As the Ruins doodad is the greek barracks, as seen here http://ift.tt/2uzAohm I was wondering, is there a mod that ads more AoE1 ruined barracks? Is there interest for this? Having ruined roman (iron age) barracks would enhance Attila and Alaric campaigns, and having even more ruined (iron age) barracks would enhance the whole historical campaign angle of the game, in my opinion.

Does a method exist where I can drag a box over both military and civilian units and only select military units while ignoring civilians or visa Versa? Or something similar?

I've played AoE since the first one. And for much of that time, I've played as a filthy casual. More of a sandbox and city builder almost. heh.

I've been trying to up my game a little bit. I mean, I don't want to sit and crunch numbers, or totally micro my vils, but I figure a little discussion might help me up the AI difficulty I'm playing on. (I cannot stand losing, so I'm also trying to overcome that distaste and teach myself it's okay to lose).

So usually what I do when I start a game:

1. Send all but two vils chopping wood - clearing out lone trees around the TC, or if I'm lucky, off to a forest to build a logging camp.
2. One vil to build a mill at the berries if they exist, or sheep, or deer.
3. One vil to build my first house
4. Set TC to build another vil to max pop
5. Start scouting in concentric circles around my TC to open up the map.

I put high priority on villagers - collecting wood and any food resources. Once easy food is gone, it's a mill + farms. I like to have nine farms surrounding my mill, and later when I can, around a dozen surrounding (less neatly) my TC.

Since I play AI on low enough difficulties, I don't have to start an army immediately, although I'll train five soldiers before I age up.

I also get vils on stone and gold asap.

When I play my wife, I tend to hugely out-do her on resources and army, probably because I try to maximize my villager count. About half my pop goes into villagers.

So I know that's not a ton of details, but... any suggestions for me? Even if I don't take your advice because it seems too much of a pain for what I want, I do honestly appreciate any input. And I'll try to try anything once, at least. :)

If you could transform yourself in a aoe2 unit what unit would you choose and why?

U kwnon who is Mario ovalle?

title

had a 3vs3 where i basically made their flank completely irrelevant for 30 minutes, he was still in dark age at 15 minutes, problem is, since i raided him hard, i couldn't obviously fast castle

so his dude on pocket on huns just fast castles and runs me over and over with knights while i'm still feudal, and i just can't do anything because i made sure to raid his flank and couldn't fast castle nor raid him

my pocket doesn't do shit to prevent it, doesn't even raid their pocket as response

what to do?

just don't rush in teamgames?

Hey guys, me and DauT are sitting in our hotel in London trying to kill some time, so we figured we would do a Reddit AMA. Feel free to ask us any questions you'd like, and we'll try to reply to as many as possible.

We will be answering questions for about an hour or two tonight, and follow up answering some more tomorrow morning, so there is time to get your questions in for a while.

Fire away!

So, I have somehow just learned last night that the Jihad technology not only makes your villagers slightly better fighters, but actually makes them much worse workers.

Usually I don't get the tech until it's go time so honestly I never payed attention to the eventual resource decline.

With that in mind, how on earth is this tech ever considered viable? Even with it villagers are not good soldiers, and now they're terrible workers too.

I know how to beat a regular naked trush; just vill fight and/or make defensive towers, and counterattack. Or get to castle age ASAP and make a ram/mangonel. A naked trush is very all-in and usually only wins because the opponent panicks. But what do you do when he shows up with forward towers, AND 3 Men-at-Arms? Vill fighting doesn't work since they have m@a, making defensive towers doesn't work when he just goes and shanks your tower with m@a and vills, and the regular calm response that you use against naked trushes doesn't work since he has m@a which can go into your woodline and kill vills.

I've just joined Reddit and this is the first thing I've ever written on here. I've mostly been reading all the amazing stuff:)

My question is related to sound in a vacuum.

Since space is a vacuum there is no way for sound to travel since sound needs a medium to travel through. Can an escaped gas "hold" sound? Or is it that the gas will dissipate so quickly that he sound also dissipates and disappears?

