One Unique Fact for Every AoE2 Unique Unit (Part 1)

[@sparepartssparepartsempori519]

Plainly the Ballista Elephant Itself is the siege engineer. Probably uses the research cost to go to a trade school and learn how to demo buildings. Probably has his certificate up on the wall in the castle

[@mubashirulmoula1798]

This is the only correct answer.

[@informitas0117]

Elephants have great intelligence, so it's pretty obvious.

[@chaosmike89th]

An elephant never forgets the arc of fire needed to get that extra range.

[@robdillenger4763]

Yeah, it's pretty obvious. Apes really underestimate the damage elephants can cause when we want to 🐘🐘🐘

[@MP-oh9lt]

No

[@felixalexisortizlagos6904]

Konnic: Gets converted Rider: *Angry John Wick noises*

[@CoronaTwerking]

Monk: have you heard the good news? Horse: *dies*

[@-shadow2407]

@@Progeusz- this is wly i love this game hahahha some traductions are a perfect meme

[@skipperxiv9401]

I'm reminded of this comic I saw on reddit years ago where a konnik is bearing down on a monk and the monk desperately tries to convert them. The monk succeeds, but realizes only the horse got converted and runs away while the horse looks back at its rider who is charging up his swing

[@tashakazulu8737]

​@@Progeusz-no - it doesnt. Why spreading bs?

[@hrotha]

Does this mean that when you convert other cavalry units it's only the horse switching sides, and the rider is like "welp, what can you do, he's the boss"?

[@restorasenrisei9991]

Ah. There's only one option when your horse starts whispering blasphemous words, apparently.

[@yakomachaco7611]

The samurai strides forward across the marsh. The warship ahead of him fires a ballista bolt, which he deflects with ease. With one decisive blow, the ship is cut down, just like all those that came before it

[@EMDakka]

you forgot the dramatic pause where nothing happens, and the ship gets shredded only after the samurai sheathed his sword while striking a pose.

[@OrcinusDrake]

omae wa mou shindeiru

[@chimaeraarts]

"Once again, I cut a worthless object."

[@MrVlad12340]

One Piece basically.

[@Irondragon1945]

"I can't slice the shit out of you without getting closer"

[@jordanlimantara1814]

Imagine if the monk otherwise converts the rider and leaving you with a horse to scout😂

[@jordanlimantara1814]

@nicholase2868 ...wow. Horses are built different in Bulgaria eh?

[@Limrasson]

@@jordanlimantara1814 Everything is built different in Bulgaria.

[@classicalmusic210]

woLOLo

[@JJBeauregard1]

1 fact for the AoE2 Community : We are so blessed to have a top tier content creator like Spirit of the Law in our midst !

[@Ghost-qr6yh]

10:45 not even a mother would love that face bruh.

[@lukelangman4948]

This got me rolling

[@ervinsapinis2379]

A fun fact about janissary - originally they were meant to wear their disting ottoman/janissary hats, which you can still see in the original demos or concept art - but the devs decided against this due them seemingly resembling members of the Ku Klux Klan. Which is, of course, ridiculous.

[@avengentangel4848]

I always thought they looked dumb without their hats

[@LeicaFleury]

I thought they did this because they looked like the pope? I read about it somewhere.

[@willemverheij3412]

Could be easily fixed by making their hats the team colour and in DE plenty of detail can be added to make it clear it is the distinct Janissary hat.

[@JP_Wu]

The model was brought back in the scenario editor since Forgotten.

[@SIGNOR-G]

​@@JP_Wu but its still dumb that in DE they kept the old design. At this point they are either lazy or want too much to stick to the original design.

[@SlySuavity]

The Karambit Warrior glow-up is my absolute favourite part of the video, thanks for the laughter. 😂

[@michaelandreipalon359]

1:38: In Boromir's defense, orc arrows are also poisoned, so him switching to Huskarl parameters also wouldn't have helped. Guess the Flemish Militia bit needs a patch that makes them randomly variable again. The Karambit Warrior bit though...

