The Smallest AoE2 Map Ever! 

99.72% to Castle Age when the TC went down... That was wild!!

Ridiculously tiny maps is almost a tradition in Age of Mythology. They're so small compared to the space you need that its nearly unplayable. Its great. If you are on a map that gives you extra buildings at the start, there's a good chance they'll be closer to another player's town center than your own.

36:54 "I think Jon has already accepted that there's a special place in forest nothing hell for him." - I almost want to make that my voicemail.

Red almost feels like he forgot about the countdown timer. He was so focused on orange by the end but if he actually built up a little military I think he could have pushed teal out.

I feel huns would be really good for this map - not needing space for houses would be really strong

The most aggressive Forest Nothing map yet! Still somehow feels like trying to whisper the loudest.

Thanks to Bontino and Stevesplinter for staying to the end, giving us more fun content, despite basically losing the game very early

The tc not firing arrows actually made it more punishing, as there was no defense against a runaway player like teal.

You should try making a "Tiny" event in the Age of Mythology style. It'd be a 4 players completely empty map, everyone with infinite resources, but the fun part is that the map is basically a square which side is large 4 adjacent TCs

Man, I remember Forest Nothing. I was a fan and watching back from some OG Spirit of the Law vids, back when you were thinking of moving to NC. That video and the concept really revolutionized the AoEII youtube space and brought fresh light into approaching the game. I would even hazard to say that it is because of you, along with some of the other prominent creators from all that time ago, that the game has been picked back up into development and updates. Thanks, Tristan. Was a pleasure meeting you at Boxcar.

I love the minimalism of this. Host more games on this map.

Steve and Bontino are the best part of this video, haha! Thanks for the cast.

This game was a condensed account of human history. 😢

Red's mining camp actually made sense. You need to build 2 dark age buildings at the same time before advancing. And mill, lumber camp and mining camp all cost the same. So if you wre gonna delete it anyways then it makes no difference.

The minimap is so zoomed in that you can see individual trees 😂

I never watched RTS games on RU-vid but played AoE2 back in the day. Suddenly out of nowhere a grand final between Viper and someone else who won the first map and had a crazy 2nd or 3rd map but Viper still won, thats how I found this channel

I don't remember what brought me to T90s channel. But I do remember what brought me to the game. My childhood friend friend was describing the "new" game. It had villagers and you collect wood and berries. Take the resources back to the Town Centre..... I thought it was played in first person. 😂

Jon had the strategy. It would be interesting to see this played again a little while later after people figure it out more

Shulker is a Legend for attacking that tower

6:40 It was the first Forest Nothing got me into your channel and the first Hidden Cup that hooked me. Also, teal chatting just to himself for us spectators to see was epic.

Once Gray broke through they should have immediately chopped a tree at each corner of the monument and built towers

Suggestion: instead of taking away the TC arrows, make all structures have 1 range with the upgrades working as usual (towers and castles increase range with upgrades).

What brought to T90, year was 2019 and I was starting college. I was in class and thought that would be fun to play AoE2 and that I should install it when I get home. After class while I was on break I figured I'd watch youtube. The first video that popped up was a T90 video and was kind of freaked out since I had not said the name out loud, did not talk to anyone about wanting to play it, I had never searched the game on youtube either. I was freaked out but opened it anyway. Guess I'll thank the government spying on my thoughts and recommending this channel

Weirdly enough I came through your content while looking up AOE2 campaign playthroughs cause I was struggling with one of them, stuck around for the commentary and found out about the AOE2 community in general as a result lmao

Surprisingly this was really exciting to watch! Really weird and interesting dynamics. Two mangonels going down feels like two aircraft carriers sunk. Thank you and more please! :D

I wonder how a "gold nothing" map would work on such a tiny map (with just enough starting food to build a market, or with starting with a market)

This is hilarious but I love the different dynamic, I really want to see a diplo version of this so badly now

That was such fun game to watch. I like that we had a great overview the whole time!

