How good is the Teutonic Knight? (AoE2)

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Analysis and discussion about the Teuton's unique unit: the Teutonic Knight.
1:05 Castle age stats/bonuses
3:40 vs melee units
5:25 vs Ranged units
6:20 Imperial age changes
7:15 vs Trash units
8:30 vs Paladins
8:55 vs Ranged units
9:30 Unique unit matchups
12:08 General takeaways
13:33 Sponsor
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Game: Age of Empires II Definitive Edition

[@JJBeauregard1]

I love how they shout "SASSA!" when you tell them to attack something followed by them menacingly walking toward their target at a snail's pace :D

[@DuckOil]

also despite being so slow they have very quick leg animations and it just looks so goofy like they are tiptoeing to battle

[@cabbagedestroyer1693]

Teutonic Knights are like Michael Meyers. Who just slowly walks towards you menacingly, and you have to do whatever to shoot them down before they get in melee range.

[@safeuse3675]

İ resemble them approaching to terminator1 scene. İt comes to you, you cant harm it. Only way to beat it is some external help

[@Machoman50ta]

@@safeuse3675and the best part y’all missed is the fact this knight is backed by god making him the most perfect beautiful powerful soldier

[@alexanderschulte8248]

One of my favorite childhood memories was when I was 5 doing a 4v4 battle in age of kings and watching like 15 elite teutonic knights fighting off what felt like a never ending horde of ai light cavalry.

[@Deckar5639]

Teutonic knights: SOMEDAY LOVE WILL FIND YOU BREAK THOSE CHAIN THAT BIND YOU

[@shino4242]

I would make custom maps where there was like 20 ETK's against hundreds and hundreds of militia. So satisfying

[@Rattle189]

Man this brings so much memories of creating random scenarios in the map editor when I was younger. It was always nice to get like 300 vs. 300 or something because back then there was a population limit of 200 in the CD version. Good times!

[@pierre-mariecaulliez6285]

7:40 malay 2-handed swordsmen "WHY ! WON'T ! YOU ! DIIIIIIIIIE !!!! - **Teutonnic knight annoyed by the bonking sound if anything** "

[@unimportantcommenter4356]

"Teutonic Capes, son! They harden in response to physical trauma! You can't hurt me, conscript!

[@llSuperSnivyll]

The Teutonic Knight: "Halt! Das kitzelt!"

[@Boom12]

Teutonic Knight: "It's the plate mail, chicks love the plate mail."

[@stefankatsarov5806]

45 seconds afther it came out. The universe called me so fast to see a video of my favorite unit.

[@Reaper_03-01]

Its a shame Teutons don't get seige rams, as the TKs could ride in medieval Armoured Personnel Carriers to battle while headbanging to Rammstein.

[@adammercer6004]

That's what you have the siege towers for!!! 😂😂😂

[@lloydlejack-official]

Teutons overview incoming

[@SIGNOR-G]

WUNDERBAR

[@ErixTheSwift]

It's clearly Huns!

[@Gashahn24]

YES.

[@Sweet15.]

Just like before the genoese one

[@bogdanlipan6917]

No shit Sherlock 😏

[@dougler500]

Not sure if you have done this in previous videos before but I ABSOLUTELY LOVE the addition of resources lost/committed in the unit head to head comparisons. Showing how much of the units HP was lost/remaining is great but showing what that means from an economic point of view takes the understanding of combat interactions to the next level. Great choice and great execution, I just love it.

[@inductivegrunt94]

Teuton Players: When in doubt, throw TKs at the enemy! Easily some of the best style an AoE2 UU can have. Capes are best style!

[@minikawildflower]

The +2 armor is in the cape

[@shizukousapostle1stapostle710]

7:31 "Standing here I realise"

[@SIGNOR-G]

Now the MAKE HISTORY part makes even more sense.

[@EldritchAugur]

"You were just like me, trying to make history."

[@radekv6938]

"Why won't you die?!"

[@SIGNOR-G]

@@radekv6938 German Armor son!

[@jesusrubiomaldonado27]

​@@EldritchAugur"But who's to judge the right from wrong"

[@llSuperSnivyll]

About the comparison in anti-building damage towards the Ram, there's the part where you could just put the TKs into the Ram for a symbiotic speed boost.

[@iofs3338]

Teutonic taxi

[@jeromemartel3916]

How many times in a day do you think about teutonic knights?

