If you did not know yet, the campaigns from the original first game, just plain good old Age of Empires, are getting ported to Return of Rome by FE - Ascent of Egypt, Glory of Greece and Voices of Babylon will arrive in a future update.

That leaves out Yamato Empire of the Rising Sun, for reasons not exactly clear to me but my guess would be exclusivity. I understand the choice of not wanting to port every campaign, and I welcome the three new campaigns in ROR - but that does mean there is no official campaign representing any Asian civilization or architecture at all. I think that is probably one of the reasons ES made the Yamato campaign. Since we can now port over scenarios to ROR I wanted to do the Yamato Empire of the Rising Sun campaign myself, and it's now here for you to enjoy!



The campaign includes all eight original scenarios. To sum this up, this means all of the original AoE1 campaigns will available eventually. That still leaves the Rise of Rome campaigns however - anyone up for the challenge?