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31:35 Robby finally unleashing his master plan and the reason this channel was created all along. I've been so busy and currently sick that it has become hard to write long intrusive comments, but your videos have become pretty much a Friday evening ritual to me and I always enjoy watching them. A very interesting and thought out build to say the very least, with some brave choices, but hey that's why we are all here for in the end. I do wonder if the reliance on stone is a bit overtuned. Stone is the scarcest of all resources, and a lot of potential interests are fighting for it. Sacrificing a potential castle for farms sounds pretty whack, but you do get the stone generation and cheap structures in return, which can potentially snowball. But it's also very vulnerable to raid. If you lose most of your economy after stone has run out, and you have to buy it at the market just to get food, yikes. Turning off defensive structures and spawning in units sounds very broken, but I do think it's somewhat balanced by completely lacking any good ranged siege, or siege in general. Archers with bonus damage against buildings are great, but they can't replace trebs obviously, so you really have to get in close to destroy buildings and are vulnerable to counterattacks. The Yaha Yahunis willl be swarmed like light by flies. Generally, the quality over the past few months has been absolutely insane, both with AoE2 and AoMR, so thanks for all the hard work from you and all the people behind the scenes, it's amazing to see how far the channel has comes since it's infant days. Hope the lil villagers have wheelbarrow by now and are doing great haha, stay awesome buddy!

Perhaps with the missing castle idea you could kind of default to a fortified looking hilltop position looking thing.

Don't really a fan of the Yaha Yahui 😅, but the Yuchi Yutun blast attack is quite the Unique in his way 💪🗿

What a treat

Malay can also be split: -malay represent mallacca sutanate -sumatran represent srivijaya empire -java represent majapahit empire -philipinian -bornean -balinese -molluccas -celebes Please discuss that.

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In a video a while back you talked about ways to redesign infantry as a group to allow them to force engagements more and be stronger as a core army. An idea I had was to change how their production worked. Instead of an infantry taking up population while they are training, they only take it up after they are done. So the train progress goes all the way up to 100% and then if there is no pop available, it will just hold there until it does. This would allow them to be more population efficient without actually being able to field more total units, which is kinda intrinsic to how the game is overall designed. Now instead of having 50% of your units fighting, 25% walking to the battle and 25% in training, you could theoretically have 75% in battle, 25% walking and 0 population being taken up by training units. Flavorwise, it also represents how the easiest troops to arms and throw into a fight are the infantry. they don't need long term training like an archer, or to have extensive horse and rider armor suited up. If you have 15 barracks and you just had a group wiped out, they will all pop out the next wave right away.

The video was rlly good. But I cringed Everytime he said Oa-sha-kah. It’s pronounced Oah-hah-kah bro. The X works as a J, or a H for English speakers

Maybe tower farms should look different, maybe potato or corn fields to help identify them

"Cavalry... Uh" 😂😂😂 i died laughing! Good job Amico, love the meso civs, absolutely like the way you build this civ!

I have been thinking about the ball game court since i saw your vieo on the zapotects. I came upon a weird idea. You see mesoamericans (and andeans) didn't have blacksmithing, but they still get a blacksmith in the game, no one seems to notice. So why not replace the Blacksmith with a "regional" building for mesos (and there would be also another one for the andeans): The Ballgame Court with special technologies for their infantry/archers that compensate the playstile of lacking cavalry/gundpowder. Here you could get creative with the technologies, beyond the generic +1 pierce armor for infantry (but keeping the generic bonus). There are 5 rows of techs, but the mesos don't have cavarly so it is 4 rows for them: Infantry/Cavalry atttack (Cavalry doesn't apply) Infantry pierce defense Archer attack Archer pierce defense You could create 4 flavour appropiate alternative rows of techs for the Ballcourt game. For example: Dodge Training: +1 pierce defence and +2 catapult/balista defense for archers. This would be tier 1 Archer pierce defense (Padded Armor). Hit and Run: +1 attack and +4% speed for infantry. This would be tier 1 Infantry attack (Forging). And so on with each tech row.

YOU SICK MONSTER.... YOU PUT THAT TREBUCHET BACK WHERE YOU FOUND IT OR SO HELP ME DAUT.

