Rise of Kingdoms: EVERYTHING We Know About 3 NEW Commanders!

Rise of Kingdoms: EVERYTHING We Know About 3 NEW Commanders!

Last night the official rise of Kingdom social  media accounts revealed that we’re going to be   getting three new legendary commanders coming  soon to the game these three teaser images were   revealed and myself as well as others scrambled  to make a video as fast as possible because well  

We’re content creators that’s what we do and  in the haste of making that video I didn’t have   that much time to do a lot of research into who  I think these three commanders might be so this   video is going to be a more in-depth analysis  about everything we know about these commanders  

And I’m going to give you guys all of the evidence  for why I think they are who they are and I also   want to point out that I’m pretty sure the rise  of Kingdoms Community figured out exactly who the  

Shore Stone Shield Commander actually is we’re  going to revisit the disarm mechanic we’re going   to talk about when these commanders are going  to come and then later in the video I’m going   to give you guys sort of my detailed analysis as  to what I think about ranged commanders in Rise of  

Kingdoms and why they might not be that popular  and how this may or may not affect free-to-play   players but first what’s going on guys cheers this  is the second coffee of of the day now before we  

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As a reminder there’s a link to my Discord down  there as well if you want to come and talk about   these new potential commanders I would love to  have you guys over there now the first thing I  

Want to go over in this video is a correction  to my previous video that I made at literally   midnight so my brain was not working but I said  that the active skill on El Cid had the disarm  

Mechanic and I could have sworn in the battle  reports for El Cid when he’s fighting and cast   his active skill but after I posted that video  I checked the Battle Log here and it turns out  

That it’s the Restriction effect from the active  skill on El Cid I could have sworn it Sid disarm   and I’m not crazy because Chisgule also thought  the same thing so I don’t understand if this is  

Some sort of Mandela effect or something like that  I have no clue the fact that Chisgule and I both   thought this was a disarm mechanic is actually  crazy to me but the real disarm mechanic can be   understood by looking at Artemisia third skill  and if you click on the disarm mechanic here it  

Says prevents a troop from launching basic  attacks so this will not prevent them from   launching a active skill like a silence effect  from Guan Yu for example so disarming is not as   good as silencing as I alluded to in the previous  video so I just wanted to make it very clear that  

I was wrong about that what does this mean well  disarming the target means that if they can’t do   basic attacks that means they also can’t probably  generate rage for that turn as far as I remember  

Correctly which at this point I guess I shouldn’t  trust my memory from a few years ago when I last   looked at this stuff but I’m pretty sure that if  you don’t do a basic attack you don’t generate  

Rage for that turn so the disarm mechanic that we  know is on these new commanders and in case you   missed my previous video the way that we know that  two of these commanders have the disarm ability is  

Because it literally says it in the description  of the official rise of Kingdoms post so we know   that one of the range commanders and also the  leadership Commander are going to have the disarm   mechanic on at least one of their skills it could  be their active skill it could be an instant proc  

Thing so it’s going to be really interesting  to see how the disarm mechanic affects things   I’m pretty sure Artemisia is the only one that  has the disarm mechanic I could be wrong about   that you can let me know in the comment section  below but I just wanted to clarify exactly what  

Disarming actually does in Rise of Kingdoms all  right next let’s go over when we might expect   to see these commanders land in Rise of Kingdoms  because every time there’s sort of a sneak peek   of new commanders coming to the game everybody  feels like oh my God it’s so soon we just got  

New commanders guys listen a sneak peek for a  commander does not mean that it’s going to come   into the game this week or next week or something  like that okay I need everyone to calm down we  

Got Herman Prime the first day you could recruit  him was on the 2nd of January which by the way I   predicted that in my video before he even came  out so I was right about that I’m happy to see  

That so what do we typically know about Commander  release Cycles well usually unless there’s some   sort of anomaly we usually see them between 70  and 84 days apart okay so if we see that Herman   Prime was unlockable or first came into the game  his first Wheel of Fortune was on January 2nd now  

