I'll take this literally, and am gonna try dark age house drop.
@whitehavencpu68139 ай бұрын
Castle Doctrine!
@AzoiatheCobra9 ай бұрын
... This gave me an idea, a very bad one, that i will try in lower difficulties ai... I can only have pop space through castles. Meaning that my starting pop space will be the same through dark age to castle age till my fisrt castle
@garlicohen9609 ай бұрын
@AzoiatheCobra no offense my man, but house drop sounds a lot more feasible.
@paradix15609 ай бұрын
@@garlicohen960 i have a strat for this : 1 - Take huns
@roguebanshee9 ай бұрын
When I saw the video thumbnail I thought it was ranking the appearance of the castles, not the special bonuses.
@tylerrodes22719 ай бұрын
Haha my thoughts exactly, still a great video but I need a visual ranking one now 😂
@dimitriosdrossidis96339 ай бұрын
Same
@slimcourage9019 ай бұрын
Lol same here. Was expecting a bit of a lighthearted Leap Day video. Still happy with what we actually got!
@orirune30799 ай бұрын
Bohemians definitely win that one
@MauricioOsuna-et8et9 ай бұрын
For that, we have to call in Shadiversity, the castle specialist!
@Pyrrha_Nikos9 ай бұрын
11 castles, 11 minutes. Just perfect. Chef kiss
@ankitkachchhi72939 ай бұрын
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@urooj099 ай бұрын
@@ankitkachchhi7293just download from fitgirl
@cannnds7 ай бұрын
11 *herb laugh* 11
@michabaron41299 ай бұрын
Boiling Oil walked so Citadels can run
@orionl74069 ай бұрын
Looking at the wiki, it did +9 to rams so 6 damage a shot to Siege Rams? But still no bracer 11
@devangnivatkar26499 ай бұрын
@@orionl7406 Boiling Oil applied only to the first/main arrow in the volley, unlike techs nowadays which apply to all arrows in a volley
@ObiwanNekody9 ай бұрын
@@orionl7406with Persians having excellent melee options a ram push isn't the main threat to your castle.
@ankitkachchhi72939 ай бұрын
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@rubywest51665 ай бұрын
@@orionl7406 Yeah, but that's just a cavalry weakness, not a building/archer one!
@Gashahn249 ай бұрын
Ahhh. Nothing more satisfying than sniping units with teuton castles.
@BlueShellshock9 ай бұрын
Agreed. I wish infantry was more relevant as a unit so there'd be an excuse to use the second part of the bonus, but the range alone is worth it.
@CrnaStrela9 ай бұрын
Imagine being surrounded by Bombard Cannons and you managed to hold off long enough until Crenelation researched. Seeing those Bombard Cannons getting flattened is very satisfying.
@ankitkachchhi72939 ай бұрын
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@Gashahn249 ай бұрын
@@ankitkachchhi7293 Why would you need to purchase it for free?
@deutscher1a9 ай бұрын
@@BlueShellshock tbf if youre teuton you basicly use just 3 unit types Siege: Trebs, bbc and rams as armored troop transport Cav: Pala(obv), scouts are top tier units too(extra armor + teched for pala anyway) Inf: Superb halbs + the mighty, fear indulging and glorious elite deutschritter! If youre on pro level you can use monks too i guess xD Teuton gameplay is very inf heavy and the tech gets its full potential But thats just my feeling as a teuton arena player
@Waking_Giant9 ай бұрын
Teuton castles are also great against rams since they can just garrison infantry for the arrow bonus. When a ram comes up you ungarrison, kill the ram, and regarrison.
@azh6989 ай бұрын
The closest thing to a sally port that we're likely to ever see in this game!
