I Broke This Games Entire Economy - Age Of Empires II
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- čas přidán 17. 11. 2023
- Welcome to age of empires 2 the pinnacle of RTS games of the modern era. And I say modern era despite the fact this game originally came out in 1999 so a good chunk of people playing the new Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition were not even alive at the time of release. In todays episode I will be showcasing an absolutely broken and absurd glitch in the game that allows you to exploit the economy to produce infinite gold thanks to a single monk and a lot of monasteries!
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Title: INFINITE GOLD IS BROKEN! - Age Of Empires 2 IS A Perfectly Balanced Game With No Exploits
new title: I Broke This Games Entire Economy - Age Of Empires II
#game #glitch #strategy - Hry
*Wololo*
Also apologies on the delivery for this video i have a cold!!! Future videos should have less sniffing brit
Wololo
Rogan?
Yeah, way, you should see ze other guy
Wololo!
Wololo
What the man says is true I’m afraid…
Time for a Legend of Spiff video
Can't wait for Hidden Cup 5!
@@Suzume175 Not even Sun Tzu could devise that one!
Low ELO, high exploitation?
About Slough?
Never did I expect to see a Spiffing Brit video and have him call out T90's farm placements on it.
T90 did once coach me on proper farm placement. I can tell you that I have retained none of his really useful knowledge
I've seen other AoE2 players mention T90 and farms. Is he really that wild with his placements?
@@coryhafer7285 it's a meme more then anything. Pretty sure Khmer farm bonus was made with him in mind tho' 🤣
@@coryhafer7285 he tended to place them wildly in the old days in late game and the mill like half a screen away, but it ist mostly more of a meme than anything
Ahhh I love when my favorite channels cross over
When spiff said "Jeez, make your own money exploit," I felt that in my soul.
Using Aztecs is also a great idea, as their relics produce 33% more gold, and super buff monks with extra hp for every monastery tech
Age of empires 2 is definitely perfectly balanced and completely as the devs intended.
this was patched out of the game within a day or so. AoE2 is a really great game and the devs are on top of things for the most part.
*laughs in Persia*
@@CRneu Patched by whom? Whos still updating this ancient game?
@@beardsntools It’s been remastered and is being continuously updated by the devs, as is AoE III.
@@stevencass8849 Not sure why they bother lmao. Does Microsoft game studio have nothing better to do, than reheat 20 year old broken ass games?
I've played AoE2 literally near my whole life. It is the reason I chose the studies and eventual profession I did. To say it was an influential game is an understatement
May I know your profession?
What profession is that? Battle monk?
Farmer
@@roronoazoro3519 petard
Camel
I played this game in '99 when it first came out as a pre-teen. I still remember the opening cutscene, with the king grabbing the chess piece. Now in 2023, I'm finishing up the latest campaign DLC and trying to chase all those achievements. Love this game.
I'm waiting for the next DLC so I have more achievements to do ⚔
Love me some AoE II. I still can't believe that this game is actually still having DLC created for it with the Definitive Edition.
If you've seen how big the competitive AOE DE is you'd understand
@@darkfangnightcrow I never said I didn't know that was the case? I was just saying how it's crazy that a game that was originally released 24 years ago is still actively played and developed for.
@@darkfangnightcrowit's kind of absurd how many games try for a competitive scene and design a game around eSports and yet it's old weird stuff like aoe and cs somehow managing to crush it
Good game mechanics and a dedicated dev team is hard to find these days.
@@imreloadin Precisely and the fact that they updated the Persians with a free update keeps the game fresh, for the multiplayer and campaign and scenario editor, the game is well worth its asking price.
Responsible of Spiff to make people aware to not abuse this strat online
This was hotfixed pretty fast, don't worry
fixed 24h later last week
that is a hotfix for 24 yrsold game imo @@DissarayJay
@@DissarayJayafter it was abused for a decade.