January 2nd was a Tuesday at least in my time  zone which means if we add 70 days to that that   means the first first time we will see The Wheel  of Fortune Commander release would be either March  

12th or we might expect it the following cycle  which would be March 26th now again this is my   speculation I guess the soonest we would see them  would be the 27th of this month but I really just  

Doubt that I I don’t think that’s going to be  the case I really feel like all the evidence   suggests that these commanders will come into  the game on either March 12th or on March 26th  

Now there’s one other thing that we have to keep  in mind however and that is the fact that there   are three of of these new commanders and what  happens when we got three commanders the last   time well last time we got three commanders it  was also for the ranged release with Babur and  

Margaret and also Heraclius and one of those  commanders particularly Margaret came in the   form of an event and so I think we can expect that  one of these commanders might actually come in the  

Form of an event and if that is the case perhaps  one of these commanders could come into the game a   little bit earlier than the rest of them so I just  want to be very clear with that this isn’t your  

Typical release because there are more commanders  than usual usually we get one mightiest Governor   commander and one Wheel of Fortune Commander this  will probably follow in the same footsteps as last   year with one of end Commander okay so now that  I’ve explained that I expect these commanders to  

Come into the game at the same Pace that we’ve  always seen new commanders okay people always   feel like they’re coming faster but I don’t care  what you feel like just look at the data the data   is that most commanders come in the same time  frame every single time so assuming that that  

Will continue to be the case for this release  which I could be wrong what should free to play   players do about this right because I know that  even 70 days right like let’s say they do come in  

70 days that would be the March 12th date then  you know 70 days could still feel pretty fast   for free to play players and I totally get that  okay but here’s the good news for free-to-play   players okay when they released bobber Margaret  and Heraclius into the game that was basically  

Like a delay for free-to-play players from The  Meta what do I mean by this well neither none of   these commanders of all three of them zero of  them were worth investing in for free-to-play   players because ranged just isn’t a thing and I’m  going to talk about that later in this video and  

There’s a long list of reasons why I think ranged  is not a thing so I’m going to go indepth into all   of that but this new release with these ranged  Smite damage commanders and I’m also going to  

Talk about who I think these commanders are and we  have a lot of evidence for it but I think this is   probably going to be another cycle that free to-  play players can just Skip and feel good about  

That now I could be wrong again this is all all  speculation but if we look at what happened last   year with ranged commanders and Engineering  commanders engineering commanders are not for   free to play players and historically they haven’t  been very good either okay and we also know that  

The leadership Commander coming into the game  is also a garrison and skill damage commander   and so if it is at all anything like Heraclius  which it could be more powerful than Heraclius   okay because we have the skill tree which means he  could be dealing a lot of skill damage it could be  

The case but I also feel like if it’s a Garrison  Commander it’s probably going to be really slow   in the open field I mean every time we see a new  Garrison Commander how often do you see a lot of  

March speed on a Garrison Commander it’s basically  never you can go through the game you can look at   all the stats yourself we never really see March  spe there and typically March speed is one of the  

Defining factors for whether or not a commander  is good in the open field now I know like Gorgo   for example is like an exception and there are  some other exceptions as well but for the most   part Garrison commanders typically aren’t used in  open field meta right and so if we can extrapolate  

That information plus what we know about Heraclius  which is kind of last year’s version of what we’re   getting this time then we can kind of assume that  the new leadership Commander might not really   be worth investing in either for freet to-play  players okay so again this could be this could  

Change when we see their skills and of course  we don’t have that information at the time of   me recording this video but the good news and the  Silver Lining about a release of engineering and   ranged commanders is that free-to-play players  can skip most likely skip this cycle and feel  

Okay about that and feel like they’re not missing  out on the meta meanwhile engineering commanders   this time around if they are better than last  year then this could be something that Wales   could work on as a supplementary project to  what they’ve already got going with their six  

And seven marches and whether or not that’s worth  it we can figure out when the skills are actually   revealed and when testing is actually done but I  just don’t want free to-play players to freak out  

