Historically Tlaxcaltecas were allies of the Spanish, so "Meso civ with gunpowder and horses" could be an interesting design space. Unique unit could be a cav unit called the 'Pipiltin'

17:23 YOOOO WHAT THE HELL!? A shoutout from the greatest AoE2 channel of all time? I am truly honored. And all that on top of a fantastic video showcasing the single greatest fanmade creation in Age of Empires history. This has made my month!

7:55 the Anti-Hera-Tech

Knights Hospitaller were actually a black banner with a white cross. You made the Teutonic Flag.

This new DLC Idea could fit in a "rogue lite" campaing were after every map you could chose a new bonus between a ranom amout to build your civ until the last "boss" fight

Mamelukes with Berbers’ discount and health regeneration, made at stable (Huns).. Let's Gooooo! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

Time for another deathmatch between overpowered Civs.

When I grow up I want to be a custom civ from AoE2

Mr Law you just reinstalled AoE2 on my computer with your brain

Note that if you pick the (+) button near the bonus that you selected, you can double/triple/... it 😆

We are all now waiting for the next video! I want to see these in action.

On my AOE2 Wiki user page I have 64, yes 64 custom civilisations. All with their own civ icons and tech trees. It has been my dream to see these made into playable custom civilisations, and whilst we're not at that stage yet, we're getting closer day by day.

Thanks for making such high quality content, your videos always get me back into Aoe2 after I take a break.

It’s nice to hear SoTL being so enthusiastic.

If we get an official civ maker mod - which i'm totally for - i hope that we would be able to create custom bonuses and not just pick from a list. Just being able to do custom multipliers would be great enough.

Was always thinking how cool it would be if I could make my own custom civ and turns out it’s completely possible kudos to dev bro who made this

That's the beauty of AoE3DE. Home shipments let you customize your gameplay.

Empire Earth was so cool because this functionality was basically native to the game with a point-buy system and everything. Combine with all the historical ages and bonuses that could only work for some of them for some truly specialized antics.

‏‪2:08‬‏ *Age of Chivalry MOMENT*

I think you accidentally gave the Knights Hospitalier siege elephants

Krakenmeister is goated. I made a few Lord of the Rings civs and I’ve had a ton of fun with them.

Deck building is one of the most fun parts of AoE3; this would resonate with that community!

SOTL giving the devs amazing ideas here. I seriously wish they incorporated something like this, but sadly it's just going to be a pipe dream

As a DLC feature in the game itself, this would be really awesome!! Custom CIV rank ladder would be epic! :) Thank you, Spirit !

The civ builder is so cool! Krakenmeister must have put a whole lot of work into it and I really have to comment them on that. That said, I often get frustrated by the interface lacking information and some of the decisions in implementation. I feel bad because I know it's probably for good reason and would require even more work, but I'd really like more freedom to include secondary unique units and/or replace existing units sort of how the Savar works.

The order of the Hospitaller is a German one, founded during the reign of Karl der Große. Though they were really wide spread pretty quickly in especially central Europe.

I just want Kamayuk with japfastatk and wootz steel.

I could spend hours creating new civs for the fun of it. I'd probably spend as much time making civs as I would actually playing them. Hopefully this becomes a DLC, I would love to be able to create my own civs and play them against the AI.

Dang SOTL got 7k views in an hour in a very niche area.. shows how much viewers like to see his content

My fave op infantry combo is Ethiopian shotels with double armor effects, attack speed, discount, and movement

Welp...guess I'm gonna make the ultimate gunpowder civ then

Love the idea I would watch tournaments using custom civs

I love the creativity of the farm 2x2 bonus

Great updates! Nice to see 2x2 farms added. Civbuildier is a no brainer for a DLC

Do you know what is good about your channel? Let's say I am a new aoe player. I need to know something for the game (As the game is insanely confusing). Where should I go? Spirit of the Law channel obviously.Could you please make seperate researched videos on 1. How trading give you a upper hand? (also discuss about the market tech elaborately) 2. How the Blacksmith works? (one of the most confusing thing for beginner aoe players)? 3. How the University works? (Discuss obout the university tech, which one to get). 4. Monastery (must needed tech, which tech we can avoid). These videos will be insanely helpful for the aoe communiy as a whole, as new players will less likely to have confusion about these confusing part of aoe. Thank you. **Like this comment or mention sprit of the law in the reply so that he notices**

I played around over the last hours - One thing I find missing is the ability to remove the gold cost from certain units. Why not turn Cavalry Archers, Eagles, Hand Cannoneer, Camels, Battle Elephants, Steppe Lancers, maybe even stuff like ships or siege into trash units? It's a very easy way to give your civ an identity to work around for.

