The absurdity of an elephant popping in and out of a castle while women throw weapons at it is just amazing.

@Koettnylle

3 ай бұрын

This game is so derpy haha

@rickbiessman6084

3 ай бұрын

Yeah man that really had me giggle :D

@SvanTowerMan

Ай бұрын

Historically, the Gbeto were elephant hunters, so everything but the Castle fits.

The Gbetu's weapon, the Mambele/Kpinga was originally developed to hunt elephants

@Rahul-Nalawade

3 ай бұрын

now they went onto war with them, and killed some... their ancestors must be so proud... lol

I was here when a 2k elo player was forced into making a Persian War Elephant

Ram trying to kill castle, castle trying to kill Gbetos, Gbetos tryng to kill elephant, elephant trying to kill Ram... 😂😂😂

@kelleren4840

10 күн бұрын

The circle of life.

Phosph: "Fine... I have an extra 5 minutes to waste before I beat you with the same strategy I set out to begin with."

18:28 Phosphoru: Why are you running? Tatengue: No, why are you running? Phosphoru: I am not running, you are running... Why are you running? Tatengue: You know why I am running... Why are you running? ...

@myne00

3 ай бұрын

No, who's on first

I can't 😆 The two-sided wack-a-mole going on with the castle trying to kill the Gbetos and the Gbetos trying to kill the war elephant

The Sun Tzu of AoE2

@MrCompassionate01

3 ай бұрын

"When you have a good eco, make your enemy think you have no eco When you have a bad eco, harass them with a medieval APC seige tower" - White Phospheru, probably

@sophiamarchildon3998

3 ай бұрын

Fight where your enemy isn't?

This guy is such a meme, I love him.

Garrison Wars! An Elephant dodging knives

it's interesting that Aoe2, the old man of rts, has finally embraced the "drive-by" tactics of other games with APC's

@Bozothcow

3 ай бұрын

Mechanized infantry XD

It's time for my biannual obsession with T90 vids again

@Fyrefrye

3 ай бұрын

same. The algorithm knows I've binged hidden cup before and has started to flood my feed with all his recent videos. Not gonna complain too much. lol

I love how blue thought he had the perfect counter strat, but phosphoru just adapts and carries on :)

@EokaBeamer69

3 ай бұрын

Sign of a truly great player.

@TemperedMedia

2 ай бұрын

To be fair, if blue had scouted and dropped the TC earlier, he might have beaten red. When blue was aimlessly wandering, red was clicking up. At that point, I wondered if blue was actually worth the 2k elo; those early game mistakes cost him the match. Now, I sound harsh, but really blue made some good calls in the latter half. They just couldn't make up for the massive problems of the first half. SOML

I love the goofy ah siege towers cosplaying as medivacs

@alexbarac

3 ай бұрын

Was my thought as well :D

@stephencaudle1766

3 ай бұрын

It's just a bunch of drive-bys. Chicago-style AOE.

Someone used this strategy against me at 1100 elo. I lost 30+ vills, but I had a growing mangudai mass which i successfully used to micro down his waves of gbeto siege tower. He resigned despite me not killing more than 5 vills of his. He was that much all -in

@ds23dec2k15

3 ай бұрын

Would you like to join, I've a team we play at around 950 elo

That was some Matrix style fight between the elephant and ghbeto

If blue scouted before red base the TC drop would be at least 1 minute faster, this means that feudal never completes, no archers, blue takes a solid lead and red never makes to castle age

@guyincognito1406

3 ай бұрын

And in the second phase scouting that new tc would’ve made him alter up as well. Information as always, the best weapon.

@TemperedMedia

2 ай бұрын

Exactly. Blue showed little interest in scouting until it was too late, just to find out there was nothing to scout except his oncoming demise. :')

I just wanna take a second to thank T90, I played the original aoe2tc but I would never still be interested in watching games without this channel, keep it up :)

No joke, been getting back into AoE again after a good decade of only casually watching videos from time-to-time, and Phosph is doing things I certainly want to dig more into once I get my fundamentals better practiced. Good stuff.