Dude, seriously, whoever is responsible for AOE2 DE just hire this guy already and give him total powers

Interesting. I don't know this people so I am always glad to learn new stuff. The stone aspect of their faction is quite unique and I think that it's well put together. Some points to mention - I really like the yaha yahui. Great effect and very unique. - The castle age unique technology makes a lot of sense. More towers that cost less to protect farmers to make them build stone farms generating stone. Well thought. - They don't have trebuchets. Ok. But do they have petards?

When it comes to new Mesoamerican civs in AoE2 personal I would like to see Tlaxcallans. Not only they already take a huge part in the Aztec campaign, but their alliance with the Spanish could be an excuse to make them the first AoE2 meso civ with access to stables and gunpowder and I think that potentially could be interesting.

Finally, a civ that makes it viable to turn my base spiky with towers

That Zapotec emblem looks great too. Hinting an expansion pack?❤

Stone vills sounding fun. I imagine their drush would be stronger than average because they can create 8 vills with their starting resources. So I bet the build would have the first few vills go to wood instead of sheep so that they can get the barracks up earlier and get the militia out fast.

Buckle up boys! It's gonna be a good one!

Wtf, I was literally thinking about Mesoamerica this past week. This and Celtic Crumble (probs Irish, Scots, Welsh and Bretons) would've been my guesses for your next DLC speculation. Well, I know you have Zapotecs and Purepecha/Tarascans already, this is three with Mixtecs, so who will be the last one for your 4-a-piece DLC set? Based on previous interactions, I'll hazard a guess it'll be Tlaxcalans due to their prominence in the Montezuma campaign? Technically you could do Otomi. Campaign appearances? None, I think. In theory the first Montezuma scenario could have them if redesigned, but all the other scenarios with Mesoamerica are quite firmly Aztec (read Nahua) and Mayans. If memory serves, that is. Well, aside from a single Zapotec appearance in Dos Pilas, but that's as far as it goes.

It's pronounced Wua-ha-kah

Good vid but i feel like we have the three messo civs that we need. I am obviously still gonna watch but i was wondering why messo so hype and not europe

awesome work on this video!

Sei que você já fez um vídeo sobre os mississippians. Tente fazer um sobre outra civilização norte-americana

Instead of archers, maybe another regional unit? Mixtecs were known for their javelins.

More AoM Builds please!

7:10 that castle looks insanely good.

Yes! Finally Mixtecs!!! Would love to see Inkas split into several civs :)

It was a pleasure working with you Robby! Also credits to my wonderful wife for my profile pic art included here! If anyone has any questions/criticisms (history-wise), feel free to ask away here!

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Is that blinding light art Solitude from mtg? Lol

Yep +1 for the full series. Would love to hear this as I'm driving. 1 hr vid. Don't test it just shoot the breeze with hypotheticals

11:30 Bari is a terrible campaign. I hate it. They had the story of Belisarius and Justinian, or the whole Byzantine reconquest of Italy, but they had to go for the unknown city. They wasted one of the most loved civs in the game. But surely there's a fan-made campaign about it. Thank you as always for your incredible vids and the work you put in them.

Developers who worked on Empire Earth previously worked on AoE2 and have rethought and implemented many beta ideas from Aoe2. In EE, wonders have effects, such as the Temple of Zeus causing units to heal themselves over time, or the Tower of Babel causing units near a unit being converted to be converted as well. The Ishtar Gates, which increases the hitpoints of Walls, Towers. The Library of Alexandria, which shows all enemy buildings that have been completed. The Pharos Lighthouse, which reveals a large part of the surrounding sea. The Coliseum, which raises the player's population capacity by 20%, lowering the enemy's population by the same amount.

I love it, would counter the archer and cavalry meta. I will give the swordmen men a light bonus against them, so they can have a clear counter. This way you do not risk overshadowing them. Great job.

Nuhh uhh, I prefer aztecs.

Prolly the expansion 2 is going to be about Japanese pantheon. In the editor there are hints of Japanese terrain when you want to edit some grass and cliffs actually.

I like that idea of garrisoning civilians for the Romans, It would be cool to implement it in many more aspects of the civ, like sacrifices could be integrated in more areas than favor generation for the Aztecs. Also, I really like your idea of upgrading temples, it should be implemented in different ways in more civs. Japanese shrines could be upgraded by dropping food there, you won't receive the food, but the shrine would grow in size, capabilities, and favor generation; they would be very weak and easily destroyed, so a Japanese civ would spam and hide shrines all over.