[@iofs3338]

@@jeromemartel3916 more than I care to admit

[@teutonicturtle7490]

I always thought it would be fun if teutonic knights had an ability that doubled their speed while at full hp. Nothing would be more terrifying than an army of TKs deus vulting at you at break neck speeds.

[@Denterify2]

The monk giving them a speed boost, imagine that

[@richeybaumann1755]

The cheat code "going above and beyond" plus 256x researches of Squires... the power of God makes those cross bois move with terrifying speed.

[@Fakespy]

I was just wondering about this unit earlier. It seems Spirit of the law can read the minds of viewers!

[@brandonrivers7840]

Exactly 💯

[@richardchen7062]

SOTL with their new website “Spirit of the Ja”: how to be a German-accented yes-person who acquiesces to everything

[@RafailoSagaraSempai]

Love the concept of these guys. Strong AF, tanky AF and slow AF (now its not that bad tbh) Feels incredible when you manage to catch someone with their pants down without many ranged units and you can feel their fear as you slowly make a Dio walk and raze their buildings to the ground.

[@keenanrembold-carey5593]

Video Description: "Analysis and discussion about the Italian's anti-cavalry unique unit: the Teutonic Knight." Wasn't aware Italy could recruit them. Or that they were anti-cavalry.

[@RheaMainz]

Maybe it's a historical reference..!

[@jasv49]

Their civ is literally in their name, SotL pls

[@ariisee]

@@jasv49 he just did some copy-pasting and didn't realize xd

[@jurgnobs1308]

​@@RheaMainz lol no, the teutonic knights only really fought in eastern europe it's clearly a mistake because the last unique unique deep dive was on the genoese crossbow. he must have copied the description and missed parts that he should have adjustef

[@RheaMainz]

@@jurgnobs1308 _Oh_ Here I was reaching for how Italians probably hired the German Landsknechte, with their famous extra long spears and tight formations, to poke horsemen.

[@SilverKnightPCs]

As a main line Teutonic player I was sweating when I saw the thumbnail with my capy boys

[@programmer437]

Always loved Teutonic knights, even though they seem to have increasingly more counters as new civilizations are added.

[@josepetersen7112]

We keep getting anti TK units, and its stupid. Magic whips...

[@moon2schyzo]

Capey boy review is a Germanic spotlight precursor

[@Hi_I_am_Ed]

The Teutonic Knights were always my favorite Unit in AoE2, I even use their Unit Card as a pfp at times. Good stuff.

[@michaelmartin2262]

I remember as a teen doing a 3 friends v 1 computer on hardest difficulty as the Turks. We were getting creamed! I had Teutons, wound up losing my towns and vils leaving a full army but no way to replenish. I gave all my resources to my pocket buddy who was celts and we had to build and keep a wonder while fighting off the Turks. The last fight was epic. When we won my celt buddy only had 3 vils and a champion, my Persian buddy had a War Elephant and a Pikeman and I had one Teutonic Knight left. First time any of us ever beat the computer on hardest difficulty was so epic at the time.

[@akale2620]

The last time I was this early, the conquerors expansion hadn't released.

[@aomforever]

I can answer the question in title. Teutons are the best, and the capes are just epitome of cool.

[@DimaErmakov97]

They can perform well with an aggressive castle drop. They will train rapidly fast to support offense. They kill buildings, rams or anything on their way while castle can pick off ranged units in reach. They will help your own rams, you can also heal them fast by garrisoning in castle.

[@3snoW_]

I really don't like abilities that ignore armor like the leitis. It completely discards a core mechanic of the game and it doesn't make a lot of sense either. I would've preferred if they made leitis deal pierce damage rather than melee to make them counter the teutonic knights.

[@nicktubby9710]

It's True Damage and it's definitely OP.

[@georgeprchal3924]

Plot: the only true counter to the TK.

[@paulyoung8671]

The cataphract was negating bonus damage for a long time and that is a core game mechanic. Samurai and Jaguars were already melee counters to even ETKs. This game has always had specific hard counters that defy other principles of the game. I hardly think it's that significant to know to just not build tuetonic knights in the rare Lithuanian Tueton matchup.

[@georgeprchal3924]

@@paulyoung8671 yet Samurai and Jags lose outright.

[@3snoW_]

@@paulyoung8671 cataphract negates some bonus damage, it essencially has armor against bonus damage. It doesn't straight up ignore it. The same for the others, having more melee armor is still significant and TKs put up a much better fight against samurai or jaguar warriors than berserks for example, exactly because they have melee armor. None of your examples outright ignore game mechanics.

