TheViper Faces A Defensive MASTERPIECE [AoE4] 

RU-vid algorithm brought me here. I don't play AoE4 but can still appreciate the entertaining cast + the beautiful defensive layers of walls at choke points. This shit fulfills my LOTR Helms Deep scene. I was rooting for the blue guy even though I don't know any of them.

now THIS game is what I imagine when I think "Age of Empires". this has been the greatest game to watch so far, very exciting!

Kaup was absolutely masterful. When you were saying that Kaup's roaming back and forth along the back lines was a wasted effort, I was looking at how Viper was looking behind him, instead of forward at Kaup. Outstanding return on investment, 4 knights and a scout buying invaluable time to build up defenses and infrastructure.

YAY! Finally a late-game cast where the English can't possibly lose!

i dig that enthusiasm of yours, really can see the difference, when you are excited about a match and when not so much.

Narration. Game. Players. Trebuchets. Tactics. Choke points. Tension. This has it all. Finally a worthy AoE game again.

36:30 Shout out to that mad lad villager who starts an enclosure/farm next to a destroyed landmark and the front lines.

The strategy was to bleed out viper's units & resources at an impenetrable chokepoint. Viper was also unlucky to have his trade route crossing the battlefield. Great game!!

Not gonna lie, that was a SICK game. Great job Kaup.

Those walls from Kaup and the small harassing raids from Kaup from the beginning were key to his Victory.. very cool tactics both thematically and strategically.. a hard fought battle from both sides.. A job well done too from the commentary as well.

I never knew I needed this in my life, but I love it!!! I'm trash at AOE, have been ever since 2001, but damn I love watching people that know what they are doing

Thank you for releasing this Drongo, hope you have a blast in Berlin !

Recently got the RTS fever again and this is by far the most enjoyable cast I've found so far. That's an easy sub for me.

Watching someone actually beat Viper is incredibly satisfying.

One of the funner games I've seen. Excellent commentary as well, per usual.

Absolute beast of a game to watch. Probably one of my favourite AOE4 games to date.

This was the type of game I've always wanted to watch! Ty for this one😍

you do a great job talking the game through. Keep up the solid work!

This was legit exciting lmao. great commentary!

GG on both sides! Great commentary. Thank you for the content! Really enjoying it.

Ive watched a few of your videos since AOE4 launchesdbut your commentary here made me sub! :D The trebuchet sounds effects killed me.

This is one of the best English mirror matches I've ever seen. Great casting too, keep it up.

Great commentary my dude! Felt like i was watching a football game lol. Great enthusiasm!

Gotta go with the flow. This was incedible. You did a great job sir!

I'd love to see unique upgrades for abbey of kings and / or maybe makes any future monastery to have the abbey of kings passive. Would be interesting to have forward monasteries to do some skirmishes, have low HP units retreat, or do a full retreat to a more fortified position, heal up all units without needed a monk

can we get a casted game with sfx turned off and he is doing all the sfx himself? it would be BEAUTIFUL XD

I just came across your channel and I love your videos Keep up the good work

This is why I've always loved AE4, always an ebb and flow to the match, back and forth win -loss-win-loss moving the line forward and back, RTS's like starcraft seem to always end in a surrender after a battle with no chance to come back, just a big clash and that's that.

Great commentary and game play!! Been a long time fan of Age of Empires collections :)

Thumbnail: "He made only bombards!' Beastyqt: Makes springalds, mangonels, trebuchets and bombards

Fantastic commentary. Great match!

That was brilliant, and brilliantly casted too.

What an action packed non-stop game

I rarely leave comments but dude you are incredibly entertaining to watch. Good commentary w/ a mix of gameplay/strat analysis and casual talk. I don't even like AoE IV but watched this whole thing. Keep it up man!

amazing, was so fun watching, thanks for sharing

In Armies of Exigo, there is Temple building (Empire faction). Temple heals all nearby non mechanical units. Players usually were building a wall using various buildings, and the Temple was placed in the pass in the wall to heal units defending the pass.

Saw this live 2 years ago but it still holds up as one of the best AOE4 games ever played!

Damn this game was fun to watch no matter which age fan you are. At one point in the game I was like, now this is what Age of Empires is all about!!

Sounds effects is dope! New lvl of commenting 😄 Love it!

Loving this.. if I didn't end up watching more adverts than gameplay. RU-vid doing a number on me. Keep up the good content.

Watched this game and wanted to play exactly like that. The other day I had a boom game with 200 vills/traders and 0 military and 200 military when attacking :) Such a nice map to learn late game and use every unit available in the game

I would like double or triple the radius, remove the out of combat modifier, but also reduce the heal rate a bit. So it doesn't massively impacts a battle, but overall it will help to keep villagers alive between raids.

Wish this happened more in all RTS games. People playing, with a commentator over the top. Makes it all so much easier to follow and enjoy

Congrats on your first video with 1M views!

That's the sound of the army of the dead Living on the mountains , send a knight and they'll fight for you

Tbh I think this game displays one of the key issues this game has. You destroy a big defensive landmark and your opponent just rebuilds it instantly, and you just end up in a stalemate game where you keep destroying the same building over and over again

Man I love your commentary!