@pocketgroyper93019 ай бұрын
Tectonic knights also create extremely fast and can counter rams in an emergency
@ferrisffalcis9 ай бұрын
yeah having a melee uu from the castle means you can always hit rams in a pinch too but ig elephants can do that too
@ankitkachchhi72939 ай бұрын
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@deutscher1a9 ай бұрын
@@pocketgroyper9301 gotta love the capey boys buffs - theyre at 0.9 speed and can easily charge in the enemy lines
@F1fan4eva9 ай бұрын
The amount of nonchalant wordplay in these scripts is next level. Always a pleasure watching your content, Spirit.
@ankitkachchhi72939 ай бұрын
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@dembro279 ай бұрын
The best Castle is a Daut Castle.
@ankitkachchhi72939 ай бұрын
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@nessesaryschoolthing9 ай бұрын
@@ankitkachchhi7293 Not the full version, but you can probably get the basic version for less than $5 in the bargain bin anywhere computer games are sold. It's enough to try and see if you like it.
@alimarzoog23528 ай бұрын
From steam
@thomasdemetz61459 ай бұрын
funny Stronghold reference got me 😂 Did not expect the top pick, but have to agree after seeing those stats. Great work!
@ankitkachchhi72939 ай бұрын
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@thomasdemetz61459 ай бұрын
@@ankitkachchhi7293Age of Empires series and Stronghold games are both very cheap on Steam Sales. Without multiplayer and mods you will miss out a lot. AoE 3 has free trial and Star Craft 2 has free trial Coop too. AoE Online - Project Celeste is for free.
@TekoraX9 ай бұрын
This guy.... How does he manage to find new content every time? I'm amazed and delighted
@ankitkachchhi72939 ай бұрын
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@mickethegoblin71679 ай бұрын
@@ankitkachchhi7293no
@Ariovisti9 ай бұрын
That reference to Stronghold made me giddy with glee.
@ankitkachchhi72939 ай бұрын
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@thire74329 ай бұрын
Did you know that there’s a Stronghold Definitive Edition?
@Velk4139 ай бұрын
I get this is talking about functionality of castles, but from an aesthetic standpoint we need unique looking castles for all civs.
@Casimir28119 ай бұрын
Exactly. I would also love customized troops. One skin for every civ would be quite hard to do, but at least one different type for same geographical areas (Africa, Middle East, South-East Asia, Northern Asia, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Central America) would be great. It always bugs me to see that a Frank Longsword looks the same as a Japanese or Aztec one !
@WangMingGe9 ай бұрын
Yes! Regional skins for generic units. @@Casimir2811
@Mattroid999 ай бұрын
Hard agree
@PUARockstar9 ай бұрын
I think with new civilisations they try more unique designs, as they did with Romans, or at least adding new regional styles with each new DLC with new civs. Slava Ukraine and slavs
@wholesomebaker54109 ай бұрын
Mongol, Chinese and Koreans having Japanese style castles is the worst💀
@lincolnvolk76099 ай бұрын
Persian bullets coming from the castle just look to damn good
@ankitkachchhi72939 ай бұрын
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@PhilAndOr9 ай бұрын
This is where Xerxes went wrong.... he should have used bullets against the 300.
@unimportantcommenter43569 ай бұрын
Personally, I would have also taken the availability of Masonry, Architecture, Hoardings and to a way lesser extent, Treadmill Crane into consideration when ranking the castles. Still the Persians would have been my top pick.
@unimportantcommenter43569 ай бұрын
@@RickJaeger goddamn typo
@ankitkachchhi72939 ай бұрын
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@NivMizzet899 ай бұрын
@@ankitkachchhi7293 It's on Steam, but not for free. You can wait for a sale to get it cheaper.
@erickpoorbaugh67284 ай бұрын
He did take into account the fact that the Byzantines lack Masonry and Architecture in noting that their civ bonus outweighs this.
@arnefriedrich58189 ай бұрын
1 small mistake: Frank castles in Castle Age cost 553 Stone, not 593. Apart from that, again very nice content! 🙂
@Antanana_Rivo9 ай бұрын
Yeah, that threw me off for a minute. I was like" … did they raise castle cost to 700?" until I did the math :D
@claytonknowles259 ай бұрын
He also said herbal with the 'h' sound 11 good thing he's a math teacher and not an English teacher :D
@Andy-uq9eo9 ай бұрын
@@claytonknowles25wtf herbal with h is correct in English
@satriapratama31629 ай бұрын
Idk bout you guys but that 7:08 kind of hill always annoy me.
