This is the kind of historical leader this game was _made_ for. And the flaming camels can be a bit confusing. You might _think_ they're just faster petards, but whereas petards are best used against buildings and especially fortifications, the flaming camels are more for use against _units_ , particularly cavalry (to keep in line with other camel units).
100% agreed, none of that poetry bullshit from SEA, just war crimes, blood and destruction. Yeah, it took me a few tries to actually go to the wiki and read what they're for haha.
If you never make any other Age of Empires content, at least you've made the best AoE2 speedrun series on UA-cam. It took awhile before I remembered, but there is some interesting Tamerlane trivia to share. Back during the months leading up to a little event known as World War 2, Soviet archaeologists in Samarkand were interested in knowing if Tamerlane was as 'lame' as we suspected. They pilfered his tomb, dug up his corpse, and after close examination revealed that the legends were true. He had a messed up leg, and I think the missing fingers. They also discovered something else, an inscription, a curse. It stated that anyone who unearthed Tamerlanes body would also unleash upon the Earth an invader "More Terrible Than I." Cue the Nazi invasion of Russia not long after. The curse of Tamerlane can hardly be blamed for WWII, but what's known for certain is that once the archaeology team was finished, Tamerlanes body was respectfully sealed back in his tomb, where the one-time terror of India and the Levant remains to this day.
Thanks a lot Xotl, it means a lot, but don't think you get no praise, cause your comments are some of my favorites throughout these 7 months of speedruns, always very educational. The story about his tomb being violated by Stalin is wild, the whole thing lasted slightly longer than Hitler's invasion, which makes it hard to not believe his curse. Fun to think Tamerlane was not done causing death and misery.
TIP: In the second scenario, make mangonels and use attack ground on yellow's castles while they're allied with you and cyan's too! that speeds up the scenario much easier.
I saw someone in the chat mentioning this (maybe it was you, cant remember now) when I was looking for some stuff. It would have saved me a good 10 minutes on the final time D:
Tamerlane, even though Genghis killed more and had his fair share of atrocities, he wasn't doing that purely out of evil, he did it to consolidate power as strongly as he could. Tamerlane on the other hand is considered the Supreme example of soulless and unproductive militarism by some historians. I might be wrong though, who knows?
funfact, the wallachians.... didnt really like the ottomans. at all. like, wallachian history, starting from around late 13th century and then going on for 3-400 years, is JUST them fighting off the ottomans while being under their leadership. several voyevods used the tactic of sucking up with words while doing just about everything the ottomans DIDNT want them to do, and one guy at the end of the 16th century even unified the 3 regions into a proto-romania just to fight the ottomans. sadly he didnt even last a decade in charge of it before he got beheaded in a fight but hey. all this to say, that wallachian voyevod was most likely just begging for a chance to frack off and leave the ottomans high and dry, and you coulve probably bribed him with a cheese-wiz, a dirty sock and 2 and a half shekels.
I kinda picked that up from Dracula and small interactions through the campaigns, but I didn't know it was that bad. I'll remember to bring cheese-wiz with me next time I run through Tamerlane again.
@@TheHickoryHub for vlad it was a bit more personal, he used to be a hostage at the sultans court when he was young. but yeah by that point it was over 100 years of the ottomans oppressing wallachia. we got VERY good at asymmetrical warfare, lemme tell you
This is the kind of historical leader this game was _made_ for.
And the flaming camels can be a bit confusing. You might _think_ they're just faster petards, but whereas petards are best used against buildings and especially fortifications, the flaming camels are more for use against _units_ , particularly cavalry (to keep in line with other camel units).
100% agreed, none of that poetry bullshit from SEA, just war crimes, blood and destruction.
Yeah, it took me a few tries to actually go to the wiki and read what they're for haha.
If you never make any other Age of Empires content, at least you've made the best AoE2 speedrun series on UA-cam.
