CENTURION vs EVERY UNIT | Age of Empires: Definitive Edition

[@aviationenthusiast2002]

Glad to see no attempts were made to improve the pathfinding

[@nandeiro]

dude this remake is crap as fuck, in the original game the units have multiple attack animations, in this they only have 1 animation, llooks like was made with their ass

[@eesaubaydullah4231]

Indeed

[@thomasmott3518]

This remake is honestly one of the laziest I've ever seen. When it was FINALLY released on Steam, it still had the bug whereby Anti-Virus software considered it a Trojan and so forceably closed it after just 5 minutes. As if Microsoft couldn't find a work around in the one and half years from Games for Windows Live to Steam. As you say the pathfinding is god-awful, the AI is still retarded, yet still gets the cheats of ful map knowledge and extra resources, no new features were properly added, no new civilizations or campaigns (the changes to the old campaigns don't count because they are often just visual or name alterations) and others have said the animation quality is really leaving something to be desired.

[@lacasadebarbudo6949]

It's a shame, even the online connection is worts than the original

[@Tilberjack]

Well, now RoR is here

[@FN--ky6my]

E R E C T U S

[@kawipotwachaiya7176]

Evotai

[@penguins0301]

No I N C R E D I B I L I S!

[@gustavocarvalhobrito1144]

RUNNEES

[@josecarlosmartinezmayo9320]

Oomos

[@njdutoit]

"I AM A CENTURION OF ROME! I WILL NOT YIELD!"- Michael Fassbender

[@ParleLeVu]

Michael Fassabender in another universe: "Fookin coont, i'll 'av yu and den i'll fook ur galfrens minge, 'ow 'bout dat?".

[@XYZ-eo8um]

Seeing centurions owning elephants in any form (both armored and archer) is CARTHAGO DELENDA EST in its purest form

[@arcsaber1127]

Wouldn't work in reality

[@XYZ-eo8um]

@@arcsaber1127 this is AoE, not reality, so who cares? Also, historical Romans also owned Carthaginians to the point of ruining their city and salting the ground.

[@truebeliever786]

@@XYZ-eo8um Yes, but that was by dividing their ranks and evading the elephant charge, because they knew they couldn't take the elephants head on. Masterful technique no doubt, but point still remains: Wouldn't work in reality.

[@zwergnase4315]

Totally

[@priotesecosmin5923]

@@truebeliever786 Uhm, it would work it reality. The main effect of using elephants on the battlefield was a psychological one, so after the Romans started training their troops and cavalry to deal with the sight and the smell of elephants, they were not nearly as big of a threat. They had a multitude of ways to break an elephant charge (or to kill them quickly if the elephants came too near to their lines): pikes, light mobile cavalry, hacking at their feet or trunks, trapping them in spike pits, using artillery (you know, they are huge targets), or even releasing pigs or some other type of animal to break the charge, like they did at the Battle of Maleventum. So, infantry could and did deal with elephants.

[@necipfortniteksakurek4725]

7:04 that synchronized killing tho

[@mephistoschiffer4957]

Doğrudur ustam

[@surgeonsergio6839]

You sir, get a like.

[@Magician2086]

The Centurion is really strong, you can't beat it on close combat. The best way to deal with them it to use the fact that they walk slowly against them. Use ranged units like Heavy Horse Archer and focus fire them one by one(also do hit and run). Of course Pirests, Heavy Catapult and Helepolis also works fine.

[@birisuandrei1551]

It doesn't help the fact that they aren't really that expensive, only the tech is, but in a game where everyone already had their tech researched, you literally can never go wrong with making centurion's as long as you got a monk counter.

[@ricardomilos4373]

Monk against centurions?) Have fun microing that)

[@Casassidor]

oh yes, how to forget the teutonic knight with pierce armor, basically god

[@MrDibara]

Catapults and Monks would beg to differ. ;)

[@GabrielCyprous]

@@MrDibara tks resist conversions (•‿•)

[@MrDibara]

@@GabrielCyprous But Centurions don't, hence my comment. ;)

[@BA0777]

And faster speed (aristocracy upgrade).

[@ParleLeVu]

@@MrDibara They still lost tho.

[@MrDibara]

It's funny how this unit actually looks like a Legionnary/Centurion in DE. I remember when I used to play the original AoE1 that the Centurion looked like he was wearing a medieval full plate armor suit. I was like "wow! They had Knights even back then!" as a kid. 🤣 I'm also glad the spear still looks like a spear. I swear, in the original game, the spear started to look like an over-sized pokey sword after the Phalanx upgrade! Like, the other end of the spear (the one that goes behind the hand) just dissapeared!

