SHHH-HOO

>tfw castle drops

I was always shit at this game and cheated to give me extra stone

>>388650554
w

SANTIAGO!
MANDE!

>>388651312
Me too. I was enjoying the first few very story-driven campaign missions until it opened up and I realized that you have to do the same thing in every mission again and again, only more efficiently every time. That's when I realized the genre is not for me.

Cossacks was an objectively better game.

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>post yfw this plays:
Trigger warning
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwzFzUXSE5s

>>388652009
Si?
Presto
Mande?

Voy
De agrado
Agora

Santiago! (Which translates to 'Saint James' in english)
A ellos!
Guerra!
Hey!

t. actual spanish speaker

>>388652859
This happens all the time, why you freak out at this?

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>>388652859
>When this plays over 5 different locations in less than 3 seconds

>>388652870
thanks spicfriend

>>388653661
No problem, amigo
Watch out for the Conquistadors

>>388650554
>see thread
>immediately know what the spoiler will say
Bye.

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>tfw the Goth player reaches Imperial Age

gg no re

>>388650554
How do I beat Pax Mongolia?
Is it possible to cut my way to the western side of his side and cheese the wonder that way?
Castle hopping from the east is too slow.

>>388654351
It's so annoying how limited the responses are to Goth Imp.

> Samurai + HC
> Jaguars, lots of them
> Cataphractbros + HC
> Teutonic knights + HC
> Muh Incan slingers
> Elephantbros + HC
> Mamelukebros, enough of them

And that's literally all of them. If you don't get HC or some retarded unique unit there's just nothing you can do.

>>388650554
DUDUN DUDUN
What building am I?

>AoE multiplayer

i don't see the appeal of it

>>388654381
Just transport ship across the small river

>>388654907
>No dock available
Great plan.

>Make AoE2
>Make AoE2 HD
>apparently they're once again remaking AoE2 in the upcoming pack with AoE4
What the hell is going to be the difference

>>388654882
ez
barracks

>>388654990
Converted 3D sprites.

>>388654990
Completely updated graphics and soundtrack.

I like how you can build walls. Warcraft 2 had walls but they were only placable in the map editor. Walls are fun to build.

>>388654980
You get one in the begining of the mission dumbass

>>388655134
You could build walls in warcraft 2 multiplayer.


The problem was that walls weren't a structure of the team in warcraft 2, so the AI couldn't deal with it which is why they excluded it from singleplayer.

Roggan?

>tfw can't beat moderate

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>>388655134
>tfw no RTS with a faction that's solely about building walls
big walls, small walls, exploding walls, laser walls, walking walls, walls that can burrow underground, walls that transport units, terrain walls, walls that create fog of war, towers, wall-building infantry, walls that you airdrop into the field, walls that grant cover, spear walls, shield walls, walls that are farms (hanging gardens of babylon), walls that have arms

just give me some fucking walls

>>388650554
PROSTAGIMA?

>>388655235
No, you don't.

>>388655928
voloume

>>388652870
Santiago doesn't just means...Santiago?

>>388654351
>>388654745
As a Goth player, this is how you deal with me/them. Don't fucking let them get to Imperial.

>>388655972
IS VOLI

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What's your favorite civ?

>>388656239
Goths, tho' Italians are super fun to use.

>>388655937
sry I had wrong mission I thought it was into china
pax mongolia is easy just don't be bad :)

>>388656239
the viking wonder is A E S T H E T I C

>>388656368
Sounds like a plan.

>>388653109
>tfw I have to micro-manage economy in order to sustain myself
>prefer ships to farms
>End up being forced to expand at excellerated rate
>Juggling fishing boats, lumberjacks, gold miners, and 3/4 stone gatherers
>Building is sporatic and just an attempt to wall off base from inland
>Your military is finally cranking out a couple spearmen
>Suddenly enemy knights
>"oh well, I have spearmen so-"
>Suddenly enemy gallies"
>"Okay I have enough wood, and I need to disperse my fishin-"
>Suddenly enemy monks___

EVERY FUCKING TIME

>>388655080
>add a little bit ssao
>give animations more frames
>make zoom possible
aoe2 doesnt need anything else

>>388656239
There's a goat faction in AoE?

>>388654745
what does HC stand for
heavy cavalry?

