+Imperiused definitely. There isn't really a downside to it, and you can even ungarrison the teutonic knights to protect the ram from melee units. That's probably why Teutons don't get the Siege Ram

+Spirit Of The Law Good point. AOE balancing is really good when you compare it to today's games - leaving out the water triangle though.

+Spirit Of The Law also, 5 fully load siege rams can definitely win you the game. best strategy i always use against AI

Especially in Feudal. Both of the options are bad now, either with the lesser triangle where fireship just beats all if the galleys aren't perfectly microed or galley spam where it's whoever manages their economy better.

I would deliberately pick Teutons if my ally is Mongols just so I can load into their rams as a sort of "escort" to protect them, also sending some paladins to help. Then I'd unload to tear down castles and load back up. It's a terrifying combo when played correctly. I would defend the siege units, and they'd provide the transportation.

+scarfacemperor I was hoping it!!! xD

+scarfacemperor john green anyone?

+BaHaEzZz Totally :D

danglars good question since the Exception fought the same enemies as the Crusaders.

+scarfacemperor damn, i like that genghis green guy,

+Destoffeldv LOL me too... can't help but be amused

+Destoffeldv This is too light. He need a couple of beer before recording, then it would be fun.

Nah, he's alright, if he's drunk he probably would be over the top, and I wouldn't be subscribed.

I also really like it that Spirit drops all the jokes with the same academic tone that he explains math equations with. 👍

You sir, are the real MVP

Samuel Gajdoš Thank you.

Probably Not A Chicken I am actually the way opposite, if I see them, I WILL kill them no matter what.

The first time I saw them I thought they looked badass. Lol (almost 10 years ago)

Its the same for me for Onagers.

I find them cute af

When I was younger, I thought that they were just moveable houses or protection for your troops. It took me a long time to work out that they actually damage buildings lol. So I pretty much thought that they were cute too haha.

+oneminutetomidnight from Ben Hur or Star Trek First Contact? I agree I messed up by not including those

+Spirit Of The Law So that's where it may be from. It's also a thing in World of Tanks.

+Spirit Of The Law Ahahaha, Ben Hur, Star Trek was just a nice bonus.

+Spirit Of The Law The crash course reference was great :D

+Spirit Of The Law I believe you forgot to go into detail about the attack speed 0-4 infantry Great video though :D

But they burn down all the villages which puts out CO2, doesn't it?

Starjon Usually it's only the village, after they've pillaged everything from it. So all the dangerous toxins have been safely removed.

They were also the only time our carbon footprint actually reduced.

And they remove the biggest CO2 producers ... every time when they kill off an entire city population again...

Wait......no......that can't be right......wait yes it can lol.....teuton knights are lazier than kings lol.

Teutonic knights are like nerfed Tonberries.

+Michael Tkaczevski more like heisting a bank ...

I think the ramming capabilities remove the need to parallel park. It's kind of easy for them to open up new parking spaces :)

Spirit Of The Law Must say i'm impressed! Not all youtubers take the time to answer comments on year old videos :)

DONT CRY KARL BOI

stfu

The real question is: How does your RAM speed affect your RAM speed? :)

Que haces aquí bob

zxb995511 alth theyre fat

Everything. No one else gets to eat all, everything is malnourished and lethargic as a result.

+daddyleon yeah, that would have been cool. I wonder if there's a mod where someone did that

+Spirit Of The Law I did read something like that... but it's with triggers so for scenarios... but... well it would be nice. It would also feel somewhat realistic :P

+daddyleon You never know...It might be added into the African Kingdoms...

+trent sayers Haha that would be awesome (as well as game changing, literally)! But I'm afraid they won't even add the black villagers that are freely available: aok.heavengames.com/blacksmith/showfile.php?fileid=11868

Where is it? I must have missed it.

Nevermind. Got it. Hilarious.

+Lamprey Milt With that request, have in mind that ranged champions or heroes, acts are 2 units. I tested with Robin hood on a custom map. He shoot 2 arrows on a tower and hit harder than 2 crossbowmen.

I wanna know if archer skimmishers etc and how many make a difference and who.

