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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 published, so the next year is already shaping up to be another excellent year for our scene. We’ll follow up the News with a little interview that Daniela and I did with Chuptaburger, who is a community member and creator in the AoE II scene at night but also a teacher during the day and we’ve invited him to have a little chat about his work, aoe2 and his nomination for being the teacher of the year in the USA. We’ll end the episode with the tournament outlook for April 2026.

Please check out ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Daniela over at Twitch⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠:

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.twitch.tv/daniela_aoe⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Discord⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Timecodes:

00:00 Programme

02:50 News

01:17:28 Interview with Chuptaburger

01:50:00 Tournament Outlook April 2026

Links:

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠TTL 5⁠⁠⁠

⁠⁠Warlords 5

⁠The League

The Garrison 2

Chuptaworks

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 Spaß machen. Euch wünschen wir viel Spaß beim Spielen!

Felix & Christian

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

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 have arrived in 1537 and are hunting for El Dorado, the imaginary golden city which they believe to find where Quemuenchatocha resides. Even a second expedition has arrived, led by a German conquistador called Federman, who is also searching for the golden city. In all of this, there is a love story, because Pacanchique’s love, Azay, is serving under Quemuenchatocha and spying on him to give intel to Pacanchique, so he can stop the madman. Can we save Azay and force the expeditions to retreat?

Chris

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Music: Muisca Intro Music of the official AoE II Soundtrack

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 much made him a living god. Our goal is to put a stop to his madness and recapture the Sun Temple. However, a new enemy arrives on the Horizon, from far away across the ocean.

Chris

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Music: Muisca Intro Music of the official AoE II Soundtrack

We have returned to south america and to be more precise: with the third scenario of the Muisca Campaign. Once again, we are playing as Pacanchique, a Muisca commander who has sided with Nemequene, Zipa of the southern Muisca Confederation and leading our army in the western borderlands with the mission to pacify the unruly Panche tribes of the region. The northern Muisca are lead by the Zaque called Quemuenchatocha, a powerhungry commander collecting gold in his fortress and he is our main enemy in this campaign so far. By controlling the Panche, we will have more influence over the region and get closer to unifying the Mapuche.Chris

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Music: Muisca Intro Music of the official AoE II Soundtrack

After the first mission, Nemequene was made the new zipa, the leader of the southern Muisca. The bloodthirsty Quemuenchatocha was made the next zaque, leader of the northern Muisca. At the end of the first mission, we, playing as Pacanchique, had to make a choice: continue serving under Quemuenchatocha, who was with no honor, saw Pacanchique as a mere tool and wanted war at all costs but at least I was able to stay with Azay, the love of my life whom I want to marry or... change sides and fight for the south, be a commander for Nemequene, who I consider to be much wiser and more honorable, but that would mean that Pacanchique risked his relationship with Azay. I chose the latter, because I felt like the Protagonist, Pacanchique, would chose so himself. Now we fight the lord we once served!Chris

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Music: Muisca Intro Music of the official AoE II Soundtrack

Welcome back to another Campaign series! There is a good reason for why I’m doing this now though, multiple reasons in fact: First, While you are listening to this, I am somewhere in Japan, probably in Fukuoka and enjoying Sushi or maybe, with a bit of luck, the cherry blossom trees. But I didn’t want you, dear listener, to go for an entire month without a podcast, which is why I preproduced these upcoming five campaign episodes. The second reason is, that I was playing the Last Chieftain campaigns anyway to be able to talk about the DLC in various podcasts, so I wanted to put the spotlight on of those. And I chose the newly released Muisca Campaign called El Dorado, which is also controversial when it comes to its historical background. The Devs chose to merge mythology with historical battles and I thought, that sounded like a lot of fun. Starting today, I will publish one episode per day until the campaign is finished, so you have daily podcasts to look forward to and I hope you’ll enjoy them as much as I do playing the campaign right now.

Chris

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Music: Muisca Intro Music of the official AoE II Soundtrack

Liebe Community,

voller Freude präsentiere ich euch mein Gespräch mit Michi von dem Spielepodcast Insert Moin. Was eigentlich als Reviewfolge gedacht war ist ein bisschen zu einer Folge geworden, in der wir über allerlei AoE Themen sprechen. Michi ist ein Fan des Franchises und kehrte für das DLC nach längerer Zeit zurück zu AoE II. Damit hat er eine ganz frische Perspektive auf unser Spiel, die wir mit einer kleinen Portion Erinnerungen kontrastieren.

Falls ihr die Damen und Herren von Insert Moin noch nicht kennt, dann hört unbedingt mal bei ihnen rein! Sie veröffentlichen mehrere Folgen pro Woche und gehören zu den besten deutschen Spielejournalist:innen der Branche. Unterstützer:innen auf Steady oder Patreon können alle Folgen sogar werbefrei hören. Ansonsten freuen sie sich auch, wenn ihr auf ihrem Discord vorbeischaut und ihnen ein Feedback zu dieser Folge dalasst!

Viel Spaß beim Hören!

Chris

Welcome back to the Age of Empires Magazine! We’ve had a lot happening this month and these are the topics we’ll cover in this episode: First of all, we’ll talk about T90 Titans League and the latest happenings. Then there’s the New DLC with three new south american civilizations and the Patch that was released alongside it with some Balance Changes and the major naval rework. In other News: Viper and Daut have found a new Team and joined Onimaru. Let’s get started!

Please check out ⁠⁠⁠⁠Daniela over at Twitch⁠⁠⁠⁠:

⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.twitch.tv/daniela_aoe⁠⁠⁠⁠

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Discord⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Timecodes:

00:00 Programme

02:27 News

02:31:40 Podcast News & Emails

02:44:00 Tournament Outlook March 2026

Links:

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠TTL 5⁠⁠

⁠Naval rework⁠

Castlerush

The Bastion

AoE2Germany 1v1 League

With the release of the Last Chieftains DLC I felt the urge to talk about the south american civilizations. However, we probably need a lot more time to figure out the new civs, so I decided that this is the perfect time to shed some light on the Inca. They have been around since 2013 and recieved multiple major changes, that entirely changed the way the Inca can be played. Now they have recieved another face lift taking away their wrongful meso identity and making them the south american civ they deserve to be. There's a lot of old and new things about the Inca to tell: they're still the counter civilization full of aggression that they became in 2023, but they lost their eagles and milita-lines, instead they gained Champis. Only time will tell if this is for better or worse.

Chris

Edit: Since the rework, the Kamayuk has received +1 Pierce Armour for the Elite Upgrade, while Fabric Shield is now only +1 instead of +2. Post-Imp Kamayuks are therefore just as strong as they were before the rework. Thanks to Jarrymo for pointing this out!

Talk to the community on:

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Timecodes:

00:00 Introduction

11:23 Settlements

20:30 Champi

33:42 Slinger

45:00 Food discount on military units

50:50 Free Llama

53:48 Blacksmith upgrades and cheap stone buildings

56:32 Kamayuk

01:03:10 Andean Sling & Fabric Shields

01:10:50 Strategies & army compositions

01:32:10 Campaign

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

Some sources:

Siege of Cuzco

Range of Slings

Maya Slingers

History of Potato by Riley Knight

Inca Road System