Italian overview (2024 update)
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
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1:20 Condottiero
2:10 Advancing costs -15%
2:52 Dock and university discount
4:04 Fishing ships
4:50 Gunpowder units
UNIQUE UNIT AND TECHS
6:16 Genoese Crossbow (deep dive video: • How good is the Genoes... )
8:10 Unique techs
TECH TREE
10:00 Archers A
10:30 Infantry B
10:50 Cavalry B
11:21 Siege B
11:40 Navy A
12:08 Monks B+
12:26 Defences B+
12:47 Trash units B-
13:07 Strategies and final thoughts
14:40 Squarespace
Original Italian overview (2016): • Italians Overview AoE2
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Game: Age of Empires II Definitive Edition
I don't even play AoE2 anymore. I'm here just to listen to Spirit of the Law's voice and chill out.
Same here. You never know when I'll need the info!
Same. Who knows when I might come back to AoE2, even if I didn't play multiplayer.
What a shame. I hope one day you will rekindle your interest in the game.
This is the problem with all RTS games. Very few people watching the content actually continue playing the game
I play it just not online
Always love the square space transition 😂
Clickbait title; I expected an overview of Italian grammar in 2024, and got an AoE video instead
Lasciamo perdere, che è meglio
I haven't played AOE2 in years, I don't really care about the balance but spirit of the law always gets my views. Especially his side hustles are top notch every single time. 10/10 would visit the coffee website again
7:05 "If the game ended in castle age, Genoese crossbowmen would have a better reputation."
Genoese crossbowmen: "Where's the cereal box/demo version of definitive edition when we need it?"
At this point when spirit of the law is done with the civ overview remakes they're gonna be so outdated again, that he can just start over with the series. Kinda genius if you think about it...
he could do a civ overview every week or 2 if he really wanted to aswell but spacing it monthly makes it a pretty much permanently repeatable cycle
Sisyphus of the Law
@@Zsamoff Theseus of the Law: after all civ reviews have been replaced piece by piece, are they the same civ overviews or a completely new civ overview?
Unlimited content glitch
Italians lacking Halberdiers finally explains, why the pope has to get his traditionally halberts wielding guard from Switzerland
🤣
Swiss DLC incoming when?!?! :P
@@yohanbeck8172 Well, somehow you can play Swiss by picking either Franks, Goths, Teutons, Italians, or even Burgundians actually...
Living near Milan, I'm wondering where all those discounts went...
At least food is cheaper in italy compared to argentina... which makes no sense since we're massive producers but you know. Corrupt feudalism does this to a nation.
Gone with the Renaissance
Well, Milan's army had more of a Teuton/HRE influence.
@@PurpleWarlock definitely not teutonic, they were present mostly in the baltics but yes the HRE ofc was there historically
There is a saying in Germany that Milan is the southernmost German city and Munich the northernmost Italian one.
It's been 8 yrs SOTL
When is the updated Japanese civ review coming 🤦♂️
Tbf he did that already though it's probably was also outdated. I felt like he didn't want to do a remake of a remake on a civ until everything else were done
I have no idea if he is doing these in alphabetical order, and I'm too lazy to find out, but if he is going in alphabetical order then I think the Japanese would be next on the list.
Who would've guessed this was gonna be the next civ overview!
Everyone.
after I pointed it out the first 4 times he did this, everyone
I know, i was expecting the Egyptians.
Nobody expects the Spanish Civ Revision!
After condotterio video, it was obvious
A little bit of trivia here: Italians are presently the only Archer civ that has Redemption. Every other Archer civ lacks it so that they can be countered by Mangonels. Chinese used to be in that category, but they lost Redemption after getting Block Printing.
omg
Portuguese?
I bet weld see a lot more monks of that Bombard discount didn’t exist.
You know what, I didn't think the Italians where that great but this totally redeems them.
That would be so annoying!
"Ah, he's going archers. Let's squish them. WHY IS IT SHOOTING ME?!"
