Sounds useful.

You're basically just describing War Wagons at this point

There was a double hit bug too. I couldn't do it consistently though so I don't think it was too useful for average players.

@@marjiman_rts those sorts of things are always scams lol

had nice long chat and even tried to make him send me some $ . I am very sorry he has to do this dirty stuff to survive 🥲😂😂

It's worse knowing that the Bengalis in the game have 0 resemblance to how Bengalis actually fought back then. And Mahayana= more pop, you serious?

@@satyakisil9711 That could be said for a lot of the civs in AoE. For example, Japanese Samurais were primarily cavalry or foot archers and only really engaged in melee combat as a last resort.

​@@satyakisil9711 as a Bengali I'll say that your just speaking straight bullshit on this This civ is as accurate to Bengali culture as you can get in something like AoE2

@@talkingbtr-82a76 yeah Bengalis had goddamn chariots in medieval age. Mahayana magically increases population. Ships are healed by Varuna himself. No guns. No rockets. Not even thumb ring although using thumb ring is a staple in India and is inferred to back to the Mahabharata. No unique weapons like ramdau. And they have the most pompous voice lines ever. Like someone practicing a recitation for a drama while in a club. The common folk didn't even use the dialect, it was reserved for the intelligentsia.

​@@satyakisil9711 I'd say most civs have very pompous voice lines. At least the few I can understand do. It's not really rare

Tis but a scratch

It’s just a flesh wound

Seems to be a broad range of ages, Huns are 5centry AD so will probably be closer to the time period.

@@James-sk4db yeah. That's why they have the common theme of lacking gunpowder or having other glaring holes in their tech trees (Huns,Goths,Bengalis etc). The only exception seems to be the Persian.I think their in game history section refers to the Sassanids (at least in AOK and Conquerors) but they cover the later dynasties as well.

@@zan4336 but why goths have gunpowder?

@@SIGNOR-G that indeed makes no sense lol. Maybe to show the fact that they eventually become the Spanish and Italians? Idk

I think Persia reflects kinda all empires in those region throughout entire medival period. Sassanids, Abbasids, Seljuks, postTimur time. I think its because whenever foreign army capture this area after centuary or more then adapt the local customs and culture.

It makes less sense if it's range, elephants already thick skinned, with armor there would be impossible to kill one with arrows.

There was a real-life example of a Portuguese halberdier scaring off an elephant during the siege of malacca, but it wasn't an elephant trained for war, and it had no rider.

I like to think spearman kill the rider on top

can't take too long till the new rome dlc, so new overviews on the horizon

There are older civ overviews that hasn’t been updated for a while. We can hope for those.

He can still redo the old civ for the ones he made before Definitive Edition came out. A lot of those are more than 5 years old and a lot has changed since then

Some cvi overviews need a remake though!

i was just about to comment about the pronunciation XD, i personally pronounce it as roth if you add the w in front they might just say it as wrath and call it a day..... and btw didnt you find the villagers voice acting a little odd as if a non native person is speaking those lines like ami jahiyea , jogariya sounds about right.....

@@bmqww223 The way I see it, since the Bengali civ is mainly based on Pala kingdom from roughly 8th to 11th Century they would be speaking some form of proto Bangla rather than what we are accustomed to today. We don't know a whole lot about the language back then. For reference look at Chorjapod (or Charyapada if you prefer) which was arguably written around 10th century and is considered the first written Bangla literature and it feels pretty alien. Overall there probably isn't a whole lot ways to make the voicelines accurate or perhaps less awkward.

Chariots started to be phased out starting in the 6th century BC, by the middle ages it was mostly used for parades

@@mortache chariots were never popular in Bengali wars in any time of history. Their speed was best on flat open dry terrain not that common in the jungles, river and tropical climate of Bengal.

Very good to know, thank you... but am wondering though. As I actually find it comes up a lot with games about history, rather than words in science fiction (which are largely made up or well-altered words). But what about historical pronunciations, I always think it's awesome to get that glimpse of modern understandings of the past - particularly from those who are most/well acquainted with any particular period, event or thing. But I'd love to always have that historical aspect too. I remember being in University and moving in with 2 friends who had 4 upstairs rooms, one of which was coming vacant. The other three room-mates I eventually had upstairs were all Korean & I remember getting into discussions with one of them about Korea and its history (part of it was thanks to this game in its original form 2 decades ago which lead me on a research frenzy at times). We got to discussing the Turtle Ships at one point and I used a modern term/title in Korean for them. But we got to a short discussion about their original name & form & so on - where we didn't have the information. It was unfortunate, but events like this I still cherish... and I have always found myself loving the stories, histories & general creativity or nuance within games. If ever possible I'd love for people to throw out more of the histories or tit-bits of information (that seem relatively or quite corroborated) about things in this and other games. Whether from a modern or historical perspective, because - we have already lost so much history... I enjoy the idea of preserving it even in small & personable ways. I for example spell a lot of words with -our suffixes (e.g. creatour) in English. But again, thanks thanks.

rework the teambonus and we have a deal

I would change so much that i might as well leave it as is

It might be for copyright reasons, as the Bengalis civ theme is stolen from a sci-fi video game and reused.

