1 Fact for Every AoE2 Civ (A-K)

[@viewerchicken730]

French - "I made arbs and don't get them!" Chinese - "first time?"

[@ArawnOfAnnwn]

Well they get some of the best arbalests in AoE 4, but just bad crossbows in AoE 2, so I'd say it evens out.

[@kaganozdemir4332]

@@ArawnOfAnnwn i think he's referring to the fact that many chinese inventions are not given to chinese for gameplay balance issues. gunpowder technologies being the foremost.

[@ArawnOfAnnwn]

@@kaganozdemir4332 I knew what he meant.

[@Orinslayer]

@@kaganozdemir4332 Chinese with cannons would be so OP!

[@robbylava]

A fact I recently learned about the Aztecs is that they never actually built Siege Onagers. Can you believe it?! Poor bastards were stuck just using Onagers to defend Tenochtitlan.

[@stylesrj]

What about Trebuchets? Didn't they use them in their Arabia campaign against the Japanese?

[@paweborkowski6959]

Man, and they still lost? The Spanish must've researched supremacy. Transporting that many vils by ship tho.

[@mradul2474]

Probably didn't have enough food for the upgrade, it's quite expensive

[@BartleyBuck]

Whats crazy is they dragged them without wheels lol

[@oguzhanatas7009]

@@BartleyBuck garland wars is strong thats why probably :D

[@TheGloriousLobsterEmperor]

8:15 Actually Spirit, this fact is false. Unique techs weren't in the original Age of Kings, they were introduced in The Conquerors.

[@flygonbreloom]

Came here to comment this. Everyone forgets just how damn much AoC bought! I only had AoK until 2007 or so hahaha.

[@kaalsemulzii1920]

Yeah, when I started, unique techs weren't a thing.

[@erickpoorbaugh6728]

I remember thinking the Goths were weird for having two unique techs, and being surprised when that was made standard.

[@Fyrebrand18]

There is something supremely ironic about the French not realising that the last letter isn't supposed to be pronounced.

[@keanan5412]

Frenc

[@cm0cm]

CAREFUL!

[@AtlasJotun]

@@keanan5412 "Why do you call me that?" "You are all Frenc to me." I know I know, that's AoE3. I'll see myself out :D

[@devangnivatkar2649]

The campaigns do accurately call the Khmer 'Khmai' in the cutscenes, I think

[@gletscherminze9372]

Pretty sure they do when an opponent resigns in one of the missions

[@lucasgarcia5427]

Just a small correction Unique tecnologies were added in the conquerors expansion, they weren't there on the priginal age of kings

[@Imperiused]

I'm a big history enthusiast, and I did not know that Khmer fact. Thanks Spirit!

[@DragonPlayz-nv1kx]

Can't decide what to call it 11

[@taowroland8697]

I'm a big breast enthusiast. I didn't either!

[@ArawnOfAnnwn]

Well then here's a 'fun' history fact for you - you know that epic romantic tale told in the Jadwiga campaign? Well she was married to him when she was 12 and he was 35. Yep. The game gets around that fact using a classic storytelling trick - the time skip. :D

[@tyranitararmaldo]

Imagine if a new civ was added/revealed into the latter half of the alphabet before SotL could upload. What a double-dose of uploads that would need.

[@ArawnOfAnnwn]

It won't happen before Spirit uploads part 2 of this series, but we are due to get a whole bunch of 'new' civs later this year in the Return to Rome DLC. I say 'new' cos they'll be all the AoE 1 civs. Not sure how they'll go about it, but I look forward to finding out.

[@Tudsamfa]

4:44 Absolute nitpick, but the Fire ship has an accuracy of 0%. This results in it only being able to attack the 1st thing in front of it, so it cant shoot over walls for example.

[@ZZubZZero]

How do they do dmg then..? How do they hit anything if their accuracy is 0%?

[@bladactania]

@@ZZubZZero - BEcause accuracy only applies to targets at a range greater than 1. In other words, all units have 100% accuracy at 1 range.

