The Golden One - Marcus Follin - Dracula Part 2 - The Return of the Dragon. Age of Empires 2 Definitive Edition
Aired: 2019-11-24
Duration: 24:56


=== Continue Great Adventure (02:53) ===

[00:00:00]  Post Vlad Dracula.
[00:00:03]  Welcome back to Good Old Age of Empires 2.
[00:00:08]  We will continue on the great adventure of a true hero of Mother Europe.
[00:00:14]  So we're gonna get straight into it in episode 2, Return of the Dragon.
[00:00:20]  Boom.
[00:00:51]  As he paced the streets of the Moldavian capital, Brahula mused over his plan to reclaim his kingdom.
[00:01:01]  As the mysterious old man paused, I rose up to take another slab of venison.
[00:01:09]  The old man stared into the fire, watching the flames dance as if they were soldiers involved in a raging battle.
[00:01:19]  His eyes flashed again as a thought entered his mind, and he grasped the majestic old soul.
[00:01:28]  Meanwhile, Sultan Mehmet II had ascended to the Ottoman throne.
[00:01:35]  Drakula loathed Mehmed from that time in Ederne, and he knew that the Turks would be a thorn in his side for years to come.
[00:01:45]  In 1453, they had conquered Constantinople, but they were presently occupied with campaigns in Greece and Serbia.
[00:01:54]  Bogdan II, Drafula's cousin and the new voevod of Moldavia, had heard of his kinsman's plight and offered his help.
[00:02:05]  If Drakula could cross the Carpathian mountains into Transylvania and ally with Hungary, then they could launch a three-pronged assault on Vladislav II and the Turks.
[00:02:24]  Alright, so another epic introduction.
[00:02:28]  And when I say Order of the Dragon, that is exactly the sort of mythic mindset we need to have going forward.
[00:02:38]  It makes everything so much more epic.
[00:02:41]  So anyway, we have Vladrakula must survive.
[00:02:44]  Makes sense.
[00:02:45]  And then we have hints.
[00:02:46]  I'll just read through this.
[00:02:50]  Okay, so his new technology tree is now Magiar.