[@Gunsbeerfreedom87]

The problem with TKs is the same as with gold infantry in general; theyre too slow to force engagements and their attack bonus is against something you almost never need to attack (buildings).

[@martytu20]

Teutons are very good at locking down key points and forcing engagements. Don’t use speed as Teutons, use your ability to lock down gold mines with castles and force engagements through attrition.

[@floriankulik7965]

Favourite unit since release

[@elliejohnson2786]

At 7:05 I said to myself "It would be interesting to see druzhina halbs though" and you immediately answered it! I appreciate this depth of analysis

[@spinyslasher6586]

Who will win? - A highly trained zealous knight decked out with the finest armour money can buy. OR - A shirtless dude with a spicy whip.

[@dirkauditore8413]

Ikr... complete nonsense... that whip can't ignore armor for shit.

[@josepetersen7112]

I hate that we keep getting anti TK units, lol.

[@mattender8323]

Wootz Steel being applied to Urumi… just grinds my gears.

[@souloftheworld9810]

But you are fine TKs being able to tank like a 100 hits from a lot of other units?

[@josepetersen7112]

Agreed. It's the kind of tech that totally precludes TK use, when TKs are already rarely seen! The whole Urumi concept just prevents most infantry use.

[@Thescott16]

Fun Facts about the Teutonic Knight: They are not only the only unit with a _cloak_ (NOT a cape, which is attached at the shoulders and hangs down the back), but they are also the only unit that sheathes and unsheathes their sword (Samurai have their swords sheathed when not attacking, but they have no animation for drawing and sheathing so their swords just magically appear in their hands when attacking).

[@UnDeaDCyBorg]

Ahh, I like where this is going. Slowly.

[@johnredcorn8294]

It’s amazing how relaxing and comforting your videos are. It makes my day when you post something. Keep up the great work.

[@robdenini6972]

Appreciated that sneaky pun with the urumi swordsmen

[@DSBMAC13]

I know why Teutons have always been my favourite civ to play and always will be. Great economy to boom with, good castles and then roll over everything with that zombie walk of Teutonic Knights. Never get bored of it.

[@FuelDropforthewin]

The best. Next question?

[@aezzsqdq9717]

Another part about the synergy between TK and castles is that TK has nearly as much movement speed as castles. Crazy !

[@_pk_]

We getting Teutons Overview soon! Hypeeee

[@nicejob1589]

Didnt know about the bonus against buildings - cheers

[@Fishyyy]

Good day good Sir, lovely content as always

[@tankofnova9022]

Their beefy stats make them perfect for forcing engagement. Not though chasing, of course, they can't, but by using them to attack. Ignore them at the cost of your town.

[@EzioIlMentore]

No lie... When I was a kid in elementary school gym class, we were asked to come up with names for our teams in dodgeball. I said 'Teutonic Knights'. Everyone looked at me weird.

[@hansoskar1911]

The eaasiest way to explain the Teutonic Knight is: Teutonic Knights do to Melee Gold units what Champions do to melee Trash units.

[@felixalexisortizlagos6904]

Teutonic knight is the cooler unit on AoE

[@nicholascrooks8465]

Spirit of the lift, absolutely gold.

[@akale2620]

Imagine how op an inbred German hybrid would be. 10/10 melee/ pierce armor. Speed bump to 1~ tile Insane damage. Teutonic huskarl.

[@Reaper_03-01]

That would break the game. Imagine if they got the Romans double blacksmith upgrades.

[@avandarkwalker9132]

I remember calling them "slow ball of death" as a child lol my favorite matchup against them is the Mongol, Huns, and Britts, that is until they started to ignore my range units and go for my base😢

[@Rika101OfficialYT]

If I recall, this will be the first civ SOTL redo the overview (not confirmed but highly possible from the looks of it) 3 times. Could have redo other older civ overview but hey I'm just being pedantic

[@catbuikhang6482]

13:30 dude, a load of teutonic knights on DRAGONS would be badass

[@chingamfong]

So Teutons will be the first civ with 3 full SotL overciews?

[@SIGNOR-G]

What do you mean 3?

[@chingamfong]

@@SIGNOR-G SotL already has 2 Teutons overview. Check the description of his current lastest Teuton overview

[@SIGNOR-G]

@@chingamfong thanks for the clarification.

