The Golden One - Dracula Part 2 - The Return of the Dragon. Age of Empires 2 Definitive Edition

00:00:00.560 Post Vlad Dracula. Welcome back to good old Age of Empires 2. We will continue on the great

00:00:10.480 adventure of a true hero of Mother Europe. So we're gonna get straight into it in Episode 2,

00:00:17.920 Return of the Dragon. Boom.

00:00:20.480 Dracula knew that he needed to enlist the aid of the Hungarians against Vladislav the Serpent, 0.66

00:00:29.360 whose policies favored the Ottomans. He also remembered his education under the Crusading

00:00:37.440 Order of the Dragon and wanted to honor his vows. The Order was a powerful ally and their Crusader

00:00:47.120 knights would serve Dracula well against his enemies. As he paced the streets of the Moldavian

00:00:55.040 capital, Dracula mused over his plan to reclaim his kingdom. As the mysterious old man paused,

00:01:05.120 I rose up to take another slab of venison. The old man stared into the fire, watching the flames

00:01:14.320 dance as if they were soldiers involved in a raging battle. His eyes flashed again as a thought

00:01:21.920 entered his mind, and he grasped the majestic old soul. Meanwhile, Sultan Mehmed II had ascended to the

00:01:33.360 Ottoman throne. Dracula loved Mehmed from that time in Ederne, and he knew that the Turks would be a thorn in 0.99

00:01:42.000 his side for years to come. In 1453 they had conquered Constantinople, but they were presently occupied with

00:01:51.520 campaigns in Greece and Serbia. Bogdan II, Dracula's cousin and the new voivode of Moldovia, had heard of his

00:02:01.600 Kingsman's plight and offered his help. If Dracula could cross the Carpathian Mountains into Transylvania and

00:02:10.160 ally with Hungary, then they could launch a three-pronged assault on Vladislav II and the Turks. 0.80

00:02:17.680 Alright, so another epic introduction. And when I say Order of the Dragon, that is exactly the sort of

00:02:35.040 mythic mindset we need to have going forward. It makes everything so much more epic. So anyway,

00:02:41.920 we have Vlad Dracula must survive. Makes sense. And then we have hints. I will just read through

00:02:48.880 this. Okay, so his new technology tree is now Magyar. See, you can have a friendship between

00:02:56.480 Hungarians and Romanians. It's the only way forward. Bran Castle. Legendary. And again, Hungary will 1.00

00:03:06.640 offer an alliance if you can show your strength by reaching the Imperial Age. Alright, so I utilized a

00:03:13.120 little edit there. And just look at the graphics here. Absolutely wonderful.

00:03:20.160 What do you desire from humble Moldavia?

00:03:25.520 What do I desire? This is a...

00:03:29.280 ...advice on how to reclaim Wallachia, my birthright.

00:03:33.680 It's a bulk, bruh. He's bloat maxing now Bogdan.

00:03:38.640 Alright, let's um...

00:03:40.240 To the North West in the Transylvania forest lies the Bran Castle. A stronghold of the Order of the Dragon.

00:03:47.360 You will find supporters there.

00:03:49.680 The Order of the Dragon. That has to be a title for a coming training video or

00:03:58.000 a Vital Hunt challenge or something like that. A too cool of a name to not use for anything productive.

00:04:07.920 Okay, let us out then.

00:04:09.680 But beware of the nasty troops on their own. 0.84

00:04:16.080 Now, let me tell you about my glorious weekend in the service of the nation.

00:04:24.160 So first, in Uppsala. Met some good lads. Had a great training session. Shoutout to all who were there.

00:04:33.280 It was absolutely joyous. Then, the next day, I went to the opposite side of Sweden.

00:04:39.760 To Göteborg, Gothenburg. Met some good men. Some good men from America and Switzerland as well.

00:04:49.040 Shoutout to you. It was a joyous session and day. Then, after...

00:04:55.600 Oh, damn. That's a... That is a brutal watchtower. 0.99

00:05:03.520 Anyway, then I went to Elgarås, it's called. A small little place in between

00:05:13.760 Göteborg and Stockholm. And I held a self-defense seminar. It was quite fun because it was

00:05:19.840 not my usual demographics. It was more females and it was more older individuals. So, yeah. That was

00:05:36.480 a new teaching experience. And when you teach, you learn yourself as well.

00:05:41.360 Uh, okay. Let's try to... Let's try to, um, box with these Vladislavians. 1.00

00:05:54.800 See what I'm doing now? I'm micromanaging so that they're chasing Vlad and my knights can hit

00:06:01.200 the spearmen. So anyway, that was my weekend. It... Oh.

