All NEW Japanese Units in AoE4!

Here's my quick summary of all Japanese units in Age of Empires 4!
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0:00 - Intro
0:18 - Samurai
1:05 - Onna-Bugeisha
1:40 - Shinobi (Ninja)
2:53 - Shinobi Playstyle
4:08 - Japanese Spearman
4:33 - Yumi Ashigaru
4:51 - Onna-Musha
5:40 - Hand Cannoneer
5:47 - Mounted Samurai
6:16 - Bannerman Units
6:32 - Yumi Bannerman
6:40 - Uma Bannerman
6:44 - Katana Bannerman
6:58 - Japanese Siege Workshop
7:16 - Buddhist Monk
7:41 - Shinto Priest
8:02 - Atakebune
8:16 - Ozutsu
8:58 - Conclusion
9:06 - Outro
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Tags: #AgeofNoob #AoE4 #Japanese
rts, age of empires 4, sultans ascend, review, DLC

[@AgeofNoob]

Hello everyone :) I might take a short break, but will be back with the Ayyubids units next. I'm still content that I was able to at least get the Byzantines and Japanese units covered pre-release! Hope you all enjoy the launch of the DLC tomorrow - GLHF!

[@jeusmarcomascarina4102]

spy update from red alert

[@marcosyy87]

@@jeusmarcomascarina4102👍

[@hellpunch9414]

hey man after the descriptions you narrate, can you like show their voice lines as well?

[@Br0leg]

Im so excited for this DLC, these units look incredible. It kinda makes the vanilla factions feel lacking now though, considering these new civs practically have more unique than basic units lmao. I hope they eventually update the original civs with more unique units as well like they have done already on multiple occasions,

[@devinespinoza9124]

If im correct havent some of the updstes and patches been adding new units to the other factions like didn't the english get a bunch of new units a while ago

[@Br0leg]

@@devinespinoza9124 yes, as I mentioned in the comment above. But even with those additions they are kinda behind the DLC factions I feel in terms of new stuff :(

[@Shellll]

​@@Br0legim okay with them being a sort of "baseline"

[@johnemsun5847]

I liked the astronaut at 7:00 😄

[@josephrodriguez5510]

I hope that in future dlc, they add a Portuguese or Spanish civ and with this an upgrade of the hand cannon to a musket

[@jaredgarden2455]

This isn't age of empires 3. Also why make such a vanilla flavored civs when they could make the Polish or Scandinavian civs.

[@Rift2123]

RUS gets a muskateer doesn't it?

[@robbert7an]

They will absolutely do that, in AOE2 the Spanish unique unit is a mounted rifleman. The Spanish and Portuguese also brought gunpowder to Japan for example. I really enjoyed playing the El Cid campaign in AOE2 by the way. (I visited many places in Spain, Lisbon and Morocco) Spain also has so many castles compared to other countries they can't be left out. Surely they will be added later

[@samueltorres8566]

@@jaredgarden2455 Because I want to hear that medieval Spanish goddammit!

[@ArawnOfAnnwn]

@@jaredgarden2455 "Also why make such a vanilla flavored civs when they could make the Polish or Scandinavian civs" - pfft! Why make such vanilla flavored civs when they could make the Ethiopian or Majapahit or Vijayanagara civs instead?

[@normtrooper4392]

I find aoe4 to be endlessly fascinating. I just wish the campaigns had been more like aoe2 or aoe3.

[@marinacurtis674]

@@mnadeau1992 Their is also the difference in complexity most campaign scenarios in AoE 4 are 1v1 with no diplomacy. In AoE 2 scenarios your allies betray you, you forge new alliances, you do things for the locals to earn their support or you raze their villages to loot them. Their are also some more rpg type scenarios where you lead a small band to complete certain objectives. Scenarios in AoE 2 campaigns are a lot more diverse I wish AoE 4 actually built on that scenario design foundation instead of starting from scratch.

[@kingonn1414]

I love the history they did for it, the real life action stuff was amazing and neat

[@normtrooper4392]

@@kingonn1414 I agree with you there. But it should have been as an added extra after the campaign. Or maybe before.

[@Celedan]

@@mnadeau1992 as a history fan, it wasnt actually that bad. That being said, i didnt really play aoe 2 for the campaign.