I do know that infantry units works as archers in castles. But it was like 10 years ago, gotta test it tho. Looking forwards to spirit to help us out.

+Felipe Viana i notice if you put a more expensive unit from the archery it helps in the keeps. I kinda just go with that. i used to just use skimmishers but I realized longbow men are better to garrison

+Lamprey Milt I'm not Spirit, but this is a thing I happen to know about I think! My brother and I used to speculate on this endlessly. Mostly what I know about is that trying to explain it is a sodding nightmare. 1) If you garrison archers, it appears that the tower fires roughly *(total attack of archers/attack of tower)* extra arrows. This means that a fully-garrisoned Watch Tower would fire four extra arrows. Sometimes the displayed amount seems to glitch out, and display one less, if it's not currently attacking. This is why Skirmishers aren't very good, and why chu-ko-nus add almost no arrows (their individual arrows don't deal 8 damage each). 2) If you garrison villagers, it starts getting confusing again. For Watch Towers, the first villager does nothing whereafter each villager adds one arrow, for a total of four extra but only 15 total garrisoned damage (instead of 20). For Guard Towers, the first and third villagers do nothing, for a total of three extra (with 15 TGD instead of 21). For Keeps, the first, second and fourth villagers do nothing, for a total of two extra (with 15 TGD instead of 16). Basically, villagers provide diminshing returns as you upgrade towers. 3) Is where it gets very weird. If you have both archers and villagers garrisoned, I can't work out a clear relationship any more. A Keep garrisoned with four arbalests and a villager fires four extra, but adding more villagers reduces that until an arbalest and four villagers fire only two extra. 4) Is where it gets horrifying. Not only does damage affect this, so does attack speed. Researching Thumb Ring increases the number of arrows garrisoned archers fire. Interestingly, this makes Elite Mangudai the best units to garrison in a castle, edging out Elite Janissaries, as their higher attack speed means you need less of them to get the max twenty extra arrows. 5) The attack rate of a tower is appreciably decreased by garrisoning units, as Spirit points out in his Yasama video. Lastly, side notes: the extra arrows provided by the garrisoned units will continue until they hit the ground or another unit if they miss, with a LoS of one tile. It's a bit odd to watch. Changing targets *while* the tower/castle is firing will cause some of the arrows to shoot for the original target and others to go for the second target, which means you can avoid overkill if you micro very carefully. I'll probably break out Excel and crack open the game files to try and work out an actual relationship here at some point. Hope this helped!

+Kelly Karoly I think that the Black Death put an end to that, and abandoned fields and villages were reclaimed by the forests. By the time population recovered to pre-plague levels, technology had improved enough that they could feed those people with less land. Archaeologists found that in the 1300s there was under cultivation that was not farmed either before or since. These facts are half-remembered from a book about the Black Death I read a couple years ago.

+HansLemurson Nice to know

Great Britain was completely deforested during the Bronze Age. All current forests in GB are actually tree farms that were left to grow unattended. That's also true for good part of Europe.

Jonatas Silveira Baldo interesting to know about that

that's one of those things... Then again, in the modern world many countries are no longer self-sufficient and would starve without trade. The UK being one of them; Which of course explains some of the rationing going on in WW2 (Japan also can't feed itself, nor does it have much of anything else, which was part of the motivation for it's actions in the war) Of course, for there to be countries that can't feed themselves, there also have to be countries that can provide an excess. Like, Australia - which provides huge amounts of raw materials to China, and feeds about 90 million people in spite of having a population of about 20 million. (and I don't think Australia is anywhere near to using all it's viable farmland yet either.) The logistics of this stuff is rarely considered. Nor is waste though. We are at a world population of about 7 billion, but produce sufficient food for 12 billion as is, and about 1 billion people are starving at any given moment. So... People worried about starvation due to over-population are not seeing the forest for the trees; because the people that are currently starving are absolutely not starving due to a lack of available food in the world...

La armadura personal, pesada, podría descargar su peso en las ruedas. Hoy los soldados empiezan a usar los exoesqueletos.

+luis mendez Yep, I missed the intro too :S

+davedark27 haha nice