My first was forrest nothing. And I dont regret anything. Jon knew the minimeta

RU-vid randomly recommended to me "The Legend of Simple Joe" and it made me buy the game :)) That was I think 2 or 3 weeks ago. The story was sooo good. Found other fun videos, funny they are not the most popular ones on the channel. 4v4 no farms was also a blast.

Your extras channel is what I first saw of you and then found your main. I really enjoy the full cast on your extra channel the most.

The video that brought me to the channel was that really nice one you made a while back. Such a good replay.

Probably too late to suggest an idea but would it be possible to split the map with walls into a 3x3 Tic-Tac-Toe board? 1v1 where each player starts in opposite corners with some resources, but in the other squares there are monuments or something to capture, but they have to capture three in a row (and the home square counts as their own).

I think this would work best (or at least more competitively) with only 4 players instead of 8. As is, the first two people to Feudal can tower 2 neighbors, effectively neutralizing up to 4 players anyway.

I can't remember what brought me to T90, but the earliest video I remember watching was Snippy on Texas and Daves Fun house vids.

i do love the tiny maps! like a cage fight style, i started watching from a forest nothing or from like a viper vs someone match back in the day. picked up Aoe2DE now again and really enjoying watching all the teamgames. more tiny maps and more king matches! maybe give people hidden tasks they need to perform similiar to "risk"? my fav was the one were a player had to leave early so he just rushed elephants which stirred it up instead of everyone just waiting for imp to end diplo and start fighting. GG!

Thank you Tristan, you are the cornerstone of the AoE2 community

It's... Beautiful.

The first videos of yours I remember watching are things like "The legend of...", especially FatSlob, Hoang and Blue Coffee. Truly legends, titles did not lie.

I honestly can't remember what video bought me to your channel, I havn't played aoe2 in YEARS but I LOVE the game to death and I love watching your videos. You are one of my favorite people on the internet bro , so kind and genuine, thanks for your work with the videos mate.

I love how Jon was pushing himself with these textmassages in the beginning

Tiny is a fan favorite in Age of Mythology. Infinite resources, but very limited space.

15:20 lol That mining camp mistake followed by that villager kill 😂

I literally did find your channel from the first Forest Nothing map. I had only vaguely heard of AoE, let alone #2, but the map and idea was just so stupid I loved it. I haven't watched your channel for a year or 2, but here I am again lol.

I discovered this channel through watching Hera play. I found him by looking for skilled players after getting back into the game. Stayed because you guys seem to have fun here and the narration is on point.

Crazy that this still lasted more than an hour.

They would actually get a good amount of gold. Trade carts are based on the percentage of maps traveled.

I can't recall which video it was specifically, but one of your pro level tournament casts was my introduction to competitive AOE2 and got me back into the game after having played it as a kid.

*Tinest Map Ever

Ah the devs played with the size of the tree stumps? That explains why klicking wood feels weird lately

enter the space age and build a photon cannon, you may need a pylon, perhaps even an additional one

T90: the stories come naturally T90: I got second place in the spelling bee

I remember watching as one of those 75 people yeaaaaars ago! Surprised to see you pop back up as a recommend and even more shocked I never subbed back in the day. I remember watching all the fun matchups, they were always fun and relaxing to watch even if I never got what was going on haha.

To answer one of your in video questions, I don't remember the first video of yours I watched. I started watching AoE2 down a weird path of watching ai play games. So I was watching another channel do ai battles/comparisons and then I believe some tournament you had casted showed up and then I was hooked. Love the content, keep it up!

What initially brought me back to AoE2 was an old ZeroEmpires' upload which featured some real funny islands game and I think ended up as his most viewed one. Years later I rewatched it and LEL started to pop up in my recommended and here I am.

Your cast of Jordan vs Viper BO21 is what got me into AoE2. Was a age of mythology fan and there wasn’t much content of that out there and some aoe2 stuff seemed more popular and a bo21 caught my eye cuz I thought it must be great. And it was. Worth a rewatch!