And be like oh my God we’re getting new commanders  already we just got Herman Prime like yes maybe it   feels fast but you probably can skip these Comm  commanders and you probably won’t feel bad about  

That at all it it’ll probably be a really good  option actually to skip these for free to play   but of course as soon as the skills come out we  will cover them in a video and you definitely  

Want to be subscribed with the Bell turn on for  that news all right now that we’ve gone over   everything that I feel like was missing from my  original video covering these commanders let’s go   more in depth as to who I actually think these  commanders are what the evidence is to support  

That and then we’ll talk more about ranged in  just a minute now this was the first image that   we saw on on the social media accounts from Rise  of Kingdoms okay and I personally think that this  

Commander is almost 100% guaranteed to be Gajah  Mada now I did mention this in my first video   covering this but pretty much all the evidence  suggests that because they hinted at this being   the jadara again sorry for the mispronunciation  but if you look that up Gajah ma is the only  

Historical figure that comes to mind and he is a  powerful military leader who was in power in the   mid 1300s in what is I guess currently Indonesia  and so I took that information that I feel pretty   confident in and just to be clear like this is  all my speculation okay until these commanders  

Are in the game all of this is just my assumption  speculation and I think it’s fun to theorycraft   okay but I took that information that I feel  like is pretty strong and I had AI generate  

Some artwork as to what this Commander might look  like in Rise of Kingdoms now I have no idea how   accurate this would be for Gajah ma as a sort of  ancient Indonesian Warrior okay I think the uh  

The the arm things here like this maybe doesn’t  make that much sense historically but I’m going   to be real I’m not using some super fancy AI  tools here okay I’m just using like mid Journey  

With some simple prompts but based on the prompts  that I put in this is what mid Journey thinks that   Gajah Mada might look like in the style of Rise  of Kingdoms now of course we know that rise of  

Kingdoms commanders typically have much thinner  legs here although for this guy it seems like he   doesn’t Okay so there you go now the other thing  too is he’s obviously holding some sort of either  

Scroll or book or maybe a tablet or something like  that like an ancient tablet not like an iPad and I   couldn’t get them to replicate that over here in  the AI artwork I actually have no idea what this  

Even is this looks like it’s some sort of possible  sword or something like that like maybe the sword   juts out here and we’ll we’ll see that when the  silhouette is actually fully revealed but this is  

What AI spit out now let’s take a look at father  of the turo and again I probably am mispronouncing   that as well and in my original video we had a  couple of different people that it could be but  

Based on the comments that you guys left on my  video it seems like Gonzalo Fernandez de Cordova   is probably the most likely candidat because he  was literally called El Gran Capitan the Great   Captain because of his role as the father of the  turos so I think again this one is pretty much set  

In stone I feel like the evidence here is pretty  strong I feel like historically speaking there’s   really only one person in history who would fit  this description really well and that is Gonzalo   Fernandez de Cordova so I did the same thing I  took that information and I put it into Ai and  

This is what they spit out and I think you know I  I tried to ask it to have him holding a scroll it   looks like he’s holding a scroll here they gave us  a pamphlet or a book which I don’t know I guess AI  

Doesn’t know what a scroll is of course his hand  doesn’t look very good over here but I do think it   kind of nailed the Hat here I think that makes a  lot of sense it looks like this guy probably has  

Either a really big beard or he has long hair that  you can see from the front which is not replic   over here at all but I also think the Wardrobe  here isn’t like completely outrageous either I  

Think like this could be something that we see  in Rise of Kingdoms so this is what AI thinks   Gonzalo Fernandez de Cordoba might look like when  and if he comes to rise of Kingdoms but the final  

Question was the shore Stone Shield this was the  one that I was very confused about I didn’t know   at all who this could possibly be but I think a  lot of comments and a lot of you guys helped me  

Figure this out so thank you thank you thank you  and there are a couple couple of hints in this   silhouette that give us a really good idea as to  who this could be first of all there’s clearly  

