SOTL vs 7 Extreme AI (but I have 256x mod) 

I fear not the man who has researched10,000 techs once, but I fear the man who has researched one tech 10,000 times. -Bruce Lee

Sire! We have learned the craft of fletching. Good. Learn it again.

at the end theres a whole goose attached to each arrow with all that fletching.

Turns out, fighting off an army in the feudal age isn't so bad when you arm your archers with M60's

"i only have two lumberjacks, we need to up those numbers a bit. i need at /least/ four" - me playing AOE2 at age seven

7:25 "and of course i walled out a villager" *villager casually walks back inside through the giant hole right next to the house

*enemies in the base, chaos everywhere, death and destruction reigns* _i think we can start thinking about castle age here pretty soon._

Imagine being a villager on the opposing team. Nothing happens for about 40 minutes and you're free to continue working until a horde of cavalry teleports to your home, razing it in seconds and killing you in one strike. SOTL just re-invented the Nazgul and all it took was a group of master blacksmiths and horse trainers.

I love how SotL is so calm while he's managing his economy, meanwhile there's a light perimeter of full-auto crossbowmen around his base staving off constant assaults from 7 different armies

Imagine being the poor sods who has to live in the houses whose sole purpose is to act as wall from the enemy lol, you wake up one morning to people hitting your window with swords

The 'this is fine' meme has never been as fitting.

You know a gamer when he types 'gg' to the AI.

"I don't think we are in Kansas anymore, Dr. Horse" - Trade Cart Guy probably, as fifteen thousand arrows tear the ground apart right behind him.

"If you have unlimited ammunition, it does not matter how accurate you are, only how fast you can shoot." - Sun Tzu - Maybe

SOTL's Light Cav: "Nothing personal kid" *Teleports behind all of red's villagers*

25:55 SOTL: "Attack those Longbows while outranging them!" Crossbow: "My lord, is that legal?" SOTL: "I will make it legal." *Spams Fletching*

Guy who constantly blowing the warning horn: Please kill me now!

Funny tip: Supplies will actually give you food everytime you create a milia when you have researched it a couple times

"What if we glue another feather on the arrows?" "Damn it Lee.... that's brilliant, where do you keep getting the idea to glue another feather on the arrow?" *Presents arrow with giant puff ball on the back*

"I'm surprised AI resigned so early"... You had 10x their score.

"Its almost like they're automatic crossbows... if only there was a name for chinese crossbows that fire like that"

I love the build path for this fight. opponent: Does anything Spirit of the Law: Better get fletching

If you research supplies you get food by making militia Also if you ring the townbell all your farmers wil drop off their food ;-)

The Inca hit you with the "My peasants only had a puny 25 HP." I think he might have been a little salty that you researched all that loom...

SotL: OMG wood only crossbows would be amazing on this Also SotL: Floats 6k gold while saying that

26:49, the UI is so aggressive that a random trade cart leads the charge

Longbows : Nooo you can't just outrange us! We are the best archers! SOTL : Haha! Crossbow go pew pew pew

Congrats, you've invented tower defense

"The AI's being super aggressive" It might be freaking out because you got Loom literally 3 times. I'd be super aggressive if I was against what is basically a god-empire in the making.

42:22 "Oh yeah! I forgot about relics" said every player ever. Seriously I always forget they are even a thing

Finally a certain silverboi would be able to beat 4 extreme AI after watching your video.

You should've went with Persian not only for the crazy high amount of cheap archers you could get, but for the perfect opportunity to say "Our arrows will blot out the sun!"

If Spiffing's video taught me anything, it's that in this mode if you don't have units firing across the length of the whole map, you don't have enough range upgrade yet.

FINALLY HE DID WHAT HE CONFIRMED IN THE BOAR VIDEO 1 on boar, 7 on sheep

20:20 haha phrases like "let's start getting SOME Thumb Ring"

''Stupid SoTL villagers and their mythril armour..."

Even with the mod the amount of thumb rings should be limited to two. After this it should just be possible to get finger rings.

Villager stabs Man-at-arms to death be like "You picked the wrong house fool!" 11:02

"I've the fever. And the only prescription....is more FLETCHING"

Something I learned recently: your trade carts can trade with an enemy market, even in 1vs 7. For the 256x cheat, if you spam the increase trade cart speed your carts and cogs zoom around the map, and generate thousands or millions of gold. Build something like 10-20 cart army, send it into and through the nemy base, and they'll auto route back to your market. With 10-20 at least one should make it. Oddly the resource that drags the most is food. Farmers don't gather faster, but also take longer between drop off if you spam handcart. Fishing ships on the other hand and provide a continuous income of food, with big boosts with food when the villagers finally drop of (or you strategically place town centers and ring the bell to force mass drop off).

Me 20 minutes into the game: hmm still a lot of defending, does he actually make it out Me 5 minutes later: still defensive, i think he's gonna lose... oh wait he's making cavalry 1 minute later: :0

Rival medieval kingdoms banding together to fend off an alien invasion: colorized, now in full 3D!

2:35 with 2 free looms with the starting 100 gold = 55 hp, 2/4 armor 3:00 no looms added, villager has 70 hp and 3/6 armor wtf?

SOTL is so nice that he even says "gg" to the AI

SOTL: I thinks so I'm gonna go with chinease, for there discount on bonuses! Japanese: I thought we were friends man! :'-(

"Going Above and Beyond" When a mod is so popular the devs decide to make it a part of the game itself. XD "Thou art human, with soul and wit. I am naught but clockwork!" Honestly, that resignation quote makes me feel bad for the AI. :,( Now that's entertainment. I hope it was as fun playing as it was fun for us watching. :)

The most broken strat is going for the market, trade carts go so fast and collect so much gold.

