It's good that siege is more accessible for Castle/Imperial Age warfare. More people should start adjusting their strategies with the buffed scorpion in mind.
@jameskelly94512 сағат бұрын
nga we know you civ pick romans and khmer on ladder
@willhk480912 сағат бұрын
17:06 is so fucking funny, 5 scorps hold off an army of pikes, crossbows and 2 mangonels without any losses.
@jacobwood332650 минут бұрын
For real thanks for the highlight 11
@lukasvideosify159612 сағат бұрын
12:50 "He can't run in here." Fast car passes by. "I guess he can run in here."
@sgtpepper858113 сағат бұрын
Maybe devs should make a tech (like gambesons) that lets having ballistics for scorpions (free for romans), maybe 100 wood and 100 gold
@aa01blue3811 сағат бұрын
And probably don't let Khmer have it lol
@verdiss748713 сағат бұрын
Scorps getting ballistics makes them a useable unit for any civ, which is great. The civs with scorp bonuses might have gotten overbuffed, but I see no problem with scorps being a power unit for some civs, in the same way every other unit gets to be a power unit for some civs.
@apan99013 сағат бұрын
agreed, and even then the 'power unit' gets destroyed by even generic siege.
@Nomatterwhat699 сағат бұрын
Also scorpions are a gold unit, so it's great if they can dominate sometimes. They can always be countered by onager or hussars. The one OP comp could be scorpions + bbc + halbs with teutons or ethiopians. Other than that, they're just more efficient at what they already do. I'm more concerned about ballista elephants dominating everything if fully upgraded.
@ringofasho77216 сағат бұрын
@@Nomatterwhat69 I dont think hussars are going to counter mass scorps with ballistics.
@christophercharba18916 сағат бұрын
@@ringofasho7721They dont. Mass Paladin melt even. My buddy and I have done Romans with Khmer ally a number of times and ballistics long ranged scorps are rough to stop. Only counter scorp mass is this large is landing SO or BBC shots. Not sure what you do if your civ doesn't have those options. Cry maybe.
@zakb74185 сағат бұрын
Yeah until all people spam scorpion in every match
@seancsnm7 сағат бұрын
Average player: Ballista elephant masses are unstoppable Devs: Let's give them ballistics!
@kevley2611 сағат бұрын
I think instead of ballistics being in every civ they should give scorps the ability to manually fire in a specific direction, like how you can attack ground with Mangonels
@romanrodriguezmoreno925814 сағат бұрын
thanks hera i needed something to watch while having breakfast
@thelastfruitcake13 сағат бұрын
Scorpions have always done that well. The only time ballistics made a big difference was in the last fight, but if you patrol in front of any ranged army, you're gonna get destroyed.. That said, it is definitely a buff for scorpions against fast units. They always struggled a bit against cav, but now they can hold their own quite well. This feels like a bigger buff to ballista elephants than scorpions though, since they struggled against cav even more due to lower damage. But now they no longer have to count on the splash half damage. Also I saw some people in chat not understand how double crossbow works. The second bolt has half damage, so while it's a great buff against low armor units, against high armor units it's just a bit more damage. The splash half damage of the 2nd projectile is pretty much always just 1. It's even weaker for ballista elephants. But still an amazing tech.
@apan99013 сағат бұрын
scorps' public enemy #1 has always been siege, rams, onagers and bombards eat them for breakfast, halbs in front could at least take care of incoming cav but its harder against siege so theyll always get destroyed by them. the thing is people never make/come across scorps and thus dont know how to properly counter them now so theyll claim theyre OP, however even with this giga buff, they still get absolutely shredded by every other siege in the game.
@tag180rotax2 сағат бұрын
Wait this guy watched the gold deplete to estimate how many vils in the fog of war were mining the gold. Give this man 3k elo
@QuintemTA14 сағат бұрын
I've been playing around with this it's pretty great. I had a 4 vs 4 where I went scorpions as Bulgarians (everyone was random civ). I did a men-at-arms rush to take out one guy which worked pretty well but I was left with no anti archer units. Lets just say the CA and plumed archers had a bad time. I love this patch (pathing issues excluded).
@MoRDekai136410 сағат бұрын
THAT is exactly what's been with Romans for so long, quite underestimated strategy. Most times works for me
@PrinceContreras-w8n8 сағат бұрын
romans: -90000 aura
@marcuspontius39672 сағат бұрын
introduce a proper frame delay for the scorps and they will be clunky again, even with ballistics
@Ironfist85hu17 сағат бұрын
Okay, everyon got the ballista ballistics, and it is not only a Roman thing now - what did the romans got in exchange for losing their bonus?