[@bsn_cs]

Holy shit i remember that

[@santiagolopez8253]

I still play aoe 1 and rise of role theyre my favorite out of all the aoe i love how helepolis and centurions look like

[@Ummarth9]

They made it like a jousting Lance when you upgraded.

[@OCTAVIANVS_AVGVSTVS_CAESAR]

Roman Lorica Segmentata basically is plate armor.

[@MrDibara]

@@OCTAVIANVS_AVGVSTVS_CAESAR But it's not *a full suit of plate armor.* I'm saying that in the original game, the Phalanx/Centurion looked like he was wearing 15th Century plate armor. Get it?

[@ludonymous526]

The Centurions are insanely overpowered and are basically the Elite Teutonic Knight from "AoE 2" on steroids.

[@RennieAsh]

We used to play no siege no priest DM. Macedonian centurions were intense

[@darktemplar2403]

They look like republican period triarii in segmentata with corinthian type helm :V

[@elwendingoxd9284]

Yo creo que los monjes les ganaban pero no se coordinaron bien :'v

[@noldorwarrior7791]

Basically an average SCA guy

[@francosaid4777]

@Therolass XD pero no usaban loricas segmentata o cascos corynthios. Ademas de que no se cubrían todo el cuerpo ya que para protegerse los brazos sólo usaban brazaletes y para las piernas se protegían sólo hasta las rodillas. En esas épocas los únicos que tenían armaduras completas eran los partos con sus catafractos.

[@francosaid4777]

@Therolass XD que decis??? XD los catafractos con armadura de cuerpo completo así como un caballero del medievo (no sólo partos) son de oriente. Estos fueron usados por persas,armenios, partos,etc. Después el imperio romano de oriente (una de las tantas divisiones que Roma tuvo) copió este tipo de unidad, que al caer Roma, empezaron a usar los bizantinos. No mezcles el medievo con tiempos antes de cristo XD. Ademas de que en mi mismo comentario digo "catafractos partos" que son de casi mil años antes de que existieran los bizantinos. También quiero destacar que la discusión se trataba sobre si los romanos eran los primeros en usar armaduras de cuerpo completo, no hacía falta corregir algo diciendo cualquier cosa.

[@314Pirasy]

"How do we make infantry good ? " AOE2 : make em cheap and counter cavalry AOE1 :

[@RennieAsh]

What happens when you combine a Teutonic knight with a halberdier, and then double its attack

[@marcos1669]

Good, those centurions are basically unbeatable on 1:1, they only loose to siege

[@SantiagoHatchet]

They also lose against well micromanaged archers (which is hard to achieve on a game with bad pathfinding)

[@BalgaBear]

When ya homie says no one is online and he wants to play some Age. 2:39

[@Yumao420]

For reference they are AoE2 Elite Teutonic Knight with Chieftains.

[@eesaubaydullah4231]

And pierce armour

[@DevilGamingHome]

Slingers: *Throw rocks at them* Centurion: Aww how cute >>>>:))))))

[@sengkuanlee3180]

When a whole cluster of elephant armoured with plate and chain armour charge against the army Centurion: Armoured elephants look big and strong but they are no match for us

[@cactuslietuva]

I was excited about age 1 DE, cause it was my first strategy game ever played. But they never fixed terrible pathfinding. Back then when original was released it was fine, but they really could have made a proper game with DE

[@xhmaah]

After the the new april update, units are better than it used to be. Still it needs some work though.

[@samusaran4799]

@@kalender4176 they said they didn't want to fix AI too much or pathfinding because they didn't want to make a reskinned aoe2 but keep the same vibe of the original. My biggest problem tho is the terrible animations like omg. They weren't so noticeable in the 90's because the sprites were so low fidelity but here? holy shit they look so awkward and stiff.

[@RennieAsh]

And now they are having a $50k tournament with this AoE1 DE with said pathfinding lol Oh and they STILL haven't fixed the armoured elephant attack animation

[@3ch056]

Keep a straight face keep a straight face Centurion: Erectus BAHAHAHAHAH

[@estebanvalle-riestrapadro7033]

- I have a very great friend in Rome called Biggus Dickus...

[@Hugh.G.Rectionx]

he has a wife you know

[@gmenos6252]

You should consider the half pop tech for barracks when using legions Otherwise they will do kinda bad against every other heavy units (gold background)

[@bcpratt6979]

That half pop barracks tech is pretty OP actually

[@UmitSeyhan75]

What is the half pop tech for barracks is actually, i could find it.

[@gmenos6252]

@@UmitSeyhan75 I don't remeber e What tech exactly, but it's in government building

[@UmitSeyhan75]

@@gmenos6252 Oh you mean half population count for military units, alright thanks.

