SoTL: "When his wife died in 1263, he took her sister as his new wife" Me: "I don't see a problem" SoTL: "This didn't sit well with her current husband" Me: "Oh..."
@@adeldola3565 to be fair, I don't think the dev's coded it properly. A glitch caused the structures to be considered raised, when in actuality they were buried in sand.
Its for balance reasons as well. Many boni of the Liths emphasize at least a few monks for themselves AND for their team (Teambonus, Relics needed, synergies with monk-civs like atztecs & Burmese, etc). Now, who's teambonus is a natural counter against monk-civs...?
The coat of arms is “Gediminas' Tower.” It’s a hill fort in Vilnius. My dad used to tell us the folktales of Lithuania when we were kids. I actually got to see it when we went back to our homeland.
It may be like in your tale- but it could also be a variation of Ukrainian Tryzub (because early kunigaikščiai had a connection with Vohlyn). Also- it could have come from the horde- because if you look at the old maps, the symbol of the chan of the horde was very similar (see Golden Horde wiki)- and this is ~100 years before Gediminas. Of course, later symbol that is on our current coat of arms (Jogailaičių dual cross) is much worse- as it symbolizes the end of Lithuanian empire, which Jogaila brought. He got the dual cross by marrying a Polish princess- who was from a Hungarian noble family, , and that dual cross is is their symbol (that also later went to become the Cross of Lorraine, in addition to other places). Thing is, to become the Polish king, Jogaila was signing Lithuania to Polish crown.
@@NeblogaiLT One correction. Actually Jadwiga was given title "king" as only king was able to rule over the Polish land. So technically speaking, Jogaila married a king :D
Lithuanian here. The coat of arms is called "Gedimino stulpai" which means the columns of Gediminas. It's true that there is a castle called "Gedimino bokštas" (the Tower of Gediminas) in Vilnius, but that's not what's depicted on the coat of arms.
SOTL, I really appreciate the amount of work that you do and have to put into the historical reviews of Age of Empires 2 civilizations and campaigns. I know that these videos do not typically get as many views as your other videos strictly related to game play, but there is a significant portion of the Age of Empires community who are very passionate about history. I am very interested in Medieval History, in no small part from wanting to learn more about the people and cultures in the game after I first started playing. All in all, thank you so much for the historical review videos that you make, all of which are great and I really enjoy, and I hope there are many more of them to come.
There are a few possible origins. One is that Khmer agriculture was relatively decentralized, with taxes being focused at markets instead of farmers. Alternatively, it's a reference to how the lakes used to feed Khmer rice crops were also used as an easy source of fish during dry season, meaning there was a CONSTANT supply of food.
The Khmer had nice women acc.to some sources and they had a lot of rights at that time , there are even texts about aristocrats from China or other states going to Khmeria to get a wife... Im sorry they did not have a bonus for nice good looking women in AOE2 / like female villagers move faster for example :D / :D :D :D
Damn, man did his research. Some things missing tho: Lithuanians had powerful woodland-type milita who used primarily axes and fought very effectively against the teutonic knights while using landscape to their full advantage (especially swamps and bees). On that note, our 2 primary food sources were honey and bread! This is mostly mentioned in our folk songs tho, so i understand why you might have missed it. Other then that, amazing video!
I have to say that I absolutely loved this video!! I am a huge history nerd and found this super interesting. I would love it if you made more of these types of videos.
@sotl, Thank you for making this video. It echos my thread on the steam forums about Poland not being in the game directly. I think you read my thread indeed, this video made a lot of my points, I'm not mad. I'm glad your bringing it to the community thx
Would love to see more of this. Particularly appreciated the use of maps and other geographical information to place everything into context. It would be interesting if you could include what the civilisations are known for contributing to human development if relevant :)
Man! I love this new series. Always wondered about the history behind age and spent a lot of time googling the different special units out of interest. Looking really forward to the next episode!
Great content Spirit! Appreciate all the work put into this :) I really like the reasoning behind any of the Civ bonuses. Age of Empires 2 is one of the most logically accurate games I have played. Please make it a series. It's awesome!
Also, if you wanna be extra specific, the earliest point of the Timeline of the game would be the Battle of the Frigidus in the Alaric campaign at 396 AD. The latest would be the Noryang Point historical battle at 1598 AD.
