Unit Counters - AoE DE Beginner Guide
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- čas přidán 16. 06. 2024
- Just getting back to age of empires 1, but don't know where to start to improve? Well, in this video, I'll go over the basic concepts of Age of Empires: Definitive edition regarding which units are good against other units. This video does not examine each and every unit match up, but instead gives a brief overview of the strengths and weaknesses of each unit.
1:07 - Stone Age Units
1:30 - Tool Age Units
3:18 - Bronze Age Units
3:54 - Barracks Units
4:30 - Archery Range Units
6:17 - Stable Units
7:29 - Siege Workshop
7:55 - Academy
8:34 - Iron Age Units
8:49 - Tower Upgrades
9:22 - Legendary Units.
9:45 - Barracks Units
10:28 - Archery Range Units
11:27 - Stable Units
13:23 - Siege Workshop
14:51 - Academy
15:54 - Final Thoughts
Thanks for watching!
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I dont know why but Age 1 remain my favorite. It just has a charm to it for me. Ancient weapons in it.
It is by far and i mean by far the best AOE of all games!
Its gettin fixed!
@@Seth9809 I hope so server is pretty dead for whatever reason.
By and far the best. Sometimes I create a map with no other teams and just build a cool city
Ahh... AOE1... When every civ had Teutonic Knights.
One more thing: Slinger has a damage bonus against buildings. Don't know the exact number but i'm sure it's there.
Is more noticeable against stone-to-bronze age buildings, before improving their resiliance (architecture, if i recall). But is something like +3 for buildings, +2 or 1 for towers.
Nice video but you left out the most important unit: Wololo man
;) It deserves it's own video XD
They are weak to chariots and strong against your lack of faith.
@@pacoramon9468 So basically they are useless when going up against The IMperium of Man
Wololooooooo.
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Dont know if anyone cares but if you are bored like me atm you can stream all of the new movies on InstaFlixxer. Been streaming with my gf for the last weeks =)
Teutonic Knight is the son of the Centurion
Great Video JREd ;). Keep em coming.
Thanks for making this video. Very insightful and helpful.
Great video. This is really well done, SotL level of infovideo
nice video i was searching guide for aoede but no way i found you thank you :)
Ur on spirit of the laws upcoming aoe youtubers, well done!
wat ?
@@Scaraptor619 spirit of the law is a pretty big aoe youtuber
@@spartankongcountry6799 Lol i have watched all of his videos...that comment was 6 months ago
:P
@@Scaraptor619 ;)
What does micro mean
Thank you for this guide. Finally i understand what i am doing in aoe de. I am sure you put a lot of afford in doing this video.
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In this case, is scythe chariot, not scythian
Was battle chariots with spinning blades (in this case scythe blades, you know, the ones used to harvest cereals). They existed historically, but died out because the driver had to guide the horse directly adjacent to the enemy forces to be effective. And any guy with a spear could either thrust it between the spocks (and either block the wheel, break the wheel, or break the spear), or shut down the horses. Aaand because after stronger horses were bred, capable of carrying an armoured rider, chariots kind of died out for the sake of manuverability and speed.
EDIT: corrected mistakes
And it’s helepolis, not helepios.
Even though in real life the helepolis was a massive siege tower, not a bolt thrower. I think a more correct rendition of it exists in AoM.
What a great video you did ! Thank you bro :)
composite bowmen are one of my favourite units. I never build swordsmen.
In original aoe, I often avoided the ballista tower upgrade, because the towers fire so much slower, so can easily be outmicroed. It's slightly less bad in DE, but still has some effect.
if you´re going to use ballista towers, you need to build several of them next to each other, so that the enemy will have a hard time dodging them. They´re good, but only in large numbers
Late reply but the other towers practically tickle most Iron Age units, so the Ballista Tower is the only really intimidating defense you can build
Great video. Very helpful.
Scythe. Like the weapon. The Y makes the long I sound and the E is silent. Helepolis. Possibly just a spelling error.
Where do you find the "bonus damage" stats? Is there a site that lists all these hidden stats?
I still make slingers in the iron age. I play as the greeks, once fully upgraded they do wonders to support my hoplites.
Thanks for the video, it's very useful
Quality aoe1 content. Hell yeah
instead of calvary you now write cavlary, not sure if it's an improvement or not 11
Dyslexia strikes again
What is pretty crazy considering in portuguese cavalry is spelled cavalaria, wich is closer to cavlary than to cavalry
great information. thank you.
Very good montage.
Great chanel!
Nice guide.
One thing, though: it's not "heliòpis", it's "helépolis", from the greek helein (to take, conquer...) + pòlis (city).
It would be nice to tell us about the bonus damange a unit does to another one. I mean, we know bowmen deal bonus damange to axemen, but we dont know how much bonus damange they will do to them
I pretty much go with academy units, Cavalry and some artillery to damage my enemies economy. Cavalry defends the Phalanx against range or fast units and priests and maintains order for the Phalanx which obliterates pretty much everyone else including elephants
Now since the last update scout can auto attack so now it's maybe a possibility to make them for a combat unit
thanks so much
This video is useful again, its getting fixed!
You forgot about the main advantage of the chariot and chariot archer. Priests
Chariots and chariot archers have great resistance to conversion and deal double damage to priests.
I started with Age of empires 3 was the first time I saw it as a person who loves history I decided to get all three night before last for $25 on steam . Although I been struggling with a mission because it won’t let you pass a certain age and which building are the Stone Age so I spend resources on stuff I don’t need to figure out which building I need to upgrade to the next age could I get some assistance? Colonization of lonia is the mission name
Very nice content. Show us how to use monks, pls :)
Wait another 2 days or so
:)
What's better definitive edition or original HD edition aoe2 kings conquerors
6:02 in my opinion its the opposite... Chariots counter Composit archers
Great video, but you forgot to say that chariots have extra damage versus priest and extra conversion resistance.
