Burmese Overview AoE2 

I love how he is always lowkey in stating how good the japanese are

"Two and a half spearmen" jesus you're a legend man.

*Conquistador:* "Noooo I have a literal gun, you can't do more damage than me without one!" *Arambai:* "Hahaha darts go brrrr."

10:36 rip penguin

Arambai darts were used en masse historically, often thrown in bunches from horseback, so it makes sense that they have low accuracy.

Arambai were actually elite cavalry from Manipur Kingdom. It’s fascinating how it is incorporated in this game.

Make the top ten voice acting civs

3:25 Sappers makes villagers cut trees faster :o

Random person: "sir, what is your sexuality?" Me: "Im monk-curious"

I'm a player from Myanmar. Half of the reason why I bought the game is because they included Burmese.

The bonus building attack is actually really powerful for hussar because it allows them to take TCs much faster, giving them a lot more threatening raiding potential. Usually, hussar are too slow to really threaten TCs, because they don't do enough damage to destroy it before you can get reinforcements there, but with manipur cavalry this is a different story.

I'm so happy to see a youtuber still caring for this game. Thank you so much man.

Those SE Asian civs in AoE have made me adore their history. As a Korean I confirm that they were stronger than ancient Korea (Goryo and Chosun) until European traders started colonization.

21:30 the dreaded maracas of micro-management!

Top 5 Naval civs'' waiting for this one :D Appreciate the time stamps btw great vids keep it up man!

I've been waiting for this overview for so long I love this civ! Thank you!!!

Additionally, we need to factor the time that goes into researching the lumbercamp upgrades. Burmese lumberjacks start delivering added wood instantly- this compared to enemy Civ who has to expend that quantum of time before cutting same amount of wood. The Franks have a similar farm upgrades free bonus - other than resources it’s the time saved that’s the real advantage there! In the case of Franks there’s a two fold advantage (actually 3) : 1. Resources 2. Time to research farm techs 3. Wood saved cuz farms last longer needing less wood for refreshes. So in case of the Burmese, lumbercamp upgrades for free adds 1. Time to research 2. Resources saved 3. Additional wood for farms or extra farms So it kind of works out more or less the same for both the civilizations

As Burmese I usually mix elephants, halberds, and champions. Occasionally I'll add Arambai depending on enemy army comp

I want to live in the alternate timeline where the Arambi got the full +6 damage vs. Castles.

Nice review! Always love your videos, specially your civ reviews.

Thank you for making these videos. I've been a fan for 3ish years.

Wow, as somebody who hasn’t played this in years this I didn’t expect to love this civilization so much but I do, sounds so fun and flexible

Thanks man. Been waiting for this vid for a while. Epic analysis as always.

Man, I love your videos! All of them! I remember playing this game when I was in high school and absolutely loving it! This channel has definitely given me some nostalgia. By the way, I think a fun/interesting game to see (I know it would probably take forever) would be playing without bombard cannons/trebuchets. I would like to see how certain civs and people's strategies might change without those units. I love your gameplay videos, I would love to see more :-) Thanks!!

Among the new Civs the Burmese are my favorite! They have exactly all the things I need! Relics, best Halbs in town, powerful castles by housing Arambai inside and a fantastic unique unit the Arambai - no need to build siege with them though they’re quite weak even against Skirmishers. And Manipur cavalry makes all their Cavs amazing in destroying buildings! A bunch of 10 Arambai can take down a TC in 5-6 strikes - these are amazingly OP Defenses are underrated because you tend to use the Arambai for hit and runs and always housed in Castles- and you get Max castle fire with just 6-7 Arambai garrisoned in castles - similar to the Mangudai. They’re super weak and hence best only for surprise attacks otherwise keep them in castles to boost ur defense. Most important economic upgrades are the lumber camp upgrades- and you don’t have to bother about them - best part of the early game! Arambai are weak against siege units tho it supposedly has a bonus but I couldn’t feel any! Battle elephants are excellent as anti siege units tho! My favorite used to be the Franks but now it’s easily the Burmese

Its always a good day when I see one of your new videos pop up :)

Jesus your content is so great and top quality! You deserve more subs mate!

