The Best Unique Unit in AOE2:DE | Dec 2022 

Thank you! 😇

I was gonna say the same, the editing is top-notch and clean. By the way the editor is not mentioned in the description, they deserve to be mentioned IMHO. :)

Makes it significantly more watchable.

We had The Forgotten expansion already

The Cataphract still has some of the most complex mechanics going on under the hood in the game.

This sounds that because we get use to the old ones but still Cataphract with armor and anti-infantry bonus, Throwing Axeman and Mameluke with range mele attack, Samurai with anti-UU attack, Mangudai with anti-sige attack. There was a lot of unique aspect of UU even in age of kings and dynasties of India give us only Shrivamsha Rider with dodge as sth new

@@Just_a-guy what is UU

@@LokaJohn unique unit

Definitely situational then 11

For the ten seconds until the other side realizes, he's been spamming halberds versus a meso civ and suddenly they aren't just going into the meat grinder. Imperial verison should have at least been equivalent to an elite boyar with upgrades, not a cavalier without upgrades.

"exolotel warrior", 11 sounds funny, grettings from Mexico.

@@iiiiiifggffggffgfgfg I hope they spam halb against my Inca.

When Xolotl warrior is included, shouldn't Winged hussar be too? 🤔

I’ve wiped so many of those units with my Holy Knights blazing there way through any heretic in there path lol

Which video is this? I'd love to watch it as I've been away from Bipah's content for a while now

@@Freakattaker ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-UhDAXvOEYeQ.html 'The Ultimate Konnik Mastapiece!"

for anyone not wanting to scroll through a 45 minute video, it's at 37:40 in the link posted. yw

And after that u went back to league?

@@iuppiterr havent played league much recently but League will always be bae 😂❤️

@@SwirlyTurtle sweet

@@SwirlyTurtle whats league? League of legends?

@@ashleyabraham212 Yess

Not me thanks

Yea, I really like the video SoTL did on the cannon galleon compare, when he photoshopped balloons over all the other cannon balls and then you got spanish just poping real cannon balls xD

Just some fire galleys protecting them and you are the owner of the sea

@@Zeoinx69 what the title of the video?

@@fathinalbatamiy9290 I think it might have been his spanish overview for the civ overview.

I would have rated them higher. I don't know if Viper knows that they have the same bonus damage against infantry that hand cannons have (+10), while being available an age earlier and without chemestry, so I think it is a very good and useful unit.

@@TBPetitP I'm sure he has an idea lmao, they are good against infantry (arguably better than HC because of what you mentioned) BUT unlike HC's they cant kill anything else, they are practically useless unless they're fighting against infantry

Genoese Crossbowmen also have a secret bonus dmg vs. ships if I remember correctly.

I wish more unique units were available from barracks/stable/archery range.

I think they should take away the ability to dodge gunpowder, and maybe cause the mango's to remove 1.5x the dodge it current does. I love to use them, but really they are just OP.

@@Hitzer89 Nah theyre fine let them dodge gunpowder, conquistadors are op enough as it is in Castle Age.

Once upon a time they were the only s tier unit (mangudai). Got nerfed to where they are now

Still would be really hard to position them right

@@raynightshade8317, but would be better.

@@raynightshade8317, I think it would be interesting if they had stationary and moving modes, like the trebuchet, but becoming like a palisade.

maybe reworking them as a siege tower, that when archers or hand canons get inside of it they can actually fire from it and still maintain the resistance of the hussite wagon

@@RoberioRoberioRoberio, I had a similar idea, but I think they were more about creating a barrier than things that could move and shoot at the same time. I think that if archers could garrison in, they should only be able to shoot at the static form.

Agreed, even showed the classic konnik clip where viper deleted all the horses to fight the halbs on foot (it almost threw the game lmao, still worth it)

Thanks for the kind words! 😊

@@Tiramis_ Absolutely! Edits are looking fantastic!

Catas kill everything but paladin and arbalest, but can trade decently vs both and melts everything in between

@@moormanjean5636 I think Arbalest are weaker vs Cata in most instances when I use them because Byz have fully upgraded skirm at a reduced cost too

They are alower?

probably because bengalis does not have a strong unit vs skirmishers, mayans have the best eagles and Mongols %30 hussars, bengalis instead have no hussars, no Knight-line, and no siege bonus.

*Clearly* he was just memeing.

