Meanwhile the scorpion is crying in a corner having overlooked by SoTL

What I learned today: There's a flamethrower-tower in AoE2

Fun thing, in the spanish version of AoE2 the description for the logistica technology says literally "Las catafractas arrasan a su paso" what can be translated to english to something like "Cataphracts obliterate on their path", not a mention about trample or area damage in spanish.

Fun facts: If a unit doesn't have 100% accuracy, then all units within the blast radius have a chance equal to the accuracy to take damage. That's why the Britons Warwolf technology changes Treb accuracy from 15% to 100%. At one point Throwing Axemen would harm friendly units if they were given a blast attack. In some custom scenarios they would massacre their own infantry units if the player also had Druzhina. There was an update to DE that changed this behavior. The Organ Gun secondary projectile is really interesting. It has 1002 attack. But the attack is against an armor class that no units have, so the damage is calculated using the base armor, which for most units is 1000. But there are some units that appear in scenarios with 0 base armor (Dire Wolves and Ornlu are examples).

0:35 I was expecting the Intro song so much, that it started playing in my head and I suddenly felt very rushed into the video as you kept on talking - made me pause the video XD

Remember, kids: Fire galleys miss 100% of the shots they don't take.

There’s some questions SotL shows us that we should be asking.

That was a correct pronunciation of "druzhina", my man. Good work. Slavs approve.

Ah yes, the cobra car, the most important unit to keep in mind in competitive play.

thank you spirit of the law. now i know what he difference is between trample, spash, & blast damage is in Age of Empires 2. thanks

Ah yes, a question I didn’t have until I saw the title, then I had the question and I will now have the answer

They should all be renamed to AoE damage

6:15 - I cannot watch any further after my fallen brothers. F.

Spirit answering questions, we didn't know we wanted answered!

Happy to hear you cover those two hero units, I added them to the trample damage page on the wiki a week ago.

I've been wondering what makes the AI abdicate? Sometimes it's before I destroy anything. Sometimes they hold on even without villagers or units. Usually if I drop castle plans on their first TC that forces them to abdicate

your channel is incredible, man. congratulations and thank you very much!

so lets check em out.... i was waiting for that intro!! is this some different timeline!?

These videos are one of my weekly happy moments!

Wow, been having a blast watching this video! :D

Haven't played AoE2 in a long time but also can't get enough of learning more about my favorite childhood game ❤️

Aewsome stuff, thanks SOTL!

This video was a blast!

Great video but the lack of elephant facts will not be forgotten! (By the elephants, as you know, they never forget... nor forgive)

i think what makes it so cool about the fire tower's effect; is that it too makes sense in a way. a crack of a random piece of wood/fire decided to just spark off and smack someone in the face or what have you; really does make you with the tower was more out there then just being a unique tower in come scenario/campaigns

Neat. One would assume its the same bit of code executed in slightly different ways, but this game is full of surprises

You nailed it on this one.

Very interesting as usual

Man I miss the SOTL intro

You didnt mention the Scorpion, which technically does blast damage

great video idea. thank you!

Crazy how complex this amazing game is!

Thank you very much! I was wondering how they work

dude you're a legend

This is one I've been waiting for. I just assumed they were all the same thing and I just couldn't count.

Great vid :)

2:20 we all know that's for show how underrated the japanese are

8:37: Welcome back, old friend. Practicing before battling that lone Villager, I see.

You are the Best :)

what you did with the demos reminds me of my harvest moon fields

Thanks spirit the video........WAS A BLAST!

The fire tower doesnt have blast damage, it just follows the same pattern that all other units with

Spirit correctly pronouncing word Druzhina is a blessing

Now that war elephant is cheaper in terms of food plus the knowledge from this video, I expect more people are encouraging to use war elephant + crossbow combo to counter almost everything.

Best math lecture ever

Abraha elephant:* does full trample damage. God: *Picks ranged units. Abraha: Wait, you were not supposed to do that.........

damn getting that Kunka cleave with the 256 mod

Could you do a mini series comparing unique units by class? Like comparing all unique unit archers with eachother. /infantry/cavalry?

6:38 That spearman: "I HAVE NO MASTER!!!"

TRYING TO GET TO SLEEP BUT NO, YOU UPLOAD..

Thanks! That was a blast😎

To be released soon: A DLC where something does squish damage.

Slavs with their multiple researches be like *"I'm hitting you from four pararrels ahead of you"* So AoE2 = Area of Effect 2? 😂 8:32 Lmao, I didn't expect that unit

Eyyy cool

So we're discussing aoe in aoe 🤔

8:36 SO SATISFYING!

I miss the shorter version of guitar play after intro, before u start the video. The long version was too long, but for a long time it was perfect. Now i feel like its gone!? I miss it, it was such a signiture of this channel. My brain LinkedIn thecguitar into to sotl. Anyone who also misses it?

I had never noticed the elite battle elephants have little chains between their tusks.