Yes I was looking forward to this a month or so ago :) Awesome to have it out

Dude you're the best AoE YT channel out there! Could you make a video in the future talking about your thoughts regarding AoE3 or maybe why you think it failed to be as popular and good as AoE2?

Damn spirit, you're getting REALLY good at creating content. If you branched out into other games you could seriously get some top tier views

Love the videos dude keep up the good work 👌

Burma, my home country in the videogame...like first time. (I thought Arambai was weird romanization--as usual, like Pyay is called Prome--until it was referencing Manipur darts. Ironically Manipur is traditionally enemies of Toungoo...though they do adopt similar horseback javelin throwing similar to the game unit and Manipur cavalry.)

The Campaign v. History video led me to think you would redo the Huns overview... But then again, the Burmese are the Burmese, so I can’t really complain. And your video is incredible as always And now, onto the Vietnamese!

Its been like 200 years since this DLC came out finally im happy you finally did this.

One thing that you forgot about Arambai is that it's probably the best unit to be garrisoned in castle, just 12 of them are enough to make Castle fire the maximum 21 arrows, making Burmese Castle on of the most formidable castle in AOE2 (this is a big step ahead of gunpowder units like Jannisary and conquistador). I think this is the main reason why Burmese didn't get Hoardings

Im very happy to see that tout still upload videos about This game . Thx

With most channels I like to speed up videos to minimize the time I spend watching but with your channel I don't want to. Your voice is simply too nice to listen to.

Yay! You’re still alive! Now for an awesome video. :)

21:24 ... Spirit of the lol

Could you do a video on why is aoe3 so broadly hated and more indepth on your personal reasons why dont you play it ?

As a Burmese person, this is very interesting

That's crazy. I searched up yesterday for a burmese overview of you in case you had done it, completely unaware you where gonna release one today.

I've been waiting for this for years

This guy makes my day everytime he releases a video.

I was looking forward to this video. I really like the Burmese

Keep on being awesome Spirit of the Law! Love from Toronto =P

This vid is the best thing I could wish for getting back from work at midnight.

Good job your vid is filled with the latest changes.

I would love to see a re-done Teutons Overview when you finish up the expansion civs, i don't play aoe2 as much as i did before but Teutons along with Mongols were always my favorite civ

Thx to you :-) I’m waiting for this video~~

This Civ plus the civ that gives the Relics Food generation is a good combo. Not only can both rush for monks, to get the relics, and the food + gold generation helps keep the gold + food units pumping out.

great job as always

Top 5 ways to stop Burmese - 1. [N/A] 2. [N/A] 3. [N/A] 4. [N/A] 5. Pick Britons and pray that you don't get attacked till Castle Age.

3:50 ...while knowing your long term woody fish and sea is handling itself. xD Love you spirit

Great video! At 8:27 you can see the effect of the Slavs' unique tech, it's hilarious lol

new vid you just made my day

With the free upgrades, you might also mention that you get them on spot when you advance, therefore taking effect sooner (because you just don't have to wait for them to be completed). It's not much, but it still somewhat helps directly after advance (when the resource hunger is probably the direst).

Watched the ad, liked and commented before even watching!

Excellent Choice!

i don't play this game about 5 years but i like your videos and brings me back memories

Very nice. I love the elephant facts.

Hi Spirit, have you ever considerd the arambai as a sniping unit (much like Shotel Warriors) for TC's? After their Unique Tech they destroy (when massed) TC's in an instant ^^.

Coming back to this video after playing DE is something else.

Spirit I love your videos

I just noticed you said "These are just my opinions on the Burmese though" at the end of the video. Yeah, it's just an in depth 22 minute video and probably the most comprehensive guide to the civilization out there. Just an opinion : P.

Love your videos

20:19 The lone purple ram taking out the monastery. So awesome.

The Arambai is a troop type of the Meiteis (present day Manipur, India). We killed the burmese and invaded them with our special unit Arambai.

Peeeerfect video As always

Yes. YES. *YEEEEEESSSSSS!* New SoL video? AND it’s a civ overview? Daddy treats us right, y’all.

i loved the arambai for a more obscure reason, their fortification bonus. you only need 12 in a castle to max out its attack (+21), but the flipside is you need to remember putting more than 12 arambai in a castle is a waste.