[@jhjn1498]

​@@mnadeau1992i watch documentary for fun in my freetime and after try out the first mission of aoe4 with xbox game pass,i bought the game instantly

[@thomasfplm]

7:55 Hello, You might have missed it, but those can also be placed in lumber-camps to passively generate wood, farm-houses to generate food or forges to generate gold.

[@Lucius_Chiaraviglio]

The Shinobi/Ninjas sound like teleporting Dark Templar (from StarCraft 2: Legacy of the Void), like they would start doing okay even when detected once you get sufficient numbers. That is probably why their production is limited to one Landmark building.

[@krishg8647]

The music for this one is exceptionally good! Great video as always!

[@veganism_is_superior]

hyped for tomorrow. waited for japan since aoe4 came out

[@genevievejoshua]

some notes shinobi's shunshin is "shoo" not "shan" u can shorten spearman "nagae" to just "na-guy"

[@AgeofNoob]

Thank you very much - I'll fix my pronunciation in upcoming videos! Looking up pronunciations is much easier if we had the original names in Japanese, but they're all anglicized so they're tough to tell sometimes. :)

[@Beispielname1233]

I can't appreciate the effort and quality for these kind of videos enough!

[@Darkhorse1975]

Its so cool they took some ideas from AoE3 to spice up these new civilization.

[@qqLucaqq]

Implementation of 2 femsle units is interesting, even tho the onna musha would make morse sense if like 1 in 10-15 Units Spawn in female. still cool

[@vyvy_films2483]

7:00Did I saw a astronaut with a gun?

[@vitorguimaraes5490]

As always you create such beautiful scenary! I wished the game had more of the atmosphere that you create on the scenes that you build for your videos. Congrats again and keep making high quality videos✌️

[@gabrielpassos4409]

This biome is absolutely BEAUTIFUL! In my opinion, it seems to be the most beautiful biome in the game

[@duhsbo]

I really hope. Aoe4 go this direction with lower civs but with more unique units each.

[@renner3188]

Great Video, great job, thank you!

[@jangzhang7323]

I hope that the developers can make an aztec or mayan civ, but it would be difficult for the game balance as they lack cavalry and gunpowder.

[@punkyllama420]

They'll find a way to make it happen. My guess is the next expansion will be Spanish and Aztecs.

[@abri448]

Aztec can have infantry and bows but no gunpowder if anything

[@jangzhang7323]

@@abri448 it is possible in game, but it would not be historically accurate

[@Valorhammer]

I guess this can be sorta be done if they bother to make a civ with 2 aesthetics? You simply have Mexico, have it mesoamerican by the 1st 2 ages, and adopt to somehitng akin to their conquerers (Spain) at the latter 2.

[@funfungerman8401]

tbh that would be "easily" possible IMO just make them like the atzecs in AoE 3 they have not one gunpowder or cavalry unit, but fast troops as an subsidiary, and their skull knights are so fucking strong with their armor and damage that they make it really balanced, also their arrow knights are great against artillery and are still "historically accurate" but the best thing is their fire place and their leader who can get like 4000 hp even without fire bonus and buffs all units besides him, which is really unique and cold be also implemented in AoE, i mean they already something like this with the japanese banner units, kinda

[@mausolus8466]

Thank you for useful information, but once again, let us not forget to praise you for all that effort you put into all the background scenery. Have you ever though (unless you do that already) of making dioramas? Because your "virtual dioramas" are amazing.

[@AgeofNoob]

Thank you my friend. I haven't done any real life Dioramas - the issue with me, as always, is time. If and when I have more of it, I might circle back on some more non-virtual hobbies. :D

[@janojulianmoreiraaslan1032]

That snowy base looked absolutely gorgeous, you use of lighting is insane, wish the game looked like that on actual matches

[@VittamarFasuthAkbin]

8:50 what alone makes them great is that - since they are not siege - can deal with anti-siege while having the characteristics of mangonels or bombards (aoe, longer range, siege damage). This unit alone makes me consider maining Japanese. Just having extra range on Chinese handcannoneers proves very useful and getting aoe and even more range seems like a no-brainer for me

[@SirZorgulon]

Great summary, thanks! I am super excited to play this civ tomorrow (!) Just a note on your outro - “sayonara” is a bit like saying “goodbye” forever. So it is a bit odd to say “until next time… sayonara”! Better to say something like “mata ne”.

