Top 5 Tips For Infantry Players | Aoe2 

Props for making many of these scenes aesthetically nice and pleasing to look at.

For those 4 people beside myself who plays infantry...

I wish the devs do some gentle buffs so that we can see more Infantry. Right now it feels to me like an entire class of units is lacking... Great video Hera!

I find even when not playing goths say playing vietnamese I am always aware of the need to get infrantry like prepping barracks for a counter with halbs ready. This is the case in team games where often players are so focused on their UU or their prefferred unit that they seem to refuse to go for options until it is a bit late. Unlike goths I personally love like vietnamese due to more flexibility in unit comp but it is so expensive to get all the upgrades.

My favourite as Goths is to go scouts into knights, so they go pike in reply and then once I have my castle up, I smash their pikes with husks - and their pikes don't do any damage as my knights just avoid them. Admittedly got the idea from watching Hera play Goths.

1) Open with infantry 2) Don't make infantry too early :D (I know, nr. 2 covers the game phase after the initial opening).

Amazing job with the content, topics and edition in this videos man! Thanks so much!

Also worth mentioning: 1) if you’re facing Gurjaras then you should just alt+f4 2) fully upgraded Urumi Swordsman is the best infantry unit in the game, when massed it can fight Franks’ paladins and it’s not even properly countered by Elite Cataphracts. Dravidians also have bombard cannons and the best skirmishers in the game 3) generally you can’t pick your battles if you go for infantry as you lack mobility and range, but building well-separated clusters of barracks and grouping them in different control groups can be a very good way of dribbling those constraints (even though this is mostly viable in imp/post-imp situations)

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0:46-Drush :- 2 to 3 militia used to harress opponents villager and make sure to wall your base to avoid feudal pressure 1:17-Man-at-arms :- Your Man-at arms will be uncontested is comes at the time you reach feudal age when opponent won't have much military buildings as militia is made in dark age and upgraded in feudal age 2:53-Play early game without infantry as infantry are only good when they massed as they don't have mobility like cavalry so that they can run against bad fights and they become strong when massed because cavalry has to deal with lot of units that deal bonus damage(even when you are civilization like Aztecs or goths) Another advantage of playing with knights or archers is that when you switch to infantry then your opponent won't have immediate answer 4:54-Pike And Siege/Monk combo:- Siege will destroy Archers/Buildings and Pike for cavalry and monk for heal and conversion can be done in castle age 6:00-All Eagles with monks and siege to support it 8:28- Countering siege::- Go for redemption monks or go with your own siege or cavalry Countering Monks : Mass Infantry or light cavalry Counter Range Units like Archers: Skirmishers or siege

Just an another nice Hera video 👍 Also Infantry civs always go for Archers or FC after the opening. Bec. Drush->Scout is not good for food eco.

As a Slav main, this is essential

nice video again Hera. Thank you

Good video! Hope top 5 Monk Tips is next.

these videos are very helpful

Love your tips and guids man! Best in the business!

Thx for another great video

I love playing Malians, but I always thought that the extra piercing amor for their infantry was a meme stat. Now I want to try an all-in castle age swordsmen+siege push

Great video! Just one small thing: Please slow down a bit when speaking, your tempo is so fast that it's sometimes hard to understand what you're saying. :)

Thank you hera for this content I am getting better and am at 1300 with these tips

Hand canoneer are good against infantry too, but sometimes they shoot too slow and get swept.

i really love the scenes

That intro music got me nostalgic about a certain Rhino. She was nice, she survived through darkage to the promise of feudal and Castle. Cant remember what happened to her. Idk dont think it wasa villager or anything just something tragic

Top 5 Monk Players, Top 5 Siege Player, Top 5 Tower Rush Player, Top 5 Douche Player.

great video

great video sir

Shouldn't the ram with infantry (longs and pikesmix for best results) especially really early or really late be quite better now as they boosted both recently? Like 3 loaded rams is 18 units now right?

I want to use this for playing Dravidians. Their infantry skirmisher combo is underrated.

Hera, Why do you not have an alternate account named "Jan Hussar" yet?

how to do the under TC trick? what hotkey or stance should I use?

