 Greetings my esteemed subscribers. Welcome to the greatest gaming channel of all time. Now, I'm joking. It isn't really, it isn't even a gaming channel, but I thought it would be fun to introduce it thus. What is perhaps the greatest of all time? It's HFM Parts 2 and we have a new DLC for the game, which is set in good old India. And as you can see before you, we have a campaign with good old Babur. Now as you have probably seen, I can only suppose that you are following me on different social media, Telegram for example, and Instagram. Then you've seen me Babur Khan posting. I recommended a book series a while back, which the first book in the series is about Babur Khan and I actually read this book quite a few years back and then I decided to reread it and it was much better on the second read through because as you attain more experience yourself you get a different appreciation for well the ups and downs of life so to speak and you get a different appreciation for someone who despite everything pursues his goals and his visions and someone who has a firm belief in his own destiny. So for all Indians who might be listening and watching this, I am of course not endorsing the Havoc Babur cast in India, but you know history is full of violence so it's not really something I need to say but I know that there is a bloody history of the Mughals but anyway the book series is what I want to get to. I can highly recommend it, great series and as you all know I do write a lot of book reviews mainly of more esoteric literature as of late. Now if you're new to reading I would definitely recommend you to read some historical fiction so you get a good easily digested overview of certain time periods so I learned quite a bit from just reading those books about the Mughal Empire. Now anyway this is not actually a video on books this H.Empires 2 Let's Play video so we're gonna get straight into good old Babur here so as I'm sure they will say in this cinematic we're about to see Babur Khan claimed to be a descendant of the great Genghis Khan and also of Tamerlane Timurulenk who you actually have a campaign here in H.Empires 2 and he was a brutal conqueror of exceeding ruthlessness. Might make a separate video on him later on who knows so anyway Babur Khan he came from a line of bloody conquerors and of course he had grown up with you know people telling him of his destiny of his blood that he had you know was divinely blessed to achieve greatness and of course if you have that sort of belief in yourself then reality will conform to that vision as I mentioned in Dauntless. Now anyway enough talking from my side let's get into the game itself Pearl of the East perhaps they are talking about Samarkand there we'll see. Allah gives and Allah takes I fear that I do not have much time left in this world yet I cannot complain my life has been an adventure and for all my humility I believe it has been extraordinary enough to be written about you may accuse me of vanity but I have decided to write the book myself it should be good literature after all I dined with fine amirs and caroused with simple peasants on moonlit steps they waged wars and sat on thrones only to lose them again and it all began in the maelstrom of intrigue and bloody skirmishes that was my beloved transsoxiana the melting pot of persian high culture and nomadic traditions to the east of samarkand my father ruled the fertile slopes of the furgana valley like all heirs of tamerlane he was a proud timurid who sought to imitate his great ancestor unfortunately Allah had not blessed him with a knack for warfare after a few humiliating defeats he decided to devote himself to his other passions eating drinking and rearing pigeons one day as my father was climbing the stairs to check on his birds Allah in his infinite wisdom decided that this model of gluttony had waffled on the earth for long enough halfway up to the dove coat the stairs collapsed under him and he fell to his death and that is how I babur came to be lord of the furgana valley yet like all transitions of power in our culture it was not to be a peaceful one thanks to my dear mother could look my bays agreed not to abandon what surely appeared to be a dynasty in shambles but my devious uncles were another matter at that time i was just a 14 year old boy with nothing to my name and my uncles who had long desired the furgana valley thought that my inheritance was ripe for the taking so there you see the dangers of bloat maxing you can't bloat max you can't bulk too hard then you will um die in such a manner so anyway good introduction as is the case for most of these age vampires to campaigns they set the stage okay so we have to hold off the enemy timurids so timurids the etymology is um the house of timur so tamer lane so we have some the fortified tower must not be destroyed and babur and his mother could look must survive fair enough we can look at a hint i'm not going to read through this because it's um it's not reasonable at this particular time men sneak around in the shadows of our walls my princess shall we get the boy to safety these cowards snuck up in the dark of the night but there is no need to fearfully hide hold our position until dawn and the sun will reveal the faces of these scoundrels all right we need to defend her so here we have kutlug which is the mother and here we have young babur so since we have these heroes they regenerate health they might well take some take some damage so i'm not risking babur i am i'm merely making sure that he is getting a taste of battle of course