Age of Empires 4 - The Japanese Will BLOW YOUR MIND 

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I think they made that choice for variety and recognizability. Having the Ozutsu and the Ashigaru wield matchlock firearms with the same stock-shape would look too similar. But then again, that excuse I mentioned doesn't hold up as Ashigarus have their distinct Jingasa war hats modelled on them. Soooo I dunno.

@@cleeiii357 I think it's mainly to convey, at a glance, that Japanese handcannoneers are standard and not unique (confront with streltsy, musofadi gunners and janissaries, all of which wield different, more arquebus-like weapons).

Yeah. I am not too keen on their choice, even if I sort of get it. Personally, I would likely have made them carry matchlocks and make them a bit unique. Of course the Japanese were late to adopt firearms but when they did, they adopted it fast.

There's actually a castle age upgrade to change their weapon to katana. And this is really cool considering they didn't use katana in earlier ages. The upgrade gives them bonus damage against infantry. The upgrade is called Odachi.

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Well it's not a Katana but an Odachi haha @@Marc-gj9vx

The gastraphetes; or the AoM Chinese fire lancer which was also an anti building archer

Same here bro! i'm learning learning learning at the moment

Surface to Air At Arms seems a little op but I'm willing to see how it actually plays

Or spy disguising as a walking rocketeer. AI used to pull that off & it was so funny back then. 🤣

red alert 2 what a good game

Those were the days

Yeah I agree the model doesn't look great

XD

The variant civs are the rehauls

I agree, especially with Order of the Dragon. Late game is imo almost impossible to counter it seems like. I'm terrified lol.

Might be changes to civs (og) are just unannounced

I loved campfires on longbows but thought it was reasonable to take away, now the Byzantines get mid-combat GULPS lol

@@MarcusTullman does seem strong especially if it can work / synergize with the Ayyubids AoE Heal(team games) could lead to crazy sustain mid fight. They can still need cooldown or heal amount later

Consistency ftw.

You can, but its spirit lives on

the caster doesnt enjoy water maps as much my guess is that is the reason he only casts maps he enjoys

Japanese mirror matches are going to be all about getting shinobi into the Tanegashimas. Each one costs you opponent a bombard cannon.

The massive stone cost, to me at least, makes it feel unnecessary to gate it behind later ages. Honestly, I'd love to see someone attempt to pull it all off in age 1.

@@adamloudon4585 japanese get free 20% stone from gathered gold and 20% free gold from gathered gold so....

@@adamloudon4585 And it opens it up for Japanese mirrors to just stay in dark age I guess

Only TCs, outpost and scouts.

@@Adribird honestly that's pretty easy to counter considering outposts and keeps plus TCS are quite common to have a few of at least, plus the eco of the other land mark will probably be far more important to japanese due to the heavy cost of their upgrades etc.

@@yulfine1688 it still forces the opponent to make them, because you could harass a gold mine or wood line without outpost easily and the opponent wont see the unit on the minimap.

@Marc-gj9vx fair as expansions and people move across the map. By that point it probably won't be as effective just stopping some eco. I guess if you micro them well you can hit multiple targets which would indeed cause some issues. I still think the eco landmark will be better but I guess we will see in a few days haha

it's a crossbow in a sense that it replaces a crossbow(anti heavy infantry)

@@JBaker-lh8pl why

You can see that it's more longbow than crossbow not just from the model, but the arc the arrow takes in the air. It just has the crossbow type of bonus against heavy.

@@xdeser2949 cause wamen should be at home giving birth and making sandwiches

Oh you answered that right after. Not as good of a buff as the production building but solid

I guess unlimited, as long as you can build them, and can afford to upgrade them in the first place. Like, it's expensive

yep

I thought the same. Japan (and other new civs) probably will break older civs at the beginning like dry tree branches.

It's when I make my run on the ranked ladder - before it all gets balanced

yes ofcourse they did

You can only create Osutzu from the landmark. So you can't mass produce them.

Nobody cares

@@brendonconkel3063 I do

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@@brendonconkel3063 we all care except you

Daimyo was a feudal lord, who has Shogun above him and hired Samurai below him to guard his land.

Seems to wave more in this biome

seems like a little lantern spawns on one of the corners of the building

Tbh it's standard practice because they want to sell the expansion. Of course they will be stronger, at least at first

Thats fine they Will finetune as long as they are competitive at the start

"it seems"......Let just wait till things get put into practice. No game dev has every put out something new in multiplayer game where it wasn't seen as underpowered or overpowered. Its obvious its going to take feedback to balance.

while it seems so the cost of production upgrades and so on is whats going to hold it back... the byzantines and the aqueducts is a very easy weak point to exploit. The japanese are going to be one of the slowest civs in economy at first and with aging up since it has so much it has to manage. Order of the dragon has its own problems with unit costs and having half the amount of units and so on. Jeanne D'Arc losing her is very expensive to a players gold by level 4 shes 1000 gold to respawn or you manually wait for the timer. Ayuubids seem quite interesting and their a more complex civ so can't say enough there. Zhu XI i havent seen enough of yet to know their mechanics and capabilities but china is already a very strong civ so I expect Zhu XI to be pretty strong as well.