The Legend of WALL 

so early i walled in the comment section before they got to castle age

Enemy is booming. *"That's okay, I'll wall around it."* Enemy counters walling by building a tower. *"That's okay, I'll wall around it."* Enemy counters multi-layer wall by Onager-cutting the forest. *"That's okay, I'll wall around it."* There are still trees that can be Onager-cut. *"That's okay, I'll Onager-cut them myself and wall around it."*

Hes playing the 22 year old game to have fun, not to win. Good for him, what a boss.

Lolll T90 "This guy gets home after a long day of dance class or whatever he does..." Twitch chat guy, "He builds walls in real life"

Imagine this is real life. You are a Briton soilder, who spends at least a week destroying all these walls that have been put up. You finally break through, ready for revenge, and you find that the enemy is no longer there. They just packed up and went home.

Maybe he loves walling noobs so much, he resigns whenever he's basically won, to stay low ELO

I lost it when red broke through on the left and blue was just like "no sweat, more walls"

I got walled by WALL on my first 1v1. I waited, built a strong eco, Palladians, Trebs, Halberdiers. Just as I was about to Ongar through the trees, WALL Ongered through the trees and came in with an army of Palladians. I survived, but gg'ed soon after out of sheer exhaustion! #thelegendofwall

As a fellow Australian, I would donate a 4g backup hot-switching modem to WALL, just too see him refine his talents

34:20 T90 "Mooooooom." Villager "Yea?"

I struggled so much when I had to play this guy! Had to try his strategy afterward and it is VERY fun!

I can only imagine the amazing archeology at that place in a few hundred years...

I have versed WALL a few times, I can send through some epic games if you like?

34:21 | when T90 says, "Mom!!" and a British villager responds, "yei!!"

"Extend the walls to the crocodile!"

"The best offence is a good defense" WALL thought they meant it literally.

roman siegue tactics, just like Julius Caesar against Gaul tribes, he is a real tactician :)

I want to see an ALL-STARS match between all of the absolute legends that we watched on this channel.

This is basically how I played against AI when I was young. It's a ton of fun. Layers of walls were also a great strat on AoE3 "no rush" games in 2006.

31:33 Wall starts cutting the forest himself to pre-emptively wall it.

Someone in chat said “ Will i am going to Wall you in “ chat is genius

At 18:54 a twitch comment asks if there is any historical precedent for this strategy and, surprisingly, there actually is! See the Battle of Alesia during the conquest of Gaul. Julius Caesar found a heavily fortified Gaul camp and built a new wall around it, starving them out. Mad that this was an actual strategy. This tactic was also employed during the Punic Wars and basically the Romans became extremely good at offensive walls.

Once on Arena someone Persian douched me by walling me in and then breaking down the walls in dark age, and gradually moving his TC closer to mine - while building palisade walls so that the area I had to move in was smaller and smaller until I didn’t have resources to rebuild my TC

I truly hope that we can get more content from you of this guy in the future. I don't even play AOE 2 and I love this guy.

This video made me so happy, the strategy, the commentary, and the end was just the cherry on top 11, thanks for your uploads t90

"I think he must know chemistry exists..."

As ridiculous as this strategy is, it does have historical precedent. Just look at the Battle of Alesia - Caesar walled in the Gauls, and then walled in his own legions once he heard the Gauls were sending reinforcements.

Lesson: Always protect your gates and resource stockpiles nearby. Without access to gold, your opponent has no challenge to their supremacy. Early skirmishers are all it takes, to stop enemies building too close to your base. Supported with spear men and even villagers if needed. Don’t feel bad sending villagers into battle, if it stops the enemy denying you access to gold. The enemy has already sent their villagers across the map, to do battle and so is already behind economically. Once you’ve achieved ‘base security’, your villagers are nicely positioned to build, and or gathering materials. They can place houses instead of watchtowers and an early stable to reinforce your position. Then get Castles up ASAP to solidify your gains and remember to get the relics and upgrades at university. Protect monks at all costs though, as they will heal your cavalry units that you can rotate in and out of battle, as they’re wounded. Always have a rapid reaction force of trash units at hand, in case enemy tries a ram rush and cavalry to use as a 2nd wave, followed by archers or ranged units with a group of monks close by. This way you can even bring the trash units back to be healed, at the exact moment your cavalry are entering the fray. The enemy may even follow your trash units and be killed, by your supporting divisions and castles. Then a reversal on your enemy is possible, as they’re out of position, have less resources and they’re defences are incomplete, bc they went offensive too much. At least raiding they’re economy will make matters even worse for them and they will never fully recover. The only way they can recover is by trading at the market, so make sure you buy up what they need so the price is high for them, and or sell your excess resources, so they can’t get gold easily. The best key to victory is to gain monopoly on the gold.

