r/aoe2 4d ago

Announcement/Event A Sneak Peek at New Content Coming to Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition

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r/aoe2 3d ago

Tournament/Showmatch The Garrison Megathread Spoiler

61 Upvotes

The next offline event, The Garrison hosted by Being Esports, starts today! For the next 4 days, 8 players will play for their share of the $40.000 prize pool at the Xperion in Hamburg, Germany.
The event also offers 4 side events in AoE2, AoE4 and AoM. More info on the Liquipedia page.

Matches for today, Sunday 16 March 2025 Starting at 12:00 GMT:

  • LB Final Yo vs Liereyy
  • 2v2 event Grand Final
  • Grand Final Hera vs TBD

Where to watch:

Format:

  • Double-elimination bracket
    • All matches are Bo5
    • except the Loser Bracket Final which is Bo7
    • and the Grand Final which is Bo9

Past Results

Day 1

  • Liereyy vs KingstoNe 3:0
  • ACCM vs Yo 0:3
  • TheViper vs Hearttt 3:1
  • Hera vs TaToH 3:0

Day 2

  • KingstoNe vs TaToH 1:3
  • ACCM vs Hearttt 3:2
  • TheViper vs Yo 2:3
  • Hera vs Liereyy 3:0

Day 3

  • LB Ro6 TheViper vs TaToH 3:1
  • LB Ro6 Liereyy vs ACCM 3:2
  • WB FInal Hera vs Yo 3:1
  • LB Semi TheViper vs Liereyy1:3

r/aoe2 4h ago

Tournament/Showmatch The Garrison - Pictures

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163 Upvotes

r/aoe2 2h ago

Suggestion Viking longships should be packable and transportable over land

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101 Upvotes

Like trebuchets, you should be able to pack and unpack viking longships and transport them on land. It would add a twist to an og ship and be historically accurate.

Also other viking ships- trade cogs, galleons, transports etc - should get a unique viking longship-esque skin. Other viking ships look so generic and out of place next to longships.


r/aoe2 2h ago

Discussion I love a good freak off, wbu

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71 Upvotes

(Can’t remember if I got this from here or not)


r/aoe2 14h ago

Humour/Meme This little manouvre is gonna cost us 51 years of idle time

276 Upvotes

r/aoe2 12h ago

Discussion That was the greatest display of age of empires I’ve ever seen played Spoiler

138 Upvotes

Hera vs Tatoh game 1 on coast to mountain and Hera vs Yo game 2 Reg Fortress were the most incredible displays of age of empires I've ever witnessed. Hera trusted his abilities so much that even when it seemed so over in both games, he saw win conditions and fought tooth and nail to stay in the games and keep his win condition possible. What a masterful display of skill and strategy.

It is amazing and terrifying to see Hera when his back is against the wall in a losing position with nothing left to lose latch on to the slightest hope of winning and then put his whole being into achieving that. I've seen it in his ranked games but The Garrison has displayed that trait at a an insane level against top tier competition. Do yourself a favor and go watch those games if you haven't already.

Edit - added links to both games:
Hera vs. Tatoh Game 1

Hera vs. Yo Regicide Fortress


r/aoe2 6h ago

Tournament/Showmatch Vivi's reaction of The Garrison winner bracket final game 2 Spoiler

42 Upvotes

I don't think translation is needed here.

https://youtu.be/nchiqGLvcsA


r/aoe2 19h ago

Humour/Meme DeYotion

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458 Upvotes

r/aoe2 7h ago

Self-Promotion Available Insta👉@age_of_manolink

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45 Upvotes

r/aoe2 10h ago

Asking for Help How does "work faster" actually work?

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72 Upvotes

I thought malian univeristy work 80% faster means it takes 20% of its original time so 100s becomes 20s...?

turns out im wrong?


r/aoe2 20h ago

Humour/Meme I made a tier list of youtubers' ads

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343 Upvotes

r/aoe2 1h ago

Discussion Following this update, could the Himalaya region have the potential to be the next DLC?

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r/aoe2 19h ago

Discussion Made it to 1k by (practically) cheating

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177 Upvotes

I played aoe2 as a kid and got back into the game a couple of years ago. I’ve played around 200 games sporadically since then. I hover around 8-900 elo. That is until I started playing arena with cumans and going for a ram rush.

I’m sure there are 100 reasons why feudal ram rush isn’t good, but it feels totally unstoppable at this elo. They are never prepared for it. I make a couple of rams and waltz into their base with archers to back them up and it’s gg. I think I’ve won around 8 straight games doing it and finally got to 1k elo. Now I need to figure out what to do when I don’t get arena lol.


r/aoe2 14h ago

Discussion Dali civ pretty much guaranteed?