@satriapratama31629 ай бұрын
Idk bout you guys but that 7:08 kind of hill always annoy me.
@Duke_of_Lorraine9 ай бұрын
Visually, the central european castle (Teutons notably) looks much more defensible, with a drawbridge behind a first gatehouse instead of a big gate.
@KCPR139 ай бұрын
If it was Polish (exact same territories) would you call it Eastern European?
@Duke_of_Lorraine9 ай бұрын
@@KCPR13 I called it depending on the ingame architectural style. So in that case, yes I would have in the current state of the game, as this style is used geographically from the Bohemians to the Slavs (and was mainly designed for the Slavs). (It's how this style is commonly called, notably on the wiki, nothing political)
@ankitkachchhi72939 ай бұрын
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@Duke_of_Lorraine9 ай бұрын
@@ankitkachchhi7293 no one that supports the devs will answer that.
@mickethegoblin71679 ай бұрын
@KCPR13 not the exact same... Teutons are the medieval Germans
@tankofnova90229 ай бұрын
A castle that eliminated its weakness to rams being number 1 works for me
@ankitkachchhi72939 ай бұрын
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@akaMaddy9 ай бұрын
3:25 nice reference. 😄
@apoxpaito9 ай бұрын
"The people WORSHIP you, Sire!"
@akaMaddy9 ай бұрын
@@apoxpaito "Your popularity is rising!"
@jasv499 ай бұрын
Wood needed!
@tsukujam30809 ай бұрын
"Can't place that there m'lord"
@lordrotkop9 ай бұрын
God damn it. Thank you. Now i really need to play it again
@AS91ist9 ай бұрын
I would say that Poles's bonus "stone with gold" also indirectly supports your castle-building.
@ankitkachchhi72939 ай бұрын
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@BayWa4eva9 ай бұрын
Since that doesn't provide more or faster stone i'd say that Bohemians, Burgundians, Armenians and especially Koreans have better mining bonuses for castles. Maybe also Romans and Georgians can be added to that list.
@VegeeMcSalad9 ай бұрын
That phrase "Franks lack bracer, while Inca's don't" tripped me up a bit before I had a chance to think about it 😆
@exzenosisharbingaar90009 ай бұрын
3:25 hey hey! Stronghold! Love my Feudal town/castle management sim. "The people *worship* you, sire!"
@ankitkachchhi72939 ай бұрын
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@thire74329 ай бұрын
“You are truly the cruelest tyrant in the kingdom your lordship.”
@Tom4SEO9 ай бұрын
Great Video. But, I think Teutons have the best castle across the board.
@eleh48199 ай бұрын
+rep for including Stronghold the game icon when talking about Celts tech. Legendary game in my books and i still revisit it from time to time
@carthagosenatus22459 ай бұрын
Til: conscription isnt a mechanical hook, but instead a hand dropping money into another hand. Been playing since childhood and for 20+ years i thought it was a hook, and it was helping my troops be constructed faster. xD
@ankitkachchhi72939 ай бұрын
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@oyuyuy9 ай бұрын
All I wonder is... why do all the archers in the castle group up and fire from the same window?
@siiiiiiiiiimo9 ай бұрын
Ahahahaha awesome observation. So they all know who to fire at?
@PhilAndOr9 ай бұрын
If you want realism, don't play age of empires...
@steThanos9 ай бұрын
It's like toddlers playing football. The see the ball/target and get too excited 😂
@bluedistortions4 ай бұрын
I presume to simplify all the calculations and trajectory. AoE2 is already processor intensive enough as it is. Also, it's a fun game mechanic that can be played around with some skill.
