That second TC placement is so satisfying

Needs less game volume and way more mic volume. Great vid otherwise, just wish it was easier to hear

That's outrageous :O 13 min castle, 24 min imp, all his gold controlled. WP! It can't even spam rams without gold, maybe take out the market first :D

if you turned your mic up you'd get a lot more subs

@DruzhinaAoE

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks! I'll take that into account :)

@idkmybffjill9682

11 ай бұрын

Agreed, any tips you randomly drop as you play we’d like to hear

Basically how any of my games against Franks goes.

This was a fun video to watch

This is awesome, my first 15 minute castle time. A little sloppy first time around but it works.

@DruzhinaAoE

2 жыл бұрын

Haha glad it worked out!

This is crazy good, well done

very well played!! 😲

Ultimate clownery, well done

15:29 how does that villager survive 🤣

The best and most detailed tutorial I’ve seen so far 👍

17:12 brutal AF

I'vre tried several times now to copy this. But it is insanely fast.

@3werder3

3 жыл бұрын

check how much stone a castle cost for him

@paulusboskabouter7993

3 жыл бұрын

@@3werder3 frank bonus makes it cheaper

Very cool 👍

french knights killing english peasants is v historically accurate

crazy bro

you should make a video clarifying when "castle drop" was actually used in real history as medieval warfare strategy.

@DruzhinaAoE

3 жыл бұрын

Sorry, don't know of any such cases :P

@Distruptor18

2 жыл бұрын

Look up Sunomata Castle. Toyotomi Hideyoshi was an actual castle dropper.

@iamrapidrocket

2 жыл бұрын

Edward Longshanks

This video is awesome, I wish you have the time to make a special gameplay

@DruzhinaAoE

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks! I do, look for a video called ''Adal Vs. Modri - Clown Cup 3 - Casted by JonSlow''

@diegoragot655

4 жыл бұрын

@@DruzhinaAoE but a video like this? (having a specific goal). That is what I want.

@DruzhinaAoE

4 жыл бұрын

@@diegoragot655 What kind of goal do you mean? In this video my goal was specifically to drop a couple forward castles and go Imperial Age as quickly as possible to make trebuchets

@diegoragot655

4 жыл бұрын

@@DruzhinaAoE yeah, I mean doing a video (playing as the Franks or Slavs) and doing an specific rush against an specific civilization.

...it looks so easy... :D

How do you force drop at the TC? And how do you guide the ram towards your TC with scout?

@DruzhinaAoE

3 жыл бұрын

Hey, sorry for the late response. To force drop at the TC you simply right-click at it with your selected vils carrying resources. You can guide the rams with your scout by moving it behind them, they will be pushed in the opposite direction of the Scout. While it isn't necessary, I use a hotkey for ''follow'' which is ''E'' with HD hotkeys, not sure about other layouts. Most of the time you only need to click ''follow'' on the ram/deer once for the Scout to automatically push it all the way, but sometimes it doesn't work, which is why I have made a habit of repeatedly clicking it just to make sure. Hope that helps answering your questions!

Please put subtitles on.

idk how i feel about this build order. he could have denied your advance if he put his castle protecting his large gold. at first i thought you were gonna flood in with axeman which woulda been sick. i guess fast imp is a good strat tho. perhaps byzantines could have done i better? nice vid

@zachariastsampasidis8880

3 жыл бұрын

This was Vs bot so it literally doesn't matter. The concept of super quick castle drop isn't breaking new ground. The real issue is that he faced no opposition in dropping the castle at all. A human would build rams at the back. Also, sometimes you won't be able to deny 3 piles with just one or two castles. Edit: also no attempt to wall behind the first walls. Even dedicated arena players don't do castle drops this early for a reason

@localman7017

2 жыл бұрын

I adapted it for Ethiopia, you can actually drop the castle at about the same time because of the free 200 food and 200 gold you get with your eco bonus, and the hope is basically to just flood with Shotel warriors Only played one game with it so far and it didn’t go well but to be fair I did mess it up

@localman7017

2 жыл бұрын

But yeah I mean this is a super clowny build, it’s not going to win against good players but 1100 MMR and below it probably works Of course good players tend not to pick arena anyway because that map sucks

Interesting strategy but i would have given more attention at least to the economic upgrades in order to create some troops.

