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I've never used them before. Last night I stuck 4 or so into my farmland. I watched as a single hussar got 2-3 vil kills before he even took a single shot. Every time he'd move to attack the vil, the bombard towers would shoot where he was going. But then he'd stop to swing his sword and the cannonball would fly way in front of him. Then he kills the vill and runs in a totally different direction and the same thing happens. I just felt that if I had keeps, the arrows would fly faster and he'd have died sooner. Did I do something wrong?

I didn't read them too much as I try to avoid spoilers for my first campaign playthrough, but the one to loot 10K gold using Varangian Guards made me chuckle

Hoping that they don't unlock all at once like The Last Chieftains ones. Still salty that I didn't get to unlock those legitimately

I've been crazy busy and haven't been able to watch any of the league so far. Luckily this means I've also avoided spoilers!

I would love your recommendations of most exciting games/sets to watch and bonus points if you can link the vod for what you're referring to.

Hopefully this can help others in a similar time poor situation too. No spoilers please. Thanks everyone!

I was a decent player at 1K3-K4 elo, I stop playing for a few months and when i came back, I erased my hotkey by mistake. I've never been able to reput them in the folders, never been able to reproduce the alchimy I had and buttons. And now everytime I come back, I feel so disabled, it's like relearning a new game.

AOE2 is so demanding and depressing. The automatisms that you build are so ephemeral.

What do u do if they douche you on glade, like i saw it coming so i walled my section but he broke through with tc. just kept moving the tc and i know not to repair and just remake etc, but here i am kind of stuck you know, he walled in my walls and put towers behind it, i was in feudal with some towers and skirms, ahead for most of the game but i could not leave my bubble. eventually just had no room and died. Is it just gg if they wall u in?

Every unit in the game (not counting niche units like petards) has an Imperial Age upgrade, with the glaring exception of skirmishers, which gets capped at Elite Skirm in Castle Age. Wouldn't it make sense to have the Imperial Skirm as a general upgrade available to a wide range of civs, just like Hussars and Halbs. Don't know if it should have the same stats as the existing Vietnamese unit, but that's something that can be balanced. I'm talkning about the principle of not having an Imp age upgrade at all.

Hello, I have a small Discord, mainly based out of the U.S.

We play TG's usually in the evening times, 7-8 EST. Elo range from about 500 to 1200.

We are going to start doing "Rec review Fridays," where you can submit a rec to be streamed on Twitch. Now... I myself am only 800 elo, so there wont be much coaching aspect going on. Its more just for fun and a way to showcase a game you'd like to see. Comment or DM me for the Discord if this interests you.

Thanks, GLHF

Edit: All elo is welcome.

What were they thinking when they made this "improvement". Its bugging my trebs all the time.

Make it attack enemy units, "Bruh those units are far 18 tiles away so im going to unpack 🤪"

Wtfff...

In the previous version, you attacked enemy units, they never unpacked like that.

Is there a little option or mod for this, like Old Trebuchet Behavior ❎

Hi everyone, I’m not sure if this belongs here, but as an Age of Empires II player, I thought I’d share this story with you.

Recently, my grandfather passed away. Yesterday, I went to his house to help my father, and he told me that if there was anything I wanted to keep as a memory of him, I could take it.

So I walked through the house where I spent so many Sundays during my childhood. I opened drawers I had never dared to touch as a kid, and looked through some of his old belongings and memories...

I knew that my grandfather had been playing Age of Empires 1 since its release, all the way until his final year. But I only started playing myself about two years ago, when he had already started having health problems, so I never got the chance to have those conversations with him as fellow Age of Empires fans.

While going through his drawers, I found some Age of Empires 1 documentation, probably dating back to 1998, carefully kept next to his PC.

That PC was used almost exclusively for his daily game of Age of Empires 1 and for reading his emails.

There was a game manual containing pretty much everything you needed to know about the game. It’s incredibly detailed.

