Fun thing, in the spanish version of AoE2 the description for the logistica technology says literally "Las catafractas arrasan a su paso" what can be translated to english to something like "Cataphracts obliterate on their path", not a mention about trample or area damage in spanish.
@rubengalvan10313 жыл бұрын
True. As a kid I didn't know what that meant
@Hastrica3 жыл бұрын
In German it's literally "Cataphracts devastate by riding down [enemies]". Again, zero mention of area damage. I always researched Logistica as a kid because I thought the description was cool, but never knew what the tech did.
@ripper021_py3 жыл бұрын
I remember that, it was super cryptic at that time
@victorrenevaldiviasoto97283 жыл бұрын
10 year old me thought that they would just do damage by passing by
@jefffinkbonner95513 жыл бұрын
@@victorrenevaldiviasoto9728 When "just passing" is a human rights violation
@KHariram3 жыл бұрын
Meanwhile the scorpion is crying in a corner having overlooked by SoTL
@alex_zetsu3 жыл бұрын
It's technically not trample or blast. It's arguably splash, but in some RTS games, penetrating ammunition aren't considered splash damage. So maybe it could be argued it doesn't count, but given that even the Organ Gun made an appearance and it's very similar to the scorpion, us Scorpion fans ca rightfully cry.
@andoreh40213 жыл бұрын
Then SotL make another video regardng scorpion damage but forget to mention caravels.
@Labyrinth60003 жыл бұрын
They need a new upgrade to the Siege Scorpion
@koldfire72535 ай бұрын
It's pass through damage. It would fit better with the scorpions and chakram thrower and ghulam.
@T-West3 жыл бұрын
Fun facts: If a unit doesn't have 100% accuracy, then all units within the blast radius have a chance equal to the accuracy to take damage. That's why the Britons Warwolf technology changes Treb accuracy from 15% to 100%. At one point Throwing Axemen would harm friendly units if they were given a blast attack. In some custom scenarios they would massacre their own infantry units if the player also had Druzhina. There was an update to DE that changed this behavior. The Organ Gun secondary projectile is really interesting. It has 1002 attack. But the attack is against an armor class that no units have, so the damage is calculated using the base armor, which for most units is 1000. But there are some units that appear in scenarios with 0 base armor (Dire Wolves and Ornlu are examples).
@MajorTomFisher3 жыл бұрын
I was about to comment "Have you tried deleting the onager before the projectiles hit the ground?"
@devangnivatkar26493 жыл бұрын
I had asked on the wikia why Druzhina was amended to exclude ranged infantry units in DE. Now I know!
@khankhomrad88553 жыл бұрын
Why do most units have 1000 base armour?
@T-West3 жыл бұрын
@@khankhomrad8855 It's greater than most attacks so that it cancels out bonus damages that don't apply to units. If a unit has +5 against cavalry, and the unit it's attacking doesn't have cavalry armor, then the base armor is used instead. So that's 5 - 1000, so the cavalry part of the attack doesn't contribute to the overall amount of damage dealt.
@KHariram3 жыл бұрын
@@T-West So if Warwolf didn't give 100% accuracy, they would be doing damage to only 15% of the units? This applies to the case of only 1 enemy unit. So their treb war accuracy would have gone down from ~30% to actual 15%.
@Tepalus3 жыл бұрын
What I learned today: There's a flamethrower-tower in AoE2
@anghainguyen99513 жыл бұрын
Yes, you could see them in dracula Campain...
@tirex36733 жыл бұрын
@@anghainguyen9951 or Hastings
@yourfellowhumanbeing23233 жыл бұрын
@@anghainguyen9951 also in one of the asian campaings
@TheKobasen3 жыл бұрын
Reminds me of WCIII unique building.
@ArawnOfAnnwn3 жыл бұрын
You didn't know? It's used in a fair number of scenarios, even in the base game i.e. without mods.
