2:20 as a spanish, myself, I have to say that the saved time from buildings is not to get back to work sooner, but to take a siesta sooner.

The Spanish are unique in having a unique unit that's actually good in castle age

Even though they updated the civ match start chant, you still used the "HEY LAAHEEEY" sound. What a boss.

Fun fact: The Spanish Inquisition always made itself known when it came to town, and there was always a grace period during which people could voluntarily confess before the investigations and trials started. So yeah, Monty Python lied to you.

You’re really pumping these out nowadays. I’m impressed.

A strategy I love to use as Spanish is inspired by real life pike and shot formations. Build a mixed group of halberdiers and hand canoneers and put them at a strategic point. If cavalry comes for the gunpowder units stop them with anti cav. If they send infantry let them walk into a wall of bullets. It’s surprisingly affordable and pairs very well with a few monks behind them.

Spirit of the Lull is appropriate for me. I sometimes watch your longer videos to let the calm atmosphere help me sleep.

You forgot their infamous archer rush. No one expects the Spanish Archer Rush!

Honestly I would consider Cannon galleon as their 3rd unique unit. Generic CG is a anti building unit, Spanish CG is a anti siege, anti ship and anti building unit.

For all the things that Definitive Edition did right, it whiffed hard by changing the Spanish match opener to something more historical and less flamenco. “HEYYLAHEYY!”

Props for keeping the "HEYLAHEYYY" giggle.

*Nobody expects the **-second-** Spanish Inquisition!!* Spanish review, what day of beautiful to see a lot of Chad villagers beating cobra cars 🤣

Ah memories of Isit turning fleets of Spanish cannon galleons into a game-ending strategy

The civ which I started playing with in 2000 and I still love them the most of all civs! The vocals when you pick them, the voices of their units and the general aesthetics of the conq are my fondest memory of this game. Also their campaign is very interesting!

Spanish Cannon Galleons are my single favorite late-game Ctrl-1 doom stack. *SO* damn satisfying.

What I like about the Spanish in AoE 2 is that they felt as almost futuristic for the time period most of the civilizations from both AoK and AoC seem to have their castle and imperial age in, with arguably the best cannon galleons, the first "dragoon" unit and arguably one of the best blacksmiths in the game, while the Spanish in AoE 3 are the exact opposite, relying on mostly archaic melee units... From a historical warfare perspective, this is a hilarious devolution.

29 Paladins, 20 Conquistadors, 11 missionaries - square formation, stand ground for a mobile conversion/healing center - with the option of shifting attack stance and formation selection, fairly powerful and flexible mobile-wise.

Oh wow, an update on my favorite Civ! Thanks Spirit of the Law! It’s been so long since the original video, I am pleasantly surprised.

This was supremely entertaining. You have some accurate straight-shooting with nary a miss on a fact. I’ve been converted to this civ, and I’m sure it will be a blast. This seems like a cost-free upgrade to the civs I’ve been playing; truly a profitable trade

Got back into this game recently mostly thanks to you! Used to play it over 16 years ago.. wow. Appreciate all the quality videos ✌️

I really would like him to revisit how they have changed over time. I could be wrong, but I get the feeling they haven't changed much since they were first introduced. i think it is hands down one of the most stable civs over time in the game. They are a fun civ, back when I used to play this game they were one of my top three favorite civs just because they felt so well rounded.

Quality video as always. The Spaniah are my favorite civ. I've been playing them since I was a wee lad on my parents computer. Spanish tower wish is oen of of my favorite things to do in 1v1s, and everyone always wants Spanish on team games :D

One thing you didn't mention about the Missionary vs Monk debate is the fact that Missionary's are affected by bloodlines. Being much more tanky is a huge help with getting that conversion cross the line - especially in the situation where it might be 10 light cav vs 10 monks/missionary's

Nobody expects the spanish overview! Yo, desde luego, no me lo esperaba.

Appreciate the updated civ overviews

I just got AoE2 DE haven’t played this game in like 20 years.your videos are the best Ive seen for this game and really appreciate the content keep it up🔥

Tells about how good your vids are, im not even playing the game but still have watched all of your vids

The fastest click in History for me. Spanish for life

Such a good intro, gets me every time

I certainly didn't expect this upload

they're a great civ, one of my favourites. Main downside is poor archer line, but everything else is very solid. I always like the bonuses that are always useful. Upgrades not costing gold and the faster building will be great for whatever army you make. Can help to get all the blacksmith upgrades out of the way quicker. And gunpowder units shooting faster is just really great and makes them good at siege too despite lack of siege engineers. Their cannons and cannon galleons bring down castles faster.

