The Legend of Dark Elf 

He wins the games and make such beautiful towns. That’s winning with style

“It’s lumberJACKS, not lumberJILLS.” -DarkElf, probably

From chat: "Not just the pikemen, but the pikewomen and pikechildren too" lmao

T90: "Haha, what an unenlightened peasant." Dark Elf: *Starts moving female farmers to wood* T90: "No! Don't give up on your values so easily!"

That's a *true* Low Elo Legend to me. It's not like this guy doesn't know how to play better. He simply doesn't want to.

"so what's the army we're going to make sir?" "depends on if the next few children born are girls or boys"

When I was a kid first playing AoE II I would always keep two designated "builder" villagers and one HAD to be male and one HAD to be female, so I could call them Mr. and Mrs. Builder. Every. Single. Game. Honestly don't know why it seemed so important.

Darkelf- name checks out. Dark elfs are canonically matriarchal. The higher status women taking the nice jobs next to the safety of the down centre while the men are relegated to the dangerous woodlines and mines, where they're at risk of being raided. Not a kid, a D&D player. With that level of roleplay, maybe not that surprising XD

38:38 He deletes 3 houses to place a castle there, finds out that it can't be placed there, rebuilds the houses, later deletes other houses to finally build his 5th castle :D Legend.

I'm impressed that he laid the rows of houses exactly 2 farms distance from the TC.

"In all societies, women change roles in emergency military situations like invasions" - Vittenberg (1706)

"Oh, in reality he keeps them safe and throws all men to their death" - T90 learning that history is complicated.

Could've been a pro with this number of games but he wouldn't be winning with style, what a legend

I love DarkElf so much, he could probably be one of the absolute top players with how much he plays and how good he is at managing everything but he doesn't want to be top. He just wants his beautiful little town with a full civilization of roleplaying in every regard. He legit doesn't care about his rank at all and just wants to make a pleasing town and I love that.

Hey, i am TechNils. As you might not have noticed, i am quite familiar to the game. I have close to 800 ranked games at 850 ELO now, slowly climbing... But: I did not play my best at all. Here is why: First excuse: I always play Random Civ. And Spanish i HATE. Second Excuse: I was so stubborn about not getting into his base, that i forget to boom, to build houses (oh man, that was a real bad period :-D), had no proper defense army prepared when it was all too late already. I would also like to respond to your assumptions of me not knowing certain things :-) As i often do, i built the monastery next to the relic to collect it later. Teching into Elite Conquistador not having one of them anymore was a big mistake, though i thought, i would need some powerful and mobile ranged units to deal with the camels better. Obviously, I know how to resign, maybe i was just talking to my girlfriend interrupting me after i sent the "gg wp" ;-) The game is actually quite old, i played it in mid-2020 iirc. All odds aside - i am happy to see the gameplay here and learn about the game of my opponent - what a dude :-D Keep it up, T90!

I think that dark elf had a good economy because paying attention to the gender of the villagers means paying attention to your eco.

The only thing that could make his towns more beautiful are a couple of archery ranges on a neutral island. But I guess he's too high elo for doing something like that...

his farm geometry is so perfect wtf

Can we appreciate how amazingly he built his base? to perfectly fit that block of farms? Not too wide, not too long, just perfect enough for the farms.

I’m not all the way through yet but how... HOW... do they get the farms with ZERO gaps? It’s perfext!

If you think about the attention and the APM it require, DarkElf might have a very different Elo rating than what he's currently at! It's interesting how this game can "create" some kind of OCD, my personnal one was to try to limit the death of my army units by having monk or put them into castle or tower (spoiler: It's not effective let them die)

So DarkElf RETVRNED to tradition and defeated Blue's modernity. Ok. Based

Just played darkelf, hadn't watched this before but remembered the thumbnail. He made a wonder and had a beautiful castle wall around his main town center.

This is so lovely and fun at the same time. Sometimes I do random 1v1 with AI just to relax a bit and I carefully plan aesthetics and disposition of the buildings and farms, but this is a whole different level lol.

40:12 “red was trying to hold the female villagers down by putting them on OnlyFarms”

Oh man, his building placement is so well done. I'm sure he played lots of games with this idea in his head.

I love the idea that there's this DarkElf dude who just plays the game, doesn't bother to check what's going on in AoE2 community and one day he'll accidentally find out that he's a legend. :D

We should definitely start onlyfarms. I'd give 5$ for every farm i see.