[@Tudsamfa]

@@ZZubZZero In aoe2 if a unit misses, it's projectile is still shot, but not to the location where its target is, but a bit off. How far away exactly is determinedby a stat called attack dispersion. Fire galleys have 0 acuracy, but low attack dispersion, meaning the projectile is still fired relatively close to their target. Given that the target is likely a ship and their hitboxes are massive, this means that their projectiles still collide with the hitbox, so they deal full damage.

[@CrnaStrela]

@@Tudsamfa does the dispersion ramp up the further the range is? Because I think when observed with Byzantines Fire Ship, the fire sometimes land on the next tile.

[@Tudsamfa]

@@CrnaStrela It does not ramp up with the max range of the unit exactly, but with how far away the target is. So for targets 2 tiles or less away, they are just as accurate. You are right that the increased range of byzs fire galleys results in them missing more shots against targets in that increased range though.

[@koekiejam18]

Ive stopped playing a long while ago but these videos keep being entertaining! Still kinda miss the old intro though!!!

[@JamesBrown-dr1yc]

And there was me thinking that Camel Archers had a bonus against all cavalry - great video

[@michaelandreipalon359]

Haha, "puny achievements." Gotta love modders for doing their own voice lines for their big works, like Cysion's. Huh, the Khmer bit sure is extremely helpful.

[@Davtwan]

I did not know that the Byzantines had such a powerful combination. Of course, offense isn’t their strong suit.

[@LetsbeHonestOfficial]

When you sent Cysion your message, did you start it with ''Hey, guy. Spirit of the law here''

[@HistoricalWeapons]

Yeah thumb ring in real life does not affect crossbows

[@nlb137]

Have you tested thumb rings effect on Chu-ko-nu? I'd think that the 'delay' from firing multiple arrows might reduce the effect of ROF increases; if you have a 1s reload and a 1s "attack time," reducing the reload to .5s only reduces the total cycle to 1.5s, which is only 33% more attacks rather than 100% more if there was no "attack time". Their increased bonus from thumb ring might be to offset that, so that their *effective* ROF increase is the same as other units.

[@Rochakfacts]

You are Significant.

[@brianabraham8726]

Really fun video to watch! It would be helpful if the name of the civ you're talking about is written down somewhere on the screen while you talk about them. I often still think about the fact about the last civ and miss which civ you talk about next, so I have to rewind^^

[@88district]

I miss the days when SOTL would have to thank "I like toes at night" as one of his main patreons

[@lizardemperorkorbac4281]

"Wrath Chariot" funniest CC since "Good Jars" (Gurjaras)

[@BobfromSydney]

I assumed it was pronounced that way because I have heard the "Khmer Rouge" mentioned so many times in media so I it seemed like correct pronounciation.

[@acole5975]

Either an oversight for the Britons or a very subtle hat tip the globe theatre that burnt down and was rebuilt.

[@gaylynnhorncri]

Dang sort of wished that whenever Spanish research Supremacy they should of gotten their jingle as well.

[@FluffyTurbo]

I think the no demo ship is a nod to Admeral Yi who is said to have never lost a single ship

[@AlexeiArwinson]

I think Inca military units should get more voice lines as they use the same as AoE3. They reworked the Slavs and Indians (now Hindustanis) with that.

[@annaairahala9462]

I agree with that. They should also adjust Dravidians to fix the inaccuracies that have since been discovered

[@AlexeiArwinson]

@@annaairahala9462 Do you know how many inaccuracies in other civs would have to be fixed if they do that?

[@The-jy3yq]

@@AlexeiArwinson like Huns getting deleted lmao

[@Flavourius]

We are 24 civs in but still no ELEPHANT FACT, you were referencing about them for a joke for the Dravidians, but I'm deeply disappointed in you. #BringBackElepehantFacts

[@Dandydan93]

Fun thought, could you collaborate with the aoe2 companion app creator? For example, write suggested civ army compositions or a civ top units

[@Matt..S]

Teutons aren't Germans, making Germans the only(?) major European civilization without representation in the game. Barbarossa wasn't a Teuton. This is probably based on a misconception that the name has anything to do with the ethnonym Deutsche/Deutschland.

