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Honestly I wanted to wait a Tatars build order but like I said the civ was just too generic early, this is much more special. I make a few mistakes in the build, not with the economy but with the military. So make sure to find your opponent fast with the militia because you need to do damage early for this to pay off, and make sure you make your barracks at the front of your base. It takes practice to manage both the early military and hectic eco with this build, but with practice it all becomes possible. Hope you guys enjoy!
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You release some great content, thanks for all the advice
Congrats on the milestone! You've been making some great videos.
You rock dude!
Keep it up thats golden
good work man
Jokes on you, my villagers already have the loom, because I forget to build the 3rd house.
Love this comment :D
ahHAHAHAhahahHAHAHhahHAZHhahHAHHhahHha this is funny because it happens to me all the time.
"the" loom
U r great for this comment that's me every other game
Jokes on you , you can kill 2 of my vills there's allready 3 others idling around a dead sheep
What will happen ehen I try this build order : Militias chased by wolves, then run straight into TC. At home: housed every 5 vills, but that is ok, because there is not enough food to make vills, and also because hunter died to boar to make room for the new vill.
" hunter died to boar to make room".. rofl too true!
It's OK, the important part is you never stopped creating villagers. That is as long as you were not housed...
You can see at 4:41 he already has the militia AND the scout on stand still . (not sure what is it called) . Besides the unlucky wolf stuff that can happen I think this is a great way to prevent them running in the TC . That happened to me to the first time I tried it because I couldnt multitask the militia and my eco at home so quickly.
@@Babachaw Try this on gold rush and round up all of the wolves in the center with 1 militia, so you have your scout+militia on his woodline and the suicide militia with wolves trailing behind him 11
That happened the first 5 times I tried practicing it against moderate ai lol. But once I kinda had it down it absolutely destroyed my opposite opponent in a 4v4 noobs Arabia
T90: noooo you can't cut straggler trees it's so inefficient, build a lumber camp instead! Hera: ahahah villagers go chop choooop
Who is more accurate. Should we cut stragglers or no!?
why does he keep putting the villagers in the town center and puttting them right back to work again?
@@chinedumonuora1557 he's teleporting them
@@StephenDeTomasi what does that mean to teleport the villager? What happens when you teleport them?
@@chinedumonuora1557 you can put villagers in TC for 2 things: - they automatically drop off resources when inside - it is usually faster to garrison, set gather point, and ungarrison vils than to make them walk somewhere (thats what he meant by teleporting)
I can rush in 1 minute. Send all my starting villagers and my scout to murder enemy villagers while my TC researches loom.
wtf is this
@@febrifaturahman8548 LOL
easy to manage a home eco if you don't have a home eco lul
Lol
lvl 1 all in lets go
Man the good ole days of AoE2. Played this when it came out in 1999 and for a long time afterwards. Great great game.
Dude, I can't even talk that quick. Really impressive tutorial, thx!
Saw you casting on NAC3. Great content. Subbed!
Damn kind of bossed up quick when u got to feudal w the double range drop . Impressive build
Keep up the amazing videos, great quality and very instructional. I can definitely see this channel with 100K subs in no time
Wow thanks! Thst would be a dream come true
@@HeraAgeofEmpires2 your almost to 100k man! Just found your channel keep up the work!
3 years and still no 100k💀💀
@@rajarishi1314 no worries, it's 119k now
looks good! gonna force players to think differently, good little meta shake up
this gonna be amazing with vitnamese ally
Thanks for the guide. Very impressive. I agree though with the comment mentioning your enunciation. There's no rush to get to the end of the sentence.
That's impressive that you found this build already. This seems like a strategy that can either put you behind or snowball the game out of control for you. But damn, I don't think I would be able to do damage with the drush while managing my early game eco at the same time. But, I can't wait to see this in pro games.
You should not end up behind if you do it properly, your TC has no idle time and your investing less than in the usual 3 militia drush. Doing it properly is probably impossible for most players though
Awesome build order thanks 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
It looks like you've managed to match your speed of talking to your speed of clicking things in this game. I suggest to watch this in 0,75x speed, I like how you say "enough talking" at 2:26, but ofc you'll continue to talk and explain the BO. Awesome video bro!
Thanks for the video Hera. A tip for making/titling videos though - When your video is titled something, you shouldn't have the first 2 minutes of the video talking about a civ which is totally unrelated. Good luck with your channel. Looking forward to watching your games
Imagine following the rush with forward towers.
I applied this a several times when I started playing online and if you can get good damage (800-1000 ELO) the opponent will reach feudal much later and you can follow with tower rush. A top playing will not delay much feudal time so that's much harder. As a ~900 ELO player myself I say it is really hard to not have idle TC.
Thats insane!" So good.
