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    November 18, 2019

    Age of Empires II Medieval Monday: Ask Your Questions and Get Your Answers

    Medieval Monday: Ask Your Questions and Get Your Answers

    Posted: 18 Nov 2019 07:06 AM PST

    Time for another weekly round of questions.

    Talk about everything from build orders to advanced strategies.

    Whatever your questions, the community is here to answer them.

    So ask away!

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    *Blessed Achievement*

    Posted: 17 Nov 2019 09:22 PM PST

    new DE meme by @HussarDude

    Posted: 18 Nov 2019 02:01 AM PST

    5000 reviews after 4 days. This game is growing fast!

    Posted: 18 Nov 2019 04:28 AM PST

    Just a reminder how Cozy the original AoE2 can be (with a mod or two from the community)

    Posted: 17 Nov 2019 05:10 PM PST

    So which medieval peasant thought it was a good idea to put a stove on a thatched roof?...

    Posted: 17 Nov 2019 08:30 AM PST

    News - Age of Empires 4 won’t have microtransactions or in-app purchases

    Posted: 17 Nov 2019 06:48 PM PST

    Art of War - rush, 5 kills in under 4 min.

    Posted: 18 Nov 2019 05:48 AM PST

    Good Civs for new player?

    Posted: 18 Nov 2019 07:32 AM PST

    So i just got DE and am wondering what are the civs people recommend to learn the game with?

    Also i started on moderate difficulty is that recommended for a beginner, i have won every game against the ai so far just choosing random civs but could use a little guidance.

    Cheers

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    What do the number of swords mean?

    Posted: 18 Nov 2019 01:59 AM PST

    Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition - Chronological Order of Campaigns

    Posted: 17 Nov 2019 09:37 PM PST

    [Suggestion] Trade buildings should have an option to allow or prevent trade with that building so players can optimize trade routes.

    Posted: 17 Nov 2019 09:26 PM PST

    Trade in DE was changed so that carts/cogs now head to the market/dock that is furthest away, which is a great improvement. However, there is a concern that when using trade cogs, you might inadvertently build a forward dock that suddenly becomes the trade building of choice for your units, causing your cogs to sail into enemy waters.

    To prevent this, and to give players better control over their trade routes, all trade buildings should have a button or something that will prevent units from attempting to conduct trade with that building. This button should be ticked by default so that you don't upset current trade routes when building new buildings.

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    Granted, it was in Wonder Race, but a win is a win!

    Posted: 17 Nov 2019 06:13 PM PST

    An advice to new players: Remember that AoE is also a war game not just an Eco-Simulator/Citybuilder

    Posted: 18 Nov 2019 12:00 AM PST

    Last time I relearned AoE2 with friends we all started to learn the Build orders and how to lure the boar and stuff. How to reach the timers for Knight rush and what not. All the basic stuff.

    The problem is that new players vastly overestimate the importance of early eco push.

    Everyone knows that investment into eco scales incredible well. Having 5 more vils than the enemy is in the early game a huge eco lead.

    HOWEVER, you are defenseless if you invest nothing into military.

    What I saw pretty much every new player do wrong is to push eco by so much to reach early castle age and boom to get the strongest eco to scale military out of that, but by doing so, they completely forget about their military.

    I encountered it alot that when i attacked frieds at 14 minutes with 3 man at arms and 2 archers, that I could completely demolish their woodline or cut them off of gold. they couldnt counter because they havent build a barracks, stables, or archer range yet. have no blacksmith with 0 military upgrades and no defensive towers. And I always got flamed for "tryharding" and attacking "way to early".

    We agreed to a rule that I will not attack until I ask first so we could keep the fun while playing together. And it always ended in games where we only started to siege when people already had paladins and 3 defensive castles.

    Please remember that the "war" part of the game starts at minute 7 or earlier. Not at minute 25 or later. You have to read the map correctly and must know if you could expect an attack or not (flank vs center/core. Walls/islands or open, unwallable map). And you always need a backup plan to defend your base.

    And often "attack is the strongest defense":

    even if you go for a knigh rush, it might not hurt to build a stable first and make 3-4 scouts to invade enemies woodline. Or camp their base with a couple of archers.

    Its not wasted resources if you do damage to the enemies eco. Especially since they always have to answer with their own troops, which means they will be slowed down themself.

    You might not reach the timers you could possible do by doing early skirmishes, but neither does your enemy.

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    Totally new to AOE2 and just got DE

    Posted: 17 Nov 2019 04:01 PM PST

    I used to casually play AOE Castle Siege on my tablet, so I downloaded the new AOE2 DE version, thinking it would be the same basic game. Nope! It is vastly more complex, and I am already addicted. At 48, I should have discovered this game long ago, but somehow we never crossed paths. Anyway, I have no idea what I'm doing. I've watched some tutorials that were very helpful, but there are some questions that internet sources have not answered, so I'm hoping the more experienced people here can help.

    First, I played my first game on easy against AI and completely annihilated the opponent (to be expected). I'm just not sure how or why some things happened. I kept creating villagers and military personnel, but somehow I ended up with 3 hunters. They were very helpful, but I have no idea where they came from. Any ideas?

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    A way to track progress of completed Historical Battles in DE?

    Posted: 18 