Im really serious here, since we cant have infinite civs I tryed to make some "umbrellas" to secure the representation of some of the bigger holes in the world

BALTS = Lithuanians, Prussians and Latvians. The pagan peoples of the Baltic that fought Slavs and the Teutonic Order.

GEORGIANS = The peoples of the Caucasus, it include proper Georgians, Armenians, and maybe even Alans (cant use the name "Caucasians" to avoid the mainstream racial definition).

DRAVIDIANS = The south india peoples, Tamil, Kannada, Telugu, Gondi, etc. Political and cultural independient region of the medieval India, being the Chola and Rashtrakuta their biggest empires. Since in game India civ is mainly based on north west india region, where the indus river is located, they can keep the name of India (name used since antiquity to refer that especific area).

TAIS = The forgotten peoples of the Rise of Rajas, Thai, Lao, Isan, Dai, and Ahom. Representing the kingdoms of Ayutthaya, LanNa, LanSang and Ahom.

WENDS = An archaic name for the west slavs (Czechs, Polans, Moravians, Pomeranians, Slovaks,etc). With the Indians, Slavs are the worse umbrella right now, so the easier way to split them is leaving the actual Slav civ that is based on Ruthenians, Russians and others orthodox east slavs, and make this West Slav civ to represent the Catholic and some kind of germanized kingdoms like Bohemia, Moravia and Poland. Also a Hussite war campaing can be great.

Hey guys,

My friends and I have recently rediscovered A2HD and we’re wondering if any of you have fixes for the terrible multiplayer performance through steam. Is definitive edition likely to fix this?

Hey there, I am looking for people to play some non-competitive AoE3 with. Any skill levels welcome, Teamspeak/Discord not necessary.

Sadly my friends don't play AoE anymore. Cheers people!

Hi,

When I play on Voobly, I am incapable of making/placing Palisade Gates. As in, the option to create them doesn't even exist. I don't have this problem on Steam. Does anyone else have a similar issue or know how to fix it?

So, i like to pull off some degenerate tactics like trushing against my friends. Considering koreans as one of the best trush civs (tell me if im wrong), i pick them. But what I find hard in team games after trushing is just staying in the game. While player that got trushed rarely comes back (it does happen tho, so there must be some mistakes at my side for that to happen i think), i just get destroyed by others. Its just too hard for me to come back after sacrificing early eco. Some tips for improving my trushing and staying in the game afterwards?

So I am a beta tester for aoe2 de and I went to preorder aoe2 DE and it keeps saying that I already own the game so nothing will change. Do the beta testers get the game for free or what is going on here?

Even though Zuppi said that they won't be nerfed by not having 4v4s in the interview, I think he didn't want to make their team seem weak. It's obvious they have great team skill but much lower individual skill overall compared to AM and Secret. 4v4 is really fun to watch and very important to team games. Why not have at least one 4v4 game in the best of 9? If you are wanting to see who is the best team overall you need to see how they play each type whether 1v1, 2v2, 3v3, and 4v4. It makes teams use every player on their roster so helps balance teams better.

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I'm guessing there are three different 1v1, 2v2, and 3v3s to make 9 games. I'm also guessing they thought another two 4v4 games to make best of 11 would be too much in one day. Why not remove one (or two) of the 1v1 and/or 2v2 games and put in one (or two) 4v4 game?

Hi all. This might sound silly but i might be able to benefit from your help.

So, I didn't actually buy age of empires 2 or age of empires 2 hd(2013 edition). I have downloaded cracked version of AoE HD and I can somehow play AoE2 on voobly with this version. But I cant install Wololo Kingdoms on it(i guess we need to be logged in steam with our account to do that). Anyhow can someone provide me assistance about cracked HD edition on voobly with wololo kingdoms working on it? Any game link or help would be appreciated. P.S. I also tried AoE2tools software which couldn't install WK too.

I mostly play Magyars. Tdlr down

Last game vs a Frank I walled up my woodlines and tried to do a small harrass but he already had superior numbers of scouts so pulled them back and began creating some spears

I had a rather open map

He kept running a group of scouts around my base, waiting for holes to appear in my woodlines. I thought I was doing ok but he then got to Castle age much before me

I was able to hold of the knights somewhat and clicked up about the same time as he already had finished

In Castle age I had some gold so after massing spears to protect me I massed scorpions to counter the throwing axemen.

