The Legend of Phosphoru's NEW Ram Strategy! 

We have hussite wagons at home. The hussite wagons at home:

The famed Turkish artisanally deconstructed Hussite Wagon

I spent my childhood using rams as APCs and here's phosphoru making it meta.

Mechanized infantry in AOE2. Incredible lol. Still seeing innovations in a 20 year old game.

Phosphorou deserves his ranking. He keeps the game alive with all of these new strategies. He inspires all of us - the old fogies like me from the 1999 Age of Kings days and all the new gamers now experiencing this game for the first time with the Definitive Edition. Thank you, T90 and please give my thanks to Phosphoru as well! Keep doing what you are both doing as it continues to make me smile and humour and laughter will always be the best medicine around!

Bro really invented drive-by shootings in AoE2

So.... Don't tell scotty, scotty doesn't know 😂

I would love to see the "distasteful" games against Phosphoru. If you dont want to cast them, send them to Dave. He'll do it.

I guess I would rather fight this than another Mongol or frank scout rush 😂

LOL, this is reminiscent of SlayerS_'Boxer' in Starcraft whose favorite unit was the dropship. He would drop Siege Tanks (which fire instantly) to shoot at Reavers and Dragoons, which would shoot back at the tanks (higher priority than the unarmed dropship), and he would pick the tanks back up before the slow-moving shots hit them, then drop the tanks to fire again, rinse and repeat.

That was crazy with the rams. That has a lot of applications outside of the turks.

Euro trip is such an underrated film. I still sing Scotty doesn't know from time to.time.

Bringing the Starcraft shuttle/dropship micro meta to Age of Empires lol

1:55 You had the perfect chance to drop a SCOTTY DOESNT KNOW right there....

I love phosphoru so much. Ever since you started this particular legend series, he's been like an inspiration. To see this level of innovation in such an old game is amazing. Before him it feels like there's been meta shifts, sure, but nothing on this level. Other "new" strategies just feel like reskins or taking advantage of something that only 1-2 civs can do because they are the only ones who get a specific unit, so it wasn't so much of a new strategy, but just playing the new civ (or reworked civ) how they were supposed to be used. But this...sure only turks get Jannisaries, but in theory this can be any foot archer/hand cannoneer, though obviously gunpowder better since they don't need many upgrades and have insane base stats. I can see it being potentially kinda crazy with Franks or anyone else with a unique unit that is a ranged melee damage unit. Unlike other "new" strategies, phosphoru's stuff just feels so...fresh.

Someone did this with a siege tower on a nomad game semi-recently in a pro game I swear. IIRC Dave was casting it. I feel like it was against Yo maybe. It wasn't to this extent but they definitely used it in a "new" way and caused a bunch of chaos. IIRC it was just karambits jumping in and out to run from towers and archers.

Scotty doesn't know!

I wonder if that would work with gbeto, infantry makes rams faster and increases their attack

Closest thing to Hussite Wagons actually being in the game

if Phosphoru went for the TC I think it would have worked, crazy strategy!

“Scotty doesn’t know”

i think phosphoru should have kept attacking the tc, not switch to the castel

Wait, that's one of my favorite strats! I'm not nearly good enough to get it to work well, but I've always wondered why pros don't use rams like this more often

HE CANT KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH IT

sooo, hussite wagon with extra steps this is brilliant

This is awesome! This strategy reminds me very much of a micro intensive warp prism+immortal technique that took over the top levels of SC2 a year after launch. I'm not at all disappointed to see this in AoE2, and I hope it can become more and more useful (maybe for side raids or something like that?)

More of these games, please! Can’t wait! I’m down for the (slightly) more salty videos if it means more Phosphorus

I never understood why they changed rams to hold 6 without upgrades, now seeing this, I wonder if they will undo that patch change.

Can one do that with Cuman rams and archers in Feudal?

Old school teuton players: Lets use this ram to move the etk into enemys Phosphoru: Hold my beer

A compilation of some rage chats vs phosphorus at the end would actually be quite funny.

YES!!!! YES!!!!!!! I was waiting for a ram strategy for so long! I was sure it is possible!

I remember doing something like that as a kid back in the day. I love seeing it done to such perfection all these years later

never thought of garrisoning units in rams to hop out and in like that, new build to try, as always phosphoru delivers 11

This was meta in starcraft 2 at some point in history: using a slow but powerfull unit (tank) with the flying dropship to protect the tank between shots, i didn't know you could load and unload stuff so quick in age as well, that's good.

I have seen so many of your videos and this has been the most bizarre/creative game for me ever lol

This guy is very creative. I love it.

Ah, the good old "Fish of Fury" strategy. Those who know, know.

love it, need more ram mischief

I love this guy. I would have loved to see him in hidden cup V qualifiers like youpudding.

I invented this only as Crossbowmen + Siege Tower micro. Fun to see it actually working as intended, though in a different version.

