How To Do The PERFECT Dark Age | AoE2

Edits by K1

[owlic]

"...guide for beginners"
*instantly begins smashing every hotkey and playing at top speed*
lmao

[mikelivingood]

I like how your videos organically come out of what you have seen coaching. Instead of trying to think about what will garner the most views. Thanks for looking out for your fans and making to community better players. You are the most selfless pro at sharing what you know.

[kanutahytomka]

step 1: resign youre gonna loose anyway

[guillervz]

As someone who hasn't played any new version of AOE2 since 2013, I have to say that it blows my mind that now you can queue tasks with your units. And you can have a button to find the units you want to control. It makes ALL the difference. I remember doing all this Dark Age stuff in the old Forgotten Empires... Also, I see the map generation is way better. You used to have maps where your first sheep was not close enough, or your boars were super far. Can't wait to play this again!

[danyyy_]

Something like this?

first 6 villagers on sheep
then 3 wood
1 go boar
1 more on food
1 make house, then make mill (put house as part of wall)
1 more on food
1 go boar (10 total on boar+sheep)
1 berries
1 berries
1 berries (4 total on berries)
1 wood (next two on wood)
1 wood 20/20 (5 total on wood)
loom
level up
move 5 villagers to another woodcamp
make house + barracks 1 (1 villager on each building so two villagers can defend against scout)

objective:
find all sheep
find both bores (3 if scandinavia)

[codycasey]

I think it would interesting to see a video covering how to properly read/anticipate strategies. i.e. If you've scouted your opponent and they're on gold, but in Feudal you see they dropped two ranges, you should react with X buildings/units accordingly.

[ryanforgo]

On a serious note hera bro, i learned something watching you since i started. I am confident i am at least at 50%-60% of your speed at my average now sometimes a little more. The trick/secret is to nto be intimidated and try to do all the tasks, i made LOADS OD MISTAKES AND LOSSES but one day i logged in and i was like HOLYF, everything clicked and my brain can't keep up with my muscle memory. It started with me trying to scout with 6 sheeps, often i was able to control 2 or 3 max and often i forgot the scout for s few seconds, the tc for a second or two, died to boars... you know mistakes. But i did not stop trying and eventually i was doing all this shit without even thinking about it. That's when it came to me, "i see people at 1300-1500 not even trying to overwhelm themselves so they don't ever learn"

The pro tip is, keep making mistakes, as long as you don't stop trying muscle memory will eventually kick in.

[domingossn]

Thats was a nice tutorial! I think you should've added a quick "what to do next": wood upgrade, farm upgrade, wall with 1 vil, vills to stragglers and then farms... that kind of stuff

I started playing 2-3 months ago, quickly found Heras guides 🎉😅
I finally managed to get a 10:37 24 pop feudal age. My issue is 100% about the vils around the tc..
Great channel/content, really addictive to watch!
I set select all TCs to mwheel up, and next idle vil to mwheel down, really recommend to try this! Also have tab as next TC.

[zacharygamble]

this is dope, thank you.. i saw you play in Warlords today.. was dope, instant fan here

just an idea.. maybe just record the gameplay, and then talk over the recording, rather then trying to manage both at the same time.. allowing you more time to explain what you are doing in detail

[edwardblom]

For people having trouble finding the extra sheep:

The 2x2 extra sheep is always the same distance from yours and everyone else’s TCs on Arabia (unless patched out very recently). Meaning, if you find 2 sheep 10 tiles away from your TC, the other sheep will be somewhere else the same distance. If you lame your opponent, those sheep will also be 10 tiles away.

[CG-ehoe]

One thing you did, but didn't comment on that i find helpful: Take the boar that is further forward first. Makes you a bit safer vs laming.

[StorrSchnitter]

That was exactly what I needed, thank you!

[faruksarihan]

I'm happy the peace hand gesture in the end was not cut out 11

[jorgenieto]

I'm getting the hang of Dark Age, but if something happens I make a lot of mistakes. Would love a video on how to react to drush and laming

[sprEEEzy]

This is the most important video you'll ever watch, guys.

[scoobydooking]

This looks way too complicated it’s insane

[Moody]

I made the calculation and perfect feudal for 20 pop is 9:15. That’s exactly what you did. Best I could do was 9:25. I also was trying a build with 21 pop, perfect is 9:40, the best I could do was 9:49.
For now I’ll stay with the 21 pop because when doing the 20 I often find myself lacking a little bit of food to click feudal.

[TomSEO]

i didnt think i would get any value from the video. But i did. Just the lumber jack tip where the first two cut the inner trees first, was worth the watch. Again/thnkyou. Tommy

[oneoneonefour]

Thanks for the video. It's nice to have something that II can refer to whenever I have trouble remembering what I should be doing. I did think this video would be the Goth endless Militia rush though.