The combination of memery and genuine insight into the strengths and strategies of other top players in this series is next lever.

The gameplay impersonation is hilarious, but it also shows that Hera really does understand his opponents pretty well. Knowing your enemy is half the battle, after all

People forget too easily that DauT, despite his comical game, is still one of the top players and can easily dominate the average player without breaking a sweat

@vojtechadamcik2927

3 ай бұрын

and still on top for like twenty years :D

@markblackburn2343

3 ай бұрын

Daut is in that S Tier bracket without a doubt for me alongside Viper, jordan, hera, tatoh, liereyy, yo, & accm.

Viper did a series like this in the warmup for HC3. His conclusion at the end of the game where he smurfed as Daut was "I play better as Daut than as myself!"

@viktorreiter8811

3 ай бұрын

that's actually a good take. Daut lacks the speed and micro of younger players but has amazing game sense, strategic thinking etc. a faster player playing a Daut-strat might just be a stronger combination than simply playing his own playstyle.

@MrSivince

3 ай бұрын

the fact that Sebastian was the opponent both here and in the "MbL" game reminds me of how Hera was always Viper's opponent in that series before HC3

@teddyhaines6613

3 ай бұрын

@@MrSivince He was for most of them, yeah. The Daut game was actually against Vinchester, so Viper had to fight the urge to ask if Vinch had gotten any admin wins lately, since apparently Daut and Vinch had a beef going at the time.

@blackgoku2023

3 ай бұрын

​@@viktorreiter8811 daut confirmed it in hera and daut vs 6 players game that combination of daut's game sense and strategy and hera's skill will be unstoppable

This needs a Daut Reaction Vid

@viktorreiter8811

3 ай бұрын

a reaction vid and a "can I play exactly like Hera?" response vid :D plz @DautAOE

This was really fun, thank you! I've heard it said that Daut is the best player in the world for 2 games a series. Was checking liquipedia today after this video came up - he's only been swept twice in S or A tier tourneys in the past 18 months. Apart from Hera, I think that's the best record of not being swept in the world. He can be beaten, but the only person who can truly embarrass the Lord is the Lord himself. 🏰

Sebastian has become the nuclear whipping boy for calibrating the copy ninja strategies.

Poor Sebastian had to play against Hera roleplaying MBL and DauT. What a trooper. 11.

Fun content idea: Make a "Hidden DauT" showmatch. You and DauT play a bo3 under hidden cup settings. You play like DauT, and the viewers try to guess who is the real DauT. You lose if most viewers guess DauT correctly, you win if you can trick the viewers that you're DauT

Sebastian realizing he was a lab rat: 🗿

@avnishojha4744

3 ай бұрын

😂😂😂

9:06 Very much like the "fleet-in-being": in WWI: the German navy was smaller and weaker than the British Royal Navy, but because the threat was there, the British navy had to stay close. They only had one huge battle near the end of the war, with most ships on both sides surviving, and that was it. If they had fought and the British navy had lost enough ships to equal the 'strength' of the German navy even though in a real battle Britain would have lost less than that, the UK would have come out ahead because it could have then used its navy for other things.

Sebastian must be so confused First its Hermbl now its Heraut

The failed daut castle into successful daut castle was hilarious. Poor sebastian. I really like the insights into when to fight too. Lots of lessons I feel.

1:56 "guys, it has to be a DauT deer lure as well" *pushes the goat* the burn! (DauT did this a few months ago)

I haven't watched this yet as I have meetings for the next few hours but just seeing the title and I can't wait to watch this.

DAUT is a master strategist !!! Always focusing on the big picture i love his gameplay style. Great video Hera !

I'm looking forward to HC6 where Hera mimics everyone else and all the guessers are incredibly confused 11

This stream was absolutely unreal! So blessed I got to catch it live!

Pretty good but don't know. You didn't have enough 'aww common... awww commmon... yikes ke ke ke.. i am so bad' You should have went Samurai for the sole reason that they are cool. You also didn't accurately predict exactly what the enemy would do, not bother to take any action to counter it, then still be surprised in 5 mins when it happens and laugh about it 😂 You have to love Daut, plays to have fun on ladder but loves the competition in tournaments and can switch it up to give anyone a tough game, while still maintaining his playstyle.

Daut! Already the first 30 seconds made me laugh so much.

