2. Greeks Bearing Gifts | The Grand Campaign | AoE2: DE

[@specificgod]

I LOVE the voice acting! Never thought I would say this for a DE dlc/campaign. The devs really listened to us.

[@specificgod]

Not to mention the dialogue-writing is also top-notch

[@voiceofreason2674]

Yea they leaned too far into a sort of pseudo historical accuracy we want vibes, I love the over the top voice actors. These cockney Babylonians RULE !

[@Buboniica]

@@specificgod LOVE IT, just cant stand the mercenarys with british accents on other scenarios.

[@specificgod]

@@Buboniica what's wrong with mercenaries having British accents?

[@Buboniica]

@@specificgod because theyre in the middle of persia on the first episode

[@inductivegrunt94]

"BY ZEUS HIS HEAD CAME CLEAN OFF!!!" The voice acting is gold here! 22:42 Classic Age of Empires unit pathing.

[@hosseinshahni]

12:16 I think the dude says "adam tai bandaka" which I guess means "I’m your servant/subject/slave" in Old Persian. That’s honestly truly remarkable, they didn’t use the already existing New Persian voices they had in the game files and decided to go the extra mile and have new lines in this ancient language. Kudos to them and best wishes to you Ornlu.

[@richardchen7062]

Alexa, play I’m a Slave 4 U by Britney Spears

[@newGarlick]

There are a few Greek myth easter eggs here that I spotted: The oracle says "a great city will burn" as prophecy to Artaphernes. This is a reference to the story about the king of Lydia, Croesus, who asked the Oracle for a prophecy ahead of his upcoming war with the Achaemenids. The oracle is said to have replied that "if you attack the Persians, a great empire will be destroyed". As it turned out, it was Croesus' own empire, and so Artaphernes is now the satrap of Croesus' old kingdom. The Greeks bearing gifts in the title is about the Trojan horse of Age of Mythology; that wasn't quite around here, the ruins of Troy are a bit further north, in the neighboring satrapy of Phrygia And finally about the name of Aristagoras - the first part is indeed connected to "aristocrat", but the -goras is more mysterious; might relate to agora, or public square. The -crat part is also a Greek word, from "-kratia", meaning rule or empire, so "aristocrat" kinda means the same in Greek.

[@TheJediKnight91]

The first word is the adjective άριστος (aristos) which means excellent or superb and the second is the verb αγορεύω (agorevo), meaning to speak publicly in front of an audience. So essentially Aristagoras means "excellent speaker" 😉

[@nvmtt]

As soon as I heard the words of the oracle, I knew how this was gonna go. It was a famous prophesy. The city that burned was that of his own, not the island he was supposed to conquer lmao. I never actually knew which event that oracle referred to, but after all these years I finally found it. Thanks Ornlu :)

[@tyranitararmaldo]

25:27 That was hammy as all hell and I LOVED it!

[@sayethvexus8332]

"By Zeus, his head came clean off!" The perfect balance of Stewie Griffin and Jim Ross that I didn't know I needed in my life.

[@Tpoleful]

That should become iconic. The line and the delivery there is unreal!

[@edeneini839]

"What the Zeus?"

[@andrewramadhanar]

That voice acting in the end was pure comedy! 😂

[@Steelion69]

"Bandits? This region (Lydia and Miletus) is considered safe!" *[Meanwhile, in said region historically]* Cilician Pirates: Allow us to introduce ourselves!

[@misutahowaitodesu]

25:26 OH GOD THIS IS MASTERPIECE 😭

[@nutellabrah6718]

You would like that “outstripped your capacities” line Ornlu…. Aaaaaaawooooooooooooo

[@daddysmurf2266]

BY ZEUS HIS HEADCAME CLEAN OFF 🤣🤣🤣

[@teddyhaines6613]

Scenario: Ensure enough carts survive. Ornlu: Sends units scrambling around every corner of the map EXCEPT where the supply carts are moving.

[@edeneini839]

This DLC looks extremely cool, I really like the single player focus and choices you can make.

[@HawkknightXC88]

Gotta love the voice acting near the end where he just straight up abandons the campaign there by just betraying the persians.

[@tyranitararmaldo]

Love how the priestess is also the narrator. Or at least, the voice actress is.

[@Boatswain_Tam]

I love how they renamed and re skined everything, but you can still tell which units are which just by knowing their icon placement in the buildings

[@ChrissieBear]

Aristocrat comes from aristos, meaning noble/elite, and kratos, meaning power/rulership.

[@snorrijornsen4566]

Exactly. And -agoras is an element in names which refers to the "assembly" or "marketplace" (agora), so Aristagoras literally means "the best in the marketplace". Both names with Aristos (e.g. Aristobulos) and with -agoras (like philosophers Pythagoras and Anaxagoras) are quite common in Greek antiquity

[@edmis90]

Can't have an expedition without a white lamb for sacrifice, as everyone knows.

[@gebhard128]

with the first trade cart spawning far north u need to go there asap to have a chance saving it. I lost my first try due to my army beeing out of position. Fun and challenging scenario, the cavalry pick in mission 1 payed off for me. The final assault on Naxos lets me think Ornlu somehow found a way to control the blue units 11

[@trananhson9455]

Love your video, but have you considered recording and uploading at higher resolutions, because KZbin compression is really hammering the image quality ?

