Japanese Overview AoE2 

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i dont know what the fuck to do in my maths exam, but now i know the fishing rates of generic and japanese fishing ships from different food sources. thank you spirit of the law

"Where's my Oscar?" Spirit, you're such a sly comedian.

21:39 The moon walking Elephant is quite a nice final shot^^

21:33 michel jackson riding that elephant

8:17 - "But to quickly samurais..." Well played

U said opinion on japaneese has shifted during the two years. Maybe because some popular youtuber kept saying they are the best civ.

7 years later this man has 1 million views on a 19 year old game at the time of writing. Literally a quarter century later this video on the Japanese civil is being watched. What a legend

21:39 elephant moonwalk ftw

8:15 Where's my Oscar!!! Nice Revenant joke!

This might be a bit late, but that the Samurai don't get a bonus versus Turtle Ships even though they are unique units is pretty funny from an historical standpoint. One of the big reasons why the Koreans designed the Turtle Ships the way they did was to prevent boarding actions from the Japanese navy, which was the latters favorite way of naval warfare. They just put a bunch of Samurai and/or Ashigaru on a ship, jumped on enemy vessels and fought it out man versus man. I guess that means that Turtle Ships being Samurai resistant is historically accurate...

1:47 Only the Best Fish & Chips. Dude, you killed me with that one xD

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooo my beloved super OP Japanese towers are getting rightfully nerfed! They were OP because massed towers spammed enough arrows to kill battering rams, without even needing units to go after them.

Glad I woke up today instead of sleeping another 24-hours due to the undulating hatred I feel for living! You're awesome, Spirit of the Law!

Spirit Of The Law re-reviewing Japanese? I don't believe I've ever clicked on a video faster...

It's the most hyped video of 2016 for me ;)

It would be so great if we could automatically queue fish traps like we can with farms. Even if it required a whole new building, I'd probably build it more often than not just for convenience.

Thanks for clarifying the value of fish traps in imperial with gill nets! This was my biggest question after watching the previous videos :)

I still really love your videos. So much quality in them and it seems so much time is put into them, you're awesome man keep it up!

This channel's videos have some of the best construction/ editing I've seen for

"Where is my Oscar?" SpiritOfTheLaw, you put so much effort into the minute details that it is such a joy to watch your videos, sometimes several times because I am sure to miss something on the first watch. I genuinely am both educated and highly entertained and wish more people would follow your example. Also, you did indeed improve a lot, judging from your first video on the Japanese, and I cannot wait to see more of your videos. I just wish I could find more of you just playing, every now and then this would really be very enjoyable. But I know it is a lot of work, so just keep going as it suits you, and we will follow suit. WELL DONE SIR SpiritOfTheLaw, well done. I would knight you, but I don't even think you need the extra hp and damage to achieve greatness. :)

I absolutely love your videos. When I started playing age of empires again I found your channel and haven't missed a single video since.

I still wonder, why im watching this, cause i don't play AoE2, only played campaing. I guess you're just really entertaining

8:17 to quickly samuraize. i see what you did there

The Japanese getting bloodlines might be a historical reference to the fact that Samurai were often mounted, using either melee weapons or bows. With "Samurai" as the unique unit, knights with bloodlines to facilitate a strong early cavalry rush, and cavalry archers you have all of those roles covered.

i would LOVE to see some more gameplay from you, either like a playthrough of the campaign or just online/bot games! Definitly the best AOE youtuber ive seen! benched watched a ton of your videos when i found you and i had no idea you could play this game this competative!

Dude I have never played this game but accidentally watch one of your videos one day and got hooked. I've watched over 10 videos and I have to say props bro. You have a excellent way of explaining things without being too over the top but gets in depth about it and your passion shows. Keep it up!

love your videos, reminds me of the good ol days :D keep up the great work

So much hype right now! Thanks Spirit, I love your vids!

3:35 this has ages very well, now that the fish traps have the automatic rebuild option.

One video randomly pops up in my feed. Here I am now bingeing guides to play a game I've not played in 10 years

Your most awaited video ! Love you spirit, keep on the awesome work ! :D

Loving all the vids! Please upload more of your normal game matches as well please! Its all good stuff!

That Oscar Roast tho! Exactly the reason why we love you: the sporadic sprinkling of fun mixed in with quality information on game mech!

Thank you very much. This is the best aoe2 review channel I have ever subscribed! Awesome!

nice. I realy liked the point you made about using the samuri as a quick reaction unit to defend your castles against rams and things

Just yesterday I was thinking that I'd really like to see a proper overview video of the japanese and boom, here we are. Perfect timing!

the oftenest at which I find myself attempting to scroll around the game in your videos to look at something confounds me.

I don't even play this game anymore (since it came out years ago) but I like your videos. Keep up the great work. I'd love to watch videos of you analyze things outside of Age of Empires! Maybe actual civilizations ;)

Thanks for redoing this one!

I really like the music in this video, gave it a great feeling when watching.

21:39 Elephant doing the moonwalk.

You finally made one for your favorite civ nice one

Its hilarious for how long time I watching you, wau. Still I like your first Japanese video more, maybe a nostalgia coming into play here :-).

100万おめでとう！

I've been waiting for this!

time to make an update video on japanese

haha I love how much SoL loves the Japanese, to the point that he'd make a second Japanese video before finishing the series (if he does, hopefully).

I'd love to see some of these older Civ reviews get redone after some time and updates, plus new civs to compare to - but I know how much time goes into the research let alone putting the visuals together in a video

Nicely done!

love your videos!

