 For those of you that have been following the channel for a little while, you guys know I'm not much of a gamer. I do game occasionally and when I do though, it's free and open source games mainly and my favorite free and open source game of all time is ZeroAD which is a fantastic real time strategy game. It is kind of challenging especially if you're brand new to the game. That's one of the complaints a lot of people have about ZeroAD is when you're a noob especially it's a multiplayer game for the most part when you're playing against other people that have been playing the game for a while it's it's very challenging so today I'm gonna have a little fun mainly this is just me having fun playing the game but I'm also gonna talk you through a little bit hopefully educate especially some of you guys that are kind of new to the game how it should be played so I'm gonna go ahead and launch the game and I'm gonna choose single player I'm gonna choose matches what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna play against seven AI opponents so what I'm gonna do I'm gonna pick the Persians as my civilization there are about 13 or 14 civilizations to pick from but the Persians are good all-around civilization for purposes of this video because the Persians have a nice variety of troop types and siege weapons and things things that I I want to demonstrate in the video today and as far as my opponents and the teams I'm not gonna do teams so it's gonna be a eight-person free-for-all so no teams but seven of the opponents are AI opponents set to the very hard setting if I actually did teams and I did a 1v7 you know against the AI where the AI was actually a team working together it would be extremely difficult maybe I could beat them maybe I couldn't but chances are they would beat me very fast and I don't want this video to be that short I actually want to get to some of the in-game stuff so I'm not gonna assign them to be on a team it'll be every man for himself the map will be Atlas valleys it's a eight-person map and this is nice for purposes of what I'm doing today because it's got this mountain in the center which kind of prevents like all seven of the AIs to like cross the center of the map and just pick on me you know I because of that mountain being in the center I really would only have to worry about two opponents you know the ones directly to the side of me for the most part early in the game so that's what I'm gonna go with so let me go ahead and hit start game now right away you want to worry about food so right away I'm gonna double click on the women and send them to berries or chickens or whatever food is handy right away and I'm gonna double click the women and I'm just gonna go ahead and send them to that chicken I'm gonna click that cab unit I'm gonna send him out there to hunt all of that then I'm gonna grab all four of these guys and I'm just gonna go ahead and send them to wood I'm gonna go ahead and have one build a house just to make sure I've got room for population space here in a little bit I need to go ahead and queue up some more units I'm gonna use all my available wood here at the beginning to train three more cab units since there is hunt right we've got some sheep it looks like it makes sense to go ahead and do some cab early that way they can go ahead and get that that cheap food right there right so you have a lot of hunt it makes sense to do cab units early train three cab units if you don't have any hunt on the map you know if it's kind of bear of hunt then it makes sense just to train women you can train up to six women at the beginning you have that much food to do that but I went with the cab units let me go ahead and get ready to train some more women here soon as the cab units pop out cab units need to go there the women when they come out I'll send them to wood I'm gonna need some more wood very shortly so the goal here we needed a population space so I went ahead and built that first house but really what I need is as soon as I can get a couple of houses built I would like to get a barracks early because we're we've got seven opponents I really need a barracks to train more troops and I got to remember to train women one thing when talking during a game it's very easy to get distracted and normally I wouldn't forget to keep training women like that but I need to keep keep keep training that's one of the secrets to this game being a real-time strategy game is you should not have any downtime every building that can train should be training people I do have some berries up here so when these women finish with the chickens I could send them to the berries or I could just send this next batch of women to the berries so I do have wood now I could go ahead and build a farmstead I'll build that farmstead have these women also go build that farmstead go ahead and get a another house started definitely do not want to hit that button now that I've got the farmstead up I'm gonna go ahead and take the berry upgrade that first upgrade from the farmstead it's a better gathering rate for the women to gather berries so if you've got berries get that upgrade that's an important upgrade obviously if you're on a map that didn't have any berries or very few then you'd skip that upgrade eventually I need to get a store house built so I can get the wood chopping upgrade that's really the next one I need to worry about here don't really need a storehouse necessarily for collecting wood but I will need it for that upgrade for right now because I'm facing so many AI opponents let's go ahead