@Matias-nl1oq

Ай бұрын

Great to have more ppl join in

I really like these kind of strats to be honest, it's fun, it changes from the meta, it's innovative. Good stuff!

this guy is something else 😆 I want to see more. btw red villagers weren't walled in he could've deleted the barracks

I'd take a lose against red phosphoru any time. That's some incredible innovation there.

As someone who loves going for meme and out there strats on board games and video games I love this.

That was a fun game to watch

"this is not Age of Empires" to be honest, this could actually be peak of AoE from a creativity perspective . Amazing!!!

Wish Youpudding played Robert Guiscard in Hidden Cup. He deserves it.

This guy would love Space Marines in Dawn of War. Basically the same thing with Rhino Transports filled with Tactical Marines.

Suuuuuch an entertaining game. Really unique for sure. Also loved seeing how Phospheru adapted! That shows he’s far from a one trick pony. But I also really loved how Tatengue mixed things up and made the douche work so well.

will try this at 800 ELO

Fun-fact: the Gbeto were originally elephant hunters.

Superb. More of this, please

Thank you, T90! Thank you, Phosphoru!

As a recovering AOE2 addict (stopped playing in the mid 00s), I'm really fighting the temptation to get into DE.

@Matias-nl1oq

Ай бұрын

Come on in man :)

@newglof9558

25 күн бұрын

I play periodically with an old buddy

Petards would counter siege tower. They are great against rams (at 1200-1300 ELO at least). Just keep 2-3 petards in your castle at all times.

@pax6833

3 ай бұрын

Siege tower is too quick to be hit by petards. That would only ever work MAYBE once.

@guillaumec1636

3 ай бұрын

​@@pax6833it would make the siege tower respect and fear the castle more if at anytime petards could come out if youre too close

@MaksymCzech

3 ай бұрын

​@@pax6833Right now he comfortably sits under the castle, with some luck petards would jump out and destroy the tower, then gbeto are dead.

Holy micro on that gebeto + siege tower combo. 5 gebeto ruined everything! monks powerless!

I LOVE IT!!! Great stuff, keep it up bro! T90 you are flawless and make zero mistakes!

Eleven rams. What a disgusting strategy.

@DavidSmith-mt7tb

3 ай бұрын

Sometimes the solution to rams aren't getting the job done is just more rams.

Phosphoru is simply a creative genius.

bruh T90 really loves this guy

18:32 Enter the house of fun

In aoe3 theres a similar thing, any warship can garrison units inside and you can garrison artilery on firing mode, so you pop them out, do a volley, and back into the ship. Even in hybrid maps this is really strong, 2 or 3 culverins shots are huge vs frigates

i would never have thought to use a tower like that

Since I started playing de this is for real the first time I’ve seen a siege tower and how it works. This is a lot like how Protoss micro shuttles withe reavers in them in StarCraft or marines in a medical in SC2. I’m legit surprised we don’t see more of this kind of micro

Honestly, the villagers just building a lumber camp rather than going with the original strategy might have been unintentionally genius 🐳🧠. It is very unlikely the opponent scouts random areas when attempting an all in and even if they do, if the economy is so spread out, it is hard to stop, as the villagers can keep on running away and occasionally hopping into towers and town centres.

The moment blue started making monks threw his opportunity to win. Unfortunate that the castle drop from red was just next to his stable

I locked my phone in landscape but still held it vertically just so I could experience a fraction of the tilt going on in this game

This would be solid with franks too I think. Cause throwing axemen

he should have started making more elephants instantly after that castle build near TC 2 3 elephants were enough to take care of those rams

Units inside siege towers should take damage from scorpions. That would fix this strategy

Why can't he just leave the Gbeto under the castle? Murderholes wasn't in and there was no reason to not do it. But I feel like I am missing something obvious

@vocs75

3 ай бұрын

Mobility. He can run them in an out with the tower, seems critical to be able to roam around and counter anything that pops up.

@racernatorde5318

3 ай бұрын

@@vocs75I meant when he was hopping in and out of the tower to attack the elefant and the villagers repairing the castle

Petard counter imo. Haven’t played in years no idea. Would at least give the tower a respect of the castle.