I would love a legal analysis of each unit's and civs warcrimes just to put the "law" back in Spirit of the "Law"
At this point I have to believe that the primary factor limiting SOTL's upload rate is that he's constantly setting up and managing all these side-businesses. Fortunately building the accompanying websites takes no time at all thanks to this video's sponsor: Squarespace.
I love the puns you come up with for the squarespace ads
Same 11, I’d lowkey visit these websites
@claytonknowles25 what are you talking about? These are all SOtL's real businesses.
@@franciasii2435For reals? Or are you being sarcastic? I can’t tell😅😂
YESSS
Can't wait for complete redesign of Italians in the next patch. 11
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They'll be splited into 4 new civs and SOTL wil have to cover them all while they're still brand new 😂
🤩
We've come a very long way since we've used Byzantines as the Italian and Roman placeholder...
@@michaelandreipalon359 im still baffled that italians werent present when AOE 2 was released back then. Such a pivotal civilization even when fractured in city states.
This might disappear beneath the comments: But as someone who really likes goofing about with Italy, my favourite go to is early scout rush to cause trouble in the enemies' camps then when in castle age, pick up pavise instantly and begin Genoese production. Its probably not the greatest plan, but its fun and creates a high energy mood in the game that helps transition well into the slow, almost siege line style, Castle Age on Italian style I play with Bombards, Castles & Genoese to hold back threats.
For those who don't know, Pavise is the term for the shield that we see the Genoese Crossbowmen standing behind. It was literally a real-life version of the Deployable Cover equipment from Halo 3.
So as somebody suspected under the Genoese crossbowmen video, Italian overview is here
That was me I believe 😂 SOTL managed to make his civ re-reviews pretty predictable atm
As well as under Condotterio video.
The only slightly unpredictable thing this time is that we got a twofer before the overview.
*everyone
Mammamia
So Italian doesn't have heresy, I didn't expect that. Although for the Spanish I expect--
The discount hint at the end was very clever
Literally gave a quiet “YES!” when I saw you’d redone the Italians. The old one was hideously dated, and Italians are just a really fun civ to play with all their counter units, a less defensive and more punchy Byzantine flavor.
Im surprised there isn't a tech on how to make an authentic pizza, that gives 10% morale to the troops.
Be satisfied that theres a pizza in AOE 3
Well of course, they’re saving that for when they release the nest set of American civs with the Iroquois.
They’re saving that for the next North American civ pack with the Iroquois.
That's "first crusade" and owned by the Sicilians.
@evilvitamin I would actually like a new Meso Civ pack with like 3 more northern native American groups and to like give the other 3 Mesos a reskin of all there units to make them look less Medieval Europe.
Holy cow the Italians civ jingle goes hard
Molte grazie per la recensione degli italiani! E viva Genova la Superba
Forse un giorno ci glorieranno anche della vostra acerrima rivale, la Serenissima!
@@SIGNOR-G Sono d'accordo! Personalmente a me piacciono come sono al momento gli Italiani, ma spero cambino Silk Road per qualcosa che rappresenti Venezia! Magari la Galeazza o qualcosa del genere
@@Mattroid99 la Via della Seta è stata una trovata astuta. Penso che se ci daranno Venezia avranno la Galeazza come unità unica.
Il vero cambio dovrebbe essere il condottiero. Storicamente erano a cavallo. L'intera strategia rinascimentale si basava intorno alle "Lanze".
I have said it before and I’ll say it again, the Italians’ theme song/music is the best.
Im here so early, the pasta isnt ready
Hi Spirit. I wanted to let you know you’re content is THE PERFECT LENGTH - this 13-17 minute episode length is perfect. I have enough attention for one episode of SpongeBob no more no less, so this is perfect.
Funfact: "latte" in Italian just means "milk" so i never understood why it is called that way
They kept asking for latte (milk) to make Italian style coffee "softer", with time it led to them asking straight for "latte" and Italian bartenders straightly serving them caffelatte.
