I would really like to thank Tristan for playing this once more and showing it to the community. 💯 Unfortunately I stopped developing this game in late 2022, everything since then were only some bugfixes and little changes to keep it playable and compatible with the fast-evolving Aoe2 DE. I am amazed that until today there are still people who find and try this. On average, 2-3 games are played per day, which is very nice for a standalone-mod that launched 5 years ago. Thank you all who played it, I really appreciate this.
A cool addition to this could be that once you have a castle you could go inside and kind of get a "Sauron eye" vision from the castle. Allowing you to get a small area of birds eye view to help with micro/macro management.
The graphics are PERFECT, this seriously looks like it could've launched alongside the actual version as a fun minigame mode. just a little more work on the gameplay side and this is a seriously fantastic mod
I love how playing in first person made T90 feel more empathetic towards his vills’ and scouts’ lives. Also an open base seen from inside in first person is super scary
They had a PC game from way back in the day called Urban Assault. It was Scifi vehicle RTS combat, but the cool twist about it was you could jump into any unit at any time and control it. Ancient game but the concept was there.
@@OwnedByTheState Is there any other RTS that did that (let you "jump in" to a single unit)? I have this DISTINCT memory of doing this - but I had a PlayStation, not a PC I thought for years it was Warzone 2100 but I got the re-release last year aaaand nope Honestly, this has been bugging me for nearly 20yrs
@@unbearifiedbear1885 Savage Battle For Newerth and Savage 2 were multiplayer RTS/FPS. you couldnt do both at the same time tho, you were either the 'commander' with the rts view or a basic unit. both died a long time ago but they were great games
@@PeterBoeRessa You should check out daggerfall unity. Modern fan remake, full hd, modding support, draw distances that show hundreds of kms of the massive game world ...
"If I just could get my villagers to work! This is so buggy!" What would a version of Age of Empires be without Pathing problems and randomly idling villagers??
Favorite ice cream flavor is definitely chocolate chip cookie dough, and seeing those buildings go up we definitely need a re-skin on the castles so they look like big red inflatable bouncy castles.
I've been watching your content for about 7 years, with long breaks in between and never actually saw your face before. almost thought it was a different channel. when i first discovered you, i was still playing AOE 2 age of kings CD version because i had no internet and was always amazed with all the dlcs. once a graduated highschool, started to save up for a better pc. it took forever, but eventually got one right when aoe2 DE came out. been playing off and on since. Always thought your humor was great and treats the game with casual fun.
If Age of Empires 2 is combined with Mount and Blade, that would be epic. Something like you build in Age of Empires 2 style (bird-view) and battle with you're army in Mount and Blade style....
This is crazy. Literally the other day watching a video of yours I thought "I wonder what happened to first person aoe and if T90 will do another video on it?" Literally wild
Reminds me of SpellForce series - a mix of RPG and RTS, the first two games had 3rd person view. Back in 2003 it was quite cool and unique to walk around the village you’ve built and lead your army actually being there boots on the ground.
I really enjoyed this. It was pretty cool seeing a different perspective of a familiar game. I hope that they continue working on it to fix any kinks and maybe even add to the experience. I also would love to see more videos on this mode of age of empires 2.
This is so cool, one of my favorite games as a kid was an FPS/RTS hybrid called Battlezone II: Combat Commander. It originally released around the same time as AOE2 and also got a remaster around the time of AOE2:DE.
The Battlezone 2 remaster is a blast, and really demonstrates how gaming stagnated - we should have had more games like that. Then of course there's also Sacrifice, the third person RTS hybrid. Basically seems like RTS hybrids suffered a lot when consoles dominated the gaming narrative.
Yeah I was thinking of BZ when I saw the green outline for the buildings in the video. 😊 I grew up with the first BZ and then caught on with BZ2 in 2006-2007:ish. Great games.
This reminds me of "Empire Earth", which came out a few years after AOE2 was originally released and had many of the same developers. Unsurprisingly, it had a lot of common features with the AOE series, but one feature that was unique to it was that you could zoom out to "bird's eye view" or zoom all the way in to get a 1st person view similar to the one in this game. Edit: Yay! You mentioned EE! I second your motion for EE: Definitive Edition! The world needs it!!!