@@Felix_EN yeah two weeks of awareness and reports prior to the patch release from playing the preview build and another full week after release into the wild. Rapid scenes from forgotten empires
still blows my mind that the little medieval game I played as a kid with the silly things like dodge vipers with machine guns, and greased up guys with no clothes on, is still being robustly played and developed today. same with that pretty cool little multiplayer mod for Half-Life
or some of the crazy Doom mods.
I love all the age games, but aoe2 holds a special place in my heart, ive played it since i was 5 and still play it to this day plus watch a lot of t90s videos, it would be AMAZING to see you ever get into one of his community games with exploding kings, that would be collab of the decade
forest only or exploding kings, all glitches allowed. i would pay to see a commie game like that with spiff
Guaranteed that Spiff would find an exploit to explode his own king but keep it alive and use it to nuke everyone lol
AoE 2 is such an iconic game, even though I'm also terrible at it. Watching some old pro like Daut play AoE 2 feels like watching some genius general like Caesar do their thing. Well, until Daut tries to build a forward castle with 5 villagers.
It's only a Daut Castle if it's lost before completion, but after being 90% complete.
DauT castle mod is great btw :P
DauT Castle!
The truth hurts.
Been playing AoE II since it was released, and it is my favorite AoE game.
Not technically an AoE game, but Age of Mythology is the one I really fell in love with
@@Soren59 yep. Best music, cool and unique units, god powers, 3D…
AoE II is an absolute masterpiece, but I can't help but have a soft spot for AoE III.
Something about the whole exploring new lands, finding new people, and then colonising them that gets me in the mood for more tea.
EU4 is like that too, but it is wayyyy more complex. For one thing, the map is the entire planet, minus a few tiny specks of islands that were too small to add, and for another, the game has a ton of unique mechanics, and the mechanics can change simply based on which country you choose to play as. Not only that, but the AI is much more skillful than in some RTS games, and will actively try to stop you if you expand too quickly, and they form alliances and guarantee the independence of small nations to keep you from expanding into lands you and the AI share an interest in. Another unique thing, every single nation has its own culture, and forming an empire allows you to unite your culture group, which gives you more bang for your buck for each province you take of your culture. The coolest thing is that it is entirely possible in that game to conquer the entire planet, either directly or through Dominions (vassals).
@@kronosomni2805 I'll tell you what I tell all the EU4 ppl: I don't want to learn a PhD's worth of mechanics to play a single nation in a videogame!
Not that I haven't tried mind you... xD
@@Yehnsei I will say the same thing that everyone else would say, and it used to bug me, but it's all about practice, you could play 2000 hours of the game and you would still be learning more about the flow of the game and new mechanics.
@@Yehnsei I wrote a guide on how to play EU4 ASAP. Mind you it's quite outdated now and was only for vanilla anyway.
But the long&short is the alerts at the top will guide you through 95% of what you need to do.
AOE2 was my first video game. I remember being like 3 and my dad would sit me on his lap and let me play with him. One of the best memories of my childhood
I remember going to my aunt's house where they had the game. As soon as I would get there I would ask to join the PC and play Age. Then I would sink in that fantasy world for hours without end, it was magical. I would mess with the Custom Game settings and start very random games and get fascinated.
There's a reason why AoE2 still has a competitive scene while so many other RTS games are lost to history. It's because it's got something more than the sum of its parts. It's like chess, it doesnt need fancy graphics, it doesnt need slick animations. The gameplay is tight, the strategies and meta ever changing. It's just a damn good game.
also everybody likes wolololo
Btw, in DE it got good graphics. That is obvious if we look at HD edition. So, AoE2 has everything)))
@@Usernameby4539Indeed, watching an enemy castle slowly implode in a cloud of dust and rubble is one of the all-time high points of gaming! 😁
AoE2 has a bunch'a campaigns for non-tryhards as well as this medieval appeal (that Stronghold and others have) which attracts lots of history nerds and hobbyists(it _is_ interesting, after all)
Really hit the most popular period in history with this game
I like tea but I have never drank Yorkshire tea
What is it like?