@DruzhinaAoE

Жыл бұрын

Yeah getting them once advancing to the next age would be good

The only problem with fast castle is that if you play a defensive player, he’s going fast imp which if he keeps calm, he can fully counter fast castle

@windflier1684

Жыл бұрын

You always pair castle drop with a forward siege, if they are going fast imp, they won't have any army to defend your push

hello what is the mod that is used to show the ctrl+ selected units on the bottom of your screen please tell me the name of it thanks for this nice video

Nice. You made it look so easy! But I couldn't quite hear you talk. Would it be possible to briefly mention in the video description what you're doing. Thanks

@DruzhinaAoE

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the suggestion, I'll consider doing that one of these days :)

Hey I've been using this, but I struggle when they have forward buildsings in the middle and build military there. Any tips?

13 minutes? bro that's crazy

One thing I never liked about this game was allowing any construction near the enemy base. It's so cheesy that they never put a stop to that. Would have been a way more fun of a game to encourage long range battles.

@allaboutgames2796

Жыл бұрын

agree

@benjaminrobinson9140

Жыл бұрын

but then whoever has the better army comp would automatically win. Aslo there are maps for that like black forest or arena.

I'm impressed with the castle and imperial timing. But p2 could've easily killed all of his trebs even being under 2 castles if he had been making knights. Which most players would be making knights especially after seeing the castle drop and their wall going down. First you'd see another layer of wall, and knights.. *I don't want to seem unimpressed, because those times are SUPERB, just saying his opponent didn't make military*

If you want to see a woman build a castle all by herself, then Age of Empires 2 is the right place.

can someone tell me the default key commands to do that with the explorer?, im just learning to boom.

@DruzhinaAoE

2 жыл бұрын

You mean how to set way-points for the scout? You can do that by selecting the scout, then holding down shift as you right-click up to 10 (?) times, once you're satisfied with your way-points, release the shift key and right click one more time to activate the pattern of way-points which your scout will follow. Hope that helps!

This should be interesting with Spanish on arabia

you make double bit-axe?

@DruzhinaAoE

3 жыл бұрын

I think I did? Would be a huge mistake not to 11

How do you play without hotkeys omg!

@DruzhinaAoE

3 жыл бұрын

Haha I have been very slow to learn new hotkeys, I have improved a little bit since then :P

@DanishCamp

3 жыл бұрын

Hotkeys are for plebs

how do u do this from a nomad start?

This is vs CPU? In multiplayer at 20 minutes the opponent will hace some knights... nice strategy tho.

@kojii6159

3 жыл бұрын

not on arena. most people just go scouts monk and go greed. I think this is more of a arena specific strat

@nategreen6804

3 жыл бұрын

This is definitely cpu. The human player pushed deer.... every player above 900 elo knows how to play the first 15 mins of arena. 24-28 pop into feudal into castle. Time will be 14-17 mins castle time. Those pops and timings are very basic that any player who uses hot keys can get. This is either a very low player (under 900 elo) or a cp

@nategreen6804

3 жыл бұрын

I do like the fast castle. Gives me an idea to yolo it with fast forward castles, keep as many vils on stone, only 1-3 on farms for vil production and few on wood to overwhelm the opponent with castles

@nothanks7475

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, against a human, the second castle shouldn't have gone up. Red can prevent the second castle by towering the gold (plus a military that has been building up after seeing the forward).

@basilpappas9700

3 жыл бұрын

I feel like up to 1200 Elo this will be unstoppable

interesting but.... what is the counter of it ?

@DruzhinaAoE

3 жыл бұрын

Trying to beat it to the Imperial Age, castles and trebs of your own

Good video but the greedy fast imp is sub optimal imo, i would prefer UU production from the first castle and start executing vills

Why does the ground texture look like chess slots??

👏👏👏👏👏👏

Well thats truly a nice build. I wonder if it is possible to pull this off with other civs aswell, or are the cheap frank castles and berry bonus a neccessity?