The second document is a fold-out technology tree poster. On one side, it has the complete technology tree, and on the other side, it details every civilization bonus and technology tree for each civilization.

The slightly strange detail is that he had heavily stapled the pages together between pages 11 and 16 of the manual.

I would have loved to play a game of AoE1 or AoE2 with him if I had discovered my passion for this game a little earlier.

Live without regrets, friends.

Goodbye, Grandpa.

In this mode, I think any civ with bonuses towards food production including Franks would do the best.

Sitting around 900elo, with Nomad being my best map by far. I tend to go for 5-7 fishibg ships as early as possible with keeping my tc running to get an early food bonus. When opponent starts attacking on water I just let them die and focus on land. Ussually that works because opponent doesn't have enough to defend on land when also spending wood and gold on ships. Some people don't even go for water or use almost the same strat by only using fishing in early game. At my elo skills just aren't high enough to get land war, water war and eco going at the same time. But lately I find myself battling an opponent that goes up to 20-30 fishing ships wich really gives them a good boom.

My question here is: should I learn to battle on water as well to avoid this? And how much exactly can I spend on this. It used to be like 1 fire ship can do alot if opponent doesnt react on water, or even triggering them to invest alot in water and counter on land. But since the fishing ships can be garrisoned I feel like I really need to invest alot to really kill his water eco.

Guys Tiramis is starting a funding campaign to create a documentary about Daut. If you have few bucks to spare please support the man. I have attached the kickstarter and the promotional video too. Hopefully we can get more documentaries like this related to AOE2.

Youtube Video

Lets say, just as an example, my units are in the corner of the map, and i want my units to move to a castle that is far away. And i want them to patrol around that castle.

If we make them patrol from our current position, and add the checkpoints, what will happen is, the units will move to the castle, go around the castle and then come back to the initial position we set the checkpoints.

Is there a way to do this without having them come back?

Please, give me some argument to change my mind. This discount on so many types of units (all lines of archer, skirmisher, militia, spearman and new varangian guard) sound too good to be true. I see that they are missing blast furnace but as a trade-off infantry gets some additional armor (melee or ranged or both).

https://www.twitch.tv/hera/clip/BetterAbrasiveMangoTF2John-J7HFTFPmxe-1d6Rf

Summary for saxons techtree

archery: no HC, no parth

barracks: complete

stable: no paladin

siege: no siege onager, no BBC

blacksmith: no melee + cav armor final upgrade

dock: get cata galleon, no clanker, no carvel hull, no incendiaries

univ: no BBT

castle: complete

monastery: no fervor

TC: complete

mill + lumber: complete

mining: no stone shaft

C UT: monk +1 convert range, train 33% faster

Imp UT: (hoplite ability, but only for infantry instead)

UU: (see fire lancer, but isnt a gunpowder unit)

link: https://cdn.ageofempires.com/aoe/media-downloads/Saxons-Tech-Tree.png

Hey guys, completely new player. I understand the basics but I cant really win any match against anyone.

When i start i usually focus on resources, mill, farms, houses and getting to feudal, after that is when i start worrying about barracks and troops.

Most matches I just get to feudal and without any chance to start making a decent army, i get attacked and cant defend myself at all, how can i counter this? Also how can they get a good army so early in the game?

If you could just briefly summarrize like the path you take when you start a match so I know if im doing something wrong.

If anyone has any suggestions I'd really appreciate it. I'm getting so irritated, it seems like every single player at my ELO range (mid 600s) does m@a rush and/or tower rush. Someone stone walled me into my own base on Glade last night. I'm so annoyed and I can't get past it. Archers are supposed to counter but if he's showing up with like 5-10 maa does that mean I'm already too late? Please help, I'm in a massive state of tilt and it's not fun at all right now...

Hi, question from a newbie, what should I do as Teuton vs Japanese? I have great Palas, but Japanese has great Halbs. Teuton Knights lose against Samurai in big fight. I was hit with expensive combo of Arbalest and Samurai, what kind of units are best to counter this?