I Got Challenged To Beat This Campaign On Hard...

#Ageofempires2, #AoE2, #Hera

[dakotabanks]

You can trade with the Persian ally, which is arguably more efficient than mining gold.

[Angrydudu]

Hera playing this mission:
Chillin & having the time of his life.
Meanwhile I still go to therapy with severe PTSD from this mission

[markbelcher]

So well-played!

I am a campaigns only player, 59 years old. Don’t play often enough to have any real skill, but I’ve been enjoying AOE 1 and 2 since they first came out.

[hellohellohellohellohello-hl]

Honestly, you doing all the campaigns would be sick.

[quasibrodo]

There’s an alternative strategy to just go out and defeat all the opponents.

You should replay, start building a wonder, delete it, then try to defeat all the opponents

And yes, I’d like more campaign stuff.

[masonc]

bro I was literally asking myself today, "What would it take to get hera to play some campaign?" I've never clicked on a video so fast in my life

Edit: would def love to see more campaigns. Try one of the new ones you haven't played before and soak in the excellent storytelling. Armenians and Georgians have really good campaigns

[MapleWillowAspen]

Genoese were Byzantines before Italians existed, regarding your question later in the video.

I'd love to see some campaign content on this channel. The defensive strategy here is imo actually harder to pull of compared to going aggressive early on and taking out 2-3 enemies right away, so excellent work with that one :)

If you're looking for some specific campaigns scenarios that are challenging and well designed on hard, here are some I'd recommend: Kotyan Khan 2 (The Battle at the Kalka River), Thoros 4 (Bloody Crestwaves - okay, you could argue about "well designed" for that one because it's in a one sword campaign, but it's definitely challenging), Rajendra 3 + 5 (Rising Star, Slaying the Vritra - some of the best macro missions in all campaigns) and Jadwiga 4 and 6 (The Siege of Vilnius, The Fruits of her Labor). The Jadwiga campaign in particular is often considered to be the best of all the campaigns by a majority of campaign fans (it's also worth playing just for the story, being propably the campaign with the best writing and storytelling, though one should propably play the Algirdas and Kestutis campaign first, because one of the characters from that one features heavily in both campaigns).

I don't doubt that you can still propably beat each of these on your first try, but I think you'd have a decent amount of fun with them. If I could pick one I'd want to see you play the most, it would propably be Jadwiga 4 (The Siege of Vilnius) - not because it's the hardest, but because I think it has some of the best design elements.

[TinyZu]

The best part about this is how excited Hera was about everything - even the fact that his teammate conjured elephants out of thin air.

[ChepMurdoc]

I loved the “It’s been 15 years since I landed on an island with gold, west of here” nostalgia moment.
If you loved the classic campaigns, you are gonna go crazy with the newest ones; they are a different game.
I need more content like this @Hera. Thanks!

[shinyguru]

Had no idea about you or your channel till youtube reccomended this video to me, more campaigns please! This was a really fun watch

[KroM]

Your take playing campaigns is absolutely unique here. Love the insight you provide, and it really feels like you have a blast. Please do more!

[floyd]

I can’t lol every time he starts a campaign. “I’m about to go in raw”😂😂😂😂

[aa-zecz]

This was awesome to watch, Hera. I would love more of this. Exciting to see a pro player play the harder AI maps.

And you shaming the teal 'player' was hilarious. I had a pretty hard laugh on that... "Teal is costing u guys the game btw" 🤣🤣

[edevrs]

Your love for this game is so contagious ❤

I haven't tried it yet myself, but since there is now the option to co-op campaign, maybe you could team up with your brother, or maybe Daut? That could be great fun to!

[darkyboss]

in my personal experience, the alternative route (defeating all enemies) is way easier than defending the wonder, clearing all the right side with hussars and mamalukes let you collect a lot of wood and gold for bombard cannons and just start pushing the remains enemies, and letting them out of resources killing all their siege

[Icehawk]

I was always just campaigns for the last 25 years up until the last 2-3 months I finally started doing some ranked games with a friend (thanks partly to you and general excitement from watching tournaments). I absolutely love the campaigns!

[mikelivingood]

I remember playing this around 2001. I did not have build orders. I did not know any counters not listed on the game card. Population limits were 75 at the time so going up to 100 was a challenge in and of itself. I lost quite a few times as I was defending the walls. Eventually I won with less than 100 hp on my wonder. It was exhausting. I didn't know there was gold and stone elsewhere, so after running out I was selling food to repair my wonder. I had over a full side full of villagers repairing. It would have been helpful to know they could have destroyed rams.
This was by far the hardest challenge. If Hera is going to do campaign events an APM limit like Viper has been doing, will be needed to make it any challenge at all.

[hrotha]

What you said about how AoE2 has something for every kind of player is so true. Nowadays I mostly watch competitive multiplayer games, but back in the day the strongest draw for me was the game's insanely robust scenario design community. The game didn't have many official campaigns at the time, so people took to the scenario editor straight away to make tons of custom scenarios and campaigns. The variety was WILD, like from the more multiplayer-leaning proto-tower defense scenarios to strictly SP, quasi-RPG campaign experiments. And that's never really stopped, people have been at it for 25 years now and continued creating a functionally infinite amount of gems. It's super cool

[asdfjoe]

More of this gameplay please. It was a nice change of pace from the usual 1v1 ladder stuff we mostly see streamed.

[TheKurzzze]

Well played!! I always delayed the wonder a ton and focused on taking out some of the enemies first, but it did take ages since you'd just be sitting out the timer really..