[@adamjohanssonn]

boyars is just teutonic knight on horse, they are so damn tanky vs meele

[@AtticusKarpenter]

Which is funny because teuton knights totally loved their mares and wouldn't bother to show up in fight without it, well, as well as Slav Boyars or any other aristocratic warriors when horses is present to buy; but Slavs loved fight on foot much more (especially because you don't have much use of cavalry in the forest, so only south Rus has to use it massively) whatever, i just love that badass combination of shield and big (but not nearly as jarring as with French axe thrower) axe, not very usual

[@user-vo1sb3bo1s]

And both got countered by Pole and Lithuanian units

[@mickethegoblin7167]

​@@AtticusKarpenter German knights were known to fight on foot very often

[@mickethegoblin7167]

​@@user-vo1sb3bo1s no...

[@sirtaelellevalerie1056]

@@AtticusKarpenter "but Slavs loved fight on foot much more (especially because you don't have much use of cavalry in the forest, so only south Rus has to use it massively)" that's actually common misconception. While Slavs switched to mass cavalry later then western europeans, by 12 century slavic armies was just as cavalry heavy as in the rest of Europe. Even urban militia from wealthier cities was made from patrician based heavy cavalry.

[@BurniOwnz]

7:20 The "totally different and less distinct knife" seems to be a Kukri, which ironically may be one of the most iconic knives ever. They are used by the Nepalese Gurkhas, so I have no idea why they decided to put them on the Gbeto. 🤓

[@remembersimba2249]

Fun fact: The Spirit of the law channel had an op intro song that was patched off sadly

[@LeicaFleury]

He still uses it for entire civ reviews. He just doesn't use it in non-civ review videos.

[@kemosonicfan123lbp]

Interestingly enough, Hand Cannon and Janissary used to have identical dispersions and accuracies when the Janissary is upgraded to Elite. But an update happened in DE that buffed hand cannons to make them more reliable, but didn't change the janissaries, making them less accurate

[@Omerizorman]

Armbi are the gods of *"I meant to do that"*

[@vojtechvanek1686]

My fav fact here is centurion and keshik ones. Thank you for all the videos, sotl, it's always a treat when something new pops out on my feed

[@mattieee123]

I think u forgot to put in the Coustillier my friend

[@jorgea5426]

He did Flemish militia. Maybe there are no interesting facts about Coustilliers?

[@mattieee123]

@@jorgea5426 Maybe. He mentioned castle unique units at the start tho

[@robertoaguilar5896]

Urumi, Teutonic Knight, Samurai, Monaspa, Woad Raider, Plumbed Archer, Axe thrower, Persian war elephant, Corean wagoon, are missing too (they will be on the second part)

[@mohitmishra2713]

​@@robertoaguilar5896 bruh...

[@punbug4721]

@@robertoaguilar5896 Yes, but this video is for units that start with A-K and that should include Coustiller. Unless maybe the fun fact is "Actually in another language, Coustillier is spelled differently"

[@RMOB]

6:00 "The arrow knows its way."

[@Binarokaro]

I absolutely love the mamelukes' secret scimitar throwing arc. It's like an art form throwing those swords like boomerangs

[@suspicious_pebble]

When I wake up to a new SoTL upload, it's the first thing on my to do list after a cup of coffee.

[@heroesonline7046]

I remember that elite jaguar change very well from your Aztec overview

[@John-ve4gm]

funny enough Magyar hassar still do bonus damage to ballista elephants

[@masqueradewat]

Clearly the siege engineers for the Ballista Elephants are the elephants themselves, having done so much studying they deserve recognition.

[@MrLaptopus]

The Konnic one was hilarious

[@cioplasmmajic8327]

12:08 Horses are known to be very religious. Just look at missionaries and try to tell me that the horse isn't the key element in conversion.

[@LeicaFleury]

Hate to be that person but they ride mules

[@claytonknowles25]

@@LeicaFleury11 amazing

[@niagirihero5735]

12:00 The Konnik rider is a very very distant ancestor of Warhammer's commissars. The horse betrayed the god emperor!

[@bungalo50]

Should've made one for *D*ismounted Konniks!

[@girishkamath642]

Yeah This just should have been unique units instead of *castle* unique units. We'll miss interesting facts about missionaries, srivamsha riders, xolotl warriors and slingers too 😕

[@punbug4721]

@@girishkamath642 Also Longboats and Turtle ships

[@CrnaStrela]

​@@punbug4721it's only until K, locate L and T on alphabeth.

