Good ally civilization combos in team games (AoE2)

In this 2024 update of a 2016 video, we're going to look at the best civilization pairings and synergies in AoE2, whether that be through team bonuses, complementary tech trees, or any other reason civilizations become more than the sum of their parts!

0:33 2v2 combos
7:45 4v4 combos

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Game: Age of Empires II Definitive Edition

[SithijaWijesinghe]

I find Teutons and Mongols to be an underrated combination that complements each other. One has slow bulky melee units that are hard to kill and the other has exceptional bonuses for light cav units and cav archers. And for the ultimate meme combo, you can fill Mongol drill siege towers or Siege rams with Teutonic knights and send them straight into the enemy base and see chaos ensue.

[Elavid]

It still remember years ago when some dude made Malian condos against me on Arena. It was super effective!

[Floris_VI]

I would love to see a visualisation of the last teams trade bonuses vs a fully generic teams trade

[AgentForest]

Back during the original Age of Conquerors expansion, my friends and I had LAN parties all the time, playing AoE2 on teams. My brother and I were the best, so we always had to be against each other. He preferred Britons and Mongols, providing siege/archers to any team comp, and it was always a nightmare dealing with him. But I'm more the economist type of player, so I was usually the Spanish. I'd wall off half of the map and have 30-50 trade carts, and bankroll other teammates. One of our friends took up playing the Persians a lot because I could make my own army and still help fund his elephants, lol. The Spanish trade bonus is just so good. Having mounted healers also helped stretch my team's resources even further.

I think the worst moment I had playing against my brother though was when his friend chose the Teutons, and loaded his Teutonic Knights into Mongol siege rams. They charged my walls on Black Forest, and drew my attention... While my his Siege Onagers blasted out and around the side through the woods into my base from behind. I very nearly lost, but had a back-up TC in my friend's base. I was able to bounce back and micro'd my hussars to each go after a different onager so most of them shot themselves, but my main base was almost gone before I'd even realized. I thought the war horns were about my front gate, as I was dealing with the horror of siege rams as fast as cavalry unloading Teutonic Knights. One of the hardest fights I ever faced, lol.

[pavise]

Aztec-Vietnamese alliance is my personal favorite, where Aztecs benefit from Imperial skirmisher+atlatl and Vietnamese can make more battle elephants thanks to 33% extra relic gold bonus.

[MadArcherJr]

A very unique team I played with on islands once was Portuguese, Magyars, Cumans, and Saracens. Pretty sure we won that game since everyone made use of the Kipchaks and landed which made the other team panic from the number of free units being tossed into their bases. Granted everyone had about 3 to 4 castles plus someone managed to land a castle on someone's island which meant more Kipchaks to raid with and I think they got the castle next to their trade too. I can't remember it all as it was a while ago.

[berniethekiwidragon]

The meme over the thumbnail is unintentionally appropriate.

Rest in power, Carl Weathers. 🕊

[Predator]

I enjoy looking at these civ combos and going "How fitting or ironic is this combo?"

[inductivegrunt]

Goths, Huns, Britons, and Celts. I call this 4 player team Industrial Revolution with how much production they have for all non-castle military buildings.

Byzantines are a great ally too with cheaper trash able to support any army comp from any civ by making up for any weakness the other player had while also providing 2x heal speed for Monks.

[tankofnova]

Teutons and Britons.
Absolute bulldozer melee and siege paired with longbows

[Tiitra]

You have no idea how long I've been waiting for this video since the first top 10 Civ Combos. Thank you!

[Dabeyoun]

Lunch time and SotL video drops. Nice.

[churchofmagic]

Bohemians, Spanish, Italians and Hindustanis for quadruple lategame trade bonuses and gunpowder armies. Outside of the gunpowder and trade, you get some monk play with the first two, some archery options with italians and bohemians, strong anti-cav options from Genoese Xbow, imperial camels and bohemian halbs. It's a very strong combo imo

[BeetsPerSecond]

Nice unintentional tribute to Carl Weathers in the thumbnail

[kivarm]

Armenian + Cuman feudal ram+longsword combo on arena is really great
Also Armenian warrior priest with Fereters tech and Byzantines team bonus heals 8 HP / Second

[greatscott]

Used to watch your vids when I was 20. Didn't watch for ages, now I'm 30 and you're still crushing it. Absolute legend 👍

[TheKobasen]

I miss obsidian arrow...

Old Saracens with foot archer +5 against building and Mayans arbalest with +8 against building. They can destroy even fortified walls pretty easily.

[JewelManDLN]

In the old video of top 10 best team game civ combo, I also heard you mentioned Aztecs and Byzantines as a #2 best team combo because their tech tree and play style can cover each other's weaknesses: Aztecs is a strong early game aggressive civilization with Infantry focus, while Byzantines is a strong late game defensive civilization that can provide cavalry support.

[KCzz]

One I theorised some time ago:
Turks, Berbers, Hindustani, Gurjaras

Together they have fantastic combined synergies for Hand Cannoneers + Camels + Genitors, all backed by great Bombard Cannons and some of their unique unit options. Basically it's the ultimate counter pick team, no matter what the enemy team tries they can theoretically hard counter it.

[Walgriff]

I feel like this is, in the world of aoe2, a huge subject, with so many tantalizing possibilities. Awesome video!