The Legend Darkelf is STILL at it! 

Wait... Does Darkelf cycle through the various house models to get a specific pattern? The northwest line of houses are all made from the same model, the north east side too... And the south west line is a repeating pattern. This guy is an artist

T90 your age of empires job would not be berry forager. You would be manning an outpost and watching the battles.

I love this style, he just achieved the dream of every player, got all relics, had a wonder and the perfect base.

I like to think that darkelf screenshots the cities after victory or while playing when they reach certain standars and keep them all neatly organized in a folder and maybe look back at them from time to time.

I remember the first video on him and I love how he's still consistent in his way of playing after all these years. Truly a legend!

I remember when AOE 2 first came out introducing Female Villagers/Units for the first time It completely changed the way I played the game mainly because how I was raised. I used to Ctrl group my female Villagers and Garrison them if I was attacked. I also put female villagers on farms because it was less physical work. I miss being a kid I had a great Imagination and Role played every campaign mission for years...Now that I'm all grown up I find these videos and I wanted to thank T90 for posting these videos...takes me back to my childhood and reliving it was a pleasure thank you

I never could win multiplayer AOE2 back in the day, I just love making my city as pretty as possible. Including sparing certain trees to create pleasant parks and plazas. I've always wished roads were a buildable option...

DarkElf is my spirit animal. I mean his base is so beautiful, plus the wonder, castles on the corners... this is a work of art!

I'm curious how far up the ladder a pro could get if he has to use DarkElf's build order.

I played dark elf before your first video dropped. He beat my scout rush and by the time I got back to going after his base he already had his 4 castles up and yes he did get a wonder up before he beat me.

Would love to hear DarkElf mind out loud when he plays just how and why he/ she is making their decisions

Love Darkelfs unconventional conventional approach. Breaks the mold, it is after all a game based in history so its only right to RP into the times! The ladies should be protected at all costs - W

T90- You need to do DarkElf a favor and create a mod that changes the TownCenter to have a grassy floor.

The base reaches the popcap.. This guy is a proper legend. He does what I tried to do twenty years ago as a kid but in ranked!

This is my favorite low elo legend by far. Long live Dark Elf!

His play style is so wholesome. I love it! Reminds me of when I used to do this as a kid. We all did! Haha

I'd like to see wonders work in ranked. It could add needed change up the arena meta.

Do you think he has only one Town Centenr because forcing gender specific jobs from multiple town centers would be unmanageable? Imagine this guy with 3 TC's.

Dark Elf should make scenarios, just imagine how satisfying they'd feel.

Drinking game: take a shot every time T90 says DarkElf

I was slightly bothered by him researching champion, gambesons, supplies and not making a single militia line unit… but then at minute like 50 he queued a million champions and made my day

T90 you are flawless and make Zero mistakes! Also you were right, according to Merriam-Webster dictionary, you pronounced composite correctly

I'm so happy to see Dark Elf again and be loyal to his gameplay style! I used to do like him and separate the villagers' jobs according to medieval gender roles when I started playing 1999 at 12 years old! I continued to do this at least into my early teens just for the historical accuracy sake. AoE2 made me even more interested in history than I was before and it might have led me later to become an History major at university. I hope we will see some more Dark Elf games in the future, I just adore those simcity players! AoE 2 is one of the best games out there for that and I'm a sucker for beautiful cities/bases. I used to make beautiful bases in Command and Conquer 2: Tiberian Sun as well with themed industrial districts separated by walls and gates with pavement everywhere. It was a lot of fun! As for what job you would do in the medieval era, there is another reason why you would probably not become a hunter. In those times, the woods belonged to the aristocracy and game was reserved from them. Hunting these was considered poaching and the penalty was the death penalty! :) If I had a choose a job to do in that era, I would have loved to be an artisan. I'm fascinated by blacksmithing, so I would love to do that or maybe even a more specialized job like armorsmith. Of course, I would love to be a mounted man-at-arm if I could, but this isn't a very realistic prospect, isn't it? :D

The way he pre-calculated the offset needed for those houses at the south-west is quite impressive IMO, given everything else he manages at the same time. I started playing some weeks ago and at ~50 games I'm barely above 700, despite being a tryhard. (Never seriously played an RTS tho.) I wonder if DarkElf has some type of autism, which might explain the preoccupation with gender roles for villagers and perfect base layout, and the ease with which he calculates those offsets. Or maybe I'm exaggerating how difficult it is to do that coz I'm still a noob at the game... Would love to see if he manages to keep doing that in more stressful games.