[@FizzleFX]

12:40 funfact: Bohemians are the only Civ with their own Rapsody ;)

[@xotl2780]

The creator of the Definitive Edition soundtrack disappointed some people with the Huns theme (not me, I love it) so throwing the original Age of Conquerors jingle in there for a unique tech seems to be a bit of an apology.

[@4Usuality]

I'm not sure but I hope gunpowdery enough for the gunpowder club was a reference to the movie Master of Disguise

[@sandymaulana8358]

Really like this video

[@lazysunside]

Funny fact about the Khmer name pronounciation is that I’m Vietnamese and our civilization had been fighting each other for long before the French. Half of our country used to be a part of the Khmer empire. And yet we still call them the wrong pronounciation. Khờ Me. Other than that we just call them Cambodia.

[@Augustus_Imperator]

The franks part makes me think that someone needs to create a mod in which civ get historically accurate even if unbalanced, things like no paladins for asian civs, no advanced techs for civs like celts and goths, no metal armor/advancements for mesoamericans and so on

[@stylesrj]

And Hand Cannoneers should one-shot everything?

[@Augustus_Imperator]

@@stylesrj I can see a damage increase and an accuracy strong decrease

[@micahbush5397]

The Incas should still have good armor, though; cotton is surprisingly tough when you glue several layers of it together.

[@quakethedoombringer]

You have half of the meta almost unplayable (Mesoamericans having no access to onagers, warships, etc. or Goths/Huns being stuck in Feudal or Early Castle Age) while the others just downright OP (Franks having good Paladins + fully upgraded bow units)

[@jefffinkbonner9551]

@@stylesrj Honestly, gunpowder should be the thing that ignores armor in the game.

[@ols1022]

Did I hear a master of disguise reference???

[@orangekitty377]

Biggest flaw of the definitive edition, removal of the civ Jingles. Fuck I want them back so bad, even as a mod

[@Labyrinth6000]

Also, it was conquerors where unique techs were introduced

[@shiryu22]

facts? i love those

[@Almorus]

You surely wanted to say that Bohemians are center Europeans...

[@veasnatdm4861]

11:56 thank you SOTL for the correction, I been telling people for years about this, especially T90 to the point that he know he pronoun it wrong, but can't seem to get it right no matter what.

[@jakubSwaps]

"Bohemians are also unique for being the only eastern European civilization..." Central European. We're not Eastern European. This isn't semantics, this is a meaningless distinction that will unreasonably agitate any Czech patriot to a huge degree. So therefore I am outraged!

[@FizzleFX]

7:44 Franke watching :D And I do not own a Armbrust. sadly so

[@dembro27]

Eagerly awaiting the best civ's fact. Gotta wait for T (and it's not Tatars or Turks).

[@integralinsanity1641]

10:10 I mean if I were to hear that I would think Thanos is snapping half the universe but everyone by half at once.

[@johnnyroe8053]

nice

[@wearedoingsomething]

Damn that Hun music still scares the sh out of me

[@ivanstrydom8417]