@oyuyuy4 ай бұрын
@@bluedistortions 🙄
@Shokisan19 ай бұрын
Nice shout out to Stronghold. Excellent game.
@caret_shell9 ай бұрын
When I first came here, this was all swamp. Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I built it all the same, just to show them. It sank into the swamp. So I built a second one. That sank into the swamp. So I built a third. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp. But the fourth one stayed up. And that's what you're going to get, Lad: the strongest castle in all of England.
@ankitkachchhi72939 ай бұрын
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@randomguyse7e7197 ай бұрын
Havent played the game in over a decade and i find these videos super entertaining.
@Alias_Anybody9 ай бұрын
Not quite sure about Persians vs Teutons, because in my experience across multiple RTS range is often king over more damage, because map control, first strike and more options who you are attacking.
@Ben74666ffcghh3 ай бұрын
Persian castle eliminates weakness to rams, teuton castle eliminates weakness to cannons.
@ScarletDeathweaverLegacy9 ай бұрын
0:00 I subscribed to your channel and support your channel even though I stopped playing this game in 2019 at about 1567 elo because that's how much I love 😘 your videos. Happy Leap Day! 🎉❤️
@alanjohnson61699 ай бұрын
As someone who was 1500 elo back in 2020 and now 1100 elo in 2024 I encourage you to get back into the game and see how much better players are these days 😂
@williamangga61649 ай бұрын
Does Byzantines Castle's HP were counted after hoardings? Because I remember fully upgraded one can have 8k+ hp. That never mentioned in this video. Also in your Byz civ overview said that Byz castle with hoardings can take 48 Siege Ram hits/17 Trebuchets hits, while in this video were 36/19. That's quite confusing.
@magtag68799 ай бұрын
I do love how he says "just my personal list" like he didn't just crunch the numbers and give us absolute objective fact. Granted 99% of what Spirit says is just objective fact and I feel like the game relies on him for the stats.
@gregoryrolin97389 ай бұрын
Spirit of the Stats. Giving the devs essential data they don't yet realize they need.
@Flem100DK9 ай бұрын
2:14. "It probably gets too messy if we start including unique techs, in how we rank castles..." 2:21. "At number 8, we have the Slavs with their unique tech..." :P
@BrownDaddy0079 ай бұрын
I always learn something new watching this channel. Cheers.
@chimbambu9 ай бұрын
Gotta love that Stronghold reference. One of the best RTS games out there.
@t_Heisenberg9 ай бұрын
stronghold crusader was a good unique tech too
@AhahhhOhogo9 ай бұрын
Attempt numero 5: Spirit of the Law please make a Romae ad Bellum series civilisations overview. Another insightful video and keep up the amazing work. :)
@gushgaming66429 ай бұрын
Almost thought about quiting life and this guy comes out with a video. 10/10 will live for a while longer.
@animangovideo73759 ай бұрын
Thank you for another great video SOTL! Idea for a new video - the new march PUP changed siege weapons' damage distribution to do 100% damage at the center of the hit. Could be cool to see how much harder BBCs now counter onagers/scorpions and how much harder it is to avoid their projectiles with siege. Maybe also for xbows against mangonels.
@WWFanatic09 ай бұрын
I wonder if the extra base damage for Persians can impact against capped/siege rams. If memory serves, the extra projectiles is based on the building's DPS compared to the DPS of ranged garrisoned units (can't recall the exact formula). A higher DPS of the projectile means you need more to garrison to get a single extra projectile (hence why only Teutons can get extra bombard shots). A civ with bracer+arb has arbs that do 10 damage and castles that do 15 a ratio of 2/3. Persians have 8 vs 18 a ratio of 4/9 which is a third less than 2/3 (aka 6/9) and should be getting 2/3 of the extra projectiles and probably less given the way breakpoints work. Since they only do 1 extra per shot against capped rams they're not getting nearly as much benefit. Against siege rams this is possible a detriment as both citadels and regular castles do 1 damage per shot and so anything that cuts number of shots is a negative. If it works how I think it does, they should perhaps look to change that a bit. Diminishing returns like against capped rams is one thing, but a tech that is supposed to buff your castles shouldn't have (fairly realistic) cases where it can hurt you.
