How To Do The FASTEST Drush Possible In Aoe2 DE! 

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Jokes on you, my villagers already have the loom, because I forget to build the 3rd house.

What will happen ehen I try this build order : Militias chased by wolves, then run straight into TC. At home: housed every 5 vills, but that is ok, because there is not enough food to make vills, and also because hunter died to boar to make room for the new vill.

T90: noooo you can't cut straggler trees it's so inefficient, build a lumber camp instead! Hera: ahahah villagers go chop choooop

I can rush in 1 minute. Send all my starting villagers and my scout to murder enemy villagers while my TC researches loom.

Man the good ole days of AoE2. Played this when it came out in 1999 and for a long time afterwards. Great great game.

Dude, I can't even talk that quick. Really impressive tutorial, thx!

Keep up the amazing videos, great quality and very instructional. I can definitely see this channel with 100K subs in no time

Damn kind of bossed up quick when u got to feudal w the double range drop . Impressive build

That's impressive that you found this build already. This seems like a strategy that can either put you behind or snowball the game out of control for you. But damn, I don't think I would be able to do damage with the drush while managing my early game eco at the same time. But, I can't wait to see this in pro games.

Saw you casting on NAC3. Great content. Subbed!

Thanks for the video Hera. A tip for making/titling videos though - When your video is titled something, you shouldn't have the first 2 minutes of the video talking about a civ which is totally unrelated. Good luck with your channel. Looking forward to watching your games

It looks like you've managed to match your speed of talking to your speed of clicking things in this game. I suggest to watch this in 0,75x speed, I like how you say "enough talking" at 2:26, but ofc you'll continue to talk and explain the BO. Awesome video bro!

looks good! gonna force players to think differently, good little meta shake up

Great content! Now, what do you think about a Drush in regicide? Would it work just like this one?

Thanks for the guide. Very impressive. I agree though with the comment mentioning your enunciation. There's no rush to get to the end of the sentence.

The thing about spending the resources for an early militia is that if you kill their villagers, it's basically like taking food away from them since they will have to blow more resources on making new ones. To do it so early in the game means you have the advantage of only having to deal with an undeveloped civ. And lastly, food is a huge thing early in the game compared to other resources. So many reasons to, at the very least, harass your opponent early.

I applied this a several times when I started playing online and if you can get good damage (800-1000 ELO) the opponent will reach feudal much later and you can follow with tower rush. A top playing will not delay much feudal time so that's much harder. As a ~900 ELO player myself I say it is really hard to not have idle TC.

Awesome build order thanks 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

this gonna be amazing with vitnamese ally

Imagine following the rush with forward towers.

@3:52 How do you have 11 pop at 2:15? Am i crazy, does "Normal -1.7" not indicate game speed? Mine says the same and even if I cheat infinite resources and hotkey the first villager as fast as humanly possible I cant hit 11 pop until 2:55-2:57. Did they tweak the game speeds in the last couple years?

Interesting, why not skip loom though? Isn't the whole point of loom to counter early aggression (provided that you don't mess up boar pulls due to lag). At the position you are at, I don't see how any early counter aggression can come your way any time soon.

In this new version game are animals like lions, zebras, komodo dragons ?

This build actually introduced me to Hera in the first place lol.

Can this work on extreme ai?

Ty Hera for that, I tried this, I managed to lose 2 vills to a boar, and then I killed the boar with TC while focusing on militia.

soooo I don't think you can do this anymore. right?

Thats insane!" So good.

I just used this in a 4v4 Arabia noob game and it worked perfectly. 2 militia drush w/ scout, keep em off berries and woodline, got like 3 or 4 vills easily before he killed my dudes. Followed up with an archer/pike push in feudal, which knocked out 3 stables, his BS, a few mining camps, countless enemy villagers and his tiny man at arms army. By castle he was completely done. I was lucky enough to get an outer wing/flank starting position. Also, I'm terrible and played horribly, so it would have been much better if I practiced the opening more/didn't suck. Also got pretty unlucky finding him just like in the vid, which wasted time. Either way 9/10 would recommend.

if i see right this doesnt work anymore?

Good stuff. I will try that online today. One question? Why you pro's put vills into the TC for some seconds sometimes?

should I do this build against Chinese/Mayans? Since they have loom....

When Hera is bringing in bore and it goes wrong, it is not because Hera has messes up, it is because the bore has messes up.

Persians can do also good early rush due to +50 wood and food.

How would i counter this?

How bout on extreme difficulty?