@foxnyl41413 жыл бұрын
0:35 I was expecting the Intro song so much, that it started playing in my head and I suddenly felt very rushed into the video as you kept on talking - made me pause the video XD
@Dave_The_Musical_Fisherman3 жыл бұрын
Glad I'm not the only one
@pierredross29593 жыл бұрын
Me too !
@jefffinkbonner95513 жыл бұрын
Idk why he ever stopped using that dope theme song...it was one of the coolest parts of his videos
@B3Band3 жыл бұрын
I'm always ready to press skip 20 seconds when he says "let's check it out" because that's exactly how long the intro song is. I had to stop myself at the last moment when it didn't happen.
@RobotShield3 жыл бұрын
Yes! I felt that xD
@LumosX3 жыл бұрын
That was a correct pronunciation of "druzhina", my man. Good work. Slavs approve.
@MikeEmpires3 жыл бұрын
There’s some questions SotL shows us that we should be asking.
@HyunAOP3 жыл бұрын
Love your videos amigo
@Hamanuna3 жыл бұрын
It's nice to see you here too!
@msonisama86563 жыл бұрын
aye love your vids, even tho I have the game myself (lol), I just love watching them
@firockfinion33263 жыл бұрын
Ah yes, the cobra car, the most important unit to keep in mind in competitive play.
@iwersonsch51313 жыл бұрын
Remember, kids: Fire galleys miss 100% of the shots they don't take.
@Spunney3 жыл бұрын
whats the tasing discord been up to?
@phun19013 жыл бұрын
I've been wondering what makes the AI abdicate? Sometimes it's before I destroy anything. Sometimes they hold on even without villagers or units. Usually if I drop castle plans on their first TC that forces them to abdicate
@Veylon3 жыл бұрын
In a 1v1, it looks like the main way it checks is to see if it has less than thirty pop, you have more than twenty-four pop, and you have three times the pop it does. The actual check is a little more complicated than that due to the limitations of the scripting language, but that's the gist of it. If you don't have more than thirty pop, then it waits until every last villager and monk is killed and it has a pop of one or less and all of it's town centers, docks, monasteries, and markets are destroyed and it has no pop headroom.
@B3Band3 жыл бұрын
It abdicates when the nearby boars grunted too loudly and frequently, or when the townsfolk began too close to my kingdom's Town Center, or when Far too many birds flew over mine kingdom
@justincronkright5025 Жыл бұрын
I thought this was A VERY unfortunate Arabic name to be understood in English. Al Abdicate - leader of the ... caliphate, has left the match.
@griddmeirax3 жыл бұрын
Spirit correctly pronouncing word Druzhina is a blessing
@helljack3 жыл бұрын
Great video but the lack of elephant facts will not be forgotten! (By the elephants, as you know, they never forget... nor forgive)
@mlchaelz21343 жыл бұрын
thank you spirit of the law. now i know what he difference is between trample, spash, & blast damage is in Age of Empires 2. thanks
@Metroyeti173 жыл бұрын
Bruh you couldn't have even watched the video yet
@Sad_Chief3 жыл бұрын
Lol I was about to say the same thing but didn't cuz i didn't even finish the vid.
@neatwing22853 жыл бұрын
thank you mlchaelz. now i know you know he difference is between trample, spash, & blast damage is in Age of Empires 2. thanks
@karanveer18393 жыл бұрын
so lets check em out.... i was waiting for that intro!! is this some different timeline!?
@onetrucksizedsalmon29623 жыл бұрын
Ah yes, a question I didn’t have until I saw the title, then I had the question and I will now have the answer
@manishchauhan1453 жыл бұрын
🤣🤣🤣🤣 true af lmfao
@meo82583 жыл бұрын
same. and i dont even play aoe2
@AgeofNoob3 жыл бұрын
6:15 - I cannot watch any further after my fallen brothers. F.
@riseALK3 жыл бұрын
Happy to hear you cover those two hero units, I added them to the trample damage page on the wiki a week ago.
