Anybody here play Age of Empires 2 that I can add on steam? Or do you have a group for players?
Want to get better and have pals to play it with.
Inb4 you all start posting memes fuck off
HOL UP
>>345442445
Wow well done
I'd like to but I'm bad.
>Playing France
>Not spamming Axe Throwers
Oh shit nigger what are you doing?
>>345442625
It's cool, post your steam and I'll add you. We can git gud.
>>345442645
Not my image and it's from a campaign I think, Joan of Arc is in the back
>>345442353
>>345442950
Us Age of Empires 2 players huh
>>345442645
>spamming axe throwers
if you aren't spamming them to counter enemy trash units, you are an actual moron. one of the worst special units in the game, only used in games below 1600 rating or in same expert-level-meta-bullshit, and even there not in masses
aoe2 is one of the games with the biggest amount of shit advice on /v/
>>345443380
It's usually by people who only play it once or twice and just think the unit looks cool. They probably only fight against easy AI or something.
>playing against goths
>get rushed in 5 sec
fucking tryhards
>>345443756
That's usually one of their best strats. Always expect a drush or flush from a goths player
>>345443756
>rush
>tryhard
>as a fucking goth
how? men at arms? didn't you scout his base beforehand?
>>345442353
Sure man, we can play someday: http://steamcommunity.com/id/RamsayDidNothingWrong
>>345443380
what a dumb special unit desu
i've had never even heard of french axe throwers before the game and even after it didn't make sense to me
>>345444282
Added
>>345442353
Nah, I prefer AoE1
>>345442353
I play with about 4 or 5 people I know from work and my cousin, but no you can't have our steam ids.
>>345444807
A mod came out recently that switched all AoE2's graphics with AoE1 graphics if you're interested. You can get it as a standalone version I think like how Forgotten Empires was.
>>345444996
Got a link or something?
>>345444993
That's a shame
>>345445017
http://aok.heavengames.com/blacksmith/showfile.php?fileid=12722
Not sure how you go about doing it or what exactly it offers but it looks up your alley if you like AoE1
>tfw I will always be a turtler
I can hold my own in team games because lots of players are downright awful but damn I could just never get the hang of fast castling or rushing
I haven't played it in so long, I bought the 'remaster' on steam and could only play it for 10 to 20 minutes before my eyes started feeling like they were bleeding.
Had a headache for 3 days after that, is it any better?
>>345444624
Franks used to throw axes, but it was their equivalent of javelins, the francisca. But they were more renowned for their cavalry, not chucking two-handed lumber axes.
>>345445347
yes i know but it would probably have been one special cavalry unit too many
and indeed the two handed axe thing is retarded too
>>345442353
steamcommunity.com/id/muatra
I have a few other friends who play.
>play Korea
>suddenly you win
every time.
>>345445143
Looks good, sadly not for HD ediiton :(
>>345445149
Fast castle is easy just use the build order.
Rushing is easy too.
Aggression is a key part of AoE2 though so if you can't get the hang of that then you'll most likely lose against higher rated players.
>>345445837
Ah that's a shame, you couldn't pirate the normal version?
>>345445571
They're a good late game civ with all their seige. Great for teamgames on easily wallable maps.
>>345445347
>Throwing axes were used until the 8th century.
>The earliest AoE 2 campaigns are the Saladin and Barbarossa campaigns in the 12th century.
>>345442353
>tfw really like aoe2
>tfw have good idea of the different tactics and strategies with different civs
>tfw always revert to primitive comfy building ingame without meaning to
I just can't help it.
>mfw playing Age of Forgotten Empires on Hard difficulty
>mfw Siege of Bari
This is too hard. It can't be this hard.
Which faction is the Shang of Age of Empires 2 (as in having by far the best civilization bonus while still having access to every single good land unit)?
>>345446159
Sunjata last mission was hard too. What the fuck is with that wonder lmao
I love this game but I'm so shit at it and other RTS's. I just can't into the highly optimized strategies with absolutely no breathing room.
>>345446159
Scenarios are pretty easy it's usually the population limit that fucks with me.