Making siege convertible by default would really mess the balance of archer civs that explicitly had redemption removed. With that the base conversion time would have the be so high that makes it impractical, but make redemption(or its replacement) allow building conversion as well as bring down siege converstion timr dramatically.

(15:50), and what if one of those patronized TCs get leveled down? Is that bonos lost for ever?

gotta respect the "hating" hustle be a fan for so long, and still put out a video amazing <3

why havent they done these as game modes? Having these experimental changes as game modes would give more life to AoE2 and wouldnt affect the competitive and try hard scene. They could go ballistic with theme game modes like one making handguns OP so the first one rushing to gunpowder tech "wins" or make horses a resource (there are already models) and you have to capture to them to make cavalry units.

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I love this. We talked about this too when we chatted! I’m so happy you collaborated with wololo. I hope something like this gets implemented

Roman centurions shouldn't have more ANYTHING than cataphractoi.

12:40 Not only RTS, think about Minecraft, and the original Counter-Strike with custom maps that lots of people loved.

On the matter of the Celts, I'd say they should go Gaels and nothing more, the other continental Celts are too broad and over the place, or we simply don't know much about them, rather stick to something they can make justice to. A shame to miss out on Cernunnos who doesn't appear in Gaelic mythology if I'm not mistaken tho. I don't really like the Romans as a mythological faction, they had their own mythos, kinda and religion and it was distinct and all but they started to link and smash it with the Greeks too early on. Interpretatio graeca was the worst shit they ever did to themselves but it is what it is... Plus rather see some other stuff from out of Europe. For the rest of the rest I quite like. On the matter of Hindus tho, they have been really touchy of depctions of their faith in videogames, looking at Smite specifically, so it could be hard.

I cant wait till they put Christianity in this. Jesus is gonna be so op

I didnt know i wanted the romans as a civ until you brought it up and i have some alternative ideas to how theyd play. Like you said id make them very human centric in their military with lots of trash units eventually transitioning into heavy infantry and advanced siege units late game. Instead of having them mimic the favor generation of their enemies id instead have their favor generation be based on offerings and sacrifices at a temple, say you deposit 100 food youd get like 10 favor and a very small trickle for awhile scaling with how much you put in much like the italian building(whos name evades me rn) in aoe3 where you invest resources to get a trickle of gold. I would then tie this to a large civ wide mechanic where you have a scale from -100 to 100 with a pendulum that will travel from one end to the other before turning around and going the other way, 0 to 100 would provide civ wide buffs to everything while 0 to -100 would debuff everything. This is tied to the favor generation by the speed the pendulum travels at being tied to how many resources you currently have invested at the temple, this would give you some strategic initiative to try and speed through a down period or speed up to 100 for a large battle. This is inspired by the practice the romans had of sacrificing livestock to try and predict the outcome of a battle or campaign. There are some massive defeats the romans suffered after ignoring the bad vibes that still resulted in an eventual roman triumph maybe suggesting that the sacrifices didnt produce an immediate effect but instead pushed the needle over to them gradually The second big mechanic id give them would be in how they tech through their armory, i would make it so that progress to better armor and weaponry be directly tied to combat with different opponents giving different amounts of research progress(fighting lots of Egyptian infantry could provide benefits to armor to outlast them while fighting greek hoplites would give you better shields as you steal them) One last thing i might do is make one of the major patron gods apollo in reference to romes possible origin of refugees fleeing troy whos most worshipped patron god was apollo

You know, when you mentioned Romans being copy cats, which admittedly they were in history, but the idea of "they will copy but worse", the idea of a culture with several methods of favor gain, but they all equally suck and there are down sides for focusing. Though I can also see the Japanese having special designated priests that can worship at shrines, however you must turn villagers into priests which will gain a big bonus for worshipping at a shrine, however then it will become a crawl of 1 favor per minute, and thus must step away for it to rejuvenate, now for Japanese, you can make them economically special almost similar to the Egyption that is, a lot of Japanese units and structures require less gold, however in turn, require more wood, even the Samurai trades gold for wood and the samurai is an elite cav with both range and melee.