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This what I meant by investing right. You can’t take any build order too literal and need to change depending on what the opponent is doing. If the English player followed up by longbows after the 2tc they would be delayed before it hits my gold and not in as much pressure compared to the council hall. I should have all my gold gathered before then and if not I can put 2-3 more on gold and then push out with MAA (or if no spearman, horseman or even a knight) with +1 ranged defence. Sure there is the king but if the knight gets focused by a couple of MAA it will die. If the English player stays in Feudal for longer the better it generally is for me and 90 percent of the time the English does not follow up with longbows

Sounds like they just wanted to surprise, be annoying and hit you on more than one front lol Don’t stress though they can do a similar strategy in higher ranks but a lot better, faster 😉 Anyways grats on the win!

Glad you enjoy it 😊 I would recommend focusing on and perfecting getting to castle and getting relics first if you are new. This is more than enough to rush gold heavy units and destroy their second tc with ranks around gold and early plat as they are learning how to defend themselves

@@UrNo_UrNo Im still at the point where I need to fix and memorise my hotkeys tho

In hindsight I agree you are right. That's really good especially you are new to the game. This is good feedback and your points should work so thank you :)

Nice I am glad you enjoy the vids! A good tip to throw off the AI and a lot of real players is to raid with 2-3 horseman. Keep them alive and cause lots of villager idle time and chaos while you boom ;)

@@UrNo_UrNo im not there yet. I still forget my scout after few minutes :(

@@jollyjungler3166 I too only started playing recently. Yesterday I realized that I had gone from being crushed by intermediate to almost squaring up to hard. Keep playing against bots for a bit but try to play some against players too since playing against players is a whole different game.

@@Mange_the_great im way too afraid to face real players

It's based on the civ AND the tempo advantage I have during the game. The idea is to get to castle and survive and there are many factors but here are some of the big questions I ask myself; 1. Do I have enough food secured to get to castle (example is 10 sheep) and have some little extra after to make units to push out and to make villagers? 2. How aggressive is this player, can i defend my gold and what is their civ timings? Am I amble to eventually push out if necessary to secure relics? 3. Are they going 2-TC? (If you see this it means and you are quick enough you have a brief "safe" window to get relics and even in some games to do a 12min fast Imperial). Hope this helps! Might do a vid on it tbh.

@@UrNo_UrNo Yes, thank you very much. It gives me a lot of answers. Have to review my games if I could do sth better in timings.

Going turtle could have been a good idea. I honestly thought I was about to overwhelm him but I was wrong! Thanks for your feedback again :)

Nice! So what civ are you playing as? Most civs have their own way of countering it

@@UrNo_UrNo Rus. Perhaps I am too catious to play them effectively. I did have lots of crossbows and heavy cav but yeah...

A Barbican rush (MAA Rush) is risky as well as the entire game depends on the HRE player securing food so denying sheep and raiding their food sources is an excellent counter strategy. Also I never like to push rus with a MAA rush. Rus can be very defensive, have access to early knights and you have much stronger walls / towers and you get a Feudal age Keep (the Kremlin) in the form of a landmark. Base design, good timings and knowing how to defend is key here. One of your towers with springald emplacement can kill many MAA.

@@UrNo_UrNo Thank you for your help. I did harass his food and stone quite a bit but failed to capitalize on it since I neglected my workers while microing the raids...

I see, if your workers are threatened move them away and if behind chased run them around the tc or split off to lose the MAA. They are better off moving then staying still if they are being attacked. It takes time to learn but once you do it gets a lot easier and because of that when you increase your rank this kind of rush becomes less common from HRE

Thank you for the feedback! I'll try to keep up the raiding pressure and yeah was not the best choice and also I feel mass knights wasn't the best. I got tunnel vision where I was thinking what if he does this rather then reacting to what i am seeing now. Glad you like them :D

Best strategy = "Connection Timed Out"? hahahahaha!

Hey hey didn't know it was closed! Fixed it for you and gotcha :)

Thanks 😁

Hey hey thanks for the sub and I’m very happy you like the vids ☺️ Also if you see me do something wrong in the vids please don’t hesitate to give me some feedback too!

@@UrNo_UrNo Sure. I'm a noob though, your play would always look perfect to me. It's still a more relatable play to the pros.

Really good point and thanks for letting me know. It’s this weird habit of mine as I hate having my ac more than 4 tiles away hence why I didn’t place too close to the berries. Really need to stop that habit lol Also as for the gold I wanted the wood more as I was having 6-9 vills on wood, wanted to cover the full wood line and only 3 on gold

Yeah I think the many comments about my prelate use is finally settling in my brain haha Still working on securing the map part I feel

There is a strategy that will work somewhere and I want to find it eventually! I feel if my opponent didn't go into the IP It may have had been a very more difficult game lol

Honestly I'm currently working that out right now. I always said I'll find another civ to play rank on when I hit conqueror and I did last month. So far I've enjpyed testing JoA, Chinese and Byz.