I got two more TC and tried to boom

Then he had put a castle on my gold with throwing axemen coming to harass around my TC and take out pikes. I retaliated with scorpions but then he had some cavaliers which I tried to counter with pikes (he'd got to imperial age)

Then he had 4 trebuchet raining on my base. Once my main TC was destroyed I had almost no army left and I called gg

For such an open map, what should I have done differently? I gave up on scouts as soon as I realised he had already outnumbered me and then went more into spears and walling in my woodlines. Was this a mistake?

What about adding two more TCs? Should I have tried to defend on one?

I was solely defending the whole game. Perhaps I should've harassed more?

Maybe choice of scorpions was a mistake?

I didn't have stone after my TCs. Maybe I should've gone heavier on stone and got a defensive castle?

I thought I played ok-ish but he was up way before me for castle and I didn't even have the imperial age that game

TDLR: Magyar vs Franks. What are my options for an open map?

Simple question, cant find the answer via google.

Subj. Seems very strange to model a anachronistic car for a joke cheat.

Yes I know that it gives you the same discount as the AOE2 HD+DE combo bundle. But its tradable!

Don't delete it or waste it in any other way. Here's what you should do:
1. Buy AOE2DE through the -25% by buying the AOE2 HD+DE bundle
2. Gift the coupon to a friend who doesn't own AOE2 HD on Steam. (Someone who plays on Voobly with a non Steam acquired version is ideal)

And sorry for assuming you have friends if you dont, give them away to strangers.

Also Mods: We need AOE2DE flair

Me and a few of my friends have wanted to add our own civs so I am trying to add some. I am starting with trying to add one but it is not working. When I open the game the dlc civs don't show up and the game won't start and I get a message that says "Random Map failed to load". I have been following this to make my civ http://aoe3.heavengames.com/cgi-bin/forums/display.cgi?action=ct&f=14,31482,0,20

Any ideas on why it isn't working would be much appreciated.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaMisYnyJHA&feature=youtu.be

Hey everyone, welcome to my expert tutorials for aoe1 de. It will start with the basics of gameplay and continue on to the advanced techniques and strategies. Hope you guys enjoy :) thanks

-WW

Balance patches:
>General: Elite Skirmisher upgrade cost increased from 200w/100g to 230w/130g
>General: Herbal Medicine effect increased by 50%
>General: All Gates have 0/0 armor while building
>General: Palisade Gate cost increased from 20w to 30w
>General: Watch Tower HP reduced from 1020 to 700 in feudal age. HP restored back to 1020 in Castle Age.
>General: Elite Battle Elephant attack reduced from 16 to 14.
>General: Supplies moved to Feudal Age
>Teutons: Receive Herbal Medicine
>Teutons: Murder Holes & Herbal Medicine free
>Britons: Warwolf cost increased from 500w, 250g to 800w, 400g
>Franks: Cavalry +20% HP bonus only available from Feudal Age
>Goths: Lose Supplies
>Incas: Slingers -1 attack (reduced from 5 to 4)
>Italians: Genoese Crossbowman reload time reduced from 3 to 2
>Khmer: Receive Faith
>Khmer: Receive Hussar
>Khmer: Lose Shipwright
>Koreans: Receive “All non-siege units cost -15% less wood”
>Koreans: Lose “Fortifications built faster”
>Malay: Harbors base attack reduced from 6 to 3. Bonus attack vs Ships increased from 9 to 12.
>Malay: Forced Levy changes gold cost into food cost
>Malay: Forced Levy cost changed from 1000f 600g to 850f 500g.
>Persians: Town Centers and Docks work +5% faster in Dark Age.
>Saracens: All Archers now deal +3 bonus damage vs buildings.
>Saracens: Market costs -100w (instead of -75w).
>Saracens: Mamelukes +5 armor vs Halberdiers
>Spanish: Missionaries heal as quickly as normal Monks.
>Spanish: Missionaries affected by Husbandry.
>Slavs: Receive Faith
>Slavs: Farmers work 10% faster (lowered from 15% faster)
>Slavs: (Elite) Boyar training time reduced to 15s (from 23s/20s)
>Vietnamese: Receive Husbandry

http://boards.4channel.org/v/thread/473803873/age-of-empires-2-definitive-edition

Hi, is there a mod or option where dont need to kill every military unit or building to win the game. Its stupid when you destroyed the AI opponent and than search for 5 minutes the map for the last units or chase the last ships. Thanks

Hello Fellow AOM fans.

