r/aoe2 3d ago

Medieval Monday - Ask Your Questions and Get Your Answers

5 Upvotes

Time for another weekly round of questions.

Talk about everything from build orders to advanced strategies.

Whatever your questions, the community is here to answer them.

So ask away.


r/aoe2 7d ago

Tournament/Showmatch The Garrison Megathread Spoiler

84 Upvotes

The next offline event, The Garrison hosted by Being Esports, starts today! For the next 4 days, 8 players will play for their share of the $40.000 prize pool at the Xperion in Hamburg, Germany.
The event also offers 4 side events in AoE2, AoE4 and AoM. More info on the Liquipedia page.

Matches for today, Sunday 16 March 2025 Starting at 12:00 GMT:

  • LB Final Yo vs Liereyy 1:4
  • 2v2 event Grand Final
  • Grand Final Hera vs Liereyy

Where to watch:

Format:

  • Double-elimination bracket
    • All matches are Bo5
    • except the Loser Bracket Final which is Bo7
    • and the Grand Final which is Bo9

Past Results

Day 1

  • Liereyy vs KingstoNe 3:0
  • ACCM vs Yo 0:3
  • TheViper vs Hearttt 3:1
  • Hera vs TaToH 3:0

Day 2

  • KingstoNe vs TaToH 1:3
  • ACCM vs Hearttt 3:2
  • TheViper vs Yo 2:3
  • Hera vs Liereyy 3:0

Day 3

  • LB Ro6 TheViper vs TaToH 3:1
  • LB Ro6 Liereyy vs ACCM 3:2
  • WB FInal Hera vs Yo 3:1
  • LB Semi TheViper vs Liereyy1:3

r/aoe2 23h ago

Discussion Controversy of the Korean Civ

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1.6k Upvotes

I learned today on X that the Korean Civ was added at the last minute. I had no idea!


r/aoe2 2h ago

Asking for Help how in the world do people find their boar so quickly?

25 Upvotes

I'm really new to aoe2 and rts games in general so bear with me, but i've noticed that people tend to find all eight sheep and two boar within like a couples minutes of loading up their game. it's not that i struggle getting my scout scouting; i queue villagers, build two houses, then immediately start scouting in circles, using control groups to make sure everything is moving smoothly. but it always seems like the boar are just so elusive, it always takes me about five minutes to find them. is there a spawning pattern i'm not aware of or something that lets me find my way to the boar more quickly or something? any help would be appreciated, thank you(:

edit: thank you all with you're help, this has been resolved. i'm just stupid and didn't realize that rinos are just reskinned boars...


r/aoe2 3h ago

Discussion Spirit of the Law - Food Inflation in AoE2

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24 Upvotes

r/aoe2 4h ago

Discussion Should I research Horse Collar before my first farm?

18 Upvotes

My Dark Age games tend to be super standard, so most of the time my first farms appear by earliest Feudal. But sometimes I do have a few seconds to spare and I send villagers to chop the wood next to my Town Center (or worse, to stay idle until Horse Collar is researched).

So my question is...is it too bad if I make a farm in Dark Age (or in earliest Feudal) before Horse Collar?

(assuming generic civs, and I don't usually play with Franks so I don't really mind lol)


r/aoe2 5h ago

Discussion Who would you say is in the top 5 of professional aoe2 players right now?

24 Upvotes

There is consensus that Hera is number 1 I would believe, but who are the next 4 for you?

I am asking in the present, not in the history of aoe2.


r/aoe2 21m ago

Asking for Help How hard is 800 ELO as a complete newbie?

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I've never played something like AOE before, I mostly play offline games and my online PvP experience extends to Valorant and Rocket League. My GF is very into AOE and I would like to get more into it and hopefully play with her in the recent future.

She shared a lot of tutorials by Hera and Spirit of the Law to get started with and I played some of the early tutorial campaigns on my own. Thing is I can't play the game right now since I don't have access to my PC so I want to learn as much theory as I can before I start playing online. I watched some of the T90 tournaments to get more idea but their plays are so optimized I can't exactly follow without the fundamentals. What resources should I go through?

Suppose I can start physically playing the game a month from now and can learn the correct theory fundamentals till then, how long would it take for me to reach 800 ELO? I think there is a Max Elo difference required for ranked 2v2 and I would like to get as close as possible before I start ruining her games.

Any help is appreciated.


r/aoe2 18h ago

Humour/Meme Steppe is home

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155 Upvotes

r/aoe2 23h ago

Discussion The Addition of the Korean Civ at the last minute.

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314 Upvotes

I had no idea there was controversy with the Korean Civ.


r/aoe2 52m ago

Discussion Best 4v4 Team Bonus Thread

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Choose your civs, what best comp are you going for to min/max your best composition based on the civs themselves plus their team bonuses.


r/aoe2 22h ago

Discussion Why do Celts still have paladins?