Related to that, if you were touching a giant gong in space and someone hit it would you be able to feel it but not hear it?

So many questions.

I'm still trash and want to know what I could improve. Beat moderate after a couple days lurking here then died to 2 standards ¯_(ツ)_/¯

I had to bail on my previous alliance because the Emperor just stopped playing and we could not make any progress on wonders. So I formed Dobekistan with me at the helm. There are only four of us and I would love to fill out the ranks with anyone really... I keep the relief forces stocked and am always around to say hello!

:D

So I own a copy of the officially AOE2 strategy guide from waay back in the day. A lot of the strategy guide included various rushes from a player named Out4blood. I have never actually seen about who this player was or if he was actually even a member of the community. They do actually have fundamentals of meta game (most were either flush builds or fast castle build).

I see this alot in pro games, was wondering why?

So basically I played a 4 vs 4 friendly match. I was pocket. We start playing and at certain point the red (the other pocket teammate) start building 6 market, 1 university and 1 forging on my territory. I say him to stop but no asnwer from him. Then I start building house in the empty space left by his markets. I needed that space. I had no other place where to build houses. Then he raged and he start saying I should **** myself and I should stop building houses. We start offending each other. At one hour of game, the teal (flank teammate) say sorry because he would have been defeated soon. I took a look at him... and after 1 hour of game he was still at feudal age doing nothing, with a score of 1000. After this, he asked for some stone. I was still irritable by what red did to me so I say him to shut up. He answered saying I'm a bad person and I should unistall aoe2.

Of course we lost. Before quitting, the last (blue) teammate said I'm an idiot. But why? Is ground zero teammates or not play at all the new way to play this game? I shouldn't complain about what they did? I really have no idea, please help me to understand.

Hello,

I had a really important interview today and managed to completely embarrass myself on a Fermi problem. I've never been really good at them, but this one... worst answer the interviewer ever heard. I did better on the second Fermi problem-calmed down and tried to go slower-and got a decent answer, but I still didn't do as well as I hoped. I needed a little nudge from the interviewer.

I actually realized that-once you took away the massive level of nervousness I was undergoing at the time-that I found the Fermi problem kind of fun. More importantly, I don't ever want to screw up like that again. Part of this is simply improving my verbal communication skills, which have never been good, but part of this is getting better at these sorts of teasers, which is a nice way of testing my logic skills, too. So: does anybody know a resource out there so I can get better at this? This might actually be a nice relaxation from my other studies.

I've won a few community games (nothing big) with them and I had great experiences.

Cheaper siege and their unique infantry tech make keeping the middle easier than other power house civs like the mongols. Spamming siege ram with halbs and champions is cheap and doesn't put you out of the game if you lose the middle once, but can win you the game if you have good timing.

I just never see them chosen in T90's community games.

Anybody know the required pc specs to run AOE4 yet? Just curious, thanks.

Right now I am just starting my second year of college. I am currently going for Mass Media Communications. I'm currently at a 3.6 right now and have made an honors society and the deans list both semesters of last year. I don't feel challenged in my major and I have been considering switching to majoring in Physics. Any advice or suggestions?

I know physics takes a lot of math. I get math and ibam pretty good at it. I usually make simple mistakes that I fix when I go back and check my work. I understand some calc but I would retake precal to make my foundation for calc 1 sturdy.

Or do genetic limitations come into play :/ ?

i really like the teutons, but i think they are a little bit underpower, so here is my rework 1-change the castle age unique tech, this tech will give the teutons castles the ability to shot 2 bombard tower projectiles, arrows (from towers or castles) and bombard towers projectiles have a 10+ damage to siege units, and it also will give the castle +4 range 2- change the imperial age unique tech, the new one it's going to be called "Honor And Religion" this will make the teonic knights Inmune to Monks and it will give them the ability to heal (15 health per minute), wait, just wait, lemme explain the teutonic knights are basically Military Monks so, in AOE, the Monks heal so, why not? 3- change that thing of "towers can garrison +10 units" for a "+1 projectile armor for infantry units in feudal age, +2 melee armor in castle age and 2+attack in imperial age" 4-remove Squires 5-add thumbring 6-add Herbal Medicine 7-Herbal Medicine is free (but u need to research it)