[@MouseDestruction]

Because they are so slow but high damage I love to use them to attack buildings while I use siege like onagers and ballista's to protect them. Which is kind of weird to have siege protecting infantry rather than the other way around, it works quite well. Because if an onager shot or two can destroy the bulk of an archer ball, or hit knights as they ride in, then the Teutonic knights can basically ignore whatever is left, especially if you include about 4-8 monks to heal up and remove elephants. Its very expensive though, thank your lucky stars you have cheap farms, but they seem much better in a team match where you have trade because they have strong late game. And if you are struggling you can go into one of the strongest knight lines, even without husbandry they trade efficiently vs all archers. Trash is also good to bulk out your army, put some skirmishers with your siege and some pikes with your Teutonic knights to help fill out your army.

[@sgtpepper8581]

People should make more TKs, even VS archers

[@widodoakrom3938]

Wrong

[@sgtpepper8581]

@@widodoakrom3938 not with siege

[@widodoakrom3938]

@@sgtpepper8581 yeah I forget they got siege onager with siege engineer also with also add with iron clad

[@sgtpepper8581]

@@widodoakrom3938 well, I've won some games VS bohemians using Just infantry and capped rams :)

[@widodoakrom3938]

@@sgtpepper8581 how about against Dravidian as teutons?

[@sirpuffball6366]

it's kinda funny that the most heavily armored unit in the game is a guy only wearing maille and a cape while the standard mid-weight infantry unit is covered head to toe in plate

[@richardchen7062]

Babe wake up new SOTL Unique Unit overview just dropped

[@calronkeltaran493]

back when AoE2 or even AoC was still new and elite units in general where frowned upon as being unable to build in meaningfull numbers, I had quite some succsess with Teutons. they where among very few elite units you could mass produces, if you got only 2 castles on the map and they where a pain to get rid off. realy fun times

[@Radditz36]

I always like such tests "T Kight vs War Elephants/ Cataphract/ Samurai/ Jaguar/ Leitis/ Costilier/ Obuch/ Urumi Swordsman witz Wootz Steel" in eqal ressources

[@aryowisnuwardhana6666]

2:16 Teutonic Knight: Stab building Building: *catch on fire* This is the peak AoE Logic.

[@MakiMaki.]

I'd say a battering ram setting a farm on fire still beats that.^^

[@CarlosHenrique-ze4oq]

Man, I remember the first time I faced TKs, supremacy game with several AIs, tons of resources, the last enemy was kind of hidding in its base, I said to myself "easy", made a lot of champions, paladins, UU, I think I was Celts, after a couple waves of units lost, I started paying attention to the fights... I couldn't believe, most of my units doing one damage a hit to those things, funny memories

[@robertlewis6915]

TK are just cool to look at. Probably the coolest UU to look at.

[@cccpredarmy]

Always remember my early kid days who played AOE2 a lot but understood nothing about the stats. The teutonic knight was seen as the rolling and unstopable death machine which made me build a lot of castles because I knew i couldn't beat them on the battlefield

[@Mortaall1]

Cape bois are the most beloved unit in the game! There no Aoe 2 without cape bois!

[@LetsbeHonestOfficial]

Imagine being some guy training their hardest for wtf-years so they could bear the honor of wearing that cape. Then, they have to wear like 50 tons of armor, only to be told that for some stupid reason that tiny arrows somehow can pierce them for no logical reason.

[@BlueShellshock]

I always liked TKs, but I had never thought about their efficiency versus buildings. I’d say I’d rather train two TK’s than a ram if I was trying to thin out buildings that don’t fight back and I thought some army was going to show up, yeah.

[@balazsfenyes3880]

I see Teutonic Knight, i upvote, my all time favourite style unit.

[@Eddythebandkid]

I think the clown car strategy is really strong with the Tutonic knights

[@Tommy3PL]

i love infantry civs !!! Especially the Trutonic Knights !

[@vbossbla532]

Been thinking "he should revisit the Teutonic knight" and boom a video on him revisiting the Teutonic knight

[@ShieldAre]

Fast Teutonic Knights remind me, will we get an Olympics video again? I loved the Olympics video last time.

[@arkbuble]

OMG Incas review coming after this!!!

[@ikiry0830]

God I wish they'd remove the Siege Tower Gold Cost (Or let them shoot garrison arrows like a tower to make them worth the cost). It would make them so much more interesting as a Teutonic Knight Battlewagon.

[@psssshhh7730]

They're like that scene from Indiana Jones. The one were the dude with the sword got shot.

