Rate my village /v/ Also age of empires 2 thread

>>272898024
>playing as a sand nigger nation
>not playing as the based Tutons

its like you don't even know how to turn this thing on anon.

>playing as Turks
>inefficient farm placement

Anon, please.

>>272898227
I'm the Byzantines, not the Turks
filhty turks are my enemies

>>272898168
>Tutons
Yeah, I played with your mom's tutons last night.

>houses next to town centre
>houses in a single row with no room for expansion in the other axis
>trees around town centre not cut down
>not placing your mill strategically so that farms are in between the mill and the town centre, reducing the time it takes for farmers to deposit their food
2/10 wouldn't invade

>>272898024
Nice town

I'll take it

>>272898024
is it just me or is the campaign incredibly long? holy shit with each level taking me a couple days to beat and multiple levels for every campaign, I'm going to be playing this for a year. I dont think I ever beat it when I got it at the book sale as a kid.

Should I play AoE 2 or AoE 2 + Conquerers Expansion?

>>272898309
My nigga. Cataphract spam best strat.

>>272898446
>not loving the long as fuck campaign that teaches you a shit load about history
>not puzzling the literal shit out of your history teach in 5th grade by knowing the entire tale of Barbarossa
nigga....

>>272898498
Conquerors.

Better AI, more civilisations, you can queue farm re-seeds, and more.

>>272898563
Conquistador spam is pretty good too.

>>272898446
Why are you taking so long to do the campaign? Are you playing on turtle speed? Are you pussyfooting around building a huge army so you have minimal casualties?

It shouldn't be taking you that long

>>272898024
>gets farms before using up the berries
>farms not around the town center for quick garrisoning in case of attack
>2/10 would not fight for

OP is a casual piece of shit.

>>272898498
Expansion. More races better tech more story lines and it has all the old stuff anyways. Why wouldn't you?

>>272898024
>idle villagers

Sometimes I wish I didn't become a semi-tourneyfag and could still enjoy AoE2 city building

>>272898628
>>272898709
>Why wouldn't you?

Because its been ass long since I played that game, I cant even remember it right and I always fuck it up by thinking its cossacks.

>Boar, berries and sheep are still around
>Better build farms

>farms not contingent with a mill or TC
>not hunting wildlife
>not queuing reseeds
>scout still at base
>trees near TC not cut
>inert villagers

0/10

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>giant map
>black forest
>max level AI FFA
>immediately stone wall off all entrances and turtle for 2 hours watching them tear each other apart and ultimately come after you
I may have had autism but this was how I killed weekends.

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>>272898024

This is now an AoE2 strategy thread.

Here's how I get to Feudal Age in the shortest time:
1. Spend all food on villagers
2. Get two of your existing villagers to make one house each
3. Set all villagers to chop wood until you have enough for a mill and barracks
4. Make one villager build a mill (ideally close to the deer) and another build a barracks
5. Set all villagers to herd sheep or hunt
6. As soon as you have 500 food, start researching Feudal Age
7. Redistribute villagers so a few are cutting wood
8. Spend your gold and remaining food on militiae
Should get you to Feudal Age in <5 minutes.

>>272898363
Ill toot on your face

>>272899495
Black outline your text so it can be read easily

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>>272899495

this guy gets it.

>>272899495
how lost my eyes trying to read that

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>>272898625
>tfw i did puzzle adults with weirdly specific historical knowledge as a kid
Thanks Ensemble

>>272899495
What are you supposed to do with berries?
They give food early on, but then they disappear forever.

They're very pretty so I don't want to genocide them.

>housing placement
I read in a strategy guide once that building your houses in a spread out manner around your TC was a good strategy. It tends to break up large forces and distract them before they can get to you TC, giving you time to amass your own defense.

Is there any merit to it?

>>272900549
I usually put a villager or two on berries as a slow-and-steady food source while the rest are herding sheep, hunting or farming.

>>272898024
I don't know why i suck so bad at this game, I just wanna get good with the Mongols

>>272898638
Well granted I only play a few hours a day, but maybe it's because i need to crank up the speed.
Usually I don't build up huge armies, I try to keep up constant, small attacks to make it a hard time for the enemy to build up armies/ resources. And then when i do attack in force, I keep up a long battle where I constantly make new reinforcements to send to the battle as I lose units. Is this a bad strat?

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I've been playing Rise of Nations and it looks A LOT like this game.

Coincidence? Or do all strategy games take inspiration from each other?

Age of empires 2 for mac is abandonware...

If you're desperate to not pirate this 16 year old game you could always dl it here and use compatibility programs to run it.

>http://www.myabandonware.com/game/age-of-empires-3ge

>>272900603
It distracts NPCs but most players just by it.

>tha one guy who won by building a wonder

Is the HD remake on Steam worth it? I literally haven't played this game in over 10 years and I'm feeling nostalgic.