Do you find that it's always female villagers that go out of their way to kill the wrong sheep? Based on my experiences and people I spoke to it certainly seems that way, so starting to think it's by design 11

How would I find the center of gravity of a forklift with the same load at different hights? Is there an equation that would tell me this? Basically I want to know if a forklift was stationary with a load on the forks, at what hight will the center of gravity move and cause the forklift to tilt forward.

When light passes say from air to glass, its speed decreases. Since for waves, v=freq*wavelength, when the speed of the wave decreases does the frequency or wavelength decrease?

So, I am currently doing my MS(masters) in physics and I am working on a topic under Nonlinear Dynamics. my cgpa is 7.3/10.0 and I havent done any summer projects actually but I will have a published paper(may be two-in a few months-i think). will that be enough to get selected for a phd admission in a general university in the us?

i plan on giving the gre's and toefl's too.

For fun. E.g. 8 player pilgrim, 6 player gold rush, what are the best civs?

I really disliked the newer font that replaced the font from the original game so I went looking for an answer. Here's what I discovered buried in the comments section in the Steam community discussions page (courtesy of Zetnus):

1. Right click "Age of Empires II: HD Edition" in your Steam library.
2. Click on properties.
3. Click on "Set launch options..."
4. Type in "OLD_SCHOOL" (without quotation marks)
5. Click "Close" and then start the game.

The font should now be back to how it was in the original game.

Source: http://ift.tt/2x3WWen

User Patch 1.5 Beta 9 Build has been enabled for rated games.

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But still no one want to play with me :( Its so hard to switch to Voobly from HD...

Hi everyone! When I launch AoE3 (And 2)on steam theres no text only in the menu screen. I tried relocate my fonts files/restart steam, reinstall the game but it doesen't work. Someone has a solution? Or similar problem?

Link: https://youtu.be/uwZB14G_8Uc

This game was played on Nomad I didn't know Castle Age Janissaries were that strong. How can I deal with them in Castle Age? Knights and Mangonels are not good at countering them I suppose.

Of course, we should have gone for a heavy tower rush on him in the first place.

So a long time i wanted to try making an aoe2 style map, but i don't understand how to do it. I use Lua

How wide is a tile? How high? Are they ints or floats?

----| Variable |--| value |----| type(int/float, unsigned, signed?) tileWidth |--| ? |----| ? tileHeight |--| ? |----| ?

I use it to play Steam.

On the 1v1 ladder, it says:

Players decay 25 points every 14 days of inactivity down to a limit of 2000.

To that end there are hundreds upon hundreds of players with ELO 2000, stretching from rank 138 to rank 542 on the ladder, most of them inactive for years. A little sad. How could they walk away ? And how could they not come back now, when we have a dozen new civs more attention than ever?

I've heard that some grad schools want you to know which subfield you want to go into when you apply. I want to do HET, but I'm afraid I won't be a competitive applicant. I am going into my junior year and I need to decide which area to do research in (because I'm told I need to start specializing in my last two years). Should I do research in something less competitive (astrophysics maybe?) and then put that as my preferred subfield to increase my chances of getting into a good school (switching fields after getting in), or should I do HET research anyway and then say I want to probably do a different area of physics (which, given the jumping around I've done, will probably be plausible to someone reading my application)? Or should I do something entirely different strategically?

I just bought the game and I wanted to know what is the most popular way to play online; Voobly ? Hamachi ? Gameranger ? or what ? Sorry, I've been ausent for a long time and I'd like to come back. Thanks !

Hey dudes! Wait that's not my usual intro. Oh well, screw the intro this is a Reddit post. I can just get on with it.