Great explanation and demonstration of the drush with my native civ :) One unrelated question, though. I am currently learning AOE2:DE and among other things, I am trying to rise my APM and be very proficient with hotkeys. I notice you clicking the on the town center then clicking on the Advance to Feudal Age button instead of just pressing the Z hotkey. Is there a reason for that? I would really like to know.

An early loom could counter this right? But I suppose that’s still damage done since it’s not ideal to take loom very early?

youre sick ! thanks for the video

Thank you hera!

i hope you keep doing videos :)

I would try this, but one of two things would happen. 1. Vil dies to boar while microing MAA 2. MAA die to vils and scout or TC while microing boat lure

Amazing!

what if you do not find the enemy in time though? will not this be an waste?

I am glad I'm not the only tatar main

Hey i have A question. What Version of windows is in minimal requirements to install aoe2 de i have windows 7 32bit and wanna make sure of game will work on win7 or not?

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i just got drushed, and needed to know the source of that information. Not suprised it came from here

Jeez...this build order looks extremely hard, even with your APM it’s still hard to catching up everything.

Cumans: Get a unique build Lithuanians: Get two unique builds Bulgarians: Get a unique build Tatars: Gets so overshadowed by the other new civs that they don't even get a mention on their own video

In my online games drush only works against lower level players, other people either house wall their lumber camp or relocate their villagers to a safer woodline, which waste a little bit of time, but at least worth a try. Stealing the boar is much more annoying for the enemy in the dark age.

standard difficulty..?

Quality content! Next part: try this in an online game.

Looks so good without the small trees.

Whilst I think this , unless perhaps followed up with towers wouldn't be sufficient to damage another pro player besides forcing a little bit of idle time , its still pretty crazy. It's definitely alot of work and its debateable if its worth pulling , but nonetheless pretty amazing. Love to see what people come up with

AOE2 is the reason I keep living.

I had to make sure my video playback is on 1.0x speed... Damn!

hmmm Viper beat you Hera, I saw the cast last week due to corona and having so much time :) Im just wondering if Viper has a youtube cast...?? trolling :)

If I ever get to play this I'll use rush strats because otherwise games take forever. Thx lol

How can you be so fast and precise with your mouse?!

Is this build order viable in competitive games?

Good luck in the show match vs Daut!

Drush mania! yass!!

Is there a tutorial from surviving the first rush? i always die already then...

I've never seen anyone click so fast!!

Why is his militia standing around and letting the enemy chop at the wood line

Is it possible to speak as fast as you without mumbling? Impressing gameplay btw!

I see why T90offical talks a lot about Hera now lol

The fixed cost of barracks kind of make me think it is better to just go with 3 or 4 man of arms and see what happens to distribute fixed costs over more units therefore not making 2 units so expensive . In the end of the day we have to distrurb opponents economical development more than it costs us to produce those units.

Wow, that will be insane meta

"Dark Humour" Easter Egg.

Hehe, jokes on you I play Chinese and first thing I do after getting food going is I grab loom

I'm kind disappointed.. I wanted to try this build but they changed the food you start with from 350 to 200 so now you can not do it anymore :( Feelsbadman

Damn your microphone is next level ..

Hey guys noob question here: why would you want to garrison the peasants and then move them out the next momet?

How can i to activate the watch???, Help Plz

Remember when AI used to go Feudal at 4 mins. Aaah good ol' days

in aoe1 de i did this but made 4 axemen and killed him instantly

I'm sure creative strats will emerge with time

How viable is this against people instead of AI's though? I imagine a person would get loom unlike the AI

Slavs is faster. Barracks acts as pop space, but you'll have idle tc time unless you build only one militia instead of two

i'll have to watch this at 0.5 speed

I just need to lame you to counter this build lol

Your game play give me a head ack. I am playing age of empires since i was 15 year old now i am 35 and still play it to relex my self not to not increase my blood pressure

I had to set the speed of this video to 0.75 in order to keep up with everything here

drush stands for?

how unfortunate that the +150 food were nerfed away, watching this in 2024

The Tatters? The Tit for tat-ers? Try Ta -tars, thats the pronunciation :)

i feel u could add a 3rd militia by minute 5-6 too

This is not Broken at all

Goth new loom at the start and cheap militia rekts this strat

Drush Frush Crush Irush? No, imperial age is a single rush!

One wolf and gg.

Liths do get xbow, it's the Bulgarians who don't

I can't play it my computer isn't that good lol so voobly here I come

Hera in 2022: pre mill dark rush useless

Ta-Tars

someone should shout out this channel

It's either "ta-TAAR" or "TAA-tuh"