Some sort of sword or machete or a long knife  that he’s holding over his shoulder okay there’s   also clearly some sort of what appears to be a  shield that he’s leaning on top of it could be  

A pillar it could be something else as far as  like his design or his aesthetic or something   like that but it’s probably a sword and a shield  and there’s some interesting characteristics of   these two pieces of equipment first of all the  handle here splits into two at what appears to  

Be the base and the tip does not come to a  perfect point it actually looks more like a   sort of slanted machete Point here uh as if  it would come here and then go down as a as  

A slant okay and also the shield appears to be  more of a rectangular shape with some banding   in the center top and bottom of the shield and a  lot of you guys mentioned that the sword looked   like a silhouette of a Cilan now I definitely am  probably mispronouncing that but my understanding  

Is that this is a traditional Filipino blade and  I think if you look at this and you compare it   to what we have in the picture I think there’s  a lot of similarities I think you see that the  

Hilt of the blade splits into here I think that  is exactly what we see in the standard parts of   a Cilan and also the way that the blade is shaped  here it comes to an angled point and I think that  

That is probably what we’re seeing here at the tip  of the blade so I think that that is a very strong   arguments in favor of the sword and to support  that the silhouette of The Shield looks like a  

Kalasag which again sorry for the pronunciation  but this is a large rectangular wooden Shield used   by pre-colonial Filipinos so okay we now have two  pieces of evidence to suggest that this could be a   Filipino commander and if we take a look at what  some of these uh Shields actually looked like I  

Think the resemblance is kind of shocking okay in  particular like this one over here and this one on   the left plus you see some of those same swords  here the cilon swords if you look at the shield  

Here it’s the same form factor it is rectangular  it has the wooden bands on the top middle and   bottom and I really don’t think that this is  a coincidence both the weapon and the shield   bearing strong resemblances to Filipino weapons  or Filipino equipment suggests that this could be  

A Filipino Commander so okay well what else do we  know well they called him the shore Stone Shield   okay and a lot of you mentioned that this suggests  this Commander is none other than Lapulapu who is   arguably the most famous Filipino Warrior and  chief who was known for the 1521 Battle of mton  

Where he and his men defeated Spanish forces  led by Portuguese explorer Ferdinand mellin   and his native allies if we take a look at this  3D render that depicts Lapulapu you’re going to   see some really familiar Silhouettes you see the  shield you see the sword these look identical to  

What we see in the rides of Kingdoms silhouette  but there’s more evidence than just that because   there’s some really cool folklore behind the  story of Lapulapu according to local Legend   LapuLapu never died but was turned into stone and  has since then been guarding the Seas of makan so  

When we come back to his description as the shore  Stone Shield I feel like everything comes together   right because he was the shield for his people  he defended his people against the Portuguese   Invasion and if he turned into stone and has since  been guarding the Seas then to me that sounds like  

A Shor Stone so we have like four pieces of solid  evidence to suggest that this could be Lapulapu so   I asked AI to generate some artwork as to what  Lapulapu might look like in Rise of Kingdoms  

And this is what we got honestly it’s not perfect  okay it’s not perfect he’s like not even holding   the shield okay but I think that we’ve got some  sort of top bun here for the hair which I think  

Is probably pretty accurate between the two it  looks like he has long hair from what you can see   here so I you know had long hair on the artwork  I don’t know why they have like leaves around  

Him I’m not really sure what’s going on there but  it does look like he has some sort of maybe skirt   or like a tunic or something like that and has a  little bit of armor around his shins which we also  

See in the AI generated artwork and what I find  hilarious about this is that I made a video back   in August of 2021 called five new commanders  that should be added to rise of Kingdoms and   number two was Lapulapu and I even said that  he should be a leadership support and Garrison  

Commander now as it turns out it looks like he’s  going to be leadership Garrison and skill damage   so I was really close I was like one talent tree  off but I even said that his active skill should  

Give him some sort of shields now I actually made  up a new mechanic here because I thought that I   was cool I’m still pretty cool and maybe rise of  Kingdoms will eventually steal this idea I mean  