I love the game for many years having grown up with it.. but damn unit pathing feels off, didn't play for a while and now it really seems worse than it used to be. Hoping theres a fix for that soon
Do not give your mother in law wood!😂
It might lead to an awkward Thanksgiving if you live in any US state. (EXCLUDING ALABAMA)
Lmao I’m dead 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Is it true in alabama , 3 mother inlaws is normal.
As a Spaniard that I am, I can confirm that we also duplicate relics with monks in real life.
Nice! I was literally watching some of your old AoE2 videos last night! Started playing with friends yesterday and plan to play again tonight. This video could not have come at a better time lol
99% sure the way this works is: In AoE2 when a monk picks up a relic a new unit is actually spawned in place of the old one, called monk with relic. When you normally touch the church with a monk with relic, 2 triggers go off 1. the monk with relic -> monk, and 2. generate a relic inside the church. So I assume that the triggers are queued when you select the church and there is a check to cancel the triggers if a move order is given, but not for dropping the relic. Thus both triggers go off and monk -> monk, and relic is generated.
Seems like the fix is to find the trigger cancel code when move order is given and copy paste / rereference it in the relic drop order.
I don't think it's a separate unit (That's a lot of programming overhead). Instead it would just be a carry item state like villagers and other units use.
In terms of the bug, what is likely is happening is there is a special monk action to drop the relic in the church, but on completion it doesn't check if the monk has a relic (because the code assume that they have one to be able to trigger the action), it only "removes" the relic they are carrying and adds a new relic to the church, but because they are not currently holding a relic, the original relic doesn't get removed
@@Oshroth If you make a custom map, you can actually drop in "Monk With Relic" as a separate unit from "Monk", something you can't do with any other carry item state unit.
@@RobertJW yeah I was gonna say, I used to mess around with the scenario maker and make my own maps and scenarios, and I very much remember there being a monk unit and monk with relic unit
@@RobertJWisn't the monk the only unit that can carry an object?
You can spawn a monk carrying a relic because it's not the same as a monk not carrying one, which would make things different when creating a scenario or something.
Edit
I've double checked the tech tree, and I cannot found any other unit that can carry items, so unless I'm blind, I'm guessing when talking about units with carry item state, you mean units like konniks, ships and rams, but those would be a totally different thing.
If they had to add every single variation of every unit that can "carry" another unit, you would have hundreds of useless copies of units
@@RobertJW Except that no other units in the game have a name change like monks do. Villagers regardless of what they are carrying still remain villagers, right?
5:30 Now I believe Spiff watches AoE2 casts.
Of course. It's bloody good fun
Even I know of the T90 Farms and I don't even play AoE2.
Prostagma
@@TARDISES But T90 doesn't play Age of Mythology?
@@sokarash Yeah, but AoM was always the one I preferred, so...
@@TARDISES I don't play AoE2, I just watch T90.
Age of Empires is the reason why along the STEM courses, my history marks were astonishingly good back in school.
Played Age 1-3 and Mythology when they came out. Mythology is the best for Cheesy weird combos with insane literal God Powers, but I do like the way Age 3 gave villagers and units better AI, and allowed resource gathering to occur in real time, without the need to deposit resources. All great fun games, glad to see you enjoying them too :)
The power of british ECONOMYY
Make-up shit and print gold the British way
I THINK tea is the way
@@thespiffingbritSouth Sea Bubble 😅
Steal relics and house them in museums, and potentially make forgeries of them
My only real exposure to AoE2 was way WAY back in highschool which was basically 2 whole ages ago in and of itself. Some cleaver sausage at school discovered that not only was there a fully playable version of the game available for download on Microsoft's website but that even the low spec toasters in our computer lab were more than capable of smoothly running the game and could connect for full LAN matches. I'm fairly certain more time was spent playing AoE2 than actually doing any schoolwork.
Yes, that's how I first learned about it. I also came across Starcraft in computer lab.
