Now everyone will pre wall when I have Lithuanians... what was i thinking revealing my strats?? Thanks for having me on again spirit, always a pleasure!

@BartJBols

4 жыл бұрын

You know you like it more when people respond then be caught unprepared.

@bananenzijndebeste2

4 жыл бұрын

Hera - Age of Empires 2 which means that just by picking Lithuanians you force them to waste villager time and wood. Sounds like a nice perk to me

@jeroen92

4 жыл бұрын

@@bananenzijndebeste2 full walling should be done every game now anyway, its simply too good and counters every rush strategy

@onetrucksizedsalmon2962

4 жыл бұрын

Yes but they will never expect the Spanish archer rush

@ReaperCH90

4 жыл бұрын

you just revealed this strat so that you can boom from now on knowing mbl will have walled the map with double pallisades after 2 min

9:14 ... that feeling when you understand the game mechanics well enough to know WHY they are doing this, but also know that if you tried this kind of micro yourself you'd come back to a TC with 10 idle villagers.

@devinosland359

4 жыл бұрын

I'd only have 5 idle villagers. Probably because I'd only have 5 villagers...

@jayvishnuvenkatesh870

3 жыл бұрын

Exact feeling for me.... I'm not great at that much intensive micro

Me: games are meant to be relaxing and somewhat competitive Online AoE2: hold my drush

@onetrucksizedsalmon2962

4 жыл бұрын

Try original AoE or AoE DE, online games almost never go past tool age, and if they do it is very inexperienced players

@FlawlessRuby

4 жыл бұрын

It's not even that bad he didn't even lame him xD

@Ross_B

4 жыл бұрын

Onetrucksizedsalmon tool age?

@Anima-bribe

4 жыл бұрын

tbh its cool but I would love for aoe4 to have longer games more based on larger scale battles.

@onetrucksizedsalmon2962

4 жыл бұрын

Ross B. In OG Age of Empires it was Stone Age, tool age, Bronze Age, and Iron Age

09:14 Its over Red scout I have the high ground Red scout moves up. "Its over blue scout I have the high ground" Blue scout moves up. Its over red scout I have the high ground" Red scout moves up. "Its over blue scout I have the high ground" Blue scout moves up. Its over red scout I have the high ground"

@jonathanstaddon8080

4 жыл бұрын

Hello there

@FrancescoSalamonee

4 жыл бұрын

why is the high ground important?

@georgealexopoulos2597

4 жыл бұрын

yes but red was feudal :S

@annoyingkraken

4 жыл бұрын

​@@FrancescoSalamonee units attacking from lower elevation do only 75% damage. units attacking from higher elevation do 125% damage.

@HolyShitNew

4 жыл бұрын

Francesco Salamone because high ground gives you instant win

Now I will resign just in minute 4. Great.

@Robin-hi4vj

3 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣

@Xth3Z

3 жыл бұрын

More games for you. ;)

This should work best with a Vietnamese ally. Imagine the time wasted on overscouting with such a tight build.

@TheBikeOnTheMoon

4 жыл бұрын

my thought exactly

@Tudsamfa

4 жыл бұрын

Would you rather have a Vietnamese ally or a mongol ally? Assuring your drush hurts them or assuring your drush doesn't hurt you?

@sgtpepper8581

4 жыл бұрын

Vietnamese must have an extra bonus like having +150 or +200 wood since begin so they could make a best drush or make more archers

@dragovern

4 жыл бұрын

@@Tudsamfa lol

@satyakisil9711

4 жыл бұрын

​@@Tudsamfa I would have Vietnamese for sure. I can spend my time scouting for resources and send my militia directly towards the enemy. My scout can catch up later with its speed.

The big question is though. Is the shorthand for a Lithuanian Rush "Lush"?

@kln5705

4 жыл бұрын

Congrats, you just won the AoE2 Internet

@arcticbeak

4 жыл бұрын

Yes. Also, the Lush strategy increases the amount of donations, thus giving the streamer vibrating sensations.

@stylesrj

4 жыл бұрын

@@Skaitania Fast Lithuanian Dark Age Rush in a Regicide... D Royal Flush?

@robinbeck7716

4 жыл бұрын

Lidrush? Lithuanian instant drush

@Ernismeister

4 жыл бұрын

@@arcticbeak LMAO

9:29 But when I do a drush it is mainly a distraction for me by making me forget about villager and house production.

