The Most Annoying Strategy? The Castle Drop 

22:06 "Even wheelbarrow came in right here" - Wheelbarrow was just researched to make those villagers walk a bit faster to their castle drop position.

I got hit with this strat literally yesterday 11 I was like "his eco is gonna suck, im fine" And then "woah thats a big ball of conqs" And then "gg"

Me dropping two Castle in front of the AI and almost lost all villiger: Hey, I've seen this one!

Really happy this is here. I do watch some of the competitive stuff but i always find myself skipping through it, even hidden cup. The stuff with a twist or spin are really what keeps me interested. Twists or low elo players are a lot more fun to watch than expert ones to me.

you don't need to fear the guy who trained 1000 strategy once, but the guy who trained one strategy 1000 times

Not gonna lie. i like some of the other video styles a great deal. But the Low ELO Legends will always hold a special place in my heart.

I havent played AoE2 in over a decade. I'm going to go install DE and play spanish and castle drop everyone

This series first brought me to your channel and been loving it here since. Thrilled to see it return

How I found T90 was by googling how not to place farms and archery ranges. Taught me a lot even if I have been playing for decades.

How do the conqs not hit a single vill at 26:35?? its crazy how inaccurate they are

Whoop whoop T90 pumping vids like crazy!

Here is a feature I wish they would create and add to the game: changes of line of sight by elevation: where you can’t see the other side of a hill unless you’re on it. Like line of sight extends if your on a hill and diminishes if your on flat ground or below a hill

incredibly smart how he lured the archers out of the base so they can't sit under the tc to snipe the builders for the castle drop

tea just isnt some nobody, he is a man of focus, commitment, and sheer fucking will

AoE is tuned in a way that it's easy to harass but difficult to finish a player before Castle Age. An aggressive castle is one of the earliest valid ways of ending a game; the moment it's up, the opponent's eco suffers, their nearby production buildings become almost unuseable, and the only thing that can kill it is a ram push which has to be accompanied. You can survive a castle drop, but it almost always requires an expensive relocation of your base, a risky counter attack, or some other big play.

I could listen to you commentate anything! Great analysis, so engaging, interesting, energetic! T90, you're great!

Never understood the hate against non meta plays.

Fun match, I love those chaotic games where one guy just goes for it relentlessly, without any real structure or plan.

Content keeps coming the last few days. And I love it! :)

Look up Low ELO legend, ClownWorld, for Korean Tower Rush, he is on like an 11 game win streak.

21:08~ around there placed the turret early because Tea pushed out the castle foundations so komtan saw it coming. It wasn't planning ahead or anything like that, just simply saw the drop of the castle.

Conqs are supposed to be really strong, but in reality they suck against anyone who micros even a little bit. They will miss 90% of their hits, which makes them kinda useless.

Very very nice video. I like this kind of strat, just simple but brilliant I think.

The only times I've recently randomed Spanish on Arabia, I've either just done a standard knight rush, or, that one time I played vs. Tatars, went man at arms into 1 range skirmishers followed by a faster castle age into knights, elite skirms and mangonels. Which both worked, to be fair, but I guess I just need to do the castle drop and conq thing more often.

Let’s go! I do something like this in arena 🤣

Next Up: S-Tier Castle Drop with Sicilians

Thank you for making some youtube based content makes us feel like we're part of your community

amaizing video, I love how you talk in the games, very entretaining,, best wishes from Argentina

The most annoying strategy is Halb + Onager. It's like cheating.

23:00 OMG I needed to know this tip like yesterday elo. Thank you

ty T90 for your content. you are awesome man because of you I entered the AoE community and enjoy every second being part of it. you rock!

That is some nice utilisation of Spanish strenghts

Keep up the good work T90! LEL series gives me hope

Imagine a function in CA where you can toggle on/off icons of any buildings or tech in the timeline. That would be sick

I've enjoyed the extra effort you put into this. Commented and liked!

Dude thats just flipping the meta on its head and stomping on it. Insane.

Thats why I like playing Lithuanians, the leitis spear just impales the vills with one strike vs these concs firing 10 times at one

Ah would you look at that! Just as I was trying to figure out which of my most fav 2 civs(spanish&chinese) I would like to play today...

A lot of respect for komtan for fighting back!

Wooooo perfect timing I needed a video like that from you while I cook :)

21:03 Sicilians are offended.

I think something that gives someone like mr_yo his strength is that ability to be unpredictable. To understand the value in position and castles or towers in the enemy's face. It's not that he can't or doesn't play meta it's just that he can do anything. I think that in the future the best players will be able to do anything. On one level vipa is a little bit like that but not nearly to the same extent.

So what made me wonder a bit... Why keep going with crossbows...? when seeing conquistadors I'd instantly go into kamels and light cav (Maybe spears) - especially when the rams came! (I know easy to say when not under pressure)

Mental game. Such a classic showcase of what an all in Spanish strat entails.

I actually did that with tower build rush around my enemy tower center. And the opponent rage quit

This happened to me, and it was the worse. primarily cause they didnt try to finish off, instead put them far enough out to make it impossible to do anything but not enough to destroy you, basically forcing you to resign or deal with the pain

Chinese should have extra gold cost for knights and the same additional gold cost applied to light cav: Historically they struggled to have access to horses. Theres many examples of this including them sending poeople to try and setup purchase agreements for horses with civilizations really far away.

