How good is the Teutonic Knight? (AoE2) 

I love how they shout "SASSA!" when you tell them to attack something followed by them menacingly walking toward their target at a snail's pace :D

One of my favorite childhood memories was when I was 5 doing a 4v4 battle in age of kings and watching like 15 elite teutonic knights fighting off what felt like a never ending horde of ai light cavalry.

Teutons overview incoming

Teutonic Knights are like Michael Meyers. Who just slowly walks towards you menacingly, and you have to do whatever to shoot them down before they get in melee range.

7:40 malay 2-handed swordsmen "WHY ! WON'T ! YOU ! DIIIIIIIIIE !!!! - **Teutonnic knight annoyed by the bonking sound if anything** "

45 seconds afther it came out. The universe called me so fast to see a video of my favorite unit.

Teuton Players: When in doubt, throw TKs at the enemy! Easily some of the best style an AoE2 UU can have. Capes are best style!

Not sure if you have done this in previous videos before but I ABSOLUTELY LOVE the addition of resources lost/committed in the unit head to head comparisons. Showing how much of the units HP was lost/remaining is great but showing what that means from an economic point of view takes the understanding of combat interactions to the next level. Great choice and great execution, I just love it.

7:31 "Standing here I realise"

Its a shame Teutons don't get seige rams, as the TKs could ride in medieval Armoured Personnel Carriers to battle while headbanging to Rammstein.

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I can answer the question in title. Teutons are the best, and the capes are just epitome of cool.

As a main line Teutonic player I was sweating when I saw the thumbnail with my capy boys

The +2 armor is in the cape

I always thought it would be fun if teutonic knights had an ability that doubled their speed while at full hp. Nothing would be more terrifying than an army of TKs deus vulting at you at break neck speeds.

Who will win? - A highly trained zealous knight decked out with the finest armour money can buy. OR - A shirtless dude with a spicy whip.

Love the concept of these guys. Strong AF, tanky AF and slow AF (now its not that bad tbh) Feels incredible when you manage to catch someone with their pants down without many ranged units and you can feel their fear as you slowly make a Dio walk and raze their buildings to the ground.

I was just wondering about this unit earlier. It seems Spirit of the law can read the minds of viewers!

Video Description: "Analysis and discussion about the Italian's anti-cavalry unique unit: the Teutonic Knight." Wasn't aware Italy could recruit them. Or that they were anti-cavalry.

Always loved Teutonic knights, even though they seem to have increasingly more counters as new civilizations are added.

About the comparison in anti-building damage towards the Ram, there's the part where you could just put the TKs into the Ram for a symbiotic speed boost.

Capey boy review is a Germanic spotlight precursor

I remember as a teen doing a 3 friends v 1 computer on hardest difficulty as the Turks. We were getting creamed! I had Teutons, wound up losing my towns and vils leaving a full army but no way to replenish. I gave all my resources to my pocket buddy who was celts and we had to build and keep a wonder while fighting off the Turks. The last fight was epic. When we won my celt buddy only had 3 vils and a champion, my Persian buddy had a War Elephant and a Pikeman and I had one Teutonic Knight left. First time any of us ever beat the computer on hardest difficulty was so epic at the time.

The last time I was this early, the conquerors expansion hadn't released.

Favourite unit since release

The Teutonic Knights were always my favorite Unit in AoE2, I even use their Unit Card as a pfp at times. Good stuff.

Ahh, I like where this is going. Slowly.

The best. Next question?

They can perform well with an aggressive castle drop. They will train rapidly fast to support offense. They kill buildings, rams or anything on their way while castle can pick off ranged units in reach. They will help your own rams, you can also heal them fast by garrisoning in castle.

The problem with TKs is the same as with gold infantry in general; theyre too slow to force engagements and their attack bonus is against something you almost never need to attack (buildings).