The answer is actually very simple. There is an open source game called 0 A.D. It was initially meant to be a mod for aoe2 but the developers ultimately ended up making a full fledged game. The point is, witihin 0 A.D males villagers get a 10% boost to resource gathering when they chop wood and mine, while females vils get the same boot while farming. Although, villager production isn't random, infact we have separate buildings for for producing female vills and male ones (which also double has generic infantry!) . My theory is that he is a kid that played way too much of 0 A.D and doesn't realizes that the same logic doesn't translate here. Side note: Do check out 0 A.D, its an awesome game and is completely free to play. Might not be as well balanced as aoe2 but all civs have a unique playstyle going for them.

He's gotta be the greatest legend ever found. I sincerely hope he never changes and continues having fun by playing the game how he wants to play it. Beautiful stuff!

I wish that he will never know of this video so that he'll never change his ways ♥️

I just discovered your channel after my friend bought me DE. Your commentary is so entertaining and insightful, keep up the great work! Do more of these "where are they now" videos, love it. And maybe interview Dark Elf.

when i was a kid i didnt even realize that some of the vils were female. i just figured they were all men because "girls don't fight in war". those were my exact words to my cousin when she pointed the female vils out to me. her silence in response to me confirmed my beliefs.

When I started playing, my only thought was building masses of archers and crossbows, because they can shoot long distances so they're clearly the best thing. Turns out I was just years ahead of the meta.

Whoa whoa whoa T90... It's Dunmer to you, friggin' n'wah. Morrowind Gang.

To Darkelf: As an architect, I understand.

Imagine when he finds out he can choose, how the new house will look.

The fact that T90 has to make a disclaimer every 10 seconds to avoid being cancelled is hilarious.

It's all about the animations. When I was a kid, I'd never send males to shepherd because the females looked like they were actually preparing meat whereas the males looked like they just enjoyed ripping out intestines. The males had the better farming animation, so they got that. Lumberjacks were about the same, so who cared there

imagine the LEGENDS hiding out in the unfairly small amount of the unnaturally underrated star wars galactic battlegrounds games going on!

This was just beautiful to watch.

It honestly just sounds like this person has some sort of an OCD - strict separation between the vills, ideally built houses, etc. - everything points to that.

Thanks for creating all this quality content. I don't even play AoE2 regularly (played solo as a kid), but this is very enjoyable.

"Quality without results is pointless. Results without quality is boring." - Cruyff This Legend has quality AND results! GOAT Btw he only made a compromise regarding the woodcutters. Not a single woman was mining, and not a single man was farming.

I used to do things like that too, but my paranoia with buildings positions was even greater, i would even destroy houses, if the doors and roofs of all buildings we're not aligned.

whoa early! i scouted well 😎 now.. how to lose this lead..

Did anyone else notice how is town house walls are perfectly spaced out to allow enough farms from the tc with no gaps between farms and houses? That's why he deleted the house at the beginning; it would have left a gap between the farm and the wall.

now the secret tatic for the wonder got revealed: it stops the enemy from building a towncenter

Back in the old days of AOE2 there was a very popular rumor that used to say that man villagers were better at mining and chopping, while female were good at food gathering. I believed it for some time.. but it's so tiring consuming that i quit

Man your vids are legendary... thanks for finding these.. what a tenacity you have hats off.. of course the elf fella is leaving legend too..

In Age of Kings, if a villager was created with a gather point, you could change the gather point to guarantee the same gender would be created next. That is the last time I tried it, I did that as a kid as well.

The farm placement from both players is really satisfying to see

I do the exact same thing with villagers and I've done it since I first started playing as a child. Played from the age of 6 to about 12 always segregating my villagers like this. Now since getting DE 2 years ago I've instinctively started doing it again and I have 600 hours. Also I only play the campaign on normal mode, I just like to relax with a podcast and boom 😅 Ranked games vs real people scare me and at this point I've completed every campaign scenario at least 3 times each. I really take my time with them too, each scenario takes me at least an hour. Often much longer lol I've only recently stopped walling in every area of my base as I play. I've always had an emotional attachment to the units I make and I try to keep as many alive as possible. If just one unit survives a fearsome battle I'll retire them to the back of my base with a little house and a wife villager who can work on a farm next to his mill. Watching these games I know I'll never play multiplayer since I won't have time for my little headcannon story arcs Oh and I never eat my animals, I collect them in a walled pen at the back of my base to keep them safe. I also try to rescue as many as possible from the ai to send back to my enclosure. I feel like if I ever did play multiplayer and stuck to my campaign playstyle T90 would flip shit lol

Never underestimate an ACTUAL medieval lord

I would love to see t90 play a fan game challenge where he has to make the “harem villagers” work. 1 male villager, the rest have to be female. Delete any males that are born

The legend of _Only Farms..._ I about died laughing at that.

5:25 T90 made AOE2 his personal doll house xD

"SUPPLIES!! Guys spam SUPPLIEEEESSSS its funny" lol xD thi sguy kills me.

