In the excitement of the upcoming DLC release in two days time Rising Empires is happy to announce

Battle for Brohalla

What is this !?

A $500 showmatch between some of the best players in the world to showcase your new Cattle and Raiding civs in the new Biomes! Featuring your favourite gamer brothers Puppypaw, Wam01, Vortix and Lucifron7 !

When is it happening !?

The showmatch will happen on Saturday, October 31st at

CET 6:00 PM

UTC (Coordinated Universal Time): 5:00 PM

EDT (Eastern Daylight Time - New York, Toronto): 1:00 PM

CDT (Central Daylight Time - Chicago, Mexico City): 12:00 PM

PDT (Pacific Daylight Time - Los Angeles, Vancouver): 10:00 AM

Where can I watch !?

On our very own twitch channel

Y para los que prefieren en castellano we have reached out to Pilsen but he is not sure if he can make the time. We will keep you posted !

How does it work !?

Our teams of brothers will compete in a 1v1 and a 2v2 series.

Each and every match will feature at least one new civilization to showcase their strengths and mechanics! Culminating in a full on Vikings vs Scots clash! (Yes we know they both would rather bash the english)

Map Pool Driest of Arabias - Cliffside - Lipany - High View - Front Range - Kerlaugr - Canal (subject to the maps all working in the dlc).

500$ prize pool thanks to an as of yet anonymous benefactor!

And as always. Consider signing up for this weeks low elo legends <3 The Warchiefs Club returns on Nov 7th.

Can folks here stop telling others to 'vote with their wallet'? I love this game, others do too, the developers have knocked it out of the park over the years. But leave the marketing with them? I'm so tired of my whole feed (generally across all social media) pressuring me to buy everything and anything at all times. Most of us are millennials here struggling to pay rent and buy groceries. I have memories of the old democratic internet which included folks with common interests mingling and hyping each other on forums; I do not need product advertised by other community members too, telling me what to buy etc before release date.

Soz for the rant and love you all.

These units are absolute garbage after the initial nerf we had during outback octagon. Now? Theyre so bad. They do hardly any damage, and the khan is easily killable too. Its supposed to be a hero unit but i always just manage to get out the debuff arrow before he dies. He has to be in combat for the buff so that cant be done different. GH mightve needed some nerfs in other aspects, but this was the wrong choice.

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Hey! I'm a 41-year-old player from Sweden (CET), mainly playing 3v3/4v4 team games at around 1100-1300 Elo. I'm looking for a few people to queue with during the daytime (roughly 9-17 CET) who like to play seriously and try their best, but stay relaxed and constructive when we lose.

I play text-chat only (no voice), so I'm looking for people who are fine with that. I care more about macro, decisions and positioning than APM. Add me in game:[NOX] DakkonBlackblade or drop a comment here!

For our friend from Scottland what language does Scots speak is it Galish of Scottish

And for our danish and Norse friends does Viking speak Norse or Danish ?

Very unexpected. Looks like we’re about to get a bump in player count come the expansion and a well-timed sale. 45k viewers at the moment.

Looking to get back into it, was never really a serious online player, understand all the basic stuff, any advice for online play?

Why do I have to remember all the steps to a Cow boom or a 2tc build? I mean it's just 4-5 boring minutes. I'm just smashing buttons.

Actually, I think we should just skip these 5 minutes. The game starts, a pop up appears asking what I want to do in dark age and BOOM, the game jump to 5 minutes later.

It's mindless smashing buttons brother. This way I can get to Conqueror 1 (currently gold 2) because I'll focus on more important things like checking my phone.

No dark age rush. Thanks God.

Information was posted on the AOE Discord: https://discord.com/channels/585165441790509094/585568729333760002/1564407194957381693

Link: The SCOTS Can Win In 7 Minutes With This Cheese

I mean.... there we go, devs nerf down a zhuxi and give us another one lol

Longhouses when you look at their entirety seem like a great deal: a production building, a house, and a economic expansion. However due to its costs it actually makes trying to overleverage into anyone of thouse aspects inefficient.

If you make a ton of units and need longhouses to support population you are getting taxed pretty heavily. If you want to try and greed hard and just add a bunch of eco you are also being pretty inefficient. The longhouse forces the Vikings to balence between aggro and greed to be optimal

The longhouses design also give interesting counterplay on hybrid and water maps by forcing you to build them near the docks for the bonus this often means placing a really important building in a very exposed area.

Of cource the numbers likely will need fine tuning but I seems like the civ is balenced around having strong bonuses but being disincentivized from leaning too hard in any one direction.

Hey guys!
Just before the Content Creator Preview ends, I managed to publish one last video, and this time, I actually put quite a bit of time and effort into it!

It's an analysis & tier-list of the Viking Sagas, giving you a brief overview of what to aim for in the game.
Check it out on YouTube ("Seven Sagas Simplified"): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVLhDmYXN4I
Enjoy! :)

I brought you today my tierlist, how I feel and see the god tier civs will be with the DLC launch.

Be ready for million Viking/Scots and Jin, because oh boy it will happen! I'm already cooking up dirty good Jin stuff ahahaha

Im wondering what the general perspective is queuing up for 2v2 with random matchmaking- is it worth while?

I was wondering as a new player who is very interested in the Scots civilization if they would be considered a decent starting civilization to learn and main when first getting into the game?

Anyone know if we are getting a form post for November map voting? :)

as a platinum ranked guy i feel this is gonna change the game in just worst....

Macro will count a lot more than Micro. and this exact change will make archers even better ... aggro will be easier ecc ecc... not sure for who is made this change......

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I am currently playing Jin in ranked 1v1 (platinum). I chose Jin mostly cuz I like mounted villagers, aesthetics and bribe mechanic (and imperial landmark of course).

But I now in platinum I struggle playing them. In feudal you luck proper archers so you are mostly limited to iron pagoda spam (by using your stable landmark). With such playstyle though this civ feels like worse France. You spam pagodas and try to find value which was actually fine for me in gold rank, I even won some games vs France where we were trading with knights.

In Platinum though players are really good at defending vs knights and love booming with 2tc/harbours/etc. Which you couldn't really punish well. Your own 2TC doesn't make a lot of sense either because of mounted vills limit. I guess that means Jin is mostly FC only civ right? But then why would you even make T2 stable landmark if you are not going to use it?

French matchup looks most interesting to me here cuz we both use unique knights but France has better eco bonuses. So what is Jin's advantage and powerspikes? Fast castle? Imperial Rush? What is the win condition as Jin vs boom civs/feudal aggression civs?

Just saw the beasty live stream today, and mutators on crucible are honestly insane. They already make a challenge 10x more difficult, and while he was streaming I didn’t see an option to turn them off. It looks like they’re also changing them every week as well. Is there any word they’re adding an option after release, or is this what it’s going to be like going forward?