Been waiting for this update forever!! Thanks SOTL

spirit of the law intro always gets me hyped xd

SOTL video - an excellent start to the weekend

Letsss go thanks for bringing back the old intro 🎉🎉🎉🎉

That was some smooth Spanish transition to the Square space ad at the end :D

Real glad you used the old flamenco singing the spanish had as intro back in the conquerors days

Spanish, the meme civ that all allows you to villager rush with Supremacy and faster build speeds. Not to mention Conquistadors being a great gunpowder and cavalry unit. Yup, Spanish really are great civ. And one of my favorites too alongside the Byzantines.

Gotta love that intro vibe every time!

Nice to see civ overviews of not so new civs. I reckon some need updating as they have seen significant changes in DE

I click so quickly on this video as much as Spanish builders

you're really conquistadoring these civ overviews. thanks spirit!

Wanna know what's smoother than Spanish's transition to late game trash war? It's SotL's transition from civ overview to the sponsor's ad!

Truly didn't expect a redo overview of the Spanish. Very nice, SotL!

Nobody expected an updated spanish review !

My favorite civ! Thank you SOTL! :)

To me they are the best civ! There is no way to beat mass cannon galleons

I live for SOTL's puns in his ads

If you’re remaking these civ overviews, I’ll love you forever.

Disappointed the cannon galleon isn't talked about more. It's absolutely a beast unit in costal and river maps like highland. You can snipe villagers and monks pretty much. You can kite galleons pretty well with them.

Hey SOTL just been looking through your channel and then looked for a recent Japanese overview like this Spanish one and realised you haven’t done one in 6 years 😮, if you see this please eventually can you upload a up-to-date one thanks 😊

I search for spanish guide and turns out you just dropped one 2 days ago excellent timing

We need a video like this for teutons. A revised one. Thnkyou

Could you please do a video on the knight line? I'm curious to see a breakdown of their cost effectiveness and population efficiency.

0:58 In every video there's always one of these moments when I unexpectedly burst out laughing

I gave up on the game ages ago, but I still enjoy these videos.

Yay the intro is back!!!!

U should show hoardings tech when show defensive tech tree part of the video. Great Content! TY!

Fast building bonus is one of my favorite!

Finally, the classic intro is here again.

the spirit of the law website examples get wilder every time its mind boggling

great video.

One thing not discussed as well as I would like is the synergy between their various gold bonuses. Faster building times for villagers leading to more time collecting resources, plus better trade, plus blacksmith techs costing no gold is a pretty awesome synergy already. The icing on the cake, in my opinion, is the missionary and supremacy. Supremacy because tankier villagers means fewer villagers lost in raids, leading to more resources being collected (compared to the time needed to replace lost villagers), and fewer resources needed to defend them from raids. Even the missionary adds to the synergy if it is used for healing your conquistadors since it's added mobility ensures that they can keep up better than a monk. Their range reduction is also not an issue since they will need to be kept close to your units anyway to keep them safe. To be fair, I am probably overselling their abilities here, but that unusual level of synergy between practically every bonus they have is worthy of mention, in my opinion.

Doing overviews before the biggest patch and balance changes ever seen 👀

Yey old intro! 😊👍🏻

You can win the Lepanto scenario just with Spanish cannon galleon. They dominate on water

Yey! Overview

Aaaah yessss the OG civ theme 🥲

Before I found your channel, I was a basic Byzantines noob. Now I'm an enlightened Spanish main.

Awesome segway to sponsor from conquistador was the high point of this video :D .

Hera just posted a civ ranking for Arabia. He said he thought missionaries are underrated. With the recent uptick of monk use, I look forward to seeing him use missionaries after building a castle and his opponent assumes skirmishers and is surprised.

Just a thought about 8:44: it should show how the techs affects each one, like the Ms, more life... To become more clear all the things that are supporting the unit, like the support gems of poe

Yes, my favorite civ finally!

Love playing Spanish (I’m not very good) but massing cannon galleons is deadly with the faster firing

I'm a simple man. I see the intro, I leave a like and comment.

