Hello all!
I had pretty much forgotten about this site, but I got back into playing DE recently, and some google search led me back here, and surprisingly I remembered my password still. Apparently last time I logged in was in 2012...
I spent so much time here in the mid-late 2000s discussing strategy and playing the many excellent campaigns our community members created and uploaded to the Blacksmith (to this day the Ulio campaign is still one of my most memorable gaming experiences). I played with forum members first on MSN Zone, and later GameRanger/Voobly, joined TOAO clan many members of which were pillars of the community here, and briefly considered taking on a Seraph role in the G&SD forum before real life got in the way. I think I even briefly participated in the AoKH ladder and AoKH Open. I think last time I was active was just around the time avatars were finally added to this site.
I was also active in RTWH for a few years, posting detailed After Action Reports of campaigns and taking great pleasure in running circles around the AI with horse archers and participating in hot seat/SWAP campaigns.
It's great to see that this site is still up and retains all of the old uploads/records of a bygone era. Even though AoE2 communities have mostly moved on to AoCZone, reddit, etc., it's still pretty amazing to think that for a few years after the original release of AoK, this was the undisputable hub of AoK activity, from Custom Scenarios to even top tier strategy discussion and articles from some of the top players at that time.
Revisiting AoKH really got the nostalgia train going for me. I saw a few vaguely familiar names from a cursory glance through the forums. If any folks are still around from that era I'd love to say hi.
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/\ingjianma/|____
Proud Member of TWH since 2007 and AoKH since 2004
Seleucid AAR|Sarmatian AAR | Spain AAR
I had pretty much forgotten about this site, but I got back into playing DE recently, and some google search led me back here, and surprisingly I remembered my password still. Apparently last time I logged in was in 2012...
I spent so much time here in the mid-late 2000s discussing strategy and playing the many excellent campaigns our community members created and uploaded to the Blacksmith (to this day the Ulio campaign is still one of my most memorable gaming experiences). I played with forum members first on MSN Zone, and later GameRanger/Voobly, joined TOAO clan many members of which were pillars of the community here, and briefly considered taking on a Seraph role in the G&SD forum before real life got in the way. I think I even briefly participated in the AoKH ladder and AoKH Open. I think last time I was active was just around the time avatars were finally added to this site.
I was also active in RTWH for a few years, posting detailed After Action Reports of campaigns and taking great pleasure in running circles around the AI with horse archers and participating in hot seat/SWAP campaigns.
It's great to see that this site is still up and retains all of the old uploads/records of a bygone era. Even though AoE2 communities have mostly moved on to AoCZone, reddit, etc., it's still pretty amazing to think that for a few years after the original release of AoK, this was the undisputable hub of AoK activity, from Custom Scenarios to even top tier strategy discussion and articles from some of the top players at that time.
Revisiting AoKH really got the nostalgia train going for me. I saw a few vaguely familiar names from a cursory glance through the forums. If any folks are still around from that era I'd love to say hi.
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/\ingjianma
Proud Member of TWH since 2007 and AoKH since 2004
Seleucid AAR|Sarmatian AAR | Spain AAR