Who knows when we see the skills I could be right  it could be a shield that actually converts into   healing factor which I think would be really cool  but just the fact that I said they should put him  

In the game like 2 and a half years ago and here  we are possibly getting Lapulapu for the first   time in Rise of Kingdoms it is so funny how that  actually worked out I completely had no idea if  

They would ever actually put him into the game  if it turns out that this is actually Lapulapu   and he does have a shield in part of his active  skill or something like that my prediction from  

2 and a half years ago or at least my request from  2 and a half years ago is shockingly accurate and   I mean what can I say what can I say I know the  game well boys I know the game well if you guys  

Want to know what’s coming of the game two and a  half years in advance you better subscribe to the   channel now there’s also one other thing that I  want to mention here as some more evidence as to  

Why I feel like these three are the commanders  that we will be getting for Rise of Kingdoms and   the reason for that is because of this social  media post that we see here from the beginning  

Or I guess I should say the end of January so this  was a couple of weeks ago we see the official rise   of Kingdoms Twitter account and also they posted  this on Facebook Instagram and the forums but they   said Governors commanders play a pivotal role in  Rise of Kingdoms which historical figure deserves  

A spot in the game leave your suggestions in the  comments and I’m going to share with you guys the   top geographies that watch my videos and here you  go in the last year 20.6% of my viewers came from  

The United States but in second place is 7.1% of  them came from the Philippines and in third place   we have 6.4% coming from Indonesia so what we can  learn at least from my demographics is that there  

Are a lot of Filipino players and there are a lot  of Indonesian players so would it not make sense   that a lot of the answers that rise of Kingdoms  got from this questionnaire were requests for   Indonesian commanders and for Filipino command  commanders right I think that logically makes  

Sense if that’s a big part of the community and we  don’t have any commanders from those regions yet   wouldn’t it make sense for them to add a famous  historical Filipino Chief wouldn’t it make sense   for them to add a famous Indonesian military  strategist I think that all of the evidence  

Suggests that we’re going to be seeing Gajah Mada  Gonzalo Fernandez de Cordoba and Lapu Lau coming   to rise of Kingdoms all right so that is all  of the evidence that I have to suggest the true   identity of these three new commanders coming to  rise of Kingdoms but what does this mean for The  

Meta well there’s a couple of things that we  can assume first of all for Lapu Lau okay we   know that he’s a Garrison and skill tree Commander  but we also know that Shield is in his description  

Okay and he’s also holding a shield now of course  not every Commander holding a shield in Rise of   Kingdoms actually has shielding Factor like we  see on for example Heraclius in fact heraclius   isn’t even holding a shield and yet he has the  Mighty shielding Factor on his active skill but  

I think that if we look at Lapu Lau being a skill  tree commander who also is the shore Stone Shield   it’s possible that he could be dealing AOE skill  damage which we already know is the case because  

They well they literally already confirmed it  okay we know that he’s going to have AOE skill   damage and a disarm of course and that sounds like  it could be very similar to heraclius who also has   AOE skill damage and a shield so we actually could  see the literal perfect pair for Heraclius coming  

In the form of Lapu Lau like they could actually  have perfect Synergy because the mighty shielding   Factor the reason that this is called a mighty  shield and not just a regular shield like we see   on Charles Martell for example is that the mighty  Shield can stack on top of a regular shielding  

Factor and so if both Lapu lapu and heraclius have  AOE skill damage and really solid shielding factor   and they’re both leadership Garrison Commander  ERS could we actually see a leadership Garrison   meta is that actually possible or is this going to  be another one of those things where Lapulapu is  

Really strong for defending his City and not  as good for defending Flags which by the way   Heraclius can be used as a secondary for defending  Flags he’s actually quite good there so Lapulapu  

Could be as well but I think it would make sense  if we look at the Battle for makan and the sort   of historical significance of Lapulapu I think it  would make sense that he would be a city Commander  