In the expansions, Fire Galleys are the new dominant water unit in the early game (with people occasionally using Galleys and War Galleys, but always opening with fires). And the Byzantines have +25% attack speed on their fires. This seems incredibly strong, because early game water engagements are really important to control water so you can win the game, and the Byzantines win basically all engagements. No other Fire Galleys can contest them. The Byzantines also have +4 LoS for free on their Docks in the Feudal Age because of free Town Watch and their Docks also have extra HP increasing each age, AND the Byzantines get a unique tech in the Castle that gives their Fire Ships +1 range, AND the Byzantines get a 33% cheaper imp, allowing you to get to imp and retake water with fast fires very quickly.

Seem like a pretty good water civ to me. Think they can contest other civs, like post-5.5 Italians?

im thinking about rebinding my grouping hotkeys to alt-1, alt-2, etc

I've never played this game, only AoE2 (which I love). AoE3 seems to be less popular than AoE2, but why? What are good things about AoE3?

Starcraft has AI development tornements, I believe partly because Starcraft's API enables AI to do more things, so people are able to develop much smarter AI.

If DE incorporates all the new extra AI capabilities that UP has (I don't understand why HD didn't do this too), I feel like AI could become great and AI development tornements could be a really fun and alternative aspect to AoE2 DE.

Thoughts?

What would really be improved besides there graphics? And I probably wouldn't use new graphics anyways since I like the old ones.

The only thing I would really like would be the ability to flatten out terrain similar to in stronghold, especially as this would make walling gold's on hillsides viable and you wouldn't have to use ugly mods like pussywood and grid to not have one hole lose you the game

Hey all, I was woundering what civ has the best trash in the game. I've collected some data (please correct it if mistaken), and then given some rankings

CIVS WITH FU TRASH -Berbers -Portuguese -Spanish

CIVS WITH FUTrash minus 1 upgrade (including bloodlines/unit upgrades).

-Chinese (Hussar)

-Italians (Halb)

-Saracens (Halb)

-Indians (Plate Male)

-Magyars (Plate Male)

-Persians (Bracer)

-Slavs (Bracer)

-Vietnamese (Forging)

CIVS WITH IMPORTANT BONUSES

-Berbers (hussar 20% cheaper, team Genitour)

-Britons (Yeomen=Foot Archer Range +1, team Skirms created 20% faster)

-Burmese (Manipur Cavalry=Hussar +3 attack vs buildings, but miss two archer armors)

-Byzantines (Skirms + Halbs 25% cheaper)

-Goths (Halbs 35% cheaper, +1 attack vs buildings, Perfusion=created 100% faster, team Halbs created 20% faster, but miss last infantry and cavalry armor)

-Huns (team Hussar created 20% faster)

-Japanese (Halbs attack 33% faster, but miss hussar, last cav armor, and in base game bloodlines.)

-Magyars (Magyar Huszar, but miss Plate Male)

-Malay (Trash 2HS, but miss Hussar and 2 cavalry armor upgrades)

-Mongols (Hussar +30% HP, but miss halbs, last archer and last cavalry armor)

-Slavs (Halb attack +33% faster, but miss bracer)

-Vietnamese (team Imperial Skirm & 20% more HP)

CIVS WITH BEST TRASH OVERALL

1st.Malay (2HS)

2nd.Byzantines (Cheaper Halbs + Skirms, only miss plate male and bloodlines)

3rd.Berbers (full blacksmith, cheaper hussar and team genitour)

3rd.Vietnamese (Only miss forging, team imperial skirm & 20% more HP)

3rd.Goths (Halbs 35% cheaper, +1 attack vs buildings, Perfusion=created 100% faster, team Halbs created 20% faster, only miss last infantry and cavalry armor)

What are your thoughts?

Just started with hd edition now there is another remake >.>

Wished ranked was more active I can never seem to find a game. Anyone interested in scheduling some 2v2 / 3v3? I believe im in the 1650-1750 bracket

What kinds of doors would each one open?

What are job outcomes typically like for these kinds of top schools?

