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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 Emperor.

Chris

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Music: Teuton Intro Music of the official AoE II Soundtrack

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 an archer civilization with strong siege options and they can become a dps powerhouse if the unique techs come into play. At the same time, they are somewhat predictable as they don't have too much else to offer. I hope you'll enjoy this episode!

Chris

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Timecodes:

00:00 Introduction

08:30 Eco bonus

15:46 Military bonuses

25:20 War Chariot, White Feather Guard, Liu Bei, Lou Chuan

41:35 Unique Technologies

50:21 Strategies & army compositions

01:03:10 Campaign

Music: Shu Intro Music and "Operation Monkey" of the official AoE II Soundtrack

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 this episode!

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Timecodes:

00:00 Program

01:13 News

17:35 Franchise News

23:14 Emails

25:59 Tournament Outlook June 2026

Links:

⁠Kings Gauntlet⁠

⁠⁠Specialist Cup 2⁠

Brazilian Dynasty LAN

Workshop Wars

Triple Threat

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 Christian durchaus neidisch ist auf die talentierten Teilnehmer.

Viel Spaß beim Hören!

Felix & Christian

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Musik: Joey Jojo vom offiziellen AoE II: DE OST.

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’ll be replying to. The episode will end as it always does with the tournament outlook for the next month. This is gonna be a shorter magazine than you’re used to and I hope you’ll still enjoy it!

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Timecodes:

00:00 Program

01:05 News

34:35 Franchise News

36:20 Emails

40:11 Tournament Outlook June 2026

Links:

⁠⁠⁠⁠Warlords 5⁠⁠

Kings Gauntlet

⁠Update

⁠Specialist Cup 2

Latam of the Desert

LingHe Asian Duo Invitational

Elite Classic IV

Mythic Clan League

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 on the Japanese tech tree, civ bonuses, unique techs and of course the Samurai, along with the rich history of the Japanese both in reality and ingame. Also, I might be a little sarcastic when it comes to the names of the unique techs, please forgive me.

Chris

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Timecodes:

00:00 Introduction

07:30 Fishing ships and wood discount

22:10 Military bonuses

37:20 Samurai, Yasama & Kataparuto

55:18 Strategies & army compositions

01:21:05 Campaign

Music: Japanese Intro Music and "Operation Monkey" of the official AoE II Soundtrack

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 wünschen

Felix & Christian

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Musik: Joey Jojo vom offiziellen AoE II: DE OST.

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 coming out soon. We’ll finish up the episode with the tournament outlook for May 2026.

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Timecodes:

00:00 Program

06:30 News

01:54:48 Franchise News

01:59:53 Tournament Outlook May 2026

Links:

⁠⁠⁠Warlords 5⁠

⁠⁠The League⁠

Brazilian Dynasty Qualifier

Minor Update

PUP

AoE Leagues

Specialist Cup 2

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 qualifies as eSport history, despite being a ranked game between Rubenstock and Andre. Enjoy!

The Game

The Chronicle

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠DiscordMusic: "Carne y Helado" of the official AoE II Soundtrack.

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:

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Music: Shanty from the event