Fall of civilizations Podcast Ep. 7 Songhai empire. Also dives into Mali and Ghana. I can strongly recommended it to people who like me knows very little about African history before the scramble for Africa.
loved this video! keep em coming. I will say I wish you talked a bit more on cattle in africa as they are fascinating. I know some tribes drink cow blood instead of killing them for meat. Also cattle farmers in africa use thorn bush fences to protect their livestock I wish you commented on that.
I'm sharing this everywhere. You deserve a lot more views by pulling off all this work load for the video, you were very thorough. Thank you so much for providing this kind of content, specially on an overlooked civ/culture. ❤
I hope Mali gets someday reworked and some of its actual features puted in another african civilization like Benin. Those farimba horseman are too cool to not be in the game.
I absolutely loved the entire video, from the reference images to learning more about the Malian history. I’d love to see more of these videos, especially Abbasid.
You should listen Salif Keita. Keita is often referred to as a descendant of the royal family of Mali, he is still with us and is a great contemporary folk musician.
Amazing documentary, and yet there are some individuals that claim video games are for the dumb people (I guess it takes one to know one in this case). You did a great work, I do hope other civs will follow in future as well. Thumbs up and hats down!
This all sounds like someone in the dev team wanted to make a Benin civ but was told to make it Malian or 2 civs were in development and were merged into one.
I think Mali still plays like Mali should. I think the artists just had trouble finding enough interesting references that would differentiate the different units. It's a shame really. There's not much art for medieval Africa that isn't just...tribal-looking stereotypes.
@@ChillyEmpire Actually, I just remembered that during the public update preview of Anniversary Edition when players first got to test out Malians and Ottomans, the Malian voicelines weren't in the game yet and instead their units had English voicelines as placeholders. This wasn't the case for the Ottoman units, which had finished voicelines. The devs stated publicly that the reason was they wanted to take more time to get the Malian language right, but I wonder if the actual behind-the-scenes reason was because they had to pivot from some other plan that they had with the civ, which might also explain why there are so many non-Malian aspects of the Malian civ As someone who works in media, a lot of weirdness can be explained by managers changing plans at very inopportune times
I'm probably wrong, and was curious if someone else knew better. What I found strange was just how civilian many of the military buildings looked. They all feel like variants of Roman forums, but I couldn't find much on actual military structures from the Byzantines. I also found it a bit strange how houses developed in the Imperial Age to look like buildings from antiquity, which is probably a reference to some kind of palladian or neoclassical venetian architecture, but it rings a bit anachronistic if that is the case. I'm probably wrong though! @@ChillyEmpire
Yeah I think it's called "Farima Leadership". All the more questionable why the Sofas ended up being called Sofas. Maybe the devs know something I don't?
“Wow, this looks like a neat watch while I’m sitting on the toil-“ *1 hour 8 minute runtime*
Fellow brother, I see that you are cursed to sit on the procelen throne aswell!
Dude literally describing me rn
Chili, this is peak content right here for anyone passionate about history! Keep this up.
Hope to see the history of even more african civs!
Fall of civilizations Podcast Ep. 7 Songhai empire. Also dives into Mali and Ghana.
I can strongly recommended it to people who like me knows very little about African history before the scramble for Africa.
loved this video! keep em coming. I will say I wish you talked a bit more on cattle in africa as they are fascinating. I know some tribes drink cow blood instead of killing them for meat. Also cattle farmers in africa use thorn bush fences to protect their livestock I wish you commented on that.
I didn’t comment on that because I didn’t know about that! That’s really cool.
I'm sharing this everywhere. You deserve a lot more views by pulling off all this work load for the video, you were very thorough. Thank you so much for providing this kind of content, specially on an overlooked civ/culture. ❤
Thanks mate means a lot
i wanted go to sleep but nah, any chilly video is worth it
yeah, me too
I hope Mali gets someday reworked and some of its actual features puted in another african civilization like Benin. Those farimba horseman are too cool to not be in the game.
I absolutely loved the entire video, from the reference images to learning more about the Malian history. I’d love to see more of these videos, especially Abbasid.
Cool deep dive. Any books you would recommend on Medieval / pre colonial subsaharan africa?
You should listen Salif Keita. Keita is often referred to as a descendant of the royal family of Mali, he is still with us and is a great contemporary folk musician.
Had to comment and say this video is amazing we would love more of this content !!!😊😎❤
We need this for more civs! I could even suffice with a compiled version of just showing image references next to whatever unit or building
Loved this video. Main as Mali in AOE4 and love playing Songhai in EU4 in MP matches pissing off portugal 😅
Really hoping we get a Songhai in AOE4 🤞
This is soo cool. I hope you will do something like this for the rest of the civs
Amazing documentary, and yet there are some individuals that claim video games are for the dumb people (I guess it takes one to know one in this case). You did a great work, I do hope other civs will follow in future as well. Thumbs up and hats down!
Would really like a team game civ tier list at some point, really cool video.
What a video! Thanks!
waaw love the concept
The video I don’t deserve but I need
This all sounds like someone in the dev team wanted to make a Benin civ but was told to make it Malian or 2 civs were in development and were merged into one.
I think Mali still plays like Mali should. I think the artists just had trouble finding enough interesting references that would differentiate the different units. It's a shame really. There's not much art for medieval Africa that isn't just...tribal-looking stereotypes.
@@ChillyEmpire Actually, I just remembered that during the public update preview of Anniversary Edition when players first got to test out Malians and Ottomans, the Malian voicelines weren't in the game yet and instead their units had English voicelines as placeholders. This wasn't the case for the Ottoman units, which had finished voicelines. The devs stated publicly that the reason was they wanted to take more time to get the Malian language right, but I wonder if the actual behind-the-scenes reason was because they had to pivot from some other plan that they had with the civ, which might also explain why there are so many non-Malian aspects of the Malian civ
As someone who works in media, a lot of weirdness can be explained by managers changing plans at very inopportune times
Great video! Would love to see one on Byzantines. Somehow the buildings don't feel right.
Really? Do the buildings not feel right? Aside from their Imperial age landmarks I have few issues.
I'm probably wrong, and was curious if someone else knew better. What I found strange was just how civilian many of the military buildings looked. They all feel like variants of Roman forums, but I couldn't find much on actual military structures from the Byzantines. I also found it a bit strange how houses developed in the Imperial Age to look like buildings from antiquity, which is probably a reference to some kind of palladian or neoclassical venetian architecture, but it rings a bit anachronistic if that is the case. I'm probably wrong though!
@@ChillyEmpire
Are you going to design Poles civ? :D Hope they will appear in the AoE4.
I'd like to see you do Delhi next. Something is off with them using crossbows...
Is there really? They didn't use crossbows?
Awesome video may god prolong your life .also what program were you using during the video
LOL I used Figma. Great design tool.
cant wait for next
please do mongols
Can you make Biome tierlist next ?
19:40 isn´t the Sofa upgrade called Farima or something?
Yeah I think it's called "Farima Leadership". All the more questionable why the Sofas ended up being called Sofas. Maybe the devs know something I don't?
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40:25😃
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Woke kept in to AOE4
I wish the AoE2 african architecture had this much detail. It's by far the most boring set in the game.
Farima being called Sofa gives me the same vibe as Abbasid/Ayyubids not having Mamluks. Makes no sense.
Yeah! Wtheck.
What's even stranger is that both AoE 2 and AoE 4 have upgrades called farima for cavalry.