Currently it grants minor bonus damage against rams, and is widely regarded as pointless.

I'd suggest ''Cataphract Archers'' as a replacement UT, giving their cav archers more armour (2/2 or so?). I think it'd suit Persia quite well to have heavy-armoured cav archers with no Bracer.

If they keep Boiling Oil in, then they should probably double or triple the bonus and make it affect towers and town centers too.

I know a couple months ago Sixty made a post where he asked for mod volunteers, but that was a small part of a post that got really wrapped up in all the sidebar stuff. I'd much rather start fresh with a new post and some more details about what I'd like to see from new mods.

With all the news coming out about the definitive editions and even Age of Empires 4, this sub is going to get another surge of activity it hasn't seen since HD was released. Our sub is bigger than all other Age of Empires subs combined. While we will try to keep this sub focused on Age of Empires 2, you can't deny there's going to be a lot of members in this community interested in new Age of Empires 4 news. With the definitive editions coming out, we're going to see a change in the playerbase. And we're also seeing a surge in esports competitions. All of this adds up to a need for some new mods. We haven't added a new, permanent, mod in 4 years.

With this post, I would like to add two mods to the squad and would like for them to fulfill specific functions that I'll detail below:

1. An Esports/Tournament Mod

I really regret not having a discussion thread up for the EuroCup. It's not that I couldn't do it. I just didn't think about it, and I should have. If you volunteer for this position, that sort of thing would be your responsibility. You should be ready to create discussion threads for any major ongoing tournaments. (If you participate in any sports subreddits, think of this like a "Game Day" thread where people can come and leave comments while the games unfold.)

Another issue with these tournaments is it's hard to get details on when they're starting and where you can see them. This mod would be expected to create a weekly or once-every-two-weeks thread detailing upcoming tournaments and where to watch them (depending on how many are actually going on, obviously.) This would be a great way to promote smaller tournaments as well.

This mod needs to be unbiased. Covering tournaments no matter what platform they're on will be important. You might not play HD, but you should still promote tournaments on it. Of course, that also means you need to be someone who's active in the voobly community to know what tournaments are happening there.

1. A Community Engagement mod

For this mod, I think it's about time we started leveraging this 28,000 villager population into something more than a stagnant economy. Let's start getting active. I'd like to see someone volunteer for this position who doesn't mind hosting a game night, or finding volunteers to host a game night. If you can stream, maybe we stream the game night for people who can't directly participate.

The game night would be a big thing of course, but there are smaller things a mod like this can do as well. Much like the first mod can create discussion threads during ongoing tourneys, this mod could create discussion threads about a variety of topics. Maybe if a popular YouTuber releases a new video, we could have a community discussion. Or have a Strategy Sunday thread where we break down major gameplay strategies. Or a thread where people can post recordings of their play and have it analyzed. Things like that don't have to be unnecessarily complicated, and these are just ideas.

Basic requirements for applying:

1. You need to be active on Reddit and in this community.

2. Tell me which position you want.

3. Don't let the power go to your head. For the most part, modding is 90% spam and douchebag removal. It's not really very fun.

To apply:

1. Send me a private message and convince me you should be a mod. This is important because sometimes people get volunteered when they don't want to be or aren't really as serious about it as others are. Going through the minimum of effort at least tells me you've thought about it.

2. Post a public comment here stating your intentions because I'd like the community's viewpoint on this as well.

Understand that I'm not trying to overload you with things you have to do as mods. These are all just ideas. You will be free to do whatever the heck you want, and I invite you to come up with your own ideas when volunteering. If there's a different angle you'd like to bring to being a mod, please share it with me.

I've played Aoe on and off for a decent amount of years, but never competitively or anything. I read something about matchmaking on a steam review and was wondering if someone could explain how it all works.

Is it built into the game like in sc2? (I found aoe2.net and was wondering if you primarily play there) Are there plenty of people playing so I won't have to wait too long for a game? Are there enough bad people so that I can ease into trying to play at a high level?

Thanks all!

