it really was the time for ASIA ! JURCHENS !!!

It's funny that it's so hard to actually get the gold to hire even one group of "mercenaries" in this mission, because historically we had all 3 of them. Although only Czechs under Zizka were actual mercenaries, Ruthenians and Tatars were just part of the army called for war under the feudal Levy system.

how do you build ships that fire cannonballs? also what is the thing they build that makes you loss where do they build it, ive lost 10x now and have no idea who to kill or what to destroy, i thought the golden guy on a horse was sumanguru but aparently not

I think Yodit mission 1 is the perfect example of how scouting in this game is so important. Many missions have an enemy that can be taken out early with starting if you scout them out and take early actions. In this case it makes the entire mission skippable but only if you scout and are willing to take some chances.

Looking forward to see the pricetag ❤ #EAWannabes

Did anyone find the monks in bottom corner

30:36 300 soundtrack playing.

The camel catapult is the Boxi, a unit used by the Tanguts. So... Tanguts are at least confirmed.

tibet is not china, they illegally occupied it

Hopefully they add Tibet! Would be a good unique civ that represents the himalaya region in general.

Thanks for the tips. This was hard!

for me the question is why there is so many two-handed swordmens on those screenshots. Are they planning to make some sort of changes to militia-line? Honestly i would love to see option to build rams by mma in feudal after some upgrade and increase the base speed of infantry.

just need some good campaign man

Wasn't too many easy ways to rush this. Tried to send Charlesmagne alone at the very start to get some score but the pope locked the city gate. and the enemy tracked me down till the gate. I was able to reach the gate but pope locked it xD

Yea fitgirl for this one

Hope the campaigns won't be made up far from history so much.

Mangudais are actually EXCELENT units. Better stats than standard archers, 1st strike is better than skirmish, better movements wich makes them great for hit and run or quick renforcements in positions in need.

Castle in image 1 has white pagodas, which are a symbol for Tibetan Buddhism, but the castle design itself looks very much like a reconstruction of a Tangut Castle ruin found in Inner Mongolia, the catapult camels are most likely 泼喜军, a Tangut cavalry on Bactrian camels which uses trebuchets on camel back, so we might be seeing a Tangut civil war in image 1. Image 2 might be one of two things, either a Jurchen siege of a Song castle, or a reworked Mongol siege of the famous Xiangyang Castle. So most likely the focus will be on the fall of North Song, so we at least will be getting Tangut and Jurchen. Whether Khitan is gonna be represented by a reworked Mongol is debatable, as Khitans started off as a proto-Mongol nomadic tribe, and both are closely related.

I always wanted Jurchens and Khitans to be added. Where is my credit MS, again :kappa:

Bulgarians aren't power crept, they just suck. They're teutons without the eco bonus. I just don't want to try and make them work, like Sicilians.

I’ve just finished this as hard diff. For those who cannot manage to play hard: Convert all 4 elephants asap, build 3 or 4 castles for strategic points. Whilst you are doing these, play in slow. After you manage the economy, you can go back to normal speed. Don’t forget to use hotkeys 😊. One thing, i didn’t attack to Grey.

I tried playing this on Xbox and I swear to goodness my trade cards would not be accepted at the town hall

I love that now i can see Ornlu face ❤❤ 🥹

red civ from 1st pic are different with 2nd pic, probably red civ from 1st pic are same with yellow civ on 2nd pic and yes, jurchens is the first confirmed civs on this DLC (thanks to their castle banners and the iron pagoda cav)

the micro make the difference. if you train cavalry to sneak behind and attack catapult is way easier

China split is the best thing after India split 🤩

tbh i only interested in aom, of course its not like i dont have more money for others...

i dont get it i thougt we already had chienes? \

Would love to see a Marco Polo at Kublai Khan's palace campaign!

I would love to get some custom campaign scenario videos from you while we wait for this!

We haven't seen scorpians so may be nest of bees is replacement. If you see camel catapult in the image with towers under fire and similar range to mangonels means they will be replacement to mangonel but also in 2nd snapshot we have siege onager so different chinese faction may not have that. Also we see different unique units cu ko nu, halb like infantry, steppe lancer, steppe lancer type unique unit, maceman, donkey cart, 2 different ox carts (could be similar to mule cart)

They announced it after chinese new year means it is expected to have chinese DLC for aoe2 de. I believe chinese civ is going to get the same treatment as indians civ.

2 years ago I asked you in chat which region do we go with next DLC, you said "all signs point to China", here we are in 2025 😊

Would Cavaliers be better than Berserks here? They deal similar DPS (cavaliers attack faster but 2 less damage), with Berserks doing more damage to buildings. But Cavaliers are way more durable and faster, and you have more than enough gold to produce them nonstop. Siege Rams already deal good building damage.

As a Chinese person, I would not mind if they broke up Chinese into multiple civilizations like they did with the Indians. Tang, Song, Jin, and Liao are all super obvious picks.

Hopefully Tibetans and Manchurians

Does anyone know what the shields are on the 2 unique Chinese castles? They might be a hint as to whether or how the current Chinese civ will be split. Also, could the nest of bees be given to the Koreans & renamed as Hwacha?

Extremely surprising since Chinese authorities are typically super nervous about any game that divides China into "subnations" (see their longstanding ban on most Paradox games). I have to assume they precleared it with them or something? Maybe AoE2's setting is considered historical enough that they relaxed the rules a bit?

Great to see the PS5 finally have some games on it

in the first image the new lancer unit are the Fire Lancers!! This could be the Jin-Song wars!! the CIVs could be the Song (red) Jin or Liao (yellow) and the Xia (green)

Finally chinese are splited. Next vikings and slavs!

This one is crazy, to win you must lose but you must stay alive for as long as possible.

I feel like this will be another Chronicles with the Three Kingdoms period going to be main focus.

There will be a bloodbath if they really release a Tibet civ, lol

trash units still look the same.

🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕 to World's Edge for what they did to AoE3 fans and i don't even play that one much but keep pushing that crap a*s mobile game

What are you doing sTepPe LaNcER?

This might just be another Chronicles expansion. Could be rise of the Han Dynasty? OTOH, if it's for the base game, I agree it's probably Jurchens, Khitan, etc. Not including the Tibetans in that scenario would be criminal.

I was hoping for either this or an Italian split, im happy nontherless

oh god they're gonna ruin the game again, aren't they??