Goths. Goths should lose Hand cannoneer and gain a skirmisher bonus. The throwing axemen should become s shared unit: Throwing axemen - Shared with Goths + Norse Franks only get regular, no elite. Franks Crusader (Kite shield+Nasal helm + chainmail) sword and spear infantry,Knights,crossbows, monk, Added Bonus: Spotters - Trebuchets located next to friendly castles gain improved accuracy. Chivalry gains an added effect - when an enemy's health is reduced to 20% or less by a knight (Knight line or Hospitaller/Templar), there is a 35% chance of it converting to your side. Franks/Britons/Genoa/Sicilians/Levanteens/Portuguese Crusader (Kite shield+Nasal helm + chainmail) sword and spear infantry,Knights,crossbows, monk, Trebuchet civs. (Britons - Longbow archer skins) Add some more special units to represent the knightly,chivalric Crusader orders , such as a Templar knight or a Hospitaller knight to the Franks/British/Italian/Sicilians , Templar having the option to convert 1 unit for every charge up and the Hospitaller having the option to heal 1 unit for every charge up. Templar and Hospitaller knights do extremely little damage to enemy villagers (Right clicking on an enemy villager will either convert the villager (Templar) or heal the villager (Hospitalar) but they gain a +2 attack boost + 25% HP(Or conversion resistance) when within LOS of a Relic or friendly church containing one or more relics..Gains attributes from all monastery techs except Redemption: Templar + Hospitallers are very weak to siege damage. Genoa - Only Hospitalars Franks/Britons/Sicilians/Levanteens - Both Hospitalars & Templars Portuguese - Only Templars Or perhaps add these as technologies that can be researched in the Church 'Templar Order' & 'Hospitaller order' that will grant the already existing knights of the British/Franks/Italians/Sicilians/Portuguese these abilities. (Portuguese only gain access to Templars (Ordem dos Cavaleiros de Cristo)) Messo/SA civs do bonus damage to Templars/Hospitilars so you don’t want to make them when fighting in the New World. Hospitallar skin sketchfab.com/3d-models/knight-hospitaller-game-ready-character-animated-31333109719e4457b2052f8b2feb435f drive.google.com/file/d/1w5KGwMdhM6CxTBHLOhELgrr4PCk4F07N/view?usp=share_link Templar skin drive.google.com/file/d/1waT5xjY2vvMSN7RrTcOpub-8PvmGb4s2/view?usp=share_link drive.google.com/file/d/1FRo0mECvqtnh9Kch42whad-vsQpsKKZ-/view?usp=share_link The Ayyubids allowed Baldwin IV of Jerusalem to enter Ascalon with his Gaza-based Knights Templar without taking any precautions against a sudden attack. Although the Crusader force consisted of only 375 knights, Saladin hesitated to ambush them because of the presence of highly skilled generals. Saladin and his men were surprised near Ramla in the battle of Montgisard (possibly at Gezer, also known as Tell Jezar). Before they could form up, the Templar force decimated the Ayyubid army. Initially, Saladin attempted to organise his men into battle order, but as his bodyguards were being killed, he saw that defeat was inevitable and so with a small remnant of his troops mounted a swift camel, riding all the way to the territories of Egypt. Islamic civs In turn the Islamic civs:Saracens,Kurds, Turks, Tartars,Afghans, can receive a tech in the mosque called: Jizya tax, for every knightly unit they convert, you receive 10gold in castle age and 20gold in imperial age. Mediterranean Pirates: Saracens,Kurds,Berbers,Turks: Warships Destroying a full trade cog allows the gold to be looted and added to your stockpile. Saracens ‘’Counterweights’’ tech gets replaced by a new tech; Arabian horses +10% cavalry speed. (Cavalry not Camelry)

[@moirangthembhorotsingh8966]

Fun Fact: Arambai are actually from India's state of Manipur.

[@Achilles75]

I believe the Bulgarian cavalier or knight is the fastest attacking land unit and not the samurai (but to SOTl his samurai will always be the winner)🤪

[@mkaali]

5:37 this is no longer true after the upcoming patch of October 2023, as they'll receive the final archer upgrade.

[@TheSeventhChild]

The Khmer thing was one of those things you just had to accept and ignore every time you heard it.

[@waffle-waffle5416]

The Malay should have the Jong ship as unique unit which historically is a transport, cargo and warship considering many of the Kingdoms in Malay archipelago including Majapahit build their empire by either using money to buy authority over other kingdoms or just park bunch of warship in enemy port and renegotiate tribute agreement, infantry rarely used unless you're fighting on the same Island and the entire strategy of Majapahit is basically get rich fast using India-China trade, buy your way to empire and use the Navy to bully around the archipelago

[@matisotomayor]

I have some other facts. The Aztec's voice lines are not the ones that they spoke, They didn't speak Nahuatl in the game. The condottiere actually lost their jobs as mercenaries after the gunpowder invention, they were too ineffective against this technology. The Koreans are the only non-conqueror civ on the Conqueror's expansion, that is because the Corean Community was on of the largest which played the game in that era and was only for marketing purposes. The Mameluks were not Camel riders and were not Scimitar throwers at all

[@user-iz2tm5ih4e]

So, Dravidians should -> lose Medical Corps, -> get Grand Anaicut (food bonus that applies to farming in addition to fishing) or Spice Trade (get much better gold for every food you sell) as Castle Age Tech and -> get a unique ship named ‘Marakkalam’ and lose ‘Thirisadai’.