@sauravtripathi41289 ай бұрын
They also deal bonus damage against rams. Projectiles deal 2 damage instead of 1 to Capped Rams. The Castles themselves take -25% damage from rams.
@WWFanatic09 ай бұрын
@@sauravtripathi4128 Yeah on capped rams it's just a reduced effect from garrisoned archers/handcannons than what you'd expect. Against siege rams though, it makes them do less damage as the armor negates the bonus damage. They do get tankier, but also lose on firepower from garrisoned units. Feels weird to have a drawback like that against one of the biggest threats.
@NivMizzet899 ай бұрын
Detinets discount is great until you force-of-habit sell your wood to buy the final bit of stone, then find yourself with too much stone but not enough wood to afford one. Not that I would ever do that, of course.
@LaplacianFourier9 ай бұрын
Hey Law, Spirit of the Guys here.
@jacobwood33269 ай бұрын
One of the creators that can pull me away from Hidden Cup Content 😂
@SpaceTalon9 ай бұрын
9:39 - when the music kicks in and you know it's gonna be good
@richeybaumann17559 ай бұрын
The best Castle is the one with 256x of the archer attack techs. They can fire through FOW and unexplored map, unlike other archer units, and they reveal map as they fire.
@firedoom6669 ай бұрын
For some reason I thought this was going to be about the Castle appearance. Which imo the best architecture is the South East Asia castles. Maybe one day if you feel like doing a video without math you can just talk about the various Architecture sets and other unique building models in the game
@phantomaxl12079 ай бұрын
One thing about the bullets from Citadels, is that, they are more concentrated on their target then regular arrows and thus more prone to overkilling their target.
@3Dthinker-9 ай бұрын
I did not realize Persian castles were so good. I expected them in the top 10, but I expected Teutons to be #1. Pretty cool
@whiteeagleforce2.0409 ай бұрын
Your videos are the best to sleep with (no irony nor sarcasm intended)
@matthewsteele999 ай бұрын
the stronghold reference made me almost as excited as the Caesar 3 reference in the old Britons review
@hughparsonage44469 ай бұрын
Can't wait for the top 13 skirmisher vid.
@diegoramirez35879 ай бұрын
God bless ya Spirit of the Law 🙏🏿
@hugovanpayns95579 ай бұрын
Aaah I was waiting for this one
@darthleader58069 ай бұрын
Spirit saying facts with his smooth voice :)
@sninctbur37269 ай бұрын
I expected the rankings to be on aesthetics/sprites, but this works too.
@jacobdicou6999 ай бұрын
Elephant fact: Persian war elephants are really good at unleashing gunpowder from castles.
@KaoticPhoenix9 ай бұрын
Don't know why I thought this video would be about ranking the architecture styles but I came for it anyways
@ianjohnson80149 ай бұрын
Do a tower one next! Compare with units in them as I’ve always wanted to see which towers can matcha britons one with 5 longbow men in as in my tests against other civs this one seems to beat them all
@SmilingExecutioner9 ай бұрын
*Top 11* I see what you did there
@nicholase28689 ай бұрын
I randomed into Persians recently, I saw that tech to make castles fire bullets and was like 😲. Clicked that fast, the damage is so crazy with all upgrades.