Hi, as I stated, I am a high schooler who is interested in physics. I have been doing a fair share of research. However, I feel as if I am still relatively uneducated, and there is a unestablished baseline of knowledge that many people in this subreddit share. I have not taken physics yet, hence my lack of knowledge of the field.

I'm looking for the basics of physics. Introduction to light and specostrospy, and anything you would deem detrimental to my understanding of physics.

Thanks in advance.

the individual gravitational potential of each body at theposition of the other body can be expressed as follows v1 ( r2 ) = − gm1r [ er12 + k1 ( eω1 × er12 ) ] · [ er12 + k1 ( eω1 × er12 ) ] ( 8 ) v2 ( r1 ) = − gm2r [ er21 + k2 ( eω2 × er21 ) ] · [ er21 + k2 ( eω2 × er21 ) ] since the radial unit vectors will have opposite signs ( er12 = − er21 = er ) the above expressions can be written as follows v1 ( r2 ) = − gm1r [ er + k1 ( eω1 × er ) ] · [ er + k1 ( eω1 × er ) ] ( 9 ) v2 ( r1 ) = − gm2r [ − er − k2 ( eω2 × er ) ] · [ − er − k2 ( eω2 × er ) ] these individual gravitational potentials am independent of each other. However when a mutual interaction is considered in order to ensure thatan equal force is applied to each body

Hey what are BEST cards for musk spam on nr 55? ( With good eco too. ) Also What are best cards for a map with water, ty

Almost everything is in the title.

I come from France and I'm just looking for 2v2 teammates on HD version. I'm currently 1686 ELO.

My Steam ID : nono_link67 (and my surname is GroGGy)

See you later !

Hi guys, I'm looking for a good deck as a team treaty player. Since I have just hit level 40 I now have furtrade so if anyone could make me a good treaty French deck and explain what I should do it would mean a lot.

Thanks, Ryan.

You dont hear about this much so I was curious as to see if there were.

These are both burgeoning scientific breakthroughs, and I'm trying to better understand how they work, so as to create my own version and help pave the way for humanity's first steps into interstellar travel.

Tuesday Physics Questions: 29-Aug-2017

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Hi, my friend and I played a lot of Small blood Ultima and it started to get boring so i came up with the idea to change the current units with dlc units like shotel warriors. But when i tried to add some units I realised that it wasn't an expansions scenario. and is it possible to even change the units you get?

http://ift.tt/2wkT1HW this is the map i'm talking about

After an epic season, it is a long wait (1-2 years) to the next and final season. So lets design some imaginary custom civs.

Format

<civname> Must be a major faction in Westeros / Essos at the period of the show

<teambonus>

<unique unit>

<unique tech castle>

<unique tech imperial>

<civ bonuses 1 to 4>

<tech tree disabilities>

The custom civ should be balanced, i.e. dont go crazy its not christmas....its winter, which has finally come for King's Landing.

I missed the games live because I'm dumb and now I want to watch them. Could someone give me a link to a twitch vod or something? Thanks

Their horse archer + catapult combination is arguably the most OP unit combination in both the AOE1 and its expansion - ROR.

So i read about the general relativity and in short if a vehicle was moving in a high speed and had a synced clocks with the crew on the ground , the clock on the space ship will report a 123hrs flight for example and the crew on the ground will have for example 135hrs , so the question is if the could stream the whole flight while having a copy of the stream on the device streaming on the rocket and the device receiving the stream ? What will the stream be a 123hrs stream or a 135hrs stream ????🤔🤔

I just recently did the survey they sent me a few months back. When will I be able to get a private beta to test? Am I too late? Is there going to be anymore waves to send the beta? Thanks in advance.

I main Zeus and I've noticed that in my build order, if I go into farming late, it usually ends up biting me. I noticed higher-elo players also defer to caravan and farms for resources later on. This is an ancillary point, but when you're that deep in mythic and have decent gold and food coming in, is it worth it to micro villies on wood?

