Their town centres and castles build at double speed, while their farms get better as you build more of them, and they have two unique units - a hardy infantryman called the serjeant, and a beefy new tower called the donjon which can both build serjeants, and be built by serjeants. From the looks of it, they're all about booming hard in Castle Age. The Sicilians seem the more reasonable of the two. Mind you, although I'm nowhere near being a top-tier player, I know enough to have had my eyebrows raised a little at the bonuses and abilities of the two new civs. It's like a beloved childhood pet has come back from the dead with a suite of unfathomable godlike powers, and it just keeps getting larger to boot. I have played 500 hours of AoE2 this year, and there's no way it can be anything other than my Game o' the year, so this is like a lovely dream for me. To see this content please enable targeting cookies. With a booming competitive scene, a growing audience on Twitch, and an ever-climbing place in the Steam charts, it's seemed for a while that AoE2 is back to stay, and the release of a good old fashioned expansion suggests there's plenty more to be embroidered on its tapestry yet. With its arrival, AoE2 will be able to boast a rowdy pool of 37 playable civs, thirty-odd single-player campaigns, most of which were redesigned for DE, and a renewed prominence in PC gaming that I don't think anybody saw coming. Lords will be the second set of content designed specifically for AoE2's Definitive Edition, and follows on from the excellent The Last Khans, which was included in the Def Ed at release. Longshanks, of course, was the baddie off of Braveheart, and thus also the baddie off of AoE2's first ever campaign, where you played as William Wallace in a series of adventures that were totally based on history and not the film.

From January 26th in the year of our lord 2021, players will be able to take the knight-happy Burgundians and the castle-dropping Sicilians for a spin, as well as play through three new campaigns - one each for the new civs, and a third for the Britons, featuring good old Edward Longshanks. Age Of Empires 2 is about to receive its sixth expansion pack, Lords Of The West, just a casual 22 years after the base game first wololoed its way onto our screens.

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