It took awhile before I remembered, but there is some interesting Tamerlane trivia to share. Back during the months leading up to a little event known as World War 2, Soviet archaeologists in Samarkand were interested in knowing if Tamerlane was as 'lame' as we suspected. They pilfered his tomb, dug up his corpse, and after close examination revealed that the legends were true. He had a messed up leg, and I think the missing fingers.
They also discovered something else, an inscription, a curse. It stated that anyone who unearthed Tamerlanes body would also unleash upon the Earth an invader "More Terrible Than I." Cue the Nazi invasion of Russia not long after.
The curse of Tamerlane can hardly be blamed for WWII, but what's known for certain is that once the archaeology team was finished, Tamerlanes body was respectfully sealed back in his tomb, where the one-time terror of India and the Levant remains to this day.
Thanks a lot Xotl, it means a lot, but don't think you get no praise, cause your comments are some of my favorites throughout these 7 months of speedruns, always very educational.
The story about his tomb being violated by Stalin is wild, the whole thing lasted slightly longer than Hitler's invasion, which makes it hard to not believe his curse. Fun to think Tamerlane was not done causing death and misery.
TIP: In the second scenario, make mangonels and use attack ground on yellow's castles while they're allied with you and cyan's too! that speeds up the scenario much easier.
I saw someone in the chat mentioning this (maybe it was you, cant remember now) when I was looking for some stuff. It would have saved me a good 10 minutes on the final time D:
@@TheHickoryHub It was me! remember the quote "Baseball has rules, war does not!"?
Ohhhhh yeah, I almost added that quote to the video haha
5:18 A Gurkhan is a Mongol title meaning universal ruler.
Damn Evan, even when I don't even call the lifeline, you're here to save me
@@TheHickoryHub Always.
who's the worse person, Tamerlane or Genghis Khan. Thats the real question.
(Excited for the Historical Battles :3)
Tamerlane, even though Genghis killed more and had his fair share of atrocities, he wasn't doing that purely out of evil, he did it to consolidate power as strongly as he could. Tamerlane on the other hand is considered the Supreme example of soulless and unproductive militarism by some historians. I might be wrong though, who knows?
@@TheHickoryHub Without Genghis Khan, there never would have been a Tamerlane.
That's a good point, but everyone's gotta start from somewhere, I doubt Timur boy would have been much better if Genghis didn't exist
This is one of the greatest campaign in AOE2. No doubt
They were inspired for this one, very complete and fun.
Merry Christmas and happy Mangudai skull pile building
Merry Chrysler my good buddy, I've added another skull to the tree in your celebration
Ah, Tamerlane, such a fun campaign though way too easy, even in Hard
funfact, the wallachians.... didnt really like the ottomans. at all. like, wallachian history, starting from around late 13th century and then going on for 3-400 years, is JUST them fighting off the ottomans while being under their leadership. several voyevods used the tactic of sucking up with words while doing just about everything the ottomans DIDNT want them to do, and one guy at the end of the 16th century even unified the 3 regions into a proto-romania just to fight the ottomans. sadly he didnt even last a decade in charge of it before he got beheaded in a fight but hey.
all this to say, that wallachian voyevod was most likely just begging for a chance to frack off and leave the ottomans high and dry, and you coulve probably bribed him with a cheese-wiz, a dirty sock and 2 and a half shekels.
I kinda picked that up from Dracula and small interactions through the campaigns, but I didn't know it was that bad. I'll remember to bring cheese-wiz with me next time I run through Tamerlane again.
@@TheHickoryHub for vlad it was a bit more personal, he used to be a hostage at the sultans court when he was young. but yeah by that point it was over 100 years of the ottomans oppressing wallachia. we got VERY good at asymmetrical warfare, lemme tell you
Stop giving me villagers 😢
How dare the game try to help my economy?
The villagers suiiiiiii at great speed 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
What is a sui?
@@TheHickoryHub It’s the Celebration of CR7 Siuuuuuuu