Plainly the Ballista Elephant Itself is the siege engineer. Probably uses the research cost to go to a trade school and learn how to demo buildings. Probably has his certificate up on the wall in the castle
I'm reminded of this comic I saw on reddit years ago where a konnik is bearing down on a monk and the monk desperately tries to convert them. The monk succeeds, but realizes only the horse got converted and runs away while the horse looks back at its rider who is charging up his swing
Does this mean that when you convert other cavalry units it's only the horse switching sides, and the rider is like "welp, what can you do, he's the boss"?
The horse is insulted that its rider would change religions and throws him off. Then it kills the monk and runs away from the konnik trying to get back on.
Which is funny because teuton knights totally loved their mares and wouldn't bother to show up in fight without it, well, as well as Slav Boyars or any other aristocratic warriors when horses is present to buy; but Slavs loved fight on foot much more (especially because you don't have much use of cavalry in the forest, so only south Rus has to use it massively) whatever, i just love that badass combination of shield and big (but not nearly as jarring as with French axe thrower) axe, not very usual
@@AtticusKarpenter "but Slavs loved fight on foot much more (especially because you don't have much use of cavalry in the forest, so only south Rus has to use it massively)" that's actually common misconception. While Slavs switched to mass cavalry later then western europeans, by 12 century slavic armies was just as cavalry heavy as in the rest of Europe. Even urban militia from wealthier cities was made from patrician based heavy cavalry.
I'm totally picturing the konnik rider answering the door and the horse in the living room behind them, sitting crosslegged on the couch peering over its newspaper. 😂
The samurai strides forward across the marsh. The warship ahead of him fires a ballista bolt, which he deflects with ease. With one decisive blow, the ship is cut down, just like all those that came before it
Urumi, Teutonic Knight, Samurai, Monaspa, Woad Raider, Plumbed Archer, Axe thrower, Persian war elephant, Corean wagoon, are missing too (they will be on the second part)
@@robertoaguilar5896 Yes, but this video is for units that start with A-K and that should include Coustiller. Unless maybe the fun fact is "Actually in another language, Coustillier is spelled differently"
1:38: In Boromir's defense, orc arrows are also poisoned, so him switching to Huskarl parameters also wouldn't have helped. Guess the Flemish Militia bit needs a patch that makes them randomly variable again. The Karambit Warrior bit though...
7:20 The "totally different and less distinct knife" seems to be a Kukri, which ironically may be one of the most iconic knives ever. They are used by the Nepalese Gurkhas, so I have no idea why they decided to put them on the Gbeto. 🤓
A fun fact about janissary - originally they were meant to wear their disting ottoman/janissary hats, which you can still see in the original demos or concept art - but the devs decided against this due them seemingly resembling members of the Ku Klux Klan. Which is, of course, ridiculous.
Yeah This just should have been unique units instead of *castle* unique units. We'll miss interesting facts about missionaries, srivamsha riders, xolotl warriors and slingers too 😕
Elephant Fact: No elephant has been known to get get a university degree... in real life, that is. Balista Elephants in AoE2 clearly are engineering majors.
I eagerly await when the Centurion quirk will be abused in a diplomacy game. Play as Japanese, have a Roman ally. The Roman ally sends in a centurion or two for you to convert (by briefly setting you as neutral and then back to ally), upgrades, and then sends an elite one. This can lead to an incredible deathball near the end of an hour-long game, where the final battle is often decided by population efficiency.
Interestingly enough, Hand Cannon and Janissary used to have identical dispersions and accuracies when the Janissary is upgraded to Elite. But an update happened in DE that buffed hand cannons to make them more reliable, but didn't change the janissaries, making them less accurate
Actually is makes total sense to convert the Horse over the Rider. If you didn't, then the Horse would just take the traitor back to base for execution. Horses are Loyal, Don'Cha no!
What’s pretty cool with the “oda” campaign in the new DLC, if you play the cavalry clan and do the bonus objective you get stirrups. So now your special charge bonus cavalry are now also 60ish%+ attack speed of a normal cavalier. Probobly my favorite thing with converting centurions. (If that would have been a side thing for jokes, just imagine attack animations actually doing damage on que.
The monk finished chanting. The Konnic doesn't feel any different. The Horse looks at the Konnic. Horse: "Actually, I don't believe Christ is King" *Horse get executed for Heresy*
You're assuming the Ballista elephants aren't the actual siege engineers themselves. They spent 4 long years at elephant college to earn that degree, and deserve to be treated as such!
