Top 5 Best Unique Techs In Castle Age | AoE2

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00:00 - 00:45 Intro
00:45 - 01:56 5
01:56 - 03:08 4
03:08 - 04:06 3
04:06 - 05:36 2
05:36 - 08:04 Honorable Mentions
08:04 - 09:03 1
09:03 Final Talk & Outro
Edits by K1
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[@pavan7900]

8:39 Did Hera just say 'Shawarma' raiders?🤣🤣

[@edwardblom2661]

Cause he be rindin’ that meaty horse 🐎

[@niksutliff]

He is Lebanese after all 😂

[@imsmeagol911]

He always calls them that

[@icarian553]

I think First Crusade should be in Top 5. One part that everyone seems to forget is that it also gives you same conversion resistance as Faith. For half the price (Faith is 1750 res, First Crusade is 900 res), you get both Faith and some Serjeants on top. It's insane value.

[@joranfokker7477]

lol

[@jeremiasnicolas4410]

Totally 👍. Besides, for noob players like me, it works. It has saved me in many games.

[@jon3s3n94]

also allows you to go for super greedy boom and just make an army to defend enemy pushes with with the snap of a finger

[@jefffinkbonner9551]

@@jon3s3n94 Plus those Sicilian farms are great for booming--you just never need to reseed them.

[@troyrisser474]

Curious who sets up the maps in these videos. I couldn’t help but notice the Aztec one had a vil getting sheep between 2 relics with the monk looking on. Adds good aesthetics. Keep up the good work, Hera

[@0skaremil]

That was a satanic ritual, watch out!

[@niksutliff]

Glad to see Silk Armor getting mentioned. So powerful as Tatars, as the two units you'll almost always make is CA and Hussar, both of which are insane. It allows you if you can afford it in castle age to have absolutely crazy CA which with Keshiks are very strong.

[@jefffinkbonner9551]

Not to mention that Tatars get fully upgraded heavy cav archers and hussar anyways, so they have the most armored of both units! 7 pierce armor on their heavy cav archers!

[@ar1sm70]

04:12 "I wanted to avoid that Hera always favors Hussar controversy" That ship has sailed I think bro :P :P

[@davidpereira5969]

Poles castle age unique tech is insane because not only do they have extra gold from mining stone, they also have a amazing food eco, and in castle age they have maxed knights. Ive seen a lot of high stakes games won where oponent went imp but poles just spammed knights and its so hard to stop because once you get the unique tech, it becomes really cheap to spam them. And even in early imperial they are solid, getting blast furnace and the first knight line upgrade (i never know if its paladin then cavalier or cavalier then paladin 11) makes them kinda like the goths where you just spam a bit weaker gold units

[@maxs713]

Two other honorable mentions: Burgundians Vineyards -> got to like the free gold, especially when it gets sparse. And chieftains, turns Berserks into an anti-cavalry unit : )

[@djfatoush]

Shawarma rider xD

[@pointteaboy7113]

4:55 it's not exponentially but rather quadratically

[@thekween9037]

My personal honorable mention is (was) Eupsong (Koreans have all their tower types except bombard get +2 range)-- at least before they nerfed tower rushing by reducing tower hp when DE released. This was such a nasty thing to go up against before the nerf.

[@epicseadragon1692]

I was almost expecting you to talk about steppe husbandry... being able to spam hussars twice as fast from stables can be huge! I've held pressure on an arena game once thanks to this tech

[@HeraAgeofEmpires2]

Im not a huge fan if that tech because you need soooooo many ressources for that to be effective. Most of the time id rather just spam a lot of cheap cuman stables and thats good enough

[@edwardblom2661]

That’s true the tech became so much less useful after they got the cheap stable bonus. Almost to the point where it would make sense to give it to another civ who would benefit more of it.

[@jefffinkbonner9551]

@@edwardblom2661 Imagine Mongols with Steppe Husbandry :D

[@mikelivingood7797]

I believe Pavise for the Italians is a top 5. The Italians are much like the Byzantines they counter many civs, and top civs at that. Bohemians what do you have gunpowder countered. Chembows, I have fully upgraded +extra armor. Hindustani sorry, condos beat your hand cannoneers and ghulam and camels until Imp camel. Genoese crossbow help finish off the Imp camel. Gujaras- armor to archers helps keep them alive to overcome shirvamsha riders, Gen crossbows counter camels, elephant archers and armored elephants, camels don't have anything to receive bonus damage against. Condos and archers have good armor to resist pass through damage of Chakram throwers. Meso civs, Condos counter eagles and are almost as fast. Archers are +armored to win battles. Monks- go ahead convert them (arbs, gen cross, condos) all cost 85 resources or less) you have a 85 resources unit and i kill your 100 gold monk. All this and they are an excellent water civ. No wonder why we are seeing them picked more and more in tournaments.