Ah yes the cobra car is more op than I thought.

Oh wow

the main takeaway from this video: onager and siege onager are op as fuck. 70% damage increase with 1 upgrade and almost doubling it with another one? imagine those values with any other unit. with this strengh i think mangonel line could cost 3 times as much as it currently does and still be effective in lategame

The comment you did for slavs halberdier vs cavalry trample damage could have and +: 5 damage is very little because the HP of paladins is huge and agaist low HP enemy you kill some of them faster so the atk output of the adversary is lowered faster; and another factor is that if your enemy is a bigger unit there gonna be fewer of them surrounding at the same time and less bonus damage due trample.

So what would happen if I gave a War Elephant Logistica? Would it have (24-armour)/2 + 5 trample damage, or (29-armour)? And would the secondary Projectiles from Organ guns potentially deal blast damage? (They're probably at 0 accuracy, so practically not really).

Well that's Some Area Of Effect damage over there

If you enable Logistica for a range unique unit, say Longbow, in a modded civ, will the arrow do trample damge? And if you research it 256 times, will you have medieval ICBM like Ethiopian torsian engine?

I'm wondering if the siege ram bonus against trebuches works when they're packed. Unpacked it's litterally a building, as the unit converts itself into a foundation of the unpacked version to build on so to me it sounds logic that it takes the "bulding bonus dmg", but I'm curious to see if it applies to the packed version that should be considered as a simple siege unit and not a "siege building".

6:10 those must be teutonic knights who grabbed a lance

You should check Roman vs Barbarians V3

thats why it used to be represented by a mangonel in the unit icon.

What happens to the blast radius when chemistry is researched? It became smaller or it remain the same?

Does the Cataphract's damage bonus cancellation trait/ability also cancel the trample from Druzina?

Just had a very confusing moment as a Donut Media KZfaq video played and someone was explaining the math behind aerodynamic drag as An Evening at the Museum by Moss Harman played in the background. SotL folks will recognize that song anywhere, even in an automotive context...

Could you do a video on why scout rush is popular in Empire Wars?

Yes

0:45 HE PRONOUNCED DRUZHINA CORRECT

This is the channel we thumb up before watching the video

why does any damage occur on other units at all if the accuracy is 0% for the fire tower? Does the blast damage only occur when it hits the wrong target or is it more like the organ gun?

How about deleting the units that have decreasing dmg like you can do with the mangonel shots. Does that work?

love your vids... 53th comment btw

can you do a video with custom scenerio/campaign units?

Question how do you give units trample damage using the scenario editor

I play the Vietnamese I'm curious when war elephants are involved let us say versus Boyars & versus Halberdiers. We'll have the former at 11 armour & the latter at 4 armour - is it that the 25% trample gets worked out as 16-11 = 5/4 =1.25 damage trampled onto Boyars, but 16-4 =12/4 = 3 damage trampled onto halberdiers I assume.

Here's a question for you, why is it that a lot of the time, (I play the Conquerors), the AI like giving me most of their resources. Is this a team tactic to get me attacked first, or to force me to advance?

Could you make something about bombard units/buildings? Why only bombard tower make 1 damage to the ram?

Teutonic Knight directly stabbed by an slavic Halberdier: "You have no power here!" Teutonic Knight after the slavic Halberdier turns around and attacks an other unit: "Argh! It hurts so much to get passive aggressively ignored!"

And now I'm wondering what it would be like if Teutonic Knights did adjacent damage.

The type 1 trample damage ignoring hill bonuses might be because it might apply to all targets at once and would cause weird issues fighting on slopes? Just thinking as a programmer.

I’ve been wondering, is it worth it to build a second lumber camp after the next two rows of trees have been cut down? Is the 100 wood spent worth the villager walk time? It’s just another video idea that I think might be interesting🤷🏽‍♂️

Can you trigger blast/splash/trample damage by attacking nothing?

i wonder though what happens if you give the different types of aoe damage to different units, how it will behave then?

Thanks,now i know what the difference between trample, splash and blast damage in Age of Empires 2. Thanks

What about deleting the Onager right after it fires? Is that still a thing, or fixed?

I get why mangonel damage isn't symmetrical front to back, but why aren't the sides symmetrical, doing slightly more to the right?

Top 5 naval civilization plz🙏🙏🙏🙏

Does the Sicilian bonus affect any of the Trample Damage variants?

Been playing for a decade, never seen a firetower.

But it’s all controlled by one field in the database? Or are the separate fields? I.E. you can’t give a unit trample AND blast damage?

@spirit of the law . With the Japanese 33%faster attack. What does that make their base attack equivalent to with that speed????

Hey Spirit, could you give me a game on Persians you would do to specialize in elephants late game?

Strange that the Canon tower does not have any splash. I'm pretty sure one would get somekind of a shellshock, if a cannonball landed at one's feet regardless of it came from a tower or a siege cannon.