>>272900871
I have 1 or 2 AoE cds somewhere on the second floor.

Easier to just download it on tpb though.

>>272900795
Not him, but I don't think that's a bad strategy. It's similar to what I do, although I usually try to make multiple groups and do pincer attacks, but you can't always do that in the campaigns.

>>272900869

Nah, Age of Empires 2 is just THE gold standard for any and all RTS games.

>>272901002
Yes it's well worth it

>>272900869
All strategy games take inspiration from Age of Empires II because it does everything perfectly.

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>>272900109
>mfw an idiot in my class tried to explain religious conversion based on what he learned from AoE 2

>>272901159

Thanks anon. I'll look into it when it goes on sale

>original AoE2 straight off the shelf on release day
>doesnt work or install
>steam niggers make 99% of serial keys unusable on steam

>same with every other physical disc i own
Fucking greedy faggots I dont want to pay £14 for something I already own

>>272901159
>>272901495
When does it go on sale?

>>272901002
It's ok.
The Forgotten expansion is really neat though. Slavs and Magyars get their own architecture and it's super cozy.

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Oh shit, I can't believe I forgot this game
I gotta dig up the disc somewhere back at the old house.
How is AOE3?

>>272901664
Meh.
Campaign has interesting level variety, but the actual storyline is terrible.
All the expansion civs feel extremely gimmicky and don't mesh well with the vanilla ones.
Graphics are really good though.

>>272901664
Really damn good
Comfy as fuck

>>272901664
if you ask me, the only aspect that isn't improved is that the musket age combat has a different feel than medieval. Not better, not worse, just different.
Overall though, they improved every feature and added more

>>272901664
Its legitimately shit.

Got boring after a few hours, and this was with both expansions.

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>>272901823
Wait fuck I misread that as two somehow

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>>272898024
>>272898024
>>272898024
You're welcome

>>272898024
>3.72MB
why

shit farm placement

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>AoEII thread
>RoN not allowed

;______________;

>>272902612
thanks

>>272902612
thank you

>>272902612
I don't remember farms fitting that well around the TC. You always end up a one slot wide bit of wasted space.

>>272902739
>png

>>272898024
>1919x875

>>272898024
>orderly neighborhood, no dark alleyways for highwaymen to hide in
>local produce just across the street and the town center is a 2 minute walk away
>lumberyard and barracks not far either

7/10 would experience bronze age in

>>272902820
I bought the Extended Edition a couple of days on Steam when it was 75% off.
I've owned a physical copy of the game and the expansion since release, but I figured I might as well get the digital copy of it for convenience and in case I ever lose one of my original CDs.

I've been enjoying it quite a lot recently, it's pretty comfy to just expand across the map and I like how your resources will never run out, something that always bothered me when I played Age of Empires games as a city builder.

Oh, and there's Steam Workshop for it and there's a mod that gives you unlimited population limit and no Armageddon, which is pretty nice.

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>>272902612

>>272903365
Who the fuck has that many farms?

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>>272903365

>>272903060
That's true, but I was showing what he's supposed to aim for. He'll notice it won't fit perfectly, but as the berry distance isn't always the same and thus the mill will move to different places on every map he'll have to put those blank spots to different places every time anyways if he wants to make it "look pretty".
>>272903076
Get better internet you third world shitter, pngs are fine.
>>272903164
Are you blind or simply have never played AOE to notice that he cut off the HUD parts?
>>272903365
What are the beige/white spots?

>>272903060
yeah they dont fit perfect

what you have to do is set them slightly off so you end up with a kind of pinwheel looking pattern going around your mills

>>272898024
>not going for tech 3 rush to spam starfighters

What is the best version of this game?

>>272903365
once you get a certain amount of farms it becomes better to just build a second mill so you lose less time walking from the farm to the mill

>>272903653
4x4 is the town center
2x2 are the mills

>>272903508
>Get better internet you third world shitter, pngs are fine.
Person ask why the large image size,
I respond by pointing out that the image is .png

Typical /v/ tard. Biggest idiots of 4chan.
/v/ never again.

>>272903365
>>272903502
>putting all your farms in one place

One nuke and there goes your entire fucking food supply. Spread it out.

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>>272903365
>>272903502
>>272902612

hahahaha time for a mindblown niggers

http://www.cysion.be/aocbox/?p=1318

>>272903623

the original conquerors expansion. If you install Voobly you get a bunch of updates and widescreen/multimonitor support. And you can use them without running Voobly

>>272904134
>nuke
This isn't Empire Earth, nigger.

>>272903365
>>272903502
Pretty slick.

>>272898024
Did you even move the scout?

who else got rise of nations when it was on sale this week

>>272905968
I never liked using the scout because his vision was shit and I felt I was losing time.
I suck at the game, by the way.