@ShadowGrickenАй бұрын
This is making me want to create an ultimate castle in scenario editor or something. Give it a lot of the unique techs and see how long it can hold out
Teutons are easily number 1, not only does the +3 generates a massive extra area of control (area of control grows exponentially with radius) but the whole infantry giving attack power allows garrisoned infantry to attack and if the enemy brings rams you ungarrison and kill them, even if you are not going for infantry, you can use cheap spearmen, since rams have negative melee armor a spearmen with weapon blacksmith upgrades (which you would get anyway since teutons is either cavalry or infantry) does 10 damage per hit to a ram, that mean even siege rams will die from as little as 27 spearmen hits. And even if the enemy pulls out infantry to kill the spearmen, then you shoot them with the castle, but in reality Teutons are usually stronger in terms of infantry vs infantry, and if the enemy is using cavalry you are going to be making halbs anyway. Another thing that its not mentioned is that even trebuchets have issues against Teutons because normally you will be having troops in front to protect a trebuchet, but with teutons the difference between trebs and castles is only 3 range, so there is not much room for a meatshield to operate in.
@pikilic44819 ай бұрын
Good points even though you assume there are always units aorund your castle. Beware of a small mistake, the area of control grows quadratically with radius, not exponentially.
@MrDwarfpitcher9 ай бұрын
@@pikilic4481well indeed A castle needs support and assuming it has it is dangerous That said What I loved most about my Teutonic castles is, when my infantry gets damaged yoo much I just heal them in my castle. I do not have the speed to do enough micro management, and to be honest, infantry is usually not worth it. But I use garrison healing far more actively as Teutons than any other civilization
@pikilic44819 ай бұрын
@@MrDwarfpitcheryou're so right i'm a new player used to aoe3 and i should use garrison healing more often i find it soooooo good especially if you have free herbal medicine the amount of hitpoints you get back is enormous
@UrbanKovac9 ай бұрын
Loved the Twotones joke 🫶🏼😂
@TheMrMatx9 ай бұрын
For a moment I thought this was a video regarding castle design rather than bonuses and I said "Man I didn't know there were that many designs! How interesting!!". And I must admit I was a little disappointed when I found out I was wrong. Great video regardless!
@jakoboka9 ай бұрын
This is by far the most funny video i've ever seen in my life 11
@Binarokaro9 ай бұрын
Honestly so happy that Boiling Oil got such a huge glowup. In its new incarnation, it's made the Persian castles the best
@Gombair9 ай бұрын
If slavs have the unique tach, they also pay wood and stone for repair as well, or it's stil ljust stone?
@Vordikk9 ай бұрын
Im here to read the answer.
@Gombair9 ай бұрын
@@VordikkI made a test in the editor, it seem like it uses wood and stone. So it's also a good repair bonus as well.
@Vordikk9 ай бұрын
@@Gombair alrite, cool!
@fadhilyudistira88199 ай бұрын
I was teuton main in my earlier days of playing aoe for the castle and the cool looking teutonic knights. castle dropping an upgraded teuton castle never disappointed me.
@malikshabazz20659 ай бұрын
great stuff SotL! :-)
@keelhauler52279 ай бұрын
you can sell the extra stone or have less vills on stone as slavs i thought you'd mention this. love you
@amoltov4969 ай бұрын
In "Detinets" the second syllable is stressed.
@gregoryrolin97389 ай бұрын
I wonder how the various castles compare to buildings from the campaigns, like fortresses or fortified towers.
@RecklessInternetting9 ай бұрын
The best castle is the one I manage to drop right near enemy towns. The castles that are OP and need nerfing is the one I am fighting at the time.
@MrAbgeBrandt9 ай бұрын
The Persian castles' hand cannon shots should really spawn more dispersed. It looks like they're firing just one shotgun, or later machine gun, rather than being manned by several cannoneers,
@jotfohm46449 ай бұрын
Hey Spirit, Guys of the law here.
@soltiolai75139 ай бұрын
Hi, there’s a mistake in the cost of French castle age castles. 650*0.85 is about 553, not 593.
@RoastCDuck9 ай бұрын
Could you make a modern tier list of "Going above and beyond" ?
@tamaskosa44569 ай бұрын
I wonder if bombard cannons with siege engineers can be used to attack ground the very EDGE of a teuton castle to outrange it.
@UntiltedName9 ай бұрын
I always picked Teutons when I wanted to turtle up against the AI in random maps and have a lazy game. I would usually fish for a map seed that let me line up a wall of castles on a hill.