>>388656490
It actually is just mass mangudais with some trebuchets to siege and go through the front gate
You shoudln't lose any mangudai to any of the units the ai makes if you micro good

>>388656239
Sarracens (love the Mameluke)
Chinese (Nothing beats the feeling of shredding the enemy with a shitload of arrows fired by chu ko no)

>>388650554
OOOHHHHH

>>388656723
hand cannoneer

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>>388656239
Glorious Nipon because I like fishing
Otherwise Franks

>>388656239
Teutons

>>388656239
show bobs

>>388656650
Then don't play the Definitive Edition.

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>>388650554
In no way does it sound like that. It's not a "HOO", but clearly a "HA".

>>388654990
Please use the same servers as the HD edition so we don't have another split

>>388657067
>hd edition
>servers
?

>>388657048
dumb touhouposter

>>388654745
Wait, does the Incan Slinger bonus against Infantry make them deal significant amount of damage to Huskarls despite the metric fuckton of pierce armor they have?

BEHOLD
THE HORDE OF GENGHIS KHAN APPROACHES

>>388657479
it's +10 so yes

>>388657623
can we agree the Genghis campaign is the best campaign in the game?
aside from El Cid and Barbarossa

>>388656239
Magyar

ALL HAAAAIL
KING OF THE LOSERS

>>388656239
Teutons are the best

>>388656239
always liked the aztec combo of jags and eagles + monks

yo what the fuck I just looked to see if AoE 2 was on steam and it got 3 fucking expansions after the conquerors? how did that happen

>>388658408
A popular mod's developers got hired

>>388658408
>how did that happen
yo ho ho he took a bite of gum gum

>>388658024
AAAAAHHH BEING RUSHED

>>388658024
START THE GAME ALREADY
START THE GAME ALREADY
START THE GAME ALREADY
START THE GAME ALREADY
START THE GAME ALREADY

DUN-DUDUNDUN

>>388657623
BEWARE
THE LORD OF THE LAND APPROACHES

>>388659181
OOOOOOH
AAAAAAH

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>>388650554
H-A-A-A
Build 2 houses
Get sheep

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i've been thinking
what exactly is the relic?
it looks like it has some sort of cup in the bottom
but what the fuck is it?

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>>388659304
11 11111111111111111111 forever and ever

>mfw i hear the laugh in my head

>>388658508
Yahyo, yahyo, let's go!

>>388659486
It's the graal

Regicide is the only fun game mode outside campaigns.

>>388659486
It's just a generic item that represents an object of interest from the past for religious purposes.

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>>388656239
>spanish
endless trash units all day every day
>persians
persian douche. i fucking love doing it.

Build a navy.
Stop building a navy.

>>388656239
Huns/Mayans/Malay

Indians aren't bad either

>>388656239
M O N G O L S

post your favouite song from the OST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JoZkahjO1Q

>>388657479
Aye, the bonus damage negates the pierce armor completly, so it basically turns into crossbows vs very fast pikes who'll shred your archers with bonus damage.

Still fine if you can occupy them, and they completly shred the halbs, which the Goth probably won't get though.

>>388660415
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrmxJhm4v7Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8ijuK99wKw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtQ6dzqeIZk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ycGTR0qjRw

>>388654990
Is there any gameplay from remade AoE 2,3, or from IV?

>>388660597
You'll find some for AoE1DE on youtube. The others have only been announced, not shown.

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>>388659216
>BEWARE
>THE LORD OF THE LAND APPROACHES

>>388655928
>>388655972
>>388656136
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byfNaYYiIl4

>>388660001
>endless trash units all day every day
? Spanish have average trash. Sure fully upgraded all three, but no bonuses. Take advantage of the trade bonus, free blacksdmith upgrades and GOAT HC and Rocket ships anon.

>>388660586
Holy fuck. I critized definitive edition before because the soundtrack didnt sound powerful enough but that track there is good. There are some others that i dont like however. I guess it has its ups and downs.
Also, aoe3 has a good portion of my favorite aoe tracks

>>388661075
This song from AoE is just fucking K I N O:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bWjJ0mjlyo

>>388661075
The only song I like from AoE3 is the theme, which you couldn't fuck up if you tried.

>>388661189
>mass Strelets
>get fucked by cavalry

I don't care, I'll spam them until I cover the map

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>>388661189
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2rZhS62_LM
this is the best track hands down
>2:28
>mfw

>>388660892
>trade bonus
>all blacksmith upgrades
yup that's why i like the spanish. i use all the gold for wood and food and pump out trash like crazy. if all else fails i can always use my villagers.
any halfway decent player will still totally fuck up me up in pvp so i just play to have fun and try out silly strategies.

