Whats up everyone! A couple days late but I've had a lot going on in the last week or so, had some personal issues as well as dislocating my shoulder from snowboarding last Friday. Still hurts a lot and can barely move it so I decided to rest up and do the video today. Did something a little bit longer this time showing a 1v1 with me vs a ~1680~ opponent. Just glad to hit my 5/5 video goals for January! I will come up with some cover art for this video in the next day or two, keep an eye out for 4 more videos in February, my bday is on the 2nd so it'll be sometime after that! but Thanks for stoping by again hope the video is enjoyable let me know what you would improve on it or change or what you liked about it! How NOT TO Tower Rush Video Link :)

They seem like they have good colonial offense cards, good offense upgrades, good turtle cards, a raider age 2 card of horses.

I dont even see them used in Sunday smackdown on ESOC patch either....

Whats their flaws that makes them so _____ (underpowered or balanced or confusing, etc) that people dont use them much?

I'm legitimately wondering cause I love china units / style.

We wanted to share that after May 13, 2019, "Age of Empires: Castle Siege" will no longer be supported, and will no longer be available for download. Current "Age of Empires: Castle Siege" players can still download and play the game up until May 13. After May 13, matchmaking services will end, which means the game will no longer be playable. While we're sad to close "Age of Empires: Castle Siege," we're excited for what's to come for the Age franchise with the recent release of "Age of Empires: Definitive Edition" and upcoming titles such as "Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition," "Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition" and "Age of Empires IV."

More information can be found on the official Castle Siege forums at forums.castlesiegegame.com.

So I've been playing this game for a while and i think I'm a pretty good player. So let's go:

You should be creating 3 villagers per 2 seconds (if you do less, you'll have a weak eco, if more, the TC will overheat and explode)

1-6) send your vills on sheep

7) build a lumber camp next to your TC and collect the stragglers

8, 9) trees

10) find your boar, shoot it three times (with a vill) and run back to your TC, let the boar eat the vill, because it'll get fatter and have more food. Then shoot the boar with the TC (you don't wanna lose vills)

11) make a mill next to the TC, you want it to be as safe as possible

Now you should wait until you have 500 food for feudal age, lure 2nd boar and feed it with 2 vills

Once you advance, you wanna make an army. You're gonna need food for that, so stop creating vills. Create around 5 militias and upgrade them to Men At Arms (don't get the blacksmith upgrades, they're just a scam) and attack your opponents TC. Don't attack vills, they are weak and unusable in combat. He might make some units to defend, here is how to counter:

Archers counter Skirms

Skirms counter Scouts (they have the long sticks against horses)

Scouts counter Spears (they outmaneuver them)

Spears counter Archers (they can hit them from further than a sword could)

So what now? Now enjoy your victory. You've won already. What's your enemy gonna do without an army or a TC???

Hi,

I've been playing aoe2 for quite a few years now but have always played against friends or the AI.

In my experience with C&C:TS the online community is usually a lot more ruthless in strat than friends or AI - so I'm wondering are there any decent tips that people can give to help me avoid getting shat all over?

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Cheers!

hello,

i made a very basic 28+2+loom build for fast castle that i can do every game with low idle time

I'm looking for a faster build without any eco bonus, i found many builds for a 16-17 min FC that are equal or worse than mine but i'm looking for something more deep

https://www.reddit.com/r/aoe2/comments/6hby8i/whats_a_good_fast_castle_28_pop_time/dixh2kl

here are some usefull timers, I would like to know how to make these builds 23+2-27+2 but i can't find any video or build order

Mode I enjoy the most, but very rare, so I want to start my own.

However, the option for sudden death doesn't show for me when choosing a mode.
Regicide, Relicts and all the others are there, but no sudden death, even after picking extension as option for the game I want to host.

Do I need another DLC for this? I only got one so far.
I'd love if you could help me out, low pop sudden death games are the best real diplomacy games for noobs like me <3

any idea? thx

Wanna switch to Voobly, sick of HD 11

Every feasible civilization that could potentially ever be added.

