The Golden One - Marcus Follin - Lords of the West - Edward Longshanks. Age of Empires 2 DE New DLC
Aired: 2021-02-05
Duration: 22:02


=== Books on the Wars of the Roses (05:49) ===

[00:00:00]  Greetings, my esteemed Laddingtons.
[00:00:03]  Shout out to my man, Jean, for gifting me this fine game.
[00:00:08]  Very heartfelt and appreciated.
[00:00:10]  So, first and foremost, I have a question for all English guys and well, everyone who's interested in English history.
[00:00:19]  When you meditate and contemplate on the Wars of the Roses, which side are you on?
[00:00:25]  Are you on the Lancaster side or the York side?
[00:00:29]  Let me know in the comment section below.
[00:00:32]  It's of utmost importance that we discuss this interesting topic.
[00:00:37]  Now, I thought to before I begin to get into the actual gameplay, I would like to give a book recommendation, and that is Connie Gilden's series on the War of the Roses.
[00:00:51]  The Wars of the Roses.
[00:00:54]  Good stuff, I always recommend everything he writes.
[00:00:57]  I have read almost all of his books.
[00:00:59]  I have one book which I bought immediately upon seeing that it was released.
[00:01:05]  But I have saved it.
[00:01:07]  It's set in ancient Greece, so I can't read it now in winter.
[00:01:10]  I'm checking in from Jutenheim, glorious snow landscape, but I must wait until reading this book until Helios come back in force, so I can sit outside in the sun with a good cup of coffee and read that book.
[00:01:26]  So I'm savoring it.
[00:01:28]  I'm saving it for a good occasion.
[00:01:30]  Anyway, long story short, if you want a good series on that time, I can definitely recommend Connie Gilden.
[00:01:38]  Another good British author, Bernard Cornwell, recommend his work, his books before.
[00:01:44]  I'll do it again.
[00:01:45]  Now, of course, the Uthred series might be his most famous one, but he has also written about the Hundred Years War, similar to this time as well, so the late Middle Ages.
[00:01:58]  Now, why do I mention all of these things?
[00:02:01]  Now you wonder.
[00:02:02]  Yes, because Edward Longshanks, he's a bit before, so you see there in the description.
[00:02:08]  It's 1264 to 1307.
[00:02:12]  And also, last thing before I begin to get into this gameplay, I have a Silvius series recommendation.
[00:02:20]  It's based on books by Filippo Gregory.
[00:02:23]  It's called The White Princess and The White Queen.
[00:02:27]  Quite good, actually.
[00:02:28]  Available at HBO.
[00:02:30]  Obviously, not a service I recommend per se, but they had it there at least.
[00:02:34]  And worthwhile watching.
[00:02:36]  I can definitely recommend those two citizens.
[00:02:40]  The only thing I need to strongly object to was a sequence where they visit the Spanish court.
[00:02:46]  Now, of course, the Spanish court descended from Visigoths and the princess they are there to make a match for their son to marry the Spanish princess.
[00:02:56]  She erupts into a flamenco dance.
[00:02:59]  And I can assure you that no Spanish royalty would have erupted into a flamenco dance.
[00:03:07]  It was something that detracted quite a bit from the quality of the series.
[00:03:11]  It was not good in the list.
[00:03:14]  I am a great friend and admirer of Spanish history and culture, so I need to defend Spain's good name and say that royalty did absolutely not dance flamenco dances.
[00:03:27]  Anyway, that being said, the rest of the series is quite good.
[00:03:30]  The third season is an absolute catastrophe, but I won't blackpill you by talking more about that.
[00:03:37]  Anyway, this particular DLC, you have a new civilization, the Burgundians.
[00:03:42]  I won't get into the Grand Dukes now, maybe for a coming video.
[00:03:48]  Who knows?
[00:03:49]  Depending on how popular this one is.
[00:03:52]  Then you have the Hautevilles.
[00:03:54]  I don't know how you pronounce it.
[00:03:56]  To my great shame, I do not speak French.
[00:03:59]  Highly barbaric of me.
[00:04:00]  I must redeem myself by praying extra hard in the Temple of Iron.
[00:04:06]  I read German.
[00:04:08]  That was my language in school.
[00:04:10]  You could choose between a few different languages.
[00:04:13]  The most common ones were French, Spanish, and German.
[00:04:17]  Anyway, this might be an interesting topic for a podcast talking about the Normans.
[00:04:24]  So you see here, Robert de Hauteville left Normandy in 1047 with a small robber band.
[00:04:31]  Allow me to translate it.
[00:04:34]  He left Normandy with a heroic menerbund of glorious Schild brothers, and they sought to mog others.
[00:04:44]  That's the actual story.
[00:04:46]  But in all seriousness, though, the most famous Norman, of course, William the Conqueror, conquered Merry Old England in 1066.
[00:04:56]  But they were quite adventurous, these guys, Vikings, imbued with a high level of Thumos that made them conquer and explore.
[00:05:06]  I will talk about it in another video, in a podcast, going through the history of the Normans, we can derive inspiration from them.
[00:05:15]  So, anyway, that might also be for coming video if there is any interest in it.
[00:05:20]  Let's get into Edward Longshanks, and you probably recognize this name.
[00:05:24]  He's the villain in Braveheart when you see this time period from the perspective of the Scots.
[00:05:32]  He is the villain.
[00:05:33]  You can also read about many good books about Robert the Bruce as well.
[00:05:39]  You have a British author, Robin Young, female author, written great books on this time as well, from the perspective of Scots.