@nishunair19123 жыл бұрын
Spirit answering questions, we didn't know we wanted answered!
@JustDaZack3 жыл бұрын
Haven't played AoE2 in a long time but also can't get enough of learning more about my favorite childhood game ❤️
@CallofDutyBlackOps283 жыл бұрын
i think what makes it so cool about the fire tower's effect; is that it too makes sense in a way. a crack of a random piece of wood/fire decided to just spark off and smack someone in the face or what have you; really does make you with the tower was more out there then just being a unique tower in come scenario/campaigns
@leonardorivelorivelo92533 жыл бұрын
They should all be renamed to AoE damage
@MerMes163 жыл бұрын
Age of Empires damage
@leonardorivelorivelo92533 жыл бұрын
@@MerMes16 yes
@ArawnOfAnnwn3 жыл бұрын
That'd just be even more confusing, since they don't all work the same.
@antthegord94113 жыл бұрын
@@ArawnOfAnnwn joke
@leonardorivelorivelo92533 жыл бұрын
@@ArawnOfAnnwn ____________ The Joke________/ your Head \_____
@unimportantcommenter43563 жыл бұрын
You didnt mention the Scorpion, which technically does blast damage
@andrei.deniz223 жыл бұрын
Isnt that considered pierce damage?
@unimportantcommenter43563 жыл бұрын
@@andrei.deniz22 It's a unique version of the elephants splash damage: it does the damage in a line instead of a circular radious.
@TheKobasen3 жыл бұрын
Yes because torsion engine also affected scorpion which means it does blast damage.
@nvmtt3 жыл бұрын
Abraha elephant:* does full trample damage. God: *Picks ranged units. Abraha: Wait, you were not supposed to do that.........
@AnunnakiDNApe3 жыл бұрын
your channel is incredible, man. congratulations and thank you very much!
@Kelari3133 жыл бұрын
Crazy how complex this amazing game is!
@-Raylight3 жыл бұрын
Slavs with their multiple researches be like *"I'm hitting you from four pararrels ahead of you"* So AoE2 = Area of Effect 2? 😂 8:32 Lmao, I didn't expect that unit
@CornBredCrusader3 жыл бұрын
The fire tower doesnt have blast damage, it just follows the same pattern that all other units with
@light_david73 жыл бұрын
*All fires. Fire ships have 0% accuracy, and therefore the fire damages the first thing it hits. That is why a villager can wall out the fire ship, because the fire his the wall before the villager. T-west tought me.
@diosn69093 жыл бұрын
These videos are one of my weekly happy moments!
@michaelandreipalon3593 жыл бұрын
8:37: Welcome back, old friend. Practicing before battling that lone Villager, I see.
@Hamanuna3 жыл бұрын
2:20 we all know that's for show how underrated the japanese are
@sandutheodor93983 жыл бұрын
Man I miss the SOTL intro
@TheHUEZOX3 жыл бұрын
Same! What happened?
@sandutheodor93983 жыл бұрын
@@TheHUEZOX no clue...one day it just vanished
@Appletank83 жыл бұрын
Very sad
@TheHUEZOX3 жыл бұрын
@@sandutheodor9398 :(
@Ganara4263 жыл бұрын
I dont, good riddance
@DaSaintDemon3 жыл бұрын
6:38 That spearman: "I HAVE NO MASTER!!!"
@mullerpotgieter3 жыл бұрын
Neat. One would assume its the same bit of code executed in slightly different ways, but this game is full of surprises
@grandthieflupingames34703 жыл бұрын
Wow, been having a blast watching this video! :D
@TheKobasen3 жыл бұрын
Now that war elephant is cheaper in terms of food plus the knowledge from this video, I expect more people are encouraging to use war elephant + crossbow combo to counter almost everything.
@XxXchrisXxX783 жыл бұрын
Maybe but keep in mind its not just the cost of the unit theres also Upgrades production speed but most importantly the fact that they are a castle unit making their up Front cost higher and their rate of production slower
@historymax547916 күн бұрын
And monks
@chattw68853 жыл бұрын
This video was a blast!