@biaslina

4 жыл бұрын

We need to get good at using hot keys Ppl these days really good at it

@satyakisil9711

4 жыл бұрын

Then don't do a drush. Duh.

@eccentrichorse11

4 жыл бұрын

@@satyakisil9711 Practise makes perfect you know So if you are not good at something you do it again and again..

@satyakisil9711

4 жыл бұрын

+1

@jayvishnuvenkatesh870

3 жыл бұрын

Yeahhh i feel u dude....

As a lithuanian myself, I approve this strategy.

@notsogreatsword1607

4 жыл бұрын

When you're born do your parents hold on to your 150 food for you until you come of age or do they just take it and give it to two dudes to destroy your enemies?

@silverplays871

4 жыл бұрын

@@notsogreatsword1607 as Lithuanian answer is that politics takes that wood

@Nhosto

4 жыл бұрын

@@notsogreatsword1607 I guess in my case we went with the rush.

@rds7516

4 жыл бұрын

@@notsogreatsword1607 Trick question - we sacrifice the food to the Baltic gods.

@Bronze_Age_Sea_Person

4 жыл бұрын

Since you are Lithuanian,I have to ask this: What is a Leitis? BTW,How many relics do you have in the church in your village,do you feel their power surge within you when you mount a horse?

12:31 _Speaking to SOTL_ "Shoutout to Spirit of the Law for that" lol

Oh my god! The militia wear helmets?!? I always thought they had black skin colour. My AoE-World just collapsed

@brainloop99

4 жыл бұрын

Back in original aoe 2 I thought it was just brown hair, fucking hell.

@MykolaSternenkoDroneBoyHoleMan

4 жыл бұрын

Lithuanians are black tho.

@bobbyslicks6051

4 жыл бұрын

@@MykolaSternenkoDroneBoyHoleMan what are you on about 😂

@IAmChadBroseph

4 жыл бұрын

Magisches Omlett truth

@notsogreatsword1607

4 жыл бұрын

JoeRingo118 they might as well be when you're an archer.

Someone, somewhere, many many years from now, will one day come across this video and put this strategy to good use.

@whitehavencpu6813

3 жыл бұрын

Hello there

@xotl2780

3 жыл бұрын

@@whitehavencpu6813 Good work.

This makes my 10 minute rush look like fast impreal

This video is great, always love these insights from elite players

The more I watch these AoE strategies plus commentary the more I realize the only difference between this and mainstream sport is the money and marketing. Love listening to players talking about how they play! Great vid as always Spirit.

great format man. i'd love to watch more of this kind of commentary. the pace, the tone and the insights of your interview

The editing is top tier content. Everything was seamless! Kudos for the interview, your questions were relevant, the tone was on point and Hera was very insightful. Great video man!

As always, awesome content!

Always good to see you interviewing some pro players, I would like to see some others strats from people like Hera and Viper(and others, too).

i liked so much that you have brushed up a little about house building time of 19 sec with 2 vils - just as you have mentioned in another tutorial video

Pls more of these!!! amazing

I love your videos man, so informative and no frills. Just got back into age and I'm still pretty slow!

12:30 "Others civs say Celts, JAPANESE,...." *Happy SOTL noises*

just camp one of their boars if they all out wall, if you block the villager from lurring it, it is basically a boar less in dark age, or they'll have to send a lot of vills forward to deal with it, another type of damage.

@wilaaybeeeee

3 жыл бұрын

I hadn't thought of that. Great idea actually

Great video as always but I have to say the interview skills of SoL, wow. Informative and entertaining is really his specialty.

... Well Spirt made a new strat video, guess I'll die to smurfs doing this in low level ranked for the next week. On the other hand this looks fun as hell.

Oh man, I get PTSD of Age of Mythology Loki rushes by seeing this... No more, please...no MORE!!!1

@edwardteach3000

4 жыл бұрын

I can never manage to keep up my economy when playing the norse. I usually prefer to play as Egyptians because I love turtleing. Edit: dammed spellcheck and auto-complete

Hey, nice content. Thank you.

The strategy can be really good in team games if your ally is slavs!