I remember when AoE 2 came out. It absoloute blew my mind due to one simple thing, the arrows staying in the ground for a while after a volley. It may sound daft but I was 8 at the time and that was a pretty cool leap in gaming for me
i used to love playing Age of Empires 2 while travelling South America cos it seemed like it was on nearly every computer in every internet cafe. My general tactic was to as quickly as possible build walls as close to the enemy as possible to block them from getting most of the resources... make tons of archer towers to defend it... enough to consistently kill all attackers. Then try to take their resources first.. dont mine the ones close to you.. do the ones far away... in mid to late game you start using your own resources while they have run out completely.. thats when you attack.. im talking about fighting ai though not multiplayer with humans.. it probably wouldnt work against other humans
Played 1 at my buddy’s growing up and own 2 and 3. 2 is by far my favorite age of empires game. Probably because I remember sinking so many hours into the campaign, skirmishes and a ton of time creating custom campaigns and my own story lines.
Imagine being good at this game.
Literally impossible
@@thespiffingbrit Not impossible. It's just a case of, "There's always a bigger fish," like being the best at Tetris, SSB, painting or dancing.
You'll be loved by you viewers and hated by your friends.
Sandy Petersen was so committed to historical fact that he gave the player the ability to pull holy relics out of thin air.
Do this with the new civs that just got realeased. Their special fortified chirches become mini castles with multiple relics in them. And only cost wood to build
one of them gets extra arrovs for relics, though I am not sure if just for the first
It got patched before the new DLC dropped.
@jakobrosenqvist4691 so this video is outdated already?
I was about to hop in and start a game 😂
its 1 week too late xD@@logistaur
@@logistaur yeah, for a 20 year old game the devs are really on top of things.
Age of Empires 2 was the first video game I bought as a kid. I remember playing the demo of it for hours on end on the family's PC in the living room. Reason why I became really into William Wallace at one point and hated Brave Heart cus of how historically inaccurate it was portraying him. Think I was about 10 when I finally got this game. Never got good at it, never did pvp, never finished any of the campaigns outside tutorail one. But I sitll love it. It also helped me learn to type fast, typing in all those cheat codes. cheese steak jimmy's. how do you turn this thing on.
God the cheat codes were so fun. Especially in pre modern internet era when they existed as digital myths
@@thespiffingbrit And you never knew which cheats did and did not work since sites weren't that reliable.
@@ZackRToler y'all are taking me back to the days of unmarked DVD copies that your friend swore were legit
Had the demo from a local PC-magazine called "computer for all" well Komputer for some reason.
@@thespiffingbrit Oh yes, I had a printed out sheet with all the codes lying next to me when I was 12.
It is also how I learned how to use CTRL+C and CTRL+V. Have to spam "Cheese Steak Jimmy's" fast!
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I've played AoE 1 and 2 as well as Age of Mythology. I remember beating the first one and getting a rocket launching car or making superfast monks. The games were amazing for their time and still are.
congratulations on getting those affiliate links.
You are actually the main reason I bought Yorkshire Tea Gold from an import shop, and I gotta say, it is far better than most other black tea blends I tried!
I still play this game from time to time. I'm working my way through all of the campaigns they have released and it's very impressive how they're still putting out solid, unique content that blends right in with the original stuff. None of it feels out of place. It may not be everyone's cup of tea, but this game is truly special.
As someone who has been watching this channel since almost the beginning im really happy to see affiliate links for tea in the description haha.
I always forget that my first spiff video was right off the tail of watching t90 vids, and there was just one in my feed for intercontinental ballistic missiles in aoe2. The absolute range on those units is still bafflingly insane to me.
somehow yesterday i felt the urge to play this exact game for the first time in YEARS
the unrivaled (tea based) power of this video was SO BIG that it reached back in time!
Not even shocked to be honest.
I was introduced to the AOE series probably back in 2007-ish and played it all throughout my childhood. AOE2 is and always will be my favorite, and it's the only one I play nowadays, but I also have huge amounts of hours of AOE1, AOE3, and Age of Mythology. I will definitely be playing the AoM remake when it gets released.
