Stop Dying To Forward Castles!!! | AoE2 Coaching 

No. I'm gonna keep dying to them as much as I damn well please! You can't tell me what to do.

Something I love about Hera's commentary is that he feels like the only major voice in the scene who speaks directly about the "theory" of aoe2. It reminds me of chess players discussing theory.

This format is so good, keep up the great work Hera!

Probably the most common strategy I still lose too. Thanks for the info Hera

Damn Hera! Hitting hard with those analogies 😅

This kind of coaching content is really great and very inspiring, keep up the amazing work Hera!

I'm truly appreciative of these tip videos. I have seen quite a few of your videos on how to survive pushes like this. I now no longer have the same sense of dread when I see a castle pop up next to my base. It turns our castles go down pretty easy if you don't panic.

I think people click off once the game has ended but people need to listen to the advice at the end. Real solid advice and wrap up. Its amazing this stuff is free this day and age. No wonder the general "1000 elo" player today would crush the 1000 from 2019.

Love the coaching videos. Great content.

do more of this kind of videos. love it

And delete the farms,, which are in range to the castle. You lost another 12 villagers because of them alone..

"Our opponent is going the craziest castle, have some respect" 😅😅😅 thanks for the laugh

Great commentary, great advice and great dissection of flaws!

Thank you very much for this videos Hera. I've seen this mistakes i made for a long time and right now i feel that im improving because youre pointing them out and telling how to fix it.

Need this video so bad, thank you Hera!

I started playing aoe2 again after watching few of your videos and shorts, im addicted again 😅

Great content thanks Hera! This set of videos has me wanting to try Cumans.

Top tier coaching. I love the way you explain reasons and principles. Thanks for all your great content

Love these reviews Hera! They've been helping me a lot in my own games

Hera, Thanks a lot for these videos..your teaching style is lucid and easy to follow

Keep these vids coming - so insightful! I sent “don’t panic” caption to my buddies 😂

Your repair TC analogy was a good effort on the spot, sort of 😂 I thought more along the lines ...Its like using sticky tape to block a hole in a garden pool, just throw away the pool and get a new one 👍

Would love to see more of these! Keep going Hera

Enjoying these coaching sessions on RU-vid!

another great and useful rec review. Thank you, Hera and BotRichard

From 19.09 Hera sounds like an AAA vet giving the newbie advice on life lol

these reviews are great

Hera really went dark at the end. learned a lot

I wish I could Hera in game like this, would probably stop me from freaking out whenever I get attacked.

Great Video. I improved my react to castle drops by 200% only by watching it

these little things like tc repair costing 4x as much are really helpful to know as a beginner-intermediate player

Love these!

Appreciate the coaching uploads and shoutout to the gals

I came here to watch an AOE game and now I don't trust my doctor anymore.

Really good content, helpful advise

>Buy a rec review from Hera who tells them the biggest mistake is not making 12 farms immediately >Buys another rec review from Hera and still doesn't make the 12 farms You're just wasting money if you don't listen to the man.

Hi Hera! Love your content. Could you do a video of how to defend from a castle drop on an open map BUT with any other civ than Cumans? I keep having trouble defending without the Cuman two tc eco lead. Keep up the great work!

19:14 the word you are looking for is symptoms. you treat the symptoms but not the cause/root of the problem by repairing

Nice video Hera and thank you for the medical and philosophical wisdom lol!

We want coaching wednesdays back! 1111, excellent video! GGs

Just need this tutorial, thanks mate

Balance Andy here: Castle drop must be nerfed. Even if you argue it wouldn't be OP it is still to unlogical. Change HP of buildings under construction to (build percentage)^2. this way a 10%/30%/50%/70% built castle would only have 1%/9%/25%/49% hitpoints

coaching 1,2 k is very helpful!

Simple quwstion : how you could deal using cumans against a feudal rush of infantry from goth?

Is it four times the resources to repair a TC? I always thought it was twice the resources.

Daut in shambles

These videos are Free Elo! Give me more of that!

The thing about castles is that it works the same, irrespective of elo. No micro necessary. Hence, a castle is stupid overpowered at low elo while being balanced at high elo.

I love the jokes! Personally I prefer 'Let's talk about' videos, but just me 🙃

GOOD GAME

If I have that much food.. and being attacked.. I’ll hussar spam his eco, sell some of the food for gold

Hero for the win.

GREAT CONTENT

Suggestion: You vs. a random community member or Patreaon, but youz are not allowed to use hotkeys and have to play on a Laptop using the touch pad.

I hope Bot Richard takes coaching better then MBL

Did my guy send in multiple reqs with the same core mistake? Ooof

Bro lost like 20 vils by sending Villagers into Castle range farms. I don't know if he actually put gather point to castle range or other farms but it was insane. Probably even more costly than the resource he spent on repairing.

Hera, i kinda disagree with you, when he was castle droped, instead of booming, i would do 3 things, 1. CD my base so i can be safe, 2. go counter attack to do damage 3. go to imp as fast as possible and start trebbing the castle, especially with the fact that he had a significant vil lead. In this game, since he had 2k food i would buy and rush down the castle or monastary and siege/university and go imp first. then only after i could afford all these 3 things then i would add tc's and boom. I recall one game when i reached castle age earlier than my opponent and i had 30+ more vils than him, but he still won because castle arrows and trebs OP, and if you try to make army and break his forward, he will just make counter units and camp the castle, while trebing your entire base, in my case i made many knights as a counter to chukonus but he simply added some pikes and my attack failed, rams also don't work. since i lost that game i have been thinking how i could have won. Correct me if im wrong but i think imp is the only good option, spreading out and booming should be your last effort to stay alive. It also depends on how much the castle is close to your base, is it on a hill or not, that determines the level of danger you're in.

That forward castle killed 15 vills. Gotta delete those farms

Can someone please explain what mod I need to see my own Idol TC time? Thanks in advance.

This is a joke: "But Hera, if I'm not floating any res and I loose all my vills how am I going to pay for more vills?"

keep in mind they collected 650 Stone to built that castle, when u are still behind in economy or did not see it coming due to not having the map control with military lead u did things wrong before the forward castle happened

What is this map called ?

I don't die 'For' it, I die 'From' it, as you're thumbnail would suggest

i like dis

Im playing AOEII for last 24 years but i suck at game online ,,,,,,,,,,,,and AI is sooooo predictable

Dam, I need Hera coach me.

I don't play to castle drop cuz I don't play online 😂

I have another acronym for FC and the people that spam it; it's Fu---*This message has been deleted for profanity reasons*---

Why do you hate Israel? Saying we are killing innocent lives because we want to and not hearing the other side? I am an Israeli, I don’t want innocent people dying but I can’t return to my home because there are rockets. Israel does want peace and did offer the Palestinians a country in 2000 and 2005 so if the Palestinians just want peace why didn’t they take it?