I had spotify on shuffle today and couldn't believe my ears when this track came on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GItEKQFPfGM

I'm 99% sure that's AOM's theme sampled, shocking song but made me laugh.

So, today an idea struck me. Might be shit, might be interesting, you tell me.

Unit name: Jester/Joker

HP: 1
Melee armor/Pierce armor: 0/0
Attack: 0
Movement speed: Mimics other units
Line of sight: Not sure yet

Description: So, it mimics other units but is otherwise useless (perhaps could scout depending on LoS and initial Movement speed). It would have something similar to the build menu of villagers, but with available units instead. Once the player selects the Jester and clicks for example the archer icon in the menu, the Jester suddenly looks and behaves like an archer. If an enemy clicks the Jester, it would clearly say that it's indeed not an archer, until then it could be used for shenanigans. My inital thoughts are that the Jester either can not attack at all, or attacks with 1 damage dealt.

Usage: Enemy scout died early, he has no info. Make the Jester into an archer and show it to him (hoping he doesn't have time to click it but time to see it and react, of course). Perhaps it will cause an overreaction, with skirmishers, while you go scouts. Or make the Jester into a villager, pretending to go forward and tower something. Basically spread some bad information. Make 1 man-at-arms, and turn the Jester into another, causing some extra fear and perhaps overreaction. Make a few archers and have the Jester make them look bulkier than they are. In defense against scouts, put one spear close to your gold and (you guessed it) make the Jester look like two spears are protecting that gold.

Acquisition: Not sure, I was thinking unique unit for some civ (not the main one, but an extra like genitours). One idea is having one Jester pop out of the TC as soon as feudal age is reached, for free. That would limit the player to one Jester. Otherwise they could be created from either the TC or barracks.

Cost: Tough, but I assume a Jester would enjoy some gold (50?), or food (100?) or both (50/50?). For balancing, stone might be interesting (50 would make 2TCs at the start of castle age require extra stone gathering, 100 could be nice to deny the player towers without gathering more stone). It would need balancing, I'm sure 100 stone would render the Jester unused.

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Has anyone have a research on that? I'm wondering how we could save as much food as possible.

And also, I personally think this is a stupid setting, starting from AOE1

Is there any site from where we can get AOE2 ringtones? I like some of the jingles.

I used to play this game a long time ago and got back to it recently but i'm sucking so badly and want to improve. So is there a way to download some build order scenarios to use on my old copy of aoe2?

I'm a casual player on Steam (currently around 1800 which is the highest I've ever been). Lately every second opponent that I beat told me how shit I played or makes assumptions about my mothers profession. I always assumed RTS games attract more mature people... Does it get better in the higher ranks?

On the escape website it has $4,500 for 1st, $2,500 for 2nd, and $1,760 for 3rd. Is this the total amount for each team for the entire finals? If so, didn't some of the group stages have as big of a prize pool? I just feel bad for some of the players who probably won't recoup their travel expenses from the winnings. Many of these guys are still in school.

I'm still thankful for escape to bring this together for an old game that we care about but I just feel bad that some might lose money in order to play in the finals if this is correct.

Super niche question, I know ... but I’m joining a Fantasy Football team with all the guys I play Age of Empires with and I thought it would be funny to incorporate that into my team name.

Wondering if anyone had any dumb/funny names?

... because I’ve got nothing besides naming myself Wololo!

I think pushing deer is fun but if the game is a bit laggy (and in aoe2:DE if YOU are a bit laggy and not just someone in the game is laggy) then pushing deer becomes almost impossible. The timing is so close that if there is a hint of lag its almost impossible even if you are not macroing and ONLY focusing on pushing the deer. Could we increase the "deer return time" by about 1 second?

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edit: im talking about the time a deer will stand still when it has been pushed out of its starting area before it decides to return home.

Title + general trips for starting PvP appreciated.

So I'm working on building a full campaign, with multiple missions and the like. As a reference, I went and extracted the Saladin campaign and opened up the first mission to see how that functioned.