[@hbarudi]

Just rename the thirisadai.

[@gletscherminze9372]

The trade one sounds like a very interesting idea

[@tedomir8388]

09:36 but why :'( I though i had my sound too low but now im sad

[@PixXx31]

I thought camel archers have anti cav bonus?! Q_Q

[@rubenmaessen4724]

I genuinely thought camel archers had attack bonus vs cavalry. When playing Berbers I always go for them against cav civs if it suits the time frame and go for other options against other civs. Turns out that strategy is nonsense :D . And if I remember well unique techs were not added untill the conquerors expansion, so I think Goths having two unique techs in 1999 is incorrect.

[@Lyralium]

Dude, these are wayyyy more than 1 fact per civ.

[@Aryan-hv3lw]

9:41 Spanish expected

[@RobDiesALot]

Hey, Bohemians aren't Eastern European, we are quite literally CENTRAL European! Now where is my vodka... JK, but its true lol

[@rulojuka]

Fact for letter M: Magyars are also hugely mispronounced, but its ok because hungarian is too hard anyway. (The right pronunciation would be something like maw-dior)

[@Hijackerrr]

Bohemians... eastern europe ...you made your self a lot of enemies

[@PoopLord]

hype new strat just thought up.

[@SM853]

Today I've learned that Coinage has "Forgotten Empires Rex" written on it

[@rainbowevil]

4:36 for those looking.

[@annaairahala9462]

12:00 they pronounce it correctly in the Khmer campaign! Which makes it almost funnier how everyone mispronounces it

[@onbekende07]

Think even better is the French ignoring a silent last letter while french itself does that to all words :)

[@VajiraPholvamsa]

the r is pronounced in Old Khmer but probably not around the 1400's

[@Crowbar]

the huns jingle is fucking terrifying

[@Blundabus1337]

In the original Hun video spirit commented on how it sounds like a bunch of creepy clowns laughing at you.

[@Crowbar]

@@Blundabus1337 thanks I didn't want to sleep anyway

[@T-West]

3:54 Another fun fact: Villagers also could deposit resources by garrisoning inside of the original Kreposts. You could build a forward Krepost near an enemy Gold mine and steal the Gold without even needing a Mining Camp.

[@Naxhus2]

Was this bug or design? I think that is a cool and unique way to use kreposts.

[@micahbush5397]

Sounds a bit too micro-intensive to be practical, though.

[@T-West]

@@Naxhus2 Very much a bug! It's fixed now.

[@edwardblom2661]

Sounds super nice for a Krepost rush. Once you dropped a Krepost on the enemy’s face, just set the villagers on their stone while also having miners back home. Just a single trip and you could probably advance and drop a new Krepost. If you temporarily need another resource like wood or gold just snag it at the next drop zone without the need for a new camp. OP stuff right there.

[@CallofDutyBlackOps28]

a literal battle camp? pretty funny, never would have known without this.

[@MrShadowThief]

The AoE community might be the one that tries the most to be linguistically correct while being remarkably unable to do so.

[@tyranitararmaldo]

Meanwhile the Yu-gi-oh community when they see cards with Welsh names: "I'm not even attempting that"

[@ArawnOfAnnwn]

Found the guy who doesn't watch anime. ;)

[@LeftJoystick]

Mandatum?

[@TheGloriousLobsterEmperor]

@@tyranitararmaldo Wait, what cards in YuGiOh have Welsh names? One of the Noble Knights? I ain't remembering a Gruffydd ap Llywelyn in YuGiOh.

[@AyuNico]

@@TheGloriousLobsterEmperor There's also the Generaider cards that have weird names to pronounce

[@feli-the-darkfairy]

Further Fun Fact for Franks: The Franks are (for now) the only civilisation to contain the letter "F". Making "F" the only letter only used once by civ-names.