Age of Empires 2 and mythology were my childhood. 3 was good as well. Haven't tried the original or 4
You did it. You finally gave them enough free advertisement that they finally sponsored you. Congrats, Spiff!
I love how you have a Yorkshire tea affiliate link! Props to them for supporting one of their best advocates. Yorkshire tea is objectively the best. I will tolerate PG tips at the office but if somebody offers me a tetley’s or, god forbid, a typhoo, I’d rather shit in my hands and clap.
One of my first memories is my dad teaching me to play Age of Empires, the very first one. So it's all a nostalgia trip for me, and each game evokes different memories, all of them the kind of warm memory you cling to
But if I had to pick one, it's probably AoE3...
Okay listen, I get it xD
But for me it's about family. My family takes family quite seriously, gathering from across the world for Christmas every year. And us grandkids didn't always get along... Until we started LANing AoE3. And we still do that sometimes, as a bunch of 23 year old we set up a lan with same computers we had over a decade ago
Perfection
For those that want to try this, it's been patched out
There's probably _some_ way to try it, but, yeah, "try it for yourselves!" stopped being easy a week before release. It's nice that AoE2 tends to get patches quickly for when something is a game-breaking exploit like this.
I got to know about this bug about 12-18 hours after discovery and was able to replicate. Due to that I did not play ranked for a day or two.
Bug was fixed in that period, so yeah, AoE2 devs work pretty fast))
Thanks! I was so confused as to why it wasn't working when I tried it
It seems like every game developer is subscribed to Spiffs channel so that they can fix the newest exploits right away! :D
dang
Congratulations on your Yorkshire Tea partnership, after all those years I’m glad for you.
great vid m8. It is great to know that you love this game
I remember playing AoE somewhere in the late 90s. Blows my mind that its still around to be honest.
Not just around, but thriving.
Devs did an incredible job preserving everything good about the game and every addition/change was for the better. Every remaster should be this good.
Imagine if the game had the monestary of Yorkshire gold. They would be crushing everything with pieTEA
Oh my. I'm so glad I've been reminded to have a nice cup of tea. Isn't tea so lovely? Thanks, Spiffing Brit.
i swear spiff is getting more and more unhinged everytime he uploads, love it
Sadly now they patched it :(
Mine is age of empires 4, it used to be aoe2 but in aoe4 the different civs have more "personality" imo with their unique game mechanics and such.
I played Age of Empires I, Rise of Rome, and Age of Empires 2 back in the day. We'd network it with friends and family members to have a great time. I'm so glad it's still around and gets some love now and then
The most impressive part of this video is learning that Spiff has affiliate links with Yorkshire Tea after all these years of giving them free promo.
Spiff's buttery British accent is so smooth my coffee turned to tea
BRITAIN!!!🐦🐦🐦 🇬🇧 🇬🇧🇬🇧
For me AOE2 is the best game I have ever seen or played. Been watching competitive for years, played the original, and started again with DE. Love that you made a video about it. In the past there was also a nice relic bug with one civilization, giving their calvary unlimited attack. Gotta love the ancient coding of this game though :)
I was just thinking of getting some Yorkshire tea, but now that you’ve got a link I made sure to use it.
This is the type of topical content I expect from you Spiff
It's been so long but God do I have some great memories
5 friends playing vs AI
"buddy! I am being overrun! Send some military!"
"_dont worry, I have a plan_!"
*Bvuilds 3 layer deep wall, blocking all of my trade*
*I actually survive the extremr DE AI onslaught*
"Buddy! You'll regret this!"
Yeah this game makes memories
Backstabby memories are the funniest though
For AOE multi-player the key is trade carts. To start build 50 villagers and 50 carts, build your markets as far from each other as possible to gain as much gold as possible. Use the other 100 population for troops. Back when I was playing on a Lan I woukd typically get 200,000 to 300,000 gold in a three hour game. When there are no trees left on black forest, and the only way to make resourses is to spend gold, having 150 trade carts and 20 castles to make janisaries means even when you lose an entire army a new one magical appears.