00:06:06.480 I'm getting mugged by these archers. But, uh, cavalry is strong against archers. So yes,

00:06:13.920 that was my weekend in short, uh, terms. I did film some of the training, which will be up for a

00:06:22.240 Physique Manufacturum.

00:06:23.760 This time may prove useful later.

00:06:26.560 Um, the training video log. So, yeah, links in the description for that. Some, uh, well,

00:06:35.040 mainly Thai boxing, uh, videos. Some bag work and some pad work. Good times. Then, of course,

00:06:41.600 I posted a short version on my Instagram as well, if you haven't already seen that.

00:06:49.120 Now, also on a...

00:06:50.480 Hold, friends. A large Dineshti force blocks the mountain pass. 1.00

00:06:57.840 Hmm. Alright.

00:06:58.880 If you were to slay the Dineshti general in command of the forward camp, 1.00

00:07:03.840 it may draw the attention of the army and lure them away.

00:07:11.120 Right. Let's do it. Um...

00:07:15.120 I think I have mismanaged this start a little bit, but, um...

00:07:23.040 Oh. Dineshti general. Okay, I will try to manage this anyway. 0.87

00:07:33.840 Go on, die. 1.00

00:07:39.680 Die, scum. And now, think to the pass. 1.00

00:07:45.120 Ah, haha, no.

00:07:49.760 No. I, um...

00:07:55.440 Ah, come on, then. Vlad, no.

00:07:59.120 It was one miss-click.

00:08:02.160 One miss-click. I, um...

00:08:03.680 Um, if I die now, I will have to restart everything and, um...

00:08:11.760 Restart the, uh...

00:08:14.000 Rise, brothers of the dragon.

00:08:16.800 Let us send the usurper to his grave.

00:08:21.840 Okay, a bit of chaos there.

00:08:23.040 Uh, where did Vlad go, even?

00:08:25.280 Um, I hope he...

00:08:32.320 Did he die? Maybe.

00:08:34.000 That would have been extremely silly if this episode was off to such a bad start.

00:08:40.800 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.

00:08:56.320 So, yes, I was playing the historic

00:08:59.120 battles, and I played the Conquest of Cyprus by Richard Lionheart, and, uh, this was one of the, um...

00:09:12.880 Well, when you win the, uh, scenario, this came up.

00:09:16.720 And, uh, I was very happy to see that you had some, um...

00:09:25.840 Un-cocked.

00:09:29.120 Un-cocked.

00:09:31.280 ...view of him.

00:09:32.320 Usually you would have something of the sort, like, oh, he's, he was such a brutal...

00:09:38.880 So, I was pleasantly surprised by the way they described it, described him as a legend, instead of

00:09:47.200 having the need to portray him as some

00:09:51.280 brutal king who only cared about glory, who only cared about glory, uh, so that was refreshing to see.

00:09:57.280 Uh, I tipped my pickle hub again to, uh, H-Vempires. 1.00

00:10:06.560 So, I suppose I will utilize a few edits in this video,

00:10:12.320 because it looks like it might be a long campaign, but I will check in in a little bit.

00:10:20.640 Okay, so, Bran Castle recruits paladins for us.

00:10:28.800 Highly epic.

00:10:30.960 And, uh, again, it looks so great, and it captures the feel of mountainous region here.

00:10:40.480 Now, I suppose I will have to mine.

00:10:44.160 And then we'll have to hit the Imperial Age, so the Hungarians will admire our strength, 1.00

00:10:53.840 so they can be our allies.

00:11:03.120 So, basically, what I have now, since I have so much cavalry, I have to look out for their Spearmen,

00:11:10.320 of course, and being more mobile than the enemy makes it easier to avoid the Spearmen.

00:11:19.600 So, that is, uh, that's good.

00:11:27.120 Now, I found a mining camp nearer to the town center, so we can shop some, not shop, uh, mine, I mean, of course.

00:11:37.440 So, anyway, what did I train today, you ask?

00:11:43.440 I trained after a hectic weekend, as I said, of a lot, a lot of driving.

00:11:50.560 I was quite wrecked, uh, from just driving so much.

00:11:54.800 Um, I, uh, trained some push press and some light bench press, so that was my training session.

00:12:04.920 And I have seen this Moldavians, a little nice outpost there.

00:12:12.760 Unfortunately, they're being attacked.

00:12:14.760 Maybe I can aid them with my knight here, if I can sink the ship.

00:12:22.520 Okay, I will probably die there, so, um, I sacrificed him for a good cause.

00:12:29.240 So, what we can do now, also, is actually, first and foremost, we need some, we need some wood.