New civs in --Europe --Africa --Asia

Only Romans not featured, because that's missing the point of the game.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1r14kNusera0g966KsQ_-59wnNjsqI2SIsHCV1cFj4PM/edit?usp=sharing

Regarding Graphical Modding of AGE of Empires II units.

i am assisting someone with visuals for new units they have in mind -
they have data modded some of the civs and produced new civs in their place..
I noticed they had no new graphics, so i opened my mouth to help i have some skills in 3d , and i love the game --
this is aimed at doing their unique unit skin / actions etc----
That is my part of the process - However , though these fellows have used genie for their work ,

they seem not to know about the part that I need --

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I am looking to chat with anyone who has experience using Advanced Genie Editor to prepare graphics for the game.

I have begun by inspecting the files inside genie -

then opening the SLP files in Turtle pack - Sample files are provided - so have played around with exporting the images , editing and re-importing.
I have not edited game files yet - If i make changes which fail , i can just re-install, but i'd rather not.

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There is plenty for me to in the 3d workflow - So I'm scouting for an assistant at the Genie end.

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In the instructions of this fourth mission of Voices of Babylon, at least in the spanish version I'm playing, it says in the hints section that "La huída puede ser tu única salida" which means that scaping can be the only way out. Does it mean that it's possible to win without leaving the island? Anybody was able to do it?

u/nerdzilla314's grammar guide got me thinking about the possibility of creating some collective nouns for aoe2 units. We could bypass the whole man-at-arms' v. men-at-arms with something like "a patrol of man-at-arms." I'm sure that grammatically that should be "a patrol of men-at-arms" anyway, but this is what got me thinking.

• A trush of Korean vils
• A suicide of petards/demos
• A crusade of paladins
• A sting of scorpions
• A black forest surprise of onagers
• A snipe of longbows
• A stampede of war/battle elephants
• A train of Mongol siege
• An Ørjan of Organ guns

Any other suggestions for collective nouns out there?

Simple question just trying to look at different gods

I get it for Slavs, obviously.

When you click the 'watch' ones, you join as a spec, and when you join the 'join' ones, you join as a player. In both cases the game is not yet started and isn't even full.

What controls this?

I'm a new player, but used to play regularly 8 years ago. I'm in the market for a new monitor, and wanted to know does it make a difference if I buy a gaming monitor with 2ms input-lag vs a normal one with 8ms input-lag for AOE2 to get to a 1600 voobly rating.

The one's I'm considering are:https://www.amazon.com/LG-32GK650F-B-Monitor-FreeSync-Technology/dp/B07FLGR2PN - gaming

https://www.amazon.com/Dell-LED-Lit-Monitor-D3218HN-1920x1080/dp/B07767YLNC - normal

if your in a game and a guy in your team shoots up on the score because he is a loser no life sad little smurf there is an easy way to fuck him right off.

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Leave the match, give the opponents a chance, they always win in the end even 3v1 i have seen, sad losers playing players way below there level, its just really fucking pleasurable hearing them cry that they have to work hard to win now.

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For those of you that arent loser smurfs gg have fun

Last night I played a 1v1 on Arabia. My opponent heaped pressure/towered my stone throughout feudal but i beat him to castle first and killed his forward. Then i beat him to imp and started mopping the floor. I say this because he was obviously salty by the time i got to Imp...

Long story short, he started laughing and claiming he was going to cause a de-sync game. He started lagging out of the game I assume by turning his internet on and off? Is there anyway to report a player for doing this? Has the community ever discussed asking Microsoft to implement a safeguard? The score was roughly 7500 - 4000 when he started this cr@p and normally I wouldn't be so pissed but I literally had to sit there for about 15 minutes to click "continue game" while he lagged in and out.

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Side note: my wife appreciated that i helped fold laundry while still playing "my silly childhood game"

1 - yes

2 - no

3 - maybe

4 - i dont know

5 - can you repeat the question

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6 - you're not the boss of me now

7 - you're not the boss of me now

8 - you're not the boss of me now

9 - and

10 - you're not so big

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11 - life is unfair

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microsoft pls fix.

It was working fine before the update. Screen freezes on start screen, can't move mouse and even Ctrl+Alt+Del doesn't work so have to manually power down.

Anyone else having this issue? How to fix?

They can’t really do any raiding like the knight and only really have a good use against Calvary archers. Any of the other units they’re good against can be countered by paladins.