and get a barracks built send a lot of these guys to build that barracks rather quickly so I need to start worrying about being attacked soon I've got a feeling it's coming soon they go ahead and get some women chopping wood down here this is a nice area of the map it's on the edge so if I send women out here to chop wood they're away from the action because I'm gonna get attacked from this direction and from this direction because I've got at least two of my opponents you know to each side there I've got to worry about people coming through the center of the map because it is possible people will come through the center these guys have cleaned up their hunt from over here but there's still more hunt toward the top of the map so let me get them those cab units back out collecting food for us but I'm good on food let's go ahead and get the wood chopping upgrade this is actually going pretty good for us mainly because we haven't been attacked these guys are doing good so I've got the four cab units but I do need some more infantry units let's go ahead and spend some wood training for archers just to have some units ready I need a I need more wood though I don't have enough wood let's see if I deposit all the wood here would I have enough for a house yes I would so now send them all to build the house yeah I'm running low on wood so what I'm gonna do I'm gonna take some of these women away from picking berries and have them chop wood instead because I really need more wood and now the four archers that I had trained will come out soon and I need to keep building houses though it's getting to the point where I need at least a couple of folks dedicated to building houses have her build a house and then after she's done go back to chopping wood I'm probably gonna get attacked soon it would be nice to have a tower somewhere around as well just to help defend when the attack finally comes let's get a storehouse and then you guys chop that wood let's get these two archers out here and let's let's just put that tower right there then you guys chop wood out there too let's go ahead and get a second barracks built now all of these women are exposed here if I get attacked from this guy these women I'm gonna have to pull them back pretty quickly I should probably send them back toward the back of the map but once I get that barracks up well you know what I'll go ahead and train up five archers and I'll send those archers this way so I've got some infantry over there for the attack when it comes let's go ahead and start worrying about farming as we're gonna need some farms I could go ahead and level up to the next phase I'll go ahead and queue that up here in a second after this next bunch of women come out I wouldn't mind another tower right here that's kind of a little bit early a phasing up normally you want to phase up when you're about at a hundred pop which is usually around the nine minute mark ten minute mark I'm doing at a little early just because again I'm facing so many opponents I'm actually kind of surprised none of them have attacked me we've gotten a little lucky on that let's go ahead and get a cab stable I'm gonna need some cavalry here in a little bit let's keep the women coming now I'm starting to get a little light on food so let's take some of the women and get them down here farming there's no more hunt for the calves and my four cavalry units really can't do much I could send them to scout but I know exactly where my opponents are on this map it's pretty easy map to figure out since everybody's in a circle and in the middle there's the big rocky area the mountain area which trying to claim the middle of the map is kind of an important thing I should probably start thinking about how to expand to the middle of the map let's keep getting our farms I need the farming upgrade but I'm gonna need metal for that which I don't have any I do need stone so let's get these guys off of wood and get them on stone what I'm gonna do I'm gonna go ahead and set the Civic Center to a hot key hot key one then I'm gonna double click the barracks I'm gonna do control two to set them to the two key let's do the stables on three so I can just hit one for Civic Center two for the barracks and three for the stable go ahead and get some spearmen queued up really light on food now so what well I'm also light on houses too so let's get this group of women seven women building me some quick houses here and then you guys go to farm just to hurry up on population space let's get my house built really quickly there got some women here not doing anything go ahead start building some farms around this farmstead here I need a market now that I'm in phase two have these women build a market real quick so I don't need wood that much of units to blacksmiths and then once I have a market and to blacksmiths built I can go to phase three these trees are kind of in the way here for my farms let's get some women chopping these trees to get them out of the way I've got room for farms up here for now that the market is built let's sell some wood up got folks coming let's get them let's garrison this tower and then everybody else I knew it was coming alright let's queue up some folks that actually went pretty well we got some women that were up in the middle of the battle losing a few folks here that's not good let's make sure though we take the fight right here around the tower and that tower will be constantly shooting these guys alright and the queue up 10 more archers from my barracks now all of this went pretty well I'd like another stables though because we're gonna need more cab units I think all right let's get everybody back to to work so the cab units I lost my storehouse that's not good let's go ahead and get the upgrades whatever upgrades I can afford all right you guys completed chopping the wood that was preventing me from building these fields queue up more women I am gonna need more houses I've got a lot of women down here chopping wood I can afford to send a couple of them just do nothing but build houses go ahead and hot key all the stables need the upgrades for the stables all right I need to get to phase three one of the things facing this many opponents I need to make sure that I get to phase three so I can get siege weapons and I can get to doing what I need to do I'm gonna buy a lot of the metal because I don't have any metal mines but the stone I can send folks to stone I also need wood getting a little light on wood let's improve the efficiency of their wood chopping by getting them all grouped up in a better spot everything's going good over here definitely need more wood you guys same thing build a storehouse closer to the wood line for efficiency what am I I'm light on food need more farmers and I need the farming upgrade who forgot to get that so to get to phase three I'm working on the stone because I got plenty of guys on the stone but the metal is gonna be a problem I need 174 metal they get rid of some food for the metal and a little bit of wood for some metal and stone just to speed things up let me go ahead and speed it up even more go back to the market and that should get me there yeah let me get to phase three once I get to phase three we should be good because then I can get the siege weapons once I get siege weapons out we're in a lot better shape I can use more barracks only having two barracks is not ideal and I do notice this yellow line here this opponent over here is building into us that is not good so we've got to be ready for a fight here in just a second let me go ahead and queue some troops up and get them over here because this is gonna be a big deal I think I think this is gonna be the opponent that's gonna cause me problems because this guy on this side we've already set back a little bit go ahead and get all the blacksmith upgrades that I can afford right now more barracks as soon as I get this to phase three elephant stable what I think up I want to get first let's get you guys building an elephant stable to get you guys building yeah I've already got attacks going on over here that's not good and then I need to build the building to get my hero the Persians have a special building called the throne hall I believe it's called where the hero is trained I need metal and stone to get that which I'm not gonna have to trade wood for metal and stone okay well let's go ahead and build the throne hall just build it right there let's go ahead can I train an elephant nope I need metal for elephants I've got to find metal mines but as soon as I get one or two elephants out we're good so then I can take care of this guy need metal for this as well sell some food for some metal yeah let's see can we train two Rams we can soon as those Rams come out let's kind of need some houses take some women all food for a minute to go ahead and build that house I've got my my calves it's getting a little crazy there but we see we he's got a civic center there we're gonna have that ram soon as they come out take out the civic center the farming ladies build a couple of houses we got time keep training women three barracks now to train from let's or archers out this way I think I'll split it up I'll have some of them come out this way get the women back though we don't need the women to be a part of this trained up some calves spearmen there's no way I'm gonna be able to capture it with just this few troops but I'll just destroy it let's get our hero trained up all right now we got rid of that annoying civic center but I've got some issues because now I've got battles on two different fronts because this guy's coming this way he's starting to build into me I'm out of fortress right there I really need more wood the wood situations getting a little bad now got an elephant on the loose which I didn't mind that kind of wanted that one elephant to wreak some habit before my troops get over there can I get some metal for another elephant or two well I can only afford one more but he is doing just fine there who is there some metal over here but there is some wood he's going to take out that tower there oh there's some metal here this is what I needed finally yep metal what's going on over here I sent those rams off to do a lot of damage and they're doing fine let's keep sending some troops this way as well wonder if I could know he's trying to build a civic center there I can't let can't let him do that yeah food is a problem more upgrades no more farms that's what I need I got women that are not forming this is gonna be a mess because I can't have them I cannot have this civic center go up now I'm fighting two opponents I've got a couple of opponents over there I might have to pull all these guys back over to the other side which I hate to do you know what I am I'm gonna have to back up for a minute I'm just gonna have to get some wood I need metal to to build a second civic center I can get a second civic center up and that would be really nice perfect right there well this guy is not wanting to let me do that though everybody that can get over here please we'll have we got the elephants food still a problem need metal for the upgrades to get the farming upgrade what about weapons upgrades the metal mining upgrade let's get more guys on that mine alright let's go ahead and see if we can take out this guy because this guy here is gonna be the problem the guy on the my right side definitely gonna be an issue it's gonna be tight getting this civic center up go ahead and get a ram to take out that if we can he is not wanting to let me get this civic center up and I'm so close these guys take that out that's gonna be close on both of these this is gonna be real close really light on wood trying to figure out which side of the battle I need to concentrate on this side because even if I lose all these folks trying to take this civic center which I probably am I don't think it's gonna matter I think he's gonna lose it no he's not he killed the elephants all right let's get these guys to come back actually only have one guy the hero all right so let's get guys over here then all right got the ram over there got you guys got more metal to mine except for you guys chop some wood if you can get you guys on stone see that you guys train up some more units and I forward another elephant I can that are not doing anything or can I send them that's safe probably around the civic center because I can always garrison them in that civic center if I need need to do so at the next wood cutting get the stone cutting upgrade get the next melee upgrades guys chopping wood if they can get more calves spearmen if I can because he's gonna have a hard time getting me off this spot now now that I took down his civic center I lost my ram so and he's building a fortress here that's not good still don't have wood just don't have enough economy here last upgrade there can I afford a ram no need more wood more wood train more women have them chopping wood now when this ram comes out go get that tower and then the fortress behind it just need more wood I could trade for wood I guess I could trade food for wood and yeah that makes sense let's go ahead and get some more barracks stables gonna need more houses soon this is gonna be tight you guys have already run out of wood to chop that's not good let's get you guys and the hero all together 44 of you plus one elephant I need more elephants at least to train any more calf train eight more calf when you guys come out we'll be ready to go get that civic center that I couldn't get last time I lost all the women that were chopping wood over here earlier yeah lost that round to he's gonna complete that fortress which is gonna really suck for me unless I do something about it right now these guys are being attacked or no they just got a little antsy but that's fine we were hitting that way eventually anyway this is all women or is it now it's archers yeah I'm gonna lose everybody trying to take this fight let's get some of you guys in the fortress to have it garrisoned and just light on wood part of the reason is not everybody's chopping anybody that can chop wood needs to be chopping wood let's get storehouses all over the place last metal mining upgrade the last stone upgrade yeah that fortress is up that's not good we've got this tower garrison which I don't really need these guys garrison right now I need to make a push here on this guy as he is the one that's going to cause me some issues here in a little bit see the tower being built or a temple being built here if we can get three rams out and then we can make a push ten more cav units and we're gonna make a push on both sides I think I think we're almost ready need a couple more houses that should be enough houses to get me to the pop max and now the temple let's hire a priest or two and get the first healing range upgrade okay three elephants let's go get let's go get it soon as these rams come out here in a second we're gonna go get this over here 15 more archers queued up really I just need this civic center to go away and it really sets him back and I'm not worried about this side as much anymore this side is the one that's a problem because he is pushing me a little bit he is pushing into my territory let's get all the stables queued up the barracks which I now have four four barracks three stables 15 more cab units queued up all right can we take this or no we have to destroy it that's fine all right my hero looks like he's close to death you guys took out what you needed to take out but you don't have much else going on for you how about we put a civic center down right there got a catapult that's gonna annoy us here all right I think we're we're good I think we're good let's go ahead and make a push on that civic center right there queue up some more cab units head that way these guys I don't know about so one side I'm hitting with elephants one side I'm hitting with rams yeah I don't want the elephants to chase though because there'll be a civic center probably somewhere over there they're gonna run into some trouble with all right we took the civic center yeah and then we lost it because he is Ram destroy this his old civic center which is not a problem I didn't really need that civic center but let's keep this little group of people so 99 people plus four Rams that's a nice little army that he's gonna have trouble stopping let's let them just keep going and whatever they run into they run into we need to start defending the center here because we're getting pushed here to see the line here let's go ahead and get an elephant stable up here to where I can get some elephants out quickly hitting that direction these guys have found over here but we still have a Ram that's and catapults that's not good that Ram and the catapults took out my Rams all right yellow has been defeated so I actually took out the player that I was most worried about which was the yellow all right so now let's keep going but we need to try to take the center of them out if possible I should have probably keep somebody here garrisoned let me queue up three spearmen I'm just gonna have them garrison that for me just to make sure it's garrisoned get some elephants heading that way 15 calf hitting this way do I have enough to take this it's going to be close but I think I'll get it all right now that I've got this going head on to the next part of the map we're just gonna keep these two armies going in each direction so we took this let me go ahead and garrison that and now that we take the center of the map I'd really like a fortress right here next to this as well all right why don't you guys take the tower then you guys though I do I still want the fortress take that fortress right there build it right there we took this tower let's garrison that tower let's take one more tower see if we can garrison another tower they don't need this fortress or this Civic Center garrisoned I guess build the fortress and I got that tower from him I garrisoned all right and now I need some barracks that are a little closer so let's build a couple of barracks and then let's go ahead build a couple of stables then a storehouse all right so we've now had two opponents defeated because the light blue character is now out of the game so this was this guy here I guess he finally lost his last little bit one thing I do not like is my hero is needs to heal a little bit so I probably should build a tower somewhere or a temple not a tower build a temple right there right next to that guy my hero just so the hero can heal and this army here is just doing amazing it was an army of 99 units now it's down to 66 units that's not good let's get some more units queued up let's back off a little bit I don't want to lose everybody there and I've got extra units here that I could send maybe I should build yeah I lost all those guys I guess for whatever reason they could not get or they refuse to get out of the way there I'm actually just going to lead these guys on a yeah that battle went horribly wrong that battle went extremely wrong let's get some elephants then so the rams did not do well there once again some barracks some stables maybe an elephant stable a little closer some more there one thing I didn't do I didn't get all the fighting upgrades I need the armor upgrade the next ranged upgrade the next melee upgrade all of that should help and let's get all of these folks somewhere chopping wood about right here that looks like a good wood line I wish I that army I threw away I should have had them get rid of that that's an elephant stable and that's the arsenal the siege workshop alright the center of the map I've kind of forgot about it for a little while let's have some of you guys get me some metal got six elephants how about elephants I'm just gonna send off to do elephant things just let them destroy stuff I don't care if I lose them I'll train more elephants later all cab units can also run around a little bit I'll train more see what's going on down here all of that looks good but without any kind of siege I can't do much I've got five elephants coming out here in just a second that are gonna hit this way that'll help I train one ram or would it let me train two or three it will not they're just gonna hang okay well that's fine I'm gonna keep building some more barracks and stables then just to make sure I can reinforce this area area here in a minute I think though we're doing okay my six elephants are now four elephants but damn did they do a good job I'm gonna keep sending them through here even though they're all gonna die and I didn't get the stable built that I wanted I wanted another elephant stable probably because I built it a little too close the elephants now here the elephants to go there what you guys to come back all right we're about to have a big battle here so let's go ahead gerson the Civic Center because why not let's get all these buildings producing something or elephants coming out let's pull back so we're closer to the Civic Center that way these guys are taking fire from the Civic Center that went pretty badly for him I don't think he's gonna be able to train another army that quickly I got out of that not great but better than he did see if I got any more weapons upgrades got one more armor one more range that armor and the archery upgrade which I definitely need because I'm usually using mostly archers here for my infantry units for the cab units I'm training mostly spearmen kind of what I'm doing here let's go ahead and destroy his elephant stable and then his his siege workshop I'll split up let the elephants destroy the elephant stable I'll let the Rams destroy the siege workshop once he isn't able to produce any more siege I shouldn't have much issue with this guy this round taking care of having this one elephant kill the ram back just a little bit to regroup for a second and then focus on that one elephant more elephants cute up for more elephants get more Rams more Rams also heading this way what's going on in the center of the map for more elephants here make sure that I'm not losing the center of the map while I'm away don't want to focus so heavily on this guy that I end up losing the game on the other end I'm being attacked by the gray player let me go ahead and send these guys to take that they should take that fortress easily I'm getting attacked where over here yes see this which luckily luckily I did have that garrison this year but I should produce a few more troops and get them out because something is about to happen there I think fact let me go ahead I had this garrisoned here let's send all of these guys over here because I'm gonna have to worry about this side of the map here in a second let's get this the Civic Center I can take it which I should be able to let me get all seven elephants off of the Civic Center before they destroy it because I want to keep it and I did I got to keep it now let me garrison it that should be the end of the orange player just leave these guys over here to clean up a little bit oh I'm getting attacked by red that's not good let's go ahead and garrison the fortress if we can and the Civic Center a little bit yeah so now we've got an issue here where we've got a little bit of an issue here because now I'm getting attacked all over the place but I've also got to go ahead and clean up orange I just can't let orange come back so I got to let these guys do what they do which is basically take all of this stuff kill everybody over there but this is a problem too get rid of my elephant stable let's build another one then anybody that can build build that elephant stable build some more barracks build another stable alright so now I've got enough of an army I should be able to do something about this guy I miss he's got people roaming all over the map here and I'm afraid he's gonna sneak around and get to my fields and kill all my women I can't have that right is this cleanup about over this cleanup looks like it's pretty much done still have a lot of people garrisoned can use some of these buildings I've captured now to train a few more troops just to get this army back up I've got so much food and wood I don't need most of these women anymore just gonna grab this group of 21 women get rid of them same thing here you got seven women here so deposit the wood and then delete them I've got so much wood let's get all of you up here except the women to make more room for elephants and this this guy is really contesting all of this and I still got the fight for the center of the map going on here alright you guys got elephants that are just doing their own thing which why not go ahead and take that tower down anybody garrison no healer garrisoned got my hero garrisoned get more elephants queued up this guy kind of kicked my butt a little bit earlier but he's gonna be in trouble here in a minute because he's gonna be in between two of my my armies here so we can get that fortress destroyed that tower destroyed this here man I am losing on this side I did not expect this I might have to garrison this gonna garrison this civic center just to make sure I don't lose that let's queue up more troops make sure I've got all the upgrades I never got the will to fight upgrade I need oh a lot of metal for that but got so much food and wood the will to fight upgrade from the fortress don't need 200 metal and now that's the last big upgrade there I just slowly want to take this guy's territory here alright I'm getting attacked by orange because I left that army over here to do what it could do it's no big deal I still take the civic center if we can and that pretty much eliminates that guy now let's go ahead take the barracks take away his ability to actually train folks let's get a siege workshop built all right these guys did all right take care of that fortress so we're slowly getting rid of the various seven AI opponents right took a little while but we got there some more archers from that and from that try some spearmen maybe from this barracks let's see let's take that barracks over there just gonna slowly take all of his barracks and then really he can't do much all right let's get some more cab spearmen out be nice if I could build a civic center over here that would really put pressure on all of those civs that I haven't wiped out just yet I need some stone I can get stone pretty cheap right now I'm gonna get the these guys to go and destroy whatever's over there I get the elephants to go and destroy whatever is over here I wonder if I should try to make a push here this guy looks pretty strong because this is gonna be like a second civic center because it's toward the center of the map so I bet this guy he's in pretty good shape I'm gonna go ahead and try to take it anyway all of this over here is working pretty good let's take that tower and we're just slowly getting rid of things here is a civic center or military colony that's got to go for me to get rid of orange you guys can go this direction we are just slowly but surely cleaning this up purple has lost everything so who is left I click on this orange I'm cleaning up right now gray is this guy who is pretty much done so really green and red red is the center character here that looks strong although I was able to push him back a little bit I was able to push him back a little bit I could build a civic center here in the center where he was at earlier with his civic center that I destroyed which of course if I was gonna build a civic center why didn't I just capture his but elephants they have a mind of their own sometimes a you guys you guys are getting a little bit too frisky make sure all of my troops are okay you guys did not finish the cleanup here and it is gonna take me a while here but I have it is at the 50 minute mark of the game I am very confident that I've won the game at this point there is a civic center I need to take could I take it with just 37 units six of them are relevant so I probably could it be tough I'll group up a few extra people make it about 45 or 50 people and then we'll be we'll be better on that we've got this little outpost for orange that's how orange is still surviving so let's get the Rams to destroy some of this I've got these guys capturing stuff that doesn't matter but hey whatever I'll just have these four archers that are off on their own just kill women just whoever they find just attack them here we'll just slowly work our way through red and now we've got 45 units here let's see if that is enough to take purple the civic center here or that not purple up gray well let's take his barracks first because he took that back I don't like the fact that he was able to get that back under attack from red let's go see how this is going up here it's all right but let's get our guys together make one more push here go ahead and train around have the ram take care of that fortress now let's see if we can get that civic center because I still have the six elephants the six elephants can destroy it I'm gonna try to capture it though well wait till the last second and pull the elephants off of it this year took that one and now we're just gonna leave leave this group here to wipe up the remaining people here this get the elephants off at the last second so maybe we capture it we capture it I think we did yeah I did I can't garrison it because I've got to repair it a little bit before I can garrison it but we did it get some more folks out I'm not gonna bother repairing that civic center I'll never need to garrison it I think I think we've cleaned it up I think I think there's nobody left I think this opponent and red were the last and red just died because I killed all of his units took all of his buildings so let's keep the army going this way and this army going the opposite direction but they'll meet in the middle and then orange has survived with this little outpost here but he won't last for very long ram here got a ram here really prefer the rams to take out the stuff that matters they're kind of but I won't defeat orange that way I have to have all these women die as well in the Rams I don't think we'll kill the women so let's get some other units over there that'll take care of that for me I'm gonna cut this off at the one hour mark whether I win or lose but I'm pretty sure I've won this is the last civic center to take and then I would just spend probably another ten minutes cleaning up like some of the random fortresses and barracks and anything that can train units any building that can train units until I take it technically that person's not defeated so I'd have to do some cleanup but I have defeated the seven different AI opponents at this point because once I clean up that he's gone and once I kill these women here which I'm having these units just go around and so I'm gonna go ahead and call that the game there's still green as well alive somewhere on the map but green I can't remember who green was but it was one of the early civilizations that was taken out by somebody but he's probably got one building somewhere that can train like a market random market or a tower there's an orange tower that needs to go but at this point I have won the game so I'm gonna go ahead and resign even though I won let's go ahead and quit and view summary and see how we did our total score was much higher than the rest but that was because at the end I'm about the only one left many of these civs you know half of them were did halfway through the game so the real tell of the tape would be charts and total score and I am blue you can see up until about 15 minutes in the game it was all pretty close but then around the 18 to 20 minute mark is really where things started going well for me once I got the two opponents to each side of me out of the way you know it was it was smooth sailing at that point at that point I really I'm not gonna say I couldn't lose but as long as I played defensively after I took out those two opponents you know and then just slowly built up right I got the civic centers the extra civic centers built I was always building extra barracks near those civic centers extra stable so I could quickly spawn out more cab units I probably built five or six different elephant stables I built three or four different siege workshops so that's how you know it's slow and steady typically wins the race there especially in the late game a real easy way to lose a game of zero AD when you have it won and you sometimes you can throw it away by forcing things like when a an opponent is dug in he's got a civic center fully garrison he's got a fortress right next to it fully garrison a couple of towers nearby that are also garrison and he's got all the upgrades and then you throw a huge army at that thing thinking you're just gonna force take it right and you can lose every single unit of viewers trying to do that so you have to be careful you know just take things slow just inch forward inch forward and when you're playing against real people in multiplayer games especially when you find one of those players that slowly inches toward you you know just he never does anything out of place right though those kinds of opponents are the worst ones to deal with so I hope you guys enjoyed this quick little look it's not a quick little look at zero AD it's about an hour long video at this point I may do some editing to kind of speed up the game play a little bit but anyway guys peace