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Herzlich Willkommen zu einer neuen Kampagnenstaffel - dieses Mal in deutscher Sprache und mit einem wundervollen Gast für die gesamte Staffel: Reto ist am Start und spielt sich mit mir durch die sechs Szenarien der jungen Jahre von Harald Hardrade. Harald ist der gerade mal 15 Jahre junge Halbbruder des norwegischen Königs Olav II. In dieser Mission spielen wir die historische Schlacht von Stikles...

Finally, a Team Game based Masterpiece, thanks to the currently running The League tournament. This on was played on Migration between Team Onimaru Capybaras and Team SalzZ in the fourth round of the group stage. I hope you'll enjoy this display of perfect team synergy! Watch the game here ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Discord ⁠ Music: "Carne y Helado" of the official AoE II Soundtrack.

Welcome back to another Age of Empires Magazine! Today’s episode is going to be short and sweet, because August has been a very uneventful month aside from the League and Daniela is too busy with said event so unfortunately she can’t join me for this episode. That’s why today’s episode will give you a bit of an update on the current standings of The League in the News. The second News will be Fran...

Today, I want to tell you about the Teutons. They’re one of the Original Civilizations in the 1999s Age of Kings and they play out very differently in the hands of casual and competitive players. The Teutons are considered to be one of the worst civilizations overall and on Arabia particularly in the current meta. They are basically never seen in any tournament and most of the time rated the lowes...

This time, I won‘t be talking about Age of Empires II and instead give you a little bit of a review of another strategy game, called Corsair Cove. It‘s been consuming me for the past two weeks, and I believe you‘ll find it to be an interesting game if you enjoy strategic city builder games and/or pirates. I had a ton of fun with the game as it offers a fresh take on the genre. I hope you'll enjoy...

Welcome back to another Age of Empires Magazine! Daniela's back cohosting this Episode so be prepared for two and a half hours worth of yapping. We're discussing her first hand experiences in the Brazilian Dynasty as well as The League. I've also invited Dr. Stone on the Podcast, who's just an absolute great guy and he's inviting everyone to join him and his team at the Empires...

The crusaders of the Holy Roman Empire  have finally made it to the Holy Land, but sadly their emperor has not. Now, they wish to bring his body to the Dome of the Rock, a holy site in Jerusalem. The city of Jerusalem is well fortified and protected by the city of Damascus and the formidable Saladin, wo has vowed to protect the Holy Land against the invaders. Richard the Lionheart is desperately w...

This mission is based on Barbarossa's ill-fated expedition to the Holy Land during the Third Crusade (1189-1192). In 1187, the Muslim sultan Saladin dealt a crushing blow to the Crusader states at the Battle of Hattin and recaptured Jerusalem. The shock wave hit Western Europe immediately: Pope Gregory VIII issued a papal bull calling for a new crusade to reclaim the Holy Land. Barbarossa, des...

We are back in the 12th century with the Barbarossa Campaign in mission number four, where Barbarossa is once again determined to conquer Italy. The Italians have rebelled against the Rule of Barbarossa once more, this time, multiple cities at once who have formed the Lombard League. This League was a powerful medieval alliance of northern Italian city-states formed in 1167. Its primary purpose wa...

Welcome back to our third mission of the Barbarossa Campaign! After dealing with our cousin Henry the Lion in the previous one, it is now time to get back at what really matters to Barbarossa and that’s being the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. The third mission is based on the sieges of Crema  in 1159 and 1160 as well as Milan in 1162 during Barbarossa's second Italian campaign, which was p...

Welcome back to the Barbarossa Campaign, where we play as the Teutons and relive the 12th century of central europe out of the perspective of the Holy Roman Empire. Last mission, we’ve pacified the German part of Europe. In this second mission, it’s going to be all about establishing our claim on being this mighty emperor. For that, we make our way to the east to conquer Poland and also test the l...

It´s time for a new campaign run and after a little bit of consideration this campaign will be an old school campaign from the Original Age of Kings Game, released in 1999. I will play the Barbarossa Campaign and take a close look at what it means to be the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire in the 12th century. In this mission, I will introduce Barbarossa and tell you how he became the Holy Roman E...

Welcome back to another civilizations Podcast – today abouit the Shu. The Shu are relatively new in the Game being on of the Three Kingdom Civilizations and they come with a rich history of ancient china as well as novel ideas in Age of Empires II. For starters, they have a hero unit that's even playable in multiplayer and two other unique unit as well as regional units. They are predominantly...