Absolutely love this new perspective on civilizations! Please, make a respective episode for each civ that you had already done so, and for those upcoming ones as well. I'd love to share whatever I know for Aztecs, as I do know them at least a bit, and could help you a lot in some aspects. Same would go for Spanish. Keep the awesome work, Spirit of the Law! We really need this series, not just math and performing facts about the game we all love!
I love these videos. I think I can speak for most people that we learned a lot of stuff from AOE2 and your expansion along with some quirky jokes are highly enjoyable. Too bad they didn't make a Lithuanian campaign.
for the record, Noryang Point was referenced as 1598, making it later than Lepanto. for all interested in Korean history, there is a model of a turtle ship in the city of Yeosu, naturally on the southern coast
Great vid, I'd like to add the possible explaination to their skirms speed bonus: Lithuanians (and to a smaller degree Polish folk) had to face Tatar and Mongol cav archers: lightly armoured, quick, firing projectiles. They adopted one of their weapons: the jarids, basicly javelins but easier to use from horseback and possible to use with shield, as a representation that would be either some unique unit like mounted skirm or a speed bonus to skirm (not reasonably high for balance reasons I think)
"Historically they used extensive amounts of spears and shields" Historically, every army used extensive amounts of spears and shields, that was a perfect combo of offense-deffense, especially for battles in formation ^^ And spears are a lot cheaper than swords XD
I have been waiting for something like this. Ive tried searching for connections myself but i couldnt find any, and i dont really like searching through history anyways. Thank you spirit and i wish you can cover all civs soon.
I am soooo looking forward to seeing more of these. PLEASE! keep them coming. Judging by this first one, this could instantly become a top quality youtube history series.
Sorry, as bulgarian here, our history is a total mess 😁 Krepost is just our word for Castle, Konnik means just "Mounted man", man on a horse (Kon) . Why he fights with a mace is also unclear. Both of our empires were heavy influenced by the Romans and most probably our armies were like twins, except for the massive presence of Cuman mercs in the Second Empire. Unique techs: Stirrups. Really. Unique. Yep, it is told that we brought stirrups to Europe, but they are not that unique. Bagain is a title, means commander. Why the heavy infantry, IDK. Almost all of our battles are won by the cavalry. Actually bagains ARE boyars. And we are slavic. Also our second empire dinasties are most probably cumanic. Our neighbours calls us Tatars. We had tatar tzar once. I guess we are over represented now in AOE 🤣
It was a great idea. I think part of what makes this game amazing and people love it is exactly because it's historical content as well. I hadn't any idea that they tried to link the bonuses with some historical fact. That's is awesome! Please, keep doing this mate! Thank you!
Was one of the first 30 or 50 viewers of this video and really loved it. Missed commenting earlier but here it is. Often find myself searching related information and getting it here through these videos, already researched, is highly appreciated. Please keep up the good work. I'd love to help in any way possible. Regards
This series is going to be a blast!! Please let them come more often ^^ Loved the way you connect things with real history and the game. This is actually why I love AOE series by the way. Looking forward for more of AoE2 vs History
In Portuguese as well. I read that name and just chuckled to myself. "Morta". Pois é, por que será que ela morreu, né? ("Dead". Yeah, I wonder why she died, right?)
Well you know, i live in Saint-Petersburg, and it's the most north-placed megapolis in the world, but we have nearly no snow for whole winter either, so i think it's just a global warming or whatever
I think they should completely rework the whole "Teutons" thing at this point though. It doesn't even remotely represent the Holy Roman Empire during the middle ages. Like, they could easily keep the State of the Teutonic Order as their own civ and create Frisians, Saxons, Austrians or something like that as unique factions.
Yep, I second that - at least splitting the 'Holy' 'Roman' 'Empire' and the Teutonic Order into two civilisations would do wonders and also reworking 'Britons' into the medieval English like they're meant to be as well, if only in civilisation name, would be just icing on the cake.
I'm in favor of breaking up the Teutons into other civilization, too. And the Slavs. Part of my reasoningfor this is because I would like there to eventually be more religious civilizations that make better use of their monks. In particular, autoconverting monks or monks that can bless a soldier in the same way that they heal, increasing attack or armor overtime by "healing" them. To get monks out of the niche of being the, well, cleric, I guess.