This is my style. I dont know how to eco boom. This is the way I have always played. Love it.

This strat used to be better with AoC conqs. But above that, I miss AoC towers. You could end the game with a good tower rush. In this game conqs were shown again to be too weak to end the game there. I'd buff them in castle age again to do better with archery range units, komtan could've committed to xbow+skirm production.

Great job on the video!

One of the few ranked games ive played was tuetons into goths and his infantry spam could not deal with capey boys even a little. Flemish revolution falls into the same hole.

beautify casted t90, i have been thoroughly entertained

I like your videos for youtube the most out of all aoe2 content out there.

What if Komtan had placed palisades in areas around the TC that precluded the building of a castle? Seems like a low cost way to mitigate this strategy, curious as to your thoughts. I suppose conq / mangonel could shoot foundations

Glad most annoying strat is back, it was what got me back into AoE2

The only way I have ever gotten anywhere playing Spanish is on a water map, preferably where there is no land route to your base.

15:35 with the viper it's 60 % offense 40 % more offense

Love the youtube targeted content! I usually skip over the videos that seem to be clips from twitch sessions. Thanks for posting this!

If you have well placed palisade walls around your base then it should be easier to react to castle drops and they're not always dropped right on your face. This match in particular seems like a very elaborate bait for komtan to create the right situation and opportinity for the castle drop.

It's amazing that you mention Spanish is bottom tier.. I have always considered them VERY dangerous due to their Tech Trees Alone. They've got a Majority of every Civ's Perks (Hussars, Paladins and even a Majority of The High Spec-Gun Powder Units).. and of course; The Conquistador, I believe.. is the Second Most Deadliest Macro Unit in The Game (to my Personal favourites - Mangudais). In The Right Hands of course. Chu Ko Nu is dangerous sure.. but on foot? In low numbers? Hardly a nuisance.

Agressive castle drop using the Khmers is one of my main strategies.

HEavy Camels was a sick read

Cool stuff bro

well in castel age there was not rifling so the aim was not so good. it's right that they can't shoot well

Castle dropping is really fun to do, but its not so fun to get castle dropped ;p

It really does seem like conquistadors have worse accuracy than in the past. Is that confirmed or has someone tested it?

I had a castle drop happen against me today. Totally shredded his army and he resigned because I was about to reach imp as bohemians and he was all open

Never played this game but I find it interesting. Random first question: why is there a pic of a dude when a castle is built?

i love these unique strat vids

liking the recent uploads

This one day I played a few games and lost like four in a row. So I decided to go for something whacky for my last game of the day. Ethiopians Send 12 to stone at the start of feudal, double range, produce as much archers as possible. send out archers before castle age to clean up his scouts. When castle hit I dropped 3 castles on his production buildings bought a fourth castle with severe market abuse and dropped it on the 2nd tc foundation as he hit castle. creating shotel warriors as out of all the castles as soon as it is up. it was brutal the guy got mega titled so I had to kill everything before he called the GG. Tried it a few times after that, never worked again

This game was fun. Loved Tea's style

Portugese Arena castle dropping super effective esp with piano gun

Praise the love for the RU-vid channel with a like folks!

I hate getting castle dropped; any kind of aggression from the opponent tends to put me into a panic. It used to be my go to strategy against the AI, though; make a line of castles slowly advancing into their base. :D

11got castle dropped a few times myself!

New DLC is up on the store page. Would like to see you make a video on the new stuff

Everyone gangsta until they see DauT smiling in front of your base

So I'm just starting to play ranked after finishing the majority of the campain and I'm apparently settling in on an Elo around 1k.. Now I've been searching for low Elo turnaments and I found that you (T90) sometimes host small low elo turnaments. Are there any planned for the near future? Does anyone know more on that subject in general maybe? Thx in advance!

I mean, what did Komtan wrong during this game ? idk, how to counter that ? should he have rushed trebs ?

I do like to see more content like this!!

Castle drop definitely seems like a frustrating one to fight. I'm a scrub that only plays pve with a buddy or two because we enjoy comp stomping lol

Most annoying strat is lith 3 minute drush - the only way you can scout it by guessing based on score - and even if you think its coming you still need to spend wood on palisades and panic get boar before they lame you. This is my take on it.

This is not just castle dropping Tea played it brilliantly. I would just gg after imp lol

How it's possible to have that clean interface on aoe2 de?

Im so bad at this game but these are so fun to watch

NIIIIIIIICE. I only pick spanish too. im liking the fact there are other spanish lovers too. iSit and now this guy who is top 100. smh and ppl say they suck

I prefer krepost drop 2-3 of those can put quite a dent in anything and the fact that they can keep konniks pumping out makes them amazing

Hera castles drops all the time lol Also that is exactly what being a big brother is about

new meta no horse collar

Thanks

Inspiring!

I do a castle drop with lithuanians about half the time. Around 850 ELO

潮州 is a city in southern China 工夫 is Chinese KongFu So his name means a kind of Chinese traditional tea, to drink it you must have KungFu

I love castle dropping, I'm 1200 eloish. And they work, but also can cost you the game. I also love playing Mongols so castle dropping can be a problem lol

this was fun to watch

It really is the aoe2 version of protos canon rushing in sc2.

I missed this series but it was kinda replaced by LEL

Why did Comtan not make any skirms againt the Conquistadors?

that was awesome