Welcome back to another Age of Empires Magazine! The past month had been very uneventful apart from Heras tournament, so that’s going to be my main topic in this magazine. There’s a bit of franchise news, with AoE mobile coming to PC, and I’m gonna be talking about that a little and finally, I’ve got a couple of emails to discuss as well the tournament outlook for July 2026. I hope you’ll enjoy th...

Es gibt Neuigkeiten in Sachen Steamdeck und Switch 2 bei Christian und es könnte sein, dass die Angelegenheit etwas ausgeartet ist. Daher sprechen Felix und Christian in dieser Folge viel über Empfehlungen fürs Steam Deck. AoE II wird auch kurz angesprochen, denn Christian erzählt ein bisschen von Heras Streamers Invitational, von dem Felix gar nichts mitbekommen hat. Dabei kommt heraus, dass Chri...

Welcome back to another Age of Empires Magazine, this time as a solo podcast as Daniela is travelling! First, we’ll start with a little recap of Warlords 5. Next, I’ll be talking about Heras Streamers Invitational called the Kings Gauntlet and I’ll wrap up the news for aoe2 with summing up the latest patch. I’ve also got two quick newsstoried in the Franchise News as well as a couple of Emails I’l...

It took me a while but finally, here's my episode on the Japanese! I played a lot of games with the Japanese to make sure to get this right as they are a very versatile civ with a great early game and a hard late game. They are pretty good on every map except for closed maps and excell at hybrid maps, but somehow they're never the best civ on any map. I hope you'll enjoy this deep dive...

Herzlich willkommen an unserer Tafelrunde! Felix hat ein neues Spielzeug angeschafft: ein Steamdeck. Und Christian ist ganz begeistert, denn er würde auch so gerne eines haben, also fragt er ihn danach aus. Ohne Steamdeck hat sich Christian dafür auf der Rangliste mit Land Madness ausgetobt und seit kurzem viel Zeit in Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era gesteckt. Viel Spaß bei dieser Folge wünsc...

Welcome back to another Age of Empires Magazine! We’re here to bring you all the news from Age of Empires II from the past and upcoming month: We’ll talk about the qualifiers of the Brazilian Dynasty LAN and Warlords 5, the full announcement of The League and the Public Update preview. There’s news from the Franchise as well: The new AoM DLC has already been released and a new DLC for AoE IV is co...

Hi guys, I took a little break because work is killing me right now, but here's a little episode to keep you entertained! In this newest episode of Masterpieces you'll hear the tale of the longest game 2k+ players have played, even though the word play might be a little bit of a stretch. It's a funny story though and it caught the attention of the whole community and beyond, so it qual...

RedBull Wololo has concluded yesterday and Daniela and I have come together to recap the event. We're talking about all our highlights, the best games from the tournament and try to pinpoint what made this tournament as grand as it was. Beware that this podcast is full of spoilers and enjoy this episode! Please check out ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Daniela over at Twitch⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ : ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.twitch.tv/daniela_aoe⁠...

We are back for another episode of the Age of Empires Magazine and we’ve put together a nice program. We’ll start off with a recap of T90 Titans League, then there’s the replacement qualifier for RB Wololo Londinium. In addition we’ve got some exciting announcements to talk about: Warlords 5, The League and The Garrison 2 have been announced, despite the new esport calendar not even being publishe...

Das neue DLC hat uns etwas von der Rangliste ferngehalten. Stattdessen haben wir uns vier anderen Spielen zugewandt: Felix hat wie angekündigt das Remaster von Oblivion und Neon White gespielt, Christian hingegen hat in Darkest Dungeon II reingeschnuppert und Resident Evil Village endlich gespielt. Das heutige Tafelründchen erzählt von vier verschiedenen Spielen, die auf vier verschiedene Weise Sp...

Welcome back to our final mission from the Muisca campaign, where we follow the story of Pacanchique, a honorable warrior who had served under Nemequene, the leader of the southern Muisca federation and led his army into battle against Quemuenchatocha, the leader of the northern Muisca confederation, who thinks of himself as a god and grows madder by the day. To make matters worse, the Spanish hav...

Once again, we are playing the Muisca campaign of the Last Chieftains DLC and this time around it’s the fourth mission called Son of the Sun. This beautiful title was given, because despite our best efforts to keep the zaque, or leader of the northern Muisca, Quemuenchatocha in check, he has forced the Iraca, the spiritual leader of all the Muisca, to proclaim him the Son of the Sun, which pretty...