Top 5 Secrets To Never Die In AoE2 

Finally a how not to lose tutorial

Secret 1: Play better than your enemy

Haven't seen the vid yet, hoping 'wall in villager edge of map' is in there somewhere.

Finally the tools I needed to play Age of Vampires 2.

Thank you for all the great content Hera! What a champion you are. Being #1 on the ladder and giving all kind of tipps to all the plebs is just so nice

If I die after watching this video, I'm going to hold you personally responsible Hera

Can’t afford a full wall? Then wall from a resource (preferably a woodline) to the shooting radius of your TC. Helps make feudal raids more awkward for the enemy.

These are some good tips! I knew all of it just from watching lots of high level games but putting it into words and a structured video really helps isolate the actual techniques. For a lower level player defense feels counter-intuitive - I'm losing my base, I need to repel the attacker to survive! But it's more about "controlled survival" by taking calculated losses and buying time in order to win the game.

Awesome video Hera, great tips !! Love the "Push back before Imp tip" ! I agree with this approach and even if I fail to push back, I would mush rather choose to die trying to push back with heavy castle age push back than going up to imp with a ~40 vill lead but still get suffocated by castles, bombards and Arbs .

The first step to avoiding dieing or losing IMO is to NEVER GIVE UP. Some situations are clear and inevitable and youre saving time. But dont give up you could comeback or your opponent makes mistakes!

I find playing Ethiopians and going crazy with outposts helps me build good habits on getting lots of map vision

This matching investment is very interesting, I've never saw anyone talking about that, it could be also an interesting topic for a video

just what I needed me an my brother have been playing ranked and I've almost always been getting pushed and thus video gave me a lot of insight thanks Hera

I was just thinking "is there a video like this?" Very nice. Cheers from Serbia 🇷🇸

Thx! Amazing vid

Hera, your videos are so informative man, you've definitely helped me raise my elo

Just won today using this counter strategy against his forward castle. He never saw it coming. Thanks for the advice!

Not sure if you saw the recent reddit post on market walls but you showed it suboptimal. If archers break the palisade they can range the vill, but place market on the outer tile it can’t

Love your educational/tip videos, very interesting stuff. Do you give us the REAL tricks? Or do you keep those to yourself? I'd be keeping them to myself for sure XD

Thank you Hera, I can finally become immortal

Hey there! Had to drop by to say that minute 7:16 is a classic 🤣 Deleting a villager then, huh? If that's what it takes for a solid defense, I'm all for it! (All in good fun, of course!)

Great tutorial 🔥🔥🔥

Finally, the secret to immortality

For me its playing as concentrated as possible, e.g. often when I feel like losing the game I end up winning and more often than not when I get overconfident and feel like winning I end up losing ;)

another banger

Thank you

Nice audio settings 🤠👍

AWESOME video Hera! I was meaning to ask about defence :). Where's the ideal castle? Just on a hill outside his base? In his base on his face?

Our AOE2 school senpai on point as ever 😊 Let’s hope I can implement one of these points 😂🙈

thanks

Hera the hero

My favorite strat is to just keep expanding outside of your under attack base Expand with tcs to safe spots and get that villager lead while the opponent destroys houses and farms

How to lose tutorial next!!!

I once had a 4v4 Arabia where I hid an enemy villager in a mass of my Paladins that were on no attack stance. My team killed all traces of the enemy including tons of fortified walls. In the end I convinced my team the game was bugged and they all surrendered. I then surrendered myself and gave this guy the win.

No1 Hera how to not die/lose but win HUSSAR SPAMM

Nice

Real Pro tip: If losing, hide some villagers along the map and go do something else and forget about the game.

Can you make a short/brief video on how to play certain maps like which strategies are viable for certain maps.

Once a guy pushed me with towers in feudel age, how to counter that (I had no army)

Just don't lose, problem solved

6. FARM

I came for a vídeo on how to be healthy and learned some aoe2

How not to lose tip: Git Gud

Knight counter pikes

know your enemy 😊

Great video, could you do a video on dealing with a bad civ match up? i.e. Teuons vs CA civs meso vs goths, etc

Hera, you sound down, is everything alright?

Don’t accidentally double click a villager and send all your villagers somewhere, shutting down your economy. This would be stupid and I’ve never done this before

Thanks. Some really good pointers here. That last point is GOAT'ed. I dropped from 1650 to 1500 in just 2 days on Arabia. Facing some crazy aggression and market abuse. Feels like the game doesn't value proper eco balance and in general balanced gameplay anymore.

Honourable mentions: 1. Play a LOT. Like thousands, perhaps tens of thousands of games. 2. Be honest about your assessment where you could have improved each game. Hera was a good streamer before he became no.1 which gave him a lot of crowdsourced feedback to help him improve quickly, but Hera didn't get all immature and rage quit with excuses like 'they just cheated' or 'I just got unlucky with a bad map'. He was honest and analytical about what he could have done differently and then he tested out his theory in the next game, hence back to my first point.

Hi bro i need free software

the secret is think to yourself you missed one, the enemy can just play beter than your viewers so your advices only imply to good players

Good tips but don't agree with the last one. I'm a good defender too and regularly beat guys 200 elo points higher than me up to 1600 I feel first to imp is absolutely essential in some cases. Specially in arena etc where mass army can't do much raiding