Did you... did you... did you really pronounce "Chakram" correctly? You just earned my massive respect, my friend! Incidentally, this pronunciation of the "a" applies to a lot of the words around the Indian subcontent, including Hindustanis, Ratha, Bengalis, etc. :) While on the topic of pronunciation, Ghulam is pronounced with a shorter "u" rather than "Ghoolam".
The composite bowmen shooting straight is actually a biff because approaching enemies will get hit by their arrows even without ballistics where archibg shits would land behind the enemy
Can you do an optimal mining camp placement video? You could test the efficiency of different mining camp placements based off mine shapes, villagers on the mine, etc (:
Gbeto's knife is the picture is kukri: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kukri They're mostly assosiated with Nepal and India, although they've been popular all over the place for a long time. Even Roman soldiers sometimes used it instead of their short swords (I can look for evidence if you want).
Missed an opportunity to reference the Acolyte when talking about the Kamayuk. SOTL focused of the power of one more range. I expected him to say, "the power of many."
-Someone should tell to John Blackthorne that samurai charging a unique portuguese ship is a career watched with great interest. Even though the bolts are shooting backwards from melee. -Chu Ko Nu. Chinese Quality. Chinese Quantity. Chinese Thumb Ring so powerful, that the arrows are still bouncing of off the Vietnamese rattan shield. -That bulgarian horse was a heretic! Ok, Inquisitor, I got it. Go test the faith of this teutonic Ballista Elephant instead. -Warrior Priests, Monks and Priests. Hey..You! The guy on a donkey(Missionary).. How about you help us carry a relic, yo?! -So, this one day, the Cuman, the Hunnic, the Turkish, the Mongolian, the Berber, the Italian and the Bohemian Kipchaks, Condottieri and Genitours go into a bar.... And then they all started to build another castle. -Boyars and Rattan Archers go into a fight with Teutonic Knights and Huskarls. They all die.. Either very..very..very slowly or very very very fast ˇˇ -Bohemian Monk and Persian Crossbowman are paid in food and wood only. Apparently, they are all trash :D -Japanese and Roman Chakram Throwers.. Lets just say that that day, they made princess Xena proud. Albeit little turbo ˇˇ -Villagers with daggers. The best armored siege engines of medieval ages and ballista elephants of yore. .Guess who wins........Not the wagons or rams. -The dromedary has only one hump. And is dehydrated. So rageful is the camel archer, that its arrows plunge right through his bigger elephant and horse archer cousins.
16th time of asking Spirit of the Law to review Romae ad Bellum civilizations like he did with Romans. Thank you for another interesting video and keep up the awesome work. :D
Nah the monk just wanted a ride that's all. He tries it with all the horses but finds the rider gets converted with it and won't get off the horse. He once saw a Spanish monk and got very jealous of the donkey. WHY DOES HE GET A DONKEY?! He exclaimed. He's never gotten over that.
Could you do an episode on the cosmetic look of all UUnits, including the icon vs unit and any small tweaks upgrades make, maybe comparisons vs the HD edition unit & icon etc.
Hussite Wagons have that thing where they absorb half damage from projectiles that target other units but pass through their collision box. Are arrows fired from a Composite Bowman easier to "block" with a Hussite Wagon than other projectiles because of the flatter trajectory?
Can you please do a video on Japanese champions with both a Centurion and an elite Centurion backing them up? This makes me wonder just how high the militia attack line can go from stacking buffs. Also, I could see the very, very minor arc of the composite bowman's arrows at that range. It's incredibly subtle but it's there.
Funny enough about the Monk converting the Konnik's horse... There is a Bible story involving a certain ungodly King getting taught a lesson from God through his steed (which was a donkey, that started speaking to him).
Does the Composite Bowman's anti-gravity arrows affect how it interacts with the Hussite Wagons projectile-blocking properties? If I remember correctly, archers can hit their intended target if their shots arc over the wagon.
The ballista ele firing down at close range is actually super critical in CBA. Before I knew that I thought it was kind of garbage 11 Also I had no idea about the flemish militia! That’s pretty cool.
Actually, a horse converting first... Is kind of logical... After all, a horse is likely less religious than rider and that's why after converting it is killed by its rider.
Very entertaining video. Would have been nice if you added a comparison for the generated gold. Like that is the equivalent of x villagers mining gold, y tradecarts or z relics doing their job.