I played dark elf about two months ago! I was so excited!

Nothin quite like a good sim city layout. This guy is a future city planner. I"ve only ever played campaign or against AI before HD and DE. And I always had certain city layouts that have stuck with me.

The beautiful thing about this is that DarkElf still has 50% win ratio, like almost every other AoE2 player. So instead of sweating to try and improve more and more he has experiences the sweetness of victory just as much as all of us while enjoying himself to the fullest.

I played DarkElf the other day! Didn't know about these videos until after haha

I just love the fact that DarkElf has super good eco right up to 100 villagers, and then no more villagers are needed for his project of a game, just amazing stuff

I just watched the first episode and youtube recommended me this one, but im definitly gonna watch the old video. DARK ELF IS MY IDOL. WHAT A LEGEND.

As someone said in the live chat, Darkelf should play Stronghold Crusader. I'd really like to see what masterpiece he can create sim city castle building.

Dark Elf as an early Christmas present!! Does that mean our favorite black forest man is back for actual Christmas???

He’s a gentleman, keeps the ladies safe at home.

Relic Victory, Wonder Victory and Conquest Victory all in the one game hahaha

Dark Elf's base is so pretty!

DarkElf is an AoE2 Player with style.

One of the best, I love this guy.

Omg, new DarkElf just dropped

DarkElf is a perfectionist, an 1 TC eco expert, and a great organization master. Got to put some respect on his name!

A true legend.

It's because composite bowmen look like elven archers in LOTR

When the enemy ... Wonders .. about darkelf

Was in the middle of a killing spree on Elden Ring when I saw the notification. Here I am now :) Back Home

Been dividing my villagers like this ever since my childhood aswell. Female on food and gold and male on stone and wood. For a reason I would blame my autism, but I also found out it's helpful when in chaos villagers mix up. Its easier to know the females are either gold or food and male wood or stone.

DarkElf is aesthetic as heck

I absolutely love this! I don't like to play arabia just because it is such an open map and thus I tried also to arrange the farms perfectly and wall it with buildings, but so far without success as I always get early rushed😅 NOW I GOT THE BLUEPRINTS! THANKS T90 AND DARKELF!!!!

I played against DarkElf too a few days ago. :D

OMG this dude is playing anno1404 with his farms and buildings... never waste a tile XD

In No Man's Land (the old RTS) female villagers had bonuses for food gathering.

I wonder if that person who would collect the outside gold and stone first has changed his strat b/c of the carts now.

I want there to be a dark elf achievement for building the dark elf base

Love that building! Do you think you need more mills to have every farm adjacent to one?

Over a quarter of a million T90 farms placed, impressive!

In terms of city aesthetics, this guy is 2+k ELO. Just amazing

Well dang, reading the chat in the first minutes, I learned that the Cities of Gold aired in English-speaking countries too, and was apparently decently known?

DarkElf is the most chad player of any videogame. - Plays one of the most competitive and difficult RTS games of all time - Ranked PVP - Spends every game doing nothing but building the most aesthetically pleasing civilisation he can, ignores the meta entirely - All his APM and attention is spent pointlessly assigning men and women to specific gender work roles instead of tryharding to win the match - Spends all his resources and manpower to build a wonder that does absolutely nothing but look nice. - No online presence, no RU-vid or Twitch channel, doesn't do it for views or profit because it's all for his own satisfaction. - Still wins matches. So incredibly based.

I think that if Dark Elf wants to play like a meme lord, he should structure his builds to pivot according to his male to female ratios.

Beautiful.

That city is so beautiful and satisfying.

DarkElf is my mood kindred. This is almost exactly how I like playing AoE.

