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Title: Age of Empires II: Forgotten Empires
Post by: Death Nade on September 09, 2013, 01:00:32 PM
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This i have been playing a lot lately, Its just so much fun. If anyone here wants to play you can download a piece of software called GameRanger
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Which hosts servers for  AOE I, AOE II, The Conquerors expansion and AOE:FE. In this modified version of the game you can play as a number of new races which all have their own unique technologies and special units etc.

The new playable races are: Slavs, Magyar, Inca's, Indians, and Italians.

I believe there have also been fixes to some mechanics in the game, although i don't know which, and i really like the new races models ( especially Slavs, who have an entire new tileset after Feudal age). The unit models have also been nicely done as well. I also think its note worthy how historically correct these new races are, with their unique techs and units.

If anyone here wants to play i think we should, perhaps with some difficulty due to the connection between England and Australia :P . I'd say its worth a shot though.
Title: Re: Age of Empires II: Forgotten Empires
Post by: Cuddly Khan on September 09, 2013, 09:42:56 PM
Lol, I would... but I can't. :P Don't the Italians have a new tileset as well?
Title: Re: Age of Empires II: Forgotten Empires
Post by: Silver Wolf on September 09, 2013, 10:15:20 PM
They do.
I remember tracking this mod.
Title: Re: Age of Empires II: Forgotten Empires
Post by: Cuddly Khan on September 09, 2013, 11:18:38 PM
I played in in LAN with Death Nade and his brother a few times.
Title: Re: Age of Empires II: Forgotten Empires
Post by: Death Nade on September 10, 2013, 08:04:48 AM
Fun stuff :) .

And yes i do think that Italians have a new tileset.
Title: Re: Age of Empires II: Forgotten Empires
Post by: Cuddly Khan on September 10, 2013, 10:44:48 AM
Actually, I think Slavs and Italians use the same tileset. I can't remember but they look similar at least.
Title: Re: Age of Empires II: Forgotten Empires
Post by: Jubal on September 10, 2013, 12:09:13 PM
This does look very cool indeed.

If only I knew where my AoE CD was...  :-\
Title: Re: Age of Empires II: Forgotten Empires
Post by: Death Nade on September 10, 2013, 01:01:56 PM
Nah, they have different tilesets, in the latest update at least. Perhaps you had an old version?

And yes Jubal it is good :) , i've heard also that they're working on a HD version of this mod to go on steam :) . If its true then i cant wait.
Title: Re: Age of Empires II: Forgotten Empires
Post by: Death Nade on January 13, 2014, 12:34:49 PM
Someone buy this on steam and vs me. Do it :P .
Title: Re: Age of Empires II: Forgotten Empires
Post by: Skull on January 13, 2014, 01:36:58 PM
Quote from: Death Nade on January 13, 2014, 12:34:49 PM
Someone buy this on steam and vs me. Do it :P .
Why would you buy it off steam?
Can't you just download it for free from their website? :|
Title: Re: Age of Empires II: Forgotten Empires
Post by: Death Nade on January 15, 2014, 10:42:03 AM
I could, and have done. Christmas sales were too stronk however :)
Title: Re: Age of Empires II: Forgotten Empires
Post by: debux on January 19, 2014, 05:42:47 PM
I dusted out an old copy of AoEII I had and tried to see if I could like it know, since now I do actually read the descriptions and stats to know what I need to build/research/train, and I take losses more gracefully than rage-quitting.

I still am a bad looser. I'm really really bad a economy managing and macro (fighting is for real men! Why should I care about them filthy peasants if they don't have anything to do! THINK FOR YOURSELVES! :P ). Doubt I'll be buying it , sorry man. Besides, I believe there was a mod that brought similar features, but for free.
Title: Re: Age of Empires II: Forgotten Empires
Post by: Clockwork on January 21, 2014, 10:48:23 AM
If anyone wants a game of this add SuperAngryNinjaFish on steam and I'll play you. My preferred game modes are - Random Map, standard resources, 200 pop, start in Dark Age and NO BLOODY PERSIANS. But I'm also flexible feel free to disregard any and all of those.

