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Mail barding seems to appear in art (although it's hard to tell), it's a component of a full bard especially around the neck, and there are a few 16th century examples. However, they're definitely really rare.

Better names: Angevin dynasty (when you have more organization in the army, even greater French influence socially and a stronger political connection to the Catholic church) manganikon (The Axumites' siege equipment, if it existed, would be imported from the Romans and Persians, and in the later Abyssianian Empire would be from the Arabs) Bo-hiya (it was actually a rocket launcher, but it would be a parabolic siege weapon) Vương hầu quân (the armies of the Royal family, so that would mean more elephants and a lot more high quality elephants in terms of training, health, equipment, etc) Ichcahuipilli (Or the Maya equivalent ) if we're going with equipment, or Achij (simply meaning man or Yeoman) or Holcan (meaning warrior) if we're talking about elite training.

The fact that lots of "uniques" are just a generic word in other languages

i feel so much smarter after these videos. thank you very much for making them

no gay horde is the best

I love you complete unit profile pics with pencil. Magyar Huszar and Boyar horse head took me out good

Bruhhh seriously no comment on the google search 8:52. Best day of mu life LOL 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Enjoyable video. Glad ur back

He's back! With new fact knowledge.😊

Having the battle of Crecy twice in the same video and one person representing two unique units is even more surprising than learning that the Genoese apparently read (a badly translated) Sun Tzu.

Standing army claims. Countless researchers love to claim :''Oh X civilisation that I am studying was the FirST TO UtILIZE A STAnDING ARmY IN hISTORY.'' This is usually just BS based on hubris. Alfred the Great Had a Professional standing army, the Chivalric Crusader Orders had true professional standing armies, the Hungarian Black army, The Inca had a professional standing army with Kamayuk officers and more . ‘’No no’’ I hear them say… ‘’Sargon the Great of Akkad 2270 BC had the first standing army.’’ Where in fact even Lugal-zage-si 2296 BC had a professional standing army. Contrary to popular belief , a lot of civilisations in the High medieval era and ancient times had professional standing armies.

Knight is also a word that goes back to something like a servant, someone who worked for a land or house owner, then later to a more complex liege system. Modern German still has “Knecht“ which is usually describing a farm hand.

Another banger

This video was so well done! Bravo! Gonna make sure to watch the rest of the series too.... Oh & instant subscribe! 😁

Do you think the Magyar hussar should have a Bowman mechanic similar to Rathas?

I really really wish to give, at least, 1 like for each of the hand drawn completing the official unit illustration. Also 1 like for each joke that made me legitimately lol. The Cyka Blyat one deserves 2 likes alone. Great video, as always. Looking very foward to the next.

got me with that intro -.- 11

You took some time.. but worth it as usual 🔥🔥🔥

My Genoese Crossbowmen mostly take ouchies and do almost no ouchies, but great video anyway!

It's historically acurate, that boyars have been yelling "AAAAAAH, SOOKA BLYAT!".

Weren't the Indians also part of the Forgotten with their Elephant Archer?🤔 Not that I think it will score high given how broad the term Indian is and because Elephant Archers probably weren't unique to the Indians.😅

I guess you skipped the Elephant Archer because it is no longer a unique unit and the Indians no longer exist as a civ, even though both were introduced in The Forgotten.

The Slavs were mostly Kievan or Moscovite Rus in some way so sending the ruling nobility into battle as their own unit instead of a commander is quite strange. There are other Nobility that can be used from the Dvoryan/Dvoryanstvo and Boyar Scions. The Bardiche is also a 14th Century weapon, for the Slavs being able to train Boyars in Castle age which is around 9th to 13th century according to the AoE2 History Section.

AoE2's Genoese Crossbowmen has some strange look of being unarmored and not using a Pavise Shield, however the more stranger one is they have 1 Melee Armor but 0 Pierce Armor, though in Castle Age they can get up to 4/3 Melee Armor with the combination of Castle Age Blacksmith +2/2 and Pavise Unique Tech +1/1. But the most strange of it all is Elite Genoese Crossbow didn't get an attack increase, making them only have 6 Attack while other unit like Elite Longbowman and Rattan Elite Archer have 7 Attack.