Oh boi I hope you guys like towers ;)

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Hello and welcome back for another Age of Empires 2 civilization match up discussion! This is a series where we discuss the various advantages, disadvantages, and quirks found within the numerous match ups of the game. The goal is to collectively gain a deeper understanding of how two civilizations interact with each other in a variety of different settings. Feel free to ask questions, pose strategies, or provide insight on how the two civilizations in question interact with each other on any map type and game mode. This is not limited to 1v1 either. Feel free to discuss how the civilizations compare in team games as well! So long as you are talking about how the two civilizations interact, anything is fair game! Last week we discussed the Magyars vs Spanish, and next up is the Byzantines vs Koreans!

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Byzantines: Bloodlines-lacking civilization

• Buildings +10/20/30/40% in Dark/Feudal/Castle/Imperial Age
• Camels, Skirmishers, and Spearmen cost -25%
• Fire Ships attack +20% faster
• Town Watch is free
• Advancing to the Imperial Age costs -33%
• TEAM BONUS: Monks heal +50% faster
• Unique Unit: Cataphract (Heavy cavalry with bonus damage vs infantry)
• Castle Age Unique Tech: Greek Fire (Fire Ships +1 range)
• Imperial Age Unique Tech: Logistica (Cataphracts deal 5 trample damage; gain +6 extra attack vs infantry)

Koreans: Trushing civilization

• Villagers +3 LoS
• Stone miners work +20% faster
• Walls, Gates, and Castles built +33% faster, Towers built +5% faster
• Tower upgrades free (BBT requires Chemistry)
• Towers +1/+2 range in Castle/Imperial Age
• TEAM BONUS: Mangonel minimum range reduced
• Unique Unit: War Wagon (Powerful, expensive cavalry archer)
• Unique Unit: Turtle Ship (Slow, ironclad war ship armed with a short-range cannon)
• Castle Age Unique Tech: Panokseon (+15% Turtle Ship speed)
• Imperial Age Unique Tech: Shinkichon (Onagers +1 range)

Below are some match up-specific talking points to get you all started. These are just to give people ideas, you do not need to address them specifically if you do not want to!

• What a match-up 11. With both civilizations boasting strong defenses, which has the edge when it comes to defending early aggression from the other? (Byzantine fwd rax/ranges/towers and Korean full on trushes)
• With both civs being so late game-oriented, which one has the more powerful late game army in team games, where gold is infinite and games tend to go longer?
• On water maps, neither civ jumps out as top-tier, but both do posses powerful navies with Byzantines having super-fire ships and Koreans having Turtle Ships. Which civ do you favor on the water?

Thank you as always for participating! Next week we will conclude round 4 with the Celts vs Japanese. Hope to see you there! :)

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Links to previous discussions: Part 1 Part 2

We are closet to The chinese New year so there are a possibility to a steam sale? Or Even get free for limited time The game?

Just had a 200mb update on this game, couldn't find any patch notes. What was changed?

I had original 3 CD, and CD key. Age of empires 3 complete collection

Can I create new account and play with old CD key? (Legit)

wanted to get back into the game for aoe4

As the title says. Could it be coded so that a monastery can pick up and garrison a relic (say within 4 range)?

As in, for late game attacking when you make a long treaty. After you get your Elite UU, UT and those important upgrades. Celts? Koreans? Persians?

I purchased all the expansions. They work as usual when I play HD.. But on voobly, I can't pick the expansion civs. How to fix it?

Finally starting to play on Voobly after many years casually playing this game, and I'm having trouble understanding why everyone insists on playing with civ set to random. It takes time and effort to prepare and practice strategies, so naturally it makes sense to specialize in one or a few civs that suit one's preferences. Doesn't going random defeat that whole idea? Being able to play every civ well also seems like a high barrier to entry considering how many there are and how differently some of them operate.

The other RTS I follow is Starcraft 2, and in that game random players are extremely rare, and essentially nonexistent in the pro scene. It's even against the rules in some tournaments to switch races between games.

Obviously, I don't want to discourage people from going random if they want. It certainly does mix things up at least. I just want to understand why its frowned upon for me to choose my own civ.

I hope this question isn't too broad to answer.

I'm no stranger to RTS games in general, but have never played AoE. I don't think any of my friends at the LAN are exceptionally good at this game, but they've all played AoE for some time.

