Practical Counter To Forward Castle On Arena | AoE2 

"Practical Counter To Forward Castle On Arena" = having the most unbreakable defense in the world 🤣

I think expanding out is so important when you're under pressure like this. I see so many people back themselves into a corner when they get castle dropped.

Watching this is like watching a totally different game. I would’ve resigned after the second or third castle drop for sure. Your true skill lies in your ability to build a fire from your ashes

I've watched nearly all your stuff, one of the best come backs i think i've ever seen - Incredible Way To Stick It out for the Win !

I think mr. Yo played admirably in this series, Hera has been pretty unstoppable but Yo came up with some really interesting and unexpected strategies that made it quite a challenge.

second career for Hera as a caster incomming xD

Amazing game. Remember watching it live at NAC. What a start to the series :) I think Yo's biggest "mistake" if you can call it that was actually not converting your siege workshop right after the stable. You were struggling for wood a lot at this moment in the game and I think this would have increased the presssure a lot more than the castle on the bottom side. Rebuilding the siege workshop is basically 1 less BBC then and potentially later. In hindsight it's obviously easy to say. Looking forward to the HC games.

Damn man, this is definitely one for the books. Thanks for the highlight. Your narration and tone of confidence gave away the ending, but regardless it was still a really good one. GG

Omfg Hera, you can't do this! This is not a video title one can easily pass up on and not watch. Sleep? Or watch? Sleep? Or watch? I blame Hera for my struggles, and he deserves it..

Such a good game! Gj staying cool. I love how you are both threatening to kill the other one at the same time

Love you Hera! Thank you for the content

Awesome vid sharing your mindset of this match

Watching this live was awesome. You taught me to never give up, that's how I won a game yesterday after getting pressured the whole game :)

Awesome battle. Love this format bro keen to see more play-by-play

This game is one of a kind. One of the best games Ive seen

Impresionante!! Genio! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Nice work!

This game was amazing, it blowed my mind 👏 As arena is my favorite map, do you consider playing it more often? IMO, and think you start to agree, arena can be a lot of fun to play (watch) and involves out of the box strategies, mental guessing (openings). Keep them coming and congrats again 🐐🏆👏

21:08 this is like the olden times😂

Dude that is sick

I really liked the video, but how about the arena you played against Tatoh!! that was insane!!

It was moments like this that Mr. Yo gained a fan and I also was pumped to watch Nac5 streams.

Nice Game Hera. I think outbooming is a pretty usefull strategy, because most of the time u can hold quite well with little effort in the ages before post imp. greetings Butcher

Turks do have redemption. They don't have block printing, illumination, or herbal medicine.

That defense was incredible but conversions for Yo were really rough

9:35 That's really good insight, I only thought that it would be really hard to find value with light cav against so many organ guns already on the field. Seemed already too late to go into it at that point.

I've seen this Match 3 times and still believe (YO) DELEATING Stable was a mistake.

That's always a smart play if he's pushing for Your Base push for his base instead of going to defend

This game was the best arena game I've ever seen

He would have definitely won if he went cavalier+monk once he lost his 2 castles inside your base. The organs+monk felt pretty useless once you got BBCs and Hussars.

Great content! can you make video for how to counter tuks imp push?

that was awesome to watch, it shows me that i tap out at times too early

unreal comeback

I watched this live, i could not believe that you could defend from this, amazing match.

Next time a Masters of Arena tournament happens, you better be in there, no excuses 1111

Incredibly well played.

organ gun nerf actually changed the interaction with armored units. Hussars especially turk hussars actually tank quite a bit

If I see a castle drop in my face like that, I’m resigning

Crazy how much value you got out of those 3-5 bombard cannons

I couldn´t believed that you took away Yo´s game, gratz on NAC5 and the streak

That is one of the best games I've seen, at least how it feels right now.

I took the build order of that game from yo for my arena games. I felt it would be so strong at 1300 elo. It didn't disapoint.

Your opponent doesn't have a heart of a fighter. It could be a really nice battle to see but he resigns. Although, very nice resistance by you Hera, mabrouk

If you were Mayans, britons, or any non-redemption civ with no bbc, how would you counter this? Thanks

Mic quality sounds good

good lord i would have tapped out SO quickly lol

Cast your arena against tatoh. That game was sick.

How do you counter forward castle when both your golds are in the front and pressured by said castle?

My man, there's a lot you can teach undoubtedly but this game, this game was pure skill from your side. I feel like deep down you just know that you are better overall and that does not let you accept how bad your current situation is in these kind of games, well played like always ~

Not that you didn’t defend like a beast, but watching it live, it felt like Yo was unlucky with some conversion that I thought he should have gotten. Those little dudes pushing your cannons were loyal AF.

What do you do when you do not have cannons? And why did Yo not build cannons?

