He Tricked Them All

This Community Game the Kings could NOT garrison! Some clever trickery happened to bamboozle everybody!

This video was created under Microsoft's "Game Content Usage Rules" using assets from Age of Empires, © Microsoft Corporation.

[jadekaiser]

I think Gray was a lot less clever than he though he was. He had a decent strat, getting everybody to do everything for him so that he saved his own stuff, but he completely neglected to actually... have stuff. Or defend himself. He was all "I'm teaching everyone a lesson in diplomacy!" meanwhile the only reason why nobody was calling him out, or bothering to pay enough attention to notice was because he was pretty much irrelevant anyways.

[Zakuzelo]

I like this ungarrisonable kings version for the amount of actual fortresses we get out of it. Less stacks of castles, more layers of walls.

[cybe]

That "charge" had me in stitches. Great game. Ungarrisoned kings should be a community mod moving forward. I think it makes the game so much better.

[waynesmiley]

CrazyCarter: barely holding on in these fights
Jon: who are you fighting?
CrazyCarter: I'm surprised my king ain't dead
CrazyCarter: too many at this point

Says this with zero kills 11
This exchange had me rotfl

[giantWario]

I honestly feel like Jon is the only one that CrazyCarter actually fooled. Everyone else knew exactly what he was doing but didn't care because they were trading with him and he was the bottom score.

[SpaceMissile]

41:13 - "Grey is like the guy who texts 'i love you babe' to ten girls at once"

lol perfect

[wknight]

As a software dev myself, I'll put it this way: Imagine you have to add a commentary track over a game recorded back in 2002, but you can't remember what the meta was back then, or what the balance differences were back then, and you don't know what the players were thinking. So you start talking about what you think the players should do, but they don't do that, so you kind of look like an idiot. Then they start building huge numbers of battering rams so you say "oh, this must have been the meta at the time" but then it's completely ineffective so it couldn't have been the meta so you look stupid again. Then you try to predict who might be the winner of this clusterbomb, but then the guy you thought was winning resigns and you look like an idiot again.

[christiandouglas]

Grey keep saying "a lesson in diplomacy, never trust anyone"
I think he missed the more important lesson here in this game, "protect your damned king!" 🗿

[brandonatherton]

Grey really hurt me in this. I thought they played so well with the diplomacy and faking everyone out. After they got gated in, I was really expecting once the fighting got going that they would send in woodcutters to cut the king out, that way they wouldn't set off any flags to orange while they were distracted. Or as Yellow suggested, get some petards. Was super disappointing, because I think they could have had a really good fighting chance in the final 2.

[ayush]

Since T90 didn't mention it, let me clarify what Grey tried to do when he turned on purple:

He tried to replicate an epic mic drop moment from an older game, I think most of us would remember the moment, but for those who don't, this is the game (Regicide Rumble 4) :
Explosive hopper tried again | RR4 1:20:17

[gloowacz]

RollerCoaster Tycoon was made in assembly, with C inserts (WinAPI hooks for open file window functionality), not binary. Nobody programs in binary since 1950's.

[synka]

you could do a weekly event called "king of the week" where its a regicide game and the first person to kill a king wins, I think it could be fun to see what people try to do to get that first kill

[TexanMiror]

Haha, gray was amazing in this, what a player - he perfectly recognized what seems to be the current community game meta (everyone into big alliances, no aggression for a while), but put himself into all the alliances on the whole map. Literally just larping an entirely different game in the chat, while doing nothing on the field. Great job, even though his lack of skill seemed to finally get him in the end. Doesnt even matter that most players probably just ignored him because he wasnt threatening: it still worked, and put him into top 3 without any problems.

[TomSEO]

CrazyCarter's response "too many at this point". Hahaha!!! Classic

[rubenmaessen]

In greys position I thought about making two monks to convert the two orange villagers.

[seventeen]

This was an amazing diplo game, glad to see people still pulling off unique strats after all these years

[peaceandloveusa]

I had literally just thought "Grey is over here playing The Game of Thrones" when you said if he was anyone he would be Littlefinger. Love it.

I was really hoping Grey would win. He was such a legend. He should have pretended to launch on yellow so orange wouldn't kill him instead of pretending to launch on orange. The fight was happening on orange so he could have told orange he was counter-attacking yellow, while telling yellow he was coming to defend him from orange's possible counter attack. Basically, buy himself time for orange to fall and free his King, then he is already in yellow's base to attack once orange falls.

[TomSEO]

"Grey, How many guys you fighting!?"😆

[Barde_Jaune]

I was waiting for Grey to just send one or two swordsmen next to each king at the same time and declare war for an instant victory.

[shoonseiki]

Grey is the goofiest player I've ever seen