I love how they shout "SASSA!" when you tell them to attack something followed by them menacingly walking toward their target at a snail's pace :D
@DuckOil14 күн бұрын
also despite being so slow they have very quick leg animations and it just looks so goofy like they are tiptoeing to battle
@alexanderschulte8248Ай бұрын
One of my favorite childhood memories was when I was 5 doing a 4v4 battle in age of kings and watching like 15 elite teutonic knights fighting off what felt like a never ending horde of ai light cavalry.
@Deckar5639Ай бұрын
Teutonic knights: SOMEDAY LOVE WILL FIND YOU BREAK THOSE CHAIN THAT BIND YOU
@shino4242Ай бұрын
I would make custom maps where there was like 20 ETK's against hundreds and hundreds of militia. So satisfying
@Rattle189Ай бұрын
Man this brings so much memories of creating random scenarios in the map editor when I was younger. It was always nice to get like 300 vs. 300 or something because back then there was a population limit of 200 in the CD version. Good times!
@cabbagedestroyer1693Ай бұрын
Teutonic Knights are like Michael Meyers. Who just slowly walks towards you menacingly, and you have to do whatever to shoot them down before they get in melee range.
@safeuse3675Ай бұрын
İ resemble them approaching to terminator1 scene. İt comes to you, you cant harm it. Only way to beat it is some external help
@Machoman50ta12 күн бұрын
@@safeuse3675and the best part y’all missed is the fact this knight is backed by god making him the most perfect beautiful powerful soldier
@pierre-mariecaulliez6285Ай бұрын
7:40 malay 2-handed swordsmen "WHY ! WON'T ! YOU ! DIIIIIIIIIE !!!! - **Teutonnic knight annoyed by the bonking sound if anything** "
@unimportantcommenter4356Ай бұрын
"Teutonic Capes, son! They harden in response to physical trauma! You can't hurt me, conscript!
@llSuperSnivyllАй бұрын
The Teutonic Knight: "Halt! Das kitzelt!"
@Boom12Ай бұрын
Teutonic Knight: "It's the plate mail, chicks love the plate mail."
@stefankatsarov5806Ай бұрын
45 seconds afther it came out. The universe called me so fast to see a video of my favorite unit.
@lloydlejack-officialАй бұрын
Teutons overview incoming
@SIGNOR-GАй бұрын
WUNDERBAR
@ErixTheSwiftАй бұрын
It's clearly Huns!
@Gashahn24Ай бұрын
YES.
@Sweet15.Ай бұрын
Just like before the genoese one
@bogdanlipan6917Ай бұрын
No shit Sherlock 😏
@Reaper_03-01Ай бұрын
Its a shame Teutons don't get seige rams, as the TKs could ride in medieval Armoured Personnel Carriers to battle while headbanging to Rammstein.
@adammercer600424 күн бұрын
That's what you have the siege towers for!!! 😂😂😂
@dougler500Ай бұрын
Not sure if you have done this in previous videos before but I ABSOLUTELY LOVE the addition of resources lost/committed in the unit head to head comparisons. Showing how much of the units HP was lost/remaining is great but showing what that means from an economic point of view takes the understanding of combat interactions to the next level. Great choice and great execution, I just love it.
@inductivegrunt94Ай бұрын
Teuton Players: When in doubt, throw TKs at the enemy! Easily some of the best style an AoE2 UU can have. Capes are best style!
@minikawildflowerАй бұрын
The +2 armor is in the cape
@turtletimehobbiesАй бұрын
I always thought it would be fun if teutonic knights had an ability that doubled their speed while at full hp. Nothing would be more terrifying than an army of TKs deus vulting at you at break neck speeds.
@Denterify2Ай бұрын
The monk giving them a speed boost, imagine that
@richeybaumann1755Ай бұрын
The cheat code "going above and beyond" plus 256x researches of Squires... the power of God makes those cross bois move with terrifying speed.
@SilverKnightPCsАй бұрын
As a main line Teutonic player I was sweating when I saw the thumbnail with my capy boys
@richardchen7062Ай бұрын
SOTL with their new website “Spirit of the Ja”: how to be a German-accented yes-person who acquiesces to everything
@shizukousapostle1stapostle710Ай бұрын
7:31 "Standing here I realise"
@SIGNOR-GАй бұрын
Now the MAKE HISTORY part makes even more sense.
@EldritchAugurАй бұрын
"You were just like me, trying to make history."