Many civilizations like the Frank's and Slavs get heavy cavalry archers but not thumb ring, which makes them seem quite bad with only 50 percent accuracy.

Taking this into account it seems odd that a civ would get upgrades that it will never, ever, get. So are heavy cavalry archers with no thumb ring ever worth making or do they just make the technology tree pretty?

So I just tried a 2v2 game against AI as the Spanish (standard difficulty), and got absolutely wrecked by the Aztecs through a Feudal Rush. I know that I should have had defenses ready, be it walls or troops, but I'm having trouble learning to macromanage all of my villagers, and my economic and military development. What should I be spending my resources on when I get to the Feudal age? And how do I make sure that I have a steady flow of all resources? Any and all advice would be appreciated.

TL:DR - Trying to go from Newb to at least being able to beat a standard AI (Lol). Advice?

From what I can tell, both of these forces are used to amplify an inputed force and in the case of, say a wrench, a longer wrench has both a higher mechanical advantage and a higher torque.

So what I don't understand is how torque is not only considered different from mechanical advantage, but also is in the perpendicular direction of the plane in which the force is applied.

Any and all responses are appreciated!

So in between furious practice sessons, I was watching some Resonance commentary, and, well, there were a few games with Cav Archers. Now, I never cared much about Cav Archers, as they always seemed to be an utterly pointless unit. But, Res brought up the point of Bloodlines and Thumb Ring, two technologies from AoC that make them... not so bad, on paper. Again, I have minimal experience with them, because most of my AoK games were pre-patch, and there really wasn't much game there except boom to imperial to build Trebs and kill TCs. HUGE meta shift happened in AoC with the nerf, newer maps like Yucatan and generally, Flushing actually became a strategy that was useful. Which of course... caught me flat footed as hell when I switched to the conquerors.

So, What's up with'em now? Bloodlines gives them 70hp, which means they can tank a mangonel or onager shot now, as well as just generally not dying as quickly to Xbows. Thumbring dramatically changes their accuracy, meaning they can now hit non bunched up units. And, heck, I guess Parthian tactics is a useful tech, giving them more armor, as well as a boost to killing pikes.

So.. What good are these guys? I'm thinking that they would make decent raiders in the castle age, as they do get pretty tanky for archers with 70hp, allowing them to run past towers or standing troops, shoot a bunch of arrows into villagers with thumb ring, and then run away again, being a general annoyance and killing villagers.

Best Plays Vidoe.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvd044ADRtE&feature=youtu.be

I don't know what to expect really.

General relativity says that, as I move my finger around in my office, through Earth's gravity gradient, the "flow" of time at my finger tip is constantly changing (though by very small amounts, ~10²⁰ or so.)

What I haven't been able to understand is what does that change in flow mean when you try to understand time. In other words, the usual mental model is that time flows the same for everything in your office, say. But that's not correct! Time flows slower for things closer to the floor than to the ceiling (unless you have a really large mass hanging over your head...)

Another way to ask the question is: ok, suppose I have a small charged black hole floating in front of me. It's charged to hold it in place. Let's assume it's big enough that the Hawking radiation isn't enough to worry about. I stick my finger near it (but not too near.) The tide is bearable. I can pull my finger out if I want to. Now time is flowing slower at my fingertip. What happens? Can I feel the difference in time flow? Does my finger appear red-shifted?

I know it's a kind of fuzzy question, my apologies. While I can easily work out the math, it seems clear to me I still don't really understand what variable time flow MEANS.

I'm doing a paper relating to AP French's Equation on wineglasses and I was wondering if anyone knew the constant that he talks about in this equation .

Thanks in advance!

1 treb can potentially win against 3 trebs

trebs have 15% change to hit other trebs...that's a disgustingly low chance and promotes RNG shots

since treb wars rarely involve other units (due to the stalemate of castle+units defending them) it's game breaking

If yes, would the temperature inside the system be absolute zero? Thank you.

