Does anyone know which Age of Empires map this is?
Solution 1:
That is the map Opening Moves, from the Reign of the Hittites campaign from the Age of Empires trial. The babylonian map from the full version does not have forest between the lands.
Solution 2:
I remember a very similar scenario, from the Age of Empires Demo (found, amongst others, on the Windows 98 SE CD). However, a few details differ:
- You started in the south-east corner, with two priests.
- South-west was a small village with only villagers, who you could (and should) convert.
- There was a river between these two tribes and another tribe to the north, which you needed to cross in order to attack them. I think the rest of the map was fended off with cliffs.
Solution 3:
The map described above is infact only for the Age Of Empires Trial. And that version alone. It's the map where there is no way of aquiring gold unless you rush cargoships and invade red lands. There is a similar version to this awesome map in the full game called "Holy Man" and is a part of the Voices of Babylon campaign. However it's not nearly as brilliant nor exciting as the trial version where you start out with TWO priests.
Solution 4:
It's AOE demo map, I remeber playing it when I was little. I downloaded AOE few days ago again, and I have big urge to play this map :D
And it was excatly same map like you described. Plus gold was only on enemys side :-(