Top 5 Fundamental Mistakes All AoE2 Players Make

00:00 Intro
00:41 5) fighting and economy
02:01 4) expansion
03:14 3) monastery and relics
04:46 2) giving away intel
06:42 Honorable Mentions
07:48 1) phantom units

[kudoushinichi]

I would add a mistake that I have seen in almost all ELOs: FIGHTING UNNECESSARILY. There is something in our mind that makes us want to fight even when we don't need to. We see a mango "alone" and we get desperate to kill it, we try and lose our whole army, when we would have won that game by waiting 1 more minute gathering army.

[italianlawyer]

Your background video also gives me another example: disregarding an enemy option (transition) just because their civ is bad at it. Like the Celts Paladins.

A good counter is good even with some upgrades missing (this happens with civs with bad cavalry in general as one mever expects them to go for it).

[beetoven]

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! I asked for an all-Elo tournament and 3 days later, you deliver. I also feel like you've been watching my games: just a couple nights ago, I managed to collect all 5 relics as Lithuanians, held them for about 2 minutes, then an opponent smashed my walls and stole every single one in the space of about 30 seconds. It was so humiliating! Fortunately, my team held on, but it was an embarrassing lesson! You're a great teacher, Hera. Keep 'em comin'! And thank you for all the content that includes hopelessly slow players like myself!

[gabesfrigo]

A common mistake I see quite often is tunnel vision.

People losing track of the whole map, focusing on a single hill or just both players spamming the middle of the map while there might be gaps on the flanks that with a couple of units can change the tide completely.

[DrRobGilles]

Another mistake I see pros make all the time is how they strategically place farms.

It seems silly to some but there is no reason why you should ever build farms on the side of a TC that is vulnerable to an attack before you place them on the safer side first. Not only did you waste wood on an idle farm but you often lose a vill too.

I see this stuff all the time. You have a TC on a wood line. Guy builds a farm next to wood line not on the inside of the TC away from woodline

Same thing with TCs outside of base. Guy builds a farm towards where they are gonna getting push by a Mangonel or castle dropped instead of away from it.

Then you have to delete them or leave them idle

Or you make a mill after you already have a mill. Or make 5-8 farms when you have 8 idle farms from dead vills.

I know the games are fast paced and you can’t make perfect decisions but it’s just bad habits and fundamentals that add up and lead to many dead vills and hundreds of wasted wood.

[MacTheKnife]

Very interesting and informative as always man. I suffer from many of these, so it's great to hear a quick condensed version of how to avoid them. Great analysis

[Bogues_]

My top one mistake ... Watching to many videos on YouTube and not playing the game. 😂

[JonasW-zcth]

„Because knights counter pikes in early castle anyways“ (knowing about that nili situation of the past) we love that banter man xD

[ponchopalmera]

Haha, "knights counter pikemen in early castle age". I got the Nili's argument joke 🤣

[myic]

T90 catching strays.. NOWHERE IS SAFE!

[jasonsmith]

I recall a pro game where 1 Mayan player had a castle near the front of their base. The opposing team saw the castle and prepared to fight Plumed Archers. They hadn't seen the barracks behind the walls and so were caught off-guard by El Dorado Eagles. Giving away info may be a mistake, but only if the info is accurate (otherwise, it's a feint)

[ns-islandsroblox]

Hera, please make a guide on how to play nomad. It's by far the hardest map to learn for people who only play Arabia

[Holoether]

Great stuff. Thx.
Hope you do your own tournament - Hera’s Cup or something - where you play show matches with all the non-qualified or something, in between. Your casting and analysis and sense of fun would make it rock.
Could you be just a caster for two weeks? Challenges challenges.

[TimWilson]

Celt paladin, honestly what a time to be alive that was 😅👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻

[paulbuschmann]

Please someone tell me what mode Hera was using at 1:44! seems really cool and simple i like it

[raulpetrascu]

Watching this I think you should make a video using the Art of War by Sun Tzu to win in AOE

[JasonPTA]

Everything in this video sounds like common sense BUT

When you start to play and you start exploring the dark and your getting attacked it just goes out the window 😂

[aleckim]

Bro, I play this game since I was 4 and am still a noob, just found your chanell hopefully it will get me bettrr

[Tembies-jktx]

Very good tips and things to be reminded of at all levels of play.

[lonewolforigin]

Monks and relics is my problem. I often forget they exists, especially on arena. I got a big eco and getting the army ready when the relic victory countdown begins for my opponent. 😅 Then desperation and mistakes follow