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>>388661597
>i use all the gold for wood and food

>>388660415
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kh39AXVCGQk

>>388661493
russians were my favorite just because of strelets
Spam+homeshippment improvements+ long ass game meant you could spam for hours with no sign of stopping

>>388661901
>>388661493
i actually dearly miss the multiplayer in aoe3, when i go online now it's literally all pros and a few newbies who play like shit, no inbetween

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Superior game comin thru
tfw remaster never ever

>>388662416
A damn shame the potato graphics really could use a rework also proper AI never

>>388662416
>tfw the AI always goes for you
there are several flaws with the game, but the ai was the biggest one to me.

MY NAME IS METHOS

>>388662497
if only the game could run on modern pc i would still play it
it's also a shame the other games (2 and more specifically 3) were shit

>>388652150
>the genre

Not all RTS's are boring-base-fests, like Dawn of War 2, Blitzkrieg, Total War, Men of War, Ground Control, and Wargame.

>>388662670
The GOG version runs fine on Win7

>>388662905
never knew that
neat

>>388662670
i got this game running on windows 10, you just gotta play around with the setting for a bit

I am playing the art of conquest version tough

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>C&C is German-central.
>Starcraft was Korean heaven.
>AoE was enjoyed by everyone.

Truly the best game.

is this Rise of Nations?

i fucking loved that game

>>388662497
>>388662669
Yeah, the AI needs a rework, the fact that it needs to cheat to stay competitive is a major flaw..

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>>388661515
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EWfMfHlFck
>mfw 1:01

>>388664342
Technically there is no "AI" as far as random maps go, it pretends to gather resources but it literally gets all of them via cheats, also it pretends to have build times but you'll notice that it fills up the map faster than you could ever hope to.

>>388664202
Huskarls and Teutonic Knights are cute! CUTE!

>>388664484
You forgot the fact that it masses mortars to an annoying degree in Atomic Age and will mass counter units if you mass anything.
It also gets really angry and will destroy that house at any cost if you build it anywhere remotely close to their buildings, especially the tactic of nukes/bombers and overwhelming your AA guns.

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>>388664912
That they are. Too bad the villager is such great waifu material already.

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>>388665083
Why didn't you protect her?

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>>388652859
i feel you anon, i was young too once and those sounds would startle me a little.

Hope this (you) finds you well and soothes your ails.

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>>388665306
Don't worry, I'm already getting the priest upgrades.
No one wololos my waifu.

THE BOOOOOOAAAAAAAR

>>388665798
The iron boar lairs near here, let the one who kills this mighty beast lead our people

THIS WAY ATTILA, FOLLOW

>>388665738
Does Japan like AoE2 or is it niche there as well?

>>388662416
The game REALLY needs unique civs if you were ever going to rerelease it

And no i dont mean those stat-bonuses.
Real differences in units, most preferably like in aoe3

>>388666186
Japan doesn't play pc games

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>>388652870

> Santiago! (Which translates to 'Saint James' in english)

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>>388666186
By far the most well known RTS there but that doesn't mean it gets to escape the relative niche nature of their PC market.
There is a good reason why AoE1 got Yamato people before Romans, though. The games did well worldwide and Microsoft had no problem marketing stuff to their biggest Asian userbase of the time.

The only game for them to play during LAN parties in college (where you get PCs, spare time and everything on a single network all together and set up already).

Even made several fan game clones of it like the Touhou RTS games.

santiago
sant iago
saint iago
saint yago
saint jago
saint jages
saint james

>>388666689
God, nips are fucking weird.

>>388659486
It's a relic.
If you have it in your temple, you get pilgrims who have gold on them.

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>>388652859

>followed by this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RfwNRf04Oo

>>388655760
read this in shrimp autist's voice from forrest gump

>>388667187
bubba gump shrimp

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>>388655760
>tfw all you want are four walls and adobe slats

>>388654990
Does AoM get anything?

>>388667402
No.

>>388666629
Santiago comes from Sancti Iacobi, Saint James in latin.

>>388665738
>No one wololos my waifu.
I wonder if there's NTR parodies involving wololo

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>>388656239
Portugal all the way. I'm a complete casual but I'm obligated (and proud) to play as my own nation.

t. Alberto Barbosa

>>388666843
They make sense in context.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YP0XXn6u0NY

>>388652859
Once i hallucinated this when going to bed and it scared the living shit out of me

>>388653109

Don't pretend you're tougher than you really are.

