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Start the game already!

Start the game already!

By: Christian Toth
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Podcast about all things Age of Empires II: eSport, History, Campaigns, Strategy Talk, Civilizations and much more! This feed contains mainly English epidoses with the occasional german episode inbetween.Christian Toth Science Fiction
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  • [ENG] Civilizations #07: Inca
    Feb 19 2026

    With the release of the Last Chieftains DLC I felt the urge to talk about the south american civilizations. However, we probably need a lot more time to figure out the new civs, so I decided that this is the perfect time to shed some light on the Inca. They have been around since 2013 and recieved multiple major changes, that entirely changed the way the Inca can be played. Now they have recieved another face lift taking away their wrongful meso identity and making them the south american civ they deserve to be. There's a lot of old and new things about the Inca to tell: they're still the counter civilization full of aggression that they became in 2023, but they lost their eagles and milita-lines, instead they gained Champis. Only time will tell if this is for better or worse.

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    Timecodes:

    00:00 Introduction

    11:23 Settlements

    20:30 Champi

    33:42 Slinger

    45:00 Food discount on military units

    50:50 Free Llama

    53:48 Blacksmith upgrades and cheap stone buildings

    56:32 Kamayuk

    01:03:10 Andean Sling & Fabric Shields

    01:10:50 Strategies & army compositions

    01:32:10 Campaign

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

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    1 hr and 50 mins
  • [GER] Tafelrunde #30: Christian ist ein Noob der Wüste
    Feb 14 2026

    Christian hat im vergangenen Monat endlich mal an einem Turnier teilgenommen: Noobs of the Desert 3! Dort hat er es bis unter die letzten vier Spieler geschafft und erzählt deshalb ein paar Anekdoten, unter anderem, wie unterschiedlich das Spiel wahrgenommen werden kann. Natürlich macht sich bei Felix und Christian auch ein bisschen die Angst vorm DLC breit: wird es gut, wird es meh... oder gar einfach zu viel? Wir haben es dieses Mal geschafft, eine ganze Stunde nur über AoE Themen zu sprechen und wünschen euch viel Spaß beim Zuhören!

    Felix & Christian

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

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    1 hr and 9 mins
  • Super short DLC preview
    Feb 13 2026

    Here's a short preview with the most important info on the new The Last Chieftains DLC! I tried to present all information in a dense form and hope this'll help you find your way into the DLC, that's releasing on February 17th.

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    Music: Smells like Crickets, Tastes like Chicken from the official AoE II OST.

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    15 mins
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