@@Lei_1 Yeah, the part of when the end of Scenario 5 saying *"Nine sacks of ears were sent back to Ogatai/Ogedei Khan."* Scared the bejesus outta me as if Genghis Khan's specter with his eyes rolled to the back of his head.
9:08 - when I was a teen, that music gave me strenght to deal with my everydays. I hope, the music is a genuine mongolian music, not just made for this game. Now, at 30, I have to deal more serious problems (dead father, unfaithful fiancee, depressed mother and younger sister, huge amount of debt), but I really like to hold up my father's bow, and fight for my family, and fight my demons once again. To bring my father's work to a success.
Don't marry her, talk to your mom and sister and make sure they're doing OK, and pay off the debt little by little. That way you not only take care of your family, but you'll make your father proud. You'll know that your father continued his success
Toughest campaign in Age of Kings. I cheated as a kid but replayed the campaign as an adult and won all 6 scenarios. Feels great, especially cracking open some of the tougher opponents with your Mangudai hordes :D
mission 5 is by far the hardest. Those armies of Bohemia are quite hard to deal with. Thanks to the Mangudai i can't play regular Horse Archers. They feel so slow.
@@Ardunafeth Yeah maybe now. Back then it was the shit tbh. Big learning curve for people around 10-20 y who just got their first PC's back then. But then they noticed how OP Mongol's were outside the campaign scenarios >.>
Wtf. Mongols were simply overpowered in aoe because how crazy the mangudai fire rate was. The only legit difficult mission was mission 3 because of the wonder. But overall? I think Barbarossa was tougher.
This is the greatest bedtime story of all time. Also the soundtrack is amazing. especially that beginning. 0:26 - 0:44 is perfection and sets the mood so well
I realize it's not fair to compare the two, since the two games were released almost 20 years apart, and they probably couldn't get the original voice actor...or he died. ...And I can respect wanting to do their own thing for a new take...but just LISTEN TO THIS! Yeah, it could be seen as somewhat stereotypical, but the tone, the inflection, cadence, texture, timing, and the MUSIC...! THIS is the chronicle of the Punishment of God!
Just found out that Rick May was part of the Age of Empires II cast and wanted to see (or hear) it myself. Now I'm even sadder to know this, as AoE II was also one of my favorite games. RIP Rick May.
The narrator is a recognition of the author of the the creator of the book 'The Secret life of the Mongols". This unknown person wrote the biography of Temujin. Genghis Khan was aware of intelligent people in his court that could write regardless of religion. Genghis Khan was to today's standard, a very benevolent man when it came to religion as his aunty was a Nestorian Chiristian. Temujin didn't care about religion or spiritually initially but as he came into contact with other cultures, he took a more merciful meausre on those that submitted to him regardless of religion.
He may have tolerated religions and diversity, but he did not tolerate when they schemed, a legend that is often told in mongolia (according to a mongolian friend) is how he killed a tengrist schaman for trying to use religion as an excuse to get more riches. The Il-Khanate wich is one of the states created by genghis khan, forbade the muslims to use islam as an excuse to pillage merchants and allowed the silk road to be open again, even allowing venetians to settle in Tabriz and europeans to travel to China, something Persian did not allow before Mongols came, the Khan of the Il-Khanate eventually became muslim, while keeping their high standards of tolerance.
I love how in these older games you never were forced into a good and bad guy narrative, In CoC red alert you overthrow the soviet leader as one of his general because you fuckin could. In Age of empires medieval total war you casually commit religious purges because that's what a crusader does. And in this campaign the mongols tear down the entire world because they can and becaise might makes right.
Most of the campaigns bend their history a bit to ensure you never feel robbed of a victory, and that the narrative flows in a way that aligns with that.
2:48 I have literally been searching for decades for the name of that song in the background. That gong playing three haunting notes… I heard it when I deployed to Japan. I need it still.
Darius I: I have founded the greatest empire ever established on the world! Alexander III of Macedon: Cool. Too bad I'm going to take it from you. Trajan: You're pathetic. Move over, punk. Genghis Khan: Hold my mare's milk.
According to my Ancestors.... I am part Euro Asian. Huns/Real Mongols/Turkics/Alans/Sarmatians/Scythians/Armenians. Chinese are only partly related to Mongols only because of related Marriages.