>>388656023
yes, Saint James in english

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>age of empires 4 goes even further than AoE 3's timeline
>final era
>it ain't me starts playing

>>388650554
Now I want to play this game

>>388668848
i just hope it's ww1 to continue the trend of the timeline progressing through the games

How is it possible that they got the DS version so right?

>>388668848
ain't it modern times? ww1 stuff ? if they follow the trend of the games i mean

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>>388655760
CnC Tiberian Sun really hits the spot there my friendo.

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>>388666948
>It wasn't some sort of artifact that produced infinite physical gold

Shit I don't know what the fuck was I thinking still believing the headcanon from my childhood.

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>you need to go back to base in the middle of the siege to tell a fucking farmer to keep fucking farming his own fucking farm
>i was put on this farm 20 minutes ago and i did nothing but gather food, geeez i wonder if i should continue to do so
>NAAAAAH, i will just stand still in the middle of a wasteland like a goddamn moron until my king personaly asks me, a farmer, to do my fucking job
what were they thinking

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>>388657623
>declare war
>khan also declares war
>khan doesnt just ride off and attacks you instead
>ride off, khan just keeps standing there
>do the quest for for tribe that has monks
>convert khan
>khan actually becomes playable

>>388670120
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuio3v3CxTc

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtukKEyRipU

>>388654990
>>apparently they're once again remaking AoE2 in the upcoming pack with AoE4

Remaking AoE 1 not 2

>>388671549
Remake of 2 and 3 had been already announced

>>388667872
Saint Jacob, actually.

>>388664202
Is AoE the antithesis of C&C?
>C&C known for single player stuff, AoE for multiplayer
>AoE is based on actual history, C&C on alternate history or the future
>memorable AoE quotes are gibberish, memorable C&C quotes are actual dialog
>one resource to collect vs. four

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>>388670253

I like to think it just represents them living on the land rent free and only growing enough food/weed for himself. I force him back into slavery by right clicking that selfish d-bag.

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>>388672307
>>memorable AoE quotes are gibberish
anon...

>the last man standing in the intro was actually the green king seen playing chess
fuck

BATTLECRUISER OPERATIONAL

>>388672823
he's american, be nice

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Crazy Horse: I have returned

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>that second mission of the el cid campaign

>>388672841
DEEPEST L O R E

>>388672823
>>388673094
>wololo

How do I defeat maximum dificulty in the forgotten empires mod? By the time I reacv castle age they have a full castle army or they already feudal rushed my ass. Is the AI cheating or what am I doing wrong? We change ages atthe same time or I do before it.

>>388673346
third mission even*

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>Rise of Nations will continue being dead

the best sound in the entire game, in fact perhaps across all gaming, is the sound of the trebuchet firing

>>388673514
OH THE HUMANITY

>>388673064
RECEIVING TRANSMISSION

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>>388673346
>mfs i reach the mission were the Cid gets exiled thanks to that cunt king

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7H6_fE8PMQ0
>despite having a companion and an army behind him, apprehends the french guy alone
>gun not even drawn
>gets fucking BTFO'd without any effort whatsoever
>Amelia was apparently just standing back and watching
Cooper was a moron.

>>388673094
you don't know that
he could just as well be a brit, or a kiwi, or a t*rkroach

>>388673423
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqiOQ1dAhL4

aegis

>>388674616
How do you turn this on

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>>388650554
I was promised Fortunate Son, I want my Fortunate Son

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How do I git gud?

>>388675214
>be japanese civ
>technologily progress to world war 2 units
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohMjptsD2mU starts playing

>>388675421
>be germany
>skip directly from the first to the third age

>>388674453
>Red builds 17 fucking monks
What a madman.

>>388675334
watch the_viper play

>>388675334
see
>>388674616
>>388674778

>>388675214
so AoE V is going to be starcraft basically

>>388662761
World in Conflict

>>388655760
>just give me some fucking walls
If you want to build a castle, try stronghold.

>Teutons
>Move them over there
>"HOOO BABY!!!"

>>388676358
watch the_diaper play...lol

>>388675214
Anyone else worried that AoE4 will have air units? I fucking hate air units in RTS'.

>>388671917
What do you mean? Source?

>>388678742
Go to 55:14

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nBZO7WTSsI

>>388679015
The trailer teaser for AoE4 gives me chills every time I watch it.