What do I have to do to not get absolutely destroyed? I have three days to get ready, so I'm thankful for any advice.

Is there any website or similar that tracks your aoe2 games stats. I imagine something like a history of all the matches I played. I play online aoe2 hd via steam.

Why don't players use other maps? Is arabia that better than all else?

Hi,

Late November, I noticed a bug about villagers who occasionally don't proceed with building orders and stand idle at on top of construction area.

After I order villagers to build an economic or military building, I witness them go to the construction area and step on the middle of construction area. Vils go to the center of it.

If I select them again and clicking on construction zone, they step aside and start building.

I suspect this happens only against human players and does not happend against computer.

For 6-7 months I had no problem, this occured end of November.

Anyone else having similar issue ?

Thanks for all your help in advance.

They don’t have to release a new civ. I would love it if they released like around 20-25 missions professionally made.

Hi Everyone,

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I love playing the Indians especially as flank but as pocket it is an awkward position to be in because of no knights. Is it generally recommended to go into a light cav/camel combo or cav archer/camel combo as pocket Indians?

Hi,

I am an old guy who kinda sucks at aoe2 and just wants to have fun with friends his age. We are using Voobly (great work by the way - and many thanks to aoe2tool guy).

We love stats (it comes with old age, less actions, more stats) and I wonder if there's a known way to analyse the savegames, extracting things like "which player had the first UU", "who killed the most unit to who", "the total cost of army", "cost effectiveness", you name it.

Such info is available, because viewing recorded games is possible. We just need something to change the data from its obscure format to something more understandable. Even in text for I'll be able to extract data semi automatically using excel or something like that. I've done it for our csgo server, everybody was happy.

I searched reddit & the net and couldn't find.

Could anyone help me ?

Regards,

F.

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Recently, a few friends of mine and I got together and bought AEO2, we all suck and frankly none of us any what we are doing. We play a lot of multiplayer in private lobbies and I've noticed that we are all getting terrible ping issues when we play. My friends don't seem to mind, but I'm a real tight-ass about this kind this kind of stuff. It makes the game unenjoyable for me.

Any idea on what might cause this?

What's the fix? (If there is one)

Is anyone else having this issue?

Tournament Overview

Semifinal 1

TheViper vs Mr. YO

When: Friday, February 1, 2019 - 15:00 GMT

Semifinal 2

Liereyy vs Fat_Dragon (Vivi)

When: Saturday, February 2, 2019 - 15:00 GMT

Grand Final

Winners of semifinals 1 & 2

When: Sunday, February 3, 2019 - 15:00 GMT

The time will be Sunday 15:00 GMT if there is a Chinese player or 17:00 GMT if there is not.

Prize Pool

The total prize pool of the tournament is 15,800$ and is distributed to the winners in the following order:

Hello! Does anyone knows where to download a World map in a big size/scale to play like a Risk boardgame?

What day and time are the games happening?

Time for another weekly round of questions.

Talk about everything from build orders to advanced strategies.

Whatever your questions, the community is here to answer them.

So ask away!

I was wondering if there’s any way to get the soundtrack on Spotify.

I know the definitive edition has it on there, but I want aoe2 soundtrack.

Also, if any of y’all know how to get Age of Mythology or Rise of Nations soundtracks too, that would be great

King*

It's not much but Tenggar Cavalry must have contributed some music towards the game so the game is being worked on slowly.

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https://scontent.fbne5-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/50719324_2486713138068859_2414374281573040128_n.jpg?_nc_cat=109&_nc_ht=scontent.fbne5-1.fna&oh=ca6f861c8c0ddc68a51ef1c865a79a1c&oe=5CF87155

Will everybody start fresh?

Coming back to aoe3 with level 10 decks while people have level 150 decks is a little... Unfair. Anyways would yall want reset online stats / home cities?

Just an example

Like when I finally age up to Colonial, is 5:30 good?

When I finally age up to Fortress, is 8:00 good?

Based on the current fast colonials and fast fortresses strats, what's good times so I won't be late?

Background: I love playing China, I want to develop strategies that'll compete with other civs.

What has happened to Brazukas? I heard on T90's stream that Miguel and dogao have left for Heresy and read in the comments that F1re (or maybe it was RiuT?) has joined Secret (or rejoined, depending on how you look at it). Is this true? If so, what happens to BZK? (And Heresy for that matter - will other players leave?)