This sounds like an idea, which is similar to Savage: Battle for Newerth, where is one commander placing buildings and ordering some peasants and players, and other players are in FPS mode. Commander can also make weapon upgrades, and there are already siege weapons (ballista, catapult) in game, and various buildings that fit in Age2: armoury (upgrade new weapons), guard tower with arrows and mortar tower (count as cannon tower), and other buildings, which can count as university. In Savage1 there are 2 types resources: red stone (used to buy upgrades, make villagers and build buildings, research to new age from stronghold, which is count as town center) and god, which is used to buy weapons, equipment and class (read: also as siege weapons) as FPS players. Maybe someone should make a mod for S1, because it has already a platform...
This is so cool. I could only dream of a first person AoE back in the day. It also looks so stressful because you don’t have the view that you’re used to! Also pistachio.
pretty cool! reminds me at a glance with Command and Conquer Renegade. be pretty cool to see a 3rd person / RTS game like this where you control the base building as FPS
Wow, as a teenager I always wondered how could would it be to explore the buildings of AoE2 with a first person perspective... although you seem like a 4 meter tall giant when you come right next to buildings haha
There was a game that had the commander at top down view then everyone else played in first person. I forget what it was called but the concept was cool. But it never took off.
@@Swwatter You might be talking about "Natural Selection 2". Yeah. I found that concept was really cool and it was really a blast! To bad it felt unbalanced that the xenos were somehow overpowered (or maybe it was that the RTS pros liked to play them)
Really cool way to see AOE in this perspective it kinda worked as a tutorial in basics aswell, as everything is much more easy paced than AOE II regular. i do miss the sound of the townbell (bit like that of children going to the icecream car :P in AOE)
the building looks exactly like empire earth, god i want a definitive edition of EE but the studio that made it ended up defunct and their IP got bought by activision so i don't think it will ever get a DE which is such a shame.
When I played Command & Conquer: Generals as a kid I was imagining about playing it in 3D, running as commando or driving a tank. Thanks to modders, they're making the dreams of our childhood a real thing
When I started playing video games on the internet I quite literally went crazy and got anything free I could find(free mmo's, freeware and indie games) or what was good(and affordable)from walmart at the time my yahoo friends(many of which I met in said video games lol) recommended me and my uncle recommended me this game. And I'm glad he did I played the absolute hell out of it. As addicted to runescape, elder scrolls and everything else as I was my mom would kick us off the internet and I had to play whatever offline mode games I had if I wanted a change of pace from console games. I would always try other rts's but man I would always find myself back playing aoe2! Love this though gives me a little bit of daggerfall vibes too haha Would love to see the requirements of this I could definitely see myself playing this on downtime at my job on one of my smaller laptops!
The need to design an rts that you can play 3rd person at the same time. Switch ing w and forth. Being a part of the battles and facing your opponent head on . Sounds super fun.
Tbh graphics also look perfect, this looks like a mod my dad would also love, since he loves AoE, hopefully this mod gets back in development, I'll try to download and play it with AoE 2 DE
You know what would make this even better? 2v2 co-op where one player per team is in top down view and focuses on eco and the other is in first person commanding the army
my mind is blown at this mod..as a kid playing AoE2 (when it first released lol) i wanted to play from 1st person perspective now its finally possible!! All this needs now is a crossover mod for M&B Bannerlord like the one that exists for Bannerlord and Crusader Kings.
This is brilliant. Makes me wonder why we don't see more first person RTS games like this. Would love a FPS of Empire Earth. Imagine driving tanks and bombers.
There was an rts/3 person/1 person hybrid game called savage 2, a Tortured Soul, that you could play as commander in rts view or in 1/3 person as solider, crazy thing is that all units you were looking were actual players. Was absolutelly savagery, a bestiality, it was awesome.
This is one of the most interesting things Ive EVER seen. For me this is very personal, it was my childhood. If somebody showed me this when I was kid, I would die. Only thing that could beat it is Diablo 1 or 2 in first person.
My favorite flavor of ice cream is mint with chocolate chips, although I love me a brownie milkshake. I'm watching the whole video. A first-person AoE game looks so fun!
The official T90 play: Fast castle into a scout rush when you know your opponent already has knights. Then throw a single villager to build a castle on the front. Brilliant.
This is how Tristan learns that towrrs have to have archers in them. Until noa he figures the iron age workers just installed a pivoting self-loading bow which uses advanced AI to slect targets, calculate movement (tech dependent) and fire.