>>345446075
It can be pretty comfy I agree but if you want to get into a higher level of gameplay then unfortunately being comfy just doesn't quite do it.
Shame really, it's a pretty cool game when you're just building shit.
>>345446210
Byzantines are kind of a jack of all trade civ. Have pretty much every unit more or less.
Good countering civ, decent defensively.
Cataphracts are good too, expensive but good.
>>345446323
It takes practice like anything, learning hotkeys and doing it v.s AI's first will serve you good. Learning to fast castle is pretty standard.
>>345442353
I would play with you but i find the imput lag on the steam online unbearable dispite loving the game, unless someone can tell me away around it.
>mfw Genhis Khan campaign
>Chinese level
>Not even at Imperial Age
>Wonder is complete
>Just barely build 2 Trebuchets and destroy the Wonder in time
>Persia level
>4 hours of kiting Elite War Elephants with Elite Mangudai
Was there harder campaign than Genghis Khan?
how do you counter a trebuchet
that's defended by 50 pikemen
with a castle that's 50% complete behind it
and have several rams to sponge all your arrows
it's fucked up
>>345442353
b-but i exclusively played on yahoo group.
>>345446606
Use your own Trebuchet to shoot it.
>>345446606
Champions
Very underrated unit. They are the best anti-trash unit taking out pikemen, skrimishers and light cavs.
>>345446492
The lag has always been bad on HD, there's not been a patch in forever doubt it will get fixed but who knows. It's never been that bad for me though, depends on who you're playing I guess. Played a dude in America and it was fine (from the UK) but playing against Argentina/Spain was shit.
>>345446589
Kek, yeah the elite elephants are annoying. Best counter is usually monks imo. Overall I'd say Gengis Khan was one of the easier campaigns.
>>345446606
Counter trebuchet with another trebuchet. I think it's the chinese that gets the best trebuchet bonus with fast unpack speed.
>>345446695
Oh well
>>345446761
Good against eagles too I think
>>345446870
And buildings
TO ALL KANGS WHO PLAY ONLINE VIA STEAM
how is your multiplayer experience in HD? Because no matter the ping, throughout all games I've played I had INSANE lags (it took about 4-5 seconds for my units to respond to my commands THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE FUCKING MATCH)
>Barbarossa campaign
What a load of shit.
I have never been so bored out of my mind in this game. Every map is shit. Even the last map is piss easy with mass monk spam and having 40 War Elephants to steamroll everything in your way.
1 - Genghis Khan
2 - Saladin
3 - Attila, The Hun
4 - El Cid
5 - Joan O' Arc
6 - Montezuma
7 - William Wallace
8 - Barbarossa
>>345447028
Sometimes good sometimes bad, depends on who you're playing against and where they're from. Never really had many bad experiences though.
>>345446975
I hardly use champions like ever
>>345447073
Yeah not a fan of the barb campaign either really. Really can't be arsed with most of the scenarios in it but I'll complete them all anyway because I might as well.
>>345447028
I mean I have really shitty internet as it is, but the connection on AoE is exceptionally bad.
>>345447208
I kept expecting a patch but it's been ages
>Attila The Hun on Hard difficulty
>Attack Gaul (Franks) level
>Lose 3 times due to Orleans' Paladin rush
>Start again
>Tower Rush Burgundy in start of the game
>Spend 3 hours taking out Orleans' Paladin / Monk spam
>>345447279
I'm sorry to say this but git gud
>>345447279
Pikes+light melee cav+archer cav?
>>345447073
>not setting richard the lionhearted to enemy and converting his longbows
>that great wall of china mission on hard and desperately building ships and shit to go to the island in the south where the chinese can't reach you
>not chopping down trees in paris/orleans (cant remember) to avoid further battlements up north and just rushing your shit to the exit trigger
>that montezuma mission where you steal horses and bombard cannons and cant build shit anywhere on the map because its all a marsh
>>345447279
>not allying burgundy
i was fucking butthurt they didnt do english or viking campaigns, just single missions in battles of the conquerors
though I admit, the viking mission was the comfiest AoE experience I've ever had
>Build wall
>Computer doesn't know how to destroy it even if they have Rams
>Build a gate
>Computer automatically goes for the gate
>Stop making gates entirely
>Build mazes with wall and let Castle kill them.