@MrLuchenkov

3 ай бұрын

The gbetos would just come out and kill any petard rushing their way. His best solution, as a Persian was probably knights unironically. Fast movement and hard enough to take a few hits.

Love watching him. The meta can get old at times. Creativity it fun to see.

Your videos have always been entertaining, but the elephant and gbeto simultaneous pop outs made me laugh more than anything I've seen in this game.

good balance for this would be to make the siege tower speed the same as the ram

its like gta san andreas neighborhood war

What if Phospherou is just a modern day Napoleon? Makes you think if this man should not be on the front line IRL....

An army of rams? How quaint!

Damn, such a good try from blue but hard luck, that siege tower strat is OP af 😂

Imagine of _War Elephants_ could garrison in Siege Towers

Garrison mechanics need a tweak I think. Units coming out of building should have their attack timer reset, and monks should lose 5% faith or something. With good enough micro, garrisoning is wild. For example its theoretically possible to garrison 20 arbs into a castle, have the castle fire, hop out and shoot with the arbs, then hop back in in time for the next castle volley.

The fact that Persians don't get Redemption to convert the siege tower(s) is an overlooked weakness of the Persian Douche against Phosphoru's strat. Maybe the siege tower nerf should be all civs can convert them. Absolutely hilarious game!

But if you give it a thought, Phosphoru is playing in a logical way. The usual way players play is more like how a general/king would plan and fight but Phosphoru's way of playing is more like how the troops would really fight... or like a really tactical general.. maybe

My sides, man.... Amazing game LMAO

I never knew seige towers moved so fast! That's crazy!!

18:50 dude 111111111111

Now the important question. Can elephant enter a siege tower?

seems like castles should automatically prioritize units that can attack, and should reprioritize if a tower empties.

Surprised blue never garrisoned some militia and spearmen inside the barracks then deployed them diagonally inbetween red's barracks and archery.

He does not destroy your civ. He destroys your will to live.

The Malian Drive-By

I really enjoy Phosphoru games. I Hope he works on an strat using cumans feudal siege Workshop and castle cap ram

That Gbeto Siege Tower strat looks seriously strong. That looks like it has the legs to get out of control very quickly. Can't believe I'm saying this but I actually think siege towers could get nerfed if this starts taking off.

with the necessary research could you convert the siege tower or would you need to get within zero range with the monk?

Phosphoru reminds me of great football players who went unnoticed because they didn't win big trophies.

God I love Phosphoru. I really want this to be a Tati and Steppe Lancers moment that redefines the meta. I don't know if it wil be but...I want to see it at Hidden Cup. At least once.

Hey T90 . Just wanted to call out that I appreciate having the YT in the thumbnail. While I do enjoy your streams, I also really like the made for KZread stuff when I'm in the mood. Looks like 2024 is going to be a damn good year for you.

I petition that this be know as the Malian mazda strat

We are gonna see some siege towers in HC5. Thanks Red Phosphoru!

You can also use slingers

Love to see a Malian strategy!

They should nerf the speed of siege towers to like .40, it's ridiculous fast they are. Tanking arrow fire is what they are meant to do so that part seems fine.

Loved it😂

Great phosporus

Fun to watch, probably not so fun to play against

Crazy stuff

I want to see Hera or Viper vs this

honestly feels like losing the scout lost blue the game, he had no followup after the tc drop

aaaaah🤤 this game, it's almost therapeutic.

Love it!

Now this was entertaining.

17:00 I think the siege towers needs to be slower.

Now I am curious if there are other civs which could utilize the siege tower as effectively as the malians

@apan990

3 ай бұрын

ethiopians. i used to do it all the time years ago on arena with shotel warriors, was a lot of fun.

Me descargaré tu vídeo con alguna de esas páginas que bajan los vídeos de KZread y se lo mandaré a mis amigos por WhatsApp 😜

Castle Eater!!!

Why does the Siege Tower have to be so fast? It's used for weird stuff like this only because it's ridiculously fast. Make it the same speed as a Ram and it's balanced.

I think the counter is just a bunch of scouts

LEGEND

Watching high elo is so much fun I would've quit after my TC got destroyed

Wish blue didn’t lose his scout at start

amazing