I can't believe I watch content about this game. The only reason i have heard about this game is because of this channel, the only reason why I know so much about this game is this channel, I do not play it, I do not have it. Yet the way he presents his videos enthralls me.

Oh boy. Here comes a goths overview. I can't wait to hear your thoughts on Siouxsie and the Banshees

You know what a Square Space sponsor means: another fantastic Spirit of the Law pun.

Can we just appreciate just how many new side hustles SOTL has👏👏

1:28 Goths don't have access to arson. However, their civ bonus is +3 in imp, so an overall +3 is still correct.

As a kid I didn't like the Huskarl but for a weirder reason than you might expect. It was because of a pet peeve of mine where I hated it when a civ's unique unit couldn't be fully upgraded and Goths don't have the final infantry armor. My little kid's brain didn't comprehend "balance" yet and was outraged how they could backstab a civ with an infantry UU and not even give it full armor upgrades, haha.

Another bonus of the huskarls is the ability to block passages. Very comum in other games like Elder Scrolls.

Good luck with your new smoothie shop. I can’t wait to try Spirit of the Straw.

The fact 6 Huskarl can handle a full TC is part of what makes them terrifying. A lot of raiding units are just after villagers, Hussar don’t just kill a TC, and you don’t leave a lone ram to ‘raid’ TCs. But Goth is spamming Huskarl and forgetting about them, shoving 5-10 loose in multiple locations, slowly crippling farms and whittling buildings.

5:26 It took me way too long to realize that the Warrior Priest was healing the Woad Raider. For some reason I thought it was somehow doing the victory celebration from AoE III.

Goth Re-Overview! My body is ready. That football comparison is still in my mind; Probably from the civ overview Intro. ^^

You need a scooter business with that segway skill. Top notch, 10/10.

A bit disappointed the Teutonic knight didn't show up in the comparsion being the ultimate Huskarl killer.

8:36 I liked the small detail where the huskarls are just perfectly aligned to block all oncoming arrow shots with their shields

I've never played this game, but this recommended video was so good that I watched all the way through.

"Sir!! We ran out of arrow!!" Huskarl came in after took down an abalester: "I bring 69!"

I can't wait for the updated goth overview, it's been so many years, since this classic dropped. I hope he doesn't change the intro tho :D By far my fav civ!

I don't know how Good they are, but I know they look Damn Good

Hide yo crossbows, hide yo cav archers cuz Huskarls be spamming everyone out here.

6:50 No, the champion doesn't have more melee armor than the long swordsman anymore. You can even see it at 7:03 IIRC, the champion never had more than 1 base melee armor. It's just that for most of AoE2's existence, the champion was the only unit in the militia line to have any base melee armor. But now, it starts with the long swordsman instead.

Awesome! Goths are my favourite faction, and a deep dive into the Huskarl is nice! Can't wait for the Goth overview.

I love these videos! Thank you, Spirit! My favorite video of all time is an old one: Most Underused Units.

Guess the Goths overview will come soon. I love the original and looking forward to see how the new one would look like

One of my favorite ways to play goths is to fast castle into knights and then transition to infantry spam for imperial age and having the stables built let’s me grab light cav for hand cannons and siege if needed it’s really flexible and takes advantage of goth’s strengths and gives you cover options for their weaknesses

This guy is so consistent with his videos, i want to be like that at work

Keeping up with unit analysis even though I don't play or watch any actual gameplay 🗣️🔥

I mix in champions AND halbs and it really amplifies everything

The Huskarl is an infantry Unique Unit done right, imo. Many infantry UUs in AoE2 immediately enter a discussion about whether or not they're even worth making over the same civ's (often times with its own bonuses) champions but the Huskarl carves out an entire different niche for itself as an anti-archer unit and therefor fills a * unique * role for the Goths as a whole.

Imagine in context how epic it must look a lone huskarl downing a whole elephant with an archer sitting on top.

Being able to mass a powerful anti-building, anti-archer, rush infantry unit is really good. I say Huskarls are really good. They're not too OP, but still really powerful. This might be a hint as to a Goth Overview video in the future.