>>345447732
I believe building wall mazes was a legitimate strategy people proposed on many occasions to beat hard missions
>>345447726
>that montezuma mission where you steal horses and bombard cannons and cant build shit anywhere on the map because its all a marsh
>Build your base North West of the map
>Build wall whenever you can in the marsh
>Enemy can't attack due to massive blockade of wall
>Kill the enemy with Galleons
>>345447732
Reminds me of Command & Conquer NOD campaign where in many missions the only way to win was to build a chain of sandbags to the enemy base and then destroy the base with Obelisks of Light.
>>345447732
Kek I've done the wall maze thing a few times, fucking hilarious watching the AI get gunned down by arrows from a castle or two
>>345447876
eh, I beat it with mass arbalest and bombards
>>345448016
>>345447823
Wall maze is necessary in almost every Hard difficulty campaign. ESPECIALLY in Conquerors campaigns.
El Cid and Montezuma are fucking hard without Wall Maze + Castle defense
In Forgotten Empires, it's mandatory. Try play King Alric or Dracula without wall maze.
>>345448178
Is it still 75 pop cap in Forgotten?
>>345447279
>that saladin mission in the middle of the desert where you have to defeat 2 or 3 knights templar bases
there were missions that were impossible to win without rushing or cheesy strategies. Once you let the AI start up its base, it never stopped streaming massive amounts of high tier units to your base
>>345448217
No. A lot more. Depends on the map though.
>>345448038
>Aztecs
>Infrantry civilization
>Spend the entire campaign using Mass Arbalest / Trebuchet spam
Why even play as Aztecs when Mayans are an Archer civ?
>>345447954
In believe in C&C it's because every tiberium game except for Tiberian Sun (to my memory) had shitty amounts/regrowth speed and a base creep was the most efficient win, in AoE it's because you cheese the AI
>>345442353
Add me: http://steamcommunity.com/id/Bearnard
I haven't played in ageskekbut I'm sure I can teach a thing or two. I used to be really good at this game.
>>345448358
because Montezuma
it's not like Aztecs are bad, they're really fucking good actually, it's just that it's satisfying to kill incoming enemy units with one volley
>>345448303
Saladin missions were pretty cool.
Most of the time the AI will resign if you fuck with them for long enough though.
>>345448303
>That Saladin mission that was hard
Which one?
Just kidding. The map where one of the Templars build a Wonder. HOLY FUCK that was hard.
>Build Wall to block the entire shore from Transport ships
>Block the entire map with wall so Persians can't attack
>Build Castle near the enemy who builds Wonder so you can destroy Wonder ASAP
>>345448358
It's been a while since I played the Montezuma campaign, but wasn't it because jaguar warriors are expensive and the Spaniards are a shitty civ to be fighting with the Aztecs anyway? Also the campaign comes with pre-placed fortifications
>>345448736
i have never completed an RTS campaign in my life, despite playing dozens of RTS games.
there's something incredibly boring about them.
>>345448842
>Montezuma campaign
>Aztecs are an infantry based civ
>Spanish attacks with Bombard cannons, Paladins and Conquistadors
>Cavarly and Gun Powder units take out infranty with ease
HUE HUE HUE
>>345448498
Added
>>345448904
Honestly if they had made the pop cap a little more it would have been a bit better imo
>>345449016
You forgot
>all those naval segments
>be a young kid in the early 00s
>played aoe2 and starcraft among other games on pc
>never beat the campaigns legit but enjoyed them anyway with cheats
>be in my early 20s
>get fucking serious and beat all starcraft + bw campaigns, even a difficult bonus campaign
>try to do the same in aoe2
>eat shit on joan 2 and give up
why the fuck's it so hard?
>>345449284
Justreduce the difficulty level, you scrub.
>>345449284
Just a different style I guess.
Joan of Arc is easy.
Play more standard games and learn some build orders and shit. Won't help with campaigns much but it teaches you to be quick and focus on your economy and units.