The siege engineers trained the elephants to move their head forward just a smidge, because they have a bit in their mouth which is actually the release for the ballista. They're off researching ways to further improve the tech, without risking human life. Medievel automated warfare.
"If someone can tell me where the siege engineers are on the elephant" The same place as the servants of the onagre? I've never seen a catapult move by itself :p
"we should appreciate the fact that an Elite Samurai can take down a boat by singlehandedly while under fire" thats because that one Samurai was the storm that was approaching.
@@jasonsmith1950 ahh shit, would have been fun and op 🤣 that i'd still enjoy champskarls with centoriun cuz they would be fast enough to become actual huskarls 🤣
Plainly the Ballista Elephant Itself is the siege engineer. Probably uses the research cost to go to a trade school and learn how to demo buildings. Probably has his certificate up on the wall in the castle
This is the only correct answer.
Elephants have great intelligence, so it's pretty obvious.
An elephant never forgets the arc of fire needed to get that extra range.
Yeah, it's pretty obvious. Apes really underestimate the damage elephants can cause when we want to 🐘🐘🐘
No
Konnic: Gets converted
Rider: *Angry John Wick noises*
Monk: have you heard the good news?
Horse: *dies*
@@Progeusz- this is wly i love this game hahahha some traductions are a perfect meme
I'm reminded of this comic I saw on reddit years ago where a konnik is bearing down on a monk and the monk desperately tries to convert them. The monk succeeds, but realizes only the horse got converted and runs away while the horse looks back at its rider who is charging up his swing
@@Progeusz-no - it doesnt. Why spreading bs?
Does this mean that when you convert other cavalry units it's only the horse switching sides, and the rider is like "welp, what can you do, he's the boss"?
Ah. There's only one option when your horse starts whispering blasphemous words, apparently.
Imagine if the monk otherwise converts the rider and leaving you with a horse to scout😂
The horse is insulted that its rider would change religions and throws him off. Then it kills the monk and runs away from the konnik trying to get back on.
@@nicholase2868 ...wow. Horses are built different in Bulgaria eh?
@@jordanlimantara1814 Everything is built different in Bulgaria.
woLOLo
10:45 not even a mother would love that face bruh.
This got me rolling
boyars is just teutonic knight on horse, they are so damn tanky vs meele
Which is funny because teuton knights totally loved their mares and wouldn't bother to show up in fight without it, well, as well as Slav Boyars or any other aristocratic warriors when horses is present to buy; but Slavs loved fight on foot much more (especially because you don't have much use of cavalry in the forest, so only south Rus has to use it massively)
whatever, i just love that badass combination of shield and big (but not nearly as jarring as with French axe thrower) axe, not very usual
And both got countered by Pole and Lithuanian units
@@AtticusKarpenter German knights were known to fight on foot very often
@@user-vo1sb3bo1s no...
@@AtticusKarpenter "but Slavs loved fight on foot much more (especially because you don't have much use of cavalry in the forest, so only south Rus has to use it massively)" that's actually common misconception. While Slavs switched to mass cavalry later then western europeans, by 12 century slavic armies was just as cavalry heavy as in the rest of Europe. Even urban militia from wealthier cities was made from patrician based heavy cavalry.
Would your horse like to hear about our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ?
I'm totally picturing the konnik rider answering the door and the horse in the living room behind them, sitting crosslegged on the couch peering over its newspaper. 😂
Neigh
The samurai strides forward across the marsh. The warship ahead of him fires a ballista bolt, which he deflects with ease. With one decisive blow, the ship is cut down, just like all those that came before it
you forgot the dramatic pause where nothing happens, and the ship gets shredded only after the samurai sheathed his sword while striking a pose.
omae wa mou shindeiru
"Once again, I cut a worthless object."
One Piece basically.
"I can't slice the shit out of you without getting closer"
I think u forgot to put in the Coustillier my friend
He did Flemish militia. Maybe there are no interesting facts about Coustilliers?
@@jorgea5426 Maybe. He mentioned castle unique units at the start tho
Urumi, Teutonic Knight, Samurai, Monaspa, Woad Raider, Plumbed Archer, Axe thrower, Persian war elephant, Corean wagoon, are missing too (they will be on the second part)
@@robertoaguilar5896 bruh...
@@robertoaguilar5896 Yes, but this video is for units that start with A-K and that should include Coustiller. Unless maybe the fun fact is "Actually in another language, Coustillier is spelled differently"
1:38: In Boromir's defense, orc arrows are also poisoned, so him switching to Huskarl parameters also wouldn't have helped.