Like this comment if you also want a 30 minutes video of Armchair Saurus looking up the Boyar's role at each one of the Slavic kingdoms/empire, individually.

The definitive edition of the Itzcoatl hero actually has a more historically accurate model of the Jaguar Warrior

Honestly they could replace the woad raider with the Gallowglass an irish mercanary from the 13th to 16th century., 64.media.tumblr.com/0f99c415bf1dff7d2ea34df6b8b260c3/tumblr_inline_nrvxyleveQ1rtdfb6_1280.jpg

The persians of age of empires are fusion of all of various dynasties that ruled Iran during the medieval period from the Sassanids all to the early modern era Safavids, which explains why the Perisans have both Elephants and heavily armoured cavalry, whilst having a decent gunpowder roster of hand cannoneers, bombard cannons and the unquie tech of citadels which replaces the castles arrows with guns

Sforza is Probobly my favorite mercenary commander of all time. A man who would stop at nothing to get what he wanted. If he couldn’t with with warfare, he won with his silver tongue and vice versa.

I think the bardiche was used as the Boyar weapon to be more identifable of a small unit model that is zoomed out against the map. Same reason why they oversized the axes of the Frankish throwing axeman

Magyar Huszar with 5 stars <3 Liked and shared :)

I dread the vid when you have to deal with the thirisadai.

love your videos!!! keep up the good work , thank you!

I have been waiting months for this video ❤️

Man the slinger didn't deserve that lost star. Ditto for the Genoese Crossbowman. You don't grant any leeway for gameplay decisions lol! 😅

YES, I'm SO glad to see you and my sub box again! Gonna enjoy watching this a little later over dinner

Thank you ❤ for the video. AND thank you for thanking us for the patience. I sure have a lot of patience (and impatience😂) but 😮 It is ALWAYS worth it ❤ to Research! Thanks🎉

I forgot how high your standards were before I being reminded of the tier list. I also forgot 0 stars is a possibility. I still think Woad warriors deserve 1 star while berserk deserve 0. Berserks are made up, Woad Warriors are just Anachronistic. Also is till think that you can interpret the Mameluke's Bactrian camel as a reference to their steppe origin.

I believe the condottiero is partially inspired by "rotella infrantry", since there was some historical account of rotella shields being effective against early firearms.

you put so much time into these videos, thank you!

worth the wait, good job

lets gooo

It’s taken me a while to notice your profile pic of a dinosaur which is awesome

I still think that Berserkers, the word basically meaning the same as Champion, and with a climate potentially favouring taller and stronger men who have experience with surviving in harsher weather, deserve more than 1 star. While it's possible to be reminded of "going berserk" when hearing the name, that's not really what the unit represents in the game - just the best fighter of their village, experienced in melee and adapted to a colder climate

You could hold against the Magyar Huszar, that the effect of Corvinian Army - Magyar Huszars cost only food - is ironic, given that the real Corvinian Army was notoriously expensive to maintain and bankrupted Hungary nearly. But this is a problem of the technology and not the unit. Thats why the unit still gets away with 5 stars

Man I wait 6 months for the video and now I need to wait another 6 months PS: Good job very good video need more 😀

Do you think "Druzhinnik/Дружинник" would have been a better name for the Slavs' (should be called Rus' BTW) unique unit? Druzhina were the retainers of a prince.

8:51 is that your attempt at a joke?

11:36 you missed a chance to reference the dreamworks animated film El Dorado

9:50 It's actually a little more complicated. Shields actually got smaller cause they got thicker and so had to be smaller to remain light enough to be maneuverable. A 14th century kite shield is over 4,5 times thicker than a 8th century one. This was done because advancements in armor also spurred advancements in weapons. With things like halberds and maces. 6th-9th century kite shields were so big cause they were very thin. They really only served to protect against arrow fire or to push away static spears. late medieval kite shields, while having the same shape were made for a different purpose which is to deflect powerful blows from anti-armor weapons. They were meant to take a pole axe blow head on which would go straight through a thin kite shield. This is also why a lot of early kite shields have hide on them while the late ones do not. In the early ones if they got wet the wood would expand and could warp the shield so the hide kept the water at bay and helped keep it in the right shape. Late kite shields were thick enough and sturdy enough that this wasn't an issue.