One of the things I noticed was that a lot of the triggers in there relied on AI script goals. Now, I don't know what these really are. So what are they? How can I view these goals? How do they work? And how can I use them to assist me in my campaigns?

Earlier, when I played on voobly the in-game lobby would appear as one 4th of the screen. Letting me do stuff with the rest of the screen. Now it appears as fullscreen. How can I revert to how it used to be?

Hi,

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I already own the HD edition and I would like to play with my gf, however I think it's a personal finance suicide to buy the HD edition for 20 bucks when's the definite edition coming up so I'm wondering if anyone has a coupon for the HD edition or a gift version of the HD edition and is willing to sell it / trade it for something?

Thanks

Hey everyone! I just wanted to make a post to let you know that we are running a live photo stream from the LAN over at our discord.

We are encouraging any guests and viewers to share pictures of the event in one place. There’s already lots from the first day of meetings and many more to come.

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Simple scenario- my mill is getting attacked in feudal by couple of scouts. I pick up the fight with vills and manage to repel the attack. Is there any way I can get them to work ASAP without clicking every each one of them and clicking a farm?

Why does this pops up when i try starting the game?

Hey,

i'm in the insider beta, but there is no players

I did something wrong or nobody is playing it ?

Hi all,

has anyone taken the plunge and preordered AoE2 DE Steam version? I don't see any indication of the discount they announced for owners of AoE2 HD version and DLCs... The price is at 19.99 EUR for me at the moment, even though I own the old HD version and all the DLCs.

Writing this from my hotel at ECL 11

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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 Khmer vs Koreans, and next up is the Portuguese vs Slavs!

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Portuguese: Naval and Gunpowder civilization

• All units cost -15% gold
• Ships +10% hp
• Can build Feitoria in Imperial Age
• TEAM BONUS: Cartography available in Dark Age
• Unique Unit: Organ Gun (Light artillery siege weapon)
• Unique Unit: Caravel (Galley-esque warship that deals pass-through damage)
• Unique Building: Feitoria (Slowly generates all resources at the cost of 20 pop space)
• Castle Age Unique Tech: Carrack (Ships +1/+1 armor)
• Imperial Age Unique Tech: Arquebus (Ballistics for gunpowder units)

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Slavs: Infantry and Siege civilization

• Farmers work +15% faster
• Tracking free
• Siege Workshop units cost -15%
• TEAM BONUS: Military buildings support 5 pop space
• Unique Unit: Boyar (Heavy cavalry with massive melee armor)
• Castle Age Unique Tech: Orthodoxy (Monks +3/+3 armor)
• Imperial Age Unique Tech: Druzhina (Infantry deal 5 trample damage)

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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!

• So this one seems quite Slav-favored on Arabia at first glance. I'm not saying that Slavs are not favored, but upon reflection, Slavs may have some amount of difficulty dealing with large numbers of Organ Guns/Gunpowder in a straight up fight. With that said, Slavs have the far superior economy so I would still favor them. Thoughts?
• On Arena or other closed maps, both civs possess very powerful, but different, late game armies. Portuguese have gunpowder, arbs, and even BBT, whereas Slavs have Druzhina infantry, Siege, and possibly Boyars. Who wins out in a late game battle here?
• In a team game, both civs are very good, if not quite very top tier, in their best respective positions. Portuguese are quite good on flank with good archers, monks, halbs, bbts, organ guns, etc., whereas Slavs possess an incredible eco and fully upgraded cavalier, as well as good siege and infantry. However, Portuguese lack a significant economy bonus, and Slavs miss that crucial Paladin upgrade. Which civ would serve you better in their preferred role?

Thank you as always for participating! Next week we will continue our discussions with...... idk yet I don't have my Excel sheet in front of me here in Manchester 11. Still, hope to see you there! :)

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Previous discussions: Part 1 Part 2

What’s up with the rampant amount of players lowering their elo to ruin games? So god damn annoying to me... did the millennials hear about age of empires?

For anyone who has the DE beta, have you seen what the extension is for scenarios? Are they the same as the HD version's .aoe2extension?

Needing an in-depth analysis here, bois.

