How good is the Huskarl? 

Omg yes omg yws

I hope he doesn't replace the legendary "Goth game plan"

In the goth meta Bauhaus is better imo

Yes!!

Shame the Rosetta Stone isn’t a research tech in this version. But the Sisters of Mercy Meta does better, unless you’re fighting in the Fields of the Nephilim. Then you’re screwed, especially if your opponent is an Alien Sex Fiend.

That's the content I'm here for

By this point im starting to become more interested in SOTL's Side Hussles 😄😄😄

He would be a fool not to push this one. Summer is coming up and you can't expect people to keep touching grass with their behinds

Ngl, the 1st time he sponsored "a website of his" I actually looked for said site, lol Don't remember what he was supposedly even selling, but I became interested 😅

same

I haven't played in a long time but I think I get it. Good presentation and neat theory to think on regardless of if you play.

@@calebbridges4748 Last time I played AoE2, auto reseeding farms weren't a thing...

​@@pierre-mariecaulliez6285I would say same, but I played a game as Goths just yesterday

It's a great game. I've been playing since 1999.

I didn't even know that, but Goths are already powerful without it. What makes them much more fearful is the fact they also have hand cannons and even bombard cannons. Probably its a matter of balancing because their archers are pretty trashy.

they remove it after a patch, they used to had arson, maybe SOTL didn't notice that

@@areyouapoo Goths lack Arson for quite some time already, I played them several months ago and they didn't have it

@@areyouapoo Goths have not had arson since the launch of DE.

@@CG-eh6oe they do have arson until update 36202, if according to fandom wiki

Spirit of the Straw. Made of material that is _not_ paper.

His petshop sidehustle, Spirit of the Paw, is doing great!

Did you hear about his lumber company, Spirit of the Saw?

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If it makes you feel any better there are still many adult players who think like your kid self did

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@@kikaioshin6700 are you talking about me?

yep, also the fact that they instantly come out of barracks and cost literally pennies, so its gonna be on the battlefield and you know it

@@oom-3262 It's hilarious tbh. I feel like I am roleplaying Darklord who sends wave after wave of endless minions against a few heroes and watches them slowly die to an unending flood.

😂

They are also sworn to carry your burdens.

Scooter of the law.

so we just pick the arrows from him and "return" them back to our enemies?

@@duytoannguyen6055 that's a very good idea, I practiced that before

nice

Nice.

@@duytoannguyen6055 Legend has it that a Chinese general took advantage of a foggy morning to set up straw dummies, knowing that his army was lacking in the wood to make arrows with. But the enemy would be all too happy to send some over for them, landing softly in the straw dummies ripe for the picking

There will be a ton of analysis you won't understand but in real games, it is terrifying sometimes. Imagine the enemy sneakily builds 3-4 barracks behind your base and these guys flood in constantly unexpectedly. Even if you try to make the right unit, you simply cannot make enough of it to keep away the flood lol.

Huskarls have the ultimate counter to Teutonic Knights. Powerwalking

@@mctrump957 true! why fight if you can walk away with a style!

@@mctrump957nah we want to see the true Ai experience with Huskarls walking into the teutonic meatgrinder

Goths can just make Hand Cannoners though.

​@@UniDocs_Mahapushpa_Cyavanaand teutons can make ironclad Siege Onager. What's your point?

I hope he never uses any intro ever, I hate intros, outros and other such things that make the viewing worse and annoying.

Yes I wouldn't mind an overall rework of all the old civs such as Burmese, a civ I really enjoy lately. Some of your old videos are still from the HD edition. A lot has changed since then. I remember playing Khmer with BBC in the HD, those were good times, but it had to be nerfed because their scorpion and elephant combo is already strong enough. Burmese are lovely, they not only have a very strong wood eco (free woodcutter upgrades) but also a free infantry bonus, giving them the edge in early militia rushes as well as almost aztek level champions later on. Their halbs are also very strong due to this bonus. Then you get one of the strongest elephants in the game, depending on what you face they may even the be toughest because they have so much pierce armor.

​@@justskip4595SotL Intros are really cool tho. Not just some random music and some bs amateur effects, but a collection of cool ingame stuff and from prev. videos.

Goths are the best :D

inb4 an updated slide of _the_ Gothic game plan xD

Bro, they are only viable because of their unique tech Perfusion. Tell me honestly, would you have 10+ barracks spamming cheap champions or 2-4 castles producing Huskarls. Without perfusion, nobody is gonna use the unit just because they are great against archers over the cheap champions.

@@benedictjajo I mean, they are not saying Huskarls are great, but rather that you don't use it like a regular infantry unit.

That still only counts as one! -Gimli

Mistake I think. The goths had Arson replaced with +1 damage per age back in 2020 so they used to have it. Maybe he got mixed up and pulled from memory.

yep, they lost it due to their bonus against buildings.

Yeah, I hate that

Atleast he faces Lyx!

You forgot something, Goths are terrible against infantry civs. They can swarm, sure, but infantry civs counter habls/Huskarls hard. 1000 Huskarls can't beat 200 TKs. Let that sink in. Even other infantry civs will do great against that composition.

@@benedictjajo thats why you dont make it against infatry civs. usually full Champion spam. genius. I know.

I do think he made a building armor vid, might be very old though but I'm pretty sure I've watched one

Nvm I found it for you "Masonry, Architecture and Building Armor" from 4 years ago

@@trystanclemenceau2071 Yeah, I see it now, thanks.

Goths, celts are more fun but you gotta have a trigger finger like a hairpin on when to commit goths you just floor it and hope to win

Celts are more of a mix infantry and siege Civ, like Slavs, but Goths are basically a pure Infantry Civ. They only really have other options like HC to supplement their infantry, everything revolves around it and getting to late game gothic flood. They have surprisingly good light cav/hussar though, catches people off guard seeing a Goths player raiding your wood and farm areas with cav and not infantry lol.