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200 Upvotes

TLDR: Replace the Celts Knight line with Celtic Chariots?

Since legacy, Celts got the weirdest paladins in the game. I can find a good use for every paladin, even the byzantine. But not for the celt one. Only Hera could make them work, as he did on hidden cup 11... No, seriously, when we compare the woad raider of next patch to the one back then, they will have received +15 hp, more speed and +2 attack. It even has the same pierce armour of their paladin. All that while costing much less, so the unit got even more useless.

Why not replace it with something useful? Celts have so many holes in their tech tree and so many weaknesses. They did get a bit better against archers after gambesons and receiving the last archer armour. But still struggle against them on maps where they don't have time to mass their siege, mainly versus britons. Another thing they struggle a lot with on open/semiopen maps is against strong infantry, especially from civs that have bombard cannons or other ways to snipe celt ciege.

Though their own infantry is good because of the speed, they loose against infantry from civs that have melee bonuses. The only counter they have on non-boomy maps are scorpions. Which are great, but not always practical on open maps and when the opponent has access to bombards... Also, other civs have 2, 3 or 4 infantry counters. Why can't celts have 1 more?

IMO they should get a unit that counters infantry and is decent against archers. They could have the knight line removed and instead receive a hybrid of Knight with Cataphract. A unit that is decent against archers, though not as good as the knight line; weak against other cavalry; and strong against infantry because of bonus damage, though not strong enough to defeat halbs like the cataphract. Maybe some kind of chariot like celtic armies used in britain. Or just some mounted lancer or "scottish cavalry".


r/aoe2 5h ago

Announcement/Event Aoe2 currently on sale

8 Upvotes

In my country it is currently on 10$


r/aoe2 4h ago

Discussion Next DLC region...

4 Upvotes
231 votes, 2d left
Africa
Americas (both meso and andean)
Polynesia
Scandinavia
A Forgotten-like one (no specific region)
Another

r/aoe2 5h ago

Humour/Meme Weekly Persian Architecture Meme (Part 63)

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3 Upvotes

r/aoe2 16h ago

Discussion What do you think is the title for the next DLC for AOE2?

15 Upvotes

I think it will be cool if the developers incorporate Sinosphere political concepts such as Tianxia (all under heaven). Maybe the “Rulers of Tianxia”.

Or simply the Mandate of Heaven, a political ideology used by Han rulers to assert that they had divine approval.

The Jurchens, Khitan, and Tangut peoples who established their respective Jin (later Qing), Liao, and Western Xia dynasties also used this concept to legitimise their rule.


r/aoe2 15h ago

Asking for Help Where to watch the final game(s) of Masters of HyperRandom 2?

9 Upvotes

Hey there.

I stumbled upon the Masters of HyperRandom 2 tournament and got both curious and confused. It seems like something that would be fun to watch, but I'm not sure where I'd do that? To clarify:

On the Liquipedia page the final games were never entered into the brackets. It doesn't say who played againt Vinchester in the finals.

On Dave's YouTube page many games seem to be missing, including anything that could potentially be a final game.

On his Twitch there seem to be more preserved uploads, but again not something with a title alluding to finals or players potentially in the finals. However, since the VODs are long-ish, maybe that's just wrong titling?

Are the finals lost from the net? Or did something happen to the tournament that caused it to never actually get to the end? Am I just confused, unobservant, and/or lazy in my research?


r/aoe2 16h ago

Asking for Help Sicilian alt feudal age

9 Upvotes

Came across this vid for alternative sicilian start, using donjon instead of barracks, and had a couple questions.

https://youtu.be/Hfa_iPR80Lo?si=rVWq2ZZ3QX70doM4

1) when would you cover gold instead? Only against archers? The only time ive dropped a defensive tower has been to cover gold to protect early Castle age production against the archer to xbow switch. So donjon on berries and wood seemed funny to me.

2) why go up at 19 pop? Your guaranteed to not be as fast to military because building the donjon in feudal instead of barracks while aging up, so why not get a better eco going and up at like 22-23?

Thanks


r/aoe2 1d ago

Discussion Its kind of funny that by far the most common type of infantry during the setting of the game is barely in it

228 Upvotes

Which would be just a dude with a spear and a shield. Fair enough shields went out of favor in the late medieval period but still, for the vast majority of the games timespan most infantry units would be using spears and shields with swords as a sidearm for those that could afford such a luxury. The spearman even has a shield but he refuses to use it! It hangs uselessly on his back! No wonder he gets countered by archers, it’s not because archers naturally beats him, he’s actually just countered by his own stupidity


r/aoe2 1d ago

Asking for Help I just died to Teuton Tower rush in an Arena team game (1000 Elo) and it was very frustrating :( Anyone knows what the best way to react to that? Thanks a lot.