Thanks to /u/CysionBE and our other friends at Microsoft and the Forgotten Empires team we have been given 10 keys each for the Steam and MS store releases of Age of Empires: Definitive Edition to giveaway! I'll keep the rules simple - post a comment below with the version of the game you'd prefer to win. This comment should be a top-level comment (I.E. a reply to my post, not a reply to another comment) although discussion is fine. Comments on the game, how the subreddit is going, your favorite AOE memory, or anything else you'd like to share are encouraged. Your Reddit account must be at least 1 week old at the time of this post to enter. I will end this giveaway Friday night at around 7 PST and announce winners ASAP so that they'll have the weekend to enjoy it. I plan to use RedditRaffler to give away the keys fairly unless there's some horrible secret about them I should know. Good luck everyone!

AoE Definitive Edition has pretty horrible performance for me.
I run it at the 2x zoom level (as opposed to the 1x or 4x options )and the fps just tank if I zoom out all the way even in the first tutorial missions where practically nothing is going on.
I'm using a gtx970 OC and an i5 2500k - not stellar by todays' standards but well within the range where I would expect a game like this to run flawlessly.

Now I'm really worried AoE2 DE will have the exact same problems, seeing how it seems to use the same engine.
I remember the devs even said something about how the 2D capabilities of GPUs didn't keep up with their 3D capabilities and that may be true and all but then tell me how it is possible that I can play Factorio at 100fps, a game with a lot more going on at any given time and where I can zoom in and out even more than in AoE:DE.

Seriously, taking fps in AoE2 DE on a perfectly decent rig would be a huge flaw.

The post has been locked and the votes counted:

There were a total of 534 entries for the Steam key giveaway and 213 for the MS store keys.

A total of just 2 people wanted an MS Store key but not a steam key.

In a recent turn of events, we have an 11th MS Store key provided by Microsoft which will be awarded here as well!

For anyone interested in how this works and in the interest of fairness: The names are all entered into a basic spreadsheet and given a number in the order they were entered. Winning values were chosen at random using the first numbers generated on random.org.

A copy of the spreadsheet is here. I believe I have everyone who was eligible to enter, but I am human and there were a lot of signups so it's possible I made a mistake.

The Winners:

Congratulations, enjoy the games!

Thanks everyone for following the rules for the vast majority of entries, and for the nice stories to make it much more enjoyable for me. And once again thanks to Cysion and Microsoft for making this possible!

Screenshot Steam giveaway sequence

Screenshot MS Store giveaway sequence

In team-games (especially in 2v2) I want to team up with my team mate at his base to fight together against his opponent. In my recent games when I did that the enemy positioned next to me just breaks into my base and I have no army to defend left. How can I prevent that from happening. Should I stone wall even if it's a team-game? Should I just constantly apply pressure?

So I win a 3V3 get -11 elo then I win a 2v2 get +0 ELO Win a 1v1 desync as the guy resigns lose -6 ELO win another game get +0 ELO I could go on and on. I wouldn't mind so much but some of these games take a lot of time and effort and when you are winning and your ELO goes down as a result, although ELO isn't why I play it's pretty frustrating when these bugs happen everyday, sometimes when me and my friend 2V2 he will receive +8 ELO for the win but i'll receive +0 then when we lose he loses like -5 ELO and I lose -11 even though he has a higher ELO than me so it makes no sense and i'm pretty confused about how the whole system works to be honest.

That's my rant over

Round robin of 1v1, 2v2, and 3v3 for all 3 teams, show matches, 100% chance of Memb blowing out my headphones when I'm not paying attention.

What are you anticipating happening this weekend? Which team will be the ultimate champion?

What are the greatest PC games everyone talks about?

Portal (2007), Starcraft (1998), Fallout New Vegas (2010), Counter Strike (2000), Half-Life 2 (2004), Baldurs Gate 2 (2000), Age of Empires 2 (1999)

In the 1990-2010 era, PCs were very popular and the biggest games were being developed for it. It was a golden era.

Since 2010, which big PC exclusives have come out? None. The PC market these days relies on the same old online games that have been played for 15 years. It relies heavily on indie games like the newly released Remnant From The Ashes or Mordhau. It relies on Early Access games, an oversaturated market flooded with mediocre one-shot indie games that just got Steam Greenlighted.

The PC gamer demographic aged with the platform. Most PC gamers are now 30-40 years old and are nostalgic about their good old RTS and Isometric RPG games.