>>345448904
There's something wrong with you if you think Starcraft campaigns are boring. Also Red Alert 2.
>>345449146
>That mission where you have to destroy Spanish wonder and build your base by converting enemy villagers
>Build a Castle
>Transport Ship + Mass Trebuchet
>Win
>>345447726
>that montezuma level
Literally the part where I stopped playing.
>>345449284
Man the only thing remotely hard there is the shitty pop limit
>>345449484
Exactly my point, if you don't cheese it it's tedious as balls
>>345449473
Red Alert 2 is my favourite game along with AoE2.
Too bad it's not received some new expansion in ages, I'd love to see RA2 get some new stuff but unfortunately it's not that popular I don't think.
>>345449518
Just kill your own villagers once you have a stockpile of ressorces.
I'm down for some AoE2 or AoM parties. steam ID is Pierceus ,the one with a cat avatar.
>>345449284
Starcraft campaigns are fun but they are all extremely, toddler-tier easy.
Like, just the skill gap up to beating an absolutely bottom tier online player is immense. Just 15 minutes of watching a decent player will teach you more than 60 hours of campaign.
>>345449671
Added
>>345449656
It has received new unofficial expansions though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfhX9N-HPCM
>>345446589
The most difficult mission of any vanilla AoE campaign is the Siege of Paris simply because the mission wasn't designed for AoC content. Have fun fighting halbediers and super long range archers while the Frankish troops get no significant upgrades at all.
>>345445082
What would be a shame is putting our steam ids where any of you sad faggots could see them and God forbid try to socialize with us.
Just no.
>>345449841
Yeah I've seen that, I don't really like the looks of it though. Looks like it added a lot of uneeded bullshit though units wise.
>>345449894
Calm down
>>345449662
>kill off your economy
are you giving bad advice on purpose?
>>345449284
there's only so much the AI can do with 10 archons and 5 carriers or i dunno 20 siege tanks and 3 bases
but when there's 2000 paladins and a new one galloping to you straight from the stables the moment one paladin dies on the battlefield and the 5 enemy bases are behind 5 layers of walls protected by 20 castles and bombard cannons and youre starting with one villager and the enemy has 50 wonders starting from 1min you know youre fucked
>>345450021
Not him but in scenarios you kind of have to because of the shitty pop cap.
>>345450071
It's been a long time since I played the scenarios but I never remembered having to do this.
Pretty boring compared to standard games though. I'm surprised people enjoy the scenarios.
>>345450275
I don't really I'm just doing them just to complete it.
Some are interesting though and I suppose it can teach you how to manage units effectively especially when you don't have much vs the AI.
How to handle harassment and whatnot as well.
>>345450041
Has anyone else had the experience in the Hun mission where you assassinate the kebab king and you spend ages searching for that one stable that keeps pushing out cavalry somewhere because the AI has spread out across the area north of the dune coon capital?
>>345450452
Also, the pre-placed fortifications*
>playing AoE over AoM
>Age of Forgotten Empires
>Any Campaign
>Computer attacks you at Imperial Age
>You are limited to Castle Age
>Forced to cheesing tactics in every map
>>345450021
In the campaign you can't have more than 75 population total. In multiplayer you obviously should have more than 75 workers alone.
>>345450582
>Second Dracula mission
>Endless stream of units vs endless stream of units
>>345450578
VULOME
>>345450582
>the cringe dialogue of the Alaric campaign
So, what are the basic strategies for AoE2?
I once heard "never stop making villagers".
>>345451014
>never stop making villagers
That's already the most important one.
>>345451014
Trebuchet + Champion + Arbalest + Light Cav
Trebuchet + Light Cav + Skrimisher
Champion + Siege Onager spam
Cavarly Archer + Light Cav spam
>>345451014
Should stop at around 100 or so villagers to focus on military. At least in 200 pop games, dunno if the new expansions made a larger pop standard. Build multiple Town Centers too.
>>345451014
Never use production queues. If you have enough ressorces to put units in the queue then you have enough ressorces to simply buy another production building and start producing units at an increased speed instead.