Thats a crazy strat! Almost pulled it off too. Love white phosphuru vidoes. 👍

This is genuinely game changing. Like how does this not become part of the meta for ranged

I think I can speak for all of us when I say we would love a video with the salty games in it

Well crap, that's such a cool idea. Gonna have to try this against my friend next time we play lmao

"Nerf *my* Hussite Wagons, will you? Fine! I'll make my *own* Hussite Wagons! RAM-JANS!"

Love the hidden cup content but this is a welcome change of content this week :)

I love this guys strats

This gives Frenkie VS Dinchester vibes when Frenkie used the siege tower as an APC with Gbeto

I was amazed when I saw this done with gbettos and siege tower in another video.

Fascinating that strats like these were part of the meta in Starcraft for the past 20 years, but just now it seems to be a thing in AO2 :D

I was so safe you followed “does Scotty know” with “well Scotty is about to find out” instead of “Scotty doesn’t know” lol

GG always fun when someone evolves the game. 😎

I had a buddy in college who totally invented this strat in our LAN games to counter my longbow swarms, but he didn't have the micro or eco to pull it off

This is something ive never thinked of, its insane how this game allows for these insane strats that not even the developers thinked of

SCOTTY DOESNT KNOW, SCOTTY DOESNT KNOW

When did gunpowder units switch from hit scan to projectiles?

Archer armor could also be a useful investment before ramming the castle, I think. It would not take extra siege workshop time, but would steal some food from the janissary production.

Yes I’ve encountered white phosphorus bohemians strat but I learned from YOU how to counter it 🐴 🤙🏼

He has invented a tank.

Alexios Komnenos is a great inclusion, absolute legend. John and Manuel Komnenos were also really cool - a brief era of greatness in the declining empire post Manzikert.

What happens if you convert a ram with units inside it?

What's the site that tracks players? Is it just the leaderboard?

His playstyle makes me wish I could see an event where two players control a civ. That way he could have his teammate concentrate on eco/logististics while Phosphoru concentrated on his ridiculous battle tactics 😂

you should do a low elo legends tournament. i prefer watching their unorthodox strategies to the pro build orders

Is this strategy only working because the zero frame delay of the Janissaries' shots? Or it can be applied to other civilizations as well, with archers or hand cannoneers for example?

Always love these new Phosphoru videos. Would always hate to play against him/them tho 11.

This is the level of sweaty I admire.

Seeing new strat after a few hundred hours of aoe2 just puts a big grin on my face Good content!

Lol, Phosphoru's just over here playing Dawn Of War with a heavy transport build

Did Phosphoru try and enter Hidden Cup 5 or Youpudding? or do they prefer to work their meta magic outside tournaments

19:43 awesome game! I'd like to see Tsar Konstantin hero

Patch #675849 August 2024: Turks rams have a three second delay to garrison and ungarrison (you heard it here first)

This is basically Mechanisend Infantry, a tactic that is about 500 years from the future ^^

These strategies are a joy to watch.

Hear me out. Cheaper castles with Franks or Incas. You can potentially hit exposed resources with axemen or even Kamayuk. Might as well mix in some siege towers if you want to prioritize damage to units instead of buildings. This and the other strat with siege towers have so much potential I'm getting excited.

Armored personnel carriers!

Scotty! is Such a cool person to find this idea fun!!!!

T90 does Phosphorus have a youtube page? Does he stream his games?

🎶Scotty doesnt know! Scotty doesn't know! 🎶

This is going to be the most annoying crap to deal with in ranked. I hate it.

You missed your opportunity at 2:00 to go into a rendition of "Scotty Doesn't Know"! lol

La Hire should be a permanent hero in Hidden cup! 😂😂😂 "LA Hire wants some blood! "

Scotty doesn’t know! Scotty doesn’t know!! 🎶

Janissary Drive-By strat goin strong

"We have Protoss Reaver drops at home." Reaver drops at home:

SCOTTY DOESN'T KNOW ♪♫

me: mom i want shuttle reaver micro mom: we have shuttle reaver micro at home the shuttle reaver micro at home:

This could be easily countered by building some long swords, esp if you garrisoned them in your own ram so it outspeeds Red's ram and smashes it.

All aboard the battle bus!

I’d bet money this guy is an engineer

Phosphoru out here with a Ghetto Hussite Wagon.

"His best build yet" -shows it utterly failing completely-

Still can’t believe Dave got into hidden cup

This is in my top 5 games off all time

What is a ram filled with jenisaries? An improved bohemian Hussite wagon that cannot be converted, has higher dps and 1-2 extra range. That was very clever

I've wondered if manned rams weren't being slept on. Apparently so.

Amazing! Attacking the TC and castle was the mistake though. Just take out all the houses and the market, eventually when all else is destroyed go for the tc imo

so basically he made a Hussite wagon

That's a good strat that I tried but it's not easy to do. Phosphoru is also a good player.