Two player co-op would be great. One player goes to first person while the other is doing the strategy, and can change whenever they see fit. I have played with my brother on the same color, then we realized it is the same civilization, once we figure we were the same and one of us was in charge of economy and the other in charge of the military. It was fun.
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I would really like to thank Tristan for playing this once more and showing it to the community. 💯
Unfortunately I stopped developing this game in late 2022, everything since then were only some bugfixes and little changes to keep it playable and compatible with the fast-evolving Aoe2 DE.
I am amazed that until today there are still people who find and try this. On average, 2-3 games are played per day, which is very nice for a standalone-mod that launched 5 years ago. Thank you all who played it, I really appreciate this.
Thanks for the hard work you into it, and sharing your talent.
I can’t wait to try it!
You should make your own game like this, I would pay anything for another mountain blade that’s actually good
I wished this can be a full fledged AAA game one day
The gold pile looks poo.
"It's a pretty intense fight out there, and like any true king, I'm not partaking in it" lmao that sent me
sent you where?
@@primesuspect8567 laughing
where did it send you? to the store?
@@cunjoz sent me straight to your mum's house
This looks fun, would be really cool if there was a bird eye 3rd person view of aoe2
Imagine
It's called total war
@@ageofsempires2968 woosh.
Im gonna create a version of this with 3d birds eye view
Technology just isn't there yet
A cool addition to this could be that once you have a castle you could go inside and kind of get a "Sauron eye" vision from the castle. Allowing you to get a small area of birds eye view to help with micro/macro management.
This reminded me of Natural Selection.
The way the leader of the team had a birds eye view
Lemon for sure
@rawr4444 Omg, I used to love playing Natural Selection 2! The RTS blend with FPS was so cool!
The graphics are PERFECT, this seriously looks like it could've launched alongside the actual version as a fun minigame mode. just a little more work on the gameplay side and this is a seriously fantastic mod
ikr! it looks like something that could've come out in 1999 to 2001
When’s it out?
Mini game? This would have sold millions of copies at $30-40 each easily
0:29 wtf did i just watch...
we need a mod that replaces the hammer animation for building with an air pump
+ the sound for it.. pfffft pffft. :D
Oh my gosh I was thinking the exact same thing! Have the villager use a billows to inflate the buildings!😂
and replace Castle with inflatable toy castle
And then instead od crumbling when destroyed, the building just quickly lets out the air instead and falls back down xD
The 2D unit sprites looks surprisingly good in first person, especially while on horseback.
Also, black sesame flavor!
That last part is just objectively wrong.
"I want to pay my video editor more money"
What a legend 🤣
I want to pay my video editor more ice cream
it's at 19:00 for those wondering
I hadn't noticed that! I honestly thought that was his screen when he tabbed out 🤣🤣 Hardy is a legend
Oh, so that's what it said, I thought I must have read that wrong as "I want to pay my editor less money" would make more sense as a joke ^^
This is sweet. Need multiple "leaders" though. You should be able to switch between king and general to control different army's on other side of map
I love how playing in first person made T90 feel more empathetic towards his vills’ and scouts’ lives.
Also an open base seen from inside in first person is super scary
I know, it's terrifying to have a villager's point of view as the cavalier run in through the eco.
but he is playing against himself XD hardy doesnt exist XD
If they make this into a real game with a lot of thought, it would be the only game anyone plays till eternity.
They had a PC game from way back in the day called Urban Assault. It was Scifi vehicle RTS combat, but the cool twist about it was you could jump into any unit at any time and control it. Ancient game but the concept was there.
You might've liked Gloria Victis.
@@OwnedByTheState Is there any other RTS that did that (let you "jump in" to a single unit)?
I have this DISTINCT memory of doing this - but I had a PlayStation, not a PC
I thought for years it was Warzone 2100 but I got the re-release last year aaaand nope
Honestly, this has been bugging me for nearly 20yrs
@@unbearifiedbear1885 Savage Battle For Newerth and Savage 2 were multiplayer RTS/FPS. you couldnt do both at the same time tho, you were either the 'commander' with the rts view or a basic unit. both died a long time ago but they were great games
@@unbearifiedbear1885 I think there have been somewhat more modern games that have done this but I'm out of the loop.