@Walpurgisnackt3 жыл бұрын
damn getting that Kunka cleave with the 256 mod
@Calebgoblin3 жыл бұрын
This is one I've been waiting for. I just assumed they were all the same thing and I just couldn't count.
@Udwin3 жыл бұрын
Teutonic Knight directly stabbed by an slavic Halberdier: "You have no power here!" Teutonic Knight after the slavic Halberdier turns around and attacks an other unit: "Argh! It hurts so much to get passive aggressively ignored!"
@commanderkeen49713 жыл бұрын
Best math lecture ever
@CatmanFS3 жыл бұрын
You nailed it on this one.
@CaptainCorobo3 жыл бұрын
Could you do a mini series comparing unique units by class? Like comparing all unique unit archers with eachother. /infantry/cavalry?
@kristianlykke3 жыл бұрын
I miss the shorter version of guitar play after intro, before u start the video. The long version was too long, but for a long time it was perfect. Now i feel like its gone!? I miss it, it was such a signiture of this channel. My brain LinkedIn thecguitar into to sotl. Anyone who also misses it?
@SimonFallheart3 жыл бұрын
what you did with the demos reminds me of my harvest moon fields
@BearGryllzUnRated3 жыл бұрын
TRYING TO GET TO SLEEP BUT NO, YOU UPLOAD..
@omerbalbakan3943 жыл бұрын
Thank you very much! I was wondering how they work
@petersmythe64623 жыл бұрын
To be released soon: A DLC where something does squish damage.
@greywolf75773 жыл бұрын
Is that when the elephant sits on someone?
@aralornwolf31403 жыл бұрын
@@greywolf7577 , No... it's when Boats Keelhaul enemy units.
@daytoend53833 жыл бұрын
the main takeaway from this video: onager and siege onager are op as fuck. 70% damage increase with 1 upgrade and almost doubling it with another one? imagine those values with any other unit. with this strengh i think mangonel line could cost 3 times as much as it currently does and still be effective in lategame
@quakethedoombringer Жыл бұрын
Siege onagers +normal or special archers (especially longbow men) + spear units at the back are practically gamebreaking unless you can mass enough bombard cannons to destroy the onagers. Especially for maps like Amazon Tunnel where you cannot flank your enemy.
@ramosfelipe3 жыл бұрын
Aewsome stuff, thanks SOTL!
@tankninja983 жыл бұрын
Ah yes the cobra car is more op than I thought.
@caiheang3 жыл бұрын
So we're discussing aoe in aoe 🤔
@jajafeedyns80823 жыл бұрын
This comment needs more exposure.
@qwopiretyu3 жыл бұрын
Very interesting as usual
@z911empire3 жыл бұрын
dude you're a legend
@30Salmao3 жыл бұрын
The comment you did for slavs halberdier vs cavalry trample damage could have and +: 5 damage is very little because the HP of paladins is huge and agaist low HP enemy you kill some of them faster so the atk output of the adversary is lowered faster; and another factor is that if your enemy is a bigger unit there gonna be fewer of them surrounding at the same time and less bonus damage due trample.
@markus55073 жыл бұрын
6:10 those must be teutonic knights who grabbed a lance
@Jondiceful3 жыл бұрын
Thanks! That was a blast😎
@valak39143 жыл бұрын
Well that's Some Area Of Effect damage over there
@chingamfong3 жыл бұрын
AoE damage in the AoE2, from the game series AoE, where Ethiopian units say "AoE"
@segmentsAndCurves3 жыл бұрын
8:36 SO SATISFYING!
@crimat223 жыл бұрын
How about deleting the units that have decreasing dmg like you can do with the mangonel shots. Does that work?