[@pizzaandchipsmate]

What about the Efiopians?

[@ZZubZZero]

Wow, that's pretty interesting. Probably the most useless information ever but still cool to know :p In 42 civs only once does the letter F appear

[@HandsomeGamerGuy]

@@pizzaandchipsmate Close but "f" and "F" aint the same.

[@williaml.willowfield2220]

Let's wait for the Frisian by any chance

[@josephlongbone4255]

@@pizzaandchipsmate Lifuanians.

[@wesselstienstra7020]

12:10 the French pronouncing a final letter that should be silent, ironic..

[@robdenini6972]

It always bothered me the fact that the Cataphract UT is called Logistica - which is a term related to, well, logistics - when they could've called it palatini or bucellarii - both elite companies of cataphractarii historically

[@besacciaesteban]

It bothers me that "Kataparuto" its just catapult in a japanese-american kind of accent instead of a proper japanese term.

[@darkhope97]

Well I always rationalize that cataphracts (as would any heavy cav) puts a huge strain on logistics so having better logistics amounts to better cataprhacts

[@grifsterwashere]

@@besacciaesteban Kataparuto (カタパルト)is the correct term in Japanese. It is a foreign loan word, and as such it uses Japanese sounds to approximate the English.

[@besacciaesteban]

@@grifsterwashere but the english came to japan well into the gunpowder era. Japan already had adopted cannon designs from china by that point, so they surely had catapults long before any knowledge of the english language. So i bet there is a proper japanese word for a machine designed to hurl huge stones at the enemy.

[@robdenini6972]

@@darkhope97 then Logistics should be an eco upgrade or discount for catas

[@LokirofRoriksted]

I thought konniks had the most ammount of upgradable techs Edit: i think konniks have 18 upgrades if you count dismounted konnik as the same unit

[@fuyoutubeck]

They held the title until Bengalis were added

[@RottingCorpseBehindMcDonalds]

No because both mounted and dismounted konniks share attack upgrades

[@Alchemist1330]

Don't Incan villagers get even more upgrades than the Bengali Ratha. Incan villagers are affected by 18 upgrades.

[@genghis_aoe]

+1, a list of all these: TC: Loom, Wheelbarrow, Hand cart Blacksmith: Scale, Chain, Plate armor, Forging, Iron Casting, Blast Furnace Uni: Treadmill crane Castle: Sappers Mining camp: Gold mining, Gold shaft mining, Stone mining, Stone shaft mining Lumber camp: Double-bit axe, Bow saw Farm: Heavy plow

[@Alchemist1330]

@@genghis_aoe I think they are also affected by faith. But i could be wrong. I would switch that out from heavy plow (if not horse collar and heavy plow would also be upgrades).

[@hackbertgrutzkotz7653]

@@Alchemist1330 He included heavy plow because it lets carry farmers +1.

[@jefffinkbonner9551]

@@hackbertgrutzkotz7653 Oh right. I wouldn't have caught that horse collar and crop rotation don't in fact affect villagers.

[@genghis_aoe]

@@Alchemist1330 I would not include faith because then techs like herbal medicine and faith could be applied to the ratha as well, while heavy plow anly affects villagers. Also, the other farm techs do not affect villagers, only heavy plow (+1 carry capacity)

[@NaudaBase]

That samurai seemingly slicing the enemy in half in less than a second at 11:48 is pretty cinematic

[@Kamjay27]

It makes sense that the Italian civ bonuses are all discount. The UU is the *Genoese* Crossbowman and in Italy the Genoese have the stereotype of being penny-pinching

[@dattilo1]

the genoese are stingy bastards

[@MarcDufresneosorusrex]

lol

[@cadethecruel3484]

11

[@mith3620]

yeee un altro italiano finalmente 30

[@Kamjay27]

@@mith3620 11

[@finaldarkfire]

I wonder if the Koreans not having any Demo-ships is a reference to how Admiral Yi Sun-Shin basically NEVER lost a single ship under his command during the Imjin War?