Richard Lionheart AI abdication: "Thou art human, with heart and wit. I am naught but clockwork! No wonder thou went victorous! I shall abdicate" Spirit's heart and wits spamming fletching in 256x mod

We Probably two minutes away. Exactly two minutes later: You are victorious

'Food is the problem' -Decides to spend every bit of food buildup on redundant techs buffing the things that are already godlike. -Decides to transition into the most food-heavy unit at his disposal.

>When your walking through a neighborhood full off sprinklers

I always like to imagine what the original designers would think if they saw this was how people play the game just before releasing the it back in 1999

Wait.... wait... Malay... Suppllies... I'm off to try something. [:EDIT:] Oh my god, what have I created. Supplies bugged. Militia line is bringing food. There is an issue with food. You produce military to gain food. My mind broke.

me: *enables cheat codes The AI im facing, literally one millisecond after the game started: "I R Winner"

26:22 lmao that villager trying to pull off some matrix shit, it always cracks me up when the ai does some insane micro dodging, but i think they need to fix that sometimes it gets very frustrating :(

39:40 Light cav literally outrunning arrows; the guy in the castle “wait that’s illegal”

The AI probably had dumbed soooo much resources into the armies to try and kill you early and couldn't understand why crossbows were surviving 40 onagers.

“Im gonna give myself one small advantage”.... i just can turn every one of my units into the offspring of Zeus and the Flash...

Imagine adding Obsidian Arrows times X to those Archers, just smoking castles across the map.

You make alarm sounds go as fast as a rock concert

"Their arrows blot out the sun." "Then we shall fight in the shade." Those Archers man and then the speed force cav to finish them off lol.

*Light cavs destroying Tc's in 5 seconds* "It's not Fair enought"

35:04 FLOATING AROUND AT THE SPEED OF SOUND GOT PLACES TO GO GOTTA FOLLOW MY RAINBOW

"Does he not have to stop and reload?" "He must have a reeeaaally long bracer or something."

"The only way to define your limits is by going beyond them"... Using cheat codes

Me, an intellect: *researchers Spies 256 times.

You show try this with Spanish and supremacy :D

34:26 "We only got 2 lumberjacks, we need to up that number at least 4."

Loving the plague of light cav locusts just ALL over the enemy bases haha!

Alternative title: How to zerg rush in AoE II

Just go inca, get loom a bunch in dark/feudal and rush their TC. Basically impervious villagers. Then later you can get infantry upgrades for attack and you'll have super soldiers.

The craziest thing with the official 256x mod is that when you get Supplies more than 4 times (militia cost -15 food), you start getting given food every time you make militia. No, I'm not joking.

It's nice to see that Cossacks are getting a medieval spin-off.

Aegis: Finally! A Worthy Opponent! Our Battle Will Be Legendary!

i got my ass handed to me recently when we were doing a 4v4 where we beat 3 out of 4 people and some guy beat all 4 of us by himself.

- So how many times have you researched *Fletching* again? - *Yes* -... And how many times for *Conscription* ? - *Ants* ! Ants everywhere. - But what is your goal? - *Yes.*

About lack of food. With “x256 wheelbarrow” farmers hold a huge amount of food without dropping it to nearest tc or mill.

25:54 "Heh, the longbows are like: 'Wait, you can't out-range us. That's illegal!'" LMAO

why didn't you go multiple town watch?, long range requires long sight

Really should have a stance for Villagers that's "if attacked retaliate, if idle attack nearby enemies"

I'll never forgive the developers for not naming the cheat code "to 256 and beyond"

This man plays at the speed of the AI itself, so it's like an AI with the mod vs 7 others without 😂 superb gameplay 🔥👌🏼

20 minutes in, light cav *teleports through entire map* : Nothing personal, kid *proceeds to destroy 3 castles with one hit*

You know, I was trying to fall asleep to this. But thinking back on it--- it's moments like 39:00 that made it impossible.

You should try sapper villagers with high speed. They're scary when you get them high enough as they just one hit most if not all buildings, for very little overall cost per unit.

17:03 "I should gather stone for once and future town centers" I see what you did there.

"Was thinking about which civs..." Japanese + supplies. Spirit: *picks chinese*. Who are you...

"Good workout of your working memory to refresh your lumber camps..." SOTL have you read Peter Carruthers' work on his theory of the mind?

YES!!! I've been waiting for a crazy concept like this! Hype!!!

So I have found something truly amazing. as Malians, you can get Tigui multiple times, each time adding +5 attacks. The net result is short range budget castles armed with miniguns.

Spirit of the law chatting "gg" to the IA is simply epic ❤️🤣

Trivia time: Heavy Cav Archer is another unit line tech that reduces the creation time. I thought that Eagle Warrior was another tech like that, but in that case the change in creation time happens automatically when you advance to the Castle Age. This is probably a holdover from the days when you couldn't produce Eagles at all in Feudal...

Great dedication to make subtitles for the whole video, instead of using a speech to text. Great video 👍

27:03 that female vil is a legend

I discovered that militia start costing negative food after doing supplies more than 4 times. You can run your whole food economy on training militia. It is also free for slavs.

This video sums up the history of the balkans rather well...

SoTL lets get a castle, me you mean u waited this long before getting one?! Outrageous. I am watching this twice just 4 the crazy arrows.

Chinese crossbowman fitted with the finest bows made by joergsprave

Conscription is a super important tech, because it makes research times faster for EVERY military building, including the Castle.

I lost it at "you know what we need? 15 conscriptions"😅