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

Herzlich willkommen an unserer Tafelrunde! Felix hat ein neues Spielzeug angeschafft: ein Steamdeck. Und Christian ist ganz begeistert, denn er würde auch so gerne eines haben, also fragt er ihn danach aus. Ohne Steamdeck hat sich Christian dafür auf der Rangliste mit Land Madness ausgetobt und seit kurzem viel Zeit in Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era gesteckt. Viel Spaß bei dieser Folge wünschen

Felix & Christian

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

Welcome back to another Age of Empires Magazine!

We’re here to bring you all the news from Age of Empires II from the past and upcoming month: We’ll talk about the qualifiers of the Brazilian Dynasty LAN and Warlords 5, the full announcement of The League and the Public Update preview. There’s news from the Franchise as well: The new AoM DLC has already been released and a new DLC for AoE IV is coming out soon. We’ll finish up the episode with the tournament outlook for May 2026.

Please check out ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Daniela over at Twitch⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠:

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.twitch.tv/daniela_aoe⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

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Timecodes:

00:00 Program

06:30 News

01:54:48 Franchise News

01:59:53 Tournament Outlook May 2026

Links:

⁠⁠⁠Warlords 5⁠

⁠⁠The League⁠

Brazilian Dynasty Qualifier

Minor Update

PUP

AoE Leagues

Specialist Cup 2

Hi guys, I took a little break because work is killing me right now, but here's a little episode to keep you entertained! In this newest episode of Masterpieces you'll hear the tale of the longest game 2k+ players have played, even though the word play might be a little bit of a stretch. It's a funny story though and it caught the attention of the whole community and beyond, so it qualifies as eSport history, despite being a ranked game between Rubenstock and Andre. Enjoy!

The Game

The Chronicle

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠DiscordMusic: "Carne y Helado" of the official AoE II Soundtrack.

RedBull Wololo has concluded yesterday and Daniela and I have come together to recap the event. We're talking about all our highlights, the best games from the tournament and try to pinpoint what made this tournament as grand as it was. Beware that this podcast is full of spoilers and enjoy this episode!

Please check out ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Daniela over at Twitch⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠:

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.twitch.tv/daniela_aoe⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

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Music: Shanty from the event

We are back for another episode of the Age of Empires Magazine and we’ve put together a nice program.

We’ll start off with a recap of T90 Titans League, then there’s the replacement qualifier for RB Wololo Londinium. In addition we’ve got some exciting announcements to talk about: Warlords 5, The League and The Garrison 2 have been announced, despite the new esport calendar not even being published, so the next year is already shaping up to be another excellent year for our scene. We’ll follow up the News with a little interview that Daniela and I did with Chuptaburger, who is a community member and creator in the AoE II scene at night but also a teacher during the day and we’ve invited him to have a little chat about his work, aoe2 and his nomination for being the teacher of the year in the USA. We’ll end the episode with the tournament outlook for April 2026.

Please check out ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Daniela over at Twitch⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠:

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.twitch.tv/daniela_aoe⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

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Timecodes:

00:00 Programme

02:50 News

01:17:28 Interview with Chuptaburger

01:50:00 Tournament Outlook April 2026

Links:

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠TTL 5⁠⁠⁠

⁠⁠Warlords 5

⁠The League

The Garrison 2

Chuptaworks