@radekv6938Ай бұрын
"Why won't you die?!"
@SIGNOR-GАй бұрын
@@radekv6938 German Armor son!
@jesusrubiomaldonado27Ай бұрын
@@EldritchAugur"But who's to judge the right from wrong"
@RafailoSagaraSempaiАй бұрын
Love the concept of these guys. Strong AF, tanky AF and slow AF (now its not that bad tbh) Feels incredible when you manage to catch someone with their pants down without many ranged units and you can feel their fear as you slowly make a Dio walk and raze their buildings to the ground.
@programmer437Ай бұрын
Always loved Teutonic knights, even though they seem to have increasingly more counters as new civilizations are added.
@josepetersen7112Ай бұрын
We keep getting anti TK units, and its stupid. Magic whips...
@FakespyАй бұрын
I was just wondering about this unit earlier. It seems Spirit of the law can read the minds of viewers!
@brandonrivers7840Ай бұрын
Exactly 💯
@llSuperSnivyllАй бұрын
About the comparison in anti-building damage towards the Ram, there's the part where you could just put the TKs into the Ram for a symbiotic speed boost.
@iofs3338Ай бұрын
Teutonic taxi
@jeromemartel3916Ай бұрын
How many times in a day do you think about teutonic knights?
@iofs3338Ай бұрын
@@jeromemartel3916 more than I care to admit
@michaelmartin2262Ай бұрын
I remember as a teen doing a 3 friends v 1 computer on hardest difficulty as the Turks. We were getting creamed! I had Teutons, wound up losing my towns and vils leaving a full army but no way to replenish. I gave all my resources to my pocket buddy who was celts and we had to build and keep a wonder while fighting off the Turks. The last fight was epic. When we won my celt buddy only had 3 vils and a champion, my Persian buddy had a War Elephant and a Pikeman and I had one Teutonic Knight left. First time any of us ever beat the computer on hardest difficulty was so epic at the time.
@floriankulik7965Ай бұрын
Favourite unit since release
@keenanrembold-carey5593Ай бұрын
Video Description: "Analysis and discussion about the Italian's anti-cavalry unique unit: the Teutonic Knight." Wasn't aware Italy could recruit them. Or that they were anti-cavalry.
@RheaMainzАй бұрын
Maybe it's a historical reference..!
@jasv49Ай бұрын
Their civ is literally in their name, SotL pls
@ariiseeАй бұрын
@@jasv49 he just did some copy-pasting and didn't realize xd
@jurgnobs1308Ай бұрын
@@RheaMainz lol no, the teutonic knights only really fought in eastern europe it's clearly a mistake because the last unique unique deep dive was on the genoese crossbow. he must have copied the description and missed parts that he should have adjustef
@RheaMainzАй бұрын
@@jurgnobs1308 _Oh_ Here I was reaching for how Italians probably hired the German Landsknechte, with their famous extra long spears and tight formations, to poke horsemen.
@UnDeaDCyBorgАй бұрын
Ahh, I like where this is going. Slowly.
@akale2620Ай бұрын
The last time I was this early, the conquerors expansion hadn't released.
@DimaErmakov97Ай бұрын
They can perform well with an aggressive castle drop. They will train rapidly fast to support offense. They kill buildings, rams or anything on their way while castle can pick off ranged units in reach. They will help your own rams, you can also heal them fast by garrisoning in castle.
@aomforeverАй бұрын
I can answer the question in title. Teutons are the best, and the capes are just epitome of cool.
@moon2schyzoАй бұрын
Capey boy review is a Germanic spotlight precursor
@Hi_I_am_EdАй бұрын
The Teutonic Knights were always my favorite Unit in AoE2, I even use their Unit Card as a pfp at times. Good stuff.
@Thescott16Ай бұрын
Fun Facts about the Teutonic Knight: They are not only the only unit with a _cloak_ (NOT a cape, which is attached at the shoulders and hangs down the back), but they are also the only unit that sheathes and unsheathes their sword (Samurai have their swords sheathed when not attacking, but they have no animation for drawing and sheathing so their swords just magically appear in their hands when attacking).
@spinyslasher6586Ай бұрын
Who will win? - A highly trained zealous knight decked out with the finest armour money can buy. OR - A shirtless dude with a spicy whip.
@dirkauditore8413Ай бұрын
Ikr... complete nonsense... that whip can't ignore armor for shit.
@josepetersen7112Ай бұрын
I hate that we keep getting anti TK units, lol.
