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It's kind of funny how this game has had expansions coming out up until... right now. Jeeze, they're still about to release a new expansion?
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Interesting historical context! The scottish lost the battle of Falkirk, badly. Actually the historical background to most of this campaign is pretty much on that level, later ones get... better (?) about it. Anyway, better get A. outta the way. Dang french.
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Mar 30, 2023 01:52
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Ah, france, truly it is a place where the french come from. I don't really know the historical background to this scenario.
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Mar 31, 2023 11:40
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Aces High posted:I don't think he has ever appeared as a major character in any modern Joan of Arc media. It's been years since I played AoE2 so I can't remember all the heroes that show up but considering what de Rais did after he stopped being a soldier, I get the feeling most people don't want that stinking up their stories I looked him and sweet jesus gently caress what.
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Apr 1, 2023 08:59
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As a note: the Franks unit being throwing axemen, a type of combatant that stopped existing a century or two before this campaign is a remnant of how AOE2 was originally a migration-era/fall of Rome game. Which means that the latest expansion brings that whole idea full circle, I suppose.
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Apr 1, 2023 19:44
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Goths is nonsense for the main period of the game, but Franks isn't: in an interesting turn of events, Franks was what people outside of europe, specifically in the middle east, called christian europeans. Which makes it a reversal of the term Saracen.
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Apr 2, 2023 01:03
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Note: It took until 1920 for her to be canonized by the pope as a saint.
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Apr 3, 2023 02:59
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Also climactic and social conditions were creating societies that had increasing populations at a time when the land itself was declining in capacity with the methods of the day. Rome had long been able to absorb the migrations of peoples before this as well, but during the leadup to this period they stopped with the conditions that allowed for romanization meaning that they instead settled these people whole within their borders without assimilating them.
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Apr 3, 2023 09:45
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I've heard of this mission being somewhat infamous for being a slog.
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Apr 11, 2023 15:48
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Khan It's my favourite of the original campaigns, I think.
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Apr 16, 2023 01:38
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Ah, there's one mission in every campaign that's iconic and this is the mongolian one. In fact, it's so iconic that they replicated it in the star wars game that uses the AOE2 engine.
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Apr 16, 2023 08:00
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The sowing fields with salt thing of course, is what they said Rome did to Carthage. Just like how this games narration describes something that didn't happen. that didn't happen either. No one had that much salt.
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Apr 18, 2023 01:20
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Aztecs I like mesoamerica.
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Apr 27, 2023 14:49
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My favourite has to be either dos pilas or vinlandsaga, can't wait to see those two.
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Apr 29, 2023 06:48
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Chronische posted:Feels like the kind of mission that would be fun to remake in Age of Mythology. There's actually a remake of this scenario by the guy who did a lot of the forgotten campaigns. It's really neat.
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Apr 30, 2023 05:14
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Man, I wish there was an opposite-view scenario where you could ruin William the conqueror's day. Hate that guy.
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Apr 30, 2023 19:45
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Chronische posted:I was just thinking the same thing; need more a-historical scenarios where you get to beat the smug off of 'the Conquerer' types. In fact, it probably would have been more interesting, having to defend against two sizable standing armies with (presumably) very limited resources and time. Needing to micro your forces on one front so you had enough left to destroy William's own forces! I just looked this up and apparently there was a britons campaign planned where you'd play as the saxons throughout. It had a battle of hastings scenario, but I don't know if that was different or retooled to the version in the conquerors.
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May 2, 2023 10:55
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D. Pachacuti's a good campaign.
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Jun 2, 2023 02:39
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C. Bari Let's see what all that eastern roman fuss is about.
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Jun 9, 2023 03:12
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Bari!
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Jun 15, 2023 08:16
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So the english campaign ends with you failing to really do much besides steal a national treasure. Ah, how uplifting. Still, neat, even if the longbow pretty much their only defining thing, gameplay wise.
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I do find it interesting just how much of AOE2 there is now. Also that Burgundy got a campaign, which is fun.
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