.

Ultimate boom is e=mc2 trooper ;)

so.......are you guys gonna do a collab?

The Ethiopian boom is quite good on Arena. No mining camp required with the extra gold. If you go FC and arrive in castle age, the full 500 bonus arrives before 15 Min. Spamming pikes bombard cannons and scorpions and it's an easy win.

Petards are great for booming. Lame joke, get out.

Stop Commenting on your own videos SoTl!!!

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Oh fuck. It's *the* Simo! What's your fave civ dude? Inb4 Berbers main

do you even play AOE? I thought you as more of a paradox guy.

@@DCdabest anything that can rush in feudal

@@nvmtt1403 aoe is my favorite rts of all time and the first game I played after my parents purchased my first pc as a 12yo

You should upload a game if you still play, I'm sure a lot of us would watch.

Boomer humour on a boomer video, nice!

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Sotl of the law

Damn, you beat me to it! :D

"Okay Boomers, Spirit of The Law here"

Same idk why I even watch this channel. But it's so relaxing

like the main reason people see Khmer as god-tier booming is because they typically boom into Khmer elephants, which are a sight to behold at lower levels.

Yes, u are right, considering u lose 2 trebs bye any advantage...

Aye, and there are plenty of intangible factors beyond raw resource advantage that determines a good booming civ. Those that can play defensively early on like the Koreans and Mayans suit a booming playstyle as well. The Huns bonus, of course, goes beyond wood saved because villagers that would be building houses are now doing other things with their valuable time.

@@Jovian999 I would guess that building time for villagers was already taken into account?

@@Jovian999 You're dead right - even an extremely conservative estimate would be worth approx 150 resources with the 7.5min extra collections.

Pretty sure he included it in the equation for the cost of the house because a house is only 25 Wood per house but he got 33 resources per house meaning he included the time taken to build the house in terms of the resources which the villager could have harvested in the meanwhile

yeah, he forgot about the cost of that tech, probably confused it with Turks thinking it is a civ bonus and not UT

Came to say the same thing 11

Came here to say this. -30% off their score.

@@Oxyggs You're right, in the long run it is definitely a solid boost, but as far as actually booming is concerned, it's not doing you any favours, since you're probably getting it around the time you've finished booming. So, for the purposes of this video, it won't help the Indians in that regard.

I don't agree zeroing in on very specific build orders that are used by only the top 0.1% of players is a better methodology, and I think it's obvious this is intended as a purely theoretical approach for entertainment.

@@SpiritOfTheLaw I have to strong agree with Quincun on this one. the methodology is fun to look at, but is honestly very misleading. And I don't think its just for the 0.1% of top players. At 1300 elo solo or 1800 team elo that I play at, the speed at which a player hits castle age and the timing makes a huge difference. For example, if your castle age is slow, and you get attacked before having defensive TC's to garrison in you might lose more villagers, causing a huge loss of resources. This is seen more often in lower elo's than in higher, so I think the "only top 0.1% does this matter" argument falls apart quite quickly.

@@connorbroderick7148 But that wasnt the question. The point of this video was not to find the best fast castle civ, but the civ that has the biggest advantage ressource wise in going for a full boom.

@@SpiritOfTheLaw I really disagree with you there. You dont have to be top 0.1% to notice you can click up without building blacksmith/market as Khmer. Im pretty sure a good chunk of the playerbase at least somewhat uses the mentioned earlier FC-timings. Probably not perfectly, but it doesnt take an elaborate buildorder to click up a bit earlier with britons and go 26+2 instead of 27+2.

@@ucallmeschnitzel Sure but the title says "best booming civs" and I would argue that the biggest resource advantage is not a reliable indicator on who has the best boom.

nobody plays arena, everyone plays forest nothing only, and thus, the best civ is celts, with better chopping + best compo

You can be "ready to make military" with completely different amounts of resources depending on what composition you're going for.