Growing up with AOE2, these were one of my favorite units. They just slapped. Quick and clean killing.

10 minutes and 1k views. This speaks of quality content ❤️

huskarls vs hand cannons: If there isn't anything in front of the hand cannons, the huskarls will win (even against Italian discounted hand cannons). Hand cannons may be usable as a counter, but require a meat shield (otherwise the huskarls will swiftly slaughter them).

Spirit of the Goth would have been a nice apparel site.

The only huskarl I respect is the one that says: "Folstag ate my cattle and hurled my cabin in the river!"

Goth civ review coming up - YEAH.

I have to comment at 1:20 that bonus damage against buildings is listing Arson. This tech got removed from goth tech tree long ago due to already having a civ bonus working this way.

SOTL's new website introduction is always a must-watch for me! 11

Can we get a "1 Tip for each Victor's and Vanquised Scenerio". Those missions are kicking my butt on the higher difficulties! I can handle Seljuk and Temujin, but Komemnos! Holy cow! What the heck!

I sense a Goth overview coming *Proceeds to get bamboozled*

8:01 The Huskarl making his ancestors from the Battle of Hastings proud!

What I'd like to know is why the Huskarl was given to the Goths; their real-life counterparts were employed as guards by Norse and Saxon nobility. While a similar role existed among the Visigoths, they would be more accurately called _Gardingi._ (And either way, I doubt they would have been equipped with muscle cuirass.)

I remember back in the day when the castle and barracks Huskarls wouldn't all be selected when double clicking one of them. Bugged me so much...

If I'm not wrong. Goths don't get arson

I remember several times not too long ago playing AoE2 with my cousin on a 2 v 2 match against the new medium level AI, we won a few times. But it was a load of fun, I would always play goths and he would play teutons, he would make defenses for both of our bases and deal with a lot of the raiding parties while I rushed to imperial age and focused on my economy and mass barracks, and then once we felt we were ready, a flood of huskarls, pikes and champions would pour out of my base deep into the heart of the enemy camp where I would just place the rally point for all my barracks and just keep making more as my boys died and a phalanx or two of teutonic knights would march out of his base and clean up behind them and break through any places my guys were struggling. I need to start playing this game again haha

Gotta wonder which UU you plan to deep-dive next. Maybe the Teutonic Knight?

I loved the original specially that ""is already gone bad'

Goths! Huskarls used to be (at my peer-groups elo) extremely strong. Probably my most built unit and my most played civ :D

Man, I don't know why but that sponsor has me feeling really motivated

Babe wake up SOTL just dropped new vid

I know someone who always calls this unit: 'goth dudes' or 'goten gasten' in Dutch. He is a bit of an older man, so doesn't remember all names so well..

Hmm. So a quick takeaway here is... Mix with Spears when there's Cavalry, Mix with Swords when there's Infantry. I mean, Good to have a overwhelming Infantry option for all weathers I guess.

and then the warrior priest starts healing the woad raider

This unit baffled young me and my AOE2 friends, we ask ourselves: What armor in real world that absolutely blocks projectiles but doesn’t even provide basic melee defense more than a mere villager’s newly loomed pants. We enjoy inventing a proper explanation for bonker units more than playing the actual game.😂 It was good to be young.

you should also do a list of how good is for every unique unit

6:32 😂 fr I always yearn for that last armor as goths

At 3:22 I feel like Kipchak should have been included in the lineup here too

Hi! I have a good question to you: When it's good to use the tdchonolgy Conscription that make military buildings work faster, but to mantain military unit production continue, you must have more resources and/or villagers

The thing with the whole 'Huskarls suck in melee' more than often implies things are in a vacuum, whereas the true Goth experience often involves sending hilariously skewed resources amounts of units to fight what should otherwise counter them. A champion might beat a Huskarl. But you know what a Champion can't beat? Six Huskarls.

I'm still waiting for any possible buff, unique techs, team bonus or even a new unique unit reference to the Gothic Cavalry.