And have a spanish ally
@@pavise6333 -Indians- Hindustanis (and now Persians) also work
Isn't there a Civ that has faster working Markets nowadays?
@@The-jy3yq Yup, Bohemians. 80% faster prod
This is moon advice. 120 vills minimum
@@The-jy3yqBengalis with 10% food generation on the trade is also strong especially when there are no resources anymore on the map
Glad to see my favorite tea enthusiast playing my favorite game for now almost a quarter of century. Its insane that this game has remained as big as it is for this long, but if youve played you know how well deserved it is and thank you Microsoft for all the recent moves and the seemingly endless stream of fresh content. Cheers.
I've this game, been a favorite since I was a teen.
I don't know if you know, Brit, but in the old AOE2 you can send trade carts to defeated enemies markets. Money money money money!
My favorite AoE is easily III. I'm actually a little salty that II is so popular because it came at the cost of support for III. We did get the DE recently but then it was straight on to IV after that. III is so well paced, and the home city, which threw II players for a loop, provides a really cool mechanic for timing pushes/defenses.
the competitive scene really suffered with the release of 4, the others remained pretty stable. Even 1, which by this point is pretty much Vietnams national sport.
If you had chosen the Lithuanians instead, all of your melee units would get +1 attack for every relic you've collected. You could make some basic scouts that 1-shot everything in the game if you did this exploit enough.
Alternatively, Aztecs get more gold from relics than other factions and their monks are the beefiest since they get +10hp per monk tech. You could have some truly massive monkies wololoing their way through enemy armies.
Isn't there like a cap of +5 for those bonuses?
@@stylesrj I think its even down to +4 with a patch. But there is a cap, its not like 256x Tech mod that scales that far.
@@sokarash does it go up to +40 in 10x civ bonus mod games?
It's not for all melee units. It only works for Knights and Leitis (Lithuanian unique unit). And it's capped at +4.
@@petrpinc7695 Each relic would probably give +10, yeah
I've played AOE 2 and 3, loved 2 the most by far and loved the El Cid and Montezuma campaigns the most, also loved most of the conqueror's battle thingies especially Agincourt
Congrats on the Yorkshire tea gold affiliate! Proud of you 🥲
I was an OG player when AoE 2 first came out. Good times. Joanne of Arcs fake French words still stuck in my head.
Imagine doing this exploit with the Lithuanians, where you get +1 attack on your cavalry for each relic you control
It only works with 4-5 replica, they can't gain more attack then that.
Do not unleash this man into the real world. Thankfully for us all he is trapped inside youtube for aeons to come.
Age of Empires 2 was my childhood. My gamer parents got to actually play while my sibling and I just fought over the sheep, building beautiful pens for them. As I got older we actually started to play together . And now I still recommend it to my friends. We love goofing around with the 256x mod. Thanks for introducing us to that one, Spiff!
Love the fact that Yorkshire tea finally decided to start paying their biggest asset. You deserve it, Mr. Britt
One love ❤️
Ah yes. More exploits. now my day has been saved.
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I've been involved in the aoe2 community since 1999. I love this game and the community.
Was obsessed with AoE II as a kid and although I don't have a copy any more you better believe it's on my steam wishlist!
I love Age of Empires II man great video. I suck at AoE too lol I feel your pain. Love the videos man keep up the great work
I played tons AoE 2 as a kid. I was absolute crap at it, but I loved every second. I'd love to see you upload more vids of this game.
Start playing it again!
I love your partnership with Yorkshire Tea Gold, lmao. Memed into reality!
Although we started with AOE, I spent hours and hours and hours playing AOE2 in college. We'd have a biweekly inter-dorm challenge. After I graduated some of us kept it up for a few years. Hard to believe almost 25 years later its been remastered and people are playing it.