Right like he is literally famous for protecting  his own people so it’s also possible that we could   have heraclius and lapulapu be like the perfect  City Garrison it could be like literally built   as a match made in heaven to be the perfect  way to defend your city they could both have  

Shielding and AOE damage it would actually be  insane so I think there could be some Synergy   there and I think that there is some precedent  and evidence for that now remember we also know   that the two ranged commanders are ranged might  damage commanders one of them is healing and  

One of them also has the disarm and I think in  particular for Gajah Mada they might have really   interesting Synergy with Margaret and why is that  well Margaret also is a range Commander first of   all but if you look at our active skill it’s says  for the next 3 seconds this Commander’s troop  

Deals 50% more ranged normal damage and if we  assume that ranged Smite damage is going to behave   just like regular Smite damage then what we can  assume is that ranged normal damage is going to be   the modifier for the ranged Smite damage remember  Smite damage scales off of normal damage so range  

Smite damage probably scales off of range normal  damage right so if you have Margaret primary with   Gajah ma secondary then Gajah mat’s Smite damage  skill will trigger during the 3 seconds of this   50% damage bonus so if that damage is at all  reasonable then it could literally pop off and  

Also you’re dealing extra range damage here with  Margaret which is nice further than that if you   look at Margaret’s expertise here it says whenever  your troops take damage you have a 10% chance to   recover a portion of its slightly wounded units  with a 500 healing factor and we know there’s  

Some healing Factor on Gajah Mada as well so now  you’ll have two engineering range commanders one   of which is going to boost the damage of Gajah ma  and both of which are going to have some really   nice healing Factor potentially so this could  be another possible pair for Margaret now I  

Also wanted to say that if both of these new  commanders are Smite damage commanders it’s   possible that their Synergy together is just far  in a way better than anything you would get from   Margaret or from bobber but I do think like this  is a really big damage bonus guys 50% more damage  

For the active skill on Gajah Mada like oh my God  could Ranged actually be broken in 2024 okay now   I’m going to make one more prediction and that’s  going to be which of these commanders is The Wheel   of Fortune Commander which one is the mightiest  Governor Commander commander and which one could  

Potentially be the event Commander okay now if  you take a look and this is really like I’m kind   of stretching it here a little bit but if you  take a look at the Instagram account rise of   Kingdoms and also subsequently the social media  accounts like Twitter and Facebook and all that  

Stuff often times what they will reveal first is  The Wheel of Fortune Commander which is really   interesting but we see that be the case with Jay  Leong was listed first in the reveal for him and   dido huo was revealed first before Justinian Liu  Che was revealed before Gorgo Herman was revealed  

Before Ashurbanipal and if we go all the way back  to last year’s release of the ranged commanders   bobber was listed before Margaret So based on  that Trend it seems like the first Commander   listed and revealed is typically The Wheel  of Fortune commander and so Gajah Mada in my  

Mind is probably going to be the Wheel of Fortune  commander and then last year we saw the mightiest   Governor Commander was the leadership Commander  right and so I think it is likely to repeat this   year in that I think Lapulapu will probably be a a  mightiest Governor Commander which leaves Gonzalo  

Fernandez de Cordoba to be the event Commander for  this upcoming Commander release that is just my   deduction skills at work there based on the trend  we’ve seen on their social media so this could be  

Completely wrong I have no idea and I kind of hope  that it’s wrong because I really want Lapulapu to   be a commander that everybody gets their hands on  I feel like this is a commander people have been  

Asking for for a long time especially because the  Filipino Community is so big in Rise of Kingdoms   and so really hope that Lapulapu is The Wheel  of Fortune Commander okay now the last thing  

I want to cover in this video is how I currently  see ranged commanders in the meta and why I feel   like free to-play players can comfortably skip  this upcoming cycle knowing that it is ranged   commanders okay the first thing we have to look  at is equipment and the equipment for Siege is  

Actually quite good because it is all level 50  when you’re looking at the legendary gear now   I just want to remind you guys there is actually  Epic Siege equipment in the game I know a lot of  