=== The Only Way Forward (07:04) ===

[00:02:54]  See?
[00:02:55]  You can have a friendship between Hungarians and Romanians.
[00:02:58]  It's the only way forward.
[00:03:01]  Bran Castle, legendary.
[00:03:05]  And again, Hungary will offer an alliance if you can show your strength by reaching the Imperial Age.
[00:03:11]  Alright, so I utilized a little edit there.
[00:03:14]  And just look at the graphics here.
[00:03:17]  Absolutely Wonderful desire from humble Mondavia.
[00:03:24]  What do I desire?
[00:03:28]  This is a birthright.
[00:03:33]  This is Bolkbra.
[00:03:34]  He's bloatmaxing now.
[00:03:36]  Bogdan.
[00:03:38]  Alright, let's to the northwest in the Transylvania forest lies the Bronze Castle, a stronghold of the Order of the Dragon.
[00:03:47]  You will find supporters there.
[00:03:52]  The Order of the Dragon.
[00:03:53]  That has to be a title for a chrome for a coming training video or a Vilehunt challenge or something like that.
[00:04:03]  Too cool of a name to not use for anything productive.
[00:04:08]  Okay, let us out then.
[00:04:15]  Now, let me tell you about my glorious weekend in the service of the nation.
[00:04:24]  So, first, Uppsala met some good lads, had a great training session.
[00:04:31]  Shout out to all who were there.
[00:04:33]  It was absolutely joyous.
[00:04:36]  Then, the next day, I went to the opposite side of Sweden to Jatobori, Gothenburg, met some good men, some good men from America and Switzerland as well.
[00:04:49]  Shout out to you, it was a joyous session and day.
[00:04:53]  Then, after oh damn, that's a uh that is a brutal watchtower.
[00:05:03]  Um anyway, then I went to El Garos, it's called a small little place in between Jatobori and Stockholm, and I held a self-defense seminar.
[00:05:18]  It was quite fun because it was not my usual demographics, it was more females and it was more older individuals.
[00:05:34]  So, yeah, that was a new teaching experience, and when you teach, you learn yourself as well.
[00:05:43]  Okay, let's try to box with this Vladislavians.
[00:05:54]  See what I'm doing now?
[00:05:56]  I'm micromanaging so that they're chasing Vlad and my knights can hit the spearmen.
[00:06:02]  So, anyway, that was my weekend.
[00:06:05]  It oh getting mugged by these archers, but cavalry strong against archers.
[00:06:13]  So, yes, that was my weekend in short terms.
[00:06:17]  I did film some of the training, which will up for a Fusique Manufacturum training video log.
[00:06:30]  So, yeah, links in the description for that.
[00:06:33]  Some well, mainly tie boxing videos, some bag work and some pad work.
[00:06:40]  Good times.
[00:06:41]  Then, of course, I posted a short version on my Instagram as well if you haven't already seen that.
[00:06:49]  Now, also on a nesty force blocks the mountain pass.
[00:06:57]  Hmm, all right.
[00:06:59]  If you were to slay the Dineshti general in command of the forward camp, it may draw the attention of the army and lure them away.
[00:07:11]  Right, let's do it.
[00:07:13]  Um...
[00:07:15]  I think I have mismanaged this start a little bit, but um oh Denesti general.
[00:07:26]  Okay, I will try to manage this anyway.
[00:07:38]  Go on, die.
[00:07:46]  Ah, no, No, I um.
[00:07:55]  Ah, come on then Vlad.
[00:07:57]  No, that was one misclick, one misclick.
[00:08:03]  I um.
[00:08:05]  If I die now, I will have to restart everything and restart the usurper to his grave.
[00:08:21]  Okay, a bit of chaos there.
[00:08:23]  Uh, where did Vlad go?
[00:08:25]  Even I hope he did he die.
[00:08:33]  Maybe.
[00:08:33]  That would have been extremely silly if this episode was off to such a bad start.
[00:08:46]  Yes, I do think Vlad has died, but we can just pretend that he is wounded or something like that and we'll continue on.
[00:08:56]  So yes, I was playing the historic battles and I played the conquest of Cyprus by Richard The Lionheart, and this was one of the well, when you win the scenario.
[00:09:15]  This came up and I was very happy to see that you had some uncocked view of him.
[00:09:32]  Usually you would have something of the sort like oh he's, he was such a brutal.
[00:09:39]  So I was pleasantly surprised by the way they described it, described him as a legend, instead of having the need to portray him as some brutal king who only cared about glory, who only cared about glory.
[00:09:55]  So that was refreshing to see.

