The AoE2 Civ Builder is back and better than ever! 

Historically Tlaxcaltecas were allies of the Spanish, so "Meso civ with gunpowder and horses" could be an interesting design space. Unique unit could be a cav unit called the 'Pipiltin'

17:23 YOOOO WHAT THE HELL!? A shoutout from the greatest AoE2 channel of all time? I am truly honored. And all that on top of a fantastic video showcasing the single greatest fanmade creation in Age of Empires history. This has made my month!

Knights Hospitaller were actually a black banner with a white cross. You made the Teutonic Flag.

This new DLC Idea could fit in a "rogue lite" campaing were after every map you could chose a new bonus between a ranom amout to build your civ until the last "boss" fight

7:55 the Anti-Hera-Tech

When I grow up I want to be a custom civ from AoE2

Mr Law you just reinstalled AoE2 on my computer with your brain

Mamelukes with Berbers’ discount and health regeneration, made at stable (Huns).. Let's Gooooo! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

Time for another deathmatch between overpowered Civs.

We are all now waiting for the next video! I want to see these in action.

It’s nice to hear SoTL being so enthusiastic.

Thanks for making such high quality content, your videos always get me back into Aoe2 after I take a break.

If we get an official civ maker mod - which i'm totally for - i hope that we would be able to create custom bonuses and not just pick from a list. Just being able to do custom multipliers would be great enough.

Note that if you pick the (+) button near the bonus that you selected, you can double/triple/... it 😆

On my AOE2 Wiki user page I have 64, yes 64 custom civilisations. All with their own civ icons and tech trees. It has been my dream to see these made into playable custom civilisations, and whilst we're not at that stage yet, we're getting closer day by day.

As a DLC feature in the game itself, this would be really awesome!! Custom CIV rank ladder would be epic! :) Thank you, Spirit !

Was always thinking how cool it would be if I could make my own custom civ and turns out it’s completely possible kudos to dev bro who made this

Do you know what is good about your channel? Let's say I am a new aoe player. I need to know something for the game (As the game is insanely confusing). Where should I go? Spirit of the Law channel obviously.Could you please make seperate researched videos on 1. How trading give you a upper hand? (also discuss about the market tech elaborately) 2. How the Blacksmith works? (one of the most confusing thing for beginner aoe players)? 3. How the University works? (Discuss obout the university tech, which one to get). 4. Monastery (must needed tech, which tech we can avoid). These videos will be insanely helpful for the aoe communiy as a whole, as new players will less likely to have confusion about these confusing part of aoe. Thank you. **Like this comment or mention sprit of the law in the reply so that he notices**

‏‪2:08‬‏ *Age of Chivalry MOMENT*

I think you accidentally gave the Knights Hospitalier siege elephants

SOTL giving the devs amazing ideas here. I seriously wish they incorporated something like this, but sadly it's just going to be a pipe dream

I could spend hours creating new civs for the fun of it. I'd probably spend as much time making civs as I would actually playing them. Hopefully this becomes a DLC, I would love to be able to create my own civs and play them against the AI.

Love the idea I would watch tournaments using custom civs

Dang SOTL got 7k views in an hour in a very niche area.. shows how much viewers like to see his content

Krakenmeister is goated. I made a few Lord of the Rings civs and I’ve had a ton of fun with them.

I just want Kamayuk with japfastatk and wootz steel.

I love the creativity of the farm 2x2 bonus

My fave op infantry combo is Ethiopian shotels with double armor effects, attack speed, discount, and movement

The civ builder is so cool! Krakenmeister must have put a whole lot of work into it and I really have to comment them on that. That said, I often get frustrated by the interface lacking information and some of the decisions in implementation. I feel bad because I know it's probably for good reason and would require even more work, but I'd really like more freedom to include secondary unique units and/or replace existing units sort of how the Savar works.

Pillar of the community. Thanks for being a voice, I think this is an awesome idea and it’s an insta buy for me, imagine the added capabilities if this was developed from within the company. I also quietly love the idea of a fully fleshed UI that can go beyond what websites can do.

Great updates! Nice to see 2x2 farms added. Civbuildier is a no brainer for a DLC

Great video! Thank you, watching this actually at work ^^

Deck building is one of the most fun parts of AoE3; this would resonate with that community!