People forgot about that but the knights set does  exist and somehow it’s not actually a set like   they’re all Knights pieces they’re all called  Knights something but there’s no set bonus here   and there’s it’s not actually considered a set in  the game so Lilith I don’t know what you’re doing  

There but if you want to help Siege you can give  them an epic set with set bonuses that would make   a lot of sense you’ve already made it literally  a set so like why not but anyway if you look at  

The Lupine vestments here this is a Siege unit  set and what you’ll notice is that it is just   as expensive as all of the other equipment here  okay all the other equipment if you look at like  

Legendary helmets it’s always 60 if you look  at the legendary helmet here it is also 60 now   the other thing is that there is no six-piece set  bonus Siege don’t have weapons there’s no weapon   for Siege Yes you heard me right now of course  you have like the Gathering weapons and you’ve  

Got like I don’t know the scepter of the Glorious  goddess here or you could run like maybe witch’s   feathered staff maybe you would just run the  knight’s oath sworn bow right that’s possible this   is probably your best choice to be honest with you  guys but you have to make a significant investment  

Of materials into this legendary set only to not  get a 6p set bonus and you’re not even using your   animal bones right if you look at you know some of  the other um Siege sets okay these are obviously  

Gathering sets but they use uh animal bones and  you would think that they would continue that   Trend and make all the siege sets use some amount  of animal bones right like maybe not fully but we  

Don’t see that there is no animal bones here at  all it is all expensive materials that you would   typically care a lot about and also it literally  costs more gold okay uh it’s because it’s a level  

50 set which means it gives more stats okay which  Siege desperately need we’re going to talk about   that in a second but it’s 50% more gold 50%  more gold for Siege equipment that’s crazy   that is a massive barrier to in a world where  getting These Blueprints competes with getting  

Blueprints for your other troop types by that I  mean are you going to use the conquest blueprint   fragment Choice chest on Siege gear or gear that  you actually can make good use out of furthermore  

We have the iconic tier system now in the game and  that means you’re going to have to get even more   copies of These Blueprints to level up the iconic  tier here and so again it’s just another layer of  

Blueprint investment on top of needing blueprints  for all the other troop types that really move the   needle and on top of all that you have to run the  v formation in order to use ranged combat okay you  

Literally have no other choice and so when you’re  getting armaments for your v formation any stat   that isn’t Siege is going in the garbage which  is actually kind of crazy so there’s literally   only one troop type that you care about when  opening up or or acquiring v formation armaments  

Whereas if you’re talking about Arch formation or  particularly wedge formation you care about any   troop type right like let’s say I get a really  good Archer Armament like well maybe I didn’t   necessarily want one but I could still use it and  likewise If instead I got a really good Cavalry  

Armament well I could still use that on something  else but if I get a really good Archer cavalry or   infantry Armament for v formation all of that goes  in the garbage because I will never use it so it  

Is actually harder to get good siege armaments  than it is for any other troop type because it   is limited to one formation only so again this is  really expensive just like the equipment but okay   let’s take a step back here and ask ourselves  why aren’t we using Siege right like as a troop  

Type why have we always historically ignored  Siege entirely is it because they have lower   stats well actually no they have the same stats  as any other generic troop type okay you have   you have 220 base attack 216 base defense 212  base health and you can see the multipliers  

Are pretty high they’re pretty much the same as  you would see from any other troop type even if   we come over to generic infantry 220 212 216 okay  same sort of multipliers here as well so it’s not  

Like Siege have lower attack defense or health  but they do have a few tremendous things working   against them first of all their March speed  they are literally the slowest troop type in   the entire game now they’ve tried to supplement  this fact by giving you a lot of March speed on  

The legendary set here okay you’ll see that every  single piece here has some amount of Siege March   speed okay so I mean it makes sense that they’re  going to give a lot more of a bonus there because  

Of how slow Siege are but historically like in  order to even use this you’re saying you need   a legendary set like that really sucks right  like that’s awful and even still it’s so slow   that those percentage increases um you know the  fact that it is a percentage of your base stats  