=== Utilizing Edits Strategically (14:28) ===

[00:09:58]  I tip my pickle hub again to H V Empires, so I suppose I will utilize a few edits in this video because it looks like it might be a a long campaign, but I will check in in a little bit.
[00:10:22]  Okay, so Bran Castle recruits paladins for us, highly epic, and again it looks so great and it captures the feel of mountainous region here.
[00:10:40]  Now I suppose I will have to mine, and then we'll have to hit the Imperial Age, so the Hungarians will admire our strength, so they can be our allies.
[00:11:02]  So basically, what I have now, since I have so much cavalry, I have to look out for their spearmen, of course, and being more mobile than the enemy makes it easier to avoid the spearmen.
[00:11:22]  so that is that's good now I found a mining camp nearer to the town center so we can chop some not chop a mine I mean of course So anyway, what did I train today, you ask?
[00:11:43]  I trained after a hectic weekend, as I said, of a lot, a lot of driving.
[00:11:50]  I was quite wrecked from just driving so much.
[00:11:58]  I trained some push press and some light bench press.
[00:12:02]  So that was my training session.
[00:12:05]  And I have seen this Moldavians.
[00:12:08]  A little nice outpost here.
[00:12:12]  Unfortunately, they're being attacked.
[00:12:14]  Maybe I can aid them with my knight here if I can sink the ship.
[00:12:22]  Okay, I will probably die there, so I sacrificed him for a good cause.
[00:12:30]  So what we can do now also is actually first and foremost we need some wood.
[00:12:40]  Otherwise our farms will expire.
[00:12:45]  So just continuing to gather resources, gonna create some more knights.
[00:12:50]  We had three more paladins incoming and then I will just gather enough stone so we can build a castle here so that we are safe and then we can upgrade to the Imperial Age.
[00:13:03]  And again, if I wasn't clear with what I meant with the Richard the Lionheart thing is I found it so refreshing that they could just state this man was a legend and point to the positive things without having to talk about the fact that oh this guy didn't spend so much time in England so he was a bad king.
[00:13:25]  It's nice when people can just be positive.
[00:13:29]  Point out the good things instead of having to nuance it all too much.
[00:13:34]  Of course nuance is good sometimes but sometimes it can also be nice to give it a rest.
[00:13:41]  Right, so I just noticed that we can't actually build a castle but we need to build something fun at least to upgrade.
[00:13:50]  So I suppose we'll have to build a monastery and aha right.
[00:14:03]  Yeah, so a university, I suppose, we can build, too.
[00:14:07]  The order of the dragon is decadent and feeble.
[00:14:11]  My cover, trample you in.
[00:14:16]  Decadent and feeble.
[00:14:17]  Well...
[00:14:17]  Well we will see about that dear Vladislav.
[00:14:21]  I challenge you to come to box with these high Thumus lads.
[00:14:32]  We can build a monk as well to heal our gallant soldiers.
[00:14:39]  Just gonna wait for this to be built then we can upgrade and initiate an alliance with Hungary.
[00:14:49]  Boom.
[00:14:49]  There we are.
[00:14:58]  Alright.
[00:15:05]  That sounds good, dear old Hungary.
[00:15:09]  Let's do it.
[00:15:10]  It's the only reasonable course of action.
[00:15:13]  And as you can see, we couldn't build a castle, but I have built a lot of watchtowers instead.
[00:15:19]  And now I will also upgrade our cavalry to cavalier.
[00:15:24]  So we have paladins and cavaliers.
[00:15:27]  And we need to pay Hungary a thousand in food.
[00:15:33]  Then we can upgrade this, which reduces the fill for tributes to 20%.
[00:15:39]  Boom, let's do it.
[00:15:43]  Alright, we have gathered enough food, so we will pay it to Hungary.
[00:15:50]  Boom.
[00:15:52]  There we go.
[00:15:52]  Confirm.
[00:15:53]  Excellent!
[00:15:54]  We fight with you!
[00:15:59]  Very good indeed.
[00:16:00]  They didn't have all too much of an army, though.
[00:16:04]  But I suppose it is all good, anyway.
[00:16:12]  Now we can't build trebuchets anywhere, which is of course blasphemous, but it is what it is.
[00:16:21]  I will ride out with the Order of the Dragon and see if we can kill some enemies.
[00:16:41]  Vladislav, you are a traitor.
[00:16:43]  Now we'll hunt you down.
[00:16:49]  Can perhaps raid this little village.
[00:16:53]  It looks quite cozy though, so I'm not all too comfortable with actually destroying it.
[00:16:59]  But there is a relic.
[00:17:02]  Maybe we can take it with one of our monks.
[00:17:09]  Aha, you can actually fight for this village.
[00:17:11]  That's nice.
[00:17:14]  Cool stuff.
[00:17:17]  Now, let's see.