Slavs are the best arena civ from their farming speed bonus alone

@@nathangamble125 that is my point exactly. It doesn't make sense to go 140 vills with goths, but franks need that much and thus effective boom is different for both

@@catrielmarignaclionti4518 what about berry nothing or gold or stone nothing?

Yeah! The answer is always video games!

Or maybe better cut of point would be some collection rate so collection rate bonuses would be taken better in account but that is quite hard to balance.

Persians: not just for douching. I like what SOTL did better because if you're just booming past 25 minutes you're going to get curb stomped by the more aggressive player regardless of map

I agree. I think the measure of a good boom is which civ can pump out vills fastest. Granted, that kind of testing is a lot harder to do, because certain bonuses allow some civs to do different builds to get faster castle times and more TCs out earlier...

That's true and I was thinking about this along the video, I'm able to make 23 pop boom with Khmer (hunting deers luring with scout, of course), clicking up castle at 10:40. At 13:20 starting to build 2 TC, wood isn't an issue since you send 17 vills to wood after clicking up and make double bit axe. I compa red some recs with similar level players and that gives you vills advantage compared with other civs in every case.

I was thinking the same thing. Might have to experiment with that one on my own. It would only work on a few maps though. It would have to be a water map and fishing farms are so easy to raid with even a small navy. The Budapest map would work well. You would still have to chop a LOT of wood to make fishing ships and (long lasting) fish traps. Big masses of fishing ships also bump into each other more than farmers unless you built more docks, which is expensive… I bet you SOTL thought about this but it would depend on how many docks you want to build, how much wood is on the map. He was probably like, “Forget it! Just going to leave that question blank.” Ha ha… anyway, in my opinion, I think booming with fish traps would be slower than farming, but it’s hard to say for sure. What do you think?

@@jamesinciardi5099 @James Inciardi ive been maining malay for the last yearish. I havent noticed any difference of booming potential lost due to using fish traps vs farms. In fact, it might be even easier. Ive considered using fish traps for even other civilizations. As on a wood/food ratio fish traps are more efficient than any other farming method. Even compared to imperial age farms. As for the pathing, its not bad at all. As long as you dont have 3 traps side by side, and the traps themselves are at least 3 tiles away from the dock. Youll have no issues with ship pathing. I usually rely on berries, boars, and sheep until feudal age(19-25 vils). At that point i have 6-10 doing food, and the rest on wood, and about 2-3 fishing boats getting normal fish. Once i get feudal age, i get another 2 docks(if they fit) and pump out those ships, with almost all my vils going to wood, or building infrasrructuce. One or two on gold so i have enough for castle age. Get about 10ish fish traps and im progressing well. Idk if other peiple do this, but with the exception of the first 5 villegers(on food), i rally all newly created vils to the lumber gulags.

but you don't need gold and stone upgrades to boom, so wouldn't it only be 600 wood?

No Chinese either.

IF you get ALL upgrades. Does not happen often when booming til 25m mark bro.

I always feel like Viking when I'm using Mayans

Man I had the best game in a 4v4 pocket mayan game. Fc'd plumes 1 tc, lucky res with close deer etc, finished fully castle upgraded just as 6 of them found a hole. Never raided all 4 players hard in a game before (10+ vills killed per player before post imp). Only really poss because of mayan eco. I had to watch it back in rec game and numbered the original 6 raiding party to see if any made it till end. 1 did.

yeah Mayan eco easily among the best

If you have horse collar you gain 200 food instantly when seeding 8 farms around the folwark, 40 farms means 1k food so its on par with the teutons. It is much better than just 10% faster farming since you get it up front and you are encouraged to place farms better which gives better efficiency. On top of that you gain lots of gold from mining stone, 50% of the stone collected is gained as gold, easily 1k free gold on top of the already great farming bonus. That bonus is better than working 50% faster since you also gain 50% more resources from the stone tiles. Poles has the greatest eco bonus of all civs if they mine stone and uses the folwarks. Great for castle dropping in arena too since you dont need workers on gold to get to caste age, while you get stone for castle you get the gold for castle age+ some more.