But who is the future of the world? Who is going to influence the next 20-30 years of the games industry with their purchasing decisions? That's right - kids and teenagers. I recently went to pick my nephew up from school and he was talking to some of his classmates about video games. I asked them where they all played on, and they looked at me like it was some weird question and said "Playstation of course, duh"

Sony is heavily investing into studios to produce some of the best and biggest AAA singleplayer experiences on the market today. This is where the future lies. Nothing comparable has been released on PC the past years. GOTYs 2013, 2017 and 2018 were console exclusives. All GOTYs in between were also released on consoles. Not a single PC exclusive anymore, unlike in the golden era 1990-2010.

The gaming industry is shifting massively and the next generation of consoles will only solidify that, after the PS4 has just hit 100 million sold units.

As a comparison, the latest Assassins Creed game has sold 72% of its units on PS4, and only 2% of its units on PC.

Far Cry 5 has sold 3.95 million units on PS4, and only 1 million on PC.

The games industry is ready to move on.

You can click any building (even enemy buildings) and it will show you where the building's gather point is set on the minimap!

Does anyone have the download of the "language" file in Brazilian Portuguese from mod WololoKingdoms? To the "Data mods" folder of Voobly.

I am absolutely garabge with Archer civs or with any civ that it is meta to go archers(Viking or Japanese for example)

In fact the only Archer civs I'm able to play are Chinese,britons and Mayans and I never make Archer line units with both.

This is how my game usually plays out.I start with a drush or m@a into archers.Build up numbers with 3 range production.When I reach castle I research bodkin and thumb ring and go forward with 2 groups of a small number of crossbows to kill vils.

Now this is where my problem starts.The opponent scouts my ranges and has a ton of Skirms built up.Now if I was raiding with knights or eagles,I can just avoid any pikemen or other counters and move to another part of my opponent's eco.With archers this is impossible.I kill 2 vils with my raiding group and suddenly Skirms show up.All I can do is run back to base.The opponent shows up with high skirm numbers and nights.I make pikemen to counter the knights.But the knights just avoid pikemen and attack the crossbows while my pikemen die to skirms.Then my crossbow numbers get wiped.I can't be making knights + crossbows because that is so gold intensive.Also can only make a few monks.

I would really appreciate it if someone could like give me a walkthrough of what they do in a game when going for an Archer build and how to respond to different decisions the opponent makes.

I was just messing around with playing a campaign in the 2013 HD version and to my shock the unit cap seems to be at 75 meaning you should probably aim for about 35 villagers and 40 military units.

Is this ultra low unit cap consistent across all campaigns, even the newest ones?

So I've been playing various forms of multiplayer recently, including ranked matches and custom scenarios. What always stands out to me is how good the Goths seem to be. They seem to have the perfect easy counter to anything, are really fun to play with, and at their strongest are pretty hard to beat. Huskarls are literally OP: fast, immune to arrows, bonus vs buildings AND archers, cheap, can be created literally instantly especially with a drop barracks. They counter perfectly archers, castles, towers and just are in general a decent melee option. Their super fast barracks produce halbs next to instantly as well, so what huskarls lose in their vulnerability to cavalry and elephants, halbs make up for in sheer numbers and cheapness. While a pro player might argue "ooh but they're early-game eco is weak", for most games that get into the late-castle / early-imp, Goths seem perfect. I am a pretty nooby player, so can someone tell me where I'm wrong?

So I'm playing on my mac and I have a apple external monitor. Can I somehow set up the game where it just plays on one of the screens and then I have other stuff on the other screen?

I've decided to buy this on black Friday and i have watched some benchmarking videos on YouTube. And i know that the Acer Nitro 5 has heating issues, which i think i can prevent with thermal paste and undervolting. I would like to hear your opinion on it.

And a side question that has nothing to do with the laptop. Which part of a pc processes video game AI? Say the AI from Age Of Empires II, or just any strategy games. Is it the CPU or GPU?

I've also thought of the Acer Predaotr Helios 300 with GTX 1060 but it seems a bit too expensive for me.

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Improving the AI can be challenging, but what if we introduces a way, simple and complex at the same time. My proposal could be a new resource: Iron.