@Gunsbeerfreedom87Ай бұрын
The problem with TKs is the same as with gold infantry in general; theyre too slow to force engagements and their attack bonus is against something you almost never need to attack (buildings).
@martytu20Ай бұрын
Teutons are very good at locking down key points and forcing engagements. Don’t use speed as Teutons, use your ability to lock down gold mines with castles and force engagements through attrition.
@mattender8323Ай бұрын
Wootz Steel being applied to Urumi… just grinds my gears.
@souloftheworld9810Ай бұрын
But you are fine TKs being able to tank like a 100 hits from a lot of other units?
@josepetersen7112Ай бұрын
Agreed. It's the kind of tech that totally precludes TK use, when TKs are already rarely seen! The whole Urumi concept just prevents most infantry use.
@FuelDropforthewinАй бұрын
The best. Next question?
@3snoW_Ай бұрын
I really don't like abilities that ignore armor like the leitis. It completely discards a core mechanic of the game and it doesn't make a lot of sense either. I would've preferred if they made leitis deal pierce damage rather than melee to make them counter the teutonic knights.
@nicktubby9710Ай бұрын
It's True Damage and it's definitely OP.
@georgeprchal3924Ай бұрын
Plot: the only true counter to the TK.
@paulyoung8671Ай бұрын
The cataphract was negating bonus damage for a long time and that is a core game mechanic. Samurai and Jaguars were already melee counters to even ETKs. This game has always had specific hard counters that defy other principles of the game. I hardly think it's that significant to know to just not build tuetonic knights in the rare Lithuanian Tueton matchup.
@georgeprchal3924Ай бұрын
@@paulyoung8671 yet Samurai and Jags lose outright.
@3snoW_Ай бұрын
@@paulyoung8671 cataphract negates some bonus damage, it essencially has armor against bonus damage. It doesn't straight up ignore it. The same for the others, having more melee armor is still significant and TKs put up a much better fight against samurai or jaguar warriors than berserks for example, exactly because they have melee armor. None of your examples outright ignore game mechanics.
@elliejohnson2786Ай бұрын
At 7:05 I said to myself "It would be interesting to see druzhina halbs though" and you immediately answered it! I appreciate this depth of analysis
@robdenini6972Ай бұрын
Appreciated that sneaky pun with the urumi swordsmen
@johnredcorn8294Ай бұрын
It’s amazing how relaxing and comforting your videos are. It makes my day when you post something. Keep up the great work.
@DSBMAC13Ай бұрын
I know why Teutons have always been my favourite civ to play and always will be. Great economy to boom with, good castles and then roll over everything with that zombie walk of Teutonic Knights. Never get bored of it.
@_pk_Ай бұрын
We getting Teutons Overview soon! Hypeeee
@felixalexisortizlagos6904Ай бұрын
Teutonic knight is the cooler unit on AoE
@nicholascrooks8465Ай бұрын
Spirit of the lift, absolutely gold.
@tankofnova9022Ай бұрын
Their beefy stats make them perfect for forcing engagement. Not though chasing, of course, they can't, but by using them to attack. Ignore them at the cost of your town.
@aezzsqdq9717Ай бұрын
Another part about the synergy between TK and castles is that TK has nearly as much movement speed as castles. Crazy !
@hansoskar1911Ай бұрын
The eaasiest way to explain the Teutonic Knight is: Teutonic Knights do to Melee Gold units what Champions do to melee Trash units.
@akale2620Ай бұрын
Imagine how op an inbred German hybrid would be. 10/10 melee/ pierce armor. Speed bump to 1~ tile Insane damage. Teutonic huskarl.
@Reaper_03-01Ай бұрын
That would break the game. Imagine if they got the Romans double blacksmith upgrades.
@EzioIlMentoreАй бұрын
No lie... When I was a kid in elementary school gym class, we were asked to come up with names for our teams in dodgeball. I said 'Teutonic Knights'. Everyone looked at me weird.