=== Talking About Normans (05:14) ===

[00:05:50]  Can definitely recommend it.
[00:05:52]  Anyway, let's get into the campaign.
[00:05:55]  So, we have here Merry Old England, and we'll travel to Wales, Scotland, and to the Holy Land.
[00:06:02]  So, let's get into it.
[00:06:03]  Vain ambition.
[00:06:05]  Boom.
[00:06:06]  It is the curse of all royalty to be compared with their forebears.
[00:06:12]  My illustrious father built himself a kingdom in his youth.
[00:06:16]  Now I can barely hold onto it in mine.
[00:06:20]  I hear all of the nobility's whisperings at court.
[00:06:24]  They say that I may be king of England by birth, but I will never be so by merit.
[00:06:30]  That I, Edward II, am unworthy of my father's name.
[00:06:36]  How much longer until these whispers become cries of rebellion?
[00:06:41]  My heart quivers when I visit his tomb in the abbey.
[00:06:46]  I am racked by fear.
[00:06:49]  It claws at my soul like the talons of demons.
[00:06:54]  Fear that I will prove them right.
[00:06:57]  That I will disgrace this family's legacy as my grandfather did.
[00:07:02]  Yet I must not give in.
[00:07:05]  I will study my father's reign and hope that it will imbue me with his strength.
[00:07:11]  The fortitude that I so lack.
[00:07:14]  My father, Edward, spent his youth watching in disgust as his ineffectual father Henry drove England to the brink of ruin.
[00:07:23]  When his subjects could bear his ruinous reign no more, a rebellion led by the Baron Simone de Moanfall deposed Henry, leaving his kingdom in tatters.
[00:07:34]  After the disastrous Battle of Lewis, the baronial forces captured and jailed my father and grandfather in Hereford.
[00:07:42]  Some kings begin their rise to the throne from within the palace.
[00:07:46]  Edward began his from the anguish of imprisonment.
[00:07:52]  Yet even when the future seems bleak, fate occasionally extends its hand and offers allies from the most unlikely of places.
[00:08:04]  Alright, as always in Age of Empires, epic and atmospheric introductions.
[00:08:12]  So now we're in the game.
[00:08:13]  Edward Longshanks must revive and Gilbert de Claire must revive.
[00:08:18]  Again, excuse my French if I mispronounce it.
[00:08:24]  I hope I pronounce it correctly.
[00:08:26]  My man, the extremely aesthetic Guillam, can tell me how my French pronunciation is.
[00:08:32]  Anyway, let's get into it.
[00:08:40]  Let us do so.
[00:08:42]  Edward Longshanks.
[00:08:43]  And a note here, this aesthetics, these three golden English lions, Norman lions, absolute aesthetic.
[00:08:51]  I need to make some sort of Legio Gloria garments.
[00:08:58]  On a similar note, do let me know also in the comment section who your favorite English king might be.
[00:09:06]  Who's the most interesting or inspiring or whatever.
[00:09:09]  I always read the comments in Let's Play videos.
[00:09:15]  We must mog these new males.
[00:09:21]  Aha, they were quite many.
[00:09:28]  I need to run around with them a bit so they can mog these guys.
[00:09:35]  I might also edit this video a little bit to make it more exciting, I suppose.
[00:09:46]  These guys, they want to question the validity of my claim to the English throne, is what Edward says here.
[00:09:58]  The reason I am more responsive on Let's Play videos is that the overall amount of comments much less so I can have the opportunity to respond to more of them.
[00:10:10]  Otherwise I usually feel quite bad if I only respond to some comments.
[00:10:16]  And of course, on GabMind's Patreon Subscribestar, I'm always very responsive.
[00:10:34]  This might be the thumbnail for the video.
[00:10:37]  this aesthetics the the red and then golden lions on it absolutely absolutely aesthetically pleasing aha we have some other blasphemous enemies here We need to avoid them.
[00:10:58]  If we can.
[00:10:59]  I'm not sure we can actually.
[00:11:02]  Aha, one sauce.