@robjohnson587214 сағат бұрын
Scorps have always been my favourite unit. This is like a dream come true. They're so cool they get their own Bongo Beat - Groovey.
@matthiasdarrington32716 сағат бұрын
maybe give scorps half the balistics effect ?
@gagegogo13 сағат бұрын
I like the idea about scorpions with ballistics, I hate the idea of making it available for all civs instead of being a rare tech.
@jonahh61913 сағат бұрын
ooof, crazy update on the scorpions. Guess infantry are even more useless now!
@apan99013 сағат бұрын
you would be crazy to use inf vs scorps even prior to the update lol.
@apan99013 сағат бұрын
and here we see the pro claim scorps are OP when his enemy does little to nothing to counter them properly and in a few weeks theyll get nerfed to an even worse state than they were before (they were ever even bad) coz too many ppl cant be bothered changing their strategies.
@milagros_miraculos7 сағат бұрын
increible, and it0s a team bonus, so you can pair it with chinese or celt and have amazing scorpions!
@ramosfelipe12 сағат бұрын
Now they must reduce the attack stat of scorps because is too much with the ballistic.
@martinalejandroarguelloira762710 сағат бұрын
PLease Hera, don't push too much against ballistic for scorps... A balance tweak is necessary, but at least propose change others areas like cost, base damage, etc. It was really frustrating play scorps before this patch. Now is fun.
@TheBikeOnTheMoon13 сағат бұрын
they probably need to readjust civs with scorpion bonus
@dtex_zero12 сағат бұрын
Meh just make them slightly more expensive or give mangonel more armor against them. Obviously take it off the elephants. The second you nerf them CA meta returns. Which is just replacing 1 thing with another thing
@miguelangelcosiorangel261711 сағат бұрын
I think ballistics was not it, maybe adding attack ground would've been better for scorps
@seansmith3396Сағат бұрын
What it actually looks like to get caught with your pants down 😂 brb trying Mongol scorps now.
@tt7077Сағат бұрын
“My mom hasn’t texted me in a couple weeks”😂
@fsdfmsbcxx12 сағат бұрын
The spanish Special Tech (Villager HP...) is more overpowered than these Scorpions imho ;) And it's not fixed to this day.
@PrinceContreras-w8n8 сағат бұрын
W cut: + 69420 aura
@bsn_cs11 сағат бұрын
I think castle age scorps should have 6 range
@luciusoptimus788811 сағат бұрын
I think the patch broke the game on a basic level. I haven't been able to play for days because the game won't launch anymore and when it does it crashes
@thomasmuller54612 сағат бұрын
Well that was expected
@razor-53812 сағат бұрын
Came for the Khmer scorps stayed for Trif (notice no punctuations)
@ROFLFISHСағат бұрын
Give mangonel line also ballistics^^
@spinyslasher658612 сағат бұрын
It's a good thing. I've been getting bored of the old knights/archer meta.
@benedictjajo10 сағат бұрын
I know how they can balance the ballistic Scorpions! Ballistic Mangonels!!!
@JLMirabalVerenzuela13 сағат бұрын
Beautiful game
@greencheek11 сағат бұрын
checking his gold at around 11 mins was truly some pro play at work
@bugrabaydur77726 сағат бұрын
Teuton death star vol2
@MerssiVK14 сағат бұрын
Maybe reduce scorpion range by 1?
@ordinaryrat14 сағат бұрын
Then scorpions would be nearly useless for most civs, even the ones with fully upgraded scorpions. Mangonels would outrange them and would be a guaranteed counter.
@robjohnson587214 сағат бұрын
See my above comment. LOL
@SKErwin210 сағат бұрын
Increase the cost so they can't be massed so easily
@Ryan-mw9pm13 минут бұрын
Easiest 50 subs I've ever seen 😂
@Danielscottrhoades13 сағат бұрын
**laughs in Turkish**
@bombrman19942 сағат бұрын
someone got baited to gift 50 yikes
@GRPBLD4 сағат бұрын
its a nerf to ca imo
@joshuastanaland709913 сағат бұрын
I love Khmer!!!
@mrwalter720512 сағат бұрын
It's always INCREDIBLY obvious everytime I watch why you are the best AoE2 player