Tying Strategy to Eco-Management [Age of Empires 2] [ES SUBS]

Build orders are just the first part of your strategy. Eventually you have to adapt out of it and do something else.

In this video I go over how to balance your economy depending on what units you want to make.

0:00 - Intro
1:52 - What makes a build order good?
2:59 - Rebalancing the economy when clicking up to the next age
3:57 - How to adjust your economy to defend a tower rush
6:51 - Nerd math to estimate resource collection on the way up to castle age
9:30 - When to add new production buildings including town centers
13:15 - Considering the civ matchup
14:17- Transitioning from crossbowmen to long swordsmen vs eagle warriors
17:55 - Closing thoughts

[martinlocurcio]

The advice given in this video is pretty much free coaching for everyone. I really aprecciate this kind of content.

[Rxon]

Really great video, not many creators make this kind of content, you are the very first creator that explains the game itself, and not just build orders or strategies

[FacundoTupac]

This has to be one of the best AoE videos ever made. That chart at the very start with the strategy is spectacular, would love to see more of those plus your explanations

[drunkf]

Why Survivalist is my favorite? He has at least two great gifts: he is able to share his knowledge with others a very clear way. And dont forget about the piano pieces which makes me happy anytime I listenning him... Great content, which gives us some hope to be a better player on one day. Thanks a lot.

[ubellubo]

This channel deserves to be one of the biggest AOE2 channels.

[navataru]

This video is a literal gold mine, relic, maxed out farm production, and infinite woodline; all in one. Please make more of these. Your explanations make a lot of sense and breaking it down into resources per minute and number of resources and pool setup required to fund the strategy is genius! It's simpler to follow and makes mathematical sense. Not to mention way more easy to adapt.

[kimkwangseokfan]

Dude you definitely deserve more subs. This is top stuff for new, but serious players

[LightGreenCorona]

You described exactly the flaws of my game: Floating too much ressources and not having the ressources when they are needed. My take away message from this is to actually redirect villagers to another ressource, learning the numbers for this "modular gameplay" (e.g. 2 on Wood, 4 on Gold for constant Archer from 1 Archery Range) and to be "ahead of the game" (e.g. planning what to do with a building, such as Blacksmith or Unversity, and preparing for that, probably with redirecting villagers.

[johnbaker]

You deserve way more subscribers than you currently have.

[NickBrown]

Holy smokes!!! This is genius. I've memorized a build order only to find I don't know what to do once it's done. This is soooo helpful!

[franciscogomez]

This channel is everything I need, really. I am sick of lessons that really are gameplays and not leassons

[stevehuang]

the example of the transfer from archers to long swordsman handling eagles is quite impressive.
thank u man. really helpful!

[jupiteroptimus]

Thanks you so much man. This is especially the thing i needed!

[benw]

Man this stuff is gold. Been spam watching like a Byzantine on trash. So helpful to be walked through the theory behind BOs rather than being on autopilot (which is what I was doing)

[adielg]

Thank you very much dear Survivalist...
For the new generations this is gold in minutes of reproduction. In my case, given my family and work obligations, I play little (although I love the game extremely), my lack of skills (and time) conflict with my reasoning and decision-making (which I consider superior, perhaps due to my academic training and experience). Tremendous dichotomy!

Please, never stop having those good intentions and dedication.
Infinitely grateful!

[Pai-Vinay]

Fantastic video, one stop shop to understand all about ECO Management . have been looking for something like this for a long time! Thanks.

[KERLER_]

as the writers before I woud like to mention that I appreciate this kind of coaching. I just left my subscription. well done!

[smaruh_]

Awesome Video, especially the chart with how many villagers you need per building was super helpful! 11:17

[flowdugie]

I am planning on learning aoe2 this year, so these vids are heaven-sent!

[theblackknight]

One of the best Aoe2 tutorials i've ever seen. Keep it up man, you rock!