This game was fucking LEGENDARY. *PLEASE GIVE US MORE WALL!*

What I love about the Portugal pick is that, their feitorias and to a letter extent cheaper units have absolutely zero synergy with this strategy, because the whole point of this is that you secure the entire map.

31:44 BarbaricMonkey "Where there's a Will, there's a Wall"

I played him 2 weeks ago and beat him with Japanese. He was Teutons. Also I consistently go up to 1150 and drop to 980. I play with all the meta builds. I'm just too slow a player once everythings full on. I'm from Australia and my names Dwight Schrute on steam.

Walling in your opponent is like taking a risky drive on a par 4. It usually isn't the right call, and it could heavily backfire. But it feels so nice when you walk up and see your ball on the green man. It makes it all worth it.

The name of this youtube video should have been "Prison break"

33:09 "that is so next lever"

When you can get wheelbarrow in Imp you know your using a meme strat.

takes the insult, “get boxed,” to a whole nother level.

When you come to it and you can't go through it and you can't knock it down, you know that you've found... THE WALL! This was an amazing game to experience, hope you cast more of WALL's games T90

I love the people in chat that cant get it through their heads that red is a noob - "why doesn't he do this", "all he needs to do is..."," he should just...", "he needs to make more...", "he could..." etc.. and on and on for the entire video, like oh, you mean this isn't an unbeatable strategy for which there can be no counter? thanks for sharing

I see the title, I have to like it- finally someone acknowleged the beauty of Walling:)

33:23 well, maybe he was playing with a self-imposed challenge of not getting wheelbarrow before a full hour has passed. xD

25:22 T90: "I don't think that's Abacus"

This reminds me of an actual strategy used by the Romans at one point in time. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Alesia Basically Caeser had a wall built around an enemy city, and when reinforcements were spotted on their way to break the seige he had another wall built around the his troops to protect them from the reinforcements.

I never in my life thought I would watch gameplay videos and here I am...you are a fucking magician and I hate how much I like these. I just found this a week ago and Im hooked. I love AOE and these videos are fun.

When is blue coffee 11:52hour coming ?

34:20 "mom" villager : "yay ?"

I really like the pause screen having some static and a flashing pause, so many videos from other channels where I can't tell if they're frozen or not haha. Always going the extra mile, T90!

Dude when red towered the corner and blue just built a pocket in the wall I actually lol'ed 🤣🤣

I just watched this and oh my god imagine Wall improving on his strategy fixing all his eco problems BECOMING THE WALL GOD, it would be a nightmare to play agains him trully

When you mentioned what special unit you were in a previous life.. im here thinking " i bet its a Cataphract " well played sir.

This is the WILL.I.AM vs WALLasshole tutorial campaign

32:59 that comment had me on the floor laughing man... lol

18:10 the gates he used a lot in the 2nd video (for those interested) When enemies break through you can trap them in another champer ez. Its like the floodgates of titanic. A single breach aint enough.

"the legend of the wall"... I wonder what makes the 7 hour blue coffee game then

How do you call a sleepover with some wood chucks? A lumber party.

i don't even play this game, this is fucking god tier content lmao

I feel like with the economy of red he should've had an army ready when he took down those trees. Great game and definitely an interesting strat.

The Romans did this to a fort during the conquest of Britain. They built their own wall directly around a the fort's wall. It's kind of a reverse siege tactic.

Okay I watched this once before and just realized that it reminds me of the first game I played online in the ages of dial up and Microsoft gaming zone. I remember finding the opponents base and it was like three sets of 2 layer walls filled with onagers and longbows and towers. To be fair I had no clue how to deal with any of that.

19:30 thank you, I needed that. love you too

This guy is the reason i was watchin T90 back then :DDD

Simplest counter is to sneak 5 villagers outside his walls before they are complete. Imagine his suprise to find 3 stables and a siege workshop outside the walls 15 minutes later...

"No one builds walls better than me, believe me, and I'll build them very inexpensively. I will build a great wall and I'll have RED pay for that wall."

I played this guy on arena. Went Trush. He walled me in. Won eventually. Really surreal seeing a player you played in a vid

I have actually went up againts him and this guy was literally so hard to beat he consistently walled with bombards and i even made way through the forest so i can beat him i cam close but the fitorea gave him the advantage and i lost and yea he mentioned fatslob in our match too

Caesar used this same strategy in his Gaul campaign. This guy knows what's up

Strat: Build walls until your opponent is sweating bullions, then troll-quit.