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I'm not super interested in any drama, just want to know about the roster changes.

I am new to the game and I have been watching quite a few competitive gameplay.
They were all doing rush strategy and it feels completely different from casual games.
Do high-level games end in only early ages?

got aoe2hd a while back off of steam and havent been able to play it cause all the menus and what not in game are itty bitty, is this a common prob? if so theres obviously a solution that im too ignorant to see. any help would be appreciated.

So next weeks sunday smackdown has the special bonus where every shipment doubles in value. At first thought the civs relying heavily on shipments like Spain and Germany gain a significant advantage. I mean for example, 6 settler wagons and 4 uhlans are a pretty nice jumpstart to your colony.

I was also thinking unit upgrade cards would become fairly useful, since if you start with 6 vil shipment in age I and 10 vil shipment in age II, you can pump out so many units. At that point your unit upgrades scale better, and they're doubled as well.

Thoughts and opinions? Are there any surprise strats we could expect?

Upstream

• NEW: Use GNU gold linker by default (Link)
• FIX: Compliance fixes for newer pylint versions (Link)
• FIX: Cyclic dependency on unnecessary timefile (Link)

Issues

Nothing new.

Too few bugs for your taste? Build the project yourself for Linux, OS X or Windows and report your own findings to us.

Open Discussions

Nothing new.

Roadmap

1. Rewrite of the coordinate system ✓
2. Merge eventsystem code ✓
3. Implement core gamestate
   • nyan file loading and pong demo
   • Decouple the simulation from display
   • Define minimal gamestate for displaying entities
4. Establish modpack format
5. Create a simple demo for testing
6. Adapt the new renderer to the simulation model

Two days ago, I posted a thread of a DM gamemode discuss and balance it. It can be OP or not but with all the downvotes, my karma becamed -2000 from -1000

https://www.reddit.com/r/aoe2/comments/asdf/you_RM_nerds_Need_to_play_DM/

A lot of people of this community has demostrated an exagerated disgust in the way they respond from my incesant begging to play DM who most of the times has more work on it than rm which dominate the front page (and also demostrates that i'm spammers, and instead I just want to force you to play my gamemode). It looks that you actually want that these people get out from this community and don't even demostrates any kind of respect (ex: https://www.reddit.com/r/aoe2/comments/42asdf/jred_go_commit_die_thanks_bro/ It's old, but still valid ).

I will stop publishing threads. If you were the guilty, be happy, as you may not see any of my dm nagging anymore

Hi there

So the whitelist is quite small, but I've see lots of other games (that aren't on the whitelist) work, anyone played or seen a (non whitelist) game working on Linux, if so, let me know

Ones I've personally played are

-Skyrim (not se)

-Operation Flashpoint Dragon Rising

-Age of Empires II HD edition

I haven't tried Operation Flashpoint Red River yet, but I don't think it will go well, because it uses the infamous GFWL extensively..

Two days ago, I posted a thread of a civ idea to discuss and balance it. It can be OP or not but with all the downvotes, my karma becamed 198 from being 215.

https://www.reddit.com/r/aoe2/comments/ajtpjg/edo_benin_civ_idea/

A lot of people of this community has demostrated an exagerated disgust in the way they respond from civ ideas or even modpack ideas who most of the times has more work on it than memes who dominate the front page (and also demostrates that we aren't spammers, and instead we are a just very active community). It looks that you actually want that these people get out from this community and don't even demostrates any kind of respect (ex: https://www.reddit.com/r/aoe2/comments/42onsz/usacs_civ_crafting_corner_24_25_bantu_twofer/ It's old, but still valid ).

I will stop publishing threads. If you were the guilty, be happy, as you may not see any of my civ threads anymore

Does anybody know which parameter controls for the AI to build a dock and try and take the water?

Google Drive Link - This is the game for OSX (wrapped in Wineskin). What works for me on High Sierra are these wineskin settings. I'm using a 2018 MacBook Pro 13 inch so you may have to edit the resolution size in Wineskin settings to match yours. My friends and I are able to play Lan games with Windows & OSX together without issues. I posted this before under a different username but people had issues with it so I thought I'd post the wineskin settings along with it. If those don't work, just tinker around with checking and unchecking boxes and doing a test run until it works, and PM me if you have any problems.