Love the series. To see the perspective of a pro player seeing another Player. I think you would be perfect for proper game analysis. Like do a series for example lierrey viper Red bull and go for the Initial gameplan and the specific moments that lead to what adaptations. 15-20 minutes. Including what do they see what they showed to the opponent. What the civ matchup called for etc

Love these videos. Make it into a playlist on ya channel bruh Haven't played AoE since Gold Edition (free in a cereal box) 20+ years ago. Got back into it from HC5 (mostly due to Riley Knight, the history dude, mentioned it on his podcast). Now I'm all in again and I love the banter between the GL lads and this series

Are you sure this is isn't just a replay from Daut?

Hear me out, Imposter Cup: Round Robin Tournament with 4-6 players, hidden identities, the catch is before the tournament starts each player gets another player in the tournaments name and they have to try to play like that player the whole time (ie: Hera gets MBL and he has the play like MBL, DauT gets Tatoh has to make demo plays etc.). 3 game sets, winner of set gets 300, loser 150, After each set the players guess who they played. Player who got the most players to guess who they were trying to impersonate gets another 300

@kyallokytty

3 ай бұрын

issue with that is that knowing and understanding other players is a long way away from being able to play like them So while Hera and some others at the top would be able to, some others would simply play worse like imagine the opposite here, DauT playing as Hera. while daut may even be able to do the play style somewhat, hera is *fast*.

@Godzirra91

3 ай бұрын

@@kyallokyttytrue, but how comedy would that be to see? At the end of the day I think it would be entertaining which is what we’re looking for as an audience

I wish aoe2 s minimap could be like Capture Age s one.

Amazing content!

God I NEED to see the Playing exactly like Viper Vid

loved this one and the MBL one as well, so good, i was laughing so much

This is an amazing idea haha Would love to see more like this. Perhaps a low elo legend video immitating T90? haha

God I love these. Can we get one for Viper and Tatoh too? XD

Play like ACM next! Great vid!

This is actually pretty interesting... if Hera literally knows the playstyles of all his opponents, that gives him such an advantage. I'm sure they can recognize when it's Hera as well (these are all pros after all) but him actually TRYING to play like his competitors... that gives such a leg up if they're not doing the same... Hera is next level...

Very nice. I think only one minor mistake was that DauT would go for early ballistics if he goes ranged units. At least that was the meme. He doesn't micro, so he goes ballistics and "now you can't micro either!" And DauT plays against Liereyy who would outmicro ballistics and DauT gets mad.

This is a great coaching video in general.

Anyone notice that the steam achivement for losing a castle at 95 percent is called "Castle of Doubt" (Castle of DauT)?

love this!

This was AMAZING. Now I want a series on this. Hera playing like XXX player.

Hera vs Daut best of 5 showmatch soon? :D Or maybe Daut coaches you? Could be an entire series, GL members coaching/backseating other members.

Hera a true DauT fan, i respect that

these impersonations are great and really show that you study and understand your opponents a lot. but i think you are missing a bit of the pychological aspects (probably bc you are one of the most rational players on the top) 1. mbl doesn't just go for messy stuff bc he wants to throw off his opponent. sometimes he goes for messy stuff bc he is pissed. tower on opponents woodline. opponent tries to take it down with vills. mbl get literally angry and doubles down (wall in tower, send more vills, get into a mutually assured destruction under the tower, build another one right next to it, etc). 2. daut doesn't just go for unique units of cav archers bc these "get the things done". sometimes he chooses units, simply bc they are cool and fun to play with. daut is 50% pro gamer and 50% happy kid playing age of kings in 1998. that's just my 2cents, thought. both these games were extremely fun to watch.

For all the jokes about how slow Daut is, I can guarantee he's much faster than 95% of the viewers of Hera's streams. He's up there with some of my fastest friends who are around 1900-2k.

Video topic suggestion: best up-and-comming players

also the daut castle is actually smart because it forces the opponent into also placing a non ideal castle location which is one less castle that couldve been put in your face. Daut wouldve gone for relics i think and he wouldve bought back the 200 stones and still somehow gone for 3 tcs.

Hera making sure to say really nice things so that his account doesnt get "accidentally suspended"

I was hoping luring the sheep instead of a deer 😂

I feel like outside of the crazy forward castles, Daut plays the game the way is ment to be played

Remember just like Viper, if you ever try to copy the Max you have to use the cube mod ;)

The doppelganger series is great.

amazing

How can somebody with palestinian backround be SO profundly canadian? Hera, you are so freaking nice, it almost hurts haha. I think nobody is talking about Daut as respectful as you are, sometimes I feel you are the only one who publicly treats him as a person, and not just a meme, an that includes Daut himself 😅 That is very refeshing I have say

THis is really fun. PLEASE SEND TO DAUT to review your "him -play"

approved 😸

dude's gonna become unstoppable

hahahhaha this was just too goood!

