Top 5 Tiny Tricks To Improve Your Game | AoE2

00:00 - 00:38 Intro
00:38 - 01:39 5
01:39 - 02:28 4
02:28 - 03:20 3
03:20 - 04:22 2
04:22 - 05:12 Honorable Mention
05:12 - 06:16 1
06:16 - Final Talk & Outro

Edits by @TOPSRoundnet

[Oakenlix]

The dock: - What is it? This is not fish. Go away, peasant!
The villager: - Wait, I'm a fisherman now. Therefore it is fish.
The dock: - Alright then! We'll take it.

[eriqborg]

For me, number two with petards was an unexpected reminder. The fact that I knew the rest is just a compliment to the community that managed to educate me a lot. 😀

[jokoska]

A couple even tinier tips: If a deer starts to walk back you can reset it by shooting it with one vil. This comes in handy when you are pushing near your mill on hideout. When you spam farms click the new mill last and the vils will auto distribute rather than build the farms as a mob. Now if I could only remember what % of heavy plow I should place farms at.

[woodslboi]

Thank you for the great output lately, Hera! You are a very important pillar in the aoe-community and we all appreciate your work! Keep it up and the best of luck to you!

[changyanwang]

Hera you are a blessing to the AOE Youtube scene. Easily the strongest content creator for competitive learning

[nelsonmejiaslozada]

another good tip is that u can garrison vills in your allies tcs and they will add up the resources that they carry to your stockpile, sometimes i do it in nomad

[Madoxbeatbox]

Holy shit how did I not know you not losing the wood when making a farm. Constantly was shift clicking to town center and then make a farm – already worth to watch the video after a minute. 🤩

[arsm]

Watched so many pro games, that I actually knew these. Whether I'm able to utilize them in my own game is of course another matter 11

[redmatte]

Didn't know about the petards having a bonus Vs rams, Thx man!

[jandrenth]

Apparently I know my shit 11, finally something which I do know. Great tips for someone who is newer and/or didn't know this yet, keep up the good work hera!

[retrohunter]

I never thought of using petards for rams, thats really clever

[praevasc]

Thanks to you (and T90 and SoTL) I started to play ranked and I had more successes than I would have imagined at the beginning, thanks to all the hints and practices I learned here. So thank you for playing a big part in re-invigorating this community!

There is however one topic I haven't really seen discussed: how to decide when to take a fight? Especially as we can't have perfect information about the enemy. Sometimes after reviewing a loss I realized I could have won the match right then and there if I took the fight, but instead I waited too long to gather more units. Or that it should have been obvious that I should have retreated instead of wasting my army and making myself open to a counterattack. But with the fog of war it's often difficult to decide when to take the fight and when to wait a little more for reinforcements. Even if I sacrifice a unit to run forward and scout, it's often hard to decide on the spot. Maybe worth a shot if you run out of video ideas :)

[kazogai]

I just never thought of petard but I knew others. I would probably take a few vils to fight rams in that situation 11.

[hds]

The last one I never thought about doing. That sounds nice for nomad maps. Great video

[niksyt]

funnily enough, I knew the #1 tip but didn’t know the #2 tip 11 I watch a LOT of competitive AoE2 and have not often (in fact, never!) seen Petards defending against ram rushes! I guess that’s because most high level pros are always scouting the opposition and thinking one step ahead, so they’ll often have a mangonel ready to EZ kill those rams! (or BBCs in Imp vs. Siege Rams)

[MetalKingII]

I thought I knew my stuff about aoe2 but I actually did not know the last one. Well played Hera

[cdmcinnes]

I was confident going into it 11 Learnt about the petard bonus & the Sicilian 235 pop bonus. Thanks mate

[Othello]

I only knew 4, but it was nice to see it demonstrated. I suspected 3, but I didn't know exactly what was going on. 5, 2, and 1 were new to me. Thanks. :)

[alerionlynx]

As a long time aoe player I do appreciate the effort set in the controls
Aaaaand as a long time aoe player im also having fun squishing all the newbies. Can absolutly learn alot playing someone ages beyond your skill level, and I have 0 problem being that guy. That being said it is quit interesting holding back just to see what or how someone reacts. Especially someone with 0 rts game
*WP!

[hunterdianovich]

Great tips!!! I didn’t know any except number 1. I learned that by accident on nomad, I built a dock, than lamed an opponents boar, forgot about it while my guy was collecting, put him on shore fish and I got the food!