@@HolyKhaaaaan In short, I'd do three civs: Teutons: Represent Crusaders and northeastern Germans + the Baltics. To not anger traditionalists I'd keep them somewhat intact but put a stronger focus on monks. Maybe even a unique version like the Spanish missionary, a warrior monk perhaps? Frisians: Represent the Hanseatic League and the seafaring northwestern Germans and Dutch from the lowlands in general. Focus on Navy and Infantry with at least one trade bonus (little bit like the Vikings). Austrians: Kind of represent the landlocked German states, focus on the Ottoman wars. Good defense, strong knight line, champions, and especially halberdiers. Gunpowder with good hand cannoneers and solid siege. No camels and mounted archers, weak light cavalry, archery range and navy. Maybe some kind of gunpowder skirmisher as special unit.
@@InfTlr Goths, Vikings and Britons have very little to do with the HRE during the middle ages. Goths are from the late antiquity and part of the eastern Germanic branch which died out, Vikings are Scandinavians and Britons... are currently kind of a mess too. And I'd turn the Teutons more into the German-Baltic Crusader civ they should be instead of being just generic german-ish. Next to France the HRE basically was the European middle ages, that's not a "because German" thing. I'd also be in favour of splitting the Slavs up (east, west, south?) and having Normans and Burgundy as their own civs. Edit: Because I just noticed, my suggestion in the last comment would actually add two civs, not three.
now this is definiteily an upgrade on your older history series. linking the AI names, the major figures, the techs, and weaving them into the older format was a great idea, thumbs up from me.
Please do more of these. I love history like this and its much more fun when people like you can make a well produced video to entertain people rather than personally digging through history books and websites to find the specific details.
This is the video I wanted to make when I was 10 and first started playing AoE2. Unfortunately UA-cam wasn't even close to existing back then and I turned out a nerd that went and completed a history major instead. I'm super glad you made this one and hope you'll turn it into a series - the comparison between history and those seemingly minute civ bonuses is immensely interesting in my opinion!
Have you ever heard the tragedy of Pilenai castle... Teutons... I thought no... It's not a story the historians would tell you. It's a Lithuanian legend. Teutons were furious warriors so powerful... Would recommend reading Wigand von Marburg texts about that.
3:58 I guess you can say Lithuanians said *_"It's over Tatars, I have the high ground_* And then Tatars said *_"You underestimated my power"_* _(0% damage when fighting from lower elevation)_ We knew the rest :P
This AoE2 vs History set is right up my alley :D Please do keep it up, I think I may actually like this style of video more than the actual overviews, and I'm hoping there are plans to go back through the other civs as well!
Very well put together, I absolutely love that you're doing this series, these game pack a lot of history into them and it's fun to watch you draw out the thing most of us would overlook about how each civ is put together. I hope you make several more.
Hey SoTL, I don't know whether you will ever see this, but if you do please continue making this series. AoE2 vs History is a very cool concept and I like it very much. Thanks for all the videos. It was because of you that I got back into AoE2 last year after a gap of almost 10 years.
Enjoyed it a lot. Learning through a game you love is actually pretty interesting and brings me back to the early days of AOE where it did actually teach me some history.
The fact of the mater is that the all the horsmen of Europe where very very similar. In a fair fight with even numbers you could toss a coin to decide if bojars or leiši or knights would win IRL.
Moskva was once just a castle given to a 3 san while bough of his eldes borthers got big cities to rule. The ruler had really big dreams and he worked to achieve them his entire life.
Very well done! Impressed by your research. Quite often youtubers are rather random with their Lithuanian facts but I’m not sure I can fault you on anything.
No, its due to the king marrying a foreigner, and then conspiricy to put a king on the trone of the comonwealth, and once he refused to be a pupet the country was conquered.
Look man, I always prefer that you do what makes you happy because I think the content has more quality that way, but if you redo every civ review in DE followed by these type of videos be fucking sure I'll watch and like each and every one of these because I love them. Great job as always!