Guess the Flemish Militia bit needs a patch that makes them randomly variable again.
The Karambit Warrior bit though...
7:20 The "totally different and less distinct knife" seems to be a Kukri, which ironically may be one of the most iconic knives ever. They are used by the Nepalese Gurkhas, so I have no idea why they decided to put them on the Gbeto. 🤓
1 fact for the AoE2 Community : We are so blessed to have a top tier content creator like Spirit of the Law in our midst !
Fun fact: The Spirit of the law channel had an op intro song that was patched off sadly
He still uses it for entire civ reviews. He just doesn't use it in non-civ review videos.
6:00 "The arrow knows its way."
A fun fact about janissary - originally they were meant to wear their disting ottoman/janissary hats, which you can still see in the original demos or concept art - but the devs decided against this due them seemingly resembling members of the Ku Klux Klan. Which is, of course, ridiculous.
I always thought they looked dumb without their hats
I thought they did this because they looked like the pope? I read about it somewhere.
Could be easily fixed by making their hats the team colour and in DE plenty of detail can be added to make it clear it is the distinct Janissary hat.
The model was brought back in the scenario editor since Forgotten.
@@JP_Wu but its still dumb that in DE they kept the old design. At this point they are either lazy or want too much to stick to the original design.
Armbi are the gods of *"I meant to do that"*
Should've made one for *D*ismounted Konniks!
Yeah
This just should have been unique units instead of *castle* unique units. We'll miss interesting facts about missionaries, srivamsha riders, xolotl warriors and slingers too 😕
@@girishkamath642 Also Longboats and Turtle ships
@@punbug4721it's only until K, locate L and T on alphabeth.
The Karambit Warrior glow-up is my absolute favourite part of the video, thanks for the laughter. 😂
12:08 Horses are known to be very religious. Just look at missionaries and try to tell me that the horse isn't the key element in conversion.
Hate to be that person but they ride mules
@@LeicaFleury11 amazing
funny enough Magyar hassar still do bonus damage to ballista elephants
The gbeto are holding khukuri in the profile icon. The more you know!
They were having a cultural exchange program with the Nepalese
You got it all wrong: The ELEPHANT iteslf is taught some siege engeneering!
Or you could argue that elephants have to be trained not to destroy buildings 😜
Elephant Fact: No elephant has been known to get get a university degree... in real life, that is. Balista Elephants in AoE2 clearly are engineering majors.
Part 2 will be "from L to W"
I see.
Part 2 will follow the path of the karambit warrior.
There is a reason why I think Bulgarians should have more monk bonuses and techs.
Look! Even the konnik's horse is religious!
"What happened to your horse? Did it get sick? Did it get injured?"
"No. It got religion."
@@Jondiceful
Some heretic told him that Jesus was not Bulgarian, and it could not take it. XD
I love facts!
Even if I'm not good enough at the game to utilize any of them!
A samurai taking out a caravel is pretty metal!
I eagerly await when the Centurion quirk will be abused in a diplomacy game. Play as Japanese, have a Roman ally. The Roman ally sends in a centurion or two for you to convert (by briefly setting you as neutral and then back to ally), upgrades, and then sends an elite one. This can lead to an incredible deathball near the end of an hour-long game, where the final battle is often decided by population efficiency.
The Konnic one was hilarious
Both Boromir AND Lurtz: was I a joke to you?
Nahhhh, that Boromir reference was a foul 🤣
Historically chukonu rarely used in military
Interestingly enough, Hand Cannon and Janissary used to have identical dispersions and accuracies when the Janissary is upgraded to Elite.
But an update happened in DE that buffed hand cannons to make them more reliable, but didn't change the janissaries, making them less accurate
12:00 The Konnik rider is a very very distant ancestor of Warhammer's commissars. The horse betrayed the god emperor!
Karambit warriors had fun with mewing
I remember that elite jaguar change very well from your Aztec overview
1:38
but he was shot with arrows not javelins.
Actually is makes total sense to convert the Horse over the Rider. If you didn't, then the Horse would just take the traitor back to base for execution. Horses are Loyal, Don'Cha no!
That boromir bit caught me completely off guard hahaha
There's a comic somewhere of a Konnik's horse getting converted and then looking up at his rider, preparing to kill him.