This was chaos! Brilliant.

It’s what i love in âge of empire, building à City with a strong défense. We see that too rarely… I know it is not stronghold but i really like défense

Such a crazy and intense battle. Insane !

The landmark effect could either apply to keeps, or to network of castles. It’s not very versatile as is, made worse because it’s the first landmark you drop so you can’t really set up for a forward drop where it could be useful.

Enjoyed that mate

English trebs are one the strongest super late game units in choke point games. Reason: They out range everything, shatter projectiles make their AoE actually "okay," and network of castles dramatically increases their attack speed. Of course they need ranged/melee support. In the multiple max resource 4v4 games I've played, I found that opponents just can't deal with mass treb + castles (even chinese bombard/nest-of-bees death army gets completely destroyed by it). The downside is that it is just an insanely slow push and requires a massive amount of resources+wood. (Also villagers adding castles//towers)

here is a tip for that trade situation: wall the market in with a long line, forcing the traders to walk in from the far safe side. little longer route, but defo safe.

well I'll be damned i though i never gonna see a treb def/ siege combo tho the keep and the walls played huge roles in the defense too . GG to both players !

The only game where I'd rather watch than play. Bravo, great voice, great commentary. 👏

the total war series allows you to follow ranged shots with the camera too!

"aoe2 days are over" it has 5000 more average players

Dude that was one of the best casting of an aoe game ever. Putting others to shame here. Big sub!

for a moment i thought i was at the races watching the horses run, cool AOE video !

If you look at Vipers main TC, to the right of the monument there's a cart with OPEN sacks around it. The other TC has closed sacks. But if you look at Kaup's TC's they both have closed sacks, but his second TC has a smaller cart along the left wall. So there are other, probably randomized, differences.

Having those landmarks early to hold the pass was really good. Viper couldn't bring his own closer to the pass anymore

25:50 i know its really hard when you're in the moment, and the commentating was amazing. The likelihood this ever happens again is slim, but quicker than "A chokepoint of death" is "a fatal funnel" the term we use for door frames and whatnot, but same concept. Just food for thought; great work regardless.

I am so happy you treat this like watching a sports game :P

Love a good mountain pass meat grinder. English and HRE have a lot of potential after the 1 hour mark to keep the steamroller going.

Excellent game! Excellent commentary!

In AOE2 we also have also a tech that defeated Viper; we called it 'Fatslob'

You are a potent refree, loved that ❤️

I always love trebuchet when I play AOE 2 doing a massive vandalism

watching games with kaup is just something else for me

I didnt play a game like this since Empire Earth but i still watched this complete video^^ Was very interesting, i think i should get into this again

In Reign of Kings you could watch the missle flying

Probably the best mirror match i've seen!

I'm just imagining both of these players smashing their keyboard nonstop for 20 minutes. lmfao

Top notch commentary!

I think for Viper, Positioning few mangonels behind Berkshire palace would have done considerable damage to the frontline units. Anyway this was a fun battle to watch.

amazing commentary i'm sure these hour long AOE videos would be boring without it

I believe is Total War, if im not wrong theres an option were u can manually shot ur artillery and the camera follows the proyectile, i have seen that in Total War Warhammer not sure in how many of those games theres also that option

wow I dont even play this game but the commentator and gameplay was amazing and very interesting to watch!

The Treb meta is welcome imo they have their own war with the other trebs and buildings while the main armies can clash free of being one shot by the dreaded mango

You can follow the Projectiles in like every Total War Game. At least from Rome II. Greetings

damn that was a great match viper couldn't get pass the mountain pass blockade shows how good a defender corp was

holy shit feels like im watching a bloody movie mate

I always wonder why the attacking armies can see the defending ones inside a wall. They've break down the wall before just directly shooting arrows at the armies inside.

I was just having a conversation with a group about Abby of Kings and seeing it actually played really makes me want to run it more.

The most aggressive g'day I've heard yet

I remember the 'following projectiles' from total war series

Great game. Those six trebs were delivering insane amount of dps non-stop which Viper clearly realized but not sure why he didn't counter with Springalds

Wow! Just.... WOW! This left me speechless!

Bombards seem incredibly balans. They can demolish walls with a few salvos, walk into range of trebuchets and castles and then walk right out with barely 20% health lost while being focus fired upon. Ezy.

Kaup Fatslobing it up as we say in AoE2.

29:28 Generals: Command and Conquer has a feature that can follow nukes in the air its so cool

Abbey of kings should apply to network of castles (with an upgrade)

when you said it sounds like an airplane is taking off.... IRL it thundered here as you said it.... creepy!

Viper got caught with his hands int he cookie jar and then just got snowballed

THIS WAS BRUTAL!!!

than you you're amazing sound effects

When you push a good player in late game, never start with bombard only. Make sure either Mango/ Brits Treb being enough. Supply them with armored units.

this was a really good game i love fights in the wall

First place I ever saw a follow projectile command was in Treasure Planet: Battle at Procyon