@DruzhinaAoE

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks! The Franks bonuses' makes it easier, though yes I can imagine you can pull this off with other civs as well, though it will be very tight and you may have to use the market a bit more to afford a castle at a decent time :)

@zachariastsampasidis8880

4 жыл бұрын

@@DruzhinaAoE The Bulgarians are probably the best. Also, I still think you went up too quickly. This can work no problem against AI in arena, but Vs any player that scouts it won't go well

@DruzhinaAoE

4 жыл бұрын

@@zachariastsampasidis8880 You can do it with Bulgarians too for sure. At 13 minutes your opponent isn't likely to have made many scouts, by the time you're at your opponents wall he may have 2 scouts, which isn't enough to deny this. I have actually never been denied the castle drop with this build, even when playing against 1800+ opponents. I have won many 1500+ games with this, however, not any 1700+. So I think there is indeed a ceiling for this to work :)

@zachariastsampasidis8880

4 жыл бұрын

@@DruzhinaAoE I think people allow themselves to be swayed by pros too much. Just because pros can typically boom fast castle and hold aggression doesn't mean even decent to great players can pull it off routinely. As such, feudal age wars are generally rare today -barring some maps and generally polarized matchups- or are very short. It's rare for example to see pro games with the players clicking up to castle age after 40 vils with one tc

@DruzhinaAoE

4 жыл бұрын

@@zachariastsampasidis8880 Absolutely, you're right. Now it's make a few units, wall and go castle.

How different would it be with a krepost drop?

@DruzhinaAoE

3 жыл бұрын

Not very different, seeing as Bulgarian kreposts are just slightly cheaper, though they could arguably be better to push with in the castle age, instead of going Imperial you could sue the resources to do an all-in castle age push with rams and konniks + more kreposts

@p47_thunderbolt39

3 жыл бұрын

@@DruzhinaAoE try that next!

@DanielGomez-jf7ns

3 жыл бұрын

The only disadvantage is that it might be easier to see it coming. Bulgarians are known for Krepost rush whereas it is rare to expect a castle drop this early.

@p47_thunderbolt39

3 жыл бұрын

@@DanielGomez-jf7ns that’s true but if you did it that quickly it might still be pretty hard to stop

@DruzhinaAoE

3 жыл бұрын

@@DanielGomez-jf7ns That's a good point!

Good Game, but what ELO did you play on? You opponent barely seemed to react to anything.

@DruzhinaAoE

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks! This was vs a bot, just to illustrate the build order. If you want to see it in a real game check out my video ''Adal Vs. Modri - Clown Cup 3 - Casted by JonSlow''. At the time I was 1680ish and he 2k2, so obviously I was doomed from the start, but you can see it can have some potential, even when not executed as nicely as here :)

@ET_AYY_LMAO

3 жыл бұрын

@@DruzhinaAoE I feel kinda stupid now but ok :D

@DruzhinaAoE

3 жыл бұрын

@@ET_AYY_LMAO Np! it happens to everyone at times. Confusing a bot for a player I mean.

@juanm8582

3 жыл бұрын

@@DruzhinaAoE Yeah, coz they're really frigging good.

Wouldn't a transition to 1 or 2 stable knights + economy be better than Imp? Imp gives trebs, but without anything to support them. Wouldn't this be easily countered with defensive mangos?

@DruzhinaAoE

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah that's a good option too, usually when I did this I would keep expanding onwards into this base with castles as to suffocate the opponent, either with throwing axemen, siege of my own or knights all the while getting a fast imp time :)

@peterj-s6421

3 жыл бұрын

@@DruzhinaAoE agreed. Taking map control is the way to go, either way.

what does a castle cost ? i need it for a quiz :D

❤❤❤❤Francos

How do you lay down multiple houses at once like that?

@DruzhinaAoE

2 жыл бұрын

You click and hold the control key while placing the buildings. Hope that helps. Thanks for watching!

@micah5172

2 жыл бұрын

@@DruzhinaAoE thank you for the quick response and helpful vid!

@DruzhinaAoE

2 жыл бұрын

@@micah5172 my pleasure brother. God bless

Franks got berfed a bit. Is it still viable? Your link to BO doesn't work for me. Can you fix it please?

You are too quiet in comparison to the Game! But really nice Video! :)

@DruzhinaAoE

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Yeah I've had some issues with my mic, I'll remember to lower my in-game audi :)

@aaronlagermann8556

3 жыл бұрын

@@DruzhinaAoE it really sounds like you are talking low and quiet. It might be your natural voice, but I'd recommend speaking up and projecting a bit more. Good posture, use your diaphragm, all the same things you hear about public speaking or presentation skills.