One of my favorite Canadian/gaming/math(sometimes) channel!

Welp...guess I'm gonna make the ultimate gunpowder civ then

This would be an amazing thing to add to the game! I'm all for it.

this is incredible!

The order of the Hospitaller is a German one, founded during the reign of Karl der Große. Though they were really wide spread pretty quickly in especially central Europe.

Nice civ builder is back let’s go

I would love to see Knights Templar and Knights Hospitaler in AoE2. Than we would have all 3 major orders D: Also i think they should replace the Paladin of the Teutons with the Teutonic Variant (a bit like the persians)

That's the beauty of AoE3DE. Home shipments let you customize your gameplay.

The music while you were making the civs😭 so much nostalgia, i wish they could bring it back to the DE version

the filter is actually huge!!

Finaly I can make a Romanian civ!I have been waiting for this 🙏🏼

let's go! more custom civs

I'm so excited to remake my petard/flaming camel civ

Amazing news! I'll test it out asap. edit: it works great. Shame about the civ limit, but outside of that it's a super fun tool. I think I found some bug/tech conflict- that City Walls tech inverses castle HP, making all existing castles crumble and new ones being practically unusable. Maybe it's also some other civ tech playing a role here. Plus ofc there's limited space on the grid, so having multiple additional warships or stable units will result in some overlapping and not having access to some of them. Not to mention the obvious extreme game-breaking potential. And some of the custom units also don't have tooltip cards and other pieces of UI info.

Wow! This awesome tool lets me mix and match civ bonuses! I can be so creative! *gives every civ 2x2 Farms for perfect Mill alignment*

i was waiting too see some gameplay with your civ...

this would be epic af

I'd love to see a *mix civ tournament* where the civs are fixed after the first start. This way we truly see the boss of aoe

That is amazing! Need one for AoE III 😭😭

This custom civs will be a great addition to the original game, u have a good eye for the content of the game.

I played around over the last hours - One thing I find missing is the ability to remove the gold cost from certain units. Why not turn Cavalry Archers, Eagles, Hand Cannoneer, Camels, Battle Elephants, Steppe Lancers, maybe even stuff like ships or siege into trash units? It's a very easy way to give your civ an identity to work around for.

I was actually trying to make some few days before what a coincidence. Can you also make a video showcasing all the new unique units and their stats please it would be really great.

Amazing website! I already cooked up a couple of civs focusing on different aspects like archer, cav, elephant and siege. Gotta do a camal forcused for the next one. But I imagine the process of customizing a civ may be slightly difficult for newer players because they don't know what options there are.

This looks epic

Thank-you!

Yes! love the custom civ content! PLEASE do make more!! I love hearing teh reasoning and debating over what bonuses to take. Its cool to hear the flavor and mechanical reasons that come into play.

every now and then I would go on to krakenmeister's civ builder site, just to take another look at my own custom civ XD, comprised of: UU: janissary Castle tech: szlachta privileges imperial tech: artillery team bonus: technologies research 25% faster (not including age up) bonuses: 1) -20% unit gold cost (port) 2) -10/15/20/25% military unit food cost (inca) 3) -15/20% stable unit cost (berb) 4) +25% gunpowder unit attack (burg) 5) houfnice (bohe) essentially a trash paladin (33f) hard hitting gunpwoder + artillery houfnice late game civ. went for a 275 point cap and made sure to mix in all dark/feudal techs/unit and otherwise prioritized relevant techs towards the late game comp + strong navy and monks.

YES PLEASE! PETITION TO MAKE THIS PART OF THE GAMEEE!!

YEEESSS! We need Khazars in the game! Next DLC! I would make it quite differently like yours (include walls, since there were city builders; adding trade bonuses, for they controlled the northern silk road) but I love the try!

Great video, greetings from Colombia. Maybe in the future you'll consider making a video about the advanced genie editor. since there is almost no information about the program

Spirit of the Lawn here

Design constest: Create the best civ for the ai. Let them fight it out and stream the best matches. Have a little AI leauge for us casuals to enjoy.

