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oh man, goonspeed! i know there's been a few attempts at AoE and AoE2 that haven't gotten too far. one of my favourite games of all time, but so, so, so massive. i am shocked and terrified at the prospect of a Return to Rome expansion being released and destroying even more of my freetime. i love playing AoE2's campaigns. a lot...  my top two most played steam games lol
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NewMars posted:Interesting historical context! The scottish lost the battle of Falkirk, badly. there's a William Wallace campaign from the English's POV on one of the more recent DLCs. it is more... accurate.
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C Go with the Great Khan.
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Mar 30, 2023 15:10
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La Hire's sword is not bloody enough...
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Yeah what is it... the Lancastrian phase? The lesser Shakespeare plays were written about this time. I am all about the early phases... Henry V and all that.
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my knowledge of that period of history basically begins and ends with the two Henriads, haha. but yeah, this portrayal of La Hire, at least, is the most accurate on in video games... i think? he appears in the Bladestorm games and that one absolute mad PSP SRPG... 
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Mar 31, 2023 19:07
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yeah Gilles de Rais shows up in the absurd Jeanne d'Arc PSP game where La Hire is also an anthropomorphic lion and Jeanne herself gets magic Sailor Moon-esque transformation powers to battle the literal demons that have taken over the English leadership. He is one of the main characters and is portrayed as heroic throughout the game until (endgame spoilers) you defeat the final boss. The ultimate evil cannot actually be destroyed so one of the main characters has to contain their power in their own bodies, a la the ending of Diablo 1. Jeanne (who has survived being burnt alive at this point because her friend who looks like her was executed in her place) offers to be the one, but Gilles stops her, heroically insisting he take the burden instead. The game ends with everyone happy the Ultimate Evil and the English have been stopped. There is a scene where Gilles looks pained and someone asks if he'll be okay and he's all like, "Yeah, naw, I got this" and then the game just kinda ends. I didn't know anything about de Rais at that point. I thought he was just the cool dragoon-type character of the game and I always used him because I liked characters with spears. After finishing the game I figured I would look him up because I didn't recall learning about him from, say, AoE2. Turns out he WAS based on a really person and... welp... I have no idea who wrote Jeanne d'Arc for the PSP but it was a real wtf realization. Decent Final Fantasy Tactics clone but hooooooly poo poo the writing.
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iirc Fastolf did not die at this battle irl. also #notmyfalstaff. Shakespeare's version will always trump the real life version for me
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this mission is a fun one. it sticks out in my mind a lot because i REALLY struggled with it as a kid. roll right thru now that i know what i am doing and have put in 100s of hours to aoe2 in general haha
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ive seen some people on forums theorizing/hoping that the Chinese would get a big DLC expansion of their own that retools and splits them into more discrete factions a la the Indian Dynasties expansion. the Indian Dynasties expansion whipped so i would be for that
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was gonna vote for Gengis again but think i will be outvoted...
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Apr 3, 2023 21:24
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ha id forgotten about that star wars reference. i can evem hear the voice clip in my head
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aoe3 had a pretty sweet Japan campaign. i liked a lot of what aoe3 did actually... very different beast than aoe2... i still want more aoe2 campaigns
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Rody One Half posted:
it is. bit of a slog though. never thought of trying it until i saw the achievement.
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Apr 15, 2023 08:25
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Khaaaaan!
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Rattan Archers ftw.
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Apr 16, 2023 19:26
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in campaigns i have on occasion spammed scouts and used them to draw enemy fire while i attack with my effective cavalry. edit: oh wait i missed the archers bit in cavalry archers. yeah what jossar said
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one time while playing this map i systematically destroyed every piece of the great wall. just because. it was... not worth my time, haha
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PizzaProwler posted:When it comes to the Celtic tech tree, this image always springs to mind lol i will always love aoe2 memes
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YaketySass posted:I usually only attacked the enemy once I had researched almost everything and my army would just be a mix of all units available. same. i always spent way too much tjme building the perfect city before building and military units too. the idea of attacking before the imperial age was no one that registered
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Apr 18, 2023 18:06
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El Cid!!
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BlazetheInferno posted:Fun fact: There is an achievement to beat this level without converting any villagers. It's tricky, and it needs a little bit of luck on the conversion speed, but it's doable. this achievement was a pain in the rear end to get... i managed to get it on the end but it put me off od attempting many other achievements.
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Pachacuti good campaign. nice replacement for the El Dorado one. i was pleasantly surprised to fond it in the DE.
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maaan i started up the Alaric campaign to start playing along with the LP but i relented and got Return of Rome instead. p fun so far but the pathfinding of units seems worse than base AoE2. my boneheaded swordsmen and legionaries keep letting other swordsmen walk by them and destroy my ballistas. i have never had this problem in ApE2 before... its been a dogs age since I played AoE1... is this just true to the OG gameplay?
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May 19, 2023 22:13
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also what the gently caress just port over all campaigns
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May 19, 2023 22:14
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lol recalibrating expectations then.
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May 19, 2023 23:01
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Nostalgamus posted:How do you "fiercely" roll your eyes? i imagine it's a bit like Tyra Banks' smiling with your eyes but while also rolling them: https://youtu.be/IolPTBw6M9M
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Mazerunner posted:also one of the new missions from return of rome is a contender for hardest mission/achievement I think first pyrrhus mission this one is super easy to cheese and i got it on my second try Your allies don't surrender until you've destroyed the four stables on the right flank. There's enough stone in your starting area and about your allies bases that you can built fortifications around all allied town centres and fill them with composite bowmen and guard towers. surviving teal's centurion rush is the hardest part, but if you've knocked out their academies beforehand they don't rebuilt. from there it's just fending off a few packs of red's camel riders and you're good.
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oh i am faffin about on standard. this achievement pops whatever difficulty you are on
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Technowolf posted:Let's finish off the Americas with D. Pachacuti yeah i enjoyed Pachacuti
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Dracula was one of my least liked campaigns in the original version. just too kany rpg gimmicks dragged down the experience for me. i have been holding off playing the DE version for that reason. glad to hear it has been toned down. makes me want to give it a try now
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lmao i dont remember this happening to me but i guess add it to the complaints with the Draciula campaign haha sorry Jossar i would be annoyed too but it is always fun to see the LPer struggle
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Prithviraj is a lot of fun and maybe we need a palette cleanser from Dracula...
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worse than being broken upon the wheel? or the brazen bull? or being drawn and quartered? or hanged to death via gibbet?
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B. Prithviraj
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i mean it makes sense considering Buddhism rejects the idea of a deity
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B. Forgotten Battle Extravaganza
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oh yeah this one. rough mission. satisfying to beat but those initial phases are rough
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anilEhilated posted:I'm afraid the only way to make that interesting and not another Pachacuti would be basically retreading the Aztec campaign. there was a campaign in AoE3 that was a bit clever in this regard... had a Chinese treasure ship get lost at sea and wind up shipwrecked in North America. the caveat being their story was lost to history so whatever it could be somewhat ahistorical
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