@DruzhinaAoE

3 жыл бұрын

@@aaronlagermann8556 Thanks! I'm really struggling with that, continuously talking saying long sentences. Will try to work on it! :)

As Hera said, waypoints are a waste of time. You lose 0.5 seconds each time the scout changes direction.

@DruzhinaAoE

3 жыл бұрын

What?

Poland should be op with this build ^^

@DruzhinaAoE

2 жыл бұрын

That could be a good idea actually, I'll give it a try!

anyone else get a antivirus alert on the description link?

@DruzhinaAoE

Жыл бұрын

lol for real?

@bagtube

5 ай бұрын

Yes

I tried opening your website, but it seems down

@bagtube

5 ай бұрын

More like a Virus. Don't click it. That link should be taken down, IMO

Is it realy smart to sell 100 stone just to start mining stone in the next second?

@DruzhinaAoE

2 жыл бұрын

In most cases no, in this scenario however it's justified seeing as the build is so tight and Franks' castles are cheaper. However, since making this Video I have experienced further with similar build orders and found that it's much better to send the last villager being created before advancing to feudal to go collect 30 gold (no mining camp, just walking 3 trips collecting 30 gold). This way you can instead sell 100 wood for 70 gold, doing that in addition to your 30 gold collected is a much more efficient way of doing it. It's also good when going for a straight boom.

What language is that?

lets be clear this is much closer to 14 min.

My boi playing in a library or sum 😂😂.. Man turn the mic up if you finna be whispering all video

@DruzhinaAoE

3 жыл бұрын

Uuum... did you just assume my gender? this is SO going on reddit... LOLZERS

@DruzhinaAoE

3 жыл бұрын

On a serious note though, I am sorry it was so low, it has been a problem I've had for the longest time, it's either that or a lot of static noise with my poor mic, I'm sorry.

Your voice is very low in most of your videos. Either increase your volume or please decrease game sounds.

@DruzhinaAoE

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the feedback, I've been trying to raise the volume of my mic somehow but to no avail unfortunately. I will try to lower the in-game sounds like ou suggested

What rating are you? Great Video.

@DruzhinaAoE

3 жыл бұрын

1700 on a good day. Appreciate it!

@yoyodude-aoe2726

3 жыл бұрын

@@DruzhinaAoE You Should do analysis on updates or mechanics.

@DruzhinaAoE

3 жыл бұрын

@@yoyodude-aoe2726 Thanks, but I'm not enough of a nerd to get deep into that kind of thing :)

@yoyodude-aoe2726

3 жыл бұрын

@@DruzhinaAoE LOL I meant your views. T-west does the nerdy stuff

this is an offline game against a NPC. This match could have been way more different if it was against a real player.

@DruzhinaAoE

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, of course. Search for Adal vs Modri clown cup for a real example vs a 2k3+ player :)

@theextremeviking

3 жыл бұрын

@@DruzhinaAoE Imagine theviper using your fast castle drop technique, he is gonna copy that I think :p This could be useful for very aggressive strategies. Im gonna try it myself, good vid man!

@DruzhinaAoE

3 жыл бұрын

@@theextremeviking Thanks haha, Yeah would be crazy. I think it can be very effective vs boomers, but it will struggle vs someone who goes fast imp

The only build order you will see at 600-800 elo

@DruzhinaAoE

3 жыл бұрын

It is true you'll see castle drops more often in lower elo games, although I got pretty close to beating a top 5 Arena player (rated 2k4 RM) using this specific build. Look up ''Adal Vs. Modri - Clown Cup 3 - Casted by JonSlow''

cannot understand a word, need to articulate more or turn game sound off completely

@DruzhinaAoE

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the feedback. It is hard to be articulate while focusing on getting the build right, so I might start talking more in depth over recorded games. But I will certainly lower the game sound :)

man i gt you on max volume and i still cant hear a word you saying

this is an absolutely disgusting build order xD i would be pissed if someone did that to me

After the new AI upgrade, this strategy doesn't work well.

@DruzhinaAoE

3 жыл бұрын

What is the new AI update?

I would have gg when that first castle dropped lol.. hell no, i´m out

Ethiopians and Malay can do this nearly a minute faster!