Bro, you need to make of these that coincides with the game. It is historically rich game, and if you're anything like me (and those that play AOE) history is such a fascinating topic and will never be anything less than that. Keep on the grind bro!
SoTL: "When his wife died in 1263, he took her sister as his new wife"
Me: "I don't see a problem"
SoTL: "This didn't sit well with her current husband"
Me: "Oh..."
Hahahahaha I thought the same
@JoeRingo118
*Country Roads intensifies*
@JoeRingo118
Yee-Haw
@@Kaarl_Mills I thought the song for that stuff was Sweet Home Alabama
@JoeRingo118 A fellow Cusader King I see.
Yes, please make this a series. I am loving the historical facts.
In fact, I don't play AOE2 anymore but this content would be very interesting to watch, even as an outsider like me!
Definitely Y E S
I agree
Agreed
What happened to the campaign vs. History series anyway? I'd like to see more of this
Why isn't Lithuania currently ruling the world when their wonder is intact since hundreds of years?
I guess the game was set to Conquest only
Sorry, we're too busy committing suicides
Dude the pyramids are standing for about 7000 years and Egypt isn't ruling the world
@@adeldola3565 to be fair, I don't think the dev's coded it properly.
A glitch caused the structures to be considered raised, when in actuality they were buried in sand.
The Huns are researching Atheism over and over again.
i love how the lithuanians get a unique unit that's specifically geared to counter teutonic knights. nice touch there from the devs
Its for balance reasons as well. Many boni of the Liths emphasize at least a few monks for themselves AND for their team (Teambonus, Relics needed, synergies with monk-civs like atztecs & Burmese, etc). Now, who's teambonus is a natural counter against monk-civs...?
As if the game ever needed a unit to counter TKs, 11.
@@TeemoStricker did you just use "boni" as the plural of "bonus"?
@@jesusizquierdo3831 ... yes. Isnt that the correct plural of bonus?
@@TeemoStricker nope, not even close.
The coat of arms is “Gediminas' Tower.” It’s a hill fort in Vilnius. My dad used to tell us the folktales of Lithuania when we were kids. I actually got to see it when we went back to our homeland.
It may be like in your tale- but it could also be a variation of Ukrainian Tryzub (because early kunigaikščiai had a connection with Vohlyn). Also- it could have come from the horde- because if you look at the old maps, the symbol of the chan of the horde was very similar (see Golden Horde wiki)- and this is ~100 years before Gediminas.
Of course, later symbol that is on our current coat of arms (Jogailaičių dual cross) is much worse- as it symbolizes the end of Lithuanian empire, which Jogaila brought. He got the dual cross by marrying a Polish princess- who was from a Hungarian noble family, , and that dual cross is is their symbol (that also later went to become the Cross of Lorraine, in addition to other places). Thing is, to become the Polish king, Jogaila was signing Lithuania to Polish crown.
@@NeblogaiLT One correction. Actually Jadwiga was given title "king" as only king was able to rule over the Polish land. So technically speaking, Jogaila married a king :D
Lithuanian here. The coat of arms is called "Gedimino stulpai" which means the columns of Gediminas. It's true that there is a castle called "Gedimino bokštas" (the Tower of Gediminas) in Vilnius, but that's not what's depicted on the coat of arms.
SOTL, I really appreciate the amount of work that you do and have to put into the historical reviews of Age of Empires 2 civilizations and campaigns. I know that these videos do not typically get as many views as your other videos strictly related to game play, but there is a significant portion of the Age of Empires community who are very passionate about history. I am very interested in Medieval History, in no small part from wanting to learn more about the people and cultures in the game after I first started playing.
All in all, thank you so much for the historical review videos that you make, all of which are great and I really enjoy, and I hope there are many more of them to come.
Waiting for Khmer AoE2 vs History so I can understand how they can drop their crops to their mill without actually going there
The famous Khmer teleportation, my friend, an historical standard :D
Buddah power
There are a few possible origins. One is that Khmer agriculture was relatively decentralized, with taxes being focused at markets instead of farmers. Alternatively, it's a reference to how the lakes used to feed Khmer rice crops were also used as an easy source of fish during dry season, meaning there was a CONSTANT supply of food.