we have to be careful so um so he doesn't die young babur of course when you play age vampires two you can um try to get the archers to shoot at the infantry and uh the cavalry to chase down archers now i managed to lose some of my cavalry unfortunately but um it is what it is and now i actually forgot to do something which i should have done at the very start and that is to upgrade the attack of uh of my archers oh well i can always blame my um gaming performance on the fact that i'm recording all right good stuff so we have started the um the mission itself and we're going to conquer these hostile Timurids so now what you should always do if you play any strategy game i suppose you should build up your economy so what i will do now is i will try to get hold of some stone somewhere so i can build a second town center and then i will boom and boom means that i will create a strong economy that is the first action to do whenever you play can be achieved if you trust in the ally in your own strength but it cannot hurt to have loyal allies by your side seek out other amirs in the area who can be convinced to join our cause i will do so could look i will actually explore a bit with her now you can also create a market and buy you can trade some um some gold for stone um and then we can build our second town center so i'm gonna do that boom and you just build it here so we can continue the boom we can actually build two town centers i believe it's the only reasonable course of action and now i'm gonna get rid of the usbex so we're baiting them i we can't bait them they are um they are unbeatable but um but we're gonna see anyway we can do something here now they have been successfully tricked into coming to us and of course i don't want to lose young babur here so he will have to run around a bit when the others are fighting so now we've cleared the path for could look to explore a bit while we boom max here so basically i will probably edit this video aha so these guys they have told us that you can gain these these tributiates which is um which is good i will i will do it but yeah as i was saying i will edit this video uh because it would be too long if i um if i record all of it so i will just keep booming here my economy get a great economy and then we will strike out so that is a good idea if you play hfm parts 2 or any strategy game with that matter to get your economy in order for um focusing on military matters then of course you should create an army at the same time so that you don't get mugged by enemy raiders and the like so i'm doing that and i'm creating some more horse archers i think that's reasonable since we're playing as the tatars welcome and tiger with both tamales and temperature blood in his veins very well bring me 10 white horses and we shall form an alliance following our traditional customs all right we have to procure 10 white horses to get this fine gentleman to ally with us so i suppose we'll have to scout around a bit and i see two magnificent white stallions here come with me i will gift you to this gentleman right here and he will take good care of you i am certain here we actually have another fine horse we're gonna send him straight down here and then we have a third timurid noble to visit and then we'll launch a little raid here just need to build up our forces a bit and here are two more horses how nice it's not exactly a do you care more for pious bubble then bring me a holy relic we are indeed pious so we will do that we will bring sacred relic to this fine gentleman so you can meditate upon its sacredness but as you can see we have also been attacked here our fine fortified tower need to defend it at all costs so here we have it samarkand we cannot go nearer now i suppose we have to continue to defend here we got into a bit of trouble here unfortunately so now we have to use the infamous or famous or depending on your perspective hit and run tactics because here you can see pikemen halberdiers they are especially good against cavalry cavalry archers so we need to pick them off at range so they don't get close and now of course we need to repair our tower here so we don't get mugged and perhaps build a castle there somewhere as well i think that's the only reasonable course of action so we're going to take these guys here and place a magnificent castle and you can see the nice centralation aesthetics of the of the buildings here good stuff good stuff now we need to find a relic he was very pleased with our offering of 10 white horses i am i'm happy now we can fight alongside us as we try to mong these new males now i'm sure these hostile timurids were not new males i think we were quite quite concerned indeed with the honor and the principles of them principles of warrior culture and now as you can see we have a mast a decent enough force so we can probably go on a little raid to procure these trebuchets perhaps that's actually a silent tea if you pronounce it in french i am unfortunately not fluent in french it's um it's completely barbaric of me all right the moment of truth can we defeat these usbek scouts perhaps we can so we have here some camels which are good against cavalry because horses they don't like camels they get a bit anxious when they're near camels and this is reflected in the game by camels being additionally good against the cavalry so yes i suppose that was enough we can train some additional soldiers here for good measure always good to have and here we have found a sacred relic so we need to train some more camels i suppose to get rid of them and