@@OniGarro so basically "latte" is what we in Italy call "caffelatte". It's a very popular thing to drink here for breakfast
I know that a few words pronounced the same in the Ukrainian and Spanish languages. a few countries Francia 🇫🇷 Italia 🇮🇹 and vino 🍷 fotografía fútbol ⚽️. what I want to do as a future career when epilepsy ends is to open a cafeteria. as he did. Latte is the Italiano word for leche 🥛/milk.
Once I saw the sponsor, my guess was that your next side hustle would've been "Pizza of the Law".
Welp, maybe next time you need to talk about Italians in detail. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
gli italiani sono fantastici.
I'm still annoyed they don't get siege engineers. 33% off that giant cost is so juicy and their cheap cannons miss the range so badly.
And good god, what is with elite genoese crossbows? It feels like they just forgot to give them more stats and never fixed it. Is there a less impactful elite upgrade anywhere in the game?
Italians were always a favorite civ of mine. I really enjoy using gunpowder units and their cheaper upgrades and gunpowder units really incentivize mixing in some gunpowder units into your army. So that really helpes me like the Italians a lot more. That and their two really cool unique units.
The Italian's have so many discounts they accidentally discounted their winrate on open maps.
I HATE SILK ROAD! I HATE SILK ROAD! GIVE ITALIANS A USEFUL 1V1 IMP BONUS!!!
Aint nothing more baller than trading with the enemy to keep your eco up lol.
Awesome Video, thanks Spirit, I am going to revisit the Italians!
you should make a video about a civ *you* would like to see in the game. or a mechanic you'd like to see implemented. Idk i think most people here would love that
1:10 I just realised both teams have 9 players instead of the normal 11.
It really does feel unfair that they have tec that is only useful in Team games I guess if you can secure an enemy market it might be useful but I don't think that happens too often.
Maybe if in addition to it's current effect it increase the price that goods are sold at the market I think that would be a little bit better in singles
spirit of the latte sounds amazing
Yes, PavisE is better, but it actually is PavEse, not PavIse (with accent on the first E). Thank you very much for the attention to detail anyway
I said the same under another video but look, it actually says PAVISE in his game menus, so it's in English and should be pronounced without the last vowel.
Maybe a discount for the barracks would be a nice buff for open maps.
"Spirit of the Latte", man, I love your Squarespace ads. The puns are fantastic. Good job with the video overall, too!
My preferred core ranged deathball is 50% Genoese Xbow + 50% Hand Cannoneers, adjusted in response to the enemy comp!
4:55
Italians is basically the discount civ
Italians are a great Michi civ, countering the most common units we see on those maps (knights, bbcs ,gunpowder and massed onagers). Their only kind of weakness is they are quite slow.
Sorry if I only talk about Michi, but that is what I usually like to play.
In team game closed maps, they're super underrated, going fc into genoese is so strong because the genoese is a borderline OP unit for the crossbow-knight meta.
I cooka da pizza
Spirit of the Latte 😂
So many side businesses, forget the Law, this guy is the true Spirit of Enterprise.
Lumber: Spirit if the Saw
Salad: Spirit of the Slaw
Drilling: Spirit of the Bore
Desserts: Spirit of the S'more
Mining: Spirit of the Ore
Home Renovation: Spirit of the Floor/Door
Gotta love those square space ads in the end, always delivering
I'm a bit confused with the ratings for techs:
University has all techs exepct one, plus all are discounted. While Siege Engineers is an important tech, is that enough to bump it down to B+? (assuming there would be A-, A and A+ left)
Same for the monastry: Only heresy missing, which I don't consider to be the most important tech. Everything else is there. Yes there are no additional bonuses, but is that enough to bump it down that far?
And another great transition to a Squarespace add. I wonder if he'll ever run out of those.
Also, wonderful to see this new series of reviews. If he'll persevere (not guaranteed), I'll be around for round 3 in 5+ years.
This game has already been around from late childhood memories to today, might as well share it with another generation.