@light_david73 жыл бұрын
Ask T-west. He is the master of programming quarks
@soupalex3 жыл бұрын
oh, you mean the exploit where deleting your mangonel after it fires causes the splash from any of its unresolved missiles to hit at 100% damage? yeah, it would be interesting to know if the same trick worked with other units (i'm guessing "no" in the case of units with melee splash attacks, since they need to be alive in the instant where the attack is resolved)
@meneldal3 жыл бұрын
Deleting an SO with multiple torsion engine (with 256x mod) can probably destroy half the map.
@cmoreshead3 жыл бұрын
Just had a very confusing moment as a Donut Media KZbin video played and someone was explaining the math behind aerodynamic drag as An Evening at the Museum by Moss Harman played in the background. SotL folks will recognize that song anywhere, even in an automotive context...
@nafg1153 жыл бұрын
This is the channel we thumb up before watching the video
@ehk59483 жыл бұрын
Thanks spirit the video........WAS A BLAST!
@TamaDuder3 жыл бұрын
great video idea. thank you!
@acresir3 жыл бұрын
Strange that the Canon tower does not have any splash. I'm pretty sure one would get somekind of a shellshock, if a cannonball landed at one's feet regardless of it came from a tower or a siege cannon.
@jefffinkbonner95513 жыл бұрын
Yeah, for the expense of bombard towers and the fact that it can be hard for them to actually hit units with the lack of ballistics and slower moving projectiles, it seems like having some splash damage would help make them more useful.
@namekiannameless27523 жыл бұрын
their cannon balls can turn in air though, however, they looks like the AoE catapult payload and those have huge blast radii
@Farhanfair3 жыл бұрын
You should check Roman vs Barbarians V3
@justincronkright5025 Жыл бұрын
I play the Vietnamese I'm curious when war elephants are involved let us say versus Boyars & versus Halberdiers. We'll have the former at 11 armour & the latter at 4 armour - is it that the 25% trample gets worked out as 16-11 = 5/4 =1.25 damage trampled onto Boyars, but 16-4 =12/4 = 3 damage trampled onto halberdiers I assume.
@christopherg23473 жыл бұрын
Does the Sicilian bonus affect any of the Trample Damage variants?
@RobotShield3 жыл бұрын
Replying so I can also find out the answer
@niklasw.12973 жыл бұрын
0:45 HE PRONOUNCED DRUZHINA CORRECT
@claytonknowles253 жыл бұрын
I’ve been wondering, is it worth it to build a second lumber camp after the next two rows of trees have been cut down? Is the 100 wood spent worth the villager walk time? It’s just another video idea that I think might be interesting🤷🏽♂️
@mikelivingood77973 жыл бұрын
Do you have any plans for Empire Wars videos? Hera just put up a few videos and said all the pros are playing Empire Wars. I would imagine Microsoft is sponsoring more Empire Wars tournaments.
@Spetnaz239 ай бұрын
I'm wondering if the siege ram bonus against trebuches works when they're packed. Unpacked it's litterally a building, as the unit converts itself into a foundation of the unpacked version to build on so to me it sounds logic that it takes the "bulding bonus dmg", but I'm curious to see if it applies to the packed version that should be considered as a simple siege unit and not a "siege building".
@mikelivingood77973 жыл бұрын
Could you do a video on why scout rush is popular in Empire Wars?
@chingamfong3 жыл бұрын
If you enable Logistica for a range unique unit, say Longbow, in a modded civ, will the arrow do trample damge? And if you research it 256 times, will you have medieval ICBM like Ethiopian torsian engine?
@dojelnotmyrealname40183 жыл бұрын
The type 1 trample damage ignoring hill bonuses might be because it might apply to all targets at once and would cause weird issues fighting on slopes? Just thinking as a programmer.
@federicorios91463 жыл бұрын
You are the Best :)
@evanrudibaugh87723 жыл бұрын
I really wish the game makers used precise terms. They might as well say "researching this will cause your units to do marklar."
@platomaker3 жыл бұрын
Been playing for a decade, never seen a firetower.
