Age of empires 4 - The Best Unique Units

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[markusvalentini]

0:43 Landsknecht
1:38 Prelate
2:39 Mangudai
3:34 Khan
4:17 Warrior Monk
5:17 Horse Archer
6:04 Streltsy
6:45 Camel Archer
7:57 Camel Rider
8:45 Arbalétrier
9:34 Royal Knight
10:32 Cannon
11:22 Galleass
12:26 Nested Bees
13:37 Imperial Official
15:59 Palace Guard
17:02 Zhuge Nu
18:07 Fire lancer
19:17 Grenadier
20:42 Longbowman
22:03 Tower War Elefant
23:03 War Elefant
23:48 Scholar

[Valle]

Great content! I would love videos about technology and priorities.. which technology is very important early.. when to upgrade units.. when to buy other expensive upgrades and which ones are worth it! Thanks a lot!

[MrPhilosomanic]

One thing you missed - French cannon has higher base damage and move speed. Normal bombard is 170 base + 340 vs buildings (510 total). French cannon is 200 base + 400 vs buildings, +20 if made from College of Artillery (600/620 total). The move speed is about 20% faster (1.05 vs 0.88). That's a pretty significant damage bump, and being able to instantly retreat (without tearing down) and move 20% faster makes them much easier to keep alive.

[josephs]

Wish they had renamed HRE MaA to something different, HRE MaA with upgrades is a HRE UU on it's own.

[claymathews]

I’d say that the Abbasid Spearmen almost deserve to be an honorary unique unit. The Phalanx upgrade makes them hands down the best Spearmen in the game, and they get that +1 armor if you mix them with Camel Archers.

[theFirstAidKit]

Fire Lancers are really good raiding unit. When you get a mass of 40-50 of them, you can easily snipe landmarks in seconds, split them up to smaller groups to charge into gold miners and wood lines to one shot a mass of villagers. They are also good at wiping out massed infantry and ranged armies. I feel like people are sleeping on it, maybe because of china, maybe because of the 3rd dynasty and maybe because people mostly play 1v1's and these things shine in team games.

[omegangerman]

Since I play HRE the most, I certainly hope that the Landsknecht will be buffed in the next balance update. It is in itself a unique unit with melee area of effect damage. However, he is not usable as he neither deals huge damage nor has good health. If the opponent has only a couple of ranged units, the Landsknecht will never come close to those in a big way. And that's pretty unnecessary for the cost.
If the opponent also uses the distributed formations, even the area damage won't do much good.

[nebelwaffel]

0:52, that sad 'lunch-connect', hilarious!

[dimitrisoikonomou]

I expected the Strelet and Arbeletrie to be highier. Also, the unique fishing boat of the Rus is missing (and it should be pretty high up). D tier is sad to say the least :(

[jonathankelly]

I would take the imperial official thing and actually tie it into landmarks. Then you’re doubling down on the dynasty play and encouraging getting both landmarks per age. Not disagree with your idea, just wanting to take it a step further. Plus if you actually build all of the landmarks, you should be heavily rewarded imo.

[FitzBro]

Scholar S+ tier! Have you seen the running shoes on those bad boys?

[Muenni]

Galeasses are direct counters to war ships. They receive 0 damage from them, as long as they're facing them (the direction they shoot in), making them essentially immune to them.
Otherwise, they have terrible stats that would leave them worse than the Hulk from French Age II.

[GCruz]

Hey Drongo, have you seen the video by Waddling Duck in which he explains directional armor in naval units? That may put the french unique ship a little higher.

[bokajon]

Props for recognizing the power of the Imperial Official (and how it can be improved).
Pro tip: Palace Guard in Yuang Dynasty (+15% speed) to hunt down those annoying French knights.

[Bruteel]

as a HRE player, it hurts that our cool in theory unit is woeful. It would be cool if HRE and English are given an extra unit to bring it at least a little closer to how many unique units all the other civs have

[aslof]

The nest of bees historicaly used to scare their enemies as it was very loud due to gunpowder rockets on its arrows.
Its arrows don't have enough momentum to take enough velocity to really pierce light leather armours.
It would only pierce through cloth at the best.
So it is pretty well depicted.
I think it needs more arrow shots.

[Thunderbirdmovies]

I mean, if you’re gonna consider the scholar a “unique” unit based on its upgrades, you way as well consider the HRE Man at Arms unique too :P

[Muenni]

Camel barding doesn't work, so there's no armour upgrades for Camel Archers currently.

[OtakuBabiker]

Man this game is bugged as hell. I love how you nonchallantly listed like 7 bugs during this video

[kemaldemirel]

i love my elephants, but they are indeed very situational, in the beginning with the delhi i was getting them in very match, but with progress i build them less, only when the conditions are given i get them on the field.