Age of Empires II AOE ARG On the official ageofempires.com website. Link to thread trying to solve it

AOE ARG On the official ageofempires.com website. Link to thread trying to solve it
Civilization Match-up Discussion Round 7 Week 1: Berbers vs Magyars
Which version of AOE2 should I buy?
When your castle is fully loaded with range units. 'is this still medival or are we playing a modern game now?' 11
team games, should you give priority to your teammates or to your strategy?
Voobly Down
Is there a config out there of hotkeys that keeps everything on the left side of the keyboard?
Tournament results
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AOE ARG On the official ageofempires.com website. Link to thread trying to solve it

Posted: 17 Sep 2019 10:06 AM PDT

Civilization Match-up Discussion Round 7 Week 1: Berbers vs Magyars

Posted: 17 Sep 2019 07:22 PM PDT

Lots of cavalry, lots of cavalry counters - same goes of cavalry archers.

Hello and welcome back for another Age of Empires 2 civilization match up discussion! This is a series where we discuss the various advantages, disadvantages, and quirks found within the numerous match ups of the game. The goal is to collectively gain a deeper understanding of how two civilizations interact with each other in a variety of different settings. Feel free to ask questions, pose strategies, or provide insight on how the two civilizations in question interact with each other on any map type and game mode. This is not limited to 1v1 either. Feel free to discuss how the civilizations compare in team games as well! So long as you are talking about how the two civilizations interact, anything is fair game! Last week we discussed the Aztecs vs Celts, and next up is the Berbers vs Magyars!

Berbers: Cavalry and Naval civilization:

Villagers move +10% faster
Stable units cost -15/20% in Castle/Imperial Age
Ships move +10% faster
TEAM BONUS: Genitours available at Archery Range
Unique Unit: Camel Archer (Anti-cav archer.... cav archer)
Unique Unit: Genitour (Mounted skirmisher)
Castle Age Unique Tech: Kasbah (TEAM Castles work +25% faster)
Imperial Age Unique Tech: Maghrebi Camels

Magyars: Cavalry civilization

Villagers kill wolves in 1 strike
Forging, Iron Casting, Blast Furnace free
Scout-line costs -15%
TEAM BONUS: Foot Archers +2 LoS
Unique Unit: Magyar Huszar (Light cavalry unit with bonus damage vs siege)
Castle Age Unique Tech: Mercenaries (Magyar Huszars do not cost gold)
Imperial Age Unique Tech: Recurve Bow (Cavalry Archers +1 attack, +1 range)

Below are some match up-specific talking points to get you all started. These are just to give people ideas, you do not need to address them specifically if you do not want to!

So it may seem like Berbers have Magyars' number for 1v1 Arabia, but critically the Magyars are at their strongest when Berbers are at their weakest (early-mid Feudal Age), and Magyars critically have access to Halberdiers whereas Berbers do not. Is this enough to overcome the fact that Berbers can make incredibly strong counters to the Magyar military?
As a pocket civ in a team game, both of these civs seem very powerful, but not quite at that highest tier. Magyars have a deadly scout rush and full access to Paladins, but lack much of an eco bonus, whereas Berbers possess powerful discounted cavaliers/camels, as well as the camel archer, but unfortunately miss that Paladin tech. Which is overall more valuable to your team?
In a late game slugfest between these two civs on any 1v1 land map, who has the edge? Magyars possess FU skirms, cheaper scouts, magyar huszars, and halberdiers, whereas Berbers possess even cheaper scouts, skirms/genitours with all upgrades, cost-efficient camel archers, but not halberdier. Really the question boils down to how much you value halberdiers, even if they miss their 2 most important upgrades with squires and plate mail armor 11

Thank you as always for participating! Next week we will begin round 7 with the Goths vs Spanish. Hope to see you there! :)

Previous discussions: Part 1 Part 2

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Which version of AOE2 should I buy?

Posted: 18 Sep 2019 07:09 AM PDT

I know the Definitive Edition is coming out in a few months, but in the meantime I was looking to get back into the game since all of these new editions and expansions have come out. But I am a bit confused on what modern AOE2 is now, considering all of the different entries on Steam.

Can someone clear this up for me?

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When your castle is fully loaded with range units. 'is this still medival or are we playing a modern game now?' 11

Posted: 17 Sep 2019 12:57 PM PDT

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team games, should you give priority to your teammates or to your strategy?

Posted: 18 Sep 2019 03:57 AM PDT

As above.
Recently I started watching mbl playing BF on twitch and I found his way of playing fascinating. When he is pocket he boom fast and give 0 help to his flank. And if the flank ask for help, maybe at the beginning of the game for walling, he ask himself why everyone ask for help for walling and that he doesn't want to lose his scout.

So I tried to follow his style (even though I'm on NPL) and well... didn't worked well... In a situation of 4v 3 opponent (because one opponent dropped) in the middle of my boom my flank was outnumbered and in difficulty... I told him to hold while I walled himself out to complete my boom... Near the end of my boom I tried to helping him somehow but at that time he was almost destroyed and guess what he did? He want to my base and started to steal all my gold and all my stone with so many vills that mine could't even touch my own gold. When I asked him to go away and leave me my gold as I couldn't afford units without gold, he refused telling me next time I will learn to help, so basically he did this as a retaliation.

In the end we managed to win, but... I can't understand what's the better thing to do. I understand my teammate needing help, and I used to help my teammates over my strategy before, but at the same time I don't think that sticking with your strategy as mbl do is wrong, as the enemy attackers all had castle age units when they was approaching to my base while I had imperial units at that time (even though with no gold because of my teammate)

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Voobly Down

Posted: 18 Sep 2019 04:57 AM PDT

Getting host error trying to load rm/dm, anyone else getting that?

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Is there a config out there of hotkeys that keeps everything on the left side of the keyboard?

Posted: 17 Sep 2019 09:26 AM PDT

I'm googling my ass off but all i get is "how to learn hotkeys!" "hotkeys are so great!" "These keys are so hot they could cook an egg!"

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Tournament results

Posted: 17 Sep 2019 04:26 PM PDT

Hi, where can I find the results of the past years tournaments and the winners?