[@AgeofNoob]

Ah, good to know. So it's more of a Farewell than a Goodbye. Thanks!

[@louisemmanuelmorente3978]

Didn't expect the onna-bugeisha to be included, good decision by the devs!

[@Rodrigo_Vega]

I would have added something like they receive a healing/defensive boost from being around buildings; maybe houses and castles, to reflect how they performed mostly on a defensive role when enemies invaded instead of just being recruited in high numbers for invasions and what not.

[@HistoricalWeapons]

Historically accurate that Japanese bows are cheaper to make

[@90skidcultist]

Meh. Most of us didn’t buy this game for historical accuracy. Normies, & avg gamers, are cool with just Historically Authenticity.

[@bakoka111]

ty for this info bro🥰

[@-Baldorius]

Loved this one ❤

[@gabriellawrence6598]

Speaking from a purely aesthetical POV, the Japanese and the Byzantines are looking gorgeous.

[@Lessen0]

Onna-Bugeisha seem very Landsknecht-ish: they’re a great mix-in unit to add more DPS to your infantry (Samurai) very cheaply. Her damage per hit is bad but her attack rate is insane so her DPS is quite decent, and she has lots of extra range to let her attack much more reliably in a melee without having to path around allies as much. So they’re at their best right behind a frontline of Samurai, cheaply adding damage. Also she has an amazing dommy mommy voice.

[@saber2802]

My biggest complaint is the fact the hand cannoner isn't a teppo Ashigaru, which i guess given thefact most of the baseline AOE civs don't get arquebusiers it makes sense.

[@alexsanderrain2980]

Yes, thank you!

[@espurr3496]

Best Japanese in Age series

[@yamikami13]

i still find it odd that the Japanese hand cannoneer isnt using a matchlock. it look soo weird

[@straelboraaaa]

Exactly, hand cannons was the predecessor of Matchlock and obsoleted when firearms reached Japan, Japan should wielding guns exactly like the Rus or Ottoman do.

[@alexejvornoskov6580]

Well they did had Chinese handcannons since the time mongols invaded till the portugese came. But yeah, you nearly never see them, there only few pictures of them, because matchlock became so much more wide spread in Japan, then early handcannons ever were.

[@andrewramadhanar]

Mounted Samurai should not have a shield model

[@marinacurtis674]

The shield is also very lazy it just doesn't fit with the unit not to mention the naginata is a two handed weapon

[@andrewramadhanar]

@@marinacurtis674 i blame relics for this development. Lazy as always. Campaign rather dull with Company of Heroes approach. Very less epic moment all honesty it's like tutorial campaign.

[@marinacurtis674]

@@andrewramadhanar I did not have high hopes for the campaign to begin with. I'm always comparing AoE 4 campaigns to AoE 2 campaigns the AoE 2 ones are much better.

[@andrewramadhanar]

@@marinacurtis674 i might be biased to AoE2, but i believe even AoE3 far superior than AoE4. Another things which are disappointing, they put Teutonic Knight and all Crusaders theme units for the Sultand Ascend campaign, but they are not putting them as a Civz and instead only released the original Japanese and Byzantine civz. They could add more instead, but they decided only making spin off variants civz which are very much disappointing. AoE4 is such regressed.

[@Davtwan]

Are the new civs just going to get “vanilla but better” units from now on? Lol.

[@MalcrowAlogoran]

Handcannon on stick tech the Japanese never used (they went straight to arquebus when the Portuguese arrived), not to mention mounted samurai with shields. God bless their research department.

[@EricGonzalezM]

@8:05: Noob, are ship reflections completely gone from water effects now? They were hard to see before, especially with the default gameplay camera angle, but now it seems they are completely gone.

[@quangvunhat8193]

i don't see the mounted samurai having a lance or some sort? do they have charge attack of their own?

[@billthomas2154]

I find the deflective armor ability hilarious. A passive ability that deflects the first enemy attack. Yeah, it's called a shield. The only civ that get this bonus is the one that doesn't carry shields. Jokes aside this may be my new favorite civ.