@nicejob158927 күн бұрын
Didnt know about the bonus against buildings - cheers
@sirpuffball6366Ай бұрын
it's kinda funny that the most heavily armored unit in the game is a guy only wearing maille and a cape while the standard mid-weight infantry unit is covered head to toe in plate
@MouseDestructionАй бұрын
Because they are so slow but high damage I love to use them to attack buildings while I use siege like onagers and ballista's to protect them. Which is kind of weird to have siege protecting infantry rather than the other way around, it works quite well. Because if an onager shot or two can destroy the bulk of an archer ball, or hit knights as they ride in, then the Teutonic knights can basically ignore whatever is left, especially if you include about 4-8 monks to heal up and remove elephants. Its very expensive though, thank your lucky stars you have cheap farms, but they seem much better in a team match where you have trade because they have strong late game. And if you are struggling you can go into one of the strongest knight lines, even without husbandry they trade efficiently vs all archers. Trash is also good to bulk out your army, put some skirmishers with your siege and some pikes with your Teutonic knights to help fill out your army.
@avandarkwalker9132Ай бұрын
I remember calling them "slow ball of death" as a child lol my favorite matchup against them is the Mongol, Huns, and Britts, that is until they started to ignore my range units and go for my base😢
@LetsbeHonestOfficialАй бұрын
Imagine being some guy training their hardest for wtf-years so they could bear the honor of wearing that cape. Then, they have to wear like 50 tons of armor, only to be told that for some stupid reason that tiny arrows somehow can pierce them for no logical reason.
@CarlosHenrique-ze4oqАй бұрын
Man, I remember the first time I faced TKs, supremacy game with several AIs, tons of resources, the last enemy was kind of hidding in its base, I said to myself "easy", made a lot of champions, paladins, UU, I think I was Celts, after a couple waves of units lost, I started paying attention to the fights... I couldn't believe, most of my units doing one damage a hit to those things, funny memories
@richardchen7062Ай бұрын
Babe wake up new SOTL Unique Unit overview just dropped
@sgtpepper8581Ай бұрын
People should make more TKs, even VS archers
@widodoakrom3938Ай бұрын
Wrong
@sgtpepper8581Ай бұрын
@@widodoakrom3938 not with siege
@widodoakrom3938Ай бұрын
@@sgtpepper8581 yeah I forget they got siege onager with siege engineer also with also add with iron clad
@sgtpepper8581Ай бұрын
@@widodoakrom3938 well, I've won some games VS bohemians using Just infantry and capped rams :)
@widodoakrom3938Ай бұрын
@@sgtpepper8581 how about against Dravidian as teutons?
@EddythebandkidАй бұрын
I think the clown car strategy is really strong with the Tutonic knights
@balazsfenyes3880Ай бұрын
I see Teutonic Knight, i upvote, my all time favourite style unit.
@Rika101OfficialYTАй бұрын
If I recall, this will be the first civ SOTL redo the overview (not confirmed but highly possible from the looks of it) 3 times. Could have redo other older civ overview but hey I'm just being pedantic
@robertlewis6915Ай бұрын
TK are just cool to look at. Probably the coolest UU to look at.
@Mortaall1Ай бұрын
Cape bois are the most beloved unit in the game! There no Aoe 2 without cape bois!
@IrfanhillАй бұрын
The most emblematic unique unit from AOE2. Enough said!
@vbossbla532Ай бұрын
Been thinking "he should revisit the Teutonic knight" and boom a video on him revisiting the Teutonic knight
@chingamfongАй бұрын
So Teutons will be the first civ with 3 full SotL overciews?
@SIGNOR-GАй бұрын
What do you mean 3?
@chingamfongАй бұрын
@@SIGNOR-G SotL already has 2 Teutons overview. Check the description of his current lastest Teuton overview
@SIGNOR-GАй бұрын
@@chingamfong thanks for the clarification.
@aryowisnuwardhana6666Ай бұрын
2:16 Teutonic Knight: Stab building Building: *catch on fire* This is the peak AoE Logic.
@MakiMaki.Ай бұрын
I'd say a battering ram setting a farm on fire still beats that.^^
@Fishyyy12 күн бұрын
Good day good Sir, lovely content as always
@calronkeltaran49310 күн бұрын
back when AoE2 or even AoC was still new and elite units in general where frowned upon as being unable to build in meaningfull numbers, I had quite some succsess with Teutons. they where among very few elite units you could mass produces, if you got only 2 castles on the map and they where a pain to get rid off. realy fun times
@catbuikhang648220 күн бұрын
13:30 dude, a load of teutonic knights on DRAGONS would be badass
@BlueShellshockАй бұрын
I always liked TKs, but I had never thought about their efficiency versus buildings. I’d say I’d rather train two TK’s than a ram if I was trying to thin out buildings that don’t fight back and I thought some army was going to show up, yeah.
@arkbubleАй бұрын
OMG Incas review coming after this!!!