Great video! Thank you, watching this actually at work ^^

Pillar of the community. Thanks for being a voice, I think this is an awesome idea and it’s an insta buy for me, imagine the added capabilities if this was developed from within the company. I also quietly love the idea of a fully fleshed UI that can go beyond what websites can do.

I would love to see Knights Templar and Knights Hospitaler in AoE2. Than we would have all 3 major orders D: Also i think they should replace the Paladin of the Teutons with the Teutonic Variant (a bit like the persians)

This is pretty cool highlight, thanks!

One of my favorite Canadian/gaming/math(sometimes) channel!

Devs please make East Asian civs, the commmunity would love to have jurchens, tanguts, Hmong , Siberians, kazak, Tibetans, and if they are worried about politics, replace the ones that are sensitive with something else

Amazing news! I'll test it out asap. edit: it works great. Shame about the civ limit, but outside of that it's a super fun tool. I think I found some bug/tech conflict- that City Walls tech inverses castle HP, making all existing castles crumble and new ones being practically unusable. Maybe it's also some other civ tech playing a role here. Plus ofc there's limited space on the grid, so having multiple additional warships or stable units will result in some overlapping and not having access to some of them. Not to mention the obvious extreme game-breaking potential. And some of the custom units also don't have tooltip cards and other pieces of UI info.

this is incredible!

This would be an amazing thing to add to the game! I'm all for it.

Nice civ builder is back let’s go

I'm so excited to remake my petard/flaming camel civ

Design constest: Create the best civ for the ai. Let them fight it out and stream the best matches. Have a little AI leauge for us casuals to enjoy.

Finaly I can make a Romanian civ!I have been waiting for this 🙏🏼

every now and then I would go on to krakenmeister's civ builder site, just to take another look at my own custom civ XD, comprised of: UU: janissary Castle tech: szlachta privileges imperial tech: artillery team bonus: technologies research 25% faster (not including age up) bonuses: 1) -20% unit gold cost (port) 2) -10/15/20/25% military unit food cost (inca) 3) -15/20% stable unit cost (berb) 4) +25% gunpowder unit attack (burg) 5) houfnice (bohe) essentially a trash paladin (33f) hard hitting gunpwoder + artillery houfnice late game civ. went for a 275 point cap and made sure to mix in all dark/feudal techs/unit and otherwise prioritized relevant techs towards the late game comp + strong navy and monks.

the filter is actually huge!!

The music while you were making the civs😭 so much nostalgia, i wish they could bring it back to the DE version

This custom civs will be a great addition to the original game, u have a good eye for the content of the game.

Amazing website! I already cooked up a couple of civs focusing on different aspects like archer, cav, elephant and siege. Gotta do a camal forcused for the next one. But I imagine the process of customizing a civ may be slightly difficult for newer players because they don't know what options there are.

Wow! This awesome tool lets me mix and match civ bonuses! I can be so creative! *gives every civ 2x2 Farms for perfect Mill alignment*

That is amazing! Need one for AoE III 😭😭

i was waiting too see some gameplay with your civ...

let's go! more custom civs

I was actually trying to make some few days before what a coincidence. Can you also make a video showcasing all the new unique units and their stats please it would be really great.

Do a custom civ tournament where players build their own custom civs and battle each other with them.

This looks epic

I'd love to see a *mix civ tournament* where the civs are fixed after the first start. This way we truly see the boss of aoe

this would be epic af

Hello Spirit of the Law. First, thank you for your work. Your civilizations videos brought me back to this game I really loved as a kid. The fact that a modder is proposing such a tool 25 years after the initial release is glorious. I'm sure incorporating a civ builder like that as a DLC could be a bright move from Microsoft. If they do it however, how could they sell future DLCs with new civs? Might these not be made redundant by the builder?

I hope to see a Taino civ idea or included in AoE 2 DE officially. The only issue is that they should allow to have 50 civs total (So we can add 5 without removing 1 of the existing ones) but otherwise this sounds very fun and interesting.

I hope we'll see some Civ creating challenges from you. I wonder how many rules you have to break in order to make a dark age only civ competetive.

YEEESSS! We need Khazars in the game! Next DLC! I would make it quite differently like yours (include walls, since there were city builders; adding trade bonuses, for they controlled the northern silk road) but I love the try!

Yes! love the custom civ content! PLEASE do make more!! I love hearing teh reasoning and debating over what bonuses to take. Its cool to hear the flavor and mechanical reasons that come into play.