What’s pretty cool with the “oda” campaign in the new DLC, if you play the cavalry clan and do the bonus objective you get stirrups. So now your special charge bonus cavalry are now also 60ish%+ attack speed of a normal cavalier. Probobly my favorite thing with converting centurions. (If that would have been a side thing for jokes, just imagine attack animations actually doing damage on que.
Of course we know where the engineers are! The Elefants themselves are the Engineers you are searching for.
The monk finished chanting.
The Konnic doesn't feel any different.
The Horse looks at the Konnic.
Horse: "Actually, I don't believe Christ is King"
*Horse get executed for Heresy*
The horse: "Hail Hydra"
You're assuming the Ballista elephants aren't the actual siege engineers themselves. They spent 4 long years at elephant college to earn that degree, and deserve to be treated as such!
I thought the vils have "heavy siege" damage that applies to both the hussite wagon and ballista elephant. Did that get changed?
When I wake up to a new SoTL upload, it's the first thing on my to do list after a cup of coffee.
From L to W nice
Did you... did you... did you really pronounce "Chakram" correctly? You just earned my massive respect, my friend! Incidentally, this pronunciation of the "a" applies to a lot of the words around the Indian subcontent, including Hindustanis, Ratha, Bengalis, etc. :)
While on the topic of pronunciation, Ghulam is pronounced with a shorter "u" rather than "Ghoolam".
A-K? You forgot the Knights that are Teutonic.
Those are the Koolest!
Horse fact, similar to the elephant, there hasn't been any document recording a horse being converted to another religion.
Phosphoru definitely influenced the Hussit wagon change 😂 8:51
I hate playing against the Hussite Wagon, thanks for the tip now! 😉
I suspect the usual attack of 10 wagons would vaporize the civs before reaching, though (but dunno, never tried)
Thank you for pronouncing Chakram correctly
"+1 range is the hardest counter against ao2 pathing" This truly speaks why new players have problem with managing units.
The composite bowmen shooting straight is actually a biff because approaching enemies will get hit by their arrows even without ballistics where archibg shits would land behind the enemy
Can you do an optimal mining camp placement video? You could test the efficiency of different mining camp placements based off mine shapes, villagers on the mine, etc (:
obviously the ballista elephant IS the siege engineer. it goes to engineering school before getting its ballista
Gbeto's knife is the picture is kukri:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kukri
They're mostly assosiated with Nepal and India, although they've been popular all over the place for a long time. Even Roman soldiers sometimes used it instead of their short swords (I can look for evidence if you want).
My fav fact here is centurion and keshik ones. Thank you for all the videos, sotl, it's always a treat when something new pops out on my feed
Missed an opportunity to reference the Acolyte when talking about the Kamayuk. SOTL focused of the power of one more range. I expected him to say, "the power of many."
Boromir was shot by an Uruk hai Archer multiple times, not a spear thrower ;)
It's the elephant getting an engineering degree
-Someone should tell to John Blackthorne that samurai charging a unique portuguese ship is a career watched with great interest. Even though the bolts are shooting backwards from melee.
-Chu Ko Nu. Chinese Quality. Chinese Quantity. Chinese Thumb Ring so powerful, that the arrows are still bouncing of off the Vietnamese rattan shield.
-That bulgarian horse was a heretic! Ok, Inquisitor, I got it. Go test the faith of this teutonic Ballista Elephant instead.
-Warrior Priests, Monks and Priests. Hey..You! The guy on a donkey(Missionary).. How about you help us carry a relic, yo?!
-So, this one day, the Cuman, the Hunnic, the Turkish, the Mongolian, the Berber, the Italian and the Bohemian Kipchaks, Condottieri and Genitours go into a bar....
And then they all started to build another castle.
-Boyars and Rattan Archers go into a fight with Teutonic Knights and Huskarls. They all die.. Either very..very..very slowly or very very very fast ˇˇ
-Bohemian Monk and Persian Crossbowman are paid in food and wood only. Apparently, they are all trash :D
-Japanese and Roman Chakram Throwers.. Lets just say that that day, they made princess Xena proud. Albeit little turbo ˇˇ
-Villagers with daggers. The best armored siege engines of medieval ages and ballista elephants of yore. .Guess who wins........Not the wagons or rams.
-The dromedary has only one hump. And is dehydrated. So rageful is the camel archer, that its arrows plunge right through his bigger elephant and horse archer cousins.
I absolutely love the mamelukes' secret scimitar throwing arc. It's like an art form throwing those swords like boomerangs
I had hoped for real life facts about these units 😄 Maybe an idea for another vid?
Awesome vid!