@spaak3465

4 жыл бұрын

Lithuanians with slavic and vietnamese ally would be epic for this strat

@prathameshvaidya

4 жыл бұрын

@@spaak3465 the more the number of players, the bigger the map and more walking time. I dont think it'll be viable then

@TheArklyte

4 жыл бұрын

@@spaak3465 Lithuania show best results when allied to Slavs and Poland though;)

@satyakisil9711

4 жыл бұрын

@@prathameshvaidya It's the opposite. The bigger the map the less the proportional distance to the enemy. A flank/wing can reach the enemy flank much faster in 4v4 than 2v2.

@spd-kv6sd

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, the Polish-Lithuanian Empire in action would be nice. Furthermore, the civs would theoretically work great. Except for the fact neither has good archers, but the Lithuanian cav archers at least are fully upgraded, so they can help in the late game. Don't forget both would synergize great in the Monks district.

I love that SOTL has the highest sub count on KZread for AOE 2 content. I've been a huge fan since the beginning! WOOOO!

That interview felt so professional and formal i actually forgot it was two community members talking lol

More stuff with hera! He explains the build and logic behind it quite well and I enjoy his personality in videos, be it in this interview style video or as a teampartner with viper! Hera is SO cool!! My question is if this is the 'optimal' way to play Lithuanians? Should this be the standard opening for the civ like mongol scouts or aztec drush? Seems like you sacrifice (almost) nothing, you have constant vils *and* army!! WOW

1,600 likes within a few hours of posting the video... This dude knows how to do it! Spirit of the Law, you are bomb.

wow dude you're a great interviewer, awesome vid

"Cavalry and Monk civilization"

Right after I watched the age timing video this was recommended, KZread seems to recognise the unique players thank you mango.

Hera explained that really clearly. More like Prof. Hera.

9:39 Hera: ...or just wall Daut.

T90: Chopping straggler trees is such a low elo thing, you don't see the pros doing it.

AOE2 PvP is one of the most intense experiences one can have.

Dear Spirit of The Law, I would like to request you to make an introductory video (or a series of videos) to the Scenario Editor. I'm looking to make a few maps of my own, however everything seems just a bit too overwhelming to me - besides, it is relaxing to listen to your calm voice. Thank you for your time and consideration, Tim

Hey spirit, I'd love to see some commentary of some multiplayer games in DE. Great video as always

Seeing a rush strategy for my favourite civ is definetly nice

My opponents would never back down from a 1 spear vs 3 scouts. Wish I had that luck.

@longbow857

4 жыл бұрын

Late response, but hopefully a insightfull one: if it was 3 scouts vs 1 spear he wouldn't have left, it was 3 scouts against 2 villagers and a spearman. Yes 90% of the age playerbase would have kept on fighting, either because they thought it was a good fight or because they were busy somewhere around the map. But the top 10% of players reconise the militairy numbers advantage through the whole game. Yes you might have taken a villager down, but you just lost 3 scouts and 240 food, meaning if the fight is anywhere near equal the spearman player should have a militairy advantage by now (not losing militairy or 1 spearman) and will now come for your base. Now you will be forced to defend, make less optimal plays etc.. if you disengage and keep your scouts active around the enemys base they will make your opponent do so. And if you would change this situation to hera making scouts instead of archers it would mean hera would have a scouts advantage, making every fight the opponent would try to take being outnumbered and therefore most likely to lose.

Mentioned here already: Slavs: Military production buildings (except Castles and Kreposts) provide +5 population. Slavs could make a decent ally for this rush. Like in a real life.

@Shaolinh808

4 жыл бұрын

Maks Brandt nice reference on the polish lithuanian empire :D

@egae6782

4 жыл бұрын

but Lithuanians are not slavs

@LarryCroft111

4 жыл бұрын

@@egae6782 Doesn't mean they can't ally!

@egae6782

4 жыл бұрын

@@LarryCroft111 true. my bad

May the KZread algorithm be with you

I was super confused when Hera turned out to be a man.

@theodoric7335

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah I don't think he's married to his brother either

@DarkrarLetsPlay

4 жыл бұрын

Strange. I was so sure about that!

That's a unique build to look out for from the Lithuanians! I did wanna learn how Drushes work, although I know this one's different from the generic Drushes. :o

I got absolutely bodied by this yesterday, so I had to come back and watch this again. Will try it for myself

yess Hera thats my fav player

Nice Strat tnks 4 the info

Title: 3-minute-rush. Video length: 15 minutes. Hmmm...