Okay, im a rank 12 player, still new to the game I mainly played 2v2 and 3v3 up until now. When I am playing 1v1 I generally do really well even against opponent ranked higher than me, I can fight up to rank 18, though those are very challenging fight. But for some reason I just can't fight off Sioux and iroquois civ... Like whatever I do they always rush harder than me and overwhelm me early game even if I go for a full rush build order.

Whatever tips you might have against those civ might help. Im playing mainly russian and german.

Already selected and posted the Game of the Week 2/2019 a few days ago:

Skady's 1h+ game vs. reDo promises high quality fun to anyone watching :-)

However, for those looking for some modern old-schooler gameplay, AoL_darkrïzen's series vs. MMC_StarSky is also one not to miss :-)

Game of the Week 3/2019

Next week is then 14-20th January - I've posted two rather cool games I streamed (another 1h+ epic involving base switches and back builds and all kinds of things, and Brickhead's Rhino-birthing Cleopatra), would be great if you could supply some more you have seen on the plentiful streams across the community, or those you have played yourselves and stuck in your mind.

As always, all games are eligible - be it standard Titans, EE, DM or Vanilla, or even CS - and don't be afraid to post games as soon as you see or play them - let's make these threads just general community highlights with a top selectee at the end :-)

Please post your suggestions also at RTS-Sanctuary's GotW topic so that we have things in one place :-)

King of the desert 2 with over 15k$ in prize pool. Check out MembTV on live streaming

How does the difficulty level affect the computer's behaviour? I have looked at the AI guides on http://aoe.heavengames.com/siege/AIandPER/PerFilesPhill.shtml and nothing refers to difficulty level. The .ai files are essentially a build order, and the .per file is a bunch of adjustable values that change the personality.

So I'm assuming that the difficulty level affects things that are hidden in the engine somewhere.

So: When I play a scenario and select the difficulty level, how does that actually affect what the computer player actually does in terms of its actions? Does it affect how quickly the AI gives commands or waits between training new units?

i’ve got my laptop hooked up to my TV and i’m trying to watch KOTD2 but the game looks really strange. it seems like the whites are too white to the point of where the fog of war isn’t even a translucent black, but a really milky light grey

so does anyone know the best settings for watching AOE2 on a TV?

Spanish player booms to imperial, then makes conquistadors, while the other literally makes skirms all day long. How to effectively deal with that without rushing the Spanish player? Maybe celts with scorpions? If so, how to protect the scorpions?

Hey, if someone drops from the game you are shown the menu with the Options to save and quit or continue the game. Is there a possibility to initate that vote? For exapmle is a Player leaves without resons and the others are finde with save and quit. Or if ist laggy as hell. So that you dont lose elo. Thanks

I need to create some ludikris maps of cities with this tool, unfortunately I cannot find any guide how to do this. Someone can explain how to do it?
I know that I must specify image colour as terrain type and rotate image to 45 degree angle, but don't know how to upload this image, specify terrain type and convert to map in Genie.

I know they are useful I'm just curious as to why they are useful.

Thanks,

A shit (AoE player).

Hey guys, I've been playing against the AI for years upon years just playing with my friends and having a fun time doing it. But I want to start trying to actually compete against people. I'm just concerned because I feel like after only playing against AI for this long, that any strategy I have exploits little mistakes that the AI make that a actual player would never do.

I've played a couple of matches before and absolutely got my ass handed to me. I have also watched some high ranking players play before, but I don't quite have a grasp on what they're doing.

What are some useful tips to get started when playing against other players?

This may be a total moonshot. I play AOE2HD on steam, and I've been wanting to play the mod Tales of Middle Earth for some time now. https://www.moddb.com/mods/tales-of-middle-earth/downloads if you don't know what I'm talking about.

Anyway, i haven't come across a decent way to make it work with HD so far. I'm wondering if anyone has found any good workarounds. As a bonus challenge, I'm actually playing this on a mac via wineskin.

Thanks in advance, hopefully.

Title. I got some really cool map mods but cant figure out how to play on them against AI

lol today's happened to me with a scout cavalry.