Hello Spirit of the Law. First, thank you for your work. Your civilizations videos brought me back to this game I really loved as a kid. The fact that a modder is proposing such a tool 25 years after the initial release is glorious. I'm sure incorporating a civ builder like that as a DLC could be a bright move from Microsoft. If they do it however, how could they sell future DLCs with new civs? Might these not be made redundant by the builder?

Krakenmeister for CEO!

Would love to see a video where you use these civs in action - especially the Tlaxcalans vs. Aztecs or another Mesoamerican civ

can we see a video of these 2 civs vs each other??? love your content bro

I hope we'll see some Civ creating challenges from you. I wonder how many rules you have to break in order to make a dark age only civ competetive.

I hope to see a Taino civ idea or included in AoE 2 DE officially. The only issue is that they should allow to have 50 civs total (So we can add 5 without removing 1 of the existing ones) but otherwise this sounds very fun and interesting.

OP villager civ would be amazing.

My favorite part of Age of empires games allways was the cenário editor, i dont know for sure but in AoE3 alone i most have at the very least a few thousand hours just on the editor to creat cenários since i started playing the 1st AoE 3 (im not sure now but at least half ayear before the lunch of warshiefs DLC, that i bought right at the lunch of it). For me the best feature that devs could give me right now is making the cenário editor from AoE 2 DE in line with the one from AoE3. This cenario editor is so much harder to work with... This civilization creator tool is just the cheerie on top of the cake, being able to create the peoples to give live to cenarios is amasing!!! Hope that both become part of the game some day!!!

Devs please make East Asian civs, the commmunity would love to have jurchens, tanguts, Hmong , Siberians, kazak, Tibetans, and if they are worried about politics, replace the ones that are sensitive with something else

Deck building sounds addicting af.

Thank you so much for this video sir. And to Krakenmeister I declare: May blessings and sweet meats rain upon you sir.

Custom Civ is back!🎉

Do a custom civ tournament where players build their own custom civs and battle each other with them.

I love that line 16:59 😂

Played around with this a while ago, but the major problem was that new civs created this way always had to replace existing ones.

Robby Lava is great, I really recommend his channel

Would love to see a/your new Sicilians overview

since u have made ur old video i cannot stop thinking if it would be better for the caav archer civ to have the mangudai or the kipchak because mangudai already have all the things going for the mongols and the kipchak doesnt even have bracer... i demand an answer :D

YEEESSS!!!!

The struggle always was fitting 3x3 tile farms around a 2x2 tile mill. Imagine giving yourself folwark and 2x2 tile farms. 🤯

Having this be an official DLC would probably get me to buy it and start playing this again haha.

im not gonna lie, the main thing i payed attention to in this video is the background music

nice

I think you mixed up Templars and Hospitallers. But the crusader units are amazing!

i need to see a civ with every bonus at once

Pretty interesting that Hospitaliers have unique unit with teutonic shield 😅

15:58 Apukispay: I've Monkey Boy's Spirit!

There's a game mode that could be built which copies a Dota2 mode called Ability Draft (in this case Civilization Draft). The idea is that rather than getting a huge list of all civ bonuses you and all the players see a shorter list, of say just the bonuses for 10 civs for an 8 player game. Then everyone gets to 'draft' an ability on order to try to build their civ before the game. Not every ability will get picked, but if more 'broken' abilities are on the board obviously they'll get picked earlier. There can even be an element of counter-picking strategy where if someone goes all-in on a build you might swipe bonuses to keep from having to face them. Would be very challenging to build with current tools but it can make the civ building aspect a bit more repeatable.

Hello spirit, are you planning to participate in t wests civ builder tournament? Thats what got this hype rolling after all these years.

I used the civ builder about 3 weeks ago and ever since, my computer freezes when I try to edit a custom match. I’ve been playing in a lot of tournaments lately which are all coordinated in custom matches so it’s been happening a lot.

i kinda like it. Maybe I should try to create the Basques or the Finns

I can finally Add Yemen As Civ In AoE2

Damn good mod, and hot! By way of explaining what I'm about to do I am first going to tell you a little bit about the country called Tibet.

Hi SOTL, Would like to see a video on your thoughts comparing Tigui and Hill Forts (and any other similar techs). Both cost same total resources - one increases arrows and other increases range. Would love to hear your thoughts on which one you consider better, and/or any other thoughts you have. Thanks.

We're Empire Earthing now bois