There is a mod from Hjorleif called Age of Kings
You can play as Age of Kings version, even before The Conquerors.
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Sorry, I misunderstand you, as I can’t imagine there really is such a player.
thank you. yeah I’ve seen this, but I like most of the “modern” balance changes: no research for hand cannoneer etc. Balance has been improved a lot since then
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What you want is even simpler to make. You just need to modify civilizations.json in notepad and remove all the civs that you don’t want. No complex modding knowledge required.
If you don’t even want to do that, download Hjorleif’s mod, delete all files except civilzations.json. And replace the empires2_x2_p1.dat with the one from game directory so that you have the latest balances.
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There’s an even simpler solution.
When you launch a game, just select civs that come from AoK.
Boom! Problem solved!
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what i want is a multiplayer queue for that. unfortunately neither of these suggestions works for that
What you want has been requested long time ago.
A selective random civilization pool.
no, I also don’t want to play against magic shields, charge attacks, auras and armor ignoring attacks
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I do. Gimmicks keep the game fresh. I like freshness.
yeah, fair enough. I’m not saying everyone has to play on this queue
but I bought a game without this, and I am now forced to play against this, if I want to benefit from matchmaking
If it helps, my brother feels the same way.
It took one game of having to deal with my Kreposts and Konniks for him to decide to either ban my usage of new civs or to play cooperatively with me instead.
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I like it a little bit, but not too much.
I mean, okay, have 1 unique unit with and charge attacks and armor ignoring attacks. But make that the exception not the norms. I don’t know how to feel about magic shields and auras.
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By the way, what fun scenario campaign-like maps from Workshop you know? preferably with co-op or multiple players.
I’d like to thank Victors and Vanquished for reminding me that such special scenarios do exist, free of charge.
Are there any news on the next DLCs? Is it going to be more of this or are they going back to the pre-Return of Rome formula?
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I hope they go back to the pre-LOTW formula, but I won’t get my hopes up for that.
What is that formula?
2 civs, 3 campaigns, barely any scenario editor objects/heroes. No new features/terrain/flora/fauna.
Is it so hard for them to add new features/terrain/flora/fauna/skins?? Monk skins exist including those from the FE raw ones for African/Pagan/Orthodox priests.
Apparently. The only new tree or animal model they added since DE is of gazelle, which is a copy paste from AoE1 due to them making RoR.
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Didnt this start with LotW and not before that?