I mean for example when we imagine the Universe as a ball, or as a sphere, it represents only the surface of both, right? But the spherical surface has only two dimensions, very different from the four dimensions theorized by Einstein and the fourth dimension is related to time. So, can we say that space expands in time?

Hey everyone!

Gamescom was an incredible experience for me. I'd like to thank everyone who has been involved in these events leading up to gamescom, everyone who made the trip out to the meetups, everyone who has been a part of the community. Without all of your collective dedication to being a fan of the game, we wouldn't have had this opportunity. In fact, I'd argue the Age franchise would have been left to rot if not for the AoE2 community, and now we have some big changes to come.

Personally, I began creating content two years ago because I loved the game and thought it would be a good time. I genuinely never expected or thought things would have come so far in 2 years. It's truly insane. I never really had a passion or goal to work towards in my life, and now I have found a passion in casting. Thank you for that. I have worked really hard to get where I am today but the community has inspired me to do so. While Age of Empires 2 is the best game ever, it wouldn't be near as good if not for the community. In two years I've gone through a lot of stages. I still remember... September of 2015 ZeroEmpires hosted me and I was soo happy. I was freaking out, I had maybe 10-15 viewers before his 500 viewer host. Fast forward and two years later I'm working with him and other great people in Germany at Gamescom. It went from me being freaked out by a WololoRaid to casting at Gamescom in two years. That's not the type of progression one should ever expect and it happened. It's mind blowing stuff, and I credit the community for it. From the top down everyone is incredible.

I was only in Cologne for a few days but every moment was memorable for me. Thursday night I met the amazing people behind FE, many important people in the MS community, alongside Zero, Killerb, Nili, Shine, Robo, TheViper. It was surreal sitting next to the best player in the world, and all the other casters/admins i have worked with for so long. My personal favorite memory from the night was the conversation with Nili and Shine, two guys who have played together since the early 2000's and reminised on dozens of amazing memories. Friday Nili and I did a stream on Mixer which was really unexpected for me. We sat there for two hours and presented the game to many new faces and did a hell of a job. I was expecting to be nervous but once the cameras were on I was pretty focused and calm. Later on that day was the Cologne Meetup. There we so many people there! It was a blast. Amazing people, amazing conversation, great fun and many laughs. I got to meet people I've only seen in Twitch chats, only talked to on discord etc. It was awesome meeting every one of you.

Gamescom was something else. WE ESPORTS NOW BOYS! Seriously, 6k prizepool, players flown out to the event. All the equipment there dedicated to an AoE2 Cup. Hell yeah! Again, truly something special for our game. There are so many variables going into an event like that. It could have been so easy for a stream to not function properly, for the actual event to go wrong. All in all there were relatively minor issues, and the team handled it. When the stream went live Zak and I looked at each other in relief and after that things continued to go smoothly. Thousands of new faces saw the game during the event, during the stream, during the events in the week leading up to it. I couldn't have been more pleased. Every caster did a great job, the games were incredible from the players. The crowd stayed strong to watch til the very end. I was exhausted and sick but I completely forgot about it because of all these factors. Thank you all.

Special shout outs to the casting crew. For many of us that was the first time casting in such an arena and we did a great job considering. This includes Zak as a host before and after. Shout out to Zak and Robo for being badass admins, the work that is never seen nor appreciated by everyone enjoying the show. Zak's hard work for years in esports gave us this opportunity, Robo flew here from aussie land and didn't miss a beat. Shout out to the players for being good sports. There are plenty of expert gamers in other games that are complete jerks but you four were top class individuals on top of players.

Truthfully I'm overwhelmed with emotion and exhaustion after the entire trip. I'll try to get something out in video form next week if I can. Much love guys! Woo Woo

I´ve always wanted to play AoE 2 teamgames, and I wanted to make some friends that could form a team with me. Although Im not that great at the game, only around 1700 on AoE 2 HD, I would still like to find a few people who is active and wants to play and practice teamgames.

If you are intrested, please leave a comment.

PS. I am from Sweden.

Between Germany and France, which civ is better at handling Britain?