 Greetings my esteemed laddingtons. I will sound like a complete normaling now, but I am excited Excited indeed to share this fine game with you. I have waited a long time for this and As I will elaborate on further as we get into the game this game H. Vampires 2 has been a huge influence of mine and Yeah, I will Credit my history interest To this game played it a lot played it a lot with my brother back in the day so we're just gonna have a look through the Campaigns and the historical battles and then we'll pick a campaign and get into it and I will yeah talk More about the influence it had on me. So yeah, as I said, I had a Quick look at it by myself yesterday, and it looked absolutely amazing. They remastered the music as well Absolutely glorious in the correct sense of the word. So let's look at historical battles first So we have a lot of Epicness here. I shared this on telegram and Twitter yesterday because I was an Instagram, of course because I was so excited Not often I get excited by a game like this, but since it's been with me for such a long time. I am yeah Very excited. So we have York Vinland saga. I remember that one Hastings I do not remember being part of the first game when it came out Aging court though. I mentioned this in a recent Swedish history Video when I talked about nights Then tours of course, which I've talked a lot about in also various history videos then we have Lepanto Glorious battle So anyway, we have a lot of cool things here to dive into Later on so I do believe that Assassin's Creed will be on hold for a little bit because we have so much Historical juiciness to get into here so My thought was to get into Some sort of campaign and this is the good stuff of course because it's Europe But I will just show you the other campaigns also really quickly So I have Montezuma loved that campaign when I played it back in the day loved playing as the Aztecs then we have a New for me at least because I didn't play forgotten kingdoms. I only played age of conquerors So the Incas can be interesting to play as as well then we have a lot of a lot of interesting stuff there and The great thing With this game is that for me? I've learned so much history from it and you can still learn so much from it so I have Honestly, no real idea who any of these are and It will be nice to get into them at some point Genghis Khan classic campaign. I loved playing that back in the day to Tamer Lane, I have actually read a book on On the Mughal invasion and then they discuss who was the greatest Tamer Lane or Genghis Khan so the descendants of them when they invade India They discuss who was the greatest of those two so Tamer Lane fascinating story as well Might make a campaign at some point We have Africa Saladin great campaign. Obviously you are playing for the wrong side, but Saladin was a man of honor So we have to Respect that then we have some other campaigns, which I don't know anything about either then we have Francisco the Almeida of Glorious Portugal might be nice to look into as well Now back to the main thing here. I have played of course back in the day Attila I've talked about this on numerous occasions both in text in my book In videos and in articles etc. They share epicness share epic sensation of being in the late stages of the Roman Empire and of course Attila the legend of Attila as You can see here scourge of God. It's Yeah, it's an epic thing to think about especially in the situation we are in Western Europe today quite similar to Western Europe in in that time But yeah, I will save that for another time. We have a la rique epic name and I have made Let's play episodes in Attila total war as well on both Yeah, the Romans itself themselves and the Ostrogoth and And yeah, some some let's place there So that is one option of course for us to make a let's play el Sid highly Motivating story. I talked about it briefly in my Spanish reconquista video. I released two months back William Wallace this is a learning campaign. So this wasn't really all too intriguing. But yeah, I play that back in the day as well Journal work also an epic campaign. I played back in the day Same thing with Barbarossa So yeah, a lot of cool things to choose from what I will choose though What I think is most reasonable is to play Dracula because I haven't played this campaign Because this is yeah, as I said, I only played up until the age of conquerors Then I didn't really play the expansions. But now when they released everything. I'm very excited Indeed to get into it. So without further ado, let's Get into Valahia The dragon spreads his wings. So let's get into it. Boom Dancing around I spotted a magnificent blade light yet firm and Unblemished by the elements it's shown in the rain and lightening The hilt was fashioned from steam Inlaid with silver and gold to form the figure of a defiant wingless As we reached the summit, I could not believe my eyes Aroid yet imposing castle loomed above us Massive moves bounded out of the door of the castle towards my soldiers Hearing for their lives. They drew weapons only to hear a voice from the shadows address the wolves Stand down fellows Then he turned to us Welcome to Polionari castle the ancient stronghold of the brahulesti It is well that your path has led you here come inside sit by the fire and feast While I tell you the tale Epic introduction Okay, so we're in the game main objectives Vlad Dracula must survive. We look at the hints to and A note on that introduction when I played it back in the day. I always find found