"I didn't forget about you infantry players, even though the devs might have" Damn, Hera's getting sassy! 🤣🤣🤣

Nice

Hera, I want to ask you, what would be the change (in marketing or gameplay or whatever) that Age Of Empires needs in order to attract more players?

Thx

Could barracks units be useful for a civ with generic inf but with an inf UU? I main Poles and love the obuch but can find them hard to produce at times. Of course I play to my strengths and take advantage of the cav bonuses, but I am aware that I often have the upgrades in mid/late game. I just don't produce any other than obuchs because I never see anyone else play infantry. With longer lasting gold and more food, surely champ or pike spam could be useful at times?

thx

next can be Top 5 Tips for Siege players

nice

Hera, what do you think of Infantry + archer line combo? Since Knight + archers is popular and all. For example LS + pike + xbow. In general, infantry counters die to archer units -except siege-, i.e. jaguar warriors, teutonic knights, cataphracts, samurai. Opinions?

Goths are life and Skrims are the veins

Are you gonna remake EW civa after New patch

Infantry GIGACHAD

1:54 "If you want go infantry just don't go infantry" I hope recent patches can deal with this at least a bit xD

Recently i was shocked how well malian longswordmen was doing vs archers. They take so little Arrow damage.

at least two more units counter all the infantry: cataphract and jaguar warrior

expected Huns longswords as #1 tip

What do you do against cataphracts?

I thought all five tips would be: 1) Don't do it. 2) Don't do it. 3) Don't do it. 4) Don't do it 5) Don't do it

Bloody hell you actually did it, thought you'd do a half assed parody video since infantry is pretty much considered a joke and how absurd archers still are. Glad I was proven wrong then. This is my personal opinion, but I'd say celts is arguably better than malians when it comes to fight archers in feudal age. Celtic MAAs, while squishier than Malian MAAs, are faster than archers and are able to catch up the archers with some effort, instead of the archer pelting your infantry without having a chance to stab their faces, celts can actually run them down, basically being pseudo scouts in early feudal age. Worth noticing that I said early feudal, because once the enemy got +6 archers with fletching, celtic MAAs get micro focus fire down without them having a chance to retaliate. By then the celt player is forced to go skirms/archers of his own. Malians are definitely better than Celts in castle age however, not only because you got stupidly tanky longswords, but also because you can research Squires and actually force an engagement with your infantry.

Next up, Elephant Player Video

Most infantry civ got decent skirms Burnmese:

What about teuton, best infantry team in the game

Infantry CHADs rise up!

There was a Game between Hera and daut on heras channel where daut bild 6 man in total and completly destroyed hera. I have been looking for the game but I can't find it. Maybe you can help

I've been tinkering with this weird idea for a while now, but what if Infantry had a unique ability where they could garrison in enemy buildings if it was damaged enough? This would give them an offensive niche that Cavalry and Archers wouldn't have. When garrisoned inside an enemy building, they could perform a number of actions: 1. Fight and damage enemy garrisoned units. 2. Stop and/or slow enemy production/research in that building. 3. Decrease the maximum garrison for that building. 4. Ransack it for a modest gold bounty. For a unit that doesn't have the range of archers or the speed of cavalry, you can't really buff the unit into the meta without just boosting its stats. Giving it a thematic--though admittedly weird--boost might be the thing they need.

1- Switch to cav

I wish the devs buff or change infatry, and I will play only GIGACHAD Teutonic Knight + siege monks

Who is gods civ he is talking about

Wish Devs make Dravidians Elephant Archer and Naval civ

I love the intro because it points to one of the primordial truths of the game: Cysion sucks at his job.

Top 5 tips for infantry players: 1) Don't. 2) Really, don't. 3) Seriously bro. 4) Are you for real, still trying to infantry? 5) Eagles.

I was sure tip #1 would be: Don't.

Ok Tip number 1: pick goths ...

Do even exist infantry players?

#1 Tip for infantry player: Don't play infantry

So the best tip for infantry players... dont go for infantry xD

Top 5 tricks for infantry players: #1- Dont

Tip # 1: Don't play infantry.

Top tip is: do not be an infantry player.

there is no infantry players dude. are you kidding? after archer/xbow meta we can just play militia rush. give us infantry back. they are most weak status in all AoE 2 history.