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.

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?

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.

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?

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

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.

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?

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 ❎

This is mainly for teamgames. If dev cant control or manage people intentionally griefing in teamgames (rank) why dont they just do what League of Legends used to do or something. Like for real we would do the work for FREE. There are so many trolls I run into on consistent bases and I see them again week after week with no punishment. Like just let the community manage bans since they are too cheap to do it themselves.

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

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?

The narrator voice for the Spartans, like the voice you here when you command your infantry to do something, I'm just trying to play the game and he's like yelling in my fucking ear lmao. Like seriously, the voice is way too loud compared to the voices of the other civs in the game. Also, the background music when playing with them is way too loud as well, it drowns out the in-game blades/cannons and etc. sounds quite a bit (I had to halve my music audio when playing with them just for it to be normal).

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

That is an utter nonsense. First you make Wu with 65 food bonus after military building and everyone agreed that was too much, so it was nerfed to 55, ok lesson learned. BUT now you give 60 res after building camps ???? And 10 of it is Stone ? People already build like +-8 camps/mills before castle age because it's efficient. Why don't you just give Saxons 500 food discount for clicking castle age? It feels more fair.

I only want to play Arena and Black Forest. Why do I have to play arabia and all the other maps that are like arabia.

Why not make a ladder just for these closed maps that so many people love.

Why force us to play open maps, when we dont like open maps.

Its mind blogging.