Got it from the Steam sales, for 2.50 Swiss francs.
Now, I've played Dawn of War, Grey Goo, Starcraft, and some others I forget; is it me or this game is laborious? I'm doing the French campaign, and it's either "escort that female here and there" or straight up nigh impossible missions. Resources are always scarce, using the market is nearly useless because prices instantly go down when you sell and up when you buy.
So, having a massive farmland to make and sell food didn't work out. Moreover, over half of my limited population are farmers.
I used to max out the tech on the basic soldiers and swarm with them, but that proved not too efficient. Now I do that with the knights, but I run out of gold quickly, despite mining all the gold available.
I'm at the mission where you have to destroy 3 town centers for the coronation of some faggot. I destroyed two, one remains. Is it normal for these missions to take 4 hours? Last one took me that long.
1. Why isn't Age of Empire 1 on Steam?
2. Any good tips to improve my efficiency at AoE2? Apart from git gud.
3. What's your favourite RTS and are you hyped for Dawn of War 3?
The siege weapons are weak as fuck, any peasant can destroy them in seconds. Assaulting anything is difficult due to unit limit being at 75.
Is there any way to get beyond 75?
Should I slaughter my peasants to have 75 military units?
pls no buli
>>345100406
>The siege weapons are weak as fuck
Use your soldiers to defend the siege. Siege is strong as fuck. Two mangonels, protected by some corssbowmen should be enough to deal with any AI.
>>345101368
>Two mangonels, protected by some corssbowmen should be enough to deal with any AI.
Noted. I used knights for that purpose but got mixed results.
Trying to destroy a castle is very difficult.
>realise I have to destroy a town center, not a castle
Now I know why I'm taking so long to finish the damn mission...
>built defensive castle
>go for imp
>one attack with fully upgraded mostly knights few archers few siege
>win
>use google
>>345101510
Imp? imperial age?
I do most of the rest. I learned to git gud, just wondering if the missions are intended to take long to be done.
>>345101471
Against castles you want to use rams. Don't send them one at a time, send them in a group of 5 or 4, and make sure you can protect them. Send them first so that they soak the castle's arrow fire, and have your units kill the other units.
The game is mostly meant to be played with a 200 pop cap, so the missions that restrict you to 75 can be quite slow.
>>345101612
> I learned to git gud
>>straight up nigh impossible missions
>>missions to take 4 hours
>>345101732
Well, I'm not stuck, it just takes me ages, but it should be faster now. I experimented for a while.
Is this considered a good game or what? I enjoy it a bunch, although I think Stronghold remains superior (apart from those impossible missions later on, the ones they didn't have time to test).
>>345101910
>Is this considered a good game or what?
Yes.
>>345100289
If you're doing the Juan of Arc campain, don't let her be in any fights (escort missions or not)
Build walls and Watch towers
Wood and Food are the main resources so focus on them in the beggining
Don't bother attacking at the start of the game, Upgrade everything and after that move to the next age
git gud
Campaigns are easy if you're playing defensively. just finished Original campaign the other day
>>345102031
>don't let her be in any fights
Check.
>>345102031
>Build walls and Watch towers
Check.
Still don't understand why putting people in towers is so complicated: ALT + right click, what the hell? Why can't I just click on the damn tower normally?
>>345102031
>Wood and Food are the main resources so focus on them in the beggining
I used to go for the gold. I'm Swiss, so, you know...
>>345102031
>Don't bother attacking at the start of the game, Upgrade everything and after that move to the next age
Noted.
>>345102031
>git gud
OK senpai.
Thanks!
>>345102376
>Still don't understand why putting people in towers is so complicated: ALT + right click, what the hell? Why can't I just click on the damn tower normally?
Because clicking means selecting the tower and right clicking means repairing the tower. Holding alt isn't complicated.
>>345102376
>Why can't I just click on the damn tower normally?
did you look into the settings?
>>345102584
>Because clicking means selecting the tower and right clicking means repairing the tower. Holding alt isn't complicated.
Crossbowmen can't repair towers, can they? But OK, that makes some sense.
>>345102840
>did you look into the settings?
Before I played the game, yes. Will check again.
Goddamn the stuttering is terrible when panning around the map in the steam version.
>>345104343
You mean when you move using the minimap?
Anyone up for some CooP vs AI ?
>>345100289
Bump
>>345100289
>or straight up nigh impossible missions
No mission is impossible, you need to get good, really.
The hardest missions are by far the last Saracen mission, the last Teutonic Mission, the last Frankish mission, and then the rest.
>So, having a massive farmland to make and sell food didn't work out. Moreover, over half of my limited population are farmers.
>I used to max out the tech on the basic soldiers and swarm with them, but that proved not too efficient. Now I do that with the knights, but I run out of gold quickly, despite mining all the gold available.
>I'm at the mission where you have to destroy 3 town centers for the coronation of some faggot. I destroyed two, one remains. Is it normal for these missions to take 4 hours? Last one took me that long.
You're doing something wrong, when gold is certainly not infinite, you have more than enough gold on almost every map to at least make paladins.
And if you happen to not have gold, always resort to 'trash' army (Light cavalry, pikemen and elite skirmishers)
>Any good tips to improve my efficiency at AoE2? Apart from git gud.
Use 'H' a lot
Use ',' and '.' a lot
Use creation Hotkeys
Use group hotkeys (Have unit(s)/building(s) selected + Control + (Any number) ), after that you will see the number you assigned to that group on the bottom right corner of said unit, press that number again and it will be automatically selected
Always be making villagers, never idle your TC
Lure your boars in Dark Age, get loom and send a villager to shot them 2 times, and then run to your TC and kill it with the rest of your villagers
Always scout, keep scouting, no exception
Monks ultimately counter knights, always pick up relics
Always build new TCs as soon you reach Castle Age
Siege is always handy
Don't get housed
I'm 1800 ELO on multiplayer, if you want we can practise
>>345102376
Also, go for as many natural food sources as possible in the beginning. This way you can stockpile wood pretty fast instead of building farms all the time. Send one scout across the map and sent sheep or whatever the fuck you find back to your village pronto
g-guys, let's play together!
>>345109130
Knowing once my ELO topped the 1875 score, I'd doubt it would be fun to you all playing with me
I always play on RLM, on fast speed.
