Top 5 Army Control Tips To Improve Your Micro | Aoe2 

This is legit one of the most useful guides on aoe2. Very rare that this type of stuff is covered in a practical way.

Man you're golden for the aoe2 community! Thank you so much! It would be amazing if you did a 3v3 and 4v4 guide :)

cool tips. Number 1 was new to me and seems super helpful. About tip 3 Stand ground: You can also hold the control-key and focus a unit with that. it works the same way and you don't have to switch stance. You can also shift-que your scouts away after a focus kill with control on vill for example. Got this tip from Survivalist.

You don't have to use stand ground with melee anymore. Simply hold CTRL before right clicking. They will focus only on the specific unit you click to attack

This content is gold. I can't believe we've never had videos with this kind of detail, but you do it. We want more!

It may be the most useful video I’ve seen. Thank you, I play the game since 23 years and have never known the tip 1 melee vs melee.

WOW! I have always wished that the formation and stances were more useful and you just showed us how to make it. Brilliant!!! ❤❤❤

It's content like this and guys like you SOTL, T90, Viper, that has helped this community grow and prosper. Thank you for the effort and amazing content. Will definitely use the scout patrol in front of my archers next time I play.

Holding alt while targeting to avoid firing at buildings deserves an honorable mention. A lot of beginners and even low elos with some experience don't know this. It's huge for raiding with archers - makes a big difference.

Incredibly useful explanation of these mechanics. I'll definitely check this video again in the future!

Fantastic video, I overvalued the line stand ground formation for arbalest, literally had no idea how powerful staggered is! These uploads have been godlike lately, keep up the great work.

Wow man. I honestly regret not watching your videos BEFORE I started playing the game. I thought I had the combat figured out but I genuinely didn't know any of these tips and tricks. It's mind blowing the amount of tactics and strategies that go into this game. Thanks a lot for sharing them with us man. I really believe videos like these will make more people feel more comfortable when playing the game and it will grow even faster. Bless!

Thanks for the video!! I've been watching a lot of AoE2 for the last couples years and also playing, but this is the first time I get such a detailed explanation about formations and fighting mechanics! This was really useful. Keep up the great content!

This video is amazing beacuse it shows both, why Hera is the best teacher and also why AOE II is the best game ever created. Outstanding work!

haha, Hera apparently missed the introduction of ctrl click? you can do the point 3 without stand ground, just ctrl+rightclick the unit you want to target. was introduced a year ago or so. another fantastic video otherwise

Super awesome video, love those kind of general tipps you can apply into every single game you play!

Number 4 is so useful in feudal. I used to only play lith because I didn’t know how to chase archers

Amazingggg!! So much of knowledge in this one video and this can certainly help players of all levels to be better... Thanks a ton Hera.

So good. Haven't seen (or realized how to execute) a couple of these. Thanks Hera. 🥊🥊

Learned something new in every single number god damn this slapped. Thanks hera.

Amazing tips. Thanks Hera

Hera I have pro tip for you can control right click the spear or any other unit and the army will ignore everything else and just kill this unit. So you do not need to use stand grand anymore and snipe monks easily. This works for almost year now

Just wanna give a shout out to you hera! These types of videos are a great help for the aoe2 community

Thank you Hera, these tips will make a huge difference for my game

Was looking for something like this for a while now, stuck at 900 elo

Thank you so much Hera, this video is incredible!!

Wow. Can't wait to practice this. I'll need to come back to this often because there's no way I can memorize all this at once.

Hera - committed to creating worthy adversaries

All really useful tips! Would love some siege unit/army control tips (as I suck with it)

One of your best Videos this year. I Loved that i could learn something eventhough im a good player already

These are the video's we're looking for Hera, these tips videos are awesome and aren't widely available nor explained that well, a great follow up on the 5 tips for each unit type. How about 5 tips for siege or monks? Would be a great addition I believe.

Thank you for sharing your knowledge! 😄

Great video 👍

Extremely useful. Thanks so much :)

Sick! I had no idea about some of these!

Awesome video, been playing for 3 years almost daily and only knew 2 of this.

another banger as always

This is why you're my AoE2 GOAT! Thanks Hera!

Hera, you are legit. This tips help a LOT, I'll send them to my friends so they suck less, hahaha

so so useful, thank you!

thanks for these explanations

Thanks Hera 😄

Oh yeah here we go!

Look at Hera, so inspirational. Fantastic video my man 👍

Thanks bro! I was just wondering why my scout rush felt so clunky when trying to attack just one villager, as opposed with older versions of the game, stand ground solves this! Cheers from Mexico!

Nice top 5 Hera!

Could you make a video explaining cav archer micro and kiting in this game?

Loved it thank you

Hera this is Very useful. Thx amigo.

