Marathan Thugees rampaging across the deccan map is somehow historically accurate if you know indian history

@porothashawarma2339

4 ай бұрын

True

25:14 the GigaCHAD pistoleer vs the virgins kanyas

Top level casting my boy! Cant spend the time to play the game but love to watch Loin Heart in the morning!

@lionheart9015

5 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoy mate, hope you find some time soon!

Armored pistoleer is allways on my ports deck, its is a must have. When it come to mercs Germany is OP, great match!

Bassi's bum bum bar sounds like a gay bar lol, that got me

@guilhermemuntini

5 ай бұрын

🤣🤣🤣

An armored pistoleer with mercenary ups and advanced arsenal is like a mini boss

Insane fun with you Lion, I laugh so much

Thanks for uploading these videos, I've been having a shite time at work, and your video always cheer me up :)

@lionheart9015

5 ай бұрын

Glad I can help mate, I share your pain about work!!!

Thugee life

Bro you r insane, your videos are really fun, actually i'm from perú and i speak spanish so i understand a half of your comments but you make them really exciting

loved watching this, I’m playing with Germany lately and been using the mercs the giant grenadier is a fun unit probably a little op, funny thing is if you age up to imperial with mercenary contractor you can buff these even more!

Always enjoying a top match commented by a great caster! Keep it up Lion!

OMG just one or two priests hanging out with those armored pistoleers would have been scary

Love this mercenary build !!! Thank you, Lukas and Lion of course !!! 😌😎😱

man we have to be honest here, what game can you think of thats as crazy with the meta as Age of Empires 3? so many different builds and they can all work even at higher elo.

@lionheart9015

5 ай бұрын

Thats why I love this game so much!

Armored Pistoleers resist 60% of all melee damage, they can even hold their own against Lancers. They are basically AoE 2 Teuton Knights with a gun.

@lionheart9015

5 ай бұрын

I used to spam that unit in aoe 2 haha

Armoured pistol units are really cool

Love the Runers ref... He got tempted out into wildy

Marathan thuggees are built different 😅

A Shane didn't see mercenary camp in play. That and circle army are really fun cards to play.

4:46 Great Castercomment, love that.

Does Lucas know about the Outlaw tech in the saloon? I don’t think he got it upon reaching fortress age. ❤

Lion-senpai, did the devs already told when the new DLC comes ? Also, love ya casting too, hoping the DLC will give me the little boost i need to grow some balls and go and lose some games in ranked match xD Have an awesome week/month/year ya filth boi

@lionheart9015

5 ай бұрын

haah love the comment! and no they haven't, we wont know till the AOE stream on the 23rd of Feb

I know Native Scouts received a buff vs. Mercs to act as a weak Spy and that they are supposed to be niche, but watching how these strong mercs were performing generally, I feel they are still not worth it. You can only train 5, they cost wood, and with 25 hand attack and 120 health, there is not much they can do. I would propose a split wood-food cost and a higher multiplier

@justincronkright5025

5 ай бұрын

I feel as if a dagger throw ability or something would be good & 8 build limit is the norm is it not? This way it would be more like Artillery & Light Cav... you don't actually have to fight into them directly to weaken them every time then wait for another batch only once they're dead.

God the armored pistoleer is just nasty

Lionheart. Just for the record. They are pronounced Ma-ra-than not marathon and thugee is Hindi for to swindle or rob. Historically they were bandits or organized criminals that terrorized the British during their rule of India. It is where the English word for thug comes from.

@lionheart9015

4 ай бұрын

Nice, cool bit of history there!

I thought thugees were outlaws. Are they boosted by the German merc card or the age 5 merc bonus?

@lionheart9015

5 ай бұрын

no I think that was just for the merc he build, thugees are outlaws

Soon as Kevin hit age 3 he should have gone mantlets

new player here, pls can someone help me with one thing that is driving me crazy...so basically how can u get that mercenary in the saloon? because when i m in age 2 and i place the saloon, it only give me access to gunslinger and renegade

@lionheart9015

5 ай бұрын

I think with Germany it is map dependant, try making them on the same map

24:54 dad please stop. Lol

*Lukas builds a TP at **1:11* Lion at 12:45 (about a good 11 minutes later): "BuTtHaTtPwAsNoTtHeReAcOuPlEoFmInUtEsAgo" 🤡 I'm just playin', love ya man, keep it up!