>>388679939
I teared up a bit. Everything that's going on right now for AoE is literally a dream come true. Remakes of 1 and 2? Check. AoE 4? Check. The only thing missing is a remake/sequel to AoM.

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>>388680118
>Serious Sam is probably getting another game
>AoE is still getting sequels and expansions
>Grimoire fucking released
>HL3 is kill
ITS NOT FUCKING FAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIR

>>388679015
Damn.
So much AoE shit. What is going on.

>>388674019
Thanks to Age of Empires, we were all the fucking Cid, at least for a time. I'll never forget what I learned. Never trust a king, never trust the French, keep La Hire's sword bloody, and BEWARE THE KARA KHITAI. THEY ARE WITHOUT HONOR

>>388680960
Sometimes life throws you a bone.

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>>388652859

post yfw it's just your overdue Scout you lost somewhere that got killed near the enemy base at castle age.

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You will never play an Age of Empires-like game with:

>huge towns and building-maintaining focus
>build armies and explore/expand
>fight off barbarian invasions and enemy nations

Basically, an Age of Empires + Civilization cross over, with the same layout and controls from AoE but with huge maps and a slower building gameplay.

Feels bad.

>>388681035
Well, can't complain. It's my favorite video game franchise.

>>388681241
AoE is already Civ + Warcraft, as stated by the devs themselves.

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>>388681118

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>>388681337

But the scale is so small, building is way too straight forward and simplistic and the matches are way too short.

We can go deeper than just rushing or booming!

What time era do you think AoE4 will cover?
Personally I can see it going something like this:
Era: 1830-WW1 (roughly the same as Victoria II) aka the Age of Imperialism

Locations would be around the world, mostly in areas affected by Imperialism, such as Africa, India, East Asia, Indochina, the Pacific, and Latin America. North America can also be represented.

Timeline would start right after the Napoleonic era, with the aesthetics thereof (flashy uniforms, muzzle loading muskets, etc.). As time progresses so does the architecture and the uniforms and weapons of the units. By the last age, most soldiers are wearing drab or khaki uniforms, caps or helmets, using bolt action rifles, etc.

Potential nations on release:
Great Britain
The United States
France
Germany
Japan
Russia
Italy

Gameplay changes - resources are now raw materials (gained from wood and iron mines), precious metals (gained from diamond, silver, and gold mines), and oil (gathered at oil wells).

Instead of native tribes, there's indigenous villages, which are a cross between villages from AoM and Tribes from AoE3. While it may be possible to build your own town centers, you can either build for cheaper or only on a village. What culture the village is will depend on its effects, whether its a passive bonus, gives a researchable tech, or provides a recruitable unit (for example, a Nepalese village grants the ability to recruit Gurkhas).

Gameplay would otherwise be similar to AoE3, but with the emergence of new technologies (the Gatling Gun, the Maxim Gun, Faster loading rifles, revolvers, ironclads, dreadnoughts, and ultimately tanks and possibly airplanes).

>>388673423
you can easily beat the AI on any difficulty if you trush

unless they patched it since I last played

kinda cheatin tho desu

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>>388680764
Episode 3 is kill
that doesn't necessarily mean HL3 is kill

>>388682270
Samefag here
Nations I can see for DLC/Expansions are bundled like this:

Asia Expansion- Qing Dynasty, Siam, Afghanistan (for Anglo-Afghan War)

Africa Expansion - Algerians, Zulu, Sudan

Other Europeans Expansion - Netherlands, Belgium, Spain (for Spanish-American War)

Native Americans Expansion - Sioux, Apache, Navajo (or Nez Perce)

Latin America Expansion - Mexico, Colombia, Argentina

Free LC - Ottoman Empire, CSA (?), Hawai'i

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>tfw you smash your army of HC, SO and TKs into his Elite Eagles and it's to late for him to mass Jags

>>388675214
https://youtu.be/eflX1B6MRfw

>>388681118
>he let the scout afk
stay sub-1600 shitter

>>388680986
I hear the growl of the jaguar.
Is this a bad omen?

>>388682270
Austria-Hungary would be nice, as would Poland. The Ottomans will probably be included as well. I'm personally most excited for the naval aspect as this particular era saw a lot of rapid advancement in naval tech as well as some cool looking ships. I'm also expecting a Crimean campaign as that would be perfect for showcasing the advancement of tech and the change of warfare in the 19th century. My dream would be a WWI Jap campaign taking place against the Germans in the Far East but that's a part of history that will be forgotten forever.