Fun Facts about the Teutonic Knight: They are not only the only unit with a _cloak_ (NOT a cape, which is attached at the shoulders and hangs down the back), but they are also the only unit that sheathes and unsheathes their sword (Samurai have their swords sheathed when not attacking, but they have no animation for drawing and sheathing so their swords just magically appear in their hands when attacking).

At 7:05 I said to myself "It would be interesting to see druzhina halbs though" and you immediately answered it! I appreciate this depth of analysis

No lie... When I was a kid in elementary school gym class, we were asked to come up with names for our teams in dodgeball. I said 'Teutonic Knights'. Everyone looked at me weird.

Wootz Steel being applied to Urumi… just grinds my gears.

I really don't like abilities that ignore armor like the leitis. It completely discards a core mechanic of the game and it doesn't make a lot of sense either. I would've preferred if they made leitis deal pierce damage rather than melee to make them counter the teutonic knights.

I know why Teutons have always been my favourite civ to play and always will be. Great economy to boom with, good castles and then roll over everything with that zombie walk of Teutonic Knights. Never get bored of it.

The eaasiest way to explain the Teutonic Knight is: Teutonic Knights do to Melee Gold units what Champions do to melee Trash units.

It’s amazing how relaxing and comforting your videos are. It makes my day when you post something. Keep up the great work.

Teutonic knight is the cooler unit on AoE

Appreciated that sneaky pun with the urumi swordsmen

Spirit of the lift, absolutely gold.

Their beefy stats make them perfect for forcing engagement. Not though chasing, of course, they can't, but by using them to attack. Ignore them at the cost of your town.

Another part about the synergy between TK and castles is that TK has nearly as much movement speed as castles. Crazy !

We getting Teutons Overview soon! Hypeeee

it's kinda funny that the most heavily armored unit in the game is a guy only wearing maille and a cape while the standard mid-weight infantry unit is covered head to toe in plate

Didnt know about the bonus against buildings - cheers

Imagine how op an inbred German hybrid would be. 10/10 melee/ pierce armor. Speed bump to 1~ tile Insane damage. Teutonic huskarl.

I remember calling them "slow ball of death" as a child lol my favorite matchup against them is the Mongol, Huns, and Britts, that is until they started to ignore my range units and go for my base😢

Imagine being some guy training their hardest for wtf-years so they could bear the honor of wearing that cape. Then, they have to wear like 50 tons of armor, only to be told that for some stupid reason that tiny arrows somehow can pierce them for no logical reason.

TK are just cool to look at. Probably the coolest UU to look at.

Babe wake up new SOTL Unique Unit overview just dropped

Man, I remember the first time I faced TKs, supremacy game with several AIs, tons of resources, the last enemy was kind of hidding in its base, I said to myself "easy", made a lot of champions, paladins, UU, I think I was Celts, after a couple waves of units lost, I started paying attention to the fights... I couldn't believe, most of my units doing one damage a hit to those things, funny memories

I see Teutonic Knight, i upvote, my all time favourite style unit.

I remember when Teutonic Knight was literally the benchmark for every Civ Overview to see how good the Unique Unit is. They might be niché and too slow/easy to counter with range in a real game, but in a vacuum, Teutonic Knights are probably still a Top 5 or atleast Top 10 unit when it comes to pure power. They also are the most stylish unit in the game and lets be real: That is a highly undervalued stat!

OMG Incas review coming after this!!!

Cape bois are the most beloved unit in the game! There no Aoe 2 without cape bois!

I think the clown car strategy is really strong with the Tutonic knights

i love infantry civs !!! Especially the Trutonic Knights !

Been thinking "he should revisit the Teutonic knight" and boom a video on him revisiting the Teutonic knight

Nice video as always. :) At the end of the video, I felt my spirit lifted.

The most emblematic unique unit from AOE2. Enough said!