The Khmer had nice women acc.to some sources and they had a lot of rights at that time , there are even texts about aristocrats from China or other states going to Khmeria to get a wife... Im sorry they did not have a bonus for nice good looking women in AOE2 / like female villagers move faster for example :D / :D :D :D
They eat their food raw from the land. :D
Soooo cool! As a Lithuanian I totally approve of this video! Would like to see the history of other civs too!
Damn, man did his research.
Some things missing tho: Lithuanians had powerful woodland-type milita who used primarily axes and fought very effectively against the teutonic knights while using landscape to their full advantage (especially swamps and bees). On that note, our 2 primary food sources were honey and bread! This is mostly mentioned in our folk songs tho, so i understand why you might have missed it. Other then that, amazing video!
Forest ambush bonus is on n ck2...crusader Kings 2
DO MOAR OF THESE
kind regards
I have to say that I absolutely loved this video!! I am a huge history nerd and found this super interesting. I would love it if you made more of these types of videos.
@sotl, Thank you for making this video. It echos my thread on the steam forums about Poland not being in the game directly. I think you read my thread indeed, this video made a lot of my points, I'm not mad. I'm glad your bringing it to the community thx
Would love to see more of this. Particularly appreciated the use of maps and other geographical information to place everything into context. It would be interesting if you could include what the civilisations are known for contributing to human development if relevant :)
Making it a serie seems a nice idea.
Man! I love this new series. Always wondered about the history behind age and spent a lot of time googling the different special units out of interest. Looking really forward to the next episode!
I think I've learnt more about history from AoE2 and this channel than all my years of schooling.
AOE series made me interested in history
God I love this game
does is speaks well about AoE2 or badly about your school ? :)
@@murderouskitten2577 Badly for his school.
Very nice new series : it refreshes the channel I like it !
Great job, hope you make this a series! We really need a Battle of Grunwald scenario ...
And we also need polish civ
@@skyleaned Your wish has been granted.
@@ennui9745 yay
Really great new idea for a series!
Hey MDB! When is your first AoE2DE challenge run coming? :D
"Can we beat "The Lion & Demon" on very hard without losing a single unit?" 😁😁
You here also?
I am also your fan.
Great content Spirit!
Appreciate all the work put into this :)
I really like the reasoning behind any of the Civ bonuses. Age of Empires 2 is one of the most logically accurate games I have played.
Please make it a series. It's awesome!
When you thought SOTL’ channel couldn’t get any more interesting, he comes up with this...
Please make it a series!
Also, if you wanna be extra specific, the earliest point of the Timeline of the game would be the Battle of the Frigidus in the Alaric campaign at 396 AD. The latest would be the Noryang Point historical battle at 1598 AD.
Love it please make more especially with some of the old civs!
Love this concept. Please keep doing this
Definetly make this a series. Its very interesting to see how the developers got their ideas for the game
Absolutely love this new perspective on civilizations! Please, make a respective episode for each civ that you had already done so, and for those upcoming ones as well. I'd love to share whatever I know for Aztecs, as I do know them at least a bit, and could help you a lot in some aspects. Same would go for Spanish.
Keep the awesome work, Spirit of the Law! We really need this series, not just math and performing facts about the game we all love!
PLEASE make this a serie, this is so good and interesting!
I love these videos. I think I can speak for most people that we learned a lot of stuff from AOE2 and your expansion along with some quirky jokes are highly enjoyable. Too bad they didn't make a Lithuanian campaign.
Seriously, though, keep up the good work. SoL content is both informative and entertaining.
Yes, please make this a series for a change of pace! Your style of overview makes me appreciate civs way more when I'm playing them :D
for the record, Noryang Point was referenced as 1598, making it later than Lepanto. for all interested in Korean history, there is a model of a turtle ship in the city of Yeosu, naturally on the southern coast
Great vid, I'd like to add the possible explaination to their skirms speed bonus: Lithuanians (and to a smaller degree Polish folk) had to face Tatar and Mongol cav archers: lightly armoured, quick, firing projectiles. They adopted one of their weapons: the jarids, basicly javelins but easier to use from horseback and possible to use with shield, as a representation that would be either some unique unit like mounted skirm or a speed bonus to skirm (not reasonably high for balance reasons I think)
"Historically they used extensive amounts of spears and shields"
Historically, every army used extensive amounts of spears and shields, that was a perfect combo of offense-deffense, especially for battles in formation ^^
And spears are a lot cheaper than swords XD
They also historically extensively user armor.