And you’re multiplying the lowest possible March  speed in the entire game you are a Sitting Duck   most of the time furthermore there are no Siege  specific civilizations in Rise of Kingdoms there   are literally none we have multiple Civilizations  for each troop type except for Siege there are no  

Siege special units now that could change in  this upcoming release I know they’ve already   hinted at a new civilization coming in 2024 I  think a lot of people have already deduced that   is probably the Mayans that will be coming in the  summer we don’t know for sure but that is what a  

Lot of the evidence suggests and perhaps that new  civilization will be a Siege focused civilization   however uh at the current time we have nothing now  of course we do have like France for example which   gives you generic Health but that doesn’t make up  for the fact that there are no special units for  

Siege so there’s no like there’s no civilization  that you could pick to get more base stats for   your siege and I think that that is a big problem  so your technically at a slight disadvantage   already but the biggest problem of all is shown  in this little chart right here it’s called city  

Destruction counters watchtowers but is countered  by infantry Archer and Cavalry units Siege are   literally countered by every other troop type in  the game so in other words they take more damage   from and I think also deal less damage to and I  could be wrong about that every troop type in the  

Game they are literally count counted by every TR  troop type in the game so you’re talking about the   slowest unit in the game with no special units  and is countered by everybody so great news you   are the most swarm troop in the game and you’re  probably going to have fewer stats and everyone’s  

Dealing more damage to you and you can’t get away  cuz you’re March speed and on top of all that if   you are using the ranged formation that means  that you’re locked in place you are stuck in  

Place if somebody gets to you if they reach your  troops you’re countered by everybody and you can’t   get away you’re just you’re getting destroyed  you are getting destroyed but despite all of   that okay even if they fixed all of that even if  they gave more March speed to Siege and they gave  

Them a civilization with a special unit and they  made it so they weren’t countered by any troop   types the number one problem with engineering  commanders and with ranged combat is that it’s   boring bro it’s so Boring it is the most boring  way to play Rise of Kingdoms by far you literally  

Sit in in one spot on the map and you just sit  there and hope someone comes close enough to you   otherwise you have to spend a significant amount  of time dismantling your Tower walking somewhere   else really slow by the way and then setting  up your Tower again and I’m not saying people  

Don’t do this and I know that some people do it  and you do get good results and it’s nice like   chip damage at at a distance I get all that right  there is some strategic advantage to it but it’s  

Still really boring compared to actual open field  fighting and so why would players do it why would   players choose to play a much more boring and  passive play style it’s less exciting it’s not as  

Fun and like I just described Siege units are the  worst units in the game so because of all of that   because the equipment is so expensive and because  the payoff is so low with the most boring play  

Style in the game I think it is safe to assume  that free-to-play players can probably just skip   this upcoming might damage ranged commanders and  they’re probably going to be fine with that right   now again this is all speculation and I could be  completely wrong and when the skills get revealed  

I will cover them right away on this YouTube  channel and so if you don’t want to miss that   consider subscribing and clicking the Bell to be  notified the next time that I post that video but   more than likely free-to-play players can breathe  a breath of fresh air and of relief because they  

Won’t need to invest heavily in these commanders  that is my prediction that is what I think will   be the case and if you’re a mega well perhaps  you know if you’ve got the Armament and you’ve  

Got the equipment maybe this upcoming release is  going to be for you and it’s going to fit in your   7 March lineup and it’s going to be popping off  but I suspect that it might not be the case and  

Truthfully I hope that it’s not because I think  if range commanders get too strong that’s going   to break the meta and it’s not going to be fair  your whales are going to be able to destroy you  

At a distance you can’t even get close and I  don’t want the game to descend down that path   I don’t think that’ll be fun for anybody anyway  guys this video was way longer than I thought it  

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0:00 3 NEW Commanders Are COMING!
1:00 ANNOUNCEMENT!
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3:31 Commander RELEASE DATE
5:55 F2P Players – GOOD NEWS!
9:12 Commander 1 – GAJAH MADA?
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