>>345451014
Villagers should be half your total pop usually
Learn to fast castle and other build orders
Be aggressive, don't just turtle
Look after your economy
>>345446010
Weren't there campaigns about Charlemagne? My memory's fuzzy.
>>345450823
ETIMOS
>>345450747
>Last mission of Dracula
[CHEESING INTENSIFIES]
>>345450902
>3rd mission of King Alaric
>Build 4 Castles because the enemy just cant stop attacking.
>>345451398
There were 5 campaigns:
>William Wallace (Tutorial Campaign)
>Joan of d'Arc
>Saladin
>Genghis Khan
>Barbarossa
>>345451398
Battle of Tours.
Very easy mission
>Year 800
>Franks can make Hand Cannoneers
ayy lmao
>>345451014
there are trash units that cost only food and wood like skirmishers and halberdiers, use them yourself en masse and don't lose many of your expensive gold units while fighting trash
build your bases from the start in a way that helps you defend (early on houses and other buildings can act as walls), palisades in early game are your friend
don't turtle like a faggot though
adapt to what your enemy is doing but don't steer too far away from your civ's attributes and bonuses (and also use those bonuses to your advantage)
in most civs, castle units are kewl but often too expensive to rely on completely (castles are expensive too and you can make those units only in castles [except for some new civs but i dont remember which])
place castles (more often) or towers (occassionally, or in early game, or if a civ has nice tower bonuses) near forward gold mines and generally to protect your route to the enemy base
once trebuchets are out, your castles are very vulnerable, so be ready to counter attack
onagers can wipe armies, rams can catch your enemy off guard and are good against walls and turtlers
don't build scorpions
pick a civ according to the type of map
>Battle of Lepanto
>Try not to cheese the entire map with Wall Maze
>build a Castle where Transport ships arrive
>Spam Conquistadors
>tfw the AoE2 soundtrack starts to annoy you more and more you hear it
>>345451014
Gold is love, gold is life. Expand and secure gold mines and relics before your enemy can do the same.
reminder if your special unit isn't rocking a cape then you're playing a SHIT CIV
>based berserkers
>based teutonic knights
>>345451948
>protect your shores from transport ships, the enemy will deploy!
>pfft 5-10 units per transport ship ez pz
>mfw one transport ship unloads 50 hand cannons
>>345452053
Just disable the ingame music and run this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGl4slGxY8U
in background instead.
>>345452090
>Teutonic Knights
Anon...
>All these peasants thinking AoE 2 Campaign on hardest difficulty is hard.
Most of the time they end up being tedious when they are hard you defend and grind away at their base little by little.The first AoE to this day still has the hardest missions in all AoE games imo.This one especially, you need to do tricks to win the damn thing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45stZO2Gzao
>Barbarossa campaign
>Every enemy is Anti-infantry with massive amount of archers or hand canoneers
>Forced to use the slowest Paladins of the entire game
>>345452269
>AoE 1 campaigns
The horror.
>>345452313
Use siege weapons against archers.
>>345452313
>aztec campaign
>infantry civ vs conquistadors and hand cannons
>saladin campaign
>naval and monk civ where 3/4 of the maps are in the middle of the desert
>>345452613
A few groups of mamelukes are more than enough for the Saladin one.
>Genghis Khan
>Great Wall of China
>Forced to defend the base while going to middle of nowhere to destroy Wonder
>Build a Castle near the Gate where all the enemy attacks so you don't have to waste time on defending your base
>Kite the shit out of Cavarliers with Mangudai
It's like this game wants me to be a cheat.
>>345452723
mamelukes are expensive, require castle to produce, have very short range for a ranged unit and generally I never really used them
>>345444624
Franks =/= French, anon.
The Dutch & Flemish are Franks (And a few Frankified Frisians, Saxons and Celts), but not French. Same for the Franconians in Germany.
>Saladin
>Hard
Wut`?
Just mass Mamaluke and kill everyone
Is this a good substitute to AoE 2?
fucking hate aoe2 .
aoe3 was better
>Cranos has been killed
>No British campaign
>No Ottoman Empire campaign
>>345452827
I've never found much use for them when playing others, quite situational. More than enough for scenarios though.