@@barsni4779 And horses.
LEONIDAS! Your SPEAR!
Thats why byzantines make you retreat throwing mass halberdiers at you
"And spears are a lot cheaper than swords" Also a hundred times easier to learn.
Awesome video! Please make it a full series. Also love your historical analysis on the campaigns.
I have been waiting for something like this. Ive tried searching for connections myself but i couldnt find any, and i dont really like searching through history anyways. Thank you spirit and i wish you can cover all civs soon.
I am soooo looking forward to seeing more of these. PLEASE! keep them coming. Judging by this first one, this could instantly become a top quality youtube history series.
I love this format dude. You should do the Bulgarians next ^^
Sorry, as bulgarian here, our history is a total mess 😁
Krepost is just our word for Castle, Konnik means just "Mounted man", man on a horse (Kon) . Why he fights with a mace is also unclear. Both of our empires were heavy influenced by the Romans and most probably our armies were like twins, except for the massive presence of Cuman mercs in the Second Empire.
Unique techs: Stirrups. Really. Unique. Yep, it is told that we brought stirrups to Europe, but they are not that unique.
Bagain is a title, means commander. Why the heavy infantry, IDK. Almost all of our battles are won by the cavalry.
Actually bagains ARE boyars. And we are slavic. Also our second empire dinasties are most probably cumanic. Our neighbours calls us Tatars. We had tatar tzar once. I guess we are over represented now in AOE 🤣
@@nickpanov1080 holy shit that is all over the place lol
It was a great idea. I think part of what makes this game amazing and people love it is exactly because it's historical content as well. I hadn't any idea that they tried to link the bonuses with some historical fact. That's is awesome! Please, keep doing this mate!
Thank you!
Also see: Total War: Medieval II Kingdoms.
This action *does* have my consent
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Fantastic!!! Thank you for shedding a bit of light on Lithuanian history!
MOOORE of this high quality content!
Was one of the first 30 or 50 viewers of this video and really loved it. Missed commenting earlier but here it is. Often find myself searching related information and getting it here through these videos, already researched, is highly appreciated. Please keep up the good work. I'd love to help in any way possible. Regards
"The general just didn't micro very well" lol
"Or they din't use 'hill bonus'!" I'm gonna write that in history test lol.
This series is going to be a blast!! Please let them come more often ^^ Loved the way you connect things with real history and the game. This is actually why I love AOE series by the way. Looking forward for more of AoE2 vs History
At 2:08 the wife's name (Morta) in Italian
means literally "dead" hahaha
There was indeed some mingling with italian nobles, most famously bona sforza. She did did some cool stuff with culture and other things
In Portuguese as well. I read that name and just chuckled to myself. "Morta". Pois é, por que será que ela morreu, né? ("Dead". Yeah, I wonder why she died, right?)
In catalan means dead too
probably translates as Martha or similiar, in Polish it would be Marta and these languages are pretty similiar
@@MrDibara Pensei a mesma coisa hehe
Oh my god, I missed this educational series!
Many thanks, Spirit
"Cold winters" mate this year we had no snow, and even if we had, it was during night and in the morning it was already gone.
exposed
Well, still colder than most of other civs... :p
I didnt get to ski this year, sad.
It has been quite warm winter so far in northern europe all around, mostly snowless and over the freezing point in here at Finland
Well you know, i live in Saint-Petersburg, and it's the most north-placed megapolis in the world, but we have nearly no snow for whole winter either, so i think it's just a global warming or whatever
Definitely down for this to be a series! I've always wondered where a lot of these bonuses come from.
I think they should completely rework the whole "Teutons" thing at this point though. It doesn't even remotely represent the Holy Roman Empire during the middle ages. Like, they could easily keep the State of the Teutonic Order as their own civ and create Frisians, Saxons, Austrians or something like that as unique factions.
Yep, I second that - at least splitting the 'Holy' 'Roman' 'Empire' and the Teutonic Order into two civilisations would do wonders and also reworking 'Britons' into the medieval English like they're meant to be as well, if only in civilisation name, would be just icing on the cake.