@DruzhinaAoE

3 жыл бұрын

Technically yes!

Nobody can understand what you're saying..

Personally I consider this a 15 minute castle drop, because the castle isn't up until the 15 minute mark.

This only works if you're the first one to build the market.. So even if you'd follow the BO then you still have a chance of not getting it first. Not really a build order I'd say cause it depends on that 1 thing. Other then that good video

@DruzhinaAoE

3 жыл бұрын

You are without a doubt the first to use the market selling stone going up this early, this is never gonna be an issue. Most build orders rely on sheep too, but they can easily be stolen, yet they're still build orders. Thanks!

Not extreme IA at all.

man i need subtitles or something cus i cant hear a fuckin word you're saying

kinda felt like that dude should gg'd ages ago. kinda griefed that game :L

The Scandinavian accent makes it very hard to understand, mic volume way too low.

This is the clowniest build I’ve seen in a while but nice 2nd tc placement

Just one tower and you are fucked with whole strategy and can tap out. Happened me so many times, almost never loosing to this trategy. Plays it agains player not AI.

@DruzhinaAoE

3 жыл бұрын

Trying to deny a castle drop with a tower is usually a pretty desperate and risky measure that we rarely see working on a moderate to high level. As the distance from the tower to the castle builders would be great enough to easily micro the vils around to avoid shots. By the time you'd have to move villagers towards the edge of the wall to build a tower the castle builder would almost be done building the castle by the time your tower is up, granted the castle builder has 6-7 vils building, which will almost certainly finish building it, making the tower a waste of stone and idle time. From my own experience players haven't tried to counter my castle with a tower past the 1500 ELO mark and up to 2k+ level for the reasoning stated above, it's not because they're not bright enough to think of it, but because they measure the risk and unlikelihood of it working, it's just not worth it vs someone committed to castle drop so early. Watch my game vs Modri as part of Clown Cup 3 to see how a pro would handle it :)

@mirosalvzimcak5169

3 жыл бұрын

@@DruzhinaAoE Always depending on situation but making it like you made it in this video. Is possible to denied that castle by tower. And that second castle. Not AI player will not let you build that one without any army.

boring game, you can finish him with few knights. no need so much eco and trebuchet stuff

@DruzhinaAoE

3 жыл бұрын

The point of the video is the build order and strategy, not entertainment

@aligezer6866

3 жыл бұрын

@@DruzhinaAoE okay then good job man

@DruzhinaAoE

3 жыл бұрын

@@aligezer6866 Thanks! I appreciate it :)

Playing with AI can even go 20+2 pop castle age using market with Saracens, whatever you want. The strategy never work in compatible games with humans. But good try for ppl still learning build orders 🤣🤣🤣

@kevinvince2011

3 жыл бұрын

Cuz without any army(such low eco build orders), you got very little map control with only one castle. Even counter attack with monk seige or anyhing can kill you easily, you have nothing to defend yourself. Not to mention high elo players can easily figure out your strategy by scouting, payig attention to up time and market price. Once forward castle got denied, its GG.

@DruzhinaAoE

3 жыл бұрын

@@kevinvince2011 I have won many games using this strategy at the 1600 level, it works great. I remember practising for my match against Modri for Clown Cup 3 with Kellar where I did this too him, I got to a similar situation like in this video, you would have thought they would be able to see this coming, and deny it with scouts, but for whatever reason they couldn't make scouts fast enough to deny it, even if he would have gotten a scout together with his initial scout it wouldn't be enough to deny 6 vils and a Frank scout. Can easily quick wall and fight them off. I have never had my Castle denied doing this lol. While you are right, this does give the opponent a chance to counter attack, but you can just as easily make a defensive castle at home denying a castle age push. And because this is Franks, Throwing Axemen are great at dealing with rams, not to mention if I am aware of the situation I can simply make a siege workshop of my own and mangonel the rams from behind my castle. So in my experience I think the best way to deal with this is to try to match the Imp time, ideally going for bombard cannons and arbalests, that is what has been the ''pro'' approach from actual 2k players in dealing with this.

boring, p2 big noob, dont even wall inner after being castle drrop

@DruzhinaAoE

3 жыл бұрын

It is a bot. The purpose of this video is not an entertaining game but to show a Build Order for Arena.