Even urumi warriors can kill them with equal resources and ignoring armour

I think the correct answer is the Xolotl Warrior shouldn't be included here as it isn't unique. It and the Winged Hussar are regional units, like Eagles or Steppe Lancers. Unique units are available to one civ (or one civ makes them available to teammates). The Xolotl Warrior is available to two civs (actually, is it possible for Mayans to convert an enemy monk from a player that has redemption and then use said monk to convert a stables? I know converted units keep their upgrades, but does that include monk abilities?) So it is not a unique unit.

@@88porpoise no, it's not possible for mayans to have xolotl warriors, age 2 doesn't work like starcraft xD But there are actually 3 unique hussars with different names, each for just one civ and unique traits.

@@88porpoise Maps like MegaRandom can start you with a Stable in Dark Age. This makes it available for Mayans.

@@Andreecals I don't know what that StarCraft reference is, I didn't even suggest that converting a villager gives you full opponents tech tree. If units are converted they keep their upgraded stats, if you converted a monk from a civ that had researched sanctity, it would still have +15 HP. I said I didn't know if that extends to the abilities from Techs like redemption. As to Winged Hussar, as far as I can see it is one upgrade available to two civs. Now, they have different stats/abilities due to civ bonuses and unique techs, but that applies to many units.

@@88porpoise I'll have to agree. the comparison with sc didn't really make sense. but I also don't know about your monk question, the last time I saw tests relative to weird monk stuff was either on spirit of the law's or zeroempires' channel, but some good years ago. at the time, they certainly didn't mention this being possible, but maybe it's changed now. regarding the hussars, it was also my mistake. I just remembered the video from spirit of the law that compared the units, but it's older than I imagined and I kinda invented another hussar in my memory of the video hahaha anyways, the winged hussar is still unique enough to warrant it's analysis, at least much more than the xolotl warrior xD

Bro I don't think CA are actually good against Mamelukes, ok you can hit and run, but Mames literally melt CA, either in low or high numbers you would have to micro very good the CA to win the fight. My biggest problem with Mamelukes (I love them), is how extremely expensive they are, it makes you suffer yo see a single Mameluke die.

I think I played enough CBA games to tell any range difference does not change the fact that great units like Mangudai, War Wagons and Boyars will just melt. Cavalry Archer civs use Hussars as meatshield. They will sublimate straight to gas form.

@@kazogai CBA xd

Memelukes are extremely strong now especially after they removed skirms as a counter.

@li4b294 What is CBA, may I ask ?

You can technically train the Xolotl Warrior in regular games. Quite a cute easter egg.

They're mostly amazing in mass however.

@@TheViperAOE the Urumi is the second fastest land unit for the Dravidians, just behind the shit Light Cavalry.

@@sauravtripathi4128 hey, no need to associate shit with Dravi L Cavs At least poop you can throw at people to disgust and repel them

The Splash charge attack damage was what made it so cost effective en masse. They will win ANY trash battle and even against any cavalries except Battle Elephant with staggered formation, or Koniks, or range unit.

What's so great? Zoom into Viper face for 5 seconds, zoom out again. Wow, mind blown.

@@maximilianmusterhans4659 Yeah... exactly that... AND always showing some gameplay-scenes according to what he is saying and having to spend presumably HOURS to find and cut those is to be neglected compared to the zooming... Please pardon my excitement

Same! Konniks are a great unit in my opinion to, I also love the fact that they are on e of the best all types of situations unit, with not really any unit that can 1 on 1 counter thwm (accept elephants maybe). If the Bulgarians economy was a little stronger in midgame I feel they'd have really good potential

What he means is that you can't "half-convert" a unit as they approach, run away when they get close and then finish the conversion where you left off once you've run away some. I'm pretty sure the point he is making is that because they have only 7 range, it is much more likely for even an infantry unit (or 2) to just walk up and kill the missionary before they can get a conversion off (as opposed to a monk which can start at 9 range, giving it a higher chance of a conversion before the unit gets in melee range). The missionary's higher speed doesn't help because the tick timer resets anytime the missionary stops converting to run away. The SotL video is discussing a weird interaction where a monk converting unit A can be switched to converting unit B and continue where they left off. This only works if unit A and unit B are both in range of the monk when it switches, so it is actively still converting unit A when you click on unit B and doesn't have to move at all before starting converting unit B. Does that make sense?

@@greoge1381 Yeah I rember now :x oops

teutonic knight with pierce armor of huskarl literally solos the entire game. you don't need to be fast when you're immortal. you could even be a bit vicious and put a monk behind him

you lie!! D:

They can't dodge onager shots... 2-3 of those alone can wipe 20+ units easily and good luck defending ur base all the time from raids with such a slow unit.

They are amazing defense units