Wow... flashbacks! I used to play AoE with a bunch of friends (lan-party? :D ) around 2002. I can still remember one of my favorite games... I was a part of a group of 5 people who would get together for AoE every few months (again, 2002, so my memory is a bit thin on the details). This was back when you had to lug your tower PC and your CRT monitor around and spend an hour getting all of the PCs set up and connected to a wired LAN. By the luck of the draw, I was put on a team with a husband and wife pair... both very aggressive players. We are set up on a large dining room table with the other team of 2 in a different room. I'm always a long-game, resource player, which worked perfectly. We got dropped on the map with our 2 opponents in one corner, my 2 teammates paired center-map and I'm buried way on the far side of the map. I went into resource mode, built a strong trade network and started funneling resources to my team and completely dominated the back half of the map, not having to do any defensive work as I had my 2 team members up front. As long as they were happy I was safe and I was shoving so many resources forward, they were always happy. I raced my civ through a technology path quickly with my extra resources... completely undefended by my own means. An hour or so later I looked up at my team members and said "How you guys doing?" Response: "It's almost an even match... we gain a bit of ground over here, but lose it over there." Me: "You guys still running cavalry and archers, yeah? Pull 'em back now." Them: "What? You feel like joining the game all of a sudden? (and they laugh, knowing that I'm a resource player)" Me: "Yeah... unless you want to die in the blast from the nuke bombers on the way, I'd pull your little horsies back." 10 seconds later you could hear one of our opponents in the other room shout "I've got 'em on the run! CHARGE!" (he was seeing the retreat of my teammate)... Then the other opponent "Yeah! Mine are running too! We've got 'em!" The change in tone of voice in the next 10 seconds was hilarious... "FUCK! They've got NUKES!!!" Once the first wave of nukes were dropped, it cleared about 1/2 of the enemy territory. My teammates swooped in quickly and the game was a lock within a few minutes. Our opponents gave up before I could re-deploy the bombers. :D

The legend of Wall is how I found this channel, I absolutely forgot about this game and how much I loved to play it. I would spend hours playing as a kid, one of my first games my dad gave me. I just recently got back into it and has helped me cope with a lot that had been going on in my life, so thank you

What brought me to the channel was playing the OG version of aoe2 (before my download key stopped working) and i thought "hey i wonder if there are any youtube videos of 4v4s" and thats when i clicked on the first video which was from this channel and introduced me to THE VIPER whom instantly became my favorite player to watch and ive been watching the odd game here and there ever since. Love the game, the players, the community (including viewers) and ofcourse the best aoe2 caster T90. Looking forward to more of the tourney games the loong ones 😂

T90's first forest nothing video was what introduced me to aoe2. And to this day i still love watching the nothing maps.

First video I discovered of this channel was the first "I sit" vid and is still one of my favorites

Your videos are all I see on my RU-vid homepage and I'm okay with that. I love what you're doing for the AOE community and for my childhood, haha. Will need to join your discord or something.

Jon with the 4th wall break 😂

There are so few trees on this map, you might as well call it "Straggler Tree Nothing", 11

Can't remember which video brought me here. I just remember this being my favorite game as a young chap and I must have stumbled across your channel and I was shocked there was still content being made. Hats off sir.

I remember when Age HD came out in 2013 and i started following Memb and other legends who were streaming content. Pretty sure i found T90 super super early because of those feeds on RU-vid. By the time he went full time in 2016 I had been watching for over a year with a couple buddies. Amazing where this channel has gotten in the last decade. Keep it up man!

Jon has obviously played these settings a few times and knows an exact build order

Lydia has hilarious savage energy.

What brought me to your channel was Blue Coffee and all of the regicides and pilgrim that you would broadcast. The whole colonization and diplomacy are my favorite aspects of AofE2

The first video of yours the algorithm put on my front page was an exploding kings match. And I've been hooked ever since.

The original legend of corner boy vid was what got me into the channel personally

16:30 the villager that messed that up needed to die for his mistake. truly a good manager who recognizes this.

i couldn't remember what it was that brought me to the channel and then i remembered it was the legend videos of Wall. I hadn't gotten into AoE II DE mostly cuz i didn't know it was a thing but AoE 2 was my fav RTS and DE made me get back into the game super easily. Been playing the game off and on ever since!

one idea i had for a map was just a regular map but with infinitely spawning enemy petards (or some other kind of horde), so on top of fighting other players for resources the players are also jus trying to survive the onslaught.