[@praevasc4299]

I eagerly await when the Centurion quirk will be abused in a diplomacy game. Play as Japanese, have a Roman ally. The Roman ally sends in a centurion or two for you to convert (by briefly setting you as neutral and then back to ally), upgrades, and then sends an elite one. This can lead to an incredible deathball near the end of an hour-long game, where the final battle is often decided by population efficiency.

[@Calebgoblin]

Both Boromir AND Lurtz: was I a joke to you?

[@LarryCroft111]

Gbeto's knife is the picture is kukri: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kukri They're mostly assosiated with Nepal and India, although they've been popular all over the place for a long time. Even Roman soldiers sometimes used it instead of their short swords (I can look for evidence if you want).

[@mgmayank18]

That chakram pronounciation was on point! I was taken aback.

[@pspboy7]

A samurai taking out a caravel is pretty metal!

[@lolaldanee2743]

You got it all wrong: The ELEPHANT iteslf is taught some siege engeneering!

[@Jondiceful]

Or you could argue that elephants have to be trained not to destroy buildings 😜

[@LonesomeDevil]

Elephant Fact: No elephant has been known to get get a university degree... in real life, that is. Balista Elephants in AoE2 clearly are engineering majors.

[@Calebgoblin]

I love facts! Even if I'm not good enough at the game to utilize any of them!

[@nicobrion]

I was not expecting to become an Elite Boyar enthusiast when I clicked this video, but here I am. Thanks SotL. Also RIP Boromir

[@spooklyshiba]

Nahhhh, that Boromir reference was a foul 🤣

[@BelialTnTn]

Part 2 will be "from L to W" I see.

[@unocualqu1era]

Part 2 will follow the path of the karambit warrior.

[@kodacv1612]

10:44 LOVE IT!!! Thanks for the hearty laugh! :D

[@drabash]

The gbeto are holding khukuri in the profile icon. The more you know!

[@david10808]

They were having a cultural exchange program with the Nepalese

[@TheClintb17]

Hi Spirit, great series, look forward to part 2, 👍🇦🇺

[@HistoricalWeapons]

Historically chukonu rarely used in military

[@chubby0815]

Of course we know where the engineers are! The Elefants themselves are the Engineers you are searching for.

[@Yamaazaka]

Awesome vid!

[@pillbox2079]

There is a reason why I think Bulgarians should have more monk bonuses and techs. Look! Even the konnik's horse is religious!

[@Jondiceful]

"What happened to your horse? Did it get sick? Did it get injured?" "No. It got religion."

[@pillbox2079]

@@Jondiceful Some heretic told him that Jesus was not Bulgarian, and it could not take it. XD

[@harz632]

The composite bowmen shooting straight is actually a biff because approaching enemies will get hit by their arrows even without ballistics where archibg shits would land behind the enemy

[@remimk]

Phosphoru definitely influenced the Hussit wagon change 😂 8:51

[@jeremiedomenico]

I hate playing against the Hussite Wagon, thanks for the tip now! 😉

[@3polygons]

I suspect the usual attack of 10 wagons would vaporize the civs before reaching, though (but dunno, never tried)

[@maxwallace9491]

I thought the vils have "heavy siege" damage that applies to both the hussite wagon and ballista elephant. Did that get changed?

[@TheCoincidence]

There's a comic somewhere of a Konnik's horse getting converted and then looking up at his rider, preparing to kill him.

[@NunWithBottleOfGin]

That boromir bit caught me completely off guard hahaha

[@benjaminmclaren8782]

Actually is makes total sense to convert the Horse over the Rider. If you didn't, then the Horse would just take the traitor back to base for execution. Horses are Loyal, Don'Cha no!

[@CallofDutyBlackOps28]

What’s pretty cool with the “oda” campaign in the new DLC, if you play the cavalry clan and do the bonus objective you get stirrups. So now your special charge bonus cavalry are now also 60ish%+ attack speed of a normal cavalier. Probobly my favorite thing with converting centurions. (If that would have been a side thing for jokes, just imagine attack animations actually doing damage on que.