@Morrneyo

4 жыл бұрын

Because he's not Lithuanian?

@stfang925

4 жыл бұрын

Why I heard T90's voice on your Hmmm..., hmm...

@stormrunner4081

4 жыл бұрын

The rush itself takes 3 min but needs to be explained

@SJ-hb3ol

4 жыл бұрын

I mean a first 5 minute build order video is going to take longer than 5 minutes because you explain how and why it works... In football they can take a 15 second play and spend an hour on it.

@woah5333

4 жыл бұрын

No shit it takes time to explain

7:58 Hera, the master of plugs

Make a video about buildings position.

I set my TC gather point on a straggler tree for my first created villager. It will shop simultanously with the two house builders so you get 30 wood in at once for your house, without force drop-offs. Then catch up food harvesting.

YES A LONG VIDEO

The beginning had an Ocean's 11 style heist vibe 😂

This is rather BRILLIANT! HERA has seen a funny little difference for one Civ and said to himself "Hmmmm, how can I make that work for me?" The forced drops and being able to manage all Workers so well, just means that non-players like me can only admire...... 🤔

1:00 will this build work for the Japanese?

@satyakisil9711

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, but it's not strategically viable.

@Nadie-mb4vw

4 жыл бұрын

No, because the bonus is viable with extra food. Japanese bonus saves extra wood which means you will be short on resources to keep pumping vills and 2 militia.

Lithuanian 3-minute rush meant something else back in my day

@benhaney9629

3 жыл бұрын

Uh... What did it mean?

@WereCatStudio

3 жыл бұрын

@@benhaney9629 something else

_Have a lovely day!_ 👑👑

Hi guys, i recently started playing the game, I want to tryhard but everytime I queue to find a game, I always have to wait like 20 min before i find one, is there any tip to reduce the queue?

Ok, you lost me at the 1st step.

@andoreh4021

4 жыл бұрын

Step 1: Create the Universe.

@RanOutOfSpac

3 жыл бұрын

@@andoreh4021 Step 2: Finally ask the girl you like out.

@uzijn

3 жыл бұрын

@@RanOutOfSpac Step 3: get rejected, load AoE

Man, Hera is a beast

INSANE build !

Spirit of the *LaHera* ?

Dude, you're awsome

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.

Hey @Spirit Of The Law, could you do a more comprehensive look at the new khmer farming bonus? You didn't factor in multiple layers of farms stacked in the control or the wood savings due to not needing to build more mills.

Very nice

"Not stealing opponents stuff because of sportsmanship" wow

@selwynfernandes1155

4 жыл бұрын

Celts sheep bonus wasted ;)

@slayerdark0

4 жыл бұрын

I find that funny when taking resources from the opponent is exactly what any early attack hopes to accomplish

@HenryElfin

4 жыл бұрын

@@slayerdark0 where is your sportsmanship? why can you leave them alone for 45 minutes and then start the fight? lol. Its basically the same logic

@selwynfernandes1155

4 жыл бұрын

AoE3 treaty games lol

A very delicate balance on the dangerous scout and build up our own economy back on TC. Usually I got raided myself as opponent went for Feudal Age faster.

lithuanian 3 minute rush in 16 minutes!

Amazing, SOTL is a legend!!!! Wow

It's 10 pm here, and I'm about to sleep but this thing pop out suddenly. Let me watch it first. No kidding, I'm about to put my phone away but I decided to pick my phone again.

SICK

What about vs Chinese? They will already have loom+ extra villagers

@satyakisil9711

4 жыл бұрын

Chinese can't even get the Barracks up 11

@torinjones3221

4 жыл бұрын

I meant does the 3 minute rush work against the Chinese. They will already have 2 extra villagers and loom by the time you reach them meaning their villagers could easily gank the militia.

@satyakisil9711

4 жыл бұрын

@@torinjones3221 Well, sorry for misinterpretation. In that case, you should just kill the deer and go back. Not much else can be expected.

you're one of my favorite channels and I don't even play AOE2!!

"I dont steal boars out of sportsmanship". Good on you Hera, glad I'm not the only one. I get that both sides have the opportunity to do so, but still feels cheap and dirty.