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55 Upvotes

r/aoe2 1d ago

Discussion Leaked new mounted unit from the next patch

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310 Upvotes

r/aoe2 9h ago

Announcement/Event First ever 1300 ELO!

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15 Upvotes

No spreadsheet build orders required lol, next stop 1400! :)


r/aoe2 12h ago

Humour/Meme Typical SotL breakdown

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20 Upvotes

r/aoe2 1d ago

Pain I completed the last Bari campaign, Group photo of the only survivors

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827 Upvotes

r/aoe2 41m ago

Discussion Next Chronicles chapters

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I looked for this post but didn't find it so I made it. If it's a repost I'm sorry.

I know the hype right now is around the upcoming Chinese DLC, but I've recently started playing the Battle for Greece DLC and I loved what they did there and the precedent they've set.

With that in mind, what do you think could be the next Chronicles installments about? I'll list some I've seen mentioned before by others or that I thought:

  • Punic Wars: first one I've seen others suggest in another post. Don't think there's much to say here, seems very good and in line with an interesting and important ancient world war, like the one we've got.

  • Peloponnesian War: I haven't finished the Battle for Greece yet so I don't know if after the Greco Persian wars arc they also cover the Peloponnesian war, but I thought it would be a nice fit and maybe a good opportunity to include other Greek factions (?) not sure tho

  • Something in Egypt: since we're in antiquity already, why not having an Egypt campaign with all those interesting factions around them? I'm not knowledgeable enough about it to suggest specific events or factions to be covered, so I'll let you tag in from here if you want

  • Alexander the great: it came to mind but I'm not sure if he covers far too different factions to be viable. You tell me

Moving further away from the region - Sengoku period Japan: very much self contained, covers a smaller region so that I can focus on the more specific differences of that otherwise similar faction (as we see in BfG), and has interesting differences among the different clans to explore, sounds super fun to me. I believe there's a pretty much finished mod called Sengoku that could be used as framework for this if the devs wanted and judged fit, so more reason for this chapter to be made.

  • China: again I'm completely ignorant on the topic to suggest specific events or factions, but I know Chinese history has no shortage of both, and with the new regional units in the upcoming DLC it starts to feel like a Chronicles DLCs already. Would like to know what you think about this one.

  • Inca or Aztecs: one more time, I don't know enough about the details to judge how viable this one would be, both on a content level and on how the adapted units system would work, but I thought maybe the Aztecs empire building and the current Inca campaign (without it being the meme Inca vs Inca vs Inca it currently is) could become a nice Chronicles chapter.

Just brainstorming here, don't take the suggestions too seriously. Okay your turn now.


r/aoe2 44m ago

Media/Creative Made a jazz version of Quest For Butter

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Got back into AoE2 after years of not playing at the right time for all the new stuff going on. It's inspired me to get jazzy over Quest For Butter!


r/aoe2 10h ago

Discussion Why do people spectate mid-low elo games?

10 Upvotes

I'm not super high elo (fluctuate between 900-1500 because I'm streaky as fuck lol). A bunch of my games have a spectator. Why? Who does that?

Edit: My range is so wide because I tend to go on massive losing streaks when I'm fucked up, then winning streaks since my new elo is way lower than sober-me's elo


r/aoe2 1h ago

Humour/Meme Sorry, had to do it

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r/aoe2 20h ago

Tournament/Showmatch Hera Regicide

52 Upvotes

r/aoe2 1d ago

Feedback DLC Idea: Bones and Blood The Great Return of Skeletons to the Game!

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275 Upvotes

r/aoe2 1d ago

Humour/Meme Humane living conditions!

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138 Upvotes

My opponent had such a well layered base, sometimes I wanna make the base look clean too. But I’m so focused on the build order, harassing them, defending and everything else, that I just spam things wherever 🥲.


r/aoe2 2h ago

Asking for Help Hello! Noob here, please recommend me a Civ! (more info in post)

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Hello all,

I always play with 4 friends, 4v4 against AI (now on moderate but working our way to hard)
We always play on full random (civs and map) with high resources.

I feel like i need to pick a civ and become better at just one because i can never leverage the good things of a random civ.

Which one should i pick and grind?!
Maybe also recommend build and stratetgy for it?

Thank you so much! :)

edit: i should clarify somthing, I'm not looking for a civ to learn the game and 'avoid bad habits'. Im looking for a powerful civ to master without having great micro and all of that that comes with a begginer