AoE2: Ranking Historical Logic in Unique Techs - Top 5

Honorable Mentions: Great Wall (walls, towers HP), Stirrups (cavalry attack speed), Steppe Husbandry (lcav, steppe lancers, CA creation speed), Yasama (Tower arrows), Cuman Mercenaries (Kipchak in castle), Hussite Reforms (Monastery stuff costs food)

Bottom 5 video:

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[armchairsaurus]

There is a switcheroo mistake: I said that Hauberk provides more meele armor than pierce. Its actually the other way around in the game. However in reality a piece of mail was better at protecting against slashes (meele) than against piercing attacks

[fruitenantcolonel]

"While many nations grow wine, being snobby about it was invented by the French"

It will never be possible to write a more accurate sentence about the French!

[fishifisting]

Back in 2000, AOE was my main source of history knowledge. 20 years later this still seems to be the case.

[mausolus]

An interesting fact about "evolution" of Fabric Shields tech in AoE 2. At first, the technology was called "Couriers" and increased movement speed of Eagle Warriors. Later, the tech effect was changed to current increase of armor, but the name "Couriers" remained. Then I guess developers realized that having couriers would hardly increase armor of warriors, and finally renamed it "Fabric Shields".

[Weirdude]

As a medieval historian, and AOE fan for nearly 2 decades now, awesome video.

[clefspeareiii]

I really appreciate your using of AoE I music in the background of these videos. I know it’s not as well-loved as AoE II, but it was my first video game ever, and I still love it 😁

[optiongroup]

Love the gameplay scenes in the background. Its like they are telling a story!

[Markov]

5:14 Honestly, did not expect 3rd to be it.
Great video, both. Hope to see more from you!

[Krbyfan]

Aztecs and Inca: hi fiving each other for having historically accurate and unique techs

Mayans: :(

[woerkntwerk]

I prefer that the fabric shield is just called that. It keeps the history lesson front and centre while making the game easier to understand and talk about for non historians.

[ValerietheLovelyDeadlyItalian]

some Honorable mentions in my opinion: Cuman Mercanaries, Great Wall, Greek Fire, Berzerkergang. although i must say, Byzantine Catphracts did also make use of Hauberks, so idk if thats necesarily unique

[rustyknight]

I do quite enjoy these and look forward to seeing more in the future, hopefully!

[Neonblue]

Ach, jetzt bekomme ich erst mit, dass dies tatsächlich Heinz Harald Frenzen Kanal ist. Cool!
Und noch AOE, eine unschlagbare Kombination.

[MaxHohenstaufen]

This subject (the relationship between history and history "inspired" games) is very dear to me. It was such games that got me into history in the first place all the way back in the 90's. So, while I reckon there's a competitive scene in the aoe2 community going on - which I'm thankful for, bc it keeps the game alive, relevant and with new dlc availabe, I myself am really into the historicalnaspects of the game and its campaigns, etc. So I'm mostly interested in the topoc presented in this video, as well as reenacting and studying. For this reason, I really value this channel's approach and I wish it had more views and interest. Hopefully it will keep making videos and, perhaps, grow to rival SoTL in this game topic, but instead of focusing in its mechanics, stay true to the history behind the game.

[Mamenber]

Just some corrections and specifications, the Medieval Inquistion was nowhere near as brutal as people today think and the majority of tortures and executions intensified during the Renaissance as a reaction to Protestantism - in fact, the Catholic Church officialy denied that witches even exist during the middle ages. However, the Spanish Inquisition was created in the second half of 15th century, which some already consider as being in the Renaissance. It's also only some 70 years before the last scenario of AoE2, but you can research it in Castle Age.

[TheSteve]

Great video! One thing, I might be mistaken but, as I understand it the Inquisition was not about converting Non Christians, it was to check on whether who have converted were genuine.

[kartiksaraf]

You should look at unique units next. I really wonder if Khmer put ballista on elephants 11

[roebbiej]

Very interesting! I would definitely watch more of these

[gmdr]

Atlatl was one of my favorite unique techs cause it makes skirmishers an actually good unit in the late game.

[robbylava]

Keep making content like this and you'll soon become my favorite channel on YouTube