Thanks man, finally had a mongol match for you. Just don’t stuff up the build order in the beginning like I did hahaha

Welcome to the game and to HRE. Glad you like it! ☺️

@@UrNo_UrNo Another new player here. I haven't found my main civ yet but I tend to play Rus, although somewhat clusily. xD Your fight up the ladder inspired me!

@Mange really cool to hear and I also started playing around with Rus when I started. Could barely handle 1 scout let alone 2 haha Best of luck on the ladder 👍

Yeah the build order includes one being trained in the first couple of minutes but forgot it lol But still your right one prelate for HRE in that build isn’t good… more to improve on

Hey thanks for the feedback! I haven’t looked back at it just yet but when I have time I do and I’ll keep an eye out for the points you made ☺️

Mate thanks for the really direct and good commenting. It’s what I’m looking for with this video ☺️ Hopefully I can address the issues you mentioned as you have made some points and if I want to get better I need to fix many issues haha

Honestly play what you like to play. I literally just play HRE on ranked because I enjoy it. If I feel like playing another civ I will (I do want to next season though).

Although playing another civ might delay it

@@UrNo_UrNo I am having a lot of fun with Ayyubids, Mongols, Rus and Jeanne. But I think it is hard to be a pro at one civ and I end up being more of a jack of all civs, master of none :(. Except Rus, all the other civs I play have some kind of a hard counter unfortunately. Don't know what to do. But I am just going to grind with whatever civs I fancy I guess.

For myself I said when I hit conquer I’ll try another civ so I’ve been playing Jeanne.. how do you find that civ for yourself? I’ve also thinking I want to have a crack at byz. You could be right as some civs excel at certain maps and against other civs

Thanks glad you enjoy them 😀

@@UrNo_UrNo unfortunately struggling myself in gold 😂started about 2 weeks ago and don’t get loads of time

Oh yeah what civ?

@@UrNo_UrNo HRE, i seem to struggle for gold often. Do you fancy a 2v2 series training a novice lol. I played a lot of aoe3 years ago so kind of know what I’m doing.

I don’t really play team games haha Least not just yet anyways. I’ve been thinking of just doing a tutorial build order for HRE soonish so that might help you. If you are in gold I highly recommend just focusing on a build order and the counter system. That should push you into plat fast 😀

Oh yes definitely or at least move the villagers to a safer food source that’s not on the front line 😅 But maybe some forward thinking would be good.. have a tower and arrow slits

Nah we were both diamond 3

Hehehe rank 1 soon I find it funny though it took me ages to break Conq and then in 2 weeks got conq 2 lol

Yeah really gotta stop understanding them aye 😅

Glad it can help you 😀 If you have a question about something I’m happy to help and thanks for the sub!

When I have a good example I’ll make a video about it ☺️

Age of Empires IV

You are right at times as some civs require at least a part feudal as you said, you don’t want to age up and then die. In this game I feel I can do it without much consequence. For example I wouldn’t be doing this against French

@@UrNo_UrNo I have a question for you seeing as though you are a good player. Most rts follow a boom rush turtle dynamic. What does and early turtle look like in this game? Is it towers a few walls and spears?

Honestly it depends on the game. I generally aim to have the minimum to survive and nothing more. I only want to spend the minimum on my defence so I can invest everything else into my eco. Some opponents are more passive so sometimes you don’t need to build too much defence and it all comes down to good scouting and good reads of the opponent. An example would be against French. I try to count the knights and see if there are archers so I know how much defence I require. Sorry I should have also added you need to consider how much secured resources you have safe. If you don’t have enough to use to eventually push out then more defences are required with more units to ensure you keep the resources you need

Glad you like it!

Oh no way congrats on platinum! Things really change from there so best of luck and hopefully you’ll push into diamond soon

Yeah your right, it’s something that has been on the backburner for a while. Been too focused on other areas and yet my economy could have a %40-50 boost. From the comments lately I feel there’s two areas I lack. 1. Upgrades for eco and military. 2. Eco inspiration. These are the areas I’m going to focus on for a bit now That’s the thing some people excel at in certain parts haha Defs man ☺️

So the mills in front of the walls was a “I’m under pressure and can’t be bothered to spend the extra 3 seconds to do it properly” hahaha It’s silly I know and the prelates is something you and another commenter made me realise I have neglected that so it’s going to be a new priority 😊

Oh man nearly every time lol

Thanks :) You mean the vills for the Palace of Swabia? Or Prelates for the Regnitz?

@@UrNo_UrNo The Vills for Regnitz, wher you put the 8 Vills in the Group 7

Oh I see now what you mean now. Hotkeys are very personalised so this may or may not work for you but you can change it [Shift] + [3] for adding to 7. [alt] to select group 7 Also [alt x2] to send group 7 villagers to shelter and to return to work is very handy too 😉

Hey that’s awesome. Might play against you soon in the ranked 😋

it is what it is

“Just a quick game before work” 🥲

Learned that very quickly 😅

@@UrNo_UrNo I actually started using them now after seeing you get slaughtered

What have I done??? 😬 Haha