This is much more fun than 400 fast castles on Arabia in a row, first to build a lumber camp wins. For many years this crazy shit was exactly how I pictured AOE

years ago i played a an rts named total annihilation. my friend used to build massive armies of construction units. he then sent them at players using their 'reclaim' (deconstruct) ability. took tons of losses but came out ahead wiping out their armies then their bases. funny and kool

just something about him that says "I voted for trump"

Blue quitting was also a sort of flex. "Alright well it's clear I'm better than you, so I'm just gonna head out and bully some other player. Cya."

Reminds me of an over the top version of a strategy that Julius Caesar pulled sometimes during sieges.

33:10 *he learned* ... in Wall2 he does that right away Oo

Early: "Balanced Eco" Late: "OMG red needs to do something"

Chat went hungry once he said "I got no shirt on" I'm 💀

LOL - that pause effect - nice

I had no interest in age of empires, however I had played it 20 years ago. As I watched your video, your enthusiasm really sold the game for me. Loved the vid.

22:20 - Most aesthetic lumber camp ever seen

I dont know how or why i was brought to this video by youtube (havent searched for anything related to Age of Empires) but this is so much nostalgia for me. Ive played this game for so long, for so many years during my adolescence. I didnt even know this game still going with a big and competitive community.. where are these games being played and ranked? I may give it a shot again!

32:48 ".. or prison." He handles prisoners on the job, he imprisons people in the game.

Wall does caesar's strategy, build wall around the enemy and wait.

I fought this guy à few months ago on outpost. His walls wasn't so agressive but it took hours to destroy him to then end. And happily I was Persians

@6:30 A max legend would have stopped his scout and held the gate open for his villagers to come in

i dont think I have played this since the 90's so I had no idea what was going on (just seen the trollish title n clicked) so im glad your commentary gave me some context, thanks. That was heaps of fun to watch. Where do I find wall?

That was so ridiculous lol. I hope to see another of his matches in the future.

WALL: do you know what this place needs? walls thats what it needs

I used to play Star Trek Armada II against the computer, and I'd just sit back and build starbases and photon torpedo turrets closer and closer to my opponent and then surround them with turrets, denying them access to the rest of the map. And then I would decommission turrets that were too far from the opponent, like some gigantic slow moving centipede made entirely out of buildings that can shoot. Now, against a human player, this doesnt work because you can build starships that fire artillery shots, which usually suck, but they can outrange all buildings and slowly destroy them. But the computer, no matter how strong, would just spam units and send them at you immediately, rather than building a critical mass of starships, they would all suicide against my turrets while I had basically no army. Then I would slowly build my own artillery starships and I'd shoot their base from safely behind my own base, which I build around their base. My base was the entire map. Their base was foolishly placed next to my base, within artillery range. Not the wisest move. I fully understand this Wall guy's strategy. It's fun for those of us who are bad at building military units and mircomanaging armies in RTS games.

Know this guy personally, watched over his shoulder as he played once here in Australia. Walling is all he does and he is very good at it. If he ever walls you in early, you are 99% screwed usually.

18:46 He went all Jesse Pinkman when he saw chemistry ahaha

He is basically choking the enemy He might be behind in economy but he has all the resources and time to win Thats epic

need more videos of the legend WALL

I used to do this stragegy against my brother, good to see it works in a ranked match! haha

i guess this is why you need that barracks so quick among other reasons.. and who would have thought you needed to guard the outside of your gate?

Wow. Lesson learned: If I ever play this guy, the first thing I'm doing is sending several villagers outside of my walls, then fast-Castling so I can build additional TCs out in freedom.

This is why I love AoE, you never know what your opponent has even if it looks like you're getting stomped, it's such a rush!

imagine if thats the real will i am and soon theres a song about an impenetrable wall he has nightmares about lol

With the amounts of wood and food red had, I'd mass Light Cav and petards. Send the petards one by one to a point of the wall and eventually make it through.

this is what commitment looks like... he's making age of empires great again.... lol

I would make a narrow onager tunnel in the very back dark fog of war area of trees all the way to his place and let off a flood of onager/anything like bombard towers, full loaded castle all in the dark of deep woods. Once you feel beefy enough make some edge of the woods castle to start shooting maybe kill a ton of units and confuse him

28:10 NEXT LEVER Your co-caster in HC4 said the same thing in a game 18th march. Coincidence? I think not. Illuminati confirmed