That base and exactly 100 vils is so satisfying

Take a shot every time T90 says dark elf

I could watch you cast DarkElf exclusively and have a great time every time.

prettiest home base ever 😍😍

The wonder is an armenian chuch, which are (architecturally speaking) particular. And it is really well design in the game, really recognisable (is it correct to say?) More precisely, I think it's inspired by Holy Ejmiatsin Cathedral.

I think dark elf wants to protect the women inside the city walls 😂😂😂

be cool if they leant into the base-building more, maybe upscale everything so you can get a sick town going late-game. Especially Aoe 4, games hyper pretty but always over before you can sit back and enjoy it

Dark elfs Base.... Its Beautiful 😢

To get to the point where you can manage playing with such odd restrictions and not be at single-digit ELO is honestly impressive.

to be fair, I would want to live in a darkelf made city

anyone realizes how he built exactly 100 vills? I mean, is there at least ANYTHING this guy left to coincidence?!

He built so many wonders, the hamster couldn't keep track

Actually in 2005 or something my dad teached me that female villagers go on farms ... for me it stayed like that till i heard from "The legend of Darkelf" a few weeks ago ... and than i just figuered out that no one else did that (well besides Darkelf) and i stopped doing it

Lmao it looks like my favorite build in Stronghold 2 ... :D Simple and beautifull design xDD lmao

38:07 DarkElf doesn't build Wonders. He summons them!

39:15 T90 misplaced 261 933 farms.

Dark elf has perfected the art of base building

Anyone have a link to this previous Dark Elf video?

Assuming I can speak for Darkelf, because I also put female villagers on farms, exclusively female, also in a fully walled compound with at least one defensive castle standing nearby. The concept is.... in case the game gets messy and villagers run around you'll always know the female villagers go to the farm. Why female? Easy to distinguish. They wear skirts and the colour is easy to spot. If there are vils who wear hats on their head I'm sure they'll have a particular job assigned to them as well. It's not about male or female. Why house walls? Farms feed the nation. The woodmen and the miners are migrating from resource to resource while the farmers stay at the same spot for the entire game. Why not wall the farmers in since it's so easy to do. The pros can make do without the walls because they're good at micro & macro. As for us noobs, we need the game somewhat manageable to enjoy it. Well, even the pros games were ruined when the opponent raided their farms. But unlike Darkelf my villagers go to wood or mines first before selecting the female to go to the farm, not right away. Or male villagers can do the farms first before going to other resources. It's easy to spot a shirtless chad among the Marylin Monroe skirts. The skirt ones also go to gold, the shirtless ones go to stone. I don't build wonders.

Making exactly 100 villagers. I bet that guy’s pee jars are lined up really neatly. gg

I say composite the same way you do T90 and I’m on the opposite side of the country. I have heard it say it the way chat says but rarely.

Love Dark Elf❤❤❤

You love to see it!!!

I played him today!

A player after my own heart.

the placement of goats under his TC is soo good

No link to the previous video?

love him :D

DarkElf has created the ideal society

Guess DarkElf's least favourite Civ? It's Malians. Cuz they've Gbetos. 😂😂 I think DarkElf was the former captain of a ship. "Women & Children first!" The reason he's putting the females in the middle, working on the farms is simply because if his town was to be raided, the only villagers that can be killed would be the men. The women would garrison inside the tc. Or probably, he also doesn't want the women doing hard labour like hitting a tree stump or a stone all day. He imo is an old school gentleman! 💂

DarkElf is a real legend!

would love to know when the live stream took place when watching on youtube

How to stop DarkElf: Build stone wall pieces around the TC!

all my homies love darkelf

In a weird way, the male/female villager thing does help to balance the economy!

I wonder if he likes the civ for the ox cart cause then he doesn't have to build buildings for the resources that might get in the way of his simming.

I think that fast archers would suck at this elo. They are micro intensive, so you either use the archers, or build your eco. I think outbooming him is easier, he has only one tc, which sucks for his way of playing.

I played Darkelf the other day. We're about the same ELO. I was like "hey, weren't you in that youtube video!?" He was like "1"

T90 still has it....

Oh my gosh he’s backkkkkkkk!!!!!