Mass Longbows in High Level AoE2 Game! 

Wow you're an Archer you finally came to where you belong

But he lost, the archers got wiped by the eagles.

@@AllahDoesNotExist don't read the comments if you don't want spoilers genius

@@FirstNameLastName-tx6td He is spoiling the afterlife smh

@@AllahDoesNotExist what you expect from the comments section to a video?? Just watch the bloody thing first instead of trying to be an early boii and write "first" or whatever you were here in the comments section for ahead of watching the vid.

@@FirstNameLastName-tx6td Maybe he's upset because he never saw a Sean Bean movie before? 11

@@AllahDoesNotExist Islam not a race.

that was my favorite part of the vid ngl... great battle and all but that was something i've never seen and was very helpful and dope af

@@noahthomas4341 why would you lie? Gosh that expression is a stupid one.

Mee too. Great!

Is there a mod for that?

That means the best russian player is on the international space station.

@@davidmowbray4230 Or was abducted by aliens

@@artamutt5485 hmmmmmm 😨

this made my day

I was thinking the same thing ! Wall your eco damn it !

Walling his opponent in was just plain bravado and was quite foolish. If he had done those double walls to split the map instead, he would have been so much better off.

@@jako0981 While I agree overall, I don't think his idea was to actually wall in his opponent, as anyone can easily bust through a single layer of wall like that. I think it was more to create natural choke points, and even if Vinch got through the wall it would be a small opening that would funnel his units and make it easier to defend with the longbows - sort of like on Black Forest where it's just nature doing most of the chokes. I think his two main "throws" if you can call it that, was that his main eco was so exposed, he didn't pluck holes and he didn't station troops before the very late game, he just let the eagles run in freely and paid for it every single time - I guess he was too focused on his own main push. Secondly, after denying Vinch all those resources in the beginning, Metal didn't do much in order to further deny resources despite having the long range units on hold for quite the majority of the game. As T90 said at one point, he should position some longbows at key locations to either deny or harass Vinch's villagers on gold, stone, and various woodlines, but he didn't. He didn't starve Vinch, he just focused on the front line, which meant that Vinch could keep falling back and relocating while continuing the eagle raid spam without much consequence because Metal was so dead focused on that main push. He had one army, one front line the entire game, and I guess that's partly one of the difficulties of playing Britons at a high level. Eagles can just be sent in in small batches and you don't really need to be hard focused on them, and just 3-4 in the enemy eco can cause serious trouble, whereas the Longbows are only really effective in mass (at least in this matchup).

If he would have built stone walls... All easier said then done though in the heat of battle Plus this game plays at a crystal meth level fast pace ;p gg

Have to agree. He didn't get that relic at his base either. He also had a few problems with his micro while pushing. There were a number of times where he positioned his longbows under tower fire unnecessarily. And once he'd cleared out the east corner, he not only let his army waste time and lose momentum (chess players would say he lost a tempo), but he went the wrong way. Killing that castle wasn't going to gain him much. To make matters even worse he also chose to worst moment to split his longbows, so both groups got worn down by eagles and skirms.

I don't even play AOE and I can tell that 0:28 must have been embarrassing. So many valuable seconds wasted on a failed micro.

In fairness he walled and rewalled that hole a couple of times and eagles tore down houses multiple times. And I'm not sure his lead was that large.

@@legion2590 Housewalls and palisades aren't very good walls though starting castle age. There were plenty of cliffs and wood options to make a solid stonewall, he was just too lazy to do it. Wouldn't have costed that much and would have protected him against eagle raids.

Agreed, after the first break after the raid while vinch was trying to kill off metal's longbows, metal should have rewalled home. Especially when trying to wall vinch in, it's a fallback for if that fails

I wish i was an archer

6Twisted eh longbow raids could be easily cleaned up by like 2 eagles plus villagers get BS upgrades.

Also I think he created the light cav too late, should of created them earlier to raid and chase vills.

I gotta stop reading comments before i finish watching

Well i hoped not. Winchester was much better player!

I wanted to see a Briton win, britons vs meso is basically a guaranteed win for meso

@@tH4ttUs Except Metal won 11-10...... 49:09

​@@tH4ttUs I mean agree in this game he played better. But in the other games? I don't know about that and because of that I'm not gonna say who is the better player.

You're a Meso Civ

@@alexandrehubert1791 What a stupid reply, it doesn't make any sense. RU-vid .....

one of the biggest game changers I've seen in a long time. The timing was impeccable. Metal was about to go for champions (which would have probably put the final nail into the coffin) but due to the raid he could no longer afford the upgrades and was stuck with longswordmen for a very long time (he never actually got champion either)

britons can't have thumb ring precisely because it would break them. Thumb ring keeps their archers from being unbearable, it is an intentional balancing decision. but I think you realize since you admit you want them to be super OP xD and yes, Byzantines would be ridiculous with those upgrades since they focus so much on cheap trash and it'd make the cataphract overtuned

@@futbolluva Yeah, I know that the Longbowmen would be OP with Thumb Ring. I do kind of wish Byzantines at least got Bloodlines though, to help their Knights in Castle Age and make the Cataphracts a bit meatier in Post-Imp.

Or at least do both. He could have attempted the walling Vinch in and replace his defensive barriers to stop the raiding by Vinch. It was still impressive game.

Years! Castles took often 2-10 or even hundreds of years to build irl! Edit: imagine 1 villager irl spending his whole life (average 30 years?) back then to build a castle and it all being ruined by 1 trebby boi

Vinc Vinc well I checked it up online and it says it takes 2 to 10 years to build but I can imagine some of the more elaborate ones taking much longer

my headcanon of AoE is that any unit is actually a huge group so i guess sending hundreds of thousands of people could work

@@DuckieMcduck I find it funnier to imagine 4 villagers in someone's town building a castle with nobody being able to stop them

Well 30 years was the average....because only 2/10 children ever grew up. The child mortality rate was horrifying. If you got past being a kid, you were probably going to live a whole decent life unless you were carried away by small pocks or some other plague...As long as you didn't do anything stupid which broke your limbs. In which case you would be lame for the rest of your much shorter life. In short, there were plenty of elderly people back then. The idea that perfectly healthy people at 30 years of age would go, "Welp, time to climb into a casket." is rather silly. Although, castles often did take a long time to build because there was no mechanization. Even the cranes were powered by massive human run hamster wheels, which apparently were operated by blind people..since it was all they could really do work wise.

If it weren't for the HD re-release a few years ago, this wouldn't be a thing now.

@@johnroscoe2406 true. But i'm happy that youtubers cover the classics. 💜

@@darkomen3978 There's a lot of classics that aren't being covered sadly. The only ones really getting coverage are ones that are screwed over by "metagaming" and exclusive, "You don't belong" players.

To be honest, there are a lot of RU-vidrs who do mostly or even entirely old/classic gaming but RU-vid tends to not show them to people and as such, they get very few views which then ends up with them being shown to people even less. Usually, they either forever upload for nobody or they realize that not getting any views after years of effort is just pointless and give up.

@@fingusa Like diablo 2. I'd give anything to watch current year lets plays. Or a good RTS. It breaks this girls heart.

Whats the correct way? "If he had"?

@@ChicDead26 Yes. "If he had, then he would".

Funny enough.

He din. He say ' If you wood uh'.