I remember you put a match vs. Viper where he did Organ guns vs. you pre nerf (you were playing Burgundians) You ended up losing the game because you never tried taking the opportunity to run some vils outside of your initial walls. I put a comment talking about enemy unit vision and how (assuming he didn't make outposts) you would have been able to abuse his slow movespeed to make a comeback. You actually read and liked it! While watching this NACV live, I thought back to that game and got insanely hyped watching you implement lessons you learned from old games WHERE VIEWERS WERE GIVING FEEDBACK This is why you're the GOAT and why you'll be my favorite AoE2 pro until the end of time. Humility, passion, perseverance, and the ability to not let the potential of optimal enemy play stop you from making your own opportunities (Yo could've saved the monks if he stopped shooting your walls ~ 16:05 ) Translating lessons from your AoE gameplay over the last few months helped me hit Diamond for the first time in LoL with the highest winrate I've ever had. Go Hera!!!!

Incredible game

I'm surprised Yo attempted that strategy given that organ guns have been nerfed into the ground, they die so hard to mangonels now. Definitely got some undeserved elo using that strat on arena before it got nerfed, it was way too strong.

incredible game

Sos una bestia hera

Turks have redemption monks. But gg hera. Keep it up

Incredible game Hera are you robot or something ????

what if u make towers + mango vs port organgs?

You never had stone to get a castle and artillery, Yo could have gotten his own bombards with siege engineers to outrange yours. Turks get redemption and atonement! You can mouse over the flag in the top corner to see your tech tree or download a mod to have the techtree show up in the area where you see unit lifebars. Can't wait for the review of your Aztec game on Arena vs Tatoh, the most amazing game I've ever seen, you micro the monks like the old AI from AoC that would hit and run with 20 archers at the same time.

I like it 😊

'Let me speed this up to Texas speed' That's what I heard. Love the videos. Post GL team games

Beautiful game ngl

big daddy counters forward castle every time

You didn't mentioned how he was pop capped for so long because of the faetoria spam + you knocking down his castles. He cannot make more monks or organ guns to push you back

Is it possible to convert a petard without redemption?

how do i get these maps? I also have definitive edition 2

Why Yo didn't use light cav with organ guns?

This game was absolutely insane. After the third castle dropped I was absolutely certain there was no coming back from this. Even the casters sounded like this game is over, even though you are trying everything to turn it. By far the best arena game I have seen so far. I hate that map btw.

1430 Elo on Xbox thank god you posted this people try castle drop every time

Isn't Turks pretty much the best civ to defend a castle drop with, alongside maybe byzantines?

Practical counter = be better.

I must be a total noob but wouldnt pikes defending the monks or running down both cannon/hussar be viable? Am i missing something 11 ? A handful of pikes would have wiped your hussars. Great game as always hera

I think a 20 min fast imp wpuld be better. But yea u cant see the future. am i right?

You are so insane at defending, and stalling.

I thought when you picked turks you go for your famous fast imp bbc hc. Was surprised you didn't.

in this game there were like at least 5 moments that normal people resign, but hera..

Sometimes my move is to just resign. Not because i can't defend or win, but because i just get bored being castle dropped so many times and the elo isn't really worth it.

Why didnt he switched into Cavalery after the 2nd or 3rd castle? Knights counter everything you had plus kills vils.

No one other than you in the world could have won this game !

Could you do anything in this situation with Armenians?

me as a 1000 elo: ultra instinct is to build rams. and then delete your own wall all at once. RAMS!!!

I will copy the portugiese strat. Thx

hello,Hera.Would you want to play a 4v1 against me and 3 of my friends(we are beginners)? we can play on any map with any civilizations.

Feel like no one can do it with any other civ lol, free chemistry + hussar is so crucial here

how 😂

i think if yo had a lil bit more defence in his base, 15+ more halbs or something, he wouldve won that one

I love castle dropping in team games with Bohemians 26+2 pop with an instant castle built where u want it as you hit castle while also instantly adding a TC and you can steady produce wagons while adding eco with 2 tc eventually adding the 3rd and 4th all while steady pushing and still pretty much booming into Imp making bombard cannons killing all siege after push flattens out and adding spears with Houfnice and some more castles. I’d love to see a pro do it there’s a really sick build order to be done while maintains military and eco.

isn't there a NAC5 game that was super similar?

A counter when you are not turks would be great to see!

Half of the time Jo castles were attacking buildings instead of units. 16:06 he lost like 5 monks to 3 low hp hussars, while the hussars were under 2 castles.

I would've resigned 5 times in this situation

what about going scouts earlier, and not letting the villagers leave the base?

How to counter a forward castle. Trebs.

The biggest mistake Yo does here is the placement of his second castle. He needs to place it next to Hera's second gate so he can't escape. Without the space to farm outside, Hera has am even harder defense and I don't see him coming back then.

great video but really hate when casters talk about 'broken' units when they are just normal counters. This game would be awful if everything were just the same effectiveness against everything else.

Title is misleading but super impressive game.

Why is "malay" one of the best civs on arena? Almost never see them on Arena at 1600 elo and if i do they kinda always lose :P

I wasn’t watching - can you do it again?

Countering forward castle on arena... Easiest difficulty imho