I'm in favor of breaking up the Teutons into other civilization, too. And the Slavs. Part of my reasoningfor this is because I would like there to eventually be more religious civilizations that make better use of their monks.
In particular, autoconverting monks or monks that can bless a soldier in the same way that they heal, increasing attack or armor overtime by "healing" them. To get monks out of the niche of being the, well, cleric, I guess.
@@HolyKhaaaaan
In short, I'd do three civs:
Teutons: Represent Crusaders and northeastern Germans + the Baltics. To not anger traditionalists I'd keep them somewhat intact but put a stronger focus on monks. Maybe even a unique version like the Spanish missionary, a warrior monk perhaps?
Frisians: Represent the Hanseatic League and the seafaring northwestern Germans and Dutch from the lowlands in general. Focus on Navy and Infantry with at least one trade bonus (little bit like the Vikings).
Austrians: Kind of represent the landlocked German states, focus on the Ottoman wars. Good defense, strong knight line, champions, and especially halberdiers. Gunpowder with good hand cannoneers and solid siege. No camels and mounted archers, weak light cavalry, archery range and navy. Maybe some kind of gunpowder skirmisher as special unit.
@@Alias_Anybody You realize that we already have 3 germanic civs, and you want to add 3 more? It's called age of empires, not age of germany.
@@InfTlr
Goths, Vikings and Britons have very little to do with the HRE during the middle ages. Goths are from the late antiquity and part of the eastern Germanic branch which died out, Vikings are Scandinavians and Britons... are currently kind of a mess too. And I'd turn the Teutons more into the German-Baltic Crusader civ they should be instead of being just generic german-ish.
Next to France the HRE basically was the European middle ages, that's not a "because German" thing. I'd also be in favour of splitting the Slavs up (east, west, south?) and having Normans and Burgundy as their own civs.
Edit: Because I just noticed, my suggestion in the last comment would actually add two civs, not three.
now this is definiteily an upgrade on your older history series. linking the AI names, the major figures, the techs, and weaving them into the older format was a great idea, thumbs up from me.
Every video it sounds more and more like you're saying "Hey guys, Spirit of the La Hire".
I'm starting to think this may be intentional.
Please do it, make it a series! I loved it, always appreciate learning more about the conflicts of eastern europe!
A very interesting amount of connection to actual history.
Please do more of these. I love history like this and its much more fun when people like you can make a well produced video to entertain people rather than personally digging through history books and websites to find the specific details.
Excellent Choice!
Through this video i just discovered your history series, now I'm having a blast watching the playlist.
Please do make it a regular series.
Today I learnt Mindaugas wasn't actually a coin!
???
he was a person
as lithuanian, I don't get this... Explain :)))
@antonioISoffLINE Reference in the video when he mentions him and shows a picture of a coin showing him.
1:40 in the vid.
I appreciate the time you put in reworking your intro into the new version of Aoe2.
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He stole the sister of his dead wife from the current husband.
I see, he was one of the first of CK2 old players
This is the video I wanted to make when I was 10 and first started playing AoE2. Unfortunately UA-cam wasn't even close to existing back then and I turned out a nerd that went and completed a history major instead. I'm super glad you made this one and hope you'll turn it into a series - the comparison between history and those seemingly minute civ bonuses is immensely interesting in my opinion!
Have you ever heard the tragedy of Pilenai castle... Teutons... I thought no... It's not a story the historians would tell you. It's a Lithuanian legend. Teutons were furious warriors so powerful...
Would recommend reading Wigand von Marburg texts about that.
I read that in Palpatine's voice
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The lithuanians have bonus that many consider....unnatural
@@leonardozayasm.4983 Poland: Is it possible to learn this power?
Lithuania: Not from a German.
@@wojciechkowalski8061 just steal it
Absolutely make this a series! You had a great pace and order to it that kept my full attention the entire time.