[@riseALK]

I think it's just to add a Fire ship weakness to their galleons and turtle ships, a counter that demo ships strongly counter

[@nat4241]

Small correction, Admiral Yi Sun-Shin never lost a single battle as a commander during the Imjin War, not a single ship. But in the Battle of Myeongnyang, he never lost a single ship.

[@Shpudz]

Fun fact: if you let KZbin auto-caption the words 'for Gurjaras' it will recognize you as having said 'burger jars'

[@kardar233]

@Spirit I suspect the reason for the Chu Ko Nu’s increased bonus from Thumb Ring is intended to counteract their particularly long attack animation. I believe that the attack delay only starts when the last arrow leaves the unit, and so if they were given the regular Thumb Ring bonus they would get less out of it because their attack animation takes up more of their attack time relative to other archers.

[@林堅欣]

00:03 paladin & Magyar huzzar combination, love it

[@Davion197]

9:35 - THEY REMOVED THE JINGLE? Glad I never left my old copy of AOE2!

[@MrFacu809]

8:14 as far as i remember the unique techs came in conquerors, they weren't a thing in Age of Kings

[@Ilkeyacutg]

Hey SOTL just been looking through your channel and then looked for a recent Japanese overview like this Spanish one and realised you haven’t done one in 6 years 😮, if you see this please eventually can you upload a up-to-date one thanks 😊

[@Labyrinth6000]

Teuton Scout Calvery are so powerful that the civ was nerfed to not have husbandry

[@Tshern]

Incan villagers require 19 techs. 6 from the Blacksmith, 3 from the TC, four mining techs, Heavy Plow, two lumber techs and Faith+Heresy as well as Sappers.

[@llSuperSnivyll]

8:13 Correction: Unique techs were introduced in Conquerors. They weren't in the base game.

[@gilb_4]

Another fact for the Aztecs: the language they spoke, Nahuatl, is still in use by people in central Mexico, but the in game voices are not Nahuatl :(

[@christoph507xd]

Wait what?? Is not Nahuatl??😢😢

[@Thetarget1]

I think most civs are speaking gibberish? It just sounds vaguely correct. The Vikings certainly don´t have old Norse voicelines.

[@gilb_4]

@@Thetarget1 the Spanish do speak Spanish

[@nemou4985]

@@gilb_4 Well, kind of. As a native spanish speaker I have never heard the phrase "hago, hago" as an ackowledmente (or any other way) outside AOE2 (English "I do, I do" I don't recall very popular either)

[@llSuperSnivyll]

@@nemou4985 I take it's meant to be medieval Spanish.

[@SiddharthG365]

The fastest attacking land unit is the Dravidian ele archer IIRC

[@Redragonclaws]

Just double checked this and you’re right. Drav EA fire at 1.37 and Samurai fire at 1.47

[@noynayru]

I think when he said land his brain also went to/meant melee. As the other units standing next to the samurai were all melee

[@DuringDark]

@@noynayru although he specified land units as opposed to water units, and I imagine he would've mentioned them at least if he thought of them. I imagine he'll correct (or disprove) this in the next part, it's understandable there might be 1 or 2 things he missed in a vid with ~20 different facts

[@willdbeast1523]

Bulgarian kts/cavalier have reload time of 1.35

[@Achilles75]

@@Redragonclaws actually u both r wrong😅,its the Bulgarian knight/cavalier at 1.35 and samurai is somewhere arnd 1.42 or 1.43 i believe 1.47 is quite a bit slower ,so samurai definitely dont attack at that rate

[@9KillBill9]

2:50 - just quick note SOTL - don't call Bohemians 'eastern' European - it is offensive thx to history :D and actually according to many sources I quickly found they are actually west and central despite I though they are just central Europe :D

[@SpiritOfTheLaw]

In AoE2 their architecture is the "Eastern European" one, shared with Magyars, Slavs, etc, I assume for medieval historical reasons. I feel it should be obvious from context that me and anyone else pointing that out when talking about AoE2 is not making a political statement about 20th/21st century Czech Republic.

[@daspacepope]

The northern dialect of Khmer preserve the "r" pronunciation at the end apparently, so it's a half mistake I guess.