@cccpredarmy15 күн бұрын
Always remember my early kid days who played AOE2 a lot but understood nothing about the stats. The teutonic knight was seen as the rolling and unstopable death machine which made me build a lot of castles because I knew i couldn't beat them on the battlefield
@ikiry0830Ай бұрын
God I wish they'd remove the Siege Tower Gold Cost (Or let them shoot garrison arrows like a tower to make them worth the cost). It would make them so much more interesting as a Teutonic Knight Battlewagon.
@TheIcarusGuyАй бұрын
Damn bro, spirit of the lift caught me off-guard
@adriadelafuente3648Ай бұрын
The crowning moment of my AoE career was winning a 4v4 against human players with teutons: my allies dead, and me tearing through the enemies with paladins and Teutonic Knights.
@caimtheabyssbringer3136Ай бұрын
Definitely my favorite
@the_miracle_alignerАй бұрын
Ok I can guess which civ re-overview is going to be next...
@camilolazo4010Ай бұрын
"hey laws, spirit of the guys here"
@Radditz36Ай бұрын
I always like such tests "T Kight vs War Elephants/ Cataphract/ Samurai/ Jaguar/ Leitis/ Costilier/ Obuch/ Urumi Swordsman witz Wootz Steel" in eqal ressources
@draganescuconstantin2380Ай бұрын
The fact that they beat Battle Elephants is pretty crazy. Still, a very specific matchup but teutonic knights could be used to counter a late game elephant spam
@ShieldAreАй бұрын
Fast Teutonic Knights remind me, will we get an Olympics video again? I loved the Olympics video last time.
@Tommy3PLАй бұрын
i love infantry civs !!! Especially the Trutonic Knights !
@Max-ej4oh27 күн бұрын
Teutons so strong they walk slow just from sheer menacing aura alone. They're just giving the enemy a chance.
@psssshhh7730Ай бұрын
They're like that scene from Indiana Jones. The one were the dude with the sword got shot.
@RMOBАй бұрын
Nice video as always. :) At the end of the video, I felt my spirit lifted.
@ottokarl5427Ай бұрын
I remember when Teutonic Knight was literally the benchmark for every Civ Overview to see how good the Unique Unit is. They might be niché and too slow/easy to counter with range in a real game, but in a vacuum, Teutonic Knights are probably still a Top 5 or atleast Top 10 unit when it comes to pure power. They also are the most stylish unit in the game and lets be real: That is a highly undervalued stat!
@maximinomorgado2150Ай бұрын
Longswordman putting 420 damage per minute with arson, they do be blazing it
@PDMC2016-2Ай бұрын
Easily my favorite civ because of these guys lol
@ronaldrage211825 күн бұрын
Suprised that tectonic knights countering mamelukes wasn't mentioned as mamelukes are actually pretty popular bc of teutons going heavy cav typically. Since mamelukes do mele damage they get destroyed vs tectonic knights.
@loowick4074Ай бұрын
Love these units. They have that "wall of iron" feel that I like
@powerg3824Ай бұрын
Being weak to range units while being pretty slow, really hurts them
@IskoJakobssonАй бұрын
Hey guys, square of the space here
@thomasyeretzian4041Ай бұрын
Please bring back their old Attack move. Just like the Samurais ! They were insane
@RSC2194Ай бұрын
as a retired teutonic knight i agree
@ivanhoeoliveiraАй бұрын
... and of couse, they're so cool with those capes!
@sapphyrusАй бұрын
My favorite RTS unit ever! I'd cover them with skirmishers and they would walk over everything including elephants!
@varunmanjunath9123Ай бұрын
Dravidian Halb spam actually destroys Teutonic Knights... Also an Elite Chakram mass can forever outrun the caped bucketheads! Still one of the coolest looking units!
@TheEarlofBronze1Ай бұрын
Ill forever move my TK's. Near and dear to my heart
@MaximusLightАй бұрын
Okay but you missed a perfect opportunity to mention the Mongol Taxi
@kekstruppe1263Ай бұрын
I see Teutonic Knight - I click
@verysmallTKАй бұрын
Teutonic pizza delivery is what I call TKs in siege towers.
@kr_47_Ай бұрын
Teutonic Knights 💪🏻 are my favourite Unique Unit since 2007(the year i got my first computer) and Age of Empires II is my first ever PC game😎.....i know Age of Empires is older than me 1997 and Age of Empires II 1999💪🏻