Scout Rush Build Order With Visual Overlay 

The overlay is a great addition! Also, I will send 3 vils to wood now instead of 4, so hopefully my opponent won't be fully walled when I get there. Great video!

Looks good! The overlay really makes a difference for memorising and reference. Any chance of a video like this for a good general build order to use in most games? As a noob, that'd be the one I'd most appreciate :).

Yes definitely do more. Using that type of overlay is a fantastic idea for build order videos.

Another great Hera video idea!

Awesome work on this Hera! Would love to see you cover a m@a build and a drush build in the future, this is a great format.

No problem

Something need doing? Work work.

first is 6 to sheep, not 3 to sheep :)

@@huzandikaurinta4067 you start with 3 villagers. the first 3 vils out of the TC is what's listed :)

and what we do next ?

@@Megas_Alexandros survive

Thats great man, sometimes its those little things that can make or break a game

Sooner than you think!

Thanks! We def will

no problem!

Im thinking of doing that one next, not sure if i will extend it to castle age tho

Dude thats insane, and i almost didnt make it to nac3, the things i wouldve missed out on..

If you liked NAC3, I think you'll like hidden cup 2. Hera will participate and I think it's likely he'll surprise with a win

Awesome :)

masuuuu

Welcome bro, thanks will do!

Yes! Builds are really tight thesw days,and there is always a way to improve ur efficiency with them

As soon as you start researching feudal you move some villagers from sheep onto the new lumber camp and end up with a nice 5 + 5 split

Building the lumber camp with 1 vil is the most efficient way to do it. Then u said the other vils to it shortly after

What do you mean by going low on food? Its quite tight build order but you should be able to keep producing scouts non stop. Deer certainly helps, faster Castle time or quicker Upgrades on scouts, quicker Transition to ranges, but id prioritize scouting. At least find your starting resources. (It depends as always, but generally id say scout your base first) If your quick at scouting you can push deer and still scout your enemy in time. But dont over do the luring. Btw if you have trouble with food and cant keep making scouts, maybe skip horse collar. Biggest mistake is idle time. Try to optimize your boar timings and kill them right under the tc. If not timed perfectly better kill another sheep. Its better to waste some food than to have idle time.

For me it depends on what my opponent may do: if your opponent is going archers, I’d say scout them first so you can slow down their snowball by slowing down their wall off. If your opponent is going scouts you can push deer to get to upgrades quicker. But if your mongols I would suggest pushing your deer whenever you can to make use of their bonus.

Personally i wouldnt recommend luring deer till ur at least a top 100 player. Learn to scout and execute the build how it is. Luring deer will rarely win u the game,but scouting ur enemy's exposed ressources might!

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I wouldnt recommend 5 on berries unless you were lamed. Its actually best to keep as few on berries as possible to have them last longer. Just preamptively build farms with the foragers so they dont idle and you have a really smooth and constant food gathering. So gradually put foragers on farms. I know ive done a good job when i clicked up to Castle and still have one forager. If you do this you gonna be quicker to Castle age and need fewer farms to do so. What i often see is ppl having way too many farms because of not doing this and adding farms too slowly. Too many vills on farms leads to an unbalanced eco fyi.

@@ashmonkey2572 Thanks for your answer. But why would you take them away from berries before they run out? Don`t you want to use your free food source to delay the wood investement for farms? I`m not sure if the gathering rate for farms is so much higher that you`ll see a noticeable difference. The number of farmers in late feudal should be dependent to your transition in caslte age.

@@ashmonkey2572 For example Im fan of 5 on berries. The reason why is when your opponent plays aggresive and put preassure on your base and f.e. opponent builds a tower on your berries you gathered more food because of that 1 extra vill. It depends on a lot of things but for me I feel like 5 on berries usually pays off and when I know my opponent wont preassure me early I build early farms with them to keep the berries longer.

@@ageofnumbersyt8557 i think you misunderstood me you leave villagers on berries but remove them more and more and put them on farms as the berries are starting to run out. In the end you will have only one berry bush left and one villager on it. So you are using the free food but keep reducing vills to keep gathering efficient. Note that berries dont decay. Its a cleaner transition into farms as you have villagers constantly on food. If you dont do this you will have 4 idle villagers when the berries are finished. The amount of farmers usually is the same when you click up to castle. Wether it be scouts or archers youll end up with about 17 farms when you click up. With scouts you add farms earlier thats why you dont need more farms than if you go archers. After you clicked up to castle you set up your economy again as you dont need as many farms for xbows for example. Its the same you do after you click up to feudal. You put the vills on the res you need. Its just that you needed lots of food to click up. Remember it and watch the pros do it, especially Hera.

@@skullthronecz9723 its situational yes. But if you scout rush you want to prevent a tower on your berries because its so important. Without the berries making more scouts is hard. You can put 5 on berries, you can do whatever you want, but note that berries is slower than sheep or boar and that you wont see top players put more than 4 on berries.

Id recommend attacking way before that. However if u have alot of scouts(6+) id say pick up bloodlikes or armor. U can pick up both if u plan to continue making scouts instead of going castle age, which is a very valid strategy btw

@@HeraAgeofEmpires2 thank you! This helps a lot. I think my scout rushes are failing because I hit Feudal too late, or because I'm waiting to get too many (probably a mixture of both)

@@ShadowCrystallux usually 3 scouts on top of the starting one are enough to cause a ton of idle time, then you start considering if you wanna commit to feudal (in which case you can make more scouts then upgrades) or go castle.

@@afz902k interesting. I'll have to try it. I've been going for 6 scouts total as I find this number of scouts are fantastic for sniping villagers, but it's sub-optimal timing wise.

TY!

Yeah, because when Hera finishes the video, he hasn't food for the next village or for the next scout :(

Map control through mobility and scouting info. Id say the latter is biggest advantage of scouts. You can dictate the fights, where and when they will happen. But caution scouts are shit against walls. So dont over do them. If enemy is walled stop scout production.

Your mobility also makes it easier to surprise your enemy, and unlike archers scouts don’t need upgrades to be useful in castle age since they are perfectly fine at sniping monks. Scouts also transition well in knights, camels or mounted archers (since you need a stable to upgrade them.)

I think the biggest advantage is the good eco. All upgrades and a lot of farms really early.

You save walking time and instant drop off.

Muy importante. 60 wood ---> farm and dont touch the 10 vills in wood. Keep them there

Most likely next!