[@SuperD863]

I think you undersold Yeomen a little. Yes, the extra range is what most people go for it for, but the +2 tower ap is also pretty useful. A watch tower jn CA has 5+2 Attack. With Yeomen jt has 5+4 Attack A generic Guard Tower has 7+2 Attack In other words, the tech elevates the damage output of your towers to the standard of a Guard Tower, which literally doubles its damage output against Mangonels (which have 5 armor, so 4 damage instead of 2 against them). This makes their towers much better to defend against flanking attacks on the economy.

[@PHRMNK]

The thing is, in high level games towers do not matter in late game pretty much (maybe except in rare cases). The stone is usually invested into castles

[@aukustihaho8284]

I think First crusade should be atleast top 4 because it gives the conversion resistance of faith for half the cost and a strong powerspike with the serjeants as well.

[@moeezfarooq8013]

Love your content man kepp itt upppp

[@imsmeagol911]

Top 5 imp unique techs please! Can't wait to hear your opinion on "the button"

[@silentgloria]

Maybe Chieftains (small bonus attack vs cav for Viking infantry) would've made the honorable mentions, if it weren't for its eye-rolling price (700f 500g) Even for Vikings, it's an expensive tech for use in Castle Age play. Revert back to the cheaper price perhaps? 11

[@jefffinkbonner9551]

It's definitely too expensive. 500f 450g seems a bit better.

[@DoMeASolid]

You literally had Cuman Steppe Husbandry on there the entire video and it didn’t show up. Had me trippin fr

[@sergiocorrentebaccellieri2925]

Chieftains imo is op. viking champions/berserks SHRED cav, those units with chieftains counter basically everything in the game besides archers/hand cannons, so just mix in some skirms and the army is unbeatable. And now with the new gold bonus per kill it got even better

[@PahadiSher]

Great video as always. & Kshatriyas is pronounced as Shaa-Tri-Yaas.

[@siddharthkhera7298]

Chivalry would have been up there back in the day

[@dr_fleischmann8133]

I was so sure about Mayan Hul'che Javelineers being first. You even made a Video about it's prowess. Would see it over Atlatl. (+1 range vs +1 Damge on EVERYTHING)

[@HeraAgeofEmpires2]

Atlatl is better overall by quite a bit. The 2 javelin isnt bad prolly a top 10 one

[@perrymeril]

Atleast you honorable mentioned anarchy for the exact reason I put it in top 5 myself. Anarchy and perfusion literally make the goths the fearsome civ it is. And ls being even better now than it ever was, they are imo a very respectably scary civ at most stages of the game now. Give a goth time to breath and it's over. Even then under pressure and smart play their castle is not weaker than other generic civs imo. From someone who almost exclusively played goths during the zone days.

[@benjaminsypniewski8074]

Zone days?

[@perrymeril]

@@benjaminsypniewski8074 If you don't know the Zone, you're a newbie.

[@goskiin]

Really nice visuals

[@andrewneal2249]

Nice to see Hera back with the normal weekly content!

[@derikaem8021]

how dare you not mention that kshatriyas affects petards? :D

[@hikatoyshi]

I would have expected Cumans because their tech enables them to spam cav archers and hussars.

[@AshwaniKumarIITP]

8:16 It's pronounced as "Sha-trii-ya". It's essentially the hindi/sanskrit name of warrior caste of hindus. I guess that's why it's applying to all military units.

[@MrShadowThief]

Obviously missing Nomads.

[@forsakenquery]

Would you state that all these techs are worth picking up in the castle age most games? Or like most techs just better in post imp

[@SM853]

I really don't think that missing the last armor update somehow balances the fact that a knight costs less gold than a crossbow.

[@taowroland8697]

Poles can immediately afford the gold cost of the castle tech simply by mining the stone for a castle. Everything is so easy to get as Poles it is idiotic.

[@HeraAgeofEmpires2]

Yeah they are OP as a civ, unique tech probably fine tho

[@derikaem8021]

predicting: 1. stirrups 2. first crusade 3. kasbah 4. silk armor 5. kamandaran the last to are questionable, as they're rarely worth getting in castle age, but they are super strong in the late game honorable mentions: stronghold, tigui, szlachta privileges, atlatl (mainly on higher levels)

[@daverobinson8117]

Hera. In your intro. How did you get the farms around the mill like that. Are you hacking?

[@satyakisil9711]

What about those castle age unique techs which are better if researched in imp?

[@yoyodude-aoe2726]

Kshatriyas is pronounced as Sha-tri-ya(with k silent) Shatriya(s).