Or on second thoughts, take Persians, see how that works out for you :P. (Been playing a lot recently and spent over half that time finding out the best ways to counter those damn elephants). Over 700 hp, asston of damage and as armoured as a nuclear bunker....

- Ze German.
Title: Re: Age of Empires II: Forgotten Empires
Post by: Cuddly Khan on January 24, 2014, 10:30:39 AM
They get smashed so bad by cav archers. Also just get some Teutonic knights and take them down. I love Persians for their extra resources at the start and I don't like the Elephants.
Title: Re: Age of Empires II: Forgotten Empires
Post by: Clockwork on January 24, 2014, 02:51:31 PM
Cav archers are too slow at killing them imo, they'll never get though 20-30 of them before your base is destroyed. Plus who would send elephants out without Lc escort for exactly that? :P TKs are faction specific. Onagers and siege onagers are the way to go, scorpions do ok if you're playing as Chinese.
Title: Re: Age of Empires II: Forgotten Empires
Post by: Cuddly Khan on October 20, 2015, 11:31:07 AM
So you know how this was made into an expansion. Well now they're making another one that adds all new African civs into the game! :D Yay!
Title: Re: Age of Empires II: Forgotten Empires
Post by: Clockwork on October 21, 2015, 01:21:43 PM
:O

Moar AoE2 madness, welp, time to pick up the game again. Just been playing No Man's land, on disc if anyone's heard of that :P
Title: Re: Age of Empires II: Forgotten Empires
Post by: Jubal on October 21, 2015, 11:57:24 PM
It does look & sound exciting :)
Title: Re: Age of Empires II: Forgotten Empires
Post by: Clockwork on November 07, 2015, 01:38:59 PM
It's released for £6.99 or your regional equivalent. Right now it's got 20% off for the launch sale so it's £5.60 and AoE2 HD edition is £3 for this weekend only. All on steam btw. And yeah, HD edition is worth getting even if you own regular. It adds more to the factions, new techs, bugfixes and all the usual pretty things from a HD update.

EDIT: Oops,new factions are Portugal, Berbers, Malians and Ethiopians. Each come with a fully voiced campaign and there are some new generic units and techs: Arrowslits is a tech that increases tower damage, Arson improves melee units damage vs buildings, fire galley is a feudal age fireship, Siege Tower hides units in and helps them scale walls...Did not know that scaling walls was a feature, might have to get it just to see that.
Title: Re: Age of Empires II: Forgotten Empires
Post by: Jubal on November 07, 2015, 05:22:03 PM
What are the UUs for the new factions?
Title: Re: Age of Empires II: Forgotten Empires
Post by: Clockwork on November 07, 2015, 06:48:03 PM
Unsurprisingly for Portuguese you get an organ gun which I reckon will be a scorpion esque unit killer with decent damage vs buildings.
Malians get a Gbeto ranged infantry.
Berbers get camel archer, anti cav archer.
Shotel Warrior for Ethiopians, really weak (gets chewed up by Huskarls) but nearly instantly produced with their unique tech Royal Heirs.

Portuguese and their allies also get access to Genitour which is a mounted skirmisher from archery range.

Extra critters are also in the game in the form of Lions, Crocs, Elephants, Zebras and Ostriches.

There's also a new mode 'Sudden Death' where you only get 1 TC and if it's destroyed then you lose.

EDIT: Just read the misc changes 'Camels are no longer classed as ships'...It took 3 expacs to do this??? XD
Title: Re: Age of Empires II: Forgotten Empires
Post by: Jubal on November 08, 2015, 12:20:07 AM
All aboard the camelboat! :D
Title: Re: Age of Empires II: Forgotten Empires
Post by: Glaurung on November 08, 2015, 09:28:34 AM
Maybe someone took "ship of the desert" a bit too literally?