>>388682423
stop having false hopes
both are kill , ded, kaput

>>388675214
It's called It Ain't Me, dumbass.

>>388682270
I was thinking maybe a little bit earlier. 1800-1917. This lets the player build up towns naturally in the first half of the game and ww1 is all about defending them. Perhaps instead of trade caravans you can construct rail roads that run around the map. They can later be used to move soldiers around quickly as long as the lines are connected and the trains are running.

Maybe include Ethiopia as a civilization? Even though they never expanded particularly far, they still were able to beat Italy in a war. Unlike China which would pretty much be a joke of a faction for the time period.

>>388683401
I pray that Relic will try to do something new with more powerful processors. I want to see ships that behave like real warships rather than just larger units. Give them turning radius and reliance on wind until engines are developed.

Poland, Austria, and the Ottomans would all be great civilizations to play. I hope they don't try and push meme-tier civs like the Zulu or god forbid keep the Aztecs around. I'm all for playing what-if, but there should be at least some adherence to reality, especially now that we are entering a time period much more defined than "The Middle Ages"

>>388684178
With China though you can see the collapse of the Qing, as well as the Opium Wars and the Boxer Rebellion

>>388684445
You can't really have Imperial Africa without ZULU references though

>>388684572
I guess. I have no idea how you would balance them though since they pretty much refused to modernize and as a result got their asses handed to them in every single conflict.

What setting are you hoping for in AoE4?

Personally I'd be so down for just a bit past AoE3; let's say 1800-1914.

>>388684850
I hate 'modern' settings in RTS', so either more past history or go full robots/aliens/etc.

>>388684445
I think if they want to move into this era they should take some influences from the Cossacks series. Firearms should cost coal/someotherresource to fire, ships should be very expensive, slow, but able to delivery a lot of firepower at the cost of tremendous resources. Same goes for artillery.

>>388684742
If they're going to work with this era they'll have to find some way around the technology gap. Otherwise a ton of eastern and middle-eastern nations won't make any sense at all.

>>388684675
By all means keep them in as a minor civ that you can recruit like in Age 3. I just think it would be silly for them to have their own full civilization slot.

>>388684934
weird, I fucking love company of heroes

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>>388667402
AoM is better than AoE series tbqh

>>388685517
AoM is technically part of the AoE series, but either way I agree. AoE / 2 is still my second favorite.

>>388683865
your post is bait
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKuLtVXGRp8

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>Age of Mythology's Menu music was called
>A Cat named Mittens
>Its expac was called
>A Mat Named Kittens

>>388654990
>>388679015
I'm trying to see how this new AoE 2 will be a good thing and I can't see it. I have a feeling this'll affect AoE2 HD, as well.

>>388675334
How do I turn this on?

>>388686549
>looks like chicken tastes like crickets
>where's my uncle?
>shamburger
>operation Monkey
What the fuck is going on with these names?

>>388684934
I just want walls and fortresses.

>>388656239
Teutons
Celts

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>>388682871
>Argentina
>Playing the Conquest of the Desert as my boy Julio Argentino Roca while exterminating dirty indians
Holy shit I'm fucking sold

Anyone else playing the Rise of the Rajas scenarios?
I feel like the third Vietnamese mission is busted: I destroyed the 2 castles in Hanoi, but I haven't won the mission. With that, I've already lost 3/4ths of my army and it's a long time to rebuild that shite

At least the "complete the campaign" achievement only counts for not cheating on the final mission, ye?

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>>388652859
Mutha-fuckas betta not be killin my villagers

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>>388655760

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>>388656239
>no rajas
But Magyara

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>>388652859

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>>388668697
I'm sure I'm tougher than almost everybody on this thread
Not like I'm a pro anyways, but at least I'm a not a citybuilder casual

>>388657923
AoC = RotR > AK > AoC >>>>> FE

>>388656629
You fault for booming and not going aggressive

>>388688312
I hope that's an edit

>>388688942
It's not

>>388688312
>almost as much time in that as I have in TF2
wew lad

>>388688312
Jesus H. Christ....

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>>388689357
>TF2
About that...
I main Pyro and Engineer
Second mains are Heavy and medic

>>388687994
>Goths
>Finland

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>>388664202
Did I do it right?

>>388689543
What?

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>>388689579
>I main Engineer
As do I. Nothing wrong with maining the High IQ class. Pyro on the other hand, I don't think I can let you off there.

PHOTON MAN

>>388667384
For my girls

>>388672307
>one resource to collect
Really? Glad I never played C&C.