The Italian Merchant Union is here and telling YOU how to save big (this SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY)!
i think the imp unique tech should be change for something specific in 1vs1 or 2vs2 and more like a reduction of the cost of the villager from 50 food to 35 good if you are raid but not good if you are attacking so i't balance becaus on imp so you don't make a lot of villager
I also dont play AOE 2 anymore at all, but i still come here, as a game designer, for the amazing knowledge and insights your content brings.
I play Italians when I don't want to play Tatars or Vietnameese, yet I do not want to struggle economically to play Magyars.
Good middle ground.
When.. WHEN is SOTL going to run out of website puns? WHEEN!? XD Keep it up ma boy~
"I've looked into this unit in the PAST"
Literally 5 days ago 😅. It is technically in the past haha.
These have always been so well made. Can you please do faction overviews for AoM:Retold when it comes out?
Italians deserve a split: Venetians, Genoese, and Milanese, with regional Papal States units. Age 3 is onto something with them.
Hopefully, Starbucks won't crash the Spirit of the Latte!
Maybe the reason why italians are on the bottom on 1v1 because their imp unique tech is useless. While on team games, it's one of the most useful imp tech.
Keep in mind that if you enjoy pineapple on pizza or if you break the pasta in half before cooking it, you lose those civ discounts and the game too
Note: Quantities over quantity with a complete blacksmith 😅
for italians i find using both archers does wonders, crossbowmen for the pikemen/infantry geneose for the horse/elephant cavs.
So, which one is better?
15% discount on next age
Or
66% faster research on next age
fun theory: spirit of the law could make a second channel about terrain bonuses in aoe2: spirit of the lawn
But it's so hard to play the game while keeping my fingers pinched together.
if i run update, will my custom changes go back to default?
Spirit of the Latte. Another great side job from SOTL. 😂
I wonder when we'll get to see Spirit of the Coleslaw, or Spirit of the Chainsaw
Only missing halbs make it a b-? I strongly disagree with this one.
Babe wake up a new Spirit of the Law civ overview just dropped.
It's the Britsh that should get a bonus on fish and chips
Yknow, the I feel like the of the Pope shouldn't have heresy
(8:59)
Is he suggesting italians are cheap? I feel insulted 😤
I mainly come here to see what punny side hustle spirit has come up with this time.
I think spirit of the law loves genoese crossbows.
They are my 2nd favourite civ. Love them.
Sometimes the Italians reminds me of the Goblins of World of Warcraft, because the players came from islands, and had a famous phrase "I got the best deals anywhere!", which ia their racial too giving them discounts overall ( They also like guns and explosions for gunpowder units...). I rally enjoy a italian play with their unique units!
Great Vídeo!
WE ALL KNEW IT. AFTER THE CONDO VID. WE ALL KNEW THIS WAS COMING BRO
uploaded 1 minute ago
Your sponsor segues are some of the best in the business. 😄
Spirit where's video for Japanese?
Guys Spirit of the Law, Hey here!
Tesoro svegliati, è appena uscito un nuovo video!
I didn't played AoE2 in years ( if not a dacade) yet I still watch almost all of SoTL wideos. I grew to really like his detailed overviews, soothing voice and dry jokes.
Aren't unique techs researched at the castle? (I haven't played for years). Because than the trade car tech is even worse; you sort of have to wait with going big on trade until you have built a castle, and there it slows your capability to amass the crossbowmen.
Yes, the 2 unique techs are in the Castle.
Japanese update one day soon my brother?
for the fising ship bonus, you also have to add the work time of 1 vil you can skip instead of regular civs that need 1 extra vil on wood for constant production. so if you make 5 fishing ships, the savings is more than 55 wood
The intro is back or was there all the time?
youre the reason why i play this game
a starcraft video when
Perfect timing I’ve been wanting to play Italians more. Spirit of the law coming in clutch.
Ahhhhhh at long last this review has come. Italians really needed a modern overview.
8:14 Also in italian its PAVESE
hey spirit law of the guys here