00:12:39.880 Otherwise, our farms will expire.

00:12:41.960 So, just continuing to gather resources, gonna create some more knights.

00:12:49.960 We had three more paladins incoming.

00:12:53.160 And then I will just gather enough stone, so we can build a castle here, so that we are safe.

00:12:58.840 And then we can upgrade to the Imperial Age.

00:13:02.360 And again, if I wasn't clear with what I meant with the Richard the Lionheart thing is, um,

00:13:09.800 I found it so refreshing that they could just state this man was a legend.

00:13:14.840 And point to the positive things without having to talk about the fact that, oh,

00:13:21.880 this guy didn't spend so much time in England, so he was a bad king.

00:13:25.800 Uh, it's nice when people can just be positive.

00:13:29.000 Point out the good things, instead of having to nuance it all too much.

00:13:34.120 Of course, nuance is good sometimes, but, um, sometimes it can also be nice to give it a rest.

00:13:41.400 Right, so I just noticed that we can't actually build a castle.

00:13:45.640 But we need to build something fun, at least, to upgrade.

00:13:49.640 So, uh, I suppose we'll have to build a monastery, and...

00:13:55.640 We can use these mining camps to help clear away the rubble from that bridge. 0.86

00:14:02.200 Aha, right.

00:14:02.760 Um, yeah, so, um, a university, I suppose, we can build too.

00:14:07.320 The order of the dragon is decadent and feeble.

00:14:15.320 Decadent and feeble, well, we will see about that, dear Vladislav.

00:14:21.640 I challenge you to come to, uh, to box with these high thumos lads.

00:14:27.880 We can build a monk as well, to heal our gallant soldiers.

00:14:39.480 Just gonna wait for this to be built, then we can upgrade and initiate an alliance with Hungary.

00:14:49.160 Boom, there we are.

00:14:50.280 All right.

00:15:05.240 That, uh, sounds good, dear old Hungary.

00:15:09.080 Let's do it.

00:15:10.600 It's the only reasonable course of action.

00:15:13.000 And as you can see, we couldn't build a castle, but I have built a lot of watchtowers instead.

00:15:18.280 And now, I will also upgrade our cavalry to cavalier.

00:15:24.600 So we have paladins and cavaliers.

00:15:27.400 And we need to pay Hungary a thousand in food.

00:15:33.720 Then we can upgrade this, which reduces the fee for tributes to 20%.

00:15:39.320 Boom, let's do it.

00:15:40.520 All right, we have gathered enough food.

00:15:45.480 So we will pay it to Hungary.

00:15:50.520 Boom.

00:15:51.960 There we go. Confirm, donk. 0.93

00:15:53.560 Excellent! We fight with you!

00:15:55.720 Very good indeed.

00:16:00.680 They didn't have all too much of an army, though.

00:16:03.960 But, um, I suppose it is, um, it's all good, anyway.

00:16:12.360 Now we can't build trebuchets anywhere, which is, of course, blasphemous, but it is what it is.

00:16:20.120 I will ride out with the order of the dragon and see if we can kill some, um, enemies.

00:16:29.240 You may have the support of the Hungarians, but I have the Ottomans behind me. 0.97

00:16:36.200 You will make a fine target for our gunners. 1.00

00:16:40.360 Vladislav, you are a traitor. I will hunt you down. 1.00

00:16:49.480 You can, uh, perhaps raid this little village.

00:16:53.240 It looks quite cozy, though, so I'm not all too comfortable with actually destroying it.

00:16:59.080 But, uh, there is a relic.

00:17:02.600 Maybe we can take it with one of our monks.

00:17:05.080 Ah-ha, you can actually fight for this village. That's nice.

00:17:14.600 Cool stuff.

00:17:17.160 Now, let's see. Down here, I suppose, is where Vladislav is, um, is holed up.

00:17:25.880 We can't create a castle, build a castle, but perhaps we can build some sort of other fun thing,

00:17:38.600 such as a siege workshop or, um, something similar.

00:17:44.520 There comes a trebuchet, speaking of which. I will, um, see if I can hunt it down.

00:17:50.760 I stumbled upon a little fleet there. I need to run away.

00:18:11.000 We can capture this little place, I suppose.

00:18:14.120 Ah-ha, we can't build any military buildings at all.

00:18:22.920 That's problematic.

00:18:26.120 I suppose. Perhaps we can build some sort of town center here somewhere.

00:18:30.040 No, can't really do that.

00:18:32.680 We can build a watchtower.

00:18:35.560 Now, where were we here?

00:18:38.680 Hello, battering rams.

00:18:40.040 Elite boyar. They're quite cool.