Dude i love how he mentioned Khan academy lmao
Thanks, please keep history content flowing
3:58 I guess you can say
Lithuanians said *_"It's over Tatars, I have the high ground_*
And then Tatars said *_"You underestimated my power"_* _(0% damage when fighting from lower elevation)_
We knew the rest :P
This AoE2 vs History set is right up my alley :D Please do keep it up, I think I may actually like this style of video more than the actual overviews, and I'm hoping there are plans to go back through the other civs as well!
Literally none of spirits videos mentions how lit the Lithuanians were.
Love this series of videos! Great variety for the channel while still being distinctly AOE2
AoE is a good game and celebration of history, I would definitely like to see more of this.
I know they take you a lot of time, but I would love to see more history videos. The quality is always worth the wait
Could the strong early game bonus might also be interpreted as reflecting their resilience during the dark ages? Like, pre-duchy Lithuania?
Very well put together, I absolutely love that you're doing this series, these game pack a lot of history into them and it's fun to watch you draw out the thing most of us would overlook about how each civ is put together. I hope you make several more.
Other than completely butchering the names, you've done a great job with your research! :D
no u
I thought he did quite well. I've heard much worse.
@@crabLT yeah same. It's just hard to pronounce Lithuanian names
@@juliusmatijosius2219 Ikr, sometimes its so bad I cringe.
@@juliusmatijosius2219 having a Lithuanian mama I agree
Hey SoTL, I don't know whether you will ever see this, but if you do please continue making this series. AoE2 vs History is a very cool concept and I like it very much. Thanks for all the videos. It was because of you that I got back into AoE2 last year after a gap of almost 10 years.
Awesome! I think history enthusiasts started with Age of Empires
Please make this a series with a video on each civ. I found it very well researched and narrated!
This is probably going to be the most watched video about Lithuanians ever made.
I don't even play AoE2 any more these days, but I love your videos. These would be my favourites! Please, make some more!
Every time I see these videos I immediately want to play AOE2
Yes, please keep making this. Possibly also make these for older civs (especially after you have covered all the new civs gameplay and history)
Damn, this actually is awesome. Being polish myself I must congratulate you on researching proper pronunciation of some stuff ;)
I want this to become a regular serie! Much learn! Such great video! Loving this
When the winged hussars will arrive?
Sobeiski!
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Enjoyed it a lot. Learning through a game you love is actually pretty interesting and brings me back to the early days of AOE where it did actually teach me some history.
The fact of the mater is that the all the horsmen of Europe where very very similar. In a fair fight with even numbers you could toss a coin to decide if bojars or leiši or knights would win IRL.
YES MAKE THIS A SERIES, your sense of humor, production values and research clearly make you the perfect person to make this.
You have an official Lithuanian seal of approval!
Amazing work again! And thank you for adding the intro back to your videos!
To all questions: yes.
YES, YES, YES!!!! I loved this video. As a huge history buff I have always wondered the civ bonuses and the historical reasons for them.
Moscow a small nation with big dreams A little bit of overachiever thou shows Russia.
Moskva was once just a castle given to a 3 san while bough of his eldes borthers got big cities to rule. The ruler had really big dreams and he worked to achieve them his entire life.
Very well done! Impressed by your research. Quite often youtubers are rather random with their Lithuanian facts but I’m not sure I can fault you on anything.
SoTL: Fondue fork.
Me: Now I can't un-see that.
Yes we want more episodes like this!!! Keep up the good work this was great and a nice change
Lithuania used to be so big, but thanks to global warming they're reduced to a puny Baltic minor.
No, its due to the king marrying a foreigner, and then conspiricy to put a king on the trone of the comonwealth, and once he refused to be a pupet the country was conquered.
@@gunarsmiezis9321 yes and that
Lithuania today is still normal size compared to countries in peninsula of Europe.
Definitely on board with this initiative!! Yes sir, please!
Look man, I always prefer that you do what makes you happy because I think the content has more quality that way, but if you redo every civ review in DE followed by these type of videos be fucking sure I'll watch and like each and every one of these because I love them.
Great job as always!
Found this approach to AoE civ history highly informative and easy to follow, thanks SOTL! Would very much appreciate similar analyses.
I think this kind of videos is a great idea
Bro, you need to make of these that coincides with the game. It is historically rich game, and if you're anything like me (and those that play AOE) history is such a fascinating topic and will never be anything less than that. Keep on the grind bro!