[00:17:18]  Down here, I suppose, is where Vladislav is hold up.
[00:17:30]  We can't create a castle, build a castle, but perhaps we can build some sort of other fun thing, such as a sig workshop or something similar.
[00:17:44]  There comes a trebuchet.
[00:17:46]  Speaking of which, I will see if I can hunt it down.
[00:18:05]  Stumble upon a little fleet there.
[00:18:08]  Need to run away.
[00:18:11]  Can capture this little place, I suppose.
[00:18:17]  Aha, we can't build any military buildings at all.
[00:18:23]  That's problematic.
[00:18:26]  I suppose.
[00:18:26]  Perhaps we can build some sort of town center here.
[00:18:29]  Somewhere?
[00:18:30]  No, can't really do that.
[00:18:32]  We can build a watchtower.
[00:18:35]  Now, where were we here?
[00:18:38]  Hello, battering rams.
[00:18:42]  Elit Boyar, they're quite cool.
[00:18:48]  Cool aesthetics on those.
[00:18:50]  have to defeat this tower.
[00:18:59]  Right, we have raised this little base to the ground.
[00:19:04]  Had to do it to them.
[00:19:05]  Was the only reasonable course of action.
[00:19:09]  And there was a little bug, I suppose.
[00:19:12]  It came up onto land.
[00:19:16]  Aha, they're signing our Moldovan friends here.
[00:19:22]  if we can figure out some way to deal with that he likes to trash talk this guy Which I kinda like.
[00:19:46]  It adds a bit of spice to the story, I suppose.
[00:19:55]  Aha!
[00:19:56]  They ran out of gold, so I need to build a new mine there.
[00:20:01]  So if we could just get some more villagers down here.
[00:20:05]  There we go.
[00:20:06]  So I can build these towers.
[00:20:09]  So we can deal with this flilt.
[00:20:20]  Aha!
[00:20:20]  We have finally found a castle.
[00:20:24]  Nice.
[00:20:26]  Recurve bow.
[00:20:28]  Cavalry archers have one plus in range and one plus in damage, but I want to build some Chebuchet.
[00:20:36]  Alright, I have assembled mighty force that I will lesie to the castle here.
[00:20:43]  So we'll see how that goes.
[00:20:45]  And, yeah, this little sea battle goes, well, somewhat according to plan, at least.
[00:21:00]  Hello, lads.
[00:21:04]  Now we just have to defend this trebuchet at all costs.
[00:21:19]  Right, here we are.
[00:21:24]  So as you might have noticed, I've utilized a few edits this episode, but now since we're nearing the end of the episode, I suppose I will be talkative.
[00:21:39]  Now we just have to make sure that our Chebuches do not get wrecked here as we lay siege to Vladislav, the trash talkers.
[00:21:55]  Stronghold.
[00:21:57]  So anyway, on another note, on a note of making videos, I do have quite a few interesting, well I hope at least, videos incoming.
[00:22:09]  going to talk about game changers.
[00:22:12]  It's a vegan...
[00:22:14]  Well, you could perhaps say propaganda piece.
[00:22:17]  They're talking about vegan athletes.
[00:22:19]  But anyway, I will talk more about that.
[00:22:22]  Then I will talk about mewing and mouthbreeding.
[00:22:27]  Because they are interlinked.
[00:22:32]  And then some more training videos.
[00:22:34]  So yeah, I have a good few videos incoming.
[00:22:39]  Now, Vladislav, you will regret your foul words.
[00:22:44]  See if he's in here.
[00:22:50]  No.
[00:22:51]  Hmm.
[00:22:53]  Strange.
[00:22:54]  Maybe he has fled into the town center.
[00:22:58]  Or perhaps even to this little outpost.
[00:23:02]  Hmm, who knows?
[00:23:05]  So I was about to utilize an edit, then get back to it, but he died in the midst of the chaos.
[00:23:11]  Let's leave the map and look at the scene.
[00:23:16]  The elderly man gave a thin smile.
[00:23:20]  The nascity of mind can compensate for other disadvantages.
[00:23:26]  As Drachula slaughtered untold numbers of enemy troops, the large circle of impaled men outside Dargavista grew to awe and disgust families from a mixed...
[00:23:43]  Drachula owned Valachia once more, but it was not the land he's forbearsled.
[00:23:51]  Barred from endless wars, it was rife with corruption, crime, and poverty.
[00:23:58]  Aghast, I asked my host how Drakula managed to reform a ruined shell of a country so quickly.
[00:24:09]  The light flashed across the old man's eye again.
[00:24:13]  Drakula despised dishonesty and crime and sought to eliminate it.
[00:24:19]  He knew that Valeria had to become strong enough to face its enemies and soon.

=== Reforms Begin Heroically (00:30) ===

[00:24:26]  And so, his reforms began a heroic man, no doubt.
[00:24:37]  So, yes, that will have to be the episode.
[00:24:43]  And in next, we'll go to the breath of the dragon.
[00:24:47]  And yeah, I utilized quite a few edits, but I hope the episode was good enough anyway.
[00:24:53]  So, thank you for watching and stay tuned for coming videos.