[@orionl7406]

I thought this video was gonna be a "top 5 Castle Age unique techs in Castle Age" video, not the same concept but mainly in the Imperial Age

[@Dendrobatesauratus]

4:35 Is that really one hussar with stirrups and one without? They seem to have the same attack speed (at least as measured by the attack animations).

[@chingamfong]

Melee attack animation doesn't line up with actual attack. Just look at ram attacking. (Warning: it will annoy you for life)

[@Dendrobatesauratus]

@@chingamfong Thanks, didn't know that

[@CrnaStrela]

Funnily enough the attack animation and dmg sync only on faster attacking units like the one with stirrups but doesn't match with normal units. The reason why the animations aren't faster is because they are locked into the unit. If you want faster attacking hussars for example, you need to replace all the hussars with identical looking hussars but attack faster.

[@arnefriedrich5818]

I'm extremely suprised that you rate Atlatl higher than Kamadaran && Corvinian Army. Yes, it makes Aztec Skirms better than generic ones, but compared to Persian Trashbows or Magyar Huszars (Who need this tech to remove the gold cost), it doesn't seem that powerful. Could you go into a little more detail about that? Otherwise, great video again!!! 🙂

[@jon3s3n94]

corvinian army isnt that insane, it costs 300g and mag huszars are only 10g so you need to make over 30 mag huszars to break even, trashbows isnt super good either because it doesn't just remove the gold cost, it adds it as wood cost, in castle age this is useless because there is still enough gold so you can't make more units by replacing gold with wood cost, in late game on the other hand it would be nice but you dont get arbalest and bracer so they are just bad.

[@HeraAgeofEmpires2]

Corvinian army isnt that crazy cuz it jsut removes 10 gold. Kamandaran is extremely overrated

[@edwardblom2661]

Kamadaran seems like a noob favored tech to me. It’s pretty much only useful on long drawn out games where gold is sparse and your enemy don’t have great arbs or skirms that’ll melt your extremely mediocre castle age xbow s.

[@arnefriedrich5818]

I realize now that i rated Atlatl purely in terms of its potential in the super late game when there's no gold left. I still think Kamandaran and Corvinian Army are equally strong in this particular scenario: - Magyar Huszars become trash units - Trashbows cost the same total resources as skirmishers and fire 50% faster, so as a trash unit they have a much higher damage output against everything that isn't an archer or skirmisher But the strength of Atlatl comes into play much earlier if you're fighting strong archer civs for example, i hadn't thought of that. My bad ^^

[@teddyhaines6613]

@@edwardblom2661 Noobs are weirdly obsessed with trash wars. And I'd argue they don't even have the excuse that their inability to conduct aggression means their games are more likely to get there, because they also can't boom worth a damn and won't actually expend the map's gold before the game is over.

[@lloydreed4721]

And I thought the Persians were in on it. At least I like their unique tech in the castle age.

[@jn1mrgn]

As a person who has spent some time on horseback, I don't know how you could ride properly without stirrups.

[@lbridet]

Adding this to the "Gurjaras are broken" file.

[@anmolsrivats1275]

The 'k' is silent in kshatriyas, like shut-ree-yas

[@PahadiSher]

the Hindi equivalent letter is missing in English but there is a bit of "Ksh-" sound.

[@Igor369]

Why is the letter there if it is silent?

[@anmolsrivats1275]

@@Igor369 Different language

[@anmolsrivats1275]

@@Igor369 You could ask the same question about 'knight' also

[@sauravtripathi4128]

Forgot the effect of Kshatriyas on Petards?

[@yamanemut4988]

No mention for the cumans or the slavs ??

[@mojoxtreme]

Shawarma Rider sounds delicious

[@jimakusbeck7405]

The Slav unique tech should be in the honourable mentions. It nakes their castles cheaper. The Ethiopian u.t. should be in the Top 5, or at least in the honourable mentions. It gives you the ability to spam these already cheap Shotel Warriors. Teutons, Lithuanians and Malians have also good Castle Age unique techs (and Byzantines, but inly for water maps), though I can't decide wether they should be on this video.

[@damianvergaradominguez8484]

I was expecting Burgundians number 1, and also Magyars deserve an honorable mention!

[@troyrisser474]

Yeah, Magyars feel like goths, although not as important to the identity of the civ

[@Saltyoven]

Burgundian vineyards isn't THAT game changing.

[@Saltyoven]

@AlHasan Sameh Now Flemish Revolution on the other hand... It may not be used all the time, but using it at the right moment can single handedly win you the game.

[@Saltyoven]

@AlHasan Sameh I know, why do you think I commented on Burgundian Vineyards? I'm just saying it's likely to show up even if just as an honorable mention in the inevitable top 5 unique imp tech list.

[@Gui101do]

Nerf Gurjaras

[@Dawnrim]

Surprised by no El Dorado

[@faultier3215]

it an imperial age UT

[@lelouch3]

Malians !