Love you, bro.

Top work. I learned something new. I'll be cheering for u on red bull

This video is gold!

6:00 this trick is irrelevant now as you can just hold Ctrl as you click a unit with agressive stance

Cool vid!

Good Tip HEra!!!

Tu es le meilleur Hera, j'adore tes vidéos, merci d'entretenir la flamme d'AoE2 jusqu'en France ! 🇨🇵

Needed this thank you

This new series are awesome

Hi Hera. I've been playing Age of Empires ever since it came out. I was a 2.1k cba hero player on Voobly in 2015. I was not extraordinarily gifted but an excellent TG player. What I really don't understand is why you of all people do not happen to play 4v4 cba hero scenario, which requires a lot more skills, stamina, endurance and perseverance. Why isn't cba hero as popular a game as RM? I'd be more than happy to narrate your games. Playing cba hero all comes down to not only your skills and but more than that how much of a tg player you are. I know numerous top players play cba hero in order to learn how to be better in combat. As smurfs, of course :) I used to teach slam how to use his army more effectively while we were playing cba hero together. He was the only one to use his real nickname as he played hero with us.

Thanks 👍

Good stuff

Thanks for all this content. It is very useful for those of us who are low level. Hugs and thanks Hera

super good

Honestly the "patrol into units", which i never did before lol, won me some games

Very nice tips :) is it worth it to stand ground patrol into a group of ranged units? Or only melee vs melee?

These Tips are massive, some I already knew but the Melee refering where completely new. Im at 1150

Awesome video. Can't wait to show off these tricks to my fellow low elo Legends.

there is so much cool stuff in aoe2!!! i might choose it above sc2 at this point

Also general RTS tip beyond just AOE2 - always target the glass cannon first if you can reach it.

Just something to mention, as theviper found out recently when teaching Grubby, patrol and attack move is no longer better than right clicking a melee attack command, when you right click the closest unit. The units will engage properly if you right click.

Thank you

Thank you.

Thx!

This time nothing new for me, but the vid is definitely very good!

Hey Hera, thanks for the tips! Question: when an oppo uses the runner trick, what is the counter play? Manually retarget the clumps of your archers firing at the runners? Disengage? Curious what you would do in that scenario.

didnt know most of this mind blown

If you hold the ctrl button while targeting you can still use the aggresive stance effectively.

Thanks

You can use ctrl + right click instead of stand ground and they'll commit harder to attacking the selected unit

Hey Hera! Can you maybe do an updated video about archer micro? I'm not really sure how to best micro crossbows running away vs knights now for instance. I generally walk and do target micro but it doesn't work perfectly with overkill and is sometimes tricky with getting the right hitbox. I know before people did some walk away + attack move micro but I see in a lot of video's that the way that works changed a few months ago. Is this still the best method and if so how does it work? In red bull I saw most strong players not using target micro so I guess they use some other trick!

imma use these tips, i just mouse right to attack, or standground on a hill, if my units are going to the opponent's TC

I love when Hera gives us just the tips!

Anyone has tips for best usage of control groups and overall about selecting units? In early game it's easy to have control groups because you make like 4 scouts or 10 archers, but in late game when you producing units from dozens of buildings and they get scattered all over the map it becomes really difficult to even select a combination of units you want... And control groups becoming useless cause units die really fast and get replaced by new ones almost immediately...

best tips ever

Isn't ctrl+right click better than stand ground?

Legit !!!

Hera is the Lebron James of AoE2

This is truly one of your best videos and that’s saying something!! I was expecting some tips that are too advanced to even attempt. But some of them seem possible even at lower level, plus I’m proud to say I already knew #3 :)

Do you make use of speed bonus of formation? Viper used that a lot to chase army with archers.

Its pretty insane. My opponent tropped a castle to me yesterday, he had about 12 longbowmen and few a kinghts out, i patroll killed them so fast with my xbows. its powerful

I need to drink Hera's juice before doing some of that micro-God things 11111

Wow I never realized that formation and stance affected patrol/attack move behavior. That's insane

Hey hera have you got a drushing micro vid?

Great video! Do you think in late-game it's better not to have ballistics, if your opponent is good at using runners?

i envision Hera as Ender from Ender's Game books

Youre gonna regret all this fantastic content when I take your spot as a top 5 player in the community 🤘🏼

gold info

Best aoe2 streamer with best content ever.... 😎😎😎🤘🤘.. 👍❤❤

1:58 since i found this from the start as i was "looking for the function". for gamers, this is like when you push the attack key then target the ground behind the enemy to order your character to attack everything in it's way. Exists in every strategy game but AOE2 is indirect about it sadly

12:47 Damn. That is scary, even if useful. Especially since I tend to prefer Archer civs.