Alternate Campaigns

[TheConqueror753]

@SirWiedreich

(and I’ve not played many of the newer campaigns)

Basically anything from the Last Khans onwards is amazing, with maybe a few exceptions, so if you haven’t played any of them, I strongly advise it. The DLC campaigns are spectacular for the most part.

[Temudhun]

I quite like the RotR campaigns, to be honest.

[MatM1996]

@TommoChocolate

I recently replayed the original Ascent of Egypt campaign and it has much more to it than William Wallace. The AI is more aggressive, and the map layouts – especially resource distribution – are much more interesting. I’m not sure if this is still true in the DE remake though.

@TommoChocolate

Oh, by “the DE remake” I meant the campaign from AoE1DE, not whatever the Return of Rome campaigns turn out to be. The one I played recently was the original CD version. I agree that the Caesar campaign is too short though.

They reworked quite all the campaigns in 1 DE, all the scenarios changed their name and even the scenarios enemies and layouts, obviously they still do not have triggers of any kind…

@SirWiedreich

So on that basis, I’d be open to a rework or embellishment of most campaigns. But mainly I’m interested in new campaigns for civs that don’t have them yet (Mayas, Chinese, Vikings, Japanese, etc), as well as getting new civs. You know, once the devs have outgrown their “AoE2 content, but it’s AoE1!” phase.

Yes, Mayan campaigns such as Pakal the Great (628-683) or Lady Six Sky (682-741), An Lushan Rebellion (755-763) for the Chinese, Canute the Great (1016-1035) or Harald Hardradra (1030-1066) for the Vikings and Japanese no idea, it can be any campaign from the Heian period (794-1185) (at the end of this period you have the Gempei Wars that are already in the game) to the Sengoku period (1467-1615) (at the beginning of this period you have the Onin War, which lasted until 1477 and at the end of this period the Japanese unification seen in Kyoto and Japanese campaign in AoE 3)…

@TommoChocolate

This is one of my favourite campaigns, even though AoE2 doesn’t do a great job of representing the 4th century.

Normal, it is a medieval game, it was not designed to portray the late antiquity, it is as it happens with the campaign of Yamato in AoE 1 that in its last scenarios takes place in the Middle Ages (587-740), but it feels as if you were still in the Iron Age…