His dedication makes me happy

Now this is a true legend. Salutes for DarkElf!

Can we have a official tournament where the rules include building a beautiful city. Maybe they get given the plans before the game. They still have to win but if they don’t build the city as per the plans they lose the game instead. Real money, to make people take t serious

Dude, I absolutly enjoy watching your videos. Love your humour!

T90: I give subs if red makes a mistake Red: Puts women to wood, to fix eco. T90: Let's focus on blue eco now, its the right thing for a caster to do. 11

So fun to watch. And the chat view at the end. Super fun watch this one was!

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE, contact these people and interview them. We need faces to the legends!

T90: Guys, spam supplies 99% of Chat: NO! Literally like 1 guy: (Supplies emote)

I just love how excited T90 gets

Absolutely amazing. More of this

When I was young I wouldn't age up until all the I researched all the tech available for that age..😁😁 good times..

if someday T90 does a top tier legends list, this guys deserves S tier, together with fatslob and Blue_coffee

40:12 "Red was trying to hold his female villagers down by putting them on Onlyfarms"

What do you guys think about this idea: overall, around 50% on food works rather well if you (and your opponent) don't know what you are doing. That's why it worked for him early on and he just kept on doing it. Also, he keeps on producing (as opposed to his LEL-opponent). Lastly, his strategy prevents overinvesting like suddenly sending all your workers to stone because you need a castle. Constant food production.

His obsession with making villagers to put them in their role is why he does well. He's constantly making villagers

Wow, this brings memories back. However, I used female villagers as gold miners in addition to being farmers while males were lumberjacks, stone miners and builders. That was how my sister played the game and since she taught me AoE2, I followed her decisions without any hesitation. Btw, boars and deers were just decorations ofc. We've never killed them. Good times. I'm a low elo arena 🤡 though, so, I'm not here to judge this fella but rather, appreciate it.

hey just a FYI, the Dark elf in LEL link actually takes us to the 8 DE barracks wall legend - very entertaining, but I don't think it's the video you wanted ^^

i love this. This is how I played. I picked units based on how cool they looked. always made sure the marched in formation. Buying all the blacksmith upgrades sounds familiar.

Lol when he was raiding blue “men on farms?? Back at our base we’d have you on wood!” 🤣🤣

I also separate the work roles of male and female villagers. Male lumberjacks and miners, female gatherers and farmers. I've lived in West Virginia doing lumber processing and around coal mines, never once have I seen a female on the crew. Let the men do the hard labor and take the risk of raids, let the women hang out near the TC safely tending the cabbages.

DarkElf sounds like me I once played on multiplayer and killed all the male villagers, only allowing female villagers. Me and him would get along. But we'd be at war over our ideological differences.

Thanks T90 for posting this. I really like DarkElf's city. I wanted to watch more replays from him, but I can't find the player anywhere. Did he change his name or something?

it hurts me he made Wonder just for looks, he could have built many city blocks with all that resources, even with a castle in each, making his gorgeous city even more fabullous.

You gotta give it to him - that's one pretty looking city!

The OnlyFarms joke killed me xD

The low elo legend videos r so nice to watch because u r a great guy. It excels ur great character.

After 1.5 K hours of DE2 Medieval, I to this day still have the men do mining/lumber work and the ladies agriculture. Realism and immersion is of utmost importance to me when I play.

He also built his houses exactly 2 farms away from his TC. Only saw the first game, but that looked on purpose as well

Dark Elf's playstyle reminds me of the game 0AD. It takes a lot of inspiration from Age 2 (I think it released before Age 2 had it's surge in popularity tho) Woman are berry pickers and farmers, while men can mine and build buildings. And because of that, low level military units can build certain buildings aswell.

its a testament to the elo system, you can play the game anyway you like, from viper to te low elo guys with their quirky rules and everything in between, and you will eventually have a nice 50/50 winrate

38:16 "There no longer separated, there's no wage gap because they chop wood at the same rate..." seriously?

Update on him :D he still plays and is over 6k games :D Thanks for vid I am loving your style of coments and no-edit long vids

Can't believe the missionaries from the south actually managed to make a change in the north, mad respect.

What a cultured player

0:35 29 year old me does the same " feeling slighly offended" :D

I am surprised he didn't use stones to make pebbled roads.

significant improvement in the level of play from the previous year

I have done this before too. It felt more accurate to history to me as a child

5:08 totally makes sense... yeah

1200 ranked 1v1 games! I want to be DarkElf damn it. He has more fun with this game than I do.

When I was a kid I just assumed the male villagers were stronger and faster at collecting resources XD

I played Dark Elf today. I only remembered this video afterwards.