here we see a great great levels of unemployment need to put these guys to work immediately otherwise we don't have any gold but as i mentioned before you can actually trade and get some gold that way but of course it's better to um to mine gold or even trade you can see if we find a friendly market somewhere and then we can send some trade carts you will easily crush your devious uncles with these trebuchet behold we have procured the uh and there we were exceedingly close to getting babur killed perhaps i should actually station him in the castle here so he doesn't so he doesn't die would be a fail it would be a failure of a let's play oh this is also a bit of a failure they got um they got mugged by villagers they got mugged by raiders so we have to send our cavalry there immediately we can also train some new villagers our trusted camels they uh they take care of business and now as you can see you can also upgrade their armors so they're a bit tougher so we have destroyed one castle here and we are approaching a great city of samarkand and we have also finally picked up the relic which we will gift to the pious lord of this fine village i hope he appreciates our fine gift and there is the second castle we need to destroy with our fine trebuchets we have procured a military camp here as well so we can train additional soldiers and send in to the thick the thick of a fighting if you manage to find this relic and bring it to my dervishes and i will stand by your side in the coming better as babur nice to hear he did he did appreciate our fine gift influential timurids have joined us skill diplomacy is as good a weapon as a sword so now we have to be on the lookout for pikemen as i said otherwise they will completely mugged our cavalry fortunately these horse archers have a decent attack against this this pikemen so um all good all good right so samarkand is almost ours we just have one one castle standing in the way so i'm not going to spoil anything about the book but um samarkand was um initially at least the grand prize that babur and of course all timurid princess they wanted to have it the jewel of central asia one could say a very rich city of course neatly located on the silk road speaking of the silk road or rather the silk roads i have a book which i have shown and i will get around to read it so the silk roads by peter francopan i will um talk about it in a podcast or a book review or even in a video when i've read it but my treat list is uh i don't account tamalain's dearest bride is back in the hands of a true timurid and this man of honor is you my son as delightful as it is to watch these daft grand children of tamalain slaughter each other it is getting a little boring it is time to put an end to this juvenile struggle um okay i see your anger my son but it is good that the respects are so halty reckless opponents are easy to overcome yes as i was saying my treat list is quite extensive as it is but i will get around to to that book eventually and now of course as you um saw from the dialogue shei bani khan which is um is a prominent antagonist in the books as well shei bani khan has decided to wage war upon us and yes i was just saying he is um he appears in the in the first book as well well good times good times now as you can see here the enemy uspek army their civilization is the kumans and the kumans a very fascinating story in itself they got driven away during the mongol conquest of russia they fled south some of them ended up in egypt as slaves and then the um so the mamluk dynasty and then they actually got a revenge on the mongols certain battles in the middle east a very fascinating story again i might make some sort of video on it i will certainly mention it again and you have in this fine game h m verse 2 you have a campaign where you play as the kumans highly recommend it if you um yeah if you play the game now checking back in as you can see we have almost defeated shei bani khan and his uspek's just need to get this castle down and i do believe that victory will be ours the tiger has shown these clothes mark my words we need to get to this autumn night we overcame the walls of samarkand the city's merchants and dignitaries were thrilled to receive me and praised my sense of justice as they had heard that i did not tolerate looting among my soldiers yet when shei bani khan returned in the spring and uspek's soldiers blocked the trade routes their enthusiasm quickly evaporated before long a famine broke out in the city as the weeks wore on more and more of my men left samarkand under the pretext that they might catch a few sheep outside of the walls none of them were ever seen again in the end i realized that i had to gamble for my survival with my last loyal followers i snuck past the besiegers during the night and spent towards the furgana valley to procure provisions and reinforcements when we reached the valley at dawn two riders came bringing terrible news in my absence one of shei bani's generals had made himself the new master of furgana i felt like my father must have when the stairs gave way under him i had stretched my luck too thin and lost the land of my forefathers to the invaders all right good stuff good stuff i will see if i make a second video i will meditate upon it do let me know in the comments if you like these videos i of course i enjoy making them all good and if we do continue on this campaign we will lead down to india to establish the mogul dynasty but yeah we'll see thank you for watching and i wish you a high thumos rest of your day xoxo boom