@namekiannameless27523 жыл бұрын
kurikara in coop campaign is a great opportunity for seeing one it is added in after FE or something so old players won't know about it
@88Nieznany883 жыл бұрын
Same. Not gonna lie I kinda wonder if it has extra damage Vs towers now.
@arcomegis99993 жыл бұрын
Now that you actually mention Fire Towers, they just look strange. You know how in castles there are people operating a tower that showers molten oil ? I'd rather they have that. As in, they melt through units. Fire Tower is like a lame version of fireships.
@he_carnation3 жыл бұрын
"No Spearmen are harmed making this Film"
@brph-js8jn3 жыл бұрын
can you do a video with custom scenerio/campaign units?
@terrybruce69973 жыл бұрын
Great vid :)
@navataru3 жыл бұрын
Yoo! What are those fire towers?! I've never seen them in the 20 years I've played and seen this game! We need those towers in actual game play. Or make those the method of attack for murder holes and towers / castles can fire arrows like normal while murder hole does its own thing. Would also be more historically accurate
@UnDeaDCyBorg3 жыл бұрын
So what would happen if I gave a War Elephant Logistica? Would it have (24-armour)/2 + 5 trample damage, or (29-armour)? And would the secondary Projectiles from Organ guns potentially deal blast damage? (They're probably at 0 accuracy, so practically not really).
@guardyangel3 жыл бұрын
I haven't played AoE2 in more than 15 years and still watch all SoTL videos without exception! AoE2 is a religion and SoTL its priest ❤️
@carlpult52353 жыл бұрын
thats why it used to be represented by a mangonel in the unit icon.
@sandralenardova99443 жыл бұрын
I get why mangonel damage isn't symmetrical front to back, but why aren't the sides symmetrical, doing slightly more to the right?
@andrewmackenzie90613 жыл бұрын
Does the Cataphract's damage bonus cancellation trait/ability also cancel the trample from Druzina?
@georgeprchal39243 жыл бұрын
And now I'm wondering what it would be like if Teutonic Knights did adjacent damage.
@juancobas28063 жыл бұрын
Hermanito con unos subtítulos en español estarían geniales tu vídeos. Porfavor intenta colocar subtítulos en español para entender todo pleaseee
@HekkenDarkstorm3 жыл бұрын
Here's a question for you, why is it that a lot of the time, (I play the Conquerors), the AI like giving me most of their resources. Is this a team tactic to get me attacked first, or to force me to advance?
@md.fahim-ul-islamsourav4953 жыл бұрын
Top 5 naval civilization plz🙏🙏🙏🙏
@segmentsAndCurves3 жыл бұрын
Portuguese.
3 жыл бұрын
Can you trigger blast/splash/trample damage by attacking nothing?
@TheKioskarz3 жыл бұрын
Could you make something about bombard units/buildings? Why only bombard tower make 1 damage to the ram?
@RobotShield3 жыл бұрын
But it’s all controlled by one field in the database? Or are the separate fields? I.E. you can’t give a unit trample AND blast damage?
@rialvita71412 жыл бұрын
I'm surprised there's still not a civilization that uses and leaves greek fire on the ground doing dot with a unique siege unit, given greeks, chinesse and japanesse eventually had weapons using this.
@micl_863 жыл бұрын
Forgot the SoTL intro? :)
@SuperLP4E3 жыл бұрын
What happens to the blast radius when chemistry is researched? It became smaller or it remain the same?
@Binarokaro3 жыл бұрын
Flaming camel supremacy tbh
@crusherjoe98393 жыл бұрын
Slav's druzhina, no effect when slavs convert enemy infantry? Someone do that make-your-own-civ thing so we can see Tknights that have fast attack speed and splash damage.
@JD-us8xw3 жыл бұрын
What happens if an Ethiopian player with torsion engines converts a British treb with warwolf?
@dansol5803 жыл бұрын
Nothing. Torsion engines only affect siege workshop units. Edit: Oh, and Ethiopians don't have redemption anyway.