This is like a weird mix of Empire Earth and Daggerfall... and AoEII
Oh, Daggerfall. The memories..
HALT!
@@PeterBoeRessa You should check out daggerfall unity. Modern fan remake, full hd, modding support, draw distances that show hundreds of kms of the massive game world ...
It's like Savage
Man, Mount & Blade lookin' different
yeah, I think that's because mount and blade is a different game, so it looks different when you compare them
@@ing_frantisek_mohykan Oh really? 😱😑
"If I just could get my villagers to work! This is so buggy!"
What would a version of Age of Empires be without Pathing problems and randomly idling villagers??
Imagine a polished official 1st person version of an aoe game i think it would be pretty fun
this should be Co-op, for 2v2 in tourneys, 1 person in first person 1 playing in RTS/3rd person mode, and the 1st person player is the "hero" loool.
Cool concept
Man that's wild and exciting at the same time
Hardy Edits are perfection lmao
Now i want this mod in AoE 4, insane!
Favorite ice cream flavor is definitely chocolate chip cookie dough, and seeing those buildings go up we definitely need a re-skin on the castles so they look like big red inflatable bouncy castles.
Imagine this but using the 3d models the devs used to generate the sprites in aoe2
ahh... uhhm... ahh.. your favourite flavour of icecream at some point
00:29 God knows how many times I replayed this one😂
🤣
It's his face man, it gets me every time 😂
It’s amazing…
I’m freaked out by that 😩😩💦💦
This was very niche and extremely fun haha thank you!
“Your favorite flavor of ice cream at some point in the comments “
mmmm ahhhh emmmmm ice cream
Mmmmm aaahhhhh mmmmhhhh
coom flavored
I've been watching your content for about 7 years, with long breaks in between and never actually saw your face before. almost thought it was a different channel. when i first discovered you, i was still playing AOE 2 age of kings CD version because i had no internet and was always amazed with all the dlcs. once a graduated highschool, started to save up for a better pc. it took forever, but eventually got one right when aoe2 DE came out. been playing off and on since. Always thought your humor was great and treats the game with casual fun.
When I stay up late playing age of empires I have dreams like this. Last night I was dreaming about a scout/tower rush
Rise and fall is a game like that
Reminds me of the game Rise and Fall :)
Super fun rts and you control the hero 1st person
Whoever made this is a badass
If Age of Empires 2 is combined with Mount and Blade, that would be epic.
Something like you build in Age of Empires 2 style (bird-view) and battle with you're army in Mount and Blade style....
*heavy breathing sounds*
AoE2 was my PB&J back in the day, somewhat still is but haven't played it in ages. I'm gonna give this a go. Thanks for this!
This is crazy. Literally the other day watching a video of yours I thought "I wonder what happened to first person aoe and if T90 will do another video on it?" Literally wild
"LiTeRaLlY WiLd".....
I haven't been checking up on this channel in ages, and wow this is incredible!! Also it looks like you are on Twitch again? Awesome!
The building build like Empire Earth, looks like fun.
Reminds me of SpellForce series - a mix of RPG and RTS, the first two games had 3rd person view. Back in 2003 it was quite cool and unique to walk around the village you’ve built and lead your army actually being there boots on the ground.
No way..... How much I was waiting for this moment to come! Not sure how long this mode is our there but this is the first time I've seen it!
I really enjoyed this. It was pretty cool seeing a different perspective of a familiar game.
I hope that they continue working on it to fix any kinks and maybe even add to the experience.
I also would love to see more videos on this mode of age of empires 2.
The guy gave up on it and refuses to release the source code for others to work on it
This is so cool, one of my favorite games as a kid was an FPS/RTS hybrid called Battlezone II: Combat Commander. It originally released around the same time as AOE2 and also got a remaster around the time of AOE2:DE.
battlezone II was so good
The Battlezone 2 remaster is a blast, and really demonstrates how gaming stagnated - we should have had more games like that.
Then of course there's also Sacrifice, the third person RTS hybrid.
Basically seems like RTS hybrids suffered a lot when consoles dominated the gaming narrative.
Yeah I was thinking of BZ when I saw the green outline for the buildings in the video. 😊
I grew up with the first BZ and then caught on with BZ2 in 2006-2007:ish.
Great games.
