Hello guys and welcome back to another zero elo uncle episode. And uh it is important to clarify my uncle is no longer zero elo. Uh but if you saw in the last episode he's about mid400s and recently started to to test out a civ I suggested the Japanese. Now since that episode I actually got to hang out with my uncle in person, talk to him a little bit so I can give you some insights from that. But yes, uh let's get into it here and see what ank is up to. All right, so here's ank in the red. uh one of many games he's tried with the Japanese since that last video. And I'll get into uh what I suggested for him with the Japanese. But this is actually mega random. And they actually start with three pre-built houses here, which he noticed right away as well, which is pretty crazy cuz like for me, I instinctively just build two houses right away. But he was like, "Oh, let's assess the situation here. I don't need houses." Which I thought was pretty cool. I think many people out there watching would agree. Now, Ank did say, and this is maybe the highlight of our conversation about Age of Empires, uh, I'll just throw it in at the start of the video. Ank did say, "I give him way too much credit." He's like, "Yeah, he he gives me way too much credit. He says I'm doing things for reasons that I didn't even know existed. I'm just clicking things and playing the game, basically." Uh, but little thing you need to know about, he's far too humble for his own good. All right. So, I'm going to attribute great plays to you and I am going to continue to make excuses for if bad plays happen. Okay. That is that is what a that is what a true nephew would do. Um I thought that was kind of funny. Um but anyways, he's here in the red. He's playing as the Japanese. I'll tell you why I think the Japanese are good for him. Um and it's just because the infantry, it's the samurai. And I'm trying to get him addicted to this unit. I don't think he's had the experiences with this unit that I was I wa

Uh but anyways, let's play Arabia versus Kons. >> Oh, okay. Fairies are here. Get that going. I'm not sure what's better, building it with one and then garrisoning a little bit later or building it with two and garrisoning a bit a bit faster. It's I I have no clue what's better. That that could be that's like a math thing. Somebody could calculate that. Off the bed. See you, Doc Maggie. Thanks for being here. All right, we found all the sheep pretty quickly. It's nice. All right. Schedule. Uh, yeah. Yeah. Uh, for me, I'm I live in Japan, so the scheduling with Europe is a little tricky. Your morning is usually better for me, unless you just stay up until 3:00 a.m. But, uh, yeah. So, right now it's 10:20 for me. So, I usually stream until around maybe 3 or 4:00 my time. So, I am usually on for another 5 hours or so. Five plus hours, you can say. All right, >> so let's get a little house palisade combo here. Actually wanted to place that palisade a little bit more forward, but it's fine. Okay, I found everything. Actually, we can go scout them. I didn't scout the back properly, but it's fine. >> My boar is kind of on the outside. >> Okay, this is fine. I'm going to take this wood line. It's over by my berries. >> You don't need a lot of wood. Just a bit. >> There's his berries. So be very careful. More common to use cash or card in Japan? Uh both is common. Like I mean card is becoming more common in older restaurants. Like there there are still many cash only places. There's even a cash only grocery store as well that I go to sometimes and they just have like better prices basically and uh you can buy in bulk and stuff. Ankar are extremely powerful. How are people not rating this? Yeah. Yeah, they're they're super super strong. Their early game is a little weak because of the the mill thing, but yeah. No, they're they're very strong. They just don't have arbolister for late game and they don't have knights in the mid game. It's lik

I don't really s pick these days though. Oh my god, it's up against phosphoru. Why do I have selected? >> It's going. What is he cooking with? Burmese actually. Wait, I could do um I could do grenaders though. Or is he going to play monks? I don't know. Is he going to do a rambi? Wait, grenaders could be okay. They could be horrible, but they could also be okay. I guess we'll find out. Eight chickens is kind of making me feel like I want to funnel that. I think I can. It'll be worth it. Then I can protect my gold and wood as well. Yeah. Okay. I know what I'm doing. He might go for the infinite drush though, so I'll have to watch out for that. I'm going to take this forward line. This is not one of his top tier cives. I think though >> it's not as scary. You can say I'm going to get three on wood right away. That taper being behind the wood line is kind of awkward for me to take. Okay. >> Oh, yeah. My my food doesn't decay as well, so I will be splitting my bills a little bit more. >> Uh, but yeah, let's just get this down before he gets here with militia, right? He might do that play. He He loves that play. Probably want to just come back for that in a sec. Need to bring in this four. >> Oh, it's like walking further away, too. >> Oh my god. Come on. Okay, >> it will be fine though. >> Oh, I just got lame by the chicken. I I'll be slightly housed here. for like half a second. Where's my other pig? Must be up here, right? Surely he didn't take it. Surely bossy wouldn't take it, right? Yeah, it's here. the feed. >> I think we're might be force or close spawns here. Yeah, he's here. >> It's fine. As I said, we have no decay here. I have no clue why this guy's on the other side. Like I it's I'm clueless as to why it doesn't make sense. Holy moly. What even happened? >> Oh, that's uh it's a little bit yikes. So we can play grenaders, but we can actually do archer like a few archers first as well. >>