A- for monastery, despite a cheap unique tech, a unique unit and the entire tech tree? Seems harsh, as do some of the other ratings imo. Nothing drastic, just felt that sometimes your Bs could have been B+, b+ could have been A- and so on. Would be curious how they compare to other civs that have similar grades

I love this into!

Oh finally! I can't wait for TURKS review then!

65% accuracy with such a high damage unit is actually not a bad thing, if I remeber correctly, attacks that miss can still deal half damage or something like that to other units, so if you focus fire with a group, the inaccuracy creates a pseudo aoe attack

Instant like after hearing the original "music" that appeared after choosing them xD

Those elite canon galleys are effectively a third unique unit.

I'm a simple person - the intro starts and I hit like

4:25 i can never unsee the default cannon galleon shooting balloons

I really wish the supremacy tech came with a minor change to the villager AI. Minimum of either continuing to work when attacked or fighting back with defensive stance rules, but adding defensive stance behavior when in "villager" mode (or a new mode that activates when you tell them to attack) would make them so much more enjoyable to use in a scrap.

Did anyone used to play back in the late 90s? I used to love playing the Spanish in Post-imp team deathmatchs!

do you have a review video on the Chinese in Age of Empires 4 by any chance, I know what certain things do but not how to execute certain actions right involving officials and how to utilize them to better capacity

HE BROUGHT BACK THE INTROS ITS LIKE THE SECOND COMING OF AOE CHRIST

20 years ago when I started playing "The Conquerors" , I thought this new Civ was the most versatile and that made it the best. Now playing "DE" I still think the same.

I love Spanish cannon galleons

They are so good that even dinosaurs are as Spanish civilisation in AOE

Earlier video Spanish was listed with a lower win rate than typical maybe for new players. But now they are doing better than expected. Also they have full technology tree dock they should get an A for water maps playability. They are only inferior on water to dravidians (full tech tree dock + their unique ship) or civs who attack early since they are a bit slow to get going. Full tech tree monastery with unique unit and tech and still A-? I give them A+ for this.

Spanish were always my favorite civ to play. Their versatility is excellent, and the playstyle is just plain fun. Context: I don't enjoy 1v1s on tiny maps.

Nobody expects the Spanish Overview!

Hey Man. Love your content. Are you planning making another olympics video?

Maybe add the year in the title for easier orientation? Thanks for the update - still the benchmark!!

Time to remaster all the civ reviews!

AoE2 logic - civ gets a mounted gunpowder unit for free, needs to research a tech to get them to dismount

Defend furiously until post imperial, then fast firing bombard cannons defended by paladins with elite conquistadors to help out for a late game rampage 👍😃

Big hype, as always

Something that should be mentioned was that the missionary heals at half the rate as monks(i think). A common tactic I use for the spanish is a square formation with 1 missionary for every 6 conquistators. Their mobility and healing allows for survivability when raiding, as well as the ability to convert enemy siege/knights if needed. I also dont get how they get a B+ on infantry and a A- on Cavalry. For both barracks and stables they have full techs, and the same bonus(no gold cost on blacksmiths). They should have the same rating considering they have the same bonuses/all tech. The bonuses to the cannon galleon make it basically a totally new unit. The ability to put the occational cannon on the ocean is huge. Its like having a Bombard cannon on your side during a skirmisher battle. Only downside is that its the most expensive unit in the game at 225w 225g. I gotta say, I disagree with almost every rating you gave. I think they should all be a full grade higher. Having full tech of trash units should be an A, then having a bonus(blacksmith no gold) should make it an A+. Barracks and Stables should be A- at least, with the bonus pushing it into A. Archery range.. i actually agree here. Docks, i agree on the early game but think it should be A for late game. The cannon galleon is argueably the best ship in the game, or at least on par with all the unique ships out there. Monestary should be an A or A- due to full tech. Then the UU and inquisition should shift it up to A or A+. And unless youd be going pure monks/conqs, you will be getting blacksmith upgrades. SO the gold saved from that allow you to make more monks. The strength of spanish is their tech. Correct me if Im wrong, but I think they have more technologies than any other civ in the game. And this is clearly reflected with full barracks, stables, monestary, dock. Even made more powerful with a UU for dock, monestary, and Stables/Archery range. I dont know if I would call them OP, by virtue of winrates you showed. But they definitely are on the stronger side of things.