Low Elo legends is what really drew me in. As a fellow 800 king, it always makes me laugh to see you try and explain some of the hilariously bad things people do.

Steve: you killed half my eco! Jon: *oh i would never*

Don't remember the first video I watched, but I was just getting back into AoE2 at the time and was looking for AoE2 content to watch. Blue Coffee was one of the first few games that I wathced and I have been hooked since.

This is my first time on your channel and the first time watching an AOE match on youtube. Thank you so much for making this content. Its so much fun.

That was a great idea. Very fun to watch

Loved it! Relics scattered through the trees would be just as fun.

I laughed so much. This isn't the kind of content I usually watch, but this match was fantastic. Thanks T90!

watching these casts is difficult with how neutral the cursor is. Love your content man

MBL vs the world was the first video of yours I saw. Halb/houfnice in a community game blew my mind. It was my first exposure to an AoE2 multiplayer game.

I remember coming to the channel to watch the second hidden cup I think. Was so fun and was a great entry point because no one else knew who was considered the best player at the start same as me haha

I think the best strategy in this FN with monument and ultra tiny map is the following: 1) pick Celts 2) chop a square in the direction of the monument 3) build a house, go up to 5 vils, delete the house 4) send 1 villager to chop the sides of you TC and micro the other 4 vils as they continue chopping in the direction of the monument (2 vils chopping one tree so they won't bump) 5) you soon will end with a rectangle 3x2 of free space in the direction of the monument: now build a lumbercamp locking your 4 vils in that 2x1 space 6) continue chopping (with micro) in the direction of the monument 7) every 6 trees you end with another 3x2 free space rectangle: repeat points 5 and 6 8) you end at the monument with the best possible time advantage over the other players, starting the countdown and getting wood (not so important but still something) 9) continue (or better, "start") the game with the most common strats for FN just trying to hold until you win by time

That was a great setup- really exciting and fun to see new strats

I love Jon narrating his game for us in a solo chat room.

This video was my first of yours. Needed something to watch I the background at work for entertainment and I was feeling RTS vids. The theme sounded fun.

The first video I ever watched was TLO iSit through recommended on March 10th. But the next video I watched, TLO Simple Joe is what really made me a fan and got me to stick around. I haven't even played AoE, but will probably be purchasing it while its on sale because of the channel.

T90 story time: one day an ad for one of those knock off age of something app games came up and i thought man aoe2 was my favorite game when i was a kid so that weekend i was at my parents house for sunday lunch and found my old age of kings disc, with a rush of nostalgia when i got home i tried to install it on a laptop that still took disc. Well it wouldnt work so i was bummed and the first google search for alternative options came up low elo legends 5 i think on black forest had just been posted which led to immediately installing steam and DE, im not on very often but i enjoy listening to the legend and com videos during the hour drive to work instead of radio or other podcast some days, thank you for your part in this crazy 20+ year old game still being alive today

What brought me in was my therapist suggesting to watch videos to help with sleeping at night.

The lumber camp probably was there to develop some tree cutting skills. It was deleted shortly afterwards.

Low Elo Legends brought me to your channel, I started with Bronze League Heroes in SC2 and got recommended some AOE II one day and thought "why not". Now its my 2nd or 3rd most watched game across videos like this, strategy videos and tournament play.

I really quite liked this. The competition for space added another strategic element to the match. I think doing 1v1 or even 2v2 could be pretty intense.

i did stuff like this back in warcraft 2. tiniest map possible, only a town hall and space for a gold mine, nothing else. it was fun.

Definitely do the biggest possible map with exploding vils but they explode in between kings and vils

I believe the first time I saw one of your videos was after watching Spirit of the Law, it popped into my recommended and I think it was an exploding kings game. Since then, community games (and especially exploding kings) has been my favorite content from you :)

I really appreciated the humor from all the players lol

My first T90 video was definitely a Forrest nothing video from a couple years ago.

i got into your channel back in the day with the viper vs jordan best of 21 iirc