Your humor is definitely an honorable mention ;)

Finally this video is out and of course we have the malay video too. Those are the new Rise of rajas civilizations that miss the castle age blacksmith upgrades due to being designed to make other units stronger and give them a powerful unique unit that needs the entire civilization to be balanced around that unit but also they have benefits to their infantry and cavalry with their battle elephants having several bonuses. Only the vietnamese video is left for this channel to have a video for every civilization in aoe2 including the new expansions. The burmese look very good when you look at all their non archery range units, but when it comes to the archery range, I am glad they got a C- grade there even without something that the celts have when it comes to archers. They do have the bracer but still no crossbowman +2/+2 armor for this civilization and usually my playstyle had to change when my crossbowmen just didn't perform when they miss that tech. I played the campaign with not a significant use of arambai besides the few in the first scenario to go raid that king by going down along the side of their map and that was about it. I used siege units a lot in that campaign. But I didn't like how the 4th and 5th scenarios had no villagers and town center to use while the 4th scenario was unique experience and I did after several playthroughs defeat all enemy units before the timer runs out, it was mostly monk fights. That 5th scenario was one that I didn't like their decision of not making it a usual villagers and town center where I could really test out how the burmese perform in general without their archer armor upgrades, but that is something that can be done in the scenario editor. However, the first 3 scenarios were great to use the burmese, but even the third scenario we were missing walls and towers due to religious concerns.

*instant like*

I keep criticizing here often but that doesn’t change the fact that I think this is easily the best channel on RU-vid I’ve subscribed to 👏🏻

OMG SPIRIT OF THE LAW UPLOADED A VIDEO MY DAY IS SAVED XD

It's not just cost saved, it's the crucial 30 seconds... when you have 15-40 villagers on wood, they will gather quite a lot more before others have done buying the Upgrades if the opponents can buy it the second they hit the new age

Gotta love these elephant facts, it's like getting clairvoyance -Did you know that Elephants have poor eyesight but an amazing sense of smell?-

Those Arambai pom-poms sure are deadly!! ( ﾟдﾟ)ノ

Great guide!!

Another video, another elephant fact! The day got much better already!

Finally a Spirit of the law video! :D

16:58 no F ? Remember the Goths' defence ?

I love the intro!

Excellent work as always, Spirit. Maybe you could do a 'Top 5 Versatile Civs' Video.

will there be a video with the top 5 monk civs? Epic stuff spirit :) keep on going

DIS WHAT DEY BEEN WAITIN FO

Spirit of the Voicepack!

Regarding defence- their castles are especially potent, because garrisoned arambai increase the number of fired arrows quicker than any other unit. They can create arambai to defend a threatened castle and drastically increase its damage potential very rapidly.

Idk why but I have always really liked this intro

10:38 I love how you put the new price (5.8 balance patch) of the Arambai =) Sparing the need of an annotation later^^ Will you do a video about all the balance patch changes and why they are done / what strategies are affected ?

Love your videos. Have you done a video on navigating the camera around the map at all? I find that I tend to rely on the directional keys, I've been thinking of switching to WASD so my left hand can be closer to the hotkeys and i'd probably end up having to do something with my macro keys but a lot of my friends seem to be mouse-only for movement around the map. Other stuff to discuss like Double-pressing grouped units, the H key and other building hotkeys, clicking the map, scroll settings etc. Another thing to touch on is affecting the zoom of the view by changing your resolution and ways to get around your max resolution like AMDs Virtual Super Resolution where you can boost whats visible to crazy levels. Yeah so if you haven't, I wonder if theres a way to work out whats optimal and boost navigation flexibility.

Thank you for all the info in all of your videos I can finally beat my older brother

I’m a simple man. I see a SotL video, I upvote.

WHAAAAT! I was just about to go to bed! Oh well bed can wait

I would love to see you open up a website where all this information can be indexed, maybe even with a "compare civ" option that lists their relative grades and the reasons for why one is stronger than the other. Had I any knowledge of how to make a website, I would be more than glad to get that going.

Finally you reviewed the OP civ

Loving this Burmese!!!❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Ok, now I've learned how to use burmese as a Burmese. Weird but cool. O_o

Thank you finally geez