=== Welsh Army Prepares (10:22) ===

[00:11:05]  Alright, turn around, lads, and illuminate this busted.
[00:11:13]  Also, note on the music.
[00:11:15]  It's very literally speaking music to my ears.
[00:11:21]  Since I grew up with this soundtrack, said Age of Empires.
[00:11:24]  I've said it before.
[00:11:25]  I said it before, I'll say it again.
[00:11:27]  Age of Empires, both Age of Empires 2 and Age of Mythology are sacred to me.
[00:11:34]  I am extremely thankful for growing up with them.
[00:11:37]  Extremely thankful for the interest in history they supplied me with.
[00:11:43]  And yeah, sacred games, I'm sure many of you feel the same way if you've grown up with it.
[00:11:50]  Good times, good times.
[00:11:52]  We need to fight these guys as well.
[00:11:57]  Out on thin ice here, we can't lose this guy, because then we lose the campaign.
[00:12:04]  He needs to survive.
[00:12:08]  He needs to survive the jive.
[00:12:12]  A great channel, which I'm sure you're all fully familiar with.
[00:12:18]  If you're not, search for it and enlighten yourself about pagan history and other good stuff.
[00:12:31]  Good stuff, good stuff.
[00:12:33]  So now I will do a little edit here, and I will build up and I will get right back when I have progressed further in the campaign.
[00:12:44]  So be right back.
[00:12:46]  Alright, so I am back.
[00:12:48]  I did a little edit there, as you noticed, and I decided to do a little boom with my little village here.
[00:12:58]  So I built an additional town center there and one here.
[00:13:02]  And now I'm gathering some stone to build a castle.
[00:13:08]  Since the forces are coming quite soon.
[00:13:12]  So I'll place the castle there, I suppose.
[00:13:15]  And I don't even know if we have enough time to build it.
[00:13:20]  I suppose not.
[00:13:21]  Oh, well, I have created a little army that will withstand the onslaught of the baronial forces.
[00:13:31]  So we'll see what is going on now.
[00:13:36]  Let's see, I need to gather some more wood.
[00:14:00]  We must strike quickly to bring our rivals back into the fold and even the odds.
[00:14:07]  That is noted.
[00:14:09]  So they didn't actually come to attack us.
[00:14:12]  They expect us to go to them to mog them.
[00:14:17]  That is fine.
[00:14:18]  I suppose that's what we'll have to do.
[00:14:21]  Here is my favorite unique unit, by the way.
[00:14:25]  The English Longbowman.
[00:14:28]  Highly joyous to create them.
[00:14:35]  Anyway, I will attack someone, I suppose.
[00:14:39]  The Welsh, perhaps.
[00:14:40]  They need to be subjugated.
[00:14:45]  And we'll see what happens after that.
[00:14:50]  We have reached the Welsh.
[00:14:53]  They're not prepared to face our army.
[00:14:59]  Or maybe they are, actually.
[00:15:02]  And I need to make sure that Edward doesn't die here.
[00:15:06]  That would be a bit silly if he does.
[00:15:09]  Maybe I should actually have brought some knights or something.
[00:15:12]  Can go back and create some and send them up.
[00:15:18]  otherwise we might have a hard time taking down all of their their buildings here another edit as you might have noticed So I subjugated the Welsh.
[00:15:35]  They are now on our side.
[00:15:37]  And now I am putting on some pressure on this Kenilworth.
[00:15:43]  And they're being protected by the baronial forces in Simon the Younger.
[00:15:49]  So we need to kill this guy and hopefully get this city citadel city over to us.
[00:16:06]  now we are less than three minutes until the baronial forces attack us and we're gonna see if we can actually conquer this city in that time I suppose that will reduce the amount of enemies that will come at us.
[00:16:25]  We'll see how that goes.
[00:16:27]  I have a battering ram in addition to my army here of crossbowmen and longbowmen.
[00:16:35]  So the gate is down.
[00:16:37]  Can we make it in time?
[00:16:39]  I don't really suppose we can.
[00:16:43]  But we'll see.
[00:16:45]  We can at least destroy part of their town.
[00:16:50]  Maybe I shouldn't have left the home base unprotected in case they attack.
[00:16:56]  But it's a gamble.