[@mikelivingood7797]

I was expecting Corvinian Army at #1. If hussar are great. Then Magyar huszar must be Legen-dar-y!

[@zm149_]

The shwarma rider ????

[@donalexander]

cool

[@ingoseiler]

I know Bengalis aren't really liked that much on land maps, but if you play them, then Paiks is a must get, so at least an honourable mention in my eyes.

[@ryans8122]

What does it do?

[@CrnaStrela]

@@ryans8122 elephants and ratha attack 25% faster

[@ingoseiler]

It makes Elephant Archers, Battle Elephants and Elephant Rams attack 20% faster. Which is insanely strong, better than stirrups as high damage units get more out of an % increase. With Paiks BE win against Camels in castle age cost effective and EA can deal with Skirms and Mangonels.

[@iambestthankyou]

Sha-tree-yas Shri-vum-sha

[@faultier3215]

Gujaras are so horribly broken and would still be without this tech even

[@abidsulficar8122]

Shawarma rider. 😂

[@martijnbouman8874]

No mention of Sipahi?

[@HeraAgeofEmpires2]

I mentioned it when talking about tatars unique tech. Pierce armor on cav and cav arch is much better than 29 hp on just cav archerr

[@bledferox6601]

Yasama and eupseong?

[@danielberger1176]

shaw-tree-uh

[@flyinggamer993]

Shawarma rider 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@GKY1988]

Shawarma Rider lol

[@whoknows7711]

Imo, yasama is powerful.

[@rahuldsouza1985]

Why is steppe husbandry not included in this list?

[@HeraAgeofEmpires2]

i dont find it that great

[@prajyotbhatkar8376]

8:32 Pronouced as "KSHATRIYAS" => (K)- SHA-TRIYAS. K is silent.

[@hansoskar1911]

hmmmm, Im not sure I like that ranking. e.g. Silk Armor, Yeoman, Atlatl, ... are technically Castel Age Unique techs and they are really god but you rarely research them in Castle Age. Wheras some unique techs are literally "phew, I got threre" when you click em. imho thats mainly Szlachta Privileges, Anarchy and First Crusade. (kshatryas IDk yet. maybe in the future) Not only do they change the game but their existence influences how the game is played.

[@gurugru5958]

Obviously it's Andean Sling

[@GuilhermeMiranda89]

Gurjaras have OP thing again? No kidding... maybe someone should tell them that Gurjaras is a broken civ.

[@devilhearts007]

it is pronounced as SHA-THREE-YAAS, K is silent.

[@davidpieper95]

No chieftains? ... hmmm...

[@elliotheath5366]

brick lasagna

[@blackcommando]

Most of the Sanskrit words are hard to pronounce for anyone. Nice try Hera 😘 Thank for Good content as always. Keep it up. And it's "sha with k" to start "tri" (Trinidad) in middle and "ya" to end it. (Waiting for you to master and pronounce in next video)

[@mazdrpan4099]

One thing you didnt mention at all is how easy it is to get the tech. Which in case of Poles is extremely easy since mining stone for building a castle also gives player gold. That makes Szlachta Privileges the best tech in the game, followed by Gurjaras. But yeah, DLC civs OP, P2W game.

[@CragHack]

It's crazy to call something P2W when the price is like one time 10 bucks, or less. Also, most DLC civs are nowhere near OP. You guys trippin'.

[@CrnaStrela]

Gujaras and hindustani is pretty busted but before that the best civs was franks on open and turks on closed. Both of them are from base game. Hell even now Turks still dominate arena and other similarly closed maps.

[@sir_vikingbeard5842]

What about flemish militia lol

[@sekharpriyansu]

Where is nomads(Mongols)?🤓

[@dinazor_t1454]

Where Flemish Revolution

[@hikatoyshi]

In Imperial age.

[@dinazor_t1454]

@@hikatoyshi oh mb

[@LarryCroft111]

WHERE IS ATHEISM

[@husainjam]

Nerf the sicilians…. lol

[@The_Room_2_Doggys_Revenge]

No Corvinian Army? Explain yourself

[@HeraAgeofEmpires2]

Not that great it just cuts 10g and costs 300 gold and some food itself

[@The_Room_2_Doggys_Revenge]

@@HeraAgeofEmpires2 yeah, I say that because Magyars are my favorite civ but I totally understand (and you perfectly explained) why you would prefer those 8 other techs

[@ascendedbro1828]

Bruh where are Nomads? Cringe top.

[@nevezetesazonossag]

would have expected magyars to show up somewhere, ohwell

[@ElMocoLoco69]

Aztecs dont get bracers so their skirms can't out range arbs

[@divicospower9112]

They get it. They don't have the last armor.

[@ElMocoLoco69]

Thx