[@sauravtripathi4128]

Hey Ornlu. Can you test one thing please? Suppose I start in the Post-Imperial Age, which set of unique technologies is researched? What about the Town Center unique gameplay elements for the three civs?

[@felipea1399]

I bet you dont start with the techs researched, just like First Crusade and Flemish Rev

[@OrnLu_AoE]

If you start in Imp/Post-Imp, you still have to research the UTs. The game doesn't make that "choice" for you

[@misutahowaitodesu]

@@OrnLu_AoE ahh so its like some UT on standard civs (like flemish revolution and first crusade if i wasnt wrong) I see

[@ConscriptDavid]

I think the weird texture that shows up is meant to be a shadow, but it's bugged. Anyway, what a great scenario, wow.

[@AmeerMuawiya-rc3gd]

Best dlc ever!

[@coryfice1881]

Darius is probably the oldest monarch to usurp the throne and then write fanfiction about how he totally did not actually usurp the throne.

[@salmanahmadabbasi6791]

That is a greek propoganda. He saved the Persian empire from collapsing when the emperor gone mentally ill after his expedition of Egypt. So the nobility themselves made Darius the emperor.

[@coryfice1881]

@@salmanahmadabbasi6791 Lol, no What you just said is persian propaganda that Darius made to justify his coup.

[@salmanahmadabbasi6791]

@coryfice1881 how do you know it was Darius who did the propoganda and not Herodotus?

[@coryfice1881]

@@salmanahmadabbasi6791 Darius literally wrote down his version of how he totally did not usurp the throne. You're not much of a history buff just a yapper looking for attention.

[@coryfice1881]

@@salmanahmadabbasi6791 Nope. He literally wrote his version of how he usurped the throne on stone. Me thinks you don't understand much history.

[@richardchen7062]

26:07 Ornlu, you are Kenough

[@milekordic3745]

Leonindas prepare from imortal army

[@vagsir88]

it is from aristocrat because aristos means expert

[@tyranitararmaldo]

Clearly not a case of nominative determinism for Aristagoras haha!

[@Pargalıibrahimq]

The dlc will be released on November 14, how did you manage to play it?

[@OrnLu_AoE]

I have early access (alongside a bunch of other content creators)

[@Pargalıibrahimq]

@OrnLu_AoE oh nice brother

[@ghost_curse]

Help, Crusaders are attacking our trade routes! (but in ancient Persian)

[@HorstHerrmann-mh1rg]

👍

[@davidpineda9160]

Isn't Dahaka the guy that chases the prince in prince of persia?

[@nvmtt]

yup, and apparently the prince still has ptsd from all that running lmao.

[@myx5675]

@@nvmtt i thought Dahaka is that primal Zerg following Kerrigan the Queen of Blades

[@nvmtt]

@@myx5675 its originally some kind of persian d*mon.

[@chucknoum23]

​@@myx5675 almost...it's Dehaka 😅

[@mcgJernside]

This is so hard. Couldnt manage this scenario

[@woodygilchrist8430]

14:09 Nah, I'd win

[@thecultofberserk7246]

The actress of narrator its Gaia from God Of war?

[@coryfice1881]

I don't think so. The actress even back then was very old. She might be retired now or even dead.

[@raynightshade8317]

Bet your wishing you went for the Scythians cav this mission

[@godlikesnake8909]

How are people playing this dlc? is this the new one or am i mistaken? are you special?

[@OrnLu_AoE]

I am very special ;D But no, it's just content creators that have early access to the DLC to do promo

[@mryes413]

So you don't get any villagers yet?

[@raynightshade8317]

Im hoping this DLC comes with a greek myth unit as a cheat unit

[@R3LAX94]

Its not regular aoe2,cuz its aoe1 you know 😂

[@marcuspontius3967]

The first two scenarios didn't appeal to me very much. I may not be able to describe it well, but they seemed very one-dimensional. It took some time for me to think about it, maybe I overlooked a hint, but I could imagine they wanted to use both scenarios to have the player play around a bit with the new units, before diving into proper scenarios, but still. This scenario I found somewhat stressful as you couldn't know what to prepare for and had little to no time to adapt. The haste left less room to get used to the new units. Some dialogs and voice acting might be decent, but overall I had too much the impression of some modern guy try to be funny and tell a story in modern language, which simply is so far of from the original time. Like with jokes or cockiness that feels rather unrealistically to have happend anywhere close to that. I would have to think more about an alternative approach to introduce the units and how to diversify to scenario, but I have the indistinctly feeling it could be done quite a bit better. Or its only my expectation and taste thats so different.

[@snorrijornsen4566]

tbh I don't like that Aristagoras is such a caricature. A bit over the top for my liking

[@raynightshade8317]

20 minutes escort mission seems kinda boring to me

[@wfaddwadadw]

I mean for campaign lovers is great but if it doesnt do anything in ranked play then I dont see the point in getting this