This reminds me of "Empire Earth", which came out a few years after AOE2 was originally released and had many of the same developers. Unsurprisingly, it had a lot of common features with the AOE series, but one feature that was unique to it was that you could zoom out to "bird's eye view" or zoom all the way in to get a 1st person view similar to the one in this game.
Edit: Yay! You mentioned EE! I second your motion for EE: Definitive Edition! The world needs it!!!
First time I've seen you use face cam. If you grew a police stash you'd be a spot on 90s movie cop lol
It has improved a lot! Love the idea of a hand-held map and the weather too.
19:02 "i want to pay my video editor more money" IM DYING
I didnt notice that!
Thats amazing!!!
That was so good! 😂
@t90Official Gotta get a mod like the boxing gloves for the vils, but this would be an air pump for when they build buildings
Real Vanilla bean ice cream really hits the spot
yep
This sounds like an idea, which is similar to Savage: Battle for Newerth, where is one commander placing buildings and ordering some peasants and players, and other players are in FPS mode. Commander can also make weapon upgrades, and there are already siege weapons (ballista, catapult) in game, and various buildings that fit in Age2: armoury (upgrade new weapons), guard tower with arrows and mortar tower (count as cannon tower), and other buildings, which can count as university. In Savage1 there are 2 types resources: red stone (used to buy upgrades, make villagers and build buildings, research to new age from stronghold, which is count as town center) and god, which is used to buy weapons, equipment and class (read: also as siege weapons) as FPS players. Maybe someone should make a mod for S1, because it has already a platform...
what you describe was originally done in Natural Selection 1, a 2002 mod for Half-Life which received a standalone release in 2012.
This is so cool. I could only dream of a first person AoE back in the day. It also looks so stressful because you don’t have the view that you’re used to!
Also pistachio.
42:12 Hardy ascended to godhood and is now playing Populous 3, while T90 is stuck playing Minecraft
Holy.. someone turned AoE2 into Savage. That's just awesome af to me.
pretty cool! reminds me at a glance with Command and Conquer Renegade. be pretty cool to see a 3rd person / RTS game like this where you control the base building as FPS
I'm really curious to follow this process. It now looks like Minecraft and Empire Earth which is awesome!
Wow, as a teenager I always wondered how could would it be to explore the buildings of AoE2 with a first person perspective... although you seem like a 4 meter tall giant when you come right next to buildings haha
Vanilla ice cream is good, the idea of first person AoE looks so fun, maybe one day a company decides to make this actually happen
i would love to and there are games that you can play frome a soldier pov tanks and other vehicles and soldiers
idk about that, chocolate ice cream slays ;)
There was a game that had the commander at top down view then everyone else played in first person. I forget what it was called but the concept was cool. But it never took off.
Would like to see a traditional rts mod of hoi4. Where u are also in the battle field
@@Swwatter You might be talking about "Natural Selection 2". Yeah. I found that concept was really cool and it was really a blast! To bad it felt unbalanced that the xenos were somehow overpowered (or maybe it was that the RTS pros liked to play them)
beautiful
Might & Magic
Age & Empires
“My HP is low but my spirits are high” 🤣
Really cool way to see AOE in this perspective
it kinda worked as a tutorial in basics aswell, as everything is much more easy paced than AOE II regular.
i do miss the sound of the townbell (bit like that of children going to the icecream car :P in AOE)
6:10
Villager just brought some sammiches for the mining camp
the building looks exactly like empire earth, god i want a definitive edition of EE but the studio that made it ended up defunct and their IP got bought by activision so i don't think it will ever get a DE which is such a shame.
dude Empire Earth Definitive edition would be great
Check out Empire Eternal, it's a group of devs on their own making what's basically Empire Earth DE
OMG The incredible dreamlike nostalgia... thanks for making a video about this beautiful project!
Can't beat the classics. Chocolate is great.
Great video! I really thought it was gonna be two games based on the start and the length of the video lol.
Imagine, you play normal AoE when the kind is inside a building, but when he gets outside, you get to the 1st person.
Your favourite flavour of ice cream at some point.
Don't forget the Doom powerups 😂
hazelnut icecream my brother!
YouPudding rushes would turn this into a horror game I'd say
Also Empire Earth is getting spiritual remake, Empire Eternal.. I'm happy!
Whoever coded this is a genius, this is simply amazing to me.