>>345454480
Mameluke + Siege Onager is impossible to defeat
>>345453595
Muh niggah
Also a very comfy game
>>345454558
Mamelukes have shit pierce armour and their bonus against cavalry is negligible
>>345450578
>AoM HD died within the first week of coming out.
>Not even the expansion could save it.
>>345454587
>>345453595
shit taste
>>345451121
AoE2 HD lets you have max population of 500. Default is sent to 200 though.
H+Shift+A
>>345450578
>AoM over AoE
taste this shit should be illegal
>>345453570
It's a wholly different game anon. Not to say it's bad, it's another rts gem but gameplay wise the two games differ very much.
>That music which ruins the mood
What's her name?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6E4aH-i6bA&list=PL7F75BD3E1AF4611F&index=16
>>345455858
I'm starting to think I'm the only one that loves AoE2's music.
>>345456052
I think most people do. This song in particular is the worst of the bunch, imo.
>>345456052
There are some good songs but some are so terrible it ruins the mood.
>>345456160
>>345456203
Only thing I don't like about the soundtrack is the retarded names they gave. I don't pay much attention to music in game anyway really, there's always something else to be focusing on
Is African Kingdoms Campaigns any good?
Are they harder than Forgotten Empires?
>>345450582
>Kurikara battle
>attacking Kyoto in the last part
seriously FUUUCK who ever designed that level, there were more towers than houses in that town, plust it had a fucking moat, and several castles and a fuckton of production buildings where the AI just spammed free army
took me like a week
>>345457087
I just completed Bari campaign. The next one is the Indian campaign
What am I into? Is it getting harder?
Fave campaign?
>Barbarossa
>>345457461
El Cid
>>345457461
Joan D'arc
>>345446589
>Genghis Khan's Into China on the AoE2 remake
Sweet, I did this back in the day, no biggie.
>Proceed to have wonder built immediately, proceed to have Chinese raiders constantly disrupting your cities (so, so ironic)
>Proceed to have an army of cavalry and monks defending the wonder against your horde of Castle Age men.
Fucking remake having smarter AI.
>>345457461
Genghis Khan
>>345457374
i didnt bother completing it, second level of that campaign you are up against like 6 players or more on a large map with no gold and just the lag was enough to make me quit after a little while
bad optimization like some of the other maps
i definetly recommend you try the WE WUZ KANGS expansion, the campaigns were better and the new civilizations are actualy balanced
>>345457852
Great taste
HOWEVER
the first 2 maps are one of the worst AoE2 has to offer.
>It's a Henry The Lion betrays you episode
>>345457828
>Build a Castle in the Enemy Gate where every enemy comes from
>Kite with Mangudai
Casual filter.
I'm having a hard time with aoe 2. The maps being undiscovered are really hard for me to grasp and understand.
>>345442353
scarred_phase
I'm not good either but would like to play.
>>345458208
>But i am an old man now. What harm could i possibly do?
>Barbarossa Campaign on Hard
>That Barbarossa level where you have to
build a wonder in one of the enemy bases
>Lose your base entirely due to constant attacks
>manage to destroy one of the enemy bases (Green)
>Gather your villagers to build a Wonder to the former enemy base
Build a Stable and Castle along with it
>Wonder complete
>Win
It felt embarrassing that I lost my entire my base and gathered my remaining villagers to build a Wonder to win.
>>345456582
I am currently playing the African campaigns.
Berbers:
Pretty alright. Good mix of adventure and build up. Not over-scripted as some Forgotten campaigns were.
Sundiata/Mali:
First time you see the "new" African environments and animals. Story has a zero to hero vibe. Last mission is quite hard if you are used to build up slowly.
Portugal:
Pretty good so far (4 out of 5 missions completed). You go around the world. The first mission has a game closing bug when you try to destroy the barricades after crossing the bridge, luckily you can go around it with transport ships.
Ethiopia:
Haven't played it yet.
In general, there is not as much scripting and less bugs. The campaigns feel more "natural" with your objectives and when they change.
