Es gibt Neuigkeiten in Sachen Steamdeck und Switch 2 bei Christian und es könnte sein, dass die Angelegenheit etwas ausgeartet ist. Daher sprechen Felix und Christian in dieser Folge viel über Empfehlungen fürs Steam Deck. AoE II wird auch kurz angesprochen, denn Christian erzählt ein bisschen von Heras Streamers Invitational, von dem Felix gar nichts mitbekommen hat. Dabei kommt heraus, dass Christian durchaus neidisch ist auf die talentierten Teilnehmer.

Viel Spaß beim Hören!

Felix & Christian

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

Welcome back to another Age of Empires Magazine, this time as a solo podcast as Daniela is travelling!

First, we’ll start with a little recap of Warlords 5. Next, I’ll be talking about Heras Streamers Invitational called the Kings Gauntlet and I’ll wrap up the news for aoe2 with summing up the latest patch. I’ve also got two quick newsstoried in the Franchise News as well as a couple of Emails I’ll be replying to. The episode will end as it always does with the tournament outlook for the next month. This is gonna be a shorter magazine than you’re used to and I hope you’ll still enjoy it!

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Timecodes:

00:00 Program

01:05 News

34:35 Franchise News

36:20 Emails

40:11 Tournament Outlook June 2026

Links:

⁠⁠⁠⁠Warlords 5⁠⁠

Kings Gauntlet

⁠Update

⁠Specialist Cup 2

Latam of the Desert

LingHe Asian Duo Invitational

Elite Classic IV

Mythic Clan League

It took me a while but finally, here's my episode on the Japanese! I played a lot of games with the Japanese to make sure to get this right as they are a very versatile civ with a great early game and a hard late game. They are pretty good on every map except for closed maps and excell at hybrid maps, but somehow they're never the best civ on any map. I hope you'll enjoy this deep dive on the Japanese tech tree, civ bonuses, unique techs and of course the Samurai, along with the rich history of the Japanese both in reality and ingame. Also, I might be a little sarcastic when it comes to the names of the unique techs, please forgive me.

Chris

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Timecodes:

00:00 Introduction

07:30 Fishing ships and wood discount

22:10 Military bonuses

37:20 Samurai, Yasama & Kataparuto

55:18 Strategies & army compositions

01:21:05 Campaign

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