those introductions so Absolutely motivating. So yeah, good times Anyway, let's get back to the hints Valachia is a dense and mountainous region Use your ranged units well and beware of those of your enemies The local vovoids and their troops are a means to an end be frugal But do not despair if some fall in battle Keep an eye out for Valachian partisans that are willing to join your army The militia ships are deadly to anything too close to the shoreline Delicting them when they are adjacent to a target a clump wishes the same effect as a direct hit The explosions of the dynastic gunpowder tower will destroy the bridge and anything on it Do not do not lose men needlessly On standard difficulty a monk will accompany your force Yes, I actually did play on standard because I didn't want to come across. I didn't want to lose in this fine episode So we have some scout reports here as well Dracula In red has arrived in Valachia the head of a small auto-enforce These men will serve to guard him initially, but more men must be recruited if Valachia Valachia is to be taken Three local vovoids Rule the southern half of the map Should Dracula prove his metal they miss where filled it to him and some other Things the designs of Hungary are unknown, but it is no friend of Dracula's turkish patrons All right, let's do it and as you can see the game looks absolutely amazing The graphics and just a feel of it. So Yeah, I'm very impressed. I am impressed by your performance That's my George Saint Pierre imitation, but yeah to anyone who has been part of making this Game Well done, we have a monk here I will try to um convert something fun with it Did we actually get someone? No Our soldiers killed them before we could get a chance. I can heal someone though Can you heal this guy? Void Mirka. Okay. Hi, it's an ally. How nice Slavic true friend and up here we have Voivode Jacob Good stuff. Good stuff. So yeah, as you can see the graphics are Very much improved Actually looks better than Age of Empires 3. I would say which had amazing graphics Hello lads. We have come to Dracula. Your timing could not have been better Vradeslav's forces march here as we speak Take my man and drive them off Right who are the Ha they're up here Hmm, I think I might have set the difficulty level to a bit too um Too low because this uh This might seem a bit easy. I don't know. We'll see how this develops I'm gonna try to convert this boy. Aram. He looks great Oh, right I am a bit noobish now because I rushed in with my cavalry. I'm not supposed to of course rush in with cavalry into Into pikemen like that, but um, oh well I haven't played in a while. I have to blame that So as I was saying my brother and I and our friends Back in the day when we were like Twelve until 14 15 played Okay, thank you mate. Um, yeah, we played a lot played a lot of lawn. Yeah, so, uh Yeah, watch on highland black forest It's teaming up with each other and uh fighting against um The computers it was uh, it was good times good times and Um really got that sense of epicness Now I want to convert something fun with this monk bra Maybe I can reach Can reach this boy or and convert him Yeah, they were I managed to do it now have a boy or two to play with so, uh Yes, I have to go up there and um See what is up And as I mentioned in the beginning of the video they have remade remastered the music and actually I sometimes when I write When I've written on my book Dauntless and also on my book my coming book I sometimes put um The soundtrack of H. Vampires 2 on to get that epic sensation music is really good Especially for Age of Kings first game That rascal Vladislav Okay, let's do it. Ah, we got a battering ram as well. So if we can they're speaking Turkish how um How blasphemous Oh, well, it is what it is We have to make the best out of the situation. So anyway speak of Hungary and Romania I don't know what has happened, but every time I mention anything related to Romania There's always some Hungarians who are Mightily upset Aha, look at that. We actually managed to convert the boy are and then it got um, he got shot to death anyway Marry this aesthetic waterfall That's so yeah, if you're a Hungarian it's not a good look. It's just annoying and um, especially for For americans and western europeans We're not really overly concerned with your centuries old conflicts. So um, yeah, no one cares That being said I will try to convert This guy I don't want my monk to die though. Oh back back back This is the guy we need to convert Nah, he didn't make it a shame So anyway, I've gotten some questions my favorite civilization In Age of Empires 2 This man will do your bidding and this gold will finance your war Perfect always nice with gold something you always need if you are to Engage in in some sort of war anyway, as I was saying actually posted on instagram in the spring when I was in Holland we had um A good few activities one of those was Throwing access and then I posted to instagram that Frankish Throwing ax man is checking in and I asked what um what everyone's um favorite faction and and such is And I responded that my own might be either the Teutons or the Britons But I'm not sure it might be the Goths as well A lot of cool civilizations and The interesting thing here now for me is that since I haven't played so many of these new factions It's um, yeah, I'm like a a child on Christmas so many new packages to open so, uh, yeah Good times good times And here we have Vlad Dracula very aesthetic Unit an absolute unit one might say And