30 Tips and Tricks to Improve in AOE2

First of 30! More to come soon!

TheViper | Professional Age of Empires 2 Definitive Edition Player for GamerLegion | Sponsored by Re-Bo

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0:00 - Intro
0:26 - #1 Dropping Off Resources
0:46 - #2 Idle Villager Hotkey
0:54 - #3 Control Groups
1:07 - #4 Trading
1:29 - #5 When to Start Trading
1:38 - #6 Priority of Economic Upgrades
1:55 - #7 Wheelbarrow and Hand Cart
2:07 - #8 How to Display the In-Game Clock
2:17 - #9 Chat Shortcuts
2:33 - #10 Target Behind Buildings
2:47 - #11 Military Units and Animals
3:11 - #12 Feudal Scout Bonuses
3:24 - #13 Castle Eagle Bonuses
3:40 - #14 Team Bonuses Apply to Yourself
4:02 - #15 Monk Conversion Time
4:24 - #16 Switching Conversion Targets
4:35 - #17 Conversion Resistance Technologies
4:57 - #18 Farming Tricks
5:21 - #19 Hotkeys
5:32 - #20 Cancelling From the Global Queue
5:43 - #21 Building Repair Costs
5:56 - #22 Stone and TC Repairs
6:15 - #23 Unique Siege Units and Conversions
6:25 - #24 Xolotl Warriors
6:45 - #25 Garrisoning in Rams
6:51 - #26 Garrisoning in Siege Towers
7:02 - #27 Markets Give Allied Vision
7:13 - #28 War Galley Upgrades All Ships
7:23 - #29 The Second Page of the Dock
7:35 - #30 Khmer Houses
7:49 - Outro

[sogomn]

Damn I'm getting the feeling this guy knows a thing or two about AoE

[johnorsomeone]

Ummm… toxic comments. I’m a professional farm-healing monk and everyone is acting like I’m some kind of unheard of freak. My father was a monk who healed farms, and so was his father before him… so, get over it.

[T-West]

2:25 so that's what Ornlu says about me...

[matthewfelgate]

20-year-old game; I'm still learning new things.

[utkarshgandhi]

This was actually a wonderful video, carried by the moustache

[xxComeGetSomexx]

Just got back in to AOE2 and i just love the fact that the community is freaking alive and well and boomin' !
The video was great! Thanks for putting in the time to make it.

[foxyamy]

1:07 - 1:28 You don't necessarily need to send trade carts/cogs to allied markets/docks, you can trade with enemy markets and docks too, though with the risk of getting the units killed.

[thiswillbeyournameacrossal]

4:05 noticing Lord Daut for the 1st time. Beautiful.

[rajatsharma-imor]

I'm a relatively new player and never realized we've a second dock page😂 those fire galleys always got me wondering. Thanks mate :)

[SurvivalistAoE]

A couple clarifications and expansions:

When monks heal fish traps and farms, it costs wood as if a villager was repairing them.

War galley upgrade not only upgrades the 3 types of ships, it also makes them train significantly faster (War galley: 60s -> 36s, Fire Ship 65s -> 36s, Demolition Ship 45s -> 31s)

[Oakenlix]

"Meaning your team bonus can still be very helpful in 1 v 1 games"
*Cries in Spanish*

[tehstrongbad]

I really wish there was an attack-move command that ignored buildings. So annoying when I'm trying to tell my troops to rush at the enemy and they decide to veer off and start attacking a lumber camp that is apparently more important than the enemy army that's bearing down on them.

[maranathashalom]

Fish trap: "Evolution theory kinda doesn't make sense."
Monk: "Let's have a talk that will change your life..."

[milanlosic]

You are always so positive and with good energy, your videos are so relaxing to watch. Thanks for great content!

[redmond]

Perfect timing for me, I've just started practising build orders vs the AI yesterday. Hoping to get going in ranked over the weekend!

[rasmustagu]

Thank you, I love watching videos like these no matter if it's anything new or not. Have rewatched beginner tutorials countless of times just for fun.

[smlsdfy]

Wondered how to cancel global queue for about a year, thank you Viper for teaching

[Lexcommentyoutube]

These types of vids are great! :) I've just started making the transition from avid aoe watcher to an actual player and the amount of stuff you think you know from watching and actually being able to execute it, is crazy :'D Current Elo is like 1300

[Kelari]

A really helpful video, thx! Especially the repaircosts and the conversiontime were something i wondered about 😊

[jorgedelamora]

Bro i love how you give us your best in any way possible, nice content