@MrPgpipe

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, just go at thee minute mark and kill all enemy´s villagers but won´t take boar because of sportsmanship HAHA you don´t want an unfair advantage.

@silverbane5008

4 жыл бұрын

@@MrPgpipe there's some things that are not nice to do. US could just nuke vietnam (or any other non-major nuclear power) and win in a few minutes but is that really what you think they should have done?

Why does everyone go Hoang with Lithuanians instead of fast castle relics boom + skirm/spear defense then Paladin/Leitis?

@rp18125

4 жыл бұрын

in theory this drush doesnt slow down castle time, and also fast castle without millitary isnt a good strategy on open map in competitive, you get REKT by feodal archer build

@Klubargutan

4 жыл бұрын

@@rp18125 It does slow you down, since you waste 120 food (and 40 gold) for a small delay that is usually overcame by the time they reach feudal age. With superior skirmisher and spearmen speed, the feudal age defense becomes easier, and with castle age + relics + boom + knights + hill forts (a cheap tech) you can usually accomplish much more than with this rush that actually robs you of the castle age time, and just makes you keep up the pressure in the dark/feudal age....which is not where Lithuanians excel the most. On top of that, this early rush is not actually fun to watch/to play.....at least to me, because i like advanced empires to see :D

@CrnaStrela

4 жыл бұрын

Not gonna work in higher rating because if you don't pressure your opponent, they gonna prsssure you. Your strat is only usable in treaty games and even then, you don't really rely on the trash units first.

What’s with the Caesar sound effects?

10:44 a single spear scares repels 3 scouts. I think SotL had a video where it showed you could fight that matchup and kill the spear right?

@shafoz

4 жыл бұрын

yes you can kill it but it's not worth it. if I remember correctly you should take the fight with 4 scouts

@Zhalfrin

4 жыл бұрын

@@shafoz nah just watched it recently 3 scouts is fine, you're still left with three but one will have lost about 75% health. 4 is definitely much better though. Another thing Sotl said in that vid iirc was that you should count the total health of the scouts, not the number, so having an injured scout among the three makes it more like 2 scouts, so going for the attack may not be worth it.

@Naverb

4 жыл бұрын

You CAN fight it, but why? There is a spear and two vills; if you target the spear you just likely lose a scout or two and won't get any vills (the vills can fight along with the spear, as Hera did) while if you attack the vills your scouts die to the spear and the vill running to the TC. In competetive AOE it's more about not throwing army and interrupting your opponent's build than it is about always picking off a vill

Just what we need, even more rushing...

Hera + Spirit Of The Law? I had a minor nerdgasm. But cool strat! Really like it.

I played versus a guy using that strat 2 hours ago. I think he saw this vid. I never clicked loom so panickly. At last i gained by killing the milicia fast after loom and then pressure with archers.

Can you test if pathing is really different in DE? I've heard people say it is.

Hera is the dude fr

Here´s the Order in Text form for people wanting to try it: 2 build house, 1 build barracks (instantly order 2 militias) Builder vills on wood. next vills on sheep When you have 25 wood on lumberjacks, force dropoff to build a house. Keep 2 on wood and house building After 2nd militia, make normal start (6 on food, 4 on wood, lure boar etc.)

the easiest counter to this is just getting Loom as soon as the game starts, and doing some light walling as well

I have always wondered what its supposed to be the sound when a villager is finished training and is deployed.

I also tried it like 2 months ago but I would say I prefer scout rush more

Someone have the build order ?

You should get merch

Daily of Spirit of the law supporting the underdogs

It helps if you can build your barracks next to their base without them noticing.

12:33 "yeah shout this feel a lot for that" Translation: "yeah shout out to spirit of the law for that"

I know you love math, so I have an idea of a video for you: after which distance do trade cart/cog become more gold/minutes than villagers on gold?

Where can I watch the full game?

So maybe send a vil forward to wall in your opponent or wall off their main gold to slow down their castle age time while you try to fast castle get towers and stone walls and fortify them to lock down your opponent's build space. Make a few forward buildings and boom back home to harass them with counter units to what they make.

@stylesrj

4 жыл бұрын

Wall in your opponent? The Fatslob strategy?

Grand Duchy of Lithuania SHALL RISE AGAIN! :D