00:18:47.960 Cool aesthetics on those.

00:18:50.520 Have to defeat this tower.

00:18:59.400 Right, we have raised this little base to the ground.

00:19:03.960 Had to do it to them.

00:19:05.480 Was the only reasonable course of action.

00:19:07.640 And there was a little bug, I suppose.

00:19:11.960 It came up onto land.

00:19:16.360 Aha, they're sieging our Moldovan friends here. 1.00

00:19:22.120 See if we can figure out some way to deal with that. 0.94

00:19:26.520 He likes to trash talk, this guy.

00:19:44.920 Which I kind of like.

00:19:45.800 It adds a bit of spice to the story, I suppose.

00:19:50.520 Aha, they ran out of gold.

00:19:57.320 So I need to build a new mine there.

00:20:01.720 So if we could just get some more villagers down here.

00:20:05.640 There we go.

00:20:06.840 So I can build these towers.

00:20:09.080 So we can deal with this fleet.

00:20:19.960 Aha, we have finally found a castle.

00:20:24.360 Nice.

00:20:24.760 Recurve bow.

00:20:28.200 Cavalier archers have one plus in range and one plus in damage.

00:20:32.200 But I want to build some trebuchet.

00:20:36.120 Alright, I have assembled mighty force that I will besiege to the castle here.

00:20:42.840 So we'll see how that goes.

00:20:47.720 Yeah, this little sea battle goes, well, somewhat according to plan at least.

00:20:54.280 Hello lads.

00:21:04.360 Now we just have to defend this trebuchet at all costs. 0.99

00:21:20.120 Right, here we are.

00:21:24.280 So, as you might have noticed, I've utilized a few edits in this episode.

00:21:29.640 But now, since we're nearing the end of the episode, I suppose I will be talkative.

00:21:39.400 Now we just have to make sure that our trebuchets do not get wrecked here. 0.94

00:21:46.120 As we lay siege to Vladislav, the trash talkers. 0.98

00:21:55.400 Stronghold. 0.87

00:21:56.920 So anyway, on another note, on a note of making videos, I do have quite a few

00:22:05.080 interesting, well I hope at least, videos incoming.

00:22:09.400 I'm going to talk about game changers.

00:22:11.880 It's a vegan, well, you could perhaps say propaganda piece.

00:22:17.720 They're talking about vegan athletes.

00:22:19.840 But anyway, I will talk more about that.

00:22:22.180 Then I will talk about mewing and mouth breeding.

00:22:27.000 Because they are interlinked.

00:22:30.840 And then some more training videos.

00:22:33.880 So yeah, I have a good few videos incoming.

00:22:39.640 Now, Vladislav, you will regret your foul words.

00:22:44.280 See if he's in here.

00:22:45.480 No.

00:22:53.800 Strange.

00:22:54.760 Maybe he has fled into the town center.

00:22:58.440 Or perhaps even to this little outpost.

00:23:02.920 Who knows?

00:23:04.760 So I was about to utilize an edit, then get back to it.

00:23:08.040 But he died in the midst of the chaos.

00:23:11.320 But let's leave the map and look at the scene.

00:23:16.360 The elderly man gave a thin smile.

00:23:20.520 Tenacity of mind can compensate for other disadvantages.

00:23:26.920 As Dracula slotted untold numbers of enemy troops,

00:23:32.280 the large circle of impaled men outside Dargavishta

00:23:37.000 grew to awe and disgust from the mix to come. 0.77

00:23:43.400 Dracula owned Valachia once more.

00:23:47.160 But it was not the land he's forebearsed.

00:23:51.400 Barred, endless wars it was rife with corruption, crime and poverty.

00:23:57.320 Aghast.

00:24:00.360 I asked my host how Dracula managed to reform a ruined shell of a country so quickly.

00:24:08.200 Great.

00:24:08.920 The light flashed across the old man's eye again.

00:24:13.080 Dracula despised dishonesty and crime and sought to eliminate it.

00:24:17.960 He knew that Valachia had to become strong enough to face its enemies and soon.

00:24:26.440 And so his reforms began.

00:24:29.960 A heroic man, no doubt.

00:24:37.480 So yes, that will have to be the episode.

00:24:43.080 And in next we'll go to the breath of the dragon.

00:24:47.720 And yeah, I utilized quite a few edits but I hope the episode was good enough anyway.

00:24:53.320 So, thank you for watching and stay tuned for coming videos.

00:24:56.760 XOXO, boom.

The Golden One - November 24, 2019

Dracula Part 2 - The Return of the Dragon. Age of Empires 2 Definitive Edition

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