Hardy understood the assignment
i am always amazed by what modders can do. I read some guy made an RTS mod for Unreal Tournament
4:31 I didn't know that you knew Empire earth?? but you are right EE:DE would be cool as hell
W Hardy
This looks like a blast I have to see more of this content, also my favorite is heath candy bar ice cream.
First to comment!, which is weird... 🤣✌️
BOOM!
Whats ur comment?
When I played Command & Conquer: Generals as a kid I was imagining about playing it in 3D, running as commando or driving a tank. Thanks to modders, they're making the dreams of our childhood a real thing
So glad you mentioned Empire Earth, love that game. A definitive edition would be wonderful
OMG it looks amazing!! I need to play it right now!
When I started playing video games on the internet I quite literally went crazy and got anything free I could find(free mmo's, freeware and indie games) or what was good(and affordable)from walmart at the time my yahoo friends(many of which I met in said video games lol) recommended me and my uncle recommended me this game. And I'm glad he did I played the absolute hell out of it. As addicted to runescape, elder scrolls and everything else as I was my mom would kick us off the internet and I had to play whatever offline mode games I had if I wanted a change of pace from console games. I would always try other rts's but man I would always find myself back playing aoe2! Love this though gives me a little bit of daggerfall vibes too haha Would love to see the requirements of this I could definitely see myself playing this on downtime at my job on one of my smaller laptops!
Joghurt, raspberry and cinnamon-rice are my favourite flavours ; ) Nice video, love the landscape and atmosphere in the game!
The need to design an rts that you can play 3rd person at the same time. Switch ing w and forth. Being a part of the battles and facing your opponent head on . Sounds super fun.
Tbh graphics also look perfect, this looks like a mod my dad would also love, since he loves AoE, hopefully this mod gets back in development, I'll try to download and play it with AoE 2 DE
You know what would make this even better? 2v2 co-op where one player per team is in top down view and focuses on eco and the other is in first person commanding the army
my mind is blown at this mod..as a kid playing AoE2 (when it first released lol) i wanted to play from 1st person perspective now its finally possible!!
All this needs now is a crossover mod for M&B Bannerlord like the one that exists for Bannerlord and Crusader Kings.
Damn bro i havent checked out this channel in awhile. The cam is an awesome addition!
This is brilliant. Makes me wonder why we don't see more first person RTS games like this. Would love a FPS of Empire Earth. Imagine driving tanks and bombers.
There was an rts/3 person/1 person hybrid game called savage 2, a Tortured Soul, that you could play as commander in rts view or in 1/3 person as solider, crazy thing is that all units you were looking were actual players. Was absolutelly savagery, a bestiality, it was awesome.
this is amazing. Wish there was a fps/space flight mod like this but for homeworld.
This is one of the most interesting things Ive EVER seen. For me this is very personal, it was my childhood. If somebody showed me this when I was kid, I would die. Only thing that could beat it is Diablo 1 or 2 in first person.
Great mod, hopefully there's more work that will soon go into it, and the dev can get some help and make this an awesome experience!
This game is actually pretty awesome.
My favorite flavor of ice cream is mint with chocolate chips, although I love me a brownie milkshake.
I'm watching the whole video. A first-person AoE game looks so fun!
A campaign varaiety on this would be SOOOOO MUCH FUNNNN!!!
A small map on the side that shows a tradional view of the area would be so handy. so you can see the layout of the base.
The official T90 play: Fast castle into a scout rush when you know your opponent already has knights. Then throw a single villager to build a castle on the front. Brilliant.
Interesting. Reminds me of those 1st person action/strategy hybrids of the late 90s/early 2000s that went as quickly as they came.
This is how Tristan learns that towrrs have to have archers in them. Until noa he figures the iron age workers just installed a pivoting self-loading bow which uses advanced AI to slect targets, calculate movement (tech dependent) and fire.
Empire earth was so genius man! Thanks for mentioning it!!!😃😃
This is what the world NEEEEEDS!!!!!!
Two player co-op would be great.
One player goes to first person while the other is doing the strategy, and can change whenever they see fit.
I have played with my brother on the same color, then we realized it is the same civilization, once we figure we were the same and one of us was in charge of economy and the other in charge of the military. It was fun.
coolest thing ive seen in a while, as an avid AOE fan. Never even imagined this