Much like Empires Earth, the Iron can be extracted from "deposits", like gold and stone and requires a mining camp to store it. Of course, you can buy/sell iron at Market and generates at Feitoria (for Portugueses only)

The iron use can focused on military buildings like towers and gates, basically all the techonogies at blacksmith (building when you can store iron), military units from Castle Age (including ships) and techonolgies which improves siege units or buildings like chemistry and murder holes.

What do you think? It's possible to add a new resource to the game in order to increase the difficulty?

Just bought the game on Steam and am enjoying the nostalgia. I was terrible when I was younger though, and now I'm playing through the game with a better understanding of stats/early-eco/value units/etc. I was curious how many villagers players end up with later in the game. Playing some low-pop cap games of 50/75 and I realized I had about 40-45 villagers or fishing ships when my eco in full swing. This forced me to sacrifice some villagers to make room for units, or merely attack with smaller, stronger units.

I was hoping I could get a poll of the following:

• what pop cap do you play and how many villagers do you use
• After berries and animals, how many farms do you have
• Do you ever send 2-5 villagers out to offensively gather another teams resource(s)?

Hi!
I have never owned (but I have played a bit though) AoE3. I know that there are a Japanese and a Chinese campaign, set in the latest timeframe of AoE 2. Now, I have two questions, because I have never looked into the file system of AoE3.

1. Are campaign scenarios extractable? There were tools for that in AoE and AoE2
   
2. Can you raw edit the data of scenarios? You can do that in AoE2 with Trigger Studio and agescx. You can do that too in Rise of Rome, but there aren't tools for that.
   See this
   http://aoe.heavengames.com/siegeworkshop/editing-scenario-data/

Thanks!

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https://www.twitch.tv/videos/470316810?t=01h19m56s

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I dont understand why they have bonus pierce armor. Its too easy for Indians to stick to camels all game from castle into imp.

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Feudal age stable -> scouts

Castle age stable -> camel

Imp age stable -> imperial camel

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The streamlinedness of this is insane. And the camels get bonus pierce armor as well? I think it is too much. What do you guys think?

I struggle to find a consistent strategy for the final scenario in the Japanese campaign. It's no problem at all on easy or medium because the enemy sends nothing more than a couple of archers or samurai. However, on hard, they send 2+ archers, 15+ samurai and flaming arrows every couple of minutes.

The main issue with that is that the army can come from two sides, and those two sides are somewhat far apart. When I use only one army stationed in the centre, they generally have time to burn town a castle or other structures, and sometimes their next wave comes from the other side very shortly after the first has been destroyed.

I checked some walkthroughs, but they are all too generic, like this one. None gives concrete advice how to best deal with the large enemy armies. The best strategy I could find is using flaming arrows behind walls, but they are very expensive, too slow to move them between fronts, and easily destroyed should a horseman or samurai get to them. They also cost a lot of pop.

Rushing didn't help either. It's easy to bribe the green faction and then use the ninjas you get to assassinate the leader of the pink faction, but the troops I get aren't sufficient to destroy the red castle, face red's the Hatamoto samuari, and beat their army at the same time.

I also checked Youtube videos, but they are either not on hard mode, or rely on luck (i.e. the enemy sometimes attacks only from the north and not from the east) and seem to struggle too. Any advice on how to beat this scenario consistently?

My game just somehow didn’t save the last three scenarios I completed and I was on the last one and there’s no way I’m playing this fucking boring campaign a second time

So I was thinking, "I think I want to recreate a battle between some gigantic empire (me) and several small AIs on a team." i.e. 300 v 100+100+100. I understand that the risk of getting swamped by raw numbers is what makes games like that interesting, but why not try scaling?

Is it possible to set different population limits in the normal game mode? Can it be done using Scenario editor? If so, how can some randomness be introduced between games? Is there a mod? Is it even possible to make a mod like that?

I'm more than willing to learn some modding skills, I just don't know if this kind of thing is possible. I've seen uncappers and house modifiers but that's not what I'm looking for.

Thanks all in advance.

You've surely noticed how some AoM upgrades are clickbaits in terms of their name and actual functionality.

Hunting Dogs → helps your villagers gather food from hunted animals faster

How does owning dogs for hunting actually help you gather faster? Do dogs gather with you? 😅 It would actually be the opposite because you'd need to feed them as well.

Do post here other nonsense upgrades you've seen in AoM series (just4fun)