What about ships?
when I modded the steam DE, I made Improved Bowmen actually be a bit stronger, and Composite Bowmen mere MUCH Stronger, (More of everything, Except Speed of course), you may ask. why make improved Bowmen?, the reason, is because of how much stronger I made Composite Bowmen, I also made them require Iron Age, meaning in my game, Improved Bowmen saw more useage
So... Hoplites are Teutonic Knights? 11
Pretty much
Yeah Greek Hoplites move faster than foot archers.
where's the navy?
"Cavalry strong highly armoured unit" - 0 armor xD
Nice but you are missing priests!
Scouts are meant to be used to scout and are none combat units. Aoe AI 'ARE U SURE ABOUT THAT' As it sends an army of scouts toward my base.
Too bad Age of Empires 1 Definintve Edition had no new expansion packs unlike AOE2DE and AOE3DE, we could have seen more civilizations, units and even some reworks to the older civilizations.
Upgrade Units
Elite Slinger: Bronze age upgrade that slightly increases damage, health, pierce armour and range. Some civilizations gaining a faction trait that allows them to stay viable even in the Iron Age. One civilisation rework I would like to see is that for the Greek slingers have +2 extra attack damage as a reference to the famed slingers of Rhodes which were some of the most highly prized mercenaries during the ancient world. This would be great for the Greeks as they currently lack viable early and mid game range units
Armoured Camlery: Iron Age upgrade to the Camel Rider. Camel Riders currently in game are useless past the bronze age, this upgrade would allow them to stay viable against Iron Age cavalry units and elephants
Battle Axeman: A bronze age upgrade to the axeman that replaces the one handed stone head axe with a two handed bronze head axe. I am going to re-imagine the axeman line a high damage but low health trash infantry that ignores melee armour. The will be further upgrades for the Battle Axeman in the iron age called the Falxman which replaces the two handed axe with a Falx which was a real life weapon from antiquity, that looked like a scythe and was used by both Dacian and Thracian tribesmen which proven extremely effective against the heavy infantry of the Romans. I also think there should be an ultimate upgrade to Falxman called the Champion.
Light Cavalry: A bronze age upgrade to the scout
I agree. There are too many transitions in this game and many units don´t even have a clear role
@@chrisegreg9559 i think this is why AOE2 is more popular. Literally every unit has a purpose. Halberdiers for cavs, skirmishers for halberdiers and archers, hand cannons for foot infantry, petards for walls and buildings, etc.
AOE1 the game were you mass horse archer every game to win against every unit in a nutshell. Vs melee or horse melee units? kite all day.. vs foot archer? horse archer have better stats. Vs balista? kite/dodge even elephant archer cat beat horse archer. In AOE2 the devs were like.. wait let's not make the same mistake again. *Adds* skirmishers among toher units
If your videos are based on the ages on AoE2, you're on the Castle Age :D
Not sure what you mean, but I'll take it as a complement :D
Your vids started from the Dark ages and had improved over time. It is a complete compliment. ;)
:) Thank you! Can't wait till I get to imp!
i am an ancap so i will never build a government building
3;21 HOW DID YOU DO THAT
editing my friend
5:56 "highly armored" unit with 0 armor
nice video but it seems you forgot camel riders
and monks
and warships... But those are not THAT important are they?
I did talk about camel riders. I'm saving priests (and maybe water battles in general) for another video,
yes but no stats showcase and which units are good against them afaik
"the horse archer is toucher" 69 hp
yes
I know it's better but idk
Not sure there's a counter for mass heavy catapults. Massive range, 150 hp, massive attack, massive area of effect, they are affected by ballistics... lol
If you can flank them with heavy cavalry and hoplites, they are practically doomed
Not exactly a counter if you need large numbers of a unit to work....
Tbh the only actual counters that get bonus damage are:
Slingers vs archers/towers
Camels vs horse
Chariot vs priest
In competative terms this game is extremely different compared to AoE2 and there aren't counters for things like Armoured Elephants, maybe mass siege.
There is, centurion
@@rodrigomachado5291 Broken checks broken, ahh yes
@@rodrigomachado5291 but then there is no hard counter to centurions
Counters are the reason why hittites are so bad against cartagenians.
scouts are insanely good at killing villagers tho
Yes, you can put them in aggressive stance now and they will attack like any other unit
this game needs some balance changes. Some units are way too good compared to others. and some units just suck. like bowmen or scout.
I feel like the developers will just make a completely new game based on this time period (like AOE2 vs 4). The balancing will be so significant that it will be a literal new game. That and AOE1 DE doesn't sell well to begin with
Debating on buying aoe1 or aoe2 again... Hmm
I get how and why aoe2 is better and I really like it but I love aoe1
Horse Archers Will Always Remain Over Powered..
Where is your accent from lol
Cavlary? More like Kevlary
I don't like AOE1 because units are OP and defensive techs are horrible.
It is a broken game and on DE they didn't fixed this.
I think you are wrong the defense mechanism in aoe1 is balanced with troops attack and HP but we have to place our troops to protect our city from enemy troops if they comes in hordes especially defensive towers are not effective against ranged units like catapults and it's legendary upgrade so that why we need to place our troops their to defend our village from artillery otherwise defensive towers can resist against melee units if they are placed with best fortifications
Ew nobody wants to micro manage their troops... About to go barf up this bs
seethee chariots. noted. never knew it was pronounces like that haha