You forgot to mention the epic saracen bonus vs buildings for their imperial skirms

6:14 poor elephant archer getting smashed by 90KG projectiles launched from 300m away.

One thing you didn't mention is the fact that the Britons don't get thumb ring. So the imperial skirmisher accuracy bonus goes GREAT with the Britons.

"They also can perform a magical trick where they can summon javelins from thin air!" #SpiritOfTheLOLS everybody!

I dream the day when SoTL continue the civ overview videos...

man, i love skirms for some reason, they are a must go for me in my army ,with some spears and uniques in front and thinking about having a even better skirm makes me happy

All hail, king of the trash units!!

Been watching some other video on YT but when I saw the bell notification for this, I instantly ALT+F4'd, smashed my laptop, threw it out the window and started this instead.

First Viper comes back and now an sotl video? I don't know what to say...

why don't you post your matches anymore? I enjoyed the ones you posted

Last time I was this early, Spirit was still at 50k subs. Now he's at 80k. Good job spirit! :D

that's pretty damn good trash

An upload from Spirit of the Law? Today was a good day.

your videos are always a treat thanks for your time

THE MOST IMPORTANT FACT THEY LOOK FUCKING AWESOME

Never clicked a video so fast

Spirit of the Law brightens my day

hey man thanks for continuing to make these videos they are awesome and i have learned so much 👍👍

You are the ultimate individual in terms of analysis of age of empires. Thanks man

Good job on your videos. This one in particular has a very very good balance in how much time you give to each detail. Slower on the more interesting ones, quick and dirty on the facts that are more obvious or less relevant.

Nice, suspectes this was coming so been looking forward to it

Waking up to see you've posted a new video made my day

Great videos dude, i follow you since 2015!

Quality content as always!

you are awesome keep making videos more often pleaseee!

Oh Happy day, a new Spirit video

Just bought this game and desperately hope you continue :3

Your work is priceless

The only intelligent gaming channel with Jazz ! Love it

I never actually play AOE2 but I watch every video about it, I just don't like how it plays but I enjoy data dumps like this

Just came to think of something weird. I'm subbed to you and have watched a lot of your vids now, despite not having played AoE II in 11 years or so... Really shows the quality of the content.

Ya know, it always bugged me how these were never a baseline upgrade since AoC, when their brothers, the pikemen were given an imperial upgrade in halberdiers.

Great video love it!

Love your music too!

This also makes them a really strong against units without very high pierce armor. 8 damage against the 5 armor of champions(usually a anti trash unit) is not bad, and the Aztec imperial skirmisher is pretty much a damage output unit.

I love those videos KEEP GOING !

cant wait for the next video! i hope you have plenty of more age topics for us

amazing vids, please keep it up

Love your attention to details man. Your videos are the best. Keep up the great work @Spirit Of The Law. AOC community maybe small but we all do really appreciate your work!

i never play aoe2 but i still check out your vids from time to time lol

wow. This was thé bést post so far. Thanks a lot for your éfforts.

I think imperial skirms might have been an imperial age upgrade idea. Like pikes to halbs, light calv to hussar.

"They can both perform a magic trick - they can summon an infinite number of javelins from thin air" LOL

Spirit of the law, THE best youtuber, and community to exist!

I only play AOE 3 and yet I still go crazy every time you post a new video lol!

I love your intro

pff, you didnt even adress the most important advantage of the upgrade. THE AWESOME NEW DESIGN. they get a huge feather on their helmet!

Quick note about trash wars: fully upgraded elite skirms have 7 attack, and hussars and cavaliers have 6 pierce armor, making them an exceptionally strong counter. Imperial skirms, though, with 8 damage, do 2 instead of 1 damage, making them twice as effective against hussars and cavaliers as regular elite skirms. Aztec imp skirms have 9 attack total, and do 3 damage to hussars, making them as effective at taking them down as bowmen are at taking down scout cavalry. Aztec imp skirms also do as much damage as elite plumed archers, and do twice as much damage to infantry are regular elite skirms (4 instead of 2).

2:30 song name?

One of my favorite units

I love your videos.

do a Unit compositions video !! Explain possible effective unit setups and what to combine with what for getting the most bang-for-the-buck.

still my favourite youtuber.