[00:16:57]  We'll see how it turns out.
[00:17:07]  We have a unit.
[00:17:09]  Sershunt.
[00:17:10]  I haven't seen before.
[00:17:12]  Looking quite aesthetic.
[00:17:22]  Okay, his knights are coming.
[00:17:27]  And we were just a bit too late to destroy this city.
[00:17:33]  Anyway, let's look over our defenses.
[00:17:35]  We are at a population limit here, so we can't really create more soldiers.
[00:17:40]  But if we can, we can train some knights and stuff.
[00:17:48]  I don't really see where this Laddington might be, though.
[00:17:53]  Maybe he comes with a surprise attack.
[00:17:56]  I will then counter with a surprise flex.
[00:18:01]  Hopefully that will get him to abandon his hostility towards us.
[00:18:09]  We'll see.
[00:18:11]  With their forces in disarray, the rest will be compelled to fall before me and beg for mercy.
[00:18:19]  Okay, so that was it.
[00:18:21]  We just had to subdue them.
[00:18:23]  I'll press continue.
[00:18:26]  Like his Norman ancestors, Gilbert de Claire was a shrewd opportunist.
[00:18:32]  Initially, a commander in the rebel army, he keenly sensed its divisions and saw that he could further his own ambitions by defecting to Edward.
[00:18:42]  My father moved with alarming speed.
[00:18:46]  Warchester and Glochester, Gilbert's family seat, were seized without delay.
[00:18:51]  After a string of further victories, he compelled the leaderless and battered rebel forces to capitulate.
[00:18:58]  Known by many as longshanks, Edward was feared for his imposing stature and foul temper.
[00:19:07]  While Henry was restored to the throne, all were well aware that Edward was now the true power behind it.
[00:19:15]  Good stuff, good stuff.
[00:19:17]  I thought about ending the episode there, but we're actually going to have a quick look at a man of God.
[00:19:24]  I think this is the only reasonable course of action.
[00:19:28]  So let's get into it.
[00:19:31]  Ruthless and cunning, Edward did not always adhere to the chivalric codes that the European nobility held so dear.
[00:19:41]  After massacring Simone the Younger's men in a stealthy night attack on Kenilworth, he used the captured banners to disguise his army before smashing Demonfour at Evesham.
[00:19:54]  In an act of alarming brutality, the corpse of Demonfour, an earl of England, was hacked into Carrion, his head mounted on a pike.
[00:20:05]  Edward had won the war and cowed the rebels into submission in just over a year, but the victory came at the cost of his honor.
[00:20:14]  Nobility and clergy alike cringed at the thought of an impious butcher one day ascending to the throne of England.
[00:20:23]  To restore his ailing reputation and prove himself worthy of the crown, my father resolved to lead a crusade east to the Holy Land, where the situation grew increasingly dire.
[00:20:36]  The voracious Mamluk Sultanate waged a fierce war of expansion, first against the Mongols and now against the beleaguered crusaders.
[00:20:46]  Several fortresses quickly fell before their unstoppable onslaught.
[00:20:52]  Their leader was Sultan Baibars, a man not unlike my father Edward.
[00:20:58]  Originally a slave of Kuman origin, he rose to prominence through military service and had recently taken power after murdering the reigning Sultan.
[00:21:08]  Having just slaughtered the population of Antioch, his armies now threatened Oka and Tripoli from the east, converging on both cities in a suffocating siege.
[00:21:20]  Edward's army arrived in Ocker to find the inhabitants desperate, but not beyond hope.

=== Sultan Baibars' Unstoppable Onslaught (00:34) ===

[00:21:27]  You crusaders have solid our lands long enough.
[00:21:31]  We will drive you from your castles and into the sea.
[00:21:36]  Alright, I mainly just want to look at that intro.
[00:21:40]  We have a beautiful city here as well we need to defend, but I will actually leave it there for this time.
[00:21:48]  And I will see you all on Telegram, I suppose, if you're not already following me there.
[00:21:55]  Also, follow me on Gab and Minds.
[00:21:59]  So, now, thank you for watching.
[00:22:01]  Execzo.