[@xdeser2949]

I miss how in the original AoE 1 they just looked like they were carrying long solid iron poles

[@headphoneDISC]

Yeeah they actually looked stronger than spears

[@ahmetatik2231]

My favorite units. Macedonians are best with wololo resist :D

[@njdutoit]

Yes but sadly the tradeoff is no priests and no healing.

[@santiagolopez8253]

@@njdutoit yeah i hate how macedonians dont have a trmple

[@icarian553]

I prefer Greek ones. Fully upgraded they're the fastest infantry unit in the game. Lack of last attack upgrade isn't a big deal with such a high base attack and you can actually run down archers.

[@santiagolopez8253]

@@icarian553 while that is true any centurion ( with the exception of the carthaginians) can beat a greek centurion so just counter attack with a centurion which isnt as expensive as helepolis or catapults and have evrything upgraded and you will auto beat greek centurions

[@icarian553]

@@santiagolopez8253 With greek you decide when to fight with enemy centurions. You can run away if it's not in your favor and your opponent can't run away. The speed means also that they are stronger against their usual counters, even against siege. But that's mostly pointless because AOE1 games are decided in tool age with civs that can get fast tool age and rush like Shang.

[@YashDowlut]

7:18 The heavy catapults do not care who you are. They'll simply melt everything down.

[@RennieAsh]

@Therolass XD Treb + Siege onager combined

[@federicodigioia4463]

They entered in the history as the freaking most OP unit of all time

[@theophilegaudin2329]

I always ended up with greek's version. Granted they had only +4 attack bonus but even horse archers couldn't kite them due to speed bonus I had a death ball with two helepolis, one heavy catapult, four centurions and two priests. I would just slowly destroy every building from safe distance with the catapult. Helepolis would take out any opposing Priest and even if centurions were converted I would re convert them with my own priests. The priests would also heal each other and the rest of the army. Centurions would take care of everything trying to attack the other units. I could destroy the entire IA map with just this. So OP.

[@crossetler_2184]

Detail: The Centurion that appears here is configured for Roman civ. If it was with the Greek extra speed to Academy units, would've them be capable of dodging the Catapults'es shots?

[@GeorgeMasterclass]

Despite AoE1 being remastered, it still feels like a clunky old game.

[@hongtham3249]

dunno how ballista projectile hit the land and became stone 🤣

[@GiacomoCagnin1995]

What about you trying 50 centurions VS 50 teutonic knights? Can't wait to see such a inhuman bloodshed!

[@omarescalante3114]

That's wouldn't be balanced at all. Centurions are godly, the Knights are just peasants before them. 30 atk and 8 armour and 160 hp. I am sure it could kill cataphracts as well

[@AfaqueAhmed_]

My man literally pitted them against skirmishers .

[@fluffdragon6305]

I don't like how they make so unbalanced these units... A single armored elephant can kill dozen of centurions. A ballista is able to oneshot every human unit

[@yunusemreeroglu8640]

centurion: no one can beat me catapult and ballista: hello motherfucker

[@AlfredoPuente8]

your only real options are range units.

[@superfrycook6360]

Centurions are like Spartans, they take the heat from melee and ranged attacks.

[@Cocarat206]

Things actually got tactically interesting with the priests.

[@RennieAsh]

Especially since centurions kill themselves rather quickly, you can't just waltz around with enemy centurions in your midst

[@MrNintoku]

7:55 That's why I don't use AOE 2 Catapults and Ballista. They look weak and are weak. Only the Siege Onager has anything going for it.

[@DmytroBogdan]

AoE 1 catapult is basically an AoE 2 bombard cannon

[@samusaran4799]

@@DmytroBogdan bombard cannons are good tho?

[@scroggin92]

Centurions are amazing. basically only stopped by a fuckload of archers and towers

[@martjnmao6808]

Historical centurions probably didn't use spears in close up combat tho

[@marcosnore8763]

This game is hardly historically accurate heh, but in this case it's ¿kinda? true, Romans did use hastae and pila to fight in melee, although it wasn't that common and probably it was conditional (like, only when facing cavalry charges and such, you throw 1 pilum and keep the other as a polearm)

[@kohank5938]

Scutum with spear and hoplon with sword...ok.

[@93Beefcake]

and i was thinking aoe2 pathfinding was terrible

[@DmytroBogdan]

I honestly thought 10 priests should win if they convert 6 centurions but I guess AI is dumb and focused 3 monks on one centurion

[@penguins0301]

*INCREDIBILIS*

[@rubendario4480]

I hope someday i can see aoe vs aoe 2 vs aoe3 units

[@johannr2658]

How did you light up the map?

[@kondred3985]

C O R R E C T U S. A L A M A S. E R E C T U S.

[@iforgot87872]

ABSOLUTE UNITS

[@ardaarsen]

Those catapults shoot guided boulders.