now I suppose We have to recruit one more Vovoid and he's up here So we'll just cross The map I will explore a bit with this mad count Ha some local Parkinson's our scouting Was a good idea So anyway, I have contracted a An artist with the heart on the right place to make a cool Vlad Dracula design That I will use for Legio gloria clothing. So, uh, yes, they tuned for that Speak in which we have some New absolute epic garments coming out later today or tomorrow the greatest garment I call it, but I will elaborate more on that in a video log of sorts Now I will try to Shoot these guys from far And Try to convert to this guy. No our soldiers. They're too quick at killing The enemy. Oh, look at that. Ha, we have a wolf on our tails. We need to I'm sorry for the wildlife, but um, I had to do it to save my men Sacks are quite Infected To cross the nearby bridge Find the way to destroy it and all of the men that I can master are yours Yeah, as I was saying there's a The Danish the fool store a cache of gunpowder inside that tower overlooking the river If we were to fire it the explosion would surely be enough to demolish that bridge I Um, I must do it now as I was saying Um a frequent occurrence that I got get interrupted when I make let's place, but it's all good um What I was saying is that there is a rather Infected conflict in in sweden when it comes to Wolf hunting where the people on the countryside Who are getting well Their pets and livestock get attacked by wolves. They are not all too keen on on the wolves, but the people in the cities are more protective of them, so um yeah, that's um Well somewhat hot topic in sweden now, of course we have bigger problems in sweden these days, but uh But it's still there That little conflict Okay, so now we'll blow this bridge up Boom All right, let's do it we need to Okay, we have to go back to uh That place now we have quite a sizable force here But uh, we're playing as the turks. I um, I don't understand this is um It's not reasonable in the least Um speaking of turks My friend survived the jive made a Good documentary video called in search of the Anatolian earth mother Or something like that. So um, yeah in the documentary he goes to turkey and uh looks at some old Lycian ruins and temples, etc I utilized a little edit there and now we have to admire the grand procession of soldiers crossing this bridge here So anyway Dracula For those of you who do not know about Vlad Cepesh great european hero someone we can draw inspiration from in um in these dire times, so uh That's why I decided to make this campaign first and of course since I haven't played this actual campaign Uh, so it's uh, yeah as I said, uh some some new Christmas presents for me to open so to speak. Oh damn we have stumbled upon The The dynastic forces there, but they proved to be no problem How we have uh gotten some um fresh troops there such a beautiful map Bebex here Let's see if we can convert this pikeman No We managed to die before So anyway comment below the comment section If you've watched this far what your favorite civilization is It's always nice to hear Actually, I was going to say something as well about HVM Paris 2 I have a good analysis Well in my humble opinion at least it's good on why The HVM Paris 2 community is so much friendlier Than a lot of other online gaming communities and it's I am born in 89 by the way some 30 now Back in our In our day as it were It wasn't as easy to get games to find Games so um Yeah, it wasn't as easy to find other people to play with and when you did You viewed each other as friends in In a different way than you perhaps do today um So and also since yeah, it was a different time on the internet I think people were a bit friendlier especially in the gaming community Back then at least Whereas people are a bit unfriendlier now I I suppose That being said let us um illuminate these heretics Where have our monk disappeared? I want to convert something fun With uh with him and we need to keep Dracula Back I suppose so he doesn't die that would be A quite unfortunate so close to the end of um This campaign I'm perhaps not micromanaging as well as I should but um But it is what it is We have to defend our pattern rabbit list. I actually thought about live streaming this but um I am I want him alive. Uh, yeah, no in regard to live streaming A large sluggish slav at its head Courses we cannot hope to face such a force I will seek refuge with my cousin Bogdan in modavia Juvar victorious Okay, cool. Yes What you have just brought me is the lost blade of Vlad Dracula himself I was shocked and immediately demanded an explanation Our host's eyes flashed and there was a strained look on his face Finally the rush of memory seemed to slow and become more controlled That is a long story But then again Dracula sought refuge at the Moldavian court There he learned that the bloody slap the second had begun to mediate peace talks Between the Ottomans and Hungarians securing his position as boy world of valechia Furious Dracula's war vengeance on ottomans valechia boyars and danish the clansmen alike As is reasonable So Yes now as I was going to say I prefer making let's plays because then you can watch it whenever and You don't need to Book in a special time even though it's fun with the interaction and all but yeah I do prefer just making a video and then uploading it to youtube So next episode I suppose we'll go to return of the dragon Good times good times. So thank you all for watching and have a great rest of your day xx boom