Grew up playing AoE Gold and AoE2 Conquerers with my sister and dad. Even played the demo version on those game demo discs you used to get with PC magazines. Good Times. To this day I still have the soundtrack stuck in my head and go listen to the OST from time to time.
Thrilled to see a Yorkshire Tea affiliate link in this video.
My team at work got very into AOE2 and all of us started playing and training and improving. Nearly all of us were tournament level players, (not necessarily winners, but still good). It was an interesting year.
Age of empires II was a childhood favourite - me and my cousin used to clear entire maps of resources and then have full on wars that would last for hours - completed all the campaigns as well… And even made some custom campaigns with the campaign creator…. Had a solid group of friends who would LAN AOE as well… and last Boxing Day picked up a PC laptop on a big sale to mostly be able to run the AOE remasters
Honestly spiffining brit i hope you continue to find exploits in our beloved games and i hope i can get this game soon
As a child of the 80's (I know the game didnt come out then. Just showing my age) I remember playing Age of Empires II when it was first released. Fantastic game then and I'm still playing the series today. I really enjoyed AOE 2 but I fondly remember AOE 3 as well.
Another great video as always and I look forward to the next.
I would love to see more of this type of game and the length of video was pretty nice too.
4:41 Some nice Historical Trivia for y'all: This is a famous statement promoted during the Enlightenment by Erasmus and "kind of" first brought up by St. Cyril during a Sermon back in the 4th century when he mentions that there was a lot of these relics popping up in churches, but such relics consist of tiny pieces of wood. Appearing during the Saladin Campaign of AoE 2, there was never an inflation of these relics in Europe that was absurdly high in terms of mass, being most of the relics tiny splinters of wood.
A scholar from the 19th calculated the number of Pieces of True Cross that existed in Europe and even multiplied by ten the quantity to account for vandalism/stolen relics/lost relics due to religious wars. The mass of wood existing was not even enough to make a cross, much less a real ship.
There was never an absurd amount of "wood relics" that were enough to build a medieval Merchant Ship. Check the size of the medieval Bremen Cog. It is an amazing trade cog preserved from the middle ages... And you can see that it would demand a crazy amount of wood.
Now, back to the video! :) EDIT: Amazing video!! Hahahaha this exploit was hell!
Love the videos Spiff! Look forward to them every upload! Coming from a Brit office worker with a secret supply of Yorkshire gold! Keep up the exemplary work for the British empire and the true QUEEN
"Wololo" is up there with the Sonic drowning music for the Pavlovian terror it inspires.
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Spiff, you finally did it! You finally got Yorkshire Tea Gold to sponsor you! How marvelous! Cheers, mate 👍🏼 I hope you get over your cold soon! Yorkshire 🍵 is just the thing you need to get you back in shape
AOE and AOE II are so nostalgic for me. We got the first game in a cereal box (on of many great games we got this way) and we ended up playing the first one so much it shattered in the drive.
I can't believe Spiff actually got affiliate links for Yorkshire Tea😂
Oh, I played the OG AoE on my uncle's computer a week after it launched. I had no idea what I was doing, used cheats to win, and still occasionally lost when my proton troopers and rocket launcher cars were converted. Still, it kicked off a lifelong love of RTS games that Starcraft later solidified (RIP old Blizzard).
Awesome video! I love all the Age of Empires games but Age 2 is the best in my book. And I'd say that all the DLCs to it are worth the money! The game just keeps on getting better :D
I knew you were a man of culture! I picked up aoe2:de 2-3 years ago again and play online ranked for fun. I actually just played a game vs AI with my brother who just bought it! Long live AOE2
Favorite AoE? Age of Empires 1 Demo version, Rise of rome dlc. This legendary map when you play Carthago vs yellow&red Rome, and you have units to find, on yellow Roman island, hidden in mountains. That was my first RTS game contact on very young age, so nostalgic... and this music!
AOE 2 AOK is one of my favourites!! Nice video!
A demo of AoE used to be part of Windows 98. I can still hear the sound of the healers in my head. Good times!