Love these vids!

Hey Spirit! Just wanted to let you know I have been really enjoying watching all of your videos over the past couple of months! I especially have enjoyed the battle commentaries and was wondering if you were planning on recording any new ones?

This is really good content. Thankyou so much

hey man. I barely play aoe but love your vids. keep them coming :)

Underrated civ right here. I do love my naval assaults. On island/archipelago maps I tend to build castles keeps and docks on the small Islands to help support my attack force.

"Jack of all trades" I see what you did there. And I love it.

I think you should add back in the Rams all speeding along back to the intro. It is an impressive sight to see how far you have been willing to go to test things.

It's been a long time coming, hasn't it? Well here we go :)

damn a really high quality video. ty

Greatly done, my friend. I hope the next is a complete one of the Huns... or the Teutons

My birthday wish came true. You made another video about the Japanese. I love you.

21:39 that elephant is moonwalking

when isaw this in my subox a minute ago "o fortuna" started playing in my head

*GO JAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!*

I am a gigantic fan of that fishing ship bonus. It makes Japanese on Black Forest a very viable option for me so long as I can grab at least one pond. The Fishing Ships aren't going to get taken down by enemy ships, and it's a good use of the otherwise empty water space. It's also much smaller than farms, which has a number of minor benefits. I remember a time when I had every pond on a BF map. I had all my villagers on wood while keeping my fishing ships busy. I was able to halberdier-spam like crazy with next to no economic repercussions. I do end up mashing that idle villager key, though, but I find that makes the late game more interesting. Just because you touched on heroes, I think an analysis of them would be really interesting to see, sometime. Some of them have some really funny attributes. Attila the Hun, for example, I've found seems to be considered an infantry unit. Pikes don't do extra damage to him, but he takes a ton from Jaguar Warriors and Cataphracts. Kind of ironic, seeing at the model used IS a Cataphract! Take your time, though. I really look forward to seeing you redo the old reviews you did!

And that revenant reference, brilliant stuff.

so beautiful...its finally here....

It's always interesting to see how game developers interpret various civilisations in gameplay terms. I don't know much japanese history, but I do know the Samurai have an interesting history. They started out as mounted archers more so than anything else, but somehow this progressed through to being more typical cavalry, and then finally the samurai we're more familiar with nowadays...

Sees new SOTL video OH MY GOD YES YES YES YES

Hi Spirit Of The Law, Something you might want to consider adding in the future; One of the large advantages of the Huns house bonus is that you don't have to use villager seconds building the houses. This makes the Hun house bonus significantly better than it looks on paper and a stronger bonus then you are giving it credit for when compared to the Japanese camp and mill bonus ( or any other bonus for that matter).

I buy the game because of this channel (and the Steam sale) and two days later this comes out. 'Tis an omen.

I was just reading the auto generated captions, and when you said mass samurai, it read 'math samurai'. SotL's dream.

That faster treb packing/firing is great because it means you don't have to build/attack with as many trebs or you can split trebs into groups to take on multiple objectives.

I like the way AOE2 is balanced with no one civilisation being over or under-powered really

Six thousand views in a single day- a fine community and resurgence for AoE2!

The Japanese are my favorite too. A samurai army combined with fully improved horse archers is a great combination

SOTL, I really appreciate your videos. They're uniformly informative and fun. Could you make a 2v2 commentary where you are allied with the hardest AI against two hardest AI players? I need more obsessive AI micro in my life.

The Japanese is also my preferred and favorite to play, but I am only a beginner who can’t even beat a hard ( close though). I have 178 hrs of gameplay only as well and if you can I would like to make a request that you make a “ how to rush tutorial for beginners” since you would be my preferred RU-vidr Aoe2 expert. Thanks as well for the help I have found in your videos as a beginner.

wololo civs overview? , amazing analysis man, u can easily become a great analyst in any top company xD.

and here it is. here it finally is.

It seems your ratings are a little... affected by your strong feelings for the Japanese.

Never knew about the damage being calculated at the end of the arc, based on the unit that fired it. In interesting to know!

units only count as unique if only ONE civ has them, for example the eagle warrior is shared by maya and aztec I believe

I really like that moonwalk at the end of the vid

made my day

Came back after the release of DE, and fishing traps are much more viable now that you can queue them up

8:16 "where's my Oscar?" - i see what u did there

spirit id love an update to this video to see whats changed!

Bro AWESOME video. your the best out of all the youtubers on AOE. Can you plz make civilization review on African Kingdom also ?

8:20 "Where's my oscar!" Oh Spirit, you are so clever. X)

Holy shit here we go!

You have a rockin' intro dude :)

I love love love your intro music and video compilation. Your channel reminded me how much i miss age of empires. I need to get the newer one cuz my old disks dont work now :(

It's been two years already?! Holy shit, time flies.

Finally, a video!

missed these overviews xD

Dear Spirt,I hope you are reading this because you have really changed my life.I used to be a B student and when I would come home after school,I would always play vs the easiest AI.then I found your Chanel.the way you mixed math and the game help to inspire me to become an A+ student.Also I stated playing online as a 1000 player and got all the way up to 1800 in 9 months because of your videos.Thank you.

Hey Spirit, here's an interesting question for you: Do you consider access to Shipwright to be an economy bonus? It's expensive, yes, but it gives you a huge leg up in terms of being able to produce more ships and produce them more quickly. If not an eco-bonus, would you classify it as military?

The music in this vid is so good. Wow