[@JoshuaWise1994]

I wanna see how many villagers it takes to kill 1 centurion

[@LawStephOfficial]

They can beat heavy catapults staying scattered

[@momtazpervin5805]

Can you make a Toyota land cruiser j70 4x4 with a shotgun in its back?civ is Japanese.just like armies in Africa and Asia,where is extremely popular

[@InkoGnito978]

Why all melee infantry, scythe chariots, camels and armored elephants with full ups have iron armor but cataphracts have only bronze? Developers must remade this one

[@Olimak369]

Erectus intensified

[@mathewjacob3075]

Its pokey pokey time

[@Eduardo-zb5ck]

esos soldados azules son imènetrable a casi todo gran video

[@birisuandrei1551]

Im not surprised... It's the Unit that could Challenge God himself to a fight and win, still can't handle siege though.

[@cmlcml415]

Greek Centurion please

[@teutonicknight452]

Hoplites from aom will be proud

[@Usuarioazul549]

Well, archers could easily Beat centurion, if they were not trapped.

[@CrazyTankersVN]

Centurion in AoE looks more like Triarius than an actual Centurion.

[@TenzingShedup]

It would also be nice to see short swordsman and other age 2 n 3 units

[@TenzingShedup]

By age 3 i mean tool age like improved bowman

[@lukasbelan2109]

@@TenzingShedup Both improved bowman and short swordsman are from the bronze, aka the third age.

[@TenzingShedup]

@@lukasbelan2109 Im sorry i wrote 2 by mistake i will edit it rn

[@QuesoPhiladelphia476]

Now do cavalry pls

[@inffire90]

Get it!!!

[@Leonykf]

Siege weapons are too op, and catapult with ballistic aswell?!?

[@MrShouttaKun]

a la velocidad que ataca el centurion almorze y cene

[@Goncen]

El centurión es la unidad mas rota de AOE:DE. Lo unico que le gana son armas de asedio en igual cantidad

[@maximus5668]

The Siege engines are too historical unrealistic in they hability to kill infantry, acuracy and reload speed

[@RennieAsh]

They used to be even more OP at one stage in Rise Of Rome. Helepolis had 1.5s reload time = fire another bolt before first one hits anything. 10+ catapults could one shot anything and they had the damage area of 3 tiles. Oh and Hittite had 300HP on those things. Combined with 15 range

[@dfo990]

Age 1 centurion Age 2 teutonic knight Age 3 ronin samurai

[@leon21011]

Doppelsolnerd dutch

[@314Pirasy]

AOM had arguably Fanatics. Wonder what AOE4 will have ?

[@omarel-rasheedy9307]

rip aoe1

[@tanphamduy9518]

Đế chế bản này đẹp quá

[@jackwu7028]

I only have the chance to play against AI because I only have the original aoe1. Never used centurions against AIs. In my opinion all infantry units just suck. Sieges, chariots, horse archers, towers and walls are my go to units.

[@birisuandrei1551]

Ah yes... Aoe1 crappy pathfinding and the strongest weapon being a spear just like IRL... Unlike AoE2 where spearman line is one of the "Trash Units" despite it being the strongest melee weapon in open field combat...

[@tdadarksoul]

con un monton de arqueros a caballo pesados me los como a esos centuriones ...

[@brokentombot]

What the hell is this?

[@Kanopus1985]

Unidad mas rota de age of empires

[@mager6469]

asedio op

[@MasterSonicKnight]

Centurions are literally moving walls that also attack for massive damage They're so similar to walls that they're also easily countered by siege tho ...well yeah AoE1 siege is op against everything, but my point still stands

[@DmytroBogdan]

Shouldn't centurions do bonus damage to cavalry with their long pikes?

[@MasterSonicKnight]

@@DmytroBogdan with straight up 30+ damage per hit they rly don't need it lmao AoE1 balancement is completely different than AoE2

[@VuLinhAssassin]

No INCREDIBILIS? I am disappointed 0/10

[@leeroysoldier]

balance.........)

[@s75dvina27]

The most unbalanced unit

[@VuLinhAssassin]

They can be kited with archers, and can be decimated with siege weapons.

[@daniellewis2133]

Is the centurion a cheat? If they can defeat armored elephants they must be a cheat. I don't have this game.

[@gilb_4]

No, they are not, the balance in AoE1 is not as good as the one in AoE 2

[@daniellewis2133]

@@gilb_4 All I ever played was regular AoE1 and AoE2 the age of kings and the conquerers. That was at least 10 years ago since last.

[@atarikafa06]

Too slow!

[@talezmaster]

Only the siege unit can destroy centurians otherwise its a fully overpowered unit . thats why aoe 3 is better