Goths are very fun if you want to be very aggressive. Use that aggression to get the eco bonus to offset your disadvantages and flood the map

YESS IT'S HAPPENING! EVERYBODY STAY CALM!

I remember in an old Goths Civ Overview video, the Huskarl was seemingly overpowered with little cost effective counters. What made them weaker?

Hey SotL of the Law, please consider making a video on the bulgarian bagains 2h swordsman, especially vs trash units!

Spirit of the la hire!!

I remember a completely baffled goth huskarl spammer, when he lost against my Armenian composite bowmen recently... It´s a really fun match-up .

Hi law, spirit of the guys here.

Interesting! But when you come with much bigger numbers like 2:3 or even 1:3 you can even kill knights cost efficiently. I think you should have included that in your video.

I wonder what content the bizarro universe SotL channel - Letter of the Law - covers?

The husk is more resistant to missile attacks and deals more damage to ranged units. Best to use for players who'd like to attack archers, guns or castles...

I thought you might also compare units by creation time. Like let's say 50 Huskarls vs 20-30 whatever else that might be trained a bit slower.

Only thing i dont like is that new civs or techs on some old civs have made other generic units as high as huskarl range armor with other benifits considering goths sacrifice a lot of things to be this specialized

Will we see a video on the ratha a strong unit in theory but how it is in practice?

I really wanted that chair...

2:00 also bonus damage vs conquistador

As a mongol player.. My go to is lancers backed up by scorpions with drill. Let me know if there is a better mongol combo against goths. The lancer has stack ability and the scorp take care of halbs in the mix.

Spirit of the law singlehandedly growing the economy with a new business ever other week!

Was kinda hoping for more in depth comparison of militia line or maybe other units, and huskarls against buildings. Maybe video about damaging building in general, since the sheer amount of various building armors makes it kinda confusing. Doesn't seem that there's video about this, at least not during last 6 years?

Plz try 0ad. I would love to see your tips and trick in the game

as an old goth otp, iv made myself many a huskarl

What would be the best civilization if you can get all techs?

Huskarl & spear line, sprinkle in hussars if you're getting chewed up by melee units. They don't cost gold....

SOTL, please don’t forget to insert the goth game plan strategy again

Spirit of the Lawn Chair hahahahaa nice

Goths don't get arson. It was removed when they buffed their civ bonus vs buildings to give +1/2/3 in feudal/castle/imp.

Huskarls may need +1 base melee armor. They’re wearing what looks like cuirass armor. Wouldn’t that provide melee protection?

Spirit when you make is video for how to good is samurai???

So, countering Goths is done with hand cannoneers, and a buffer. Good to know

Same video request again! Analysis of winning water in Nomad, and how much you should invest in water

how much arrow a huskarl can take? Hurkarl :" yes"

I only just noticed that huskarls have armor six pack, lol.

1:45 I think you made a woopsie, SoTL.

Please keep "Goth Game Plan" in the civ overview update

I wonder, which is the better infantryciv, Goths or Celts?

I can confirm that Composite Bowmen are NOT a hard counter to Huskarl, despite ignoring their armour. The Huskarl are so fast, and the Composite Bowmen have shorter range that once the distance is closed that anti-archer bonus damage shreds the Comp Bows. They are a brilliant soft counter, but need massing and will not kill full goth spam!

I wanted a Swiss civ added. Both Goths somewhat fill that spot.

>Research Anarchy and Perfusion unique tech >Spam Huskarls Archer civs: **Terrified screaming**

Arson gives +2 vs buildings I think but I doesn't matter here as Goths do not have access to Arson tech.

Halb/Huskarl is such a good composition bc it asks the opponent to micro 2 diffrent units careflly or take a horrible fight while you can concetrate on other tasks. like an attack on ther other side. in the matchup vs the Hand Cannoneer the kicker is that Huskarls still die fast but they are fast and 2 hit if they actually get to attack and thereby cut through a blob of Hand Cannoneers with little fuzz.

Hide your archers, bring out skirmishers!