@lionheart9015

5 ай бұрын

🤣

Renegados are op too...,

"sounds like a gay bar" sure it sounds like that

The Marathan Thuggee and Decoit units are good but not exceptional. Looking at them as one unit and comparing them to other things isn't good, it's all about the cost. Abus guns for instance do siege damage and have a MUCH better firing animation, get more range as they upgrade, have far more cards that support them oh and don't cost ridiculously stupid levels of population where you pretty much have to be playing Germany with Palatine Settlements, Brit with a manor boom or Japan just to build them. Even the card that lowers population (theatres) it doesn't make them equal to units that are equivalent per cost. In the case of the Thuggee you have to staple another 50 wood to it's cost compared to a skirm. Dacoit's are even worse in terms of population. Better hope the game doesn't go long periods without fighting either otherwise you'll be forced to fight with a very inefficient 200 population. There's just way too many hoops non-European outlaws have to jump through in order to be useful. With these units and others like them, people will see 'one unit with a gun' and assume its a skirmisher when in reality its closer to two and a half to three skirmishers stapled together and thus take fights they wouldn't if they saw three skirms instead or if there were 5 of them, imagine there are really 15 because that's the investment cost (if you factor in population too). The stats stop looking so good then. The other issue too is that it will suck your gold up faster then you can say Wallenstein. Especially if you use Tilly's Discipline as well which is why their units were so fast, Thuggee are 4 speed, Dacoit's are 4.5. Surprised we didn't see folk heroes for the amount of Thuggees they had.

Feels weird have too much resources starting the game. I think that Ao3 guys must cut off this map from rank

26:58 -> been waiting on this one. Widgie casted a Game what, a month ago? and he looked at Bassi´s Bumm Bumm Bar and just said: really, devs? O.o Meanwhile my Premium Caster here: Bassi´s Bumm Bumm Bar - sounds like a Gay Bar. As a German, thank you. I do love your work as a Caster, so iam not really impartial here, but at least make a joke about it. We can only feel shame or laugh about it. Shits dark here no inbetween. And being ashamed for Brother Bassi who´s opened his legendary Bumm Bumm Bar is not what he deserves. Mans served more Beer to Pistoleers than i touched doorhandles. - edit: idk how much effort you would like to spend, but i could watch your Casts all day. Doesnt even matter if the game was bad or you felt meh. A 2nd Channel, a Dude helping to cut? because i dont watch Twitch and whenever i watch a Vod, you seem to had casted/played much more than just 1 a Day. If you recycle Twitch to KZread could be a gainer for us all. Asking politely ofc.

@lionheart9015

5 ай бұрын

Loved your comment haha...And with new DLC around the corner I might be able to post more than 1 vid a day, but not easy with a full time job. I got another channel as well which I will cast/play other RTS games on soon :)

Why didn’t Lukas upgrade his outlaws in age3? Doesn’t Germany have the card that lowers pop space for outlaws?

@L99Lukas

5 ай бұрын

Not anymore sadly

First, here's to a good game

So fucking based

It is fun because native civs can't do nothing vs mercs because they have no spy available for them but if it's an another ero civ that will be end so much quicker 😂😂

Please don't hype them to much or the nerfs will be coming thick and fast next patch.

45 ranged attack and 30 siege attack at age 2. Brutal haha

the improved mercenaries card (+15% hp and attack) and mercenary camps should be one, since the Swedes do have a similar card that enables mercenaries in regular buildings and also improves them by 20%. And not only that, the Swedes also enable mercenaries by sending a shipment of 10 jaegers or 7 black riders, which are cheaper, and they also have the advanced arsenal for free and other cards that affect mercenaries. 

@lilililiililili6363

5 ай бұрын

sweden was meant to be a mercs civ. both merc upgrades (for germany and sweden) used to be 25% (or I think 20% for germany) and then devs nerfed them

@davidpereira5969

5 ай бұрын

Yeah sweden is also the other option for a merc civ, spamming torps for pop space is good because they are your main gold eco usualy and like you said they have free advanced arsenal and the merc shipments allows their training at barracks/stable

@fxmorin439

5 ай бұрын

Germany doesn't need a buff.

@CazadorDeBrujas22

5 ай бұрын

@@fxmorin439 okey, but the Swedens mercenaries need a nerf for balance with Germany.

Why is that map even in the ranked mappool, it is really unbalanced for a few civs

These 2 outlaw unit population should be reduced to the American-maps outlaw unit equivalent. 5 and 6 pop is waaay too much to make them viable. I think they are more expensive than them already in coin