@@ShaDHP23 Yes but if we thinking more deeper they got collonies in USA back than so they built America actually :) but now yes I agree with your opinion :)
@@alperb. Just like Britain built USA, Mongols have also left a long lasting impact on the world. A major portion of today's Russians can actually be traced back to the Mongols, thanks to all the rapes that happened during that invasion. The Mongols helped in ending the Islamic Golden Age, which would have otherwise made them a dominant power in Europe in the coming centuries. In a way, the Mongols have shaped so much of today's world ;)
The true appearance of Chinghiz Khan, the real History of the Tatars and many of Turkic peoples: Perhaps you know, that an outstanding historian-scientist D. Iskhakov wrote: ‘the true history of the Tatars, of the people in every respect historical, is not written yet’. However, recently were published books about the unwritten (hidden) real history of the Tatars by independent Tatar historian Gali Yenikey. His books present a new, or rather, ‘well-forgotten old’ view on the real history of the Tatars and other Turkic peoples. It must be said, that in official history there are many falsifications and slanders about the ‘Tatars - wild nomads’ etc., which were written by pro-Chinese, Persian, also both Romanovs and Bolshevik ideologists. However primarily we should know the truth about the meaning of the names ‘Mongol’ and ‘Tatar’ (‘Tartar’) in the medieval Eurasia: According to data of many medieval sources, the name ‘Mongol’ until the 17th-18th centuries meant belonging to a political community, and was not the ethnic name. While ‘‘the name ‘Tatar’ was ‘the name of the own ethnos (nation) of Chinghiz Khan'. Also ‘…Chinghiz Khan and his people did not speak the language, which we now call the ‘Mongolian’…’’ (an academician-orientalist V.P.Vasiliev, 19th century). This confirmed by many little known facts. So in fact Chinghiz Khan was from among the medieval Tatars and the outstanding and progressive leader of the Turkic peoples. It is worth saying that according to many little-known data, the ancient and medieval Tatars were a very developed people both in spiritual and material aspects. It was the medieval Tatars who created the first Constitution of Eurasia, which was called in Tatar ‘Great Yasu’ (in Tatar means 'Great Scripture'). But with time many of their descendants became spiritually disabled and forgot invaluable doctrine and covenants of the creators of Great Yasu... So that the Tatars of Chinghiz Khan - medieval Tatars - were one of the Turkic nations, whose descendants now live in many of the fraternal Turkic peoples of Eurasia - among the Tatars, Kazakhs, Bashkirs, Uighurs, and many others. And few people know that the ethnos of medieval Tatars, which stopped the expansion of the Persians and the Chinese to the West of the World in Medieval centuries, is still alive. Despite to the politicians of the tsars Romanovs and Bolsheviks dictators, which had divided and scattered this ethnos to different nations... About everything above mentioned and a lot of the true history of the Tatars and other fraternal Turkic peoples, which was hidden from us, had been written, in detail and proved, in the book ‘Forgotten Heritage of Tatars’ - it is one of the dooks by Gali Yenikey, translated in Engilsh. There are a lot of previously little-known historical facts, as well as 16 maps and illustrations in this book. This e-book (in English language) you can easily find in the Internet: www.kobo.com/ebook/forgotten-heritage-of-tatars-1 On the cover of this book you can see the true appearance of Chinghiz Khan. It is his lifetime portrait. In the ancient Tatar historical source ‘About the clan of Chinghiz Khan’ its author gave the words of the mother of Chinghiz Khan: ‘My son Chinghiz looks like this: he has a golden bushy beard, he wears a white fur coat and rides on a white horse’. As we can see, the portrait of an unknown medieval artist in many ways corresponds to the words of the mother of the Hero, which have come down to us in this ancient Tatar epic. Therefore, this portrait, which corresponds to the information of the Tatar source and to data from other sources, we believe, the most reliably transmits the appearance of Chinghiz Khan...’. And here's another interesting thing: We can't keep silent that some 'very important' official historians try to retell the content (or rather, the concept) of the works of the independent historian Gali Yenikey (Yenikeiev). But they conceal where the information was by them taken from. However it turned out they were unsuccessful and confused - this official historians, apparently, do not dare to show the real history of the Tatars, being afraid of their ‘scientific chiefs’. But not only this - see the portrait of Chingiz Khan - see on the 7th minute of the video of the Institute of history of the Academy of Sciences of Tatarstan (Russia): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-3WqB71gs5bc.html - also this portrait is shown there both before and after. This portrait is reconstruction, which made by Yenikeiev on the basis of a lifetime portrait of Chingiz Khan and of information from the medieval Tatar Dastan (epic) 'About the Origin of Ciingiz Khan', as well as from other historical sources. This portrait was used by authors of the video without Yenikeiev's permission and without telling where the portrait came from. This portrait is published on the cover of G. R. Yenikeiev's book ‘Forgotten heritage of the Tatars’: see: www.kobo.com/ebook/forgotten-heritage-of-tatars-1 For the first time this portrait was published on the cover of the third book by G. R. Yenikeiev ‘In the footsteps of the black legend’ (published in 2009), see its electronic version: payhip.com/b/DNdC This ‘creativity’ of the official historians is called among the decent people as plagiarism - that is, as theft.