[@Davtwan]

A Karambit Coin reference for especially all the long-time SoTL fans.

[@Grim_Exile]

Did you... did you... did you really pronounce "Chakram" correctly? You just earned my massive respect, my friend! Incidentally, this pronunciation of the "a" applies to a lot of the words around the Indian subcontent, including Hindustanis, Ratha, Bengalis, etc. :) While on the topic of pronunciation, Ghulam is pronounced with a shorter "u" rather than "Ghoolam".

[@shnoogums1]

Can you do an optimal mining camp placement video? You could test the efficiency of different mining camp placements based off mine shapes, villagers on the mine, etc (:

[@artamir6605]

I had hoped for real life facts about these units 😄 Maybe an idea for another vid?

[@ChrisNihilus]

The monk finished chanting. The Konnic doesn't feel any different. The Horse looks at the Konnic. Horse: "Actually, I don't believe Christ is King" *Horse get executed for Heresy*

[@punbug4721]

The horse: "Hail Hydra"

[@mauricesteel4995]

"we should appreciate the fact that an Elite Samurai can take down a boat by singlehandedly while under fire" thats because that one Samurai was the storm that was approaching.

[@jacobwood3326]

The ballista ele firing down at close range is actually super critical in CBA. Before I knew that I thought it was kind of garbage 11 Also I had no idea about the flemish militia! That’s pretty cool.

[@localweathermans]

The Ballista Elephant is really just the imperial age Trojan Horse. So many people crammed inside to work the auto reloading ballista.

[@franciasii2435]

The siege engineers trained the elephants to move their head forward just a smidge, because they have a bit in their mouth which is actually the release for the ballista. They're off researching ways to further improve the tech, without risking human life. Medievel automated warfare.

[@Vidhur]

"These equines ain't loyal." - A Konnik commander

[@sgtpepper8581]

Karambit warriors had fun with mewing

[@lukelangman4948]

Spirit of the Law throwing blows at the HD edition Karambit Warrior and I'm here for it.

[@vanmalapatil8320]

Thank you for pronouncing Chakram correctly

[@alexhussinger3550]

You're assuming the Ballista elephants aren't the actual siege engineers themselves. They spent 4 long years at elephant college to earn that degree, and deserve to be treated as such!

[@ponchopalmera4917]

I dont know you guys, but I LOVE this guy's voice

[@PazCristo]

Horse fact, similar to the elephant, there hasn't been any document recording a horse being converted to another religion.

[@T2266]

1:38 but he was shot with arrows not javelins.

[@fritzbaukasten6001]

Very entertaining video. Would have been nice if you added a comparison for the generated gold. Like that is the equivalent of x villagers mining gold, y tradecarts or z relics doing their job.

[@WackyConundrum]

Frickin' awesome!

[@VentusTheSox]

Could you do an episode on the cosmetic look of all UUnits, including the icon vs unit and any small tweaks upgrades make, maybe comparisons vs the HD edition unit & icon etc.

[@arthurreede4478]

From L to W nice

[@Gigas0101]

Can you please do a video on Japanese champions with both a Centurion and an elite Centurion backing them up? This makes me wonder just how high the militia attack line can go from stacking buffs. Also, I could see the very, very minor arc of the composite bowman's arrows at that range. It's incredibly subtle but it's there.

[@YossarianVanDriver]

The siege engineers are hiding in the arrow-quiver, surely.

[@michanowak3001]

"+1 range is the hardest counter against ao2 pathing" This truly speaks why new players have problem with managing units.

[@SamSGLM]

I wonder if some infamous high ladder or just in general hussite spam was being to much a problem without a elegant solution that would hurt the bohemeans over all.

[@light_david7]

1111 laughed so hard at the karambit warrior bit!

[@AhahhhOhogo]

16th time of asking Spirit of the Law to review Romae ad Bellum civilizations like he did with Romans. Thank you for another interesting video and keep up the awesome work. :D

[@abhishekjain3148]

*Double Ballista Elephant mowing down enemy withdouble crossbow Siege Engineer and Mahout, standing proud shoulder by shoulder, holding back tears

[@krankarvolund7771]

"If someone can tell me where the siege engineers are on the elephant" The same place as the servants of the onagre? I've never seen a catapult move by itself :p

[@minikawildflower]

Vils deleting the Hussite Wagon is funny and potentially useful!