[@alroumel]

The photon man by the siege weapons was epic

[@warrior728]

I really like this units Especially Shinobi and Onna-Bugeisha

[@KeremKaraoglu-kt3gl]

Ozutsu = Abus gunner

[@sari-eljarrah]

Beautiful 😃👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@worldpeace2688]

Were the ashigaru musketeers?

[@marinacurtis674]

Their hand cannoneer model looks so cool too just give them a matchlock musket at least

[@Thanatosdan]

Man the Skyrim music. Love it.

[@Fenris8800]

Like the little joke @7:00 with the Photon man :D

[@nsawatchlistbait289]

My favorite Fez tipper

[@peacemen6460]

I hope they removed the mounted samurai shield and fix the sword position.

[@nilsscholz4474]

i dont like the round shield on samurai horse riders like a mongolian and the lenght of the swords, katanas would be cooler in my opinion or as an upgrade for attak speed, also the naginatas and yari spears looks like chinese weapons.. i hope theyll fix it

[@08vinster]

I love the astronaut with the siege units! LMAO

[@gaiusiulius7724]

Mounted Samurai with shields look so wrong

[@tomvhresvelg9286]

Needs Heavy riding archer, which is the origin of Samurai in kamakura.

[@domnikoli]

really surprised there arent matchlock ashigaru to replace the hand cannoneers

[@bludclone]

Onna-bugeisha is an ESG score unit

[@juncheok8579]

what's the music in the background? I felt like i've heard it in Civ 6 before

[@AgeofNoob]

That's right - some of them are from Civ VI's Japan OST.

[@giuseppecastellese1432]

To the moon theme at the end... Here my sub

[@alcerscruro6107]

Would you explain each new unit, in your next videos?

[@LibeliumDragonfly]

“Bannerman" sounds so confusing, considering they had Chinese bannermen used to describe the Manchu 8 banners. Shoud've just used hatamoto, since they are already using so many Japanese names to begin with.

[@tH4ttUs]

If there will be new campaigns like age2 def edition this game would be perfect new RTS !!!

[@tH4ttUs]

for all races! also for the old ones

[@robbert7an]

In AOE they are called Civs, civilizations or factions. Races are more like in fantasy RTS like elves and orcs

[@bledferox6601]

Welp, the tech odachi is incorrect, the weapon that the samurai gets is the tachi. The odachi is waaaay longer

[@justcallrizq4589]

Malay civ plz, the water game would be insane

[@royasturias1784]

The Austronesians (collective of Malay, Dayak, Tagalog, Sugbuanon/Cebuano, Moro, Javanese, Acehnese, etc. peoples) will be a compromise, starting from Srivijaya to Majapahit.

[@urihauben2365]

Didn't the Yumi Ashigaru also deal one damage less compared to a standard archer ? amazing video as always AON :)

[@Jimboquacks]

Yeah they do. That is why its important to have the bannerman with them to make up the damage difference for their movement speed increase.

[@Anon-zl7zw]

Id much rather have samurai be traditionally only mounted. As most were mounted units and instead have the base be yari ashigaru. Or at least tachi ashigaru. With their special ability to become a range unit with one attack every 30 or so seconds. With the mounted samurai, could go with the Date bulletproof armor set or maybe the shimazu gunners who wield the equivalent of shotguns to diversify them.

[@08vinster]

Nice! Love the design behind these civs, incredible work from the devs and balance team. If you get hit by a lot of arrows simultaneously, does deflective armour stop all of them?

[@cyka7705]

I wish their hand cannoneer are Arquebus

[@fil2fer1150]

The only question I have is can you put a Yorishiro into a Tanegashima Gunsmith? I'm really scared of those ozutsus, on paper for the same total price (a lot more gold though), they look like grenadier on steroids, more health (160), more armor(4+3), double the range(6) and like 47 dmg with all upgrades? 35*(1+0.2chemistry+0.15banner). And on top of that, the gunsmith gives a free ticket/ozutsu every 30 sec ( 240 ressources/min for free). If the Japanese can pump them out at a rate of 5-6 per minute because of the yorishiro relic, I'm gonna start crying.

