If anyone has Age of Empires: Age of Kings for the DS, can someone give a layout of any basic strategies I should play out for the Yashima mission of Minamoto Yoshitsune? I've been stuck on a week or two on this. In a very rare moment, I somehow got lucky one time and was able to build castles on the west side near the bridge and even completely raze the town near the first town centre, but then I didn't retreat my archers and Minamoto Yoshitsune fast enough and the Emperor's troops came in and surrounded Yoshitsune and killed him off. And after retrying loads of times, nothing like that has happened since. Please help!
And is there any specific thing I should do to increase unit caps? :O
It's killllllllling meeeeeeee! I can't work out how to use the Time Shift function in the fourth campaign of Age of Mythology the Titans. I have to destroy the Ordin's Tower or something, and i have to replace the enemy's temples with mine, by shifting the buildings. I know how to shift my military units, but that's it. Couldn't figure out how to shift citizens or buildings.
If anyone knows how to do this can you let me know please! :)
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The name's TheCommander315. Or TC315. Commander. CDR_Idiot (as per my ESO name). Whatever!
My AOE history goes back to the time when I was about 10 or 11 and played Age of Kings for a bit. I never really got to play it much anymore (ESRB, I curse thee), but I got back to it after turning 14. Then I got AOE3 and joined ESO and the rest is history.
Fave civs:
Spanish, Germans (3)
Byzantines, Chinese (2)
PS: I'm not sure if it's against LJ policies or anything (you can edit my post anyway, I'm assuming), but I modded the Language.dll file in the AOE2 folder to be a bit wittier. You know the drill if you want it.
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I like to set up Home base 1 around as many trading posts as possible, walling in the city, and have the settlers on various tasks.
Let's say: Four wood, Four gold, Four hunt, Four herdables.
If I run out of all possible places to gather in the main colony, I would have some Settlers go out, find a reasonable place to set up shop, wall it off, and Gather from there. Excess Settlers can work on Mills and Plantations along with Jobless ones at Home Base 1.
After that, it's all about switching the Trading Posts to what resources you need.
I like to, if I have all on the map, put one on each resource, and if there are more than Four, Switch those to the resource I need the most. That way, I have an unending source of Food, Wood, Coin, and Experience. I would suggest putting an Outpost and 10 troops around each one for extra protection of your infinite flow of stuff.
Also, when walling off the colony, I suggest putting up as many Outposts as you can, and get some use out of the Market if need be.
But that's just me.
Sorry for the Extreme alliteration. I couldn't help it.
Have any odd stories about your AOE experience? (both in game and out of game, of course, though I doubt there's much in the latter)
Well, I was playing the 2nd Barbarossa mission (where you attack Poland and Henry turns on you). Well, so I'm fighting the poles, while holding off Henry's attacks, then out of nowhere, the game tells me "Henry the Lion defeated"
And I'm like, 'wtf?' as I had been on the defensive entirely, except with sending rams against the Polish castles and siege workshops
It turns out the designers, for this particular level, didn't have the Poles or Henry ally once you had to fight them both, because as it happens in most other levels, your enemies are all alied
Well, seems the poles sent their forces in, rams, mangonels, huskarls and all, and destroyed Henry. Nice play guys. You should've allied with him when you had the chance, suckers.
A few minutes later, I destroyed their last castle and siege workshop. Level finished in 35 minutes. Weird weird weird.
So. Any odd stories from your game experiences?
I just beat the Attila campaign without cheating. I find it kinda sad that I never attempted most of these missions all these years without cheating, because damn they're easy.
I expected the last mission to be hard ,and to at least conform to what the hints said. Not once did any of the allied cities send forces against me when I was attacking one of it's buddies. Something else I find strange is the 2nd Genghis campaign, in which the Kara-Khitai send a whole buncha guys at you, even on standard, yet playing missions that are supposed to be hard turn out to be quite easy (the last three Attila missions, Genghis in china, etc). Comments?
Also, anyone else think they should've added the Slavs as a civilization in AOE2? Would've helped in the Barbarossa and Genghis campaign, and would've made for some good 'battles of the conquerors' missions in the expansion, with, say...Alexander Nevsky (battle at lake peipus). Thoughts?
I purchased Age of Empires III a long while ago, I haven't played it because i need a video card the problem is i don't know what kind of graphics card i should get. I don't really know a lot about video cards, please tell which ones i should get!
Ok. So my story with AOE is that when I got AOE2 and the expansion seven years ago, I cheated. A lot. I didn't stop until I played Galactic Battlegrounds (AOE's bastard brother) a few years ago, in which I gave the finger to it's campaigns, but did relatively well on the standard maps.
Well, now that I got a new computer this last summer, I've been playing AOE2 without cheats so as to redeem myself. And you know what? It's fun. So far, I've gone through 5/6 of Attila w/o cheats, 4/6 of El Cid's, 3/6 of Genghis', and I completed Joan's campaign!
It may not seem like much, but actually doing all that much cheat free, after 7 years...it's kinda cool.
Yah. Just felt like sharing that.
you ever want to kill time, and so you go and play a standard game on any of the AOE games, or AOM?
Well, I did last night. I had never played any of the custom game scenarios that game with conquerors (go figure, I've had it for 7 years), so I decided to play sherwood forest death match post-imp. so I'm thinking 'well, this should be fun.' so I'm mongols, I got huns and turks as allies, with byzantines, franks, celts, and goths as enemies (allied), with the chinese by themselves.
so it's standard, the CPs make their walls and castles, etc, but then the quadruple alliance (except for franks, they were bordering with the chinese and were fighting them) pounds on the huns. so I go in with my 40 manguadi, fend off the enemy...
well, an hour game turned to 3 hours, eventually ending at 8 hours. as crazy enough as that was, it was really weird too. the chinese destroyed the franks, then sent their army against mine inside the hun fortress. kicked their ass, destroyed their army, then they quit. they weren't even invaded...at least, not that I know of. the byzantines might have sent troops in, but the enemy is stupid and just gets slaughtered by towers.
anyway, the final score was 183k something for me, with around 11,000 kills. I was surprised enough after taking a break at 3 hours and getting 5,000 kills. there was just so much death. the enemy peasants kept getting mowed down, they kept sending troops, they were mowed down...just, so much death.
anyway, so yah. has that happened to anyone, where a standard game takes way longer than expected?
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