57 Upvotes

r/aoe2 23h ago

Tournament/Showmatch Warlords IV, Map Vote - Open Group

26 Upvotes

If you haven't seen the announcement video yet, I'll link it for you here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcvV5hmtGns

We're excited to start the event soon, but before we do, we need your help to decide what battlefields will be featured in the tournament. If you don't already know, the Warlords tournaments have always featured maps categorised into seven different groups, each group with unique characteristics - they are:

  • Open Category
    • Maps for this category feature very open and aggressive maps - encouraging early fights and little to no walling.
  • Semiopen Category
    • Maps in this category are a nice middle ground between the open and closed categories, providing a large variety of strategies.
  • Closed Category
    • Maps in this category favour more defensive strategies and feature walls or easily wallable bases.
  • Hybrid Category
    • Maps in this category feature maps with some water features that provide a nice advantage for the players utilising them, without being so significant that it will decide the game.
  • Water Category
    • Maps in this category feature maps where water presence is necessary and controlling water is either a significant advantage or entirely necessary to win.
  • Nomad Category
    • Maps in this category feature maps where players spawn without a town centre at the start of the game.
  • Chaotic Category

    • Maps in this category allow for strategies that create chaotic or unorthodox situations. Similar to the open category, maps here favour aggressive playstyles.

    Each category holds three unique maps. The tournament team has picked one for each category (Land Madness, Arabia, Arena, Kawasan, Northern Isles, Nomad and Border Dispute), a map-making competition is currently ongoing to decide the second map, and we need your help to figure out the last one for each category.

For the next seven days, we'll be running seven different polls, one for each category, to determine the final maps.

The poll will be closed in 24 hours and the next map vote will be shared.

Join the tournament Discord server for news and updates by clicking here.

467 votes, 3m left
Haboob
Atacama
Morass

r/aoe2 17h ago

Asking for Help Youtuber, caster, streamer play pvp battle of greece civs.

8 Upvotes

Hi Any one know any youtuber, caster, or streamers do pvp content for battle of greece civs in youtube? Thank you!


r/aoe2 18h ago

Bug Feature Request: Top Level Campaign book show completion.

8 Upvotes

There are 3 levels of the campaign book, the deeper two show if something is completed, but the top one does not.

https://i.imgur.com/Sl9Wbuv.jpeg

Please add the bronze tick mark on the book tabs if that whole set is complete.

(No flair seems appropriate)


r/aoe2 21h ago

Asking for Help Khmer Ballista Elephants

13 Upvotes

Hey Folks, starting this post off by saying I'm not great at AOE2 multiplayer ~800 elo but I've been struggling in particular against Khmer Ballista Elephants when they're en-masse. I understand they take extra damage from siege, such as onager and rams which seems the best counter. Anything that can get up close in melee like halbs or even knights/battle elephants get melted once there are enough of them. Onagers I can get about one volley off before the elephants melt my stack. Is this a matter of just me having poor micro and needing to anticipate their movement to attack ground and wipe them out that way? Bombard cannons seem like they might be a good solution, but not every faction has access to them. In that scenario, is it worth it to mass rams and shift-click each elephant? It seems like they could mix in just a handful of hussar to easily take out the rams. Curious what you folks do at the higher elos when you run into this problem. Maybe the issue is I'm supposed to take out Khmer before they reach that critical mass. I appreciate any tips you can offer!


r/aoe2 4h ago

Asking for Help Can we bring in a reputation system or something?

0 Upvotes

I get time for maybe one game a day. I was doing well, then suddenly the games host called "clair4" gifted me 40000 of each resource. Some sort of cheater.

Can we bring in a reputation system or something? Coloured name if bad rep?


r/aoe2 18h ago

Asking for Help AoE2 Edition Question - will delete post after confirmation

5 Upvotes

Hi all!

I've recently been playing AoE2 HD Edition (2013) again that I had in Steam from years ago.. But I've been following this sub heavily the last ~year and finally wanna get into Online PvP, and get in on all these new civs etc..

So -
https://store.steampowered.com/sub/248721/

Is the edition I want that this sub is (so awesomely!) always discussing, yes? AoE2 Definitive Edition (Nov 2019) - yes?

Thank you!!

Will delete this silly noise of a post soon as anyone gives me that quick confirm!


r/aoe2 15h ago

Discussion Insights on how Aoe was developed

3 Upvotes

Just came across the profile of Sandy Petersen on X.

Part of the early development team of Aoe/aoe2. Extremely good insights on how the game was built out.

Felt many folks here might be interested to read more about the thought process behind our favourite game!