[@08vinster]

NO, can't put them in landmarks, otherwise i would put them in the township for faster Shinobi.

[@user-ix6sf4js1v]

Do a review on SxD gamemode in aoe ii

[@francoabad4911]

í´m definetly maining Japanese¡

[@justin_isaac_rada44]

Why didn’t they called Yari Ashigaru instead of the Japanese Spearman? Also increase their base damage by 20% for fighting against non-cavalry units.

[@08vinster]

Also thought spears wouuld've been called Yari Ashigaru. Missed opportunity. Maybe they decided the name's were too similar for non Japanese fans.? Yari yumi

[@marinacurtis674]

or make the yari tech a castle or feudal age tech.

[@jaybatson2322]

ty'

[@aziscakep640]

7:05 okay Why there a This Characters in the 1500 to 1600 era Why who is he

[@arkloppiola]

japanese units are so cool

[@datoandiashvili3284]

Please add Georgia in the next update.

[@seaname1]

It's good video. 일본도 다큐멘터리 영상 나오나?

[@klausrainherz4605]

How many unites? other factions have no chance. game balance will be lost

[@gabrielstiegemeier]

To play with the chinese i have to buy the dlc?

[@JustMyOpinion-]

7:04 SPACEMAN???

[@AgeofNoob]

The long lost laser technology of the Japanese.

[@straelboraaaa]

It is not necessary to be wrong but さよなら sayonara means to be not seeing each other for a relatively long period of time.

[@alexejvornoskov6580]

Yeah, not a phrase you would use when making daily videos.😅

[@hussienbintalal91]

Al andalus and the aztec, would be cool if they added them

[@miguelrobles6541]

BRO, why is there an astronaut with a machine gun at minute 7:05 ? WTF? HAHAH

[@gabrielpassos4409]

3:20 malians being malians lol

[@jaredgalvin]

Hi. Is this coming to AoE4 Anniversary Edition?

[@marinacurtis674]

It's a DLC coming out tomorrow for AoE 4

[@jaredgalvin]

@@marinacurtis674 so if i dont have this DLC that means I cannot play with those who have it?

[@marinacurtis674]

@@jaredgalvin no you just won't be able to play the dlc civs

[@L4vea]

Thanks for your video ! Age of Noob hihihihi ! " Noob " hihihi

[@sleekbeaksheek]

Oh neat, where's Unit 731 though? Oh hold up, wrong war.

[@yamikami13]

oh ya i did not notice this at first WHY THE FK ARE THE MOUNTED SAMURAI USING SHIELD?????????? HELLO?????

[@ville4090]

If the game start at Castle Age, what monk should the Japanese train?

[@veganism_is_superior]

i think if u dont get the floating gate, you should pick buddhist because they buff your army

[@ville4090]

@@veganism_is_superior i mean that the game literally starts at castle age, effectively bypassing the landmarks required for buddhist monks and shinto priests. Do Japanese can only train generic monks or they can't train them at all?

[@veganism_is_superior]

@@ville4090 we will see tomorrow

[@Jimboquacks]

@@ville4090 They get generic monks. To get the special monks that reduce enemy damage you have to get the age 3 landmark. Which will be skipped if games start in castle age.

[@zacharyscott2298]

Age V is ww1 and 2

[@piotrhaba4820]

I hope they add Poland

[@sickjuicysjamshack3580]

Every single stat is going to be merged lol

[@SeanMaguire02]

Onna Bugeisha should have been Warrior Monks

[@duongngole4785]

7:00 the japanese got access to the space marines?

[@josephrodriguez5510]

Thats the photoman and its a cheat unit.

[@tH4ttUs]

no but you asn play the new adept calling shinobi :P

[@LonTOn]

Our men are running from the battlefield , shamefur disprayyy !!!

[@CuongChanster]

i love her

[@sjwoo13]

I just want korea. :o

[@xklti1192]

Is this mobile game?

[@hardtobeatplays2369]

Is the game free?

[@Darksky1001able]

Is that a fucking astronaut?

[@AgeofNoob]

The one and only Photon Man.

[@Skiddla]

4:33 skyrim

[@marvinyean5]

No ashigaru musk spam😭

[@SigmaSusanto]

why Do I Hear skyrim music?