The thing about spending the resources for an early militia is that if you kill their villagers, it's basically like taking food away from them since they will have to blow more resources on making new ones. To do it so early in the game means you have the advantage of only having to deal with an undeveloped civ. And lastly, food is a huge thing early in the game compared to other resources. So many reasons to, at the very least, harass your opponent early.
Great content! Now, what do you think about a Drush in regicide? Would it work just like this one?
Persians can do also good early rush due to +50 wood and food.
youre sick ! thanks for the video
I just used this in a 4v4 Arabia noob game and it worked perfectly. 2 militia drush w/ scout, keep em off berries and woodline, got like 3 or 4 vills easily before he killed my dudes. Followed up with an archer/pike push in feudal, which knocked out 3 stables, his BS, a few mining camps, countless enemy villagers and his tiny man at arms army. By castle he was completely done. I was lucky enough to get an outer wing/flank starting position. Also, I'm terrible and played horribly, so it would have been much better if I practiced the opening more/didn't suck. Also got pretty unlucky finding him just like in the vid, which wasted time. Either way 9/10 would recommend.
Thank you hera!
Np!
Ty Hera for that, I tried this, I managed to lose 2 vills to a boar, and then I killed the boar with TC while focusing on militia.
I am glad I'm not the only tatar main
Great explanation and demonstration of the drush with my native civ :) One unrelated question, though. I am currently learning AOE2:DE and among other things, I am trying to rise my APM and be very proficient with hotkeys. I notice you clicking the on the town center then clicking on the Advance to Feudal Age button instead of just pressing the Z hotkey. Is there a reason for that? I would really like to know.
Amazing!
Quality content! Next part: try this in an online game.
he did that too
passed down to you by cuauhtemoc - eagle warrior of tenochtitlan
i hope you keep doing videos :)
When Hera is bringing in bore and it goes wrong, it is not because Hera has messes up, it is because the bore has messes up.
I've never seen anyone click so fast!!
Interesting, why not skip loom though? Isn't the whole point of loom to counter early aggression (provided that you don't mess up boar pulls due to lag). At the position you are at, I don't see how any early counter aggression can come your way any time soon.
Good stuff. I will try that online today. One question? Why you pro's put vills into the TC for some seconds sometimes?
A couple reasons they might do that: 1. To move villagers across the tc faster, they essentially teleport over it 2. To move them onto some food source within the tc faster, and this also forces a drop at the same time. For example, if the next sheep is not right next to the villagers, they can tp to the next one, while dropping their food from the first one. This also works from sheep to boar, because if you try to collect food from a boar with sheep food in hand, you will lose the food.
Jeez...this build order looks extremely hard, even with your APM it’s still hard to catching up everything.
Yep, takes alot of practice!
Drush mania! yass!!
Good luck in the show match vs Daut!
Thanks!!
AOE2 is the reason I keep living.
Whilst I think this , unless perhaps followed up with towers wouldn't be sufficient to damage another pro player besides forcing a little bit of idle time , its still pretty crazy. It's definitely alot of work and its debateable if its worth pulling , but nonetheless pretty amazing. Love to see what people come up with
I disagree, i think u transition into a decent feudal age after getting a really fast drush in, seems good to me
@@HeraAgeofEmpires2 Oh yeah , the economy back home shouldn't really be in a bad spot, what I was thinking more was about the damage this could do in a pros environment , maybe im underestimating the damage 2 dark age millitia and a scout can do , but the strength of this particular build is the lack of loom from the enemy, so I can easily see how someone can get caught off
@@HFTVChannel And here we see a discussion between a pro and some random dude about what a pro would do. Yup.
Looks so good without the small trees.
Cumans: Get a unique build Lithuanians: Get two unique builds Bulgarians: Get a unique build Tatars: Gets so overshadowed by the other new civs that they don't even get a mention on their own video
Wow, that will be insane meta
until +150 food gets nerfed. Which it needs to be.
I would try this, but one of two things would happen. 1. Vil dies to boar while microing MAA 2. MAA die to vils and scout or TC while microing boat lure
soooo I don't think you can do this anymore. right?
I had to make sure my video playback is on 1.0x speed... Damn!
In my online games drush only works against lower level players, other people either house wall their lumber camp or relocate their villagers to a safer woodline, which waste a little bit of time, but at least worth a try. Stealing the boar is much more annoying for the enemy in the dark age.
@3:52 How do you have 11 pop at 2:15? Am i crazy, does "Normal -1.7" not indicate game speed? Mine says the same and even if I cheat infinite resources and hotkey the first villager as fast as humanly possible I cant hit 11 pop until 2:55-2:57. Did they tweak the game speeds in the last couple years?
"Dark Humour" Easter Egg.
Hehe, jokes on you I play Chinese and first thing I do after getting food going is I grab loom
I see why T90offical talks a lot about Hera now lol
I just need to lame you to counter this build lol
Or if your opponent is Chinese, early loom, and its harder to make the rush
If I ever get to play this I'll use rush strats because otherwise games take forever. Thx lol
In this new version game are animals like lions, zebras, komodo dragons ?
hmmm Viper beat you Hera, I saw the cast last week due to corona and having so much time :) Im just wondering if Viper has a youtube cast...?? trolling :)
Can this work on extreme ai?
I had to set the speed of this video to 0.75 in order to keep up with everything here
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Damn your microphone is next level ..
The fixed cost of barracks kind of make me think it is better to just go with 3 or 4 man of arms and see what happens to distribute fixed costs over more units therefore not making 2 units so expensive . In the end of the day we have to distrurb opponents economical development more than it costs us to produce those units.
The barracks is also a prerequisite for other production buildings, such as the two archery ranges Hera built in Feudal age. So you would instead have to explain how the wood and villager time can be better spent when delaying the barracks. Or argue for a tower rush, TC drop or castle drop (or wall rush, or kamikaze villager rush!) without a prior barracks...
i'll have to watch this at 0.5 speed
Remember when AI used to go Feudal at 4 mins. Aaah good ol' days
Why is his militia standing around and letting the enemy chop at the wood line
Glitch
I think in another video he explains how it is better to raid in "stand ground" stance, I think so that they don't separate or go off to be killed by the TC.
An early loom could counter this right? But I suppose that’s still damage done since it’s not ideal to take loom very early?
Well even with loom the militia can still harass the vils, i think its best to do loom but also to wall in ur vils
Is it possible to speak as fast as you without mumbling? Impressing gameplay btw!
I'm sure creative strats will emerge with time
How can you be so fast and precise with your mouse?!
should I do this build against Chinese/Mayans? Since they have loom....
Ta-Tars
what if you do not find the enemy in time though? will not this be an waste?
It is. But if you want to win you have to take risks
Your game play give me a head ack. I am playing age of empires since i was 15 year old now i am 35 and still play it to relex my self not to not increase my blood pressure
Hahahha
Hahahha me too I love enjoying the game I hate beeing a nerd fast clicking all over the screen lol
Slavs is faster. Barracks acts as pop space, but you'll have idle tc time unless you build only one militia instead of two
It's the +150 food that keeps Lithuanians going, he still had the wood to not get popped here
Is there a tutorial from surviving the first rush? i always die already then...
I talk about it in my beginner to 2k series. I dont have a aet tutorial though
The Tatters? The Tit for tat-ers? Try Ta -tars, thats the pronunciation :)
One wolf and gg.
if i see right this doesnt work anymore?
i feel u could add a 3rd militia by minute 5-6 too
Yes possibly, but by then ur opponent has gotten loom or walled up, i think its better to just save till feudal. The build is quite tight in dark age
Goth new loom at the start and cheap militia rekts this strat
How would i counter this?
someone should shout out this channel
how unfortunate that the +150 food were nerfed away, watching this in 2024
Drush Frush Crush Irush? No, imperial age is a single rush!
How bout on extreme difficulty?
Liths do get xbow, it's the Bulgarians who don't
True i mispoke didnt i?
Hey i have A question. What Version of windows is in minimal requirements to install aoe2 de i have windows 7 32bit and wanna make sure of game will work on win7 or not?
Win10 is a hard requirement, I'm stuck with Win7 for a couple weeks as well right now, so feel ya
Is this build order viable in competitive games?
Yes if you manage to kill one vill its huge, especially in high elo
Hera in 2022: pre mill dark rush useless
I'm kind disappointed.. I wanted to try this build but they changed the food you start with from 350 to 200 so now you can not do it anymore :( Feelsbadman
defensive trick - forgot to build second house and be forced to get loom early or play chinese to start with zero food :D
Looool i did this with britons due they gather fast food from sheeps they are better for this, persians are better too
Who doesn't like to pick his kebap directly from his sheep
It's either "ta-TAAR" or "TAA-tuh"
standard difficulty..?
TheViper defeated a pro player recently with a faster drush with the Lithuanians. House Barracks -> Drush -> gg. Do check it out.
Hey guys noob question here: why would you want to garrison the peasants and then move them out the next momet?
Video starts at 2:27.
How viable is this against people instead of AI's though? I imagine a person would get loom unlike the AI
In competitive play you usually try to get loom as late as possible (as then you get your villagers earlier). Your opponent might click it when they see the drush incoming, but that might be too late. (Of course, if they know it's coming, they might click earlier. But this is an economy disadvantage too.)
Paŭlo Ebermann it’s too early and usually enemy with no meso civ or no Mong won’t be able to scout enemy that fast
How can i to activate the watch???, Help Plz
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@@oossgl THX!!
@@Riurik1000 NP =)
I can't play it my computer isn't that good lol so voobly here I come
This is not Broken at all