>>388690032
My fellow texas man, my loadout is Flamethrower + Shotgun/Scorch Shot + Homewrecker pyro
And I use the Respectless Rubber Glove and the Sore eyes on my Pyro

>>388689781
>2 nukes wasn't enough.png

>>388689781
CUUUUUUTE

>>388689769
They were historically phases out but I just needed a good location for them, and nothing fit for the Finns, anyways.
There's not Baltic kingdom

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>>388656975
>>388658178
>>388686929
>teutons

t. I only play single player.

Teutons are trash.

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how do i get good at this game?
i'm stuck at the joan of arc level where u need to go through the city and take some villagers to the other side
i played like 300 hours when i was a kid but never tried to get better at the game
i just liked to build towns

>>388692057

anon, the only reason the majority of people played these games as a kid was the comfy town building.

>>388692057
Go slow
Use unit counters; Form unit groups to specialize them.
I forget if you have priests in that mission, but don't feel bad about sitting around and healing up
If anything, sometimes it's good to just shoot people with archers and hold back your footmen

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>>388692057
Look up fast castle guides to youtube and practise the shit out of it until it's second nature.

Once you have that down pat you can focus on learning things like tactics and shit and whatnot.

Don't fuss too much over the missions most of them are just loads of bullshit that either pit you against odds that require perfect map knowledge and exploitative tactics against the AI, or ambushes that wipe out your limited supply of men. The campaigns were made when it was expected for you to have 25 saves for a single mission and fail about 50 times until you figure something out.

Saladin's final level for instance which is one of the hardest missions in the game where you're supposed to immediately start building a wonder and defend your prebuilt city from attack from multiple crusader armies is best handled by NOT building your wonder immediately and instead sending all your units up the left side of the map, wipe out one of the enemies instantly before it builds anything, then quickly plop down two castles where their base used to be and then ferry all the units from the other armies into it. RTS campaigns are just bullshit that require bullshit to cinch a victory.

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>post yfw AoE4 ends up being "Starcraft 2 with swords"

>>388692057
>>388688312 speaking here

First, learn to type correctly
Second, if you will play with this 'Comfy city-builder' mentality, then AoE2 is not a game for you and you should stop. The campaigns are supposed to punish you for having this gamestyle, forcing you out of your comfort zone, don't be surprised if you get crushed. Man the fuck up.
Third, what >>388692293 and >>388692514 said
Fourth, study the mechanics of the game, do your homework
Lastly, practise, and a lot; grind many hours of playing so you can get the mental speed and agility to keep up with the harsh game

Sorry for sounding like a cunt, but this is what you need to do

>>388692514
not him but I think the aoe2 campaigns are just dumb hard to the point of being poorly designed. there are absolutely RTS games with good single player.

t. grew up with age of empires, starcraft and warcraft

>>388692526
I'm more worried about it being "19th Century DOW III" at this point. Czar Alexander will put down the Decembrists with force fields.

>>388692930
I grew up playing Starcraft and AoE too, and although I agree some missions are very unforgiving, such as the last Saladin mission, the last Joan of Arc mission, etc; they are far away from being poorly designed

I politely disagree

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>>388693142
The last Joan of Arc mission is actually really fucking easy, it just LOOKS hard. The only hard part comes at the very start as you bust through the defenders of the city wall. Once you do that the city is mostly just defended by small roaming packs of 4 archers or 4 spearmen.

You want hard? Try the fucking Bari missions in Forgotten.

I hate trying to go for fast castle because I hate the idea of microing boars and then I also hate the fact you need to have stone miners ready the instant so you can build a castle

>>388693479
Fast castling doesn't mean building a castle ASAP, it means getting to the castle age so you can shit out knights before anyone else does.

>>388692057
>>388692930
If you're playing HD edition then all the campaigns will be harder than they used to be thanks to the new AI. Old AI was easy as shit to beat, new one actually builds units. I never had trouble as a kid with the campaigns, I've actually lost campaigns in the HD edition cause I wasn't prepared for the AI actually fighting back.

>>388693536
But I play as the Teutons

>>388693304
>bari
DONT MAKE ME LIVE THROUGH THAT SHIT AGAIN
>long pass halfway across the map that you can't build a base in
>stuck in castle age so no artillery
>reinforced towers with flames to kill rams
>dozens of production buildings within the city
Fuck FE's campaigns

>>388693304
>The last Joan of Arc mission is actually really fucking easy, it just LOOKS hard. The only hard part comes at the very start as you bust through the defenders of the city wall. Once you do that the city is mostly just defended by small roaming packs of 4 archers or 4 spearmen.
The last time I played on hardest, my army couldnt withstand the constant attacks of british longbowmen, cavalry and infantry that kept sieging me down. I dont remenber that mission to be 'easy'. Feel free to prove me wrong.

