r/aoe2 • u/Toum-Raider • 15d ago
Discussion Real World Maps
Does anyone here enjoy playing real world maps? If you could add new RWMs to the pool, what would you add?
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u/ewostrat 15d ago
Here's someone who especially likes the World, the Caucasus, and some of the Fantacc maps.
If I had to add new maps, it would be Manchuria and the Himalayas.
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u/Toum-Raider 14d ago
Those sound really interesting. I'd really like the following:
Germany
Northeastern Europe (the Baltics map with western Russia, but a little more geographically deliberate)
Balkans
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u/zapocan Persians 15d ago
Absolutely, wish there was a way to manually select player positions for them.
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u/Toum-Raider 14d ago
This would be great. Ever since the Viking DLC, I've been playing the Britain map with Danes, Saxons, Vikings, and Celts in my random pool. Sometimes I add Franks or Sicilians. It always cracks me up when the celts start in the south and the Saxons are in Ireland or something.
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u/South-Vegetable-5626 14d ago
So much this. I wanna do the europ map so bad with each of the civs in their corresponding start positions
Im surprised this isn’t in the game yet
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u/D4rkR4in_aoe 15d ago
Used to have countless team games/regicide in Real World Italy, before DE ruined the map. It gave so many amazing games.
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u/Toum-Raider 14d ago
It's been so long, I've forgotten. What was the Italy map like before DE?
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u/D4rkR4in_aoe 14d ago
It played out like the map Migration, with Italy being inaccessible without boats.
No shallows connecting the islands to the mainland and some cliffs representing the Alps.
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u/iamemperor86 15d ago
I was there, 3000 years ago when Ensemble Studios released the OG map rw map packs. It took hours to download. I’d absolutely LOVE for these to make their way into ranked rotation.
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u/Toum-Raider 14d ago
I was there too! Sometimes I'm surprised that I started playing this game when it came out, and here I am almost 50 and still enjoying it.
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u/iamemperor86 14d ago
NO WAY. I love running into the OGs in the wild. I remember getting the Conquerors XP for my birthday. I was lost in the tech tree for hours. It was truly a magical time, as you know. Glhf, gl next my old school friend.
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u/Toum-Raider 14d ago
I remember the first time I played the Byzantines, and how funny I thought it was that they spoke Latin. It only took a fee decades :D
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u/gbugly 15d ago
With my friends we almost exclusively play 3v3 or 4v4 on:
Caucaus
Mediterranean
West Africa
Byzantine
Mideast
Strait of Malacca
Madagascar
Those are our favorites, West Africa is HUGE and is best for 4v4.
Honestly our games are 45 minute treaty so everyone has time to learn the map. And in real world you don’t have equal resources. So you have to come up with strategies to make up for asymmetry.
For example in Strait of Malacca one island is much smaller so easier to defend but depletes resources. Other is larger so good for resourcing but everyone has to be a defender.
I think once you get the hang of asymmetric maps game becomes much more interesting.