[@julianxamo7835]

The jingles are still in the game, they play in the loading screen, the expanded jingle/theme starts playing a bit after that

[@jacknumbertwo9647]

Those jingles were also remastered in DE. I miss some of the old ones, though. The spanish "heya hey-yah" was epic

[@julianxamo7835]

@@jacknumbertwo9647 I made a mod that replaces it, look for "Spanish Jingle" in the mods browser

[@mr_dnd]

​@@jacknumbertwo9647 Out of curiosity, can you check something for me? I have a vague memory that the jingles are still in the game when you select the civilisation in the history book section? I've not got my pc to check for a few days

[@jacknumbertwo9647]

@@mr_dnd I tried to go to the history tab but it doesn't seem that any jingles play when you click on a civ like it did pre-DE. I'll check again real quick

[@mr_dnd]

@@jacknumbertwo9647 thanks, that's a shame I must be confusing it with 2013 edition

[@erenekiz4407]

Great video as always Spirit! But I think you made a mistake in 8:15, as in AoK there weren't any Unique Techs, they started to appear after AoC version.

[@rovsea-3761]

I believe a trade cart under the affects of Caravans and a Caravanserai is actually the fastest land unit in the game currently.

[@RudyMemes]

1:45 I know it doesn't matter anymore, but next time you could just take the images and put them together on photoshop as a single PNG and just put that over the track. Your editing software and CPU will thank you when rendering

[@alian713]

9:37 I believe the 5 second civ jingles still play in lobby games (unfortunately not ranked), but hardly anyone ever picks their civs in a lobby game to notice them XD (most of them are the same as HD, but some of them have indeed changed, most noticeably the Spanish heyayaya!)

[@gletscherminze9372]

They play only for the host when the game countdown starts

[@RazorWinter]

In defense for the Devs, the Dravidians, and actually for all Indian civilizations, history is only now getting a lot of attention and being researched and updated quickly. Heard from my Indian friend that finding facts about their own history (before European colonization) is a very hot topic in India nowadays. Edit: Typo

[@WereScrib]

It is, yep, and a lot of it is extremely damaged and prone to internal nationalism, fakes and forgeries within India. Such as the above. I.E. The Mancatcher being an Indian invention is something people are stating, but its one of those items that are close to impossible to classify an 'invention' to, as pretty much every region does the traditional 'police version' very early, and hunting versions go back before metalworking, whilst the European heavy-polearm versions seem unique to their specific cavalry issues. (Unrelated, catchpole, despite being something people say is an alternative name for a mancatcher, is actually a old English word having nothing to do with 'catching' or 'poles' rather, it is caecus pollus, or 'chicken chaser' and was a term for taxmen and later lawmen, who later ended up using...mancatchers.) (Or the more well known: almost every story about India from the Zeitgeist documentary is absurdly fake and made up entirely.)

[@derikaem8021]

Should you maybe even prioritize thumb ring over bodkin arrow for chu ko nu?

[@matthiasvandekerkhove3594]

It depends on the situation. Sometimes one extra range is more important than faster firing.

[@Narthrivor]

Always bodkin. 1 range and 1 attack is too good, especially the range. Can't deal damage if you can't reach enemy units.

[@derikaem8021]

If thumb ring is better for dps than bodkin, then id say there at least exist cases where it is better. The thing is you also need an archery range. In case you already have that, then its hard to imagine that you do not have any archers or skirmishers, for which you would prioritize bodkin anyway

[@jefffinkbonner9551]

Always bodkin. Ballistics should be prioritized over thumb ring. Being able to hit a moving target even if a bit inaccurate is more important.

[@MastaDJMax]

Oh boy I sure love how you're getting creative with this! I also loved hearing you referenced in some kid making a Biden and Trump AoE2 game with AI... But yeah, stay creative!

[@danielmerhi4456]

The blood on La Hire's sword is almost dry.

[@britainemel2042]

La Hire wishes to kill something.

[@Satchel_Charge__]

You should start saying Khmer. I've been wondering for the last 3 years if you just didn't know that fact

[@elliejohnson2786]

NOO does I lick toes at night no longer support you on patreon? D: