hey guys spirit of the law here this
video is all about wonders the secret
weapon of the underdog it's just like in
real life for your enemies surrender if
you build an impressive structure who
could ever forget the classic Battle of
Thermopylae
when 300 Spartan craftsmen defeated a
massive Persian army by building a
wonder in the corner actually I haven't
seen the whole movie but I assume that's
what happened of course the Persians
probably won if they remember to set it
to conquest victory but very often I
found hosts forget that little setting
now in a couple of previous videos I've
looked at the wonders compared to their
real-life counterparts and there have
been some requests to look at questions
regarding their game mechanics as well
because I guess people had some things
they were wondering about anyway moving
on now first of all after building a
wonder you'll notice a timer begins to
count down the amount of time depends on
the size of the map but it's anywhere
between 200 and 500 years well no
problem most games of H vampires are
less than an hour long and definitely
under even one year in fact I'm pretty
sure I'd resign after maybe three days
at the longest so it might seem like you
have plenty of time as it turns out
those are Age of Empires years though
which go by a lot faster 100 years is
the equivalent of eight minutes and 20
seconds now why they didn't just put a
proper timer in the corner I'm not
really sure but if you see a wonder go
up in a game make a note of the time and
add 15 minutes that's really your
deadline for when you should be starting
to attack it at the latest maybe a bit
longer on a larger map of course it's
slightly different with Hans whose
unique technology adds an additional 100
years to that timer now keep in mind it
also takes some time to build the Wonder
which depends on how many villagers you
use with only one villager it would take
almost an hour but with two villagers
that drop significantly and with even
twenty villagers you can bring that down
to just over eight minutes treadmill
crane also speeds up those times by 20%
so it's definitely worth getting if you
can the general formula is the same as
for any construction which you can see
there in practice the limit to the
number of villagers I could squeeze
around it and have working on the Wunder
at one time was around 50 which what's
the fastest construction time possible
at just under 3
minutes needless to say going for a
wonder victory usually only happens
during a stalemate or when you're losing
the game so it's generally worth
abandoning most of your economy to build
the wonder as quickly as possible and
then fortify it also keep in mind that
you can't help build another player's
wonder so the person with the most
villagers around should be the one to
start it an important tip that you might
not think of in the moment but is good
to be conscious of when placing wonders
is that you want to make sure you
maximize the area for villagers to work
on it that means don't put them against
the edge of the map or along water or
tree lines it's true that those things
would prevent melee units from being
able to surround it but you can easily
do that with walls or buildings I've had
multiple games where one team started
placing a wonder but the other team
reacted with their own wonder and used
more villagers to build it faster and
win so don't half commit to it now that
brings up an interesting question though
what happens if two players finish their
wanders at the exact same time of course
this is pretty unlikely but in that case
the game gives preference to the players
in the higher player slot regardless of
their color now to look at these stats
of the wonder itself it has 4,800 HP
which is the same as a castle and 10
Pierce and 3 melee armor which is
increased with masonry and architecture
of course the main thing you're going to
use against them is siege here you can
see the amount of time that wanders with
architecture take to destroy any damage
per minute that the main anti building
Seeds units can do against it
using that Andy villager repair rate you
can get a sense of how many it takes to
hold off a trebuchet or other siege unit
basically once you're up against 7 or
more siege units losing the Wunder
starts to become inevitable getting away
from random Maps another game mode that
people might be wondering about which
sometimes gets a bit of play is king of
the hill in it you start with a monument
or basically a wonder in the middle of
the map once it's captured a countdown
to your victory starts from 550 years
doing the math that's about 45 minutes
of the in-game timer so the game is
guaranteed to go at least that long now
if the monument is captured by another
player by having one of
units within a few tiles while none of
yours are the monument switches to their
possession and the timer continues at
that point they would win if it reaches
zero it doesn't matter if they outnumber
you as long as you keep one unit in that
zone it can't be taken from you the one
rule though is that if you steal it with
less than a hundred years left it resets
to that level basically you can't steal
the Wunder with one second left you need
to hold it for a little over eight
minutes straight to end the game and win
now something I've been curious about is
whether or not you can destroy the
monument it turns out no in fact you
can't even damage it another less common
mode is wonder race in that one the goal
is to get to the imperial age as quickly
as possible and build your wonder first
generally I find this mode a bit boring
because everyone is locked in as allies
and it turns into a contest of who can
execute their fast Imperial age first
the best civilizations also just tend to
be ones with the best economies and
advancing bonuses like Malay or Khmer
keep in mind as well that these Spanish
bonus for faster building speed is
reduced from 30 percent to 20 percent
when it comes to building wonders which
is the same as if they had treadmill
crane so that's really all there is to
say about wonders just a quick video
this time hopefully I didn't miss any
burning questions that you had thanks
for watching guys and I'll see you next
time
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