[@martinruf8784]

A-K? You forgot the Knights that are Teutonic. Those are the Koolest!

[@postblitz]

That Keshik bit should be fixed by devs. There's no way that's intended.

[@robdillenger4763]

Does the Composite Bowman's anti-gravity arrows affect how it interacts with the Hussite Wagons projectile-blocking properties? If I remember correctly, archers can hit their intended target if their shots arc over the wagon.

[@qsywastooshort7451]

It's the elephant getting an engineering degree

[@androgynyjoe4574]

Hussite Wagons have that thing where they absorb half damage from projectiles that target other units but pass through their collision box. Are arrows fired from a Composite Bowman easier to "block" with a Hussite Wagon than other projectiles because of the flatter trajectory?

[@DannyNomad]

Would your horse like to hear about our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ?

[@mr_ekshun]

I'm totally picturing the konnik rider answering the door and the horse in the living room behind them, sitting crosslegged on the couch peering over its newspaper. 😂

[@informitas0117]

Neigh

[@Obelion_]

obviously the ballista elephant IS the siege engineer. it goes to engineering school before getting its ballista

[@Arhiman93]

I humbly request the condottiero to be added to the part 2. If the caravel goes, the condottiero too.

[@Denterify2]

What if the monks always convert the horses and the riders just play along? XD

[@josueromerotorrico4453]

Un samurai derrotando por sí solo a un barco es totalmente una referencia no planeada a Minamoto no Tametomo: "Tametomo es descrito en las crónicas como un excelente arquero. Existe la leyenda de que hundió un barco del clan Taira utilizando una sola flecha, la cual perforó el casco justo bajo la línea de flotación." One samurai singlehandely defeating one ship is totally an unintended reference to Minamoto no Tametomo: "Tametomo is known in the epic chronicles as a powerful archer and it is said that he once sunk an entire Taira ship with a single arrow by puncturing its hull below the waterline."

[@inductivegrunt94]

Elite Cataphracts attack faster? Neat. It may be 0.1 seconds faster, but it's still neat.

[@integralinsanity1641]

Loved it.

what a wonderful topic

[@Oaksphere]

-Someone should tell to John Blackthorne that samurai charging a unique portuguese ship is a career watched with great interest. Even though the bolts are shooting backwards from melee. -Chu Ko Nu. Chinese Quality. Chinese Quantity. Chinese Thumb Ring so powerful, that the arrows are still bouncing of off the Vietnamese rattan shield. -That bulgarian horse was a heretic! Ok, Inquisitor, I got it. Go test the faith of this teutonic Ballista Elephant instead. -Warrior Priests, Monks and Priests. Hey..You! The guy on a donkey(Missionary).. How about you help us carry a relic, yo?! -So, this one day, the Cuman, the Hunnic, the Turkish, the Mongolian, the Berber, the Italian and the Bohemian Kipchaks, Condottieri and Genitours go into a bar.... And then they all started to build another castle. -Boyars and Rattan Archers go into a fight with Teutonic Knights and Huskarls. They all die.. Either very..very..very slowly or very very very fast ˇˇ -Bohemian Monk and Persian Crossbowman are paid in food and wood only. Apparently, they are all trash :D -Japanese and Roman Chakram Throwers.. Lets just say that that day, they made princess Xena proud. Albeit little turbo ˇˇ -Villagers with daggers. The best armored siege engines of medieval ages and ballista elephants of yore. .Guess who wins........Not the wagons or rams. -The dromedary has only one hump. And is dehydrated. So rageful is the camel archer, that its arrows plunge right through his bigger elephant and horse archer cousins.

[@helena14]

Boromir did look like a Bersek in that old animated LotR movie. But it didn‘t save him…

[@Thescott16]

Funny enough about the Monk converting the Konnik's horse... There is a Bible story involving a certain ungodly King getting taught a lesson from God through his steed (which was a donkey, that started speaking to him).

[@vladimirlagos2688]

Konnik: "My faith is wavering... must kill horse to reconnect with my religious roots..."

[@Weiss_Chan]

didnt even notice this was a A-K tell the end of the video xD