That Boar on the start of the video is just straight up chillin

"Quick I need a short video to fill in the gap before I gotta leave for work... Oh man spirit of the law, awesome."

aaaghhhhh i just came back to play a month agooo need more vids!

2:25 Helbardier felt like the Dinosaurs when the asteroid came.

My main impression is "it's a skirmisher but bettererer." There's no matchup that really changes all that fundamentally but you'll just notice every engagement with these things goes sightly more favorably. Unless they're against cavaliers anyway. Then they are equally useless.

I love this guy.

Another cool video

Nice video man! Just a small error I noticed, the Imperial Skirmisher actually has 3 extra bonus dmg vs. cav archers, not 4 as you said. They do however have one more extra bonus damage against archers in general, so they have at total of 8 bonus damage against CA, compared to the 6 bonus damage of the Elite Skirms. :)

How does the Skirmisher upgrade stack up against Geniturs (tours?) though since they are also a team-shared unit, fill in sort of the same role and also have an elite upgrade.

3:06 So basically... _Trace on!_

That magic trick though at 3:07 . Who dares to call them trash

Put the battering ram speed test footage back in the intro where it was! It was such a cool visual with the music cue!

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IIRC, imperial skirmishers overall take significantly less damage from archer fire. they're a really excellent unit

Welcome Spirit

I think they should get increased attack rate (like hussar) rather than +1 attack. That +1 makes them hit a lot higher vs anything less than 3 base pierce armor (paladin and eagles).

All that is missing now is the Imperial Arbalest.

Oh, yes, more Spirit of the law for me

rattan archers are crazy good

liked the music :)

When he says "Thanks for watching" I get sad inside

I would love to see a video about rushing, I've always been terrible at that.. The closest you've got is your first game vs. the hardest AI and the other is sustaining units in feudal. Although honestly I would love to see any content from you!

Also, I was pretty disappointing when I saw they have the same HP as Elite Skirmishers, but the +1Pierce Armor and +1 Attack, plus the extra bonuses, are already enough to make the unit a worthy upgrade. Having+5HP would've been OP.

Hi Spirit Of The Law, your video series is quickly becoming my favorite! Thank you for everything! Are you planning on doing a civilization overview of the Vietnamese? I am not an elite player by any means, but I’ve been playing since Age of Empires first came out and they are my favorite civilization. I like to get a nice big army of rattan archers to back up an army of pikemen or infantry, sprinkle in some elephants, and boom! Ready for world domination!

That +1 pierce is so much bigger than you might think otherwise. It effectively halves damages taken by Arbalests for civs with Ring Archer Armor!

We need a Vietnamese overview, spirit. WE NEED IT

i laughed way more at the magic trick joke than i should have.

A new video!

They are on the tech tree, Johnny!

yes MY FAV UNIT

Hey Spirit of the lawI heard a rumour that if you garrison a teutonic bombard tower with full of janissaries you it fire 3 cannon balls instead of 2 with hand cannoniers.

5:40 "Byzantine Trash units are cheaper." *Camels:* "Am I -a joke- TRASH to you!?"

oh wow it's a boon really to see a Spirit vid now

Skirmishers, the unit you make because you know your opponent won't make archers either :D Mind game feudal wars!

I love hearing, "Hey guys, Spirit of the Law here."

Playing Goths with a Vietnamese teammate could be quite nice as well. The standard ridiculous flood is now an even more powerful ridiculous flood.

Just a quick note, I think the magyars team bonus don't work on regular skirmishers and the elite, but it do work with imperial skirmishers. Funny thing...

Love your vids :D Could you maybe do an analysis of which Civs are best suited for a late-game trash war? :3

Have you heard the tragedy of darth pleagues the wise?

0:01 that lonely boar at in between all the carnage

Do they take bonus damage by Samurai or are they unaffected by their bonus damage against unique units?

Who's the best AoE2 KZfaqr? You know it, it's Spirit. :)

so in short it's totally worth it :D. that one shot faster kill is huge in real battles

I gave a like before advert managed to load itself xD

all skermishers can summon a infinit number of the javallins out of thin air.

Forgot to mention they have the technology upgrade that removes minimum range

Buen video!