I love that line 16:59 😂

Great video, greetings from Colombia. Maybe in the future you'll consider making a video about the advanced genie editor. since there is almost no information about the program

since u have made ur old video i cannot stop thinking if it would be better for the caav archer civ to have the mangudai or the kipchak because mangudai already have all the things going for the mongols and the kipchak doesnt even have bracer... i demand an answer :D

There's a game mode that could be built which copies a Dota2 mode called Ability Draft (in this case Civilization Draft). The idea is that rather than getting a huge list of all civ bonuses you and all the players see a shorter list, of say just the bonuses for 10 civs for an 8 player game. Then everyone gets to 'draft' an ability on order to try to build their civ before the game. Not every ability will get picked, but if more 'broken' abilities are on the board obviously they'll get picked earlier. There can even be an element of counter-picking strategy where if someone goes all-in on a build you might swipe bonuses to keep from having to face them. Would be very challenging to build with current tools but it can make the civ building aspect a bit more repeatable.

Thank-you!

YES PLEASE! PETITION TO MAKE THIS PART OF THE GAMEEE!!

Played around with this a while ago, but the major problem was that new civs created this way always had to replace existing ones.

Would love to see a video where you use these civs in action - especially the Tlaxcalans vs. Aztecs or another Mesoamerican civ

Spirit of the Lawn here

OP villager civ would be amazing.

Ideas for an in-game civ builder official DLC : 1 Hire Krakenmeister 2 make a " custom civilization" selection screen ( so you can save several civilizations and still be enabled to play against all regular civilizations and can replace them at will) and a " custom civilization" button on the Lobby menu in multiplayer and single games so if players does not want to play custon they can just disable the option. 3 Custom civilization should have its own separate ranked game ladder. 4 The customizing tool should also be improved with submenus Divided in categories so the players cand find even easier the bonuses they want. 5 the Customizing tool for the Tech tree should include the secondary unique units, or regional units. the Mule Cart, the Unique buildings etc and picking units or buildings that replaces an existing unit should act like an on/off switch, that will reduce the clutter on the "bonus selection screen". 6 they should add a lot of new unique buildings and unique units of course inspired in real world cultures or civilizations or armies. otherwise they may also add a " unique unit builder" 7 the Customization tool should enable the player to add ai names for their civilizations a custom theme song, and other aesthetic options still not present in the Krakenmeister page

can we see a video of these 2 civs vs each other??? love your content bro

Krakenmeister for CEO!

My favorite part of Age of empires games allways was the cenário editor, i dont know for sure but in AoE3 alone i most have at the very least a few thousand hours just on the editor to creat cenários since i started playing the 1st AoE 3 (im not sure now but at least half ayear before the lunch of warshiefs DLC, that i bought right at the lunch of it). For me the best feature that devs could give me right now is making the cenário editor from AoE 2 DE in line with the one from AoE3. This cenario editor is so much harder to work with... This civilization creator tool is just the cheerie on top of the cake, being able to create the peoples to give live to cenarios is amasing!!! Hope that both become part of the game some day!!!

Robby Lava is great, I really recommend his channel

The struggle always was fitting 3x3 tile farms around a 2x2 tile mill. Imagine giving yourself folwark and 2x2 tile farms. 🤯

YEEESSS!!!!

Would love to see a/your new Sicilians overview

15:58 Apukispay: I've Monkey Boy's Spirit!

Deck building sounds addicting af.

I used the civ builder about 3 weeks ago and ever since, my computer freezes when I try to edit a custom match. I’ve been playing in a lot of tournaments lately which are all coordinated in custom matches so it’s been happening a lot.

Hi SOTL, Would like to see a video on your thoughts comparing Tigui and Hill Forts (and any other similar techs). Both cost same total resources - one increases arrows and other increases range. Would love to hear your thoughts on which one you consider better, and/or any other thoughts you have. Thanks.

Huh. All this while a friend and I work on a mod for the Tibetans, Jurchens, Tanguts & Khitans. Funnily, SotL's Khazars are already really similar to the Khitan design we had.

Pretty interesting that Hospitaliers have unique unit with teutonic shield 😅

Amenian early infantry + goth cheap infantry + double effect of armour upgrades on infantry (romans) + pierce armour on infantry + faster attacking infantry. Unique techs Garland Wars (+4 infantry attack) and the armenian +30 HP to swordsman line.

im not gonna lie, the main thing i payed attention to in this video is the background music

Can you use the civ bonuses of the civs you normally don't have access to(no DLC) or it'll break the mod?

Thank you so much for this video sir. And to Krakenmeister I declare: May blessings and sweet meats rain upon you sir.

Other than make a custom civ with each one, is there a way to check what the custom unique units on the builder do and their stats? I can't find info on them

2x2 farms should just be the default, it'd make the game feel so good

I can finally Add Yemen As Civ In AoE2

I think you mixed up Templars and Hospitallers. But the crusader units are amazing!