13:30 dude, a load of teutonic knights on DRAGONS would be badass

Because they are so slow but high damage I love to use them to attack buildings while I use siege like onagers and ballista's to protect them. Which is kind of weird to have siege protecting infantry rather than the other way around, it works quite well. Because if an onager shot or two can destroy the bulk of an archer ball, or hit knights as they ride in, then the Teutonic knights can basically ignore whatever is left, especially if you include about 4-8 monks to heal up and remove elephants. Its very expensive though, thank your lucky stars you have cheap farms, but they seem much better in a team match where you have trade because they have strong late game. And if you are struggling you can go into one of the strongest knight lines, even without husbandry they trade efficiently vs all archers. Trash is also good to bulk out your army, put some skirmishers with your siege and some pikes with your Teutonic knights to help fill out your army.

I always like such tests "T Kight vs War Elephants/ Cataphract/ Samurai/ Jaguar/ Leitis/ Costilier/ Obuch/ Urumi Swordsman witz Wootz Steel" in eqal ressources

People should make more TKs, even VS archers

You make my night.

Easily my favorite civ because of these guys lol

Great video as always

If I recall, this will be the first civ SOTL redo the overview (not confirmed but highly possible from the looks of it) 3 times. Could have redo other older civ overview but hey I'm just being pedantic

Damn bro, spirit of the lift caught me off-guard

I always liked TKs, but I had never thought about their efficiency versus buildings. I’d say I’d rather train two TK’s than a ram if I was trying to thin out buildings that don’t fight back and I thought some army was going to show up, yeah.

... and of couse, they're so cool with those capes!

Rock on spirit of the law...was just looking them up yesterday 😅

Definitely my favorite

I haven't even watched the video yet but know the answer should be underrated!

God I wish they'd remove the Siege Tower Gold Cost (Or let them shoot garrison arrows like a tower to make them worth the cost). It would make them so much more interesting as a Teutonic Knight Battlewagon.

Love these units. They have that "wall of iron" feel that I like

The crowning moment of my AoE career was winning a 4v4 against human players with teutons: my allies dead, and me tearing through the enemies with paladins and Teutonic Knights.

Ok I can guess which civ re-overview is going to be next...

The fact that they beat Battle Elephants is pretty crazy. Still, a very specific matchup but teutonic knights could be used to counter a late game elephant spam

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Awesome vid!

They're like that scene from Indiana Jones. The one were the dude with the sword got shot.

Comment for the algorithm. Love TKs. Thanks

Fast Teutonic Knights remind me, will we get an Olympics video again? I loved the Olympics video last time.

Spirit of the la hire!!

Teutonic Knight vid? I am here :D not that I wouldn't come for your friday vid anyway ;) I don't know anyone else, that leaves me guessing what "spin" they do on their add segment each time ... we could probably make a memory game or sth out of all of them (something more creatvie than memory, but you get my drift ) XD

So Teutons will be the first civ with 3 full SotL overciews?

Teutonic Knights 💪🏻 are my favourite Unique Unit since 2007(the year i got my first computer) and Age of Empires II is my first ever PC game😎.....i know Age of Empires is older than me 1997 and Age of Empires II 1999💪🏻

I have a nightmare scenario for enemies of Tuetons: three rams roll up, and then 18 Teutonic Knights jump out of the rams just before reaching your walls.

Teutons so strong they walk slow just from sheer menacing aura alone. They're just giving the enemy a chance.

Longswordman putting 420 damage per minute with arson, they do be blazing it

Please bring back their old Attack move. Just like the Samurais ! They were insane

Suprised that tectonic knights countering mamelukes wasn't mentioned as mamelukes are actually pretty popular bc of teutons going heavy cav typically. Since mamelukes do mele damage they get destroyed vs tectonic knights.

"hey laws, spirit of the guys here"

The biggest revelation in this video might be that SoL actually found a use for the Siege tower. I'd totally pay to be driven around my city in one of those!

Didn't know Catas counter TKs. Neat.

Dravidian Halb spam actually destroys Teutonic Knights... Also an Elite Chakram mass can forever outrun the caped bucketheads! Still one of the coolest looking units!

Ill forever move my TK's. Near and dear to my heart

My favorite RTS unit ever! I'd cover them with skirmishers and they would walk over everything including elephants!