During the summer sale I recommended getting the legacy bundle (AoE 2 + dlcs + AoE 3) for like 8 bucks, because AoE 3 alone costed around 6 bucks. Now it is probably too expensive.
So far, the AI is not that crazy. I remember the Hungarian Honfagalas scenario. The last part where you set over the river to Bohemia. It felt like landing in Normandy.
Or that "Two pillars" scenario in America where you have to attack over the bridges and my ally just did not move at all, so I had to do it all alone.
>Chinese invented hand cannons
>Mongols brought them to the west
>In AoE 2 neither the Chinese nor Mongols can get them
Is there any explanation for that?
>>345459360
balance
>>345452760
works everytimeUntil two levels later where they rock up with 20 cavalry flanked by 2 catapults and by the time your towers are done chewing through them, another group + more is arriving.
>>345459360
Spain was the "first" that took advantage of the technology.
Spain was at constant war against Moors, French and Portuguese so they invented new ways to fight wars.
The Chinese invented it but Europeans mastered it.
I'm shit at RTS
I have a LAN coming up in a few weeks, what is the best Civilisation to git gut at. I tried the wapanese and chinese, because their bonuses look decent, but I just don't know. Help.
>>345459705
Huns
Or Vikings if Naval map
If you don't want to show that you are shit at the game, Celts, Slavs or Britons.
>>345442353
>Atomic Carrot
I am an average player
>tfw your favourite civ is Slavs
I'm a rarity?
>Great Monks
>Top notch infantry
>Hussars
>Great Siege
I love Siege + Hussar + Champion combo.
>>345460142
they still feel underpowered to me
>>345452760
>>345459534
I usually try to avoid these kind of tactics when playing campaigns in RTS but eventually it gets so hard that it's the only way I'm capable of winning. In Empire Earth I won most of the campaigns exploiting the scenarios triggers.
>>345459705
play britons and spam longbows, upgrade them if you can then proceed to shit all over every other scrub
if they know how to play the game youre fucked tho
>>345460468
>Britons
>Mass Champion spam
>Light cav spam
>Onager spam
>Skrimisher spam
Britons is shit in terms that everyone knows how to counter them.
>>345458945
That reminds me of one of my first matches against the new AI in the Forgotten:
>4 vs 4
>hard
>dark forest
>turtling, building up
>all is pretty even
>suddenly one of my bots dies
>3 vs 4
>then their armies of doom go on to the next one
>send some monks in a black op to retrieve his relic
>barely make it
>be outnumbered 10 to 1
>last bot dies
>1 vs 4
>what do
>go innawoods
>build walls
>build wonder
>wait to win
>haha, you cannot get me, I am behind 7 Trump walls
>suddenly countdown
>my wonder is finished building 10 seconds later
>oh shit nigger, my relics!
>300 years until you win through wonder
>288 years until they win through relics
>...
>have to trade my last resources to get a market, castle and siege workshop
>build onagers to carve a way through the woods to where the nearest monastery with a relic is
>try to hit it with a trebuchet
>too far
>shit
>build trash stack
>onager kills the last trees
>Uraaa!
>goes amazingly well
>monastery down, trebuchet lost
>objective achieved
>150 years until wonder victory
>but now there is an undefended path to my innawoods location
>palisades
>more trash
>shark bots come to realize there is a path of less resistance
>when I won their trebuchets had just started shooting at my wonder
Took me 3 hours. It was one of the cheekiest victories I ever had.
>>345461209
>Saladin last mission
>Distract the enemy with a light cavalry just so they wouldn't attack my wonder
ayyyyyyy
>>345446589
Just fucking use monks at the Persian level
>Become good at 1 RTS game
>Learn the cheesing tactics
>Feel obsessed to use cheesing tactics in every game
>>345442353
http://steamcommunity.com/id/IwantmyfuckingTheGhostmasterURL/
Currently 1800 ELO player, max ELO peaked 1875
Currently playing Fast Speed on Rand Land Maps, mostly playing Team Games, 3vs3 or 4vs4, but I also do lots 1vs1
Also I'm willing to train or practise with anyone that needs to, I don't have the most minimal problem with it
Go ahead and add me, let's see how long you last.
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Just kill me already
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