You should do a mirror match against Daut while trying to play like Daut and then see how accurate you were by analyzing the replay 11

Dude I’m having so fun with it Laughing so hard omg 😂😂😂😂

Perfect Daut game.

Daut is an absolute legend!!

Play like Viper next, Let's go!

Vasco de Daut😊

daut playstyle is OP , he knows he is slow so he try to play the game like a chess board , focing reactions instead of just playing the meta

Cosplaying hera confirmed. Monk dress up stream when?

Poor Sebastian, getting bullied like this twice in a row :(

poor sebastian got bamboozled by the Mbl and then Daut impersonator Hera Da Gama

Do the same series, but with the other pros on discord call with you!

Good, good prep well for HC6 so you can confuse your opponents. 😂

Too much APM, but besides that, really nice Daut style playing, Mr. Hera ! =)

If daut uses the TC for weakening the boar he sometimes kills it by mistake.😂😂 He is just not used to using the TC for hunting.

a bit too all-in and way to much box formation, but good feudal age showcase. late castle age there are always outposts over the map

sebastian prob thinking why is daut smurfing 11

14:50 more practice Hoang-style as well plez. Don't add more economy: instead, ignore economy and only add military. Any-civ-with-siege-units eat TC.

Japanese has Atonement

There were like 6 adds on this video

Wonder if daut was programmed to work with a crap load of ping so micro is useless

Jon slow next

Your strategy in this game was more Hoang than Daut I'm afraid.

Never a DauT

Playing exactly like everyone's favourite Serbian? I DauT it 11

How about games where you play Viper but you have 2 pros telling each of you what to do so it really is their play style.

Hera, daut doest use box formations, you used them constantly

Daut doesnt click less, he clicks worse. You can spot his luring in HC5 because he overclicks. He's the antithesis of precision not power. He's just spamming the move. Apparently like you with box formation! Whats up with that Hera?

14:15 A lot of people tend to assume that feudal-line units are ineffective against castle-age units. But even MAA, without Longswords upgrade, do great against Pikemen. Remember, a knight dies in five hits from a pikeman, or as few as four hits without Bloodlines depending on upgrades; a MAA dies in 12 hits from a pikeman, which becomes 15 hits with a +1 armor advantage, 3 times as many hits as a knight which costs twice as much. Even a Militia wins 1v1 against a Pikeman. Mangonels were friendly-firing which would have hurt the MAA more than knights, but if the MAA had fought, the fight wouldn't have ended with all your knights dead.

Cool, but can you play exactly like McClain?

u didnt make a single outpost ):

@HeraAgeofEmpires2

3 ай бұрын

Thats the one thing i forgot!

7:00 Serious comment, DauT or not: running away from a single archer with all MAA is often not a good thing to do in this case. You have four ineffective units who are still taking damage from the archer. If you chased the archer with one MAA, you could have three effective units and one ineffective. The same applies to cases like being surprised on a woodline with archers, when archers are guaranteed at least one kill. You could chase and fight with one villager (the one who will die anyway) while running with the rest. (As well as things like trying to trap archers and fight with all, which might not be effective depending on archer number and the overall game flow.) Then the question is, could three MAA by themselves accomplish anything at all? Often the answer is no: easy to make short walls. This is where players need to adapt their strategies: try things like bring a villager to wall up a woodline, so when you get ranged units there or build a tower later, you have easy kills. We saw something like this a few times in recent tournaments, but it hasn't become common as a way to punish a delayed/greedy reaction to MAA.

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Hera i love you and your video, but this is literally BLASPHEMY to the Lord 😢💔 11

19:40 maybe DauT wouldn't do this, but monks just got two conversions and you killed another monk. 12 CA massively overkill pikemen. If you weren't DauT, you could have split off 4~5 CA to go back to snipe the monks or stick close to the mangonel. at 20:42, could have split up CA for less overkill, killing twice as fast.

When are you gonna shave that neck beard? 😂 looks like a floating head❤

Hidden Cup should have gone all-in on the hidden aspect, not just a $100 prize for whoever was hardest to guess. Give each player three other random players that they can try to emulate, with a big prize if the audience thinks they're one of those players, in addition to a bigger share of the prize if their opponent or the audience can't correctly identify them. The first Hidden Cup was enough to show that top players winning (TheViper at the time) was not just about intimidation. Now it should be about entertainment.

Ur a legend Hera. Free Palestine

Is it me or is the pathing worse than ever these days ?

This man is adapting too fast. Someone stop him!

0/10. Didn't forget loom!