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Hey everyone, first post on this sub :) Been a fan of AoE2 on-and-off for many years, I remember the first. I was browsing the DE player icons and I saw one I really liked, but it's an IAP. I was wondering if anyone knows whether this comes with any other icons or just the first, and if it's actually worth buying? Thanks everyone! https://preview.redd.it/nj0nfys3cdah1.png?width=805&format=png&auto=webp&s=a57def8dd789c187c71949c119545fbf9c10f77c

But a converted champi runner gave in and is building outposts. Wouldn't it be cool if all converted units retained their building abilities!

https://preview.redd.it/ctqjxi43acah1.png?width=755&format=png&auto=webp&s=6c0ffd21685c5b3a166a7a218e740199836f07a2 It costs a pretty steep 400 gold for a (from what I can gather) pretty insignificant effect. 4/5 of the ships you can face deal melee damage and there are really only two sources of pierce damage your ships can take: Fortifications and Galleons. Galleons already have really high bonus damage vs. other Galleons so the +1 pierce armor seems pretty insignificant, not to mention you'll likely have Carracks/Fast Fire Ships in the front anyways. Carracks already get shredded by Galleons and Fast Fire Ships hard counter them, so not sure how much it would affect either of those dynamics. Galleons also have far more base attack than normal archery units so +1 pierce armor would theoretically block a much smaller percentage compared to land archers. Fortifications already shred ships with bonus damage so pierce armor doesn't matter at all for them. Am I missing something or is this just an incredibly niche tech, even for water standards?

People are absolute dickhead nerds with their scouts PTSD has me making sure my vills are always running the buddy system and ignoring repeated slaps in the ass while building

Inspired by u/any1Cthis 's wonderful aoe2 auto scout, I created aoe2 spy. In a live game, it displays opponent's elo AND opening strategies and followup strategy of the past games on the same map with the same civ. For example, in this screenshot, the opponet did Phosphoru with Spanish in in all recent games. So expect it to come! https://preview.redd.it/z7kdu5sxzbah1.png?width=680&format=png&auto=webp&s=c0dc53f31cd7e0b9912bbffb76a61dc1ff52c6ec I suggested this feature to u/any1Cthis and he said it was too difficult. It is even with the help of AI. It basically reads past games from aoe2companions.com. Filter the civ and map. Download the replays fand analyze. The downloading and analysis occurs remotely on my servers. Download it here: https://aoe2viewer.com/app/ By the way aoe2viewer.com the replay search engine supports searching for a particular strategies and followup strategies now. Nowhere on the internet can you find almost all recent Phosphoru games :-0 Best place to learn cheesy: AOE2 replays for Phosphoru (Castle and Unique Units)

Inspired by u/any1Cthis 's wonderful aoe2 auto scout, I created aoe@ spy. In a live game, it displays opponent's elo AND opening strategies and followup strategy of the past games on the same map with the same civ. For example, in this screenshot, the opponet did Phosphoru with Spanish in in all recent games. So expect it to come! https://preview.redd.it/4gf097prwbah1.png?width=680&format=png&auto=webp&s=30ca7809a2bf3df8a0b4d46496875f90567a392a I suggested this feature to u/any1Cthis and he said it was too difficult. It is even with the help of AI. It basically reads past games from aoe2companions.com. Filter the civ and map. Download the replays fand analyze. The downloading and analysis occurs remotely on my servers. Download it here: https://aoe2viewer.com/app/ By the way aoe2viewer.com the replay search engine supports searching for a particular strategies and followup strategies now. Nowhere on the internet can you find almost all recent Phosphoru games :-0 Best place to learn cheesy: AOE2 replays for Phosphoru (Castle and Unique Units)