Konnik: "My faith is wavering... must kill horse to reconnect with my religious roots..."
didnt even notice this was a A-K tell the end of the video xD
SOTL, i think its time... you need to do a video fully explaining what "battle events" are. we need an answer, its been almost 25 years
16th time of asking Spirit of the Law to review Romae ad Bellum civilizations like he did with Romans. Thank you for another interesting video and keep up the awesome work. :D
A Karambit Coin reference for especially all the long-time SoTL fans.
Konnik wins the video xD
Nah the monk just wanted a ride that's all. He tries it with all the horses but finds the rider gets converted with it and won't get off the horse. He once saw a Spanish monk and got very jealous of the donkey. WHY DOES HE GET A DONKEY?! He exclaimed. He's never gotten over that.
Could you do an episode on the cosmetic look of all UUnits, including the icon vs unit and any small tweaks upgrades make, maybe comparisons vs the HD edition unit & icon etc.
It's just that the Konnik's horse is a neighsayer.
Hussite Wagons have that thing where they absorb half damage from projectiles that target other units but pass through their collision box. Are arrows fired from a Composite Bowman easier to "block" with a Hussite Wagon than other projectiles because of the flatter trajectory?
Can you please do a video on Japanese champions with both a Centurion and an elite Centurion backing them up? This makes me wonder just how high the militia attack line can go from stacking buffs.
Also, I could see the very, very minor arc of the composite bowman's arrows at that range. It's incredibly subtle but it's there.
I was not expecting to become an Elite Boyar enthusiast when I clicked this video, but here I am. Thanks SotL. Also RIP Boromir
Funny enough about the Monk converting the Konnik's horse... There is a Bible story involving a certain ungodly King getting taught a lesson from God through his steed (which was a donkey, that started speaking to him).
Should've spoken about all the post-imperial unique units instead...
*Elite Everything*
4:10 WHAT??? WOLOLOLOLOLO spam let's efing go.
This is the next adept for patching.
Does the Composite Bowman's anti-gravity arrows affect how it interacts with the Hussite Wagons projectile-blocking properties? If I remember correctly, archers can hit their intended target if their shots arc over the wagon.
The ballista ele firing down at close range is actually super critical in CBA. Before I knew that I thought it was kind of garbage 11
Also I had no idea about the flemish militia! That’s pretty cool.
If ballista eles are considered, Calvary, does that mean they’re affected by the Calvary blacksmith upgrades?
So, should we just skip the Elite Chu Ko Nu upgrade every time and just get thumb ring (and other archer upgrades of course)?
TIL the Composite Bowman's flat arrow isn't blocked by units in front of the target
Actually, a horse converting first... Is kind of logical... After all, a horse is likely less religious than rider and that's why after converting it is killed by its rider.
Very entertaining video. Would have been nice if you added a comparison for the generated gold. Like that is the equivalent of x villagers mining gold, y tradecarts or z relics doing their job.
The Ballista Elephant is really just the imperial age Trojan Horse. So many people crammed inside to work the auto reloading ballista.
The siege engineers trained the elephants to move their head forward just a smidge, because they have a bit in their mouth which is actually the release for the ballista. They're off researching ways to further improve the tech, without risking human life. Medievel automated warfare.
In the Forgotten's expansion, the Karambit didn't look so ugly. Now they seem like a true lady's man
"If someone can tell me where the siege engineers are on the elephant"
The same place as the servants of the onagre? I've never seen a catapult move by itself :p
"we should appreciate the fact that an Elite Samurai can take down a boat by singlehandedly while under fire"
thats because that one Samurai was the storm that was approaching.
ok but i would recommend teutonic knights or boyars for keshik farming
What if the monks always convert the horses and the riders just play along? XD
*Double Ballista Elephant mowing down enemy withdouble crossbow
Siege Engineer and Mahout, standing proud shoulder by shoulder, holding back tears
When your christian horse discovers Buddhism: "Whelp, guess you have to die now old friend"
Frickin' awesome!
One of these days, I might actually buy AoE 2... in the meantime I've got a video to watch.
Fun question, does centurion affect a
ANY infatry?
Just militia line. They don't affect the spear line or any infantry UU (except Legionaries).
@@jasonsmith1950 ahh shit, would have been fun and op 🤣 that i'd still enjoy champskarls with centoriun cuz they would be fast enough to become actual huskarls 🤣
I thought the villagers have bonus damage against Balista elephants AND Hussite wagons.