@jotfohm46449 ай бұрын
Please man, bring back your intro for 10+ mins videos. We need it!
@rolfauner46239 ай бұрын
7:40 what was "appropriate" about naming the HRE "Teutons"? The actual Teutons were a Germanic tribe that would barely-barely fit in the timeline of AoE2. The Teutonic Order (given that the UU is the TK) doesn't represent the HRE at all, and the HRE would have some other UU. Perhaps the Landsknecht?
@SpiritOfTheLaw9 ай бұрын
You're thinking way deeper than I was. I was just improving a little pun about "number two is the two-tons". That's about the depth of most of my jokes.
@rolfauner46239 ай бұрын
@@SpiritOfTheLaw lol, I didn't even catch that. I guess it's just because I always hated the Teutons being called Teutons. Perhaps also because I'm a Transylvanian Saxon. We were German settlers in the east of medieval Hungary and we are ultimately the reason the Teutons didn't build their state in Transylvania. It's actually a super nice chapter of history and it ends in a battle that didn't took place. :)
@bossderbosse99393 ай бұрын
omg 🤦🏼
@stylesrj9 ай бұрын
Why does the Persian Castle only get the gunpowder shots? Shouldn't a few other Civs have that happen when they research Chemistry? Like the Gunpowder Civs should switch to hand cannon projectiles for visual effect (while still only being as good as the arrows).
@lloydreed47219 ай бұрын
Or both of them. But yea, good idea.
@cmdeca9 ай бұрын
Byzantines castles can get to over 8000 hit points with hoardings. To me that makes them No. 1
@raphaelantoine73318 ай бұрын
Yey my boi Persian getting some love
@dominikvukelic24129 ай бұрын
Isn't Slav bonus a bit better than mentioned, letting you build 7 castles instead of 4 with your starting stone?
@onikoneko9 ай бұрын
I dunno, I would have put Georgians up at #2. I still feel the combination of cheaper repairs and better hill defensive bonuses give them the ultimate staying power in castle and treb wars, and in many games, the castle the stays up the longest defines the victor.
@keelhauler52279 ай бұрын
at 5:03 frank castles with -15% cost is wrong sir
@a.delafrancesca14599 ай бұрын
Twotons. I love you Spirit
@notthedroidsyourelookingfo40266 ай бұрын
Does the Celts' castle healing stack, if multiple castles have overlapping healing areas?
@ahbraveconscript9979 ай бұрын
don't forget a very crucial mod that adds Daut's face on every castle that is in construction. with Lord's guidance there is no difference between civs you play as, the castle will the be best it can be (if you can complete it!).
@stuartkingsley2579 ай бұрын
Honestly giving Castles guns is pretty OP
@cdgncgn9 ай бұрын
RoF on castle helps a lot with dps with rams. Even siege rams.Burst come faster.
@urooj099 ай бұрын
Petition for devs to make unique castles fir each civ
@joshyjosh37729 ай бұрын
Hey SotL, can you make a video about best looking architectures in game? Like feudal age meditteranean(italians etc) look very good or like castle age southeast asian(vietnamese for example).
@Michael-on3ku9 ай бұрын
I would switch Georgians and Teutons. As SotL mentioned, the Teuton bonuses are situational whereas the Georgian bonuses are much more flexible and helpful in the common situations you find yourself in with castle warfare.
@TheDARSOS9 ай бұрын
ohh stronghold, i ever wonder that their game mechanics were underrated, i really love stronghold crussader
@inductivegrunt949 ай бұрын
Persians with gun castles is so much fun. I may like Byzantines the most, but gun castles are just the best.
@dervakommtvonhinten5179 ай бұрын
are there still games with 256x tech mod? cant even find a mod that works. do you know any spirit of the law?
@mythcrafts9 ай бұрын
Could you review the AOE2_Golden_DE mod, it has custom units and adds 3 more ages