And where were the elephant facts!?

@@Apocalypso64 Hi, which game would that be?

I like it. I personally think it's rough they get classed as cav archers to be honest, even though they technically are. At this stage given their winrate there is definitely, in my view, room for experimentation, and the ratha is a good place to start.

Why don’t you like the weapon switch mechanic? Reminds me of the melee attacks most units have in Age of Empires 3

what makes the Chariot Archer in AoE 1 so great in the competitive scene?

@@VittamarFasuthAkbin they cost no gold

@@octaviogomez2330 that looks op. They must cost a lot of wood then.

@@SIGNOR-G fun fact: they don't. They also eat monks so you can't convert them. And the only anti archer attack unit in the game costs stone.

Yes, but than they'd just be a Spanish light. Which would be completely useless.

Yeah but considering the high cost of elephants, is that really a strength or is it just an attempt to offset a weakness?

@@Runenschuppe Yeah, with how strong the spanish civ bonus is and how bengalis don't have any other team bonuses, I think they could change Bengalis to 25% food to at least be somewhat compareable to Spanish

@@annaairahala9462 i'd rather have the bonus entirely changed. In how many games exactly is having 10% food on trade actually noticable? 1 out of idk a trillion maybe. Bonus is just shit.

No, it doesn't. Converted units drop their previous civilization's bonuses and pick up their new civ's bonuses (if any apply to their unit type). If you can convert them back, Bengali elephants get their conversion resistance again.

@@veevee306 Yes, although it may be worth mentioning that they keep their upgrades, so if the bengali player researched the faster attacking elephant tech before they were converted then it retains its faster attacking.

I'v done some tests, converted bengali elephant will be converted back for 20% less time in average. It means, that probably converted elepfant "forget" his civ resistance. Although this is exception or bug - in general game mechanic works that coverted unit saves all techs (exept some monastery techs) and civ bonuses from initial owner and not affected by techs and civ bonuses from new owner. For ex. if italian monk converted sicilian cavalier - this cavalier still affected by first crusade resist and civ bonus with reduction of bonus damage. If sicilian monk converted italian cavalier - this unit didnt affected by first crusade and recieve standart bonus damage.

Yup. They're insanely strong on closed maps like Arena.

He has a couple of videos about that. However, they could use an update

So your plan is fast imp into Feitoria? You aren't going to rely on your Villager economy. Or going to boost it with extra technology, as that might impact Feitoria production. I suppose we could compare that. But your army is going to need funding regardless. Unless you are the pocket boomer.

@@glenmcgillivray4707 Yes fast imp with 35-40 villagers then Fetorias. Your production will be faster because of TC cost+ villagers. Mid imp you will fall behind until gold is gone but you should have enough of an advantage to win in early imp

@@glenmcgillivray4707 When factoring the cost of TC and the cost to produce villagers. You do not break even with Fetorias until you produce your 17th villager. The reason is Fetoria produce as soon as they are built. For extra villagers, they only produce after being created. So in the time it takes to build extra TC and then produce 15 villagers the Fetoria player is much further ahead. I would still produce villagers normally out of the original TC. It is without a doubt the strongest all in available.

@@mikelivingood7797 except your own logic states that your starting town centers are more profitable than Feitoria for your entire game. And imply that you shouldn't try to boom with extra town centers in castle for a stronger imperial age. Against low tier players I presume the unraidable eco they offer is awesome. Against higher tier players they can punish you for leaning on an expensive building that will take several minutes to repay it's purchase price. A town center can pay off by simply allowing you a safe work site away from the core of your base.

@@glenmcgillivray4707 No, the Feitoria is much superior to TC Booming until the TC has produced about 17 villagers. In the meanwhile, I have built a castle on the way to Imp and I am trebbing down your castles and TCs while securing valuable resources with map control. Keep in mind 17 villagers is the point where a TC boom starts to surpass income from the Feitorias it is not the part where they have produced equal resources. It is very hard to counter, just do a youtube search for Viper Feitoria.

idk man, in my hand they get eaten by skirms or heavy cavs. they dont do well either as a frontline unit or a raider. whoever can master that can do it better with horse archers.

how is this comment a day old when the vid is 10 secs old

@Chocolate🍫Zoom probably a Patreon with early access I'm just glad Spirit has sponsors

@Chocolate🍫Zoom yeah Patreon supporters get early access. Also I just live in the future

Well, Egyptians in Age of Mythology had both chariot archers and war elephants as well, so...there's that.

They definitely beat skirms in a straight fight considering they 3 shot them but their lower ranged armor is probably contributing to the bad open map winrate. That and perhaps people going fast castle for the bonus vills?

Go redemption monk defense and convert their siege. Bengali monks with sanctity should laugh off skirm fire as well.

Rathas still generally won't survive to get into melee range against the skirmishers, who can kite backwards to keep on firing despite the minimum range. And remember you're also trading expensive gold units for trash. You're much better off adding light cav or your own skirmishers to deal with the problem.

Civ bonus, time manipulation

They made the Spanish hunchbacked. HD is better than Definitely Cartoony Edition. If you like Age of Mythology see the OFFICIAL announcement trailer for the Atheism Expansion. :-)

They are base on pala Dynasty