[@draganescuconstantin2380]

The fact that they beat Battle Elephants is pretty crazy. Still, a very specific matchup but teutonic knights could be used to counter a late game elephant spam

[@TheIcarusGuy]

Damn bro, spirit of the lift caught me off-guard

[@Irfanhill]

The most emblematic unique unit from AOE2. Enough said!

[@RMOB]

Nice video as always. :) At the end of the video, I felt my spirit lifted.

[@the_miracle_aligner]

Ok I can guess which civ re-overview is going to be next...

[@adriadelafuente3648]

The crowning moment of my AoE career was winning a 4v4 against human players with teutons: my allies dead, and me tearing through the enemies with paladins and Teutonic Knights.

[@PDMC2016-2]

Easily my favorite civ because of these guys lol

[@ottokarl5427]

I remember when Teutonic Knight was literally the benchmark for every Civ Overview to see how good the Unique Unit is. They might be niché and too slow/easy to counter with range in a real game, but in a vacuum, Teutonic Knights are probably still a Top 5 or atleast Top 10 unit when it comes to pure power. They also are the most stylish unit in the game and lets be real: That is a highly undervalued stat!

[@kr_47_]

Teutonic Knights 💪🏻 are my favourite Unique Unit since 2007(the year i got my first computer) and Age of Empires II is my first ever PC game😎.....i know Age of Empires is older than me 1997 and Age of Empires II 1999💪🏻

[@caimtheabyssbringer3136]

Definitely my favorite

[@thomasyeretzian4041]

Please bring back their old Attack move. Just like the Samurais ! They were insane

[@ronaldrage2118]

Suprised that tectonic knights countering mamelukes wasn't mentioned as mamelukes are actually pretty popular bc of teutons going heavy cav typically. Since mamelukes do mele damage they get destroyed vs tectonic knights.

[@trevynlane8094]

I have a nightmare scenario for enemies of Tuetons: three rams roll up, and then 18 Teutonic Knights jump out of the rams just before reaching your walls.

[@AkahigeNoAmo]

Teutonic Knight vid? I am here :D not that I wouldn't come for your friday vid anyway ;) I don't know anyone else, that leaves me guessing what "spin" they do on their add segment each time ... we could probably make a memory game or sth out of all of them (something more creatvie than memory, but you get my drift ) XD

[@loowick4074]

Love these units. They have that "wall of iron" feel that I like

[@Alias_Anybody]

So the best combination is with Scorpions to wipe out archers and a few bombard cannons to snipe any Mangonel? If you have a critical mass, this would be like a tidal wave, no units or buildings can hold in a frontal assault.

[@maximinomorgado2150]

Longswordman putting 420 damage per minute with arson, they do be blazing it

[@ivanhoeoliveira]

... and of couse, they're so cool with those capes!

[@sapphyrus]

My favorite RTS unit ever! I'd cover them with skirmishers and they would walk over everything including elephants!

[@astrid2432]

that dragon is sure expensiv 15gold + 1 gold per tile sure it can ignore everything underneath it, but still, if you travel a wonder around it's corner, it's like 8 tiles per site? so 47gold to circle around a wonder

[@piatansfair]

Hey Spirit, which software do you use for editing these amazing videos? Thank you

[@SpiritOfTheLaw]

It's called PowerDirector 16. I wouldn't recommend it, though, and Da Vinci Resolve is becoming the industry standard. It's much more powerful and free.

[@brandonrivers7840]

Rock on spirit of the law...was just looking them up yesterday 😅

[@captaintofu4926]

How are you starting these test fights? Are you attack moving into the same tile at the same time? With a trigger for the AI?

[@SpiritOfTheLaw]

Yes, it's two AIs, though I use a custom one that doesn't do things like scouting or make any extra orders beyond the basic unit logic to choose targets. With triggers I can then get them to attack move.

[@Max-ej4oh]

Teutons so strong they walk slow just from sheer menacing aura alone. They're just giving the enemy a chance.

[@AsgardGaming]

I haven't even watched the video yet but know the answer should be underrated!

[@Tocaraca]

Ironclad gives +4 melee armor not +3 Also, I am pretty sure that ETKs cost effectively beat Elite Cataphracts if Logistica is not researched. Not particularly useful info but I think it's worth mentioning.

[@varunmanjunath9123]

Dravidian Halb spam actually destroys Teutonic Knights... Also an Elite Chakram mass can forever outrun the caped bucketheads! Still one of the coolest looking units!

[@camilolazo4010]

"hey laws, spirit of the guys here"