>You want hard? Try the fucking Bari missions in Forgotten.
I actually beat that campaign too, although took me days to do so
What bothered me is that first section of the third scenario, in which I got forced to put my army on the 1 tile gap between the barrack and wood wall to survive

>>388693615
Oh boy I remenber that map too
Such a shitfest

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>>388693589
Teutonic knights are actually terrible anon. They're really more of a last line of defence against invaders who have penetrated past your walls and occasionally as something to stuff into rams when you're using rams to siege.

>>388693702
There's basically two 'defending' armies around each of the two gates you have to attack to get in. After that once you're inside there's small roaming packs of patrolling units. You're probably leaving your army to run amock in the city and aggro everything. Once you've penetrated into the city set everyone to no attack and draw out small packs at a time and kill them. Maybe it's just me but I understood that pretty easily.

>>388693569
>new AI in old campaigns
Probably the worst old campaign that gets hit by this is the final mongol mission. An endless fucking stream of units. And they seem to have psychic trebuchets, as if you block the bridge then later when you have to knock down the forest their trebuchets will instantly move to the forest line to destroy your own siege units.

Which kingdom is the worst?

>>388695126
Turks if you have no allies.

Other than that? Probably nobody.

>>388654745

Also underrated vs goths

>scorpions, many of them, cover with halberds, some battering rams and more halberds

Champions and halberds get shredded by scorpions no matter how many you toss at them once you have over 20 or so, which means huskarls are the only option, and while they might rush into your siege its still a slaugther in your favor, only good way to take out scorps+halbs forma goths is trebuchets and mangonels, with bombard cannons and skirmishers being some other options but usually no goth has the research for those to help.

>got super excited about this game when it came out because I was 6 and my older brother convinced our father to procure it for us
>doesnt let me play at first because its too mature but relents
>grow old with the game, can never beat my brother even whilst cheating because its too hard
>forget about it after a while
>find out its been rereleased in hd
>download it
>play a match against AI
>get my shit stomped in feudal age by a massive swarm of archers and skirmishers
>read up on it, find out you literally have to follow a prescribed build order to beat the new AI
>uninstall and never look back
RTS is a shitty genre. No one should play this game.

>>388696105
>durrrr I want to build 3 villagers only and have them slowly collect everything and win
>durrrrr I want to build a bunch of militia in dark age and not use them I just want them there so my town feels 'complete'
>durrrrrr berries were the main food source in the tutorial so I'm gonna focus on berries.

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>>388680764
>>Serious Sam is probably getting another game
god I can't wait

>50 siege onagers backed by south korean micromanagement
how do you counter it

>>388696675
Send a scout cavalry running into the center of the group.

>>388696675
HOW DO I TURN THIS ON

>>388696735
dies to the perpetual wall of raining stones that surrounds their perimeter
your move

>>388692526
AoE already has the streamlining Starcraft II added m8

>>388697069
Sorry but I have husbandry researched. They can't hit me until I outright stop.

Which of these games is the bestest?

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>>388650554
>finally after years of on and off playing Im good enough to reliably beat moderate difficulty AI on most maps against most races
>mfw hard
>mfw very hard

>>388656239

Franks but I unironically love the African civs. The one that makes everything cost 50% less wood is great cause I'm a shitter and I've never been good with wood management.

>>388699108
The african civs were a huge step up in quality from most of the FE ones, which all just felt pretty standard with a tweak. The AK civs all feel like they naturally lend themselves to specific tactics and playstyles.

>>388656239
Magyars.

>>388666629
James is often translated as Tiago in both Spanish and Portuguese

>>388682270

Aoe3 timeline ends just before ww1. Most likely though aoe4 is going to be a shitty grab that will take place in the midevil era again.

>>388700179
> will take place in the midevil era again
I fucking wish it did. But seeing the announcement it most likely won't sadly.

>>388700179
>Aoe3 timeline ends just before ww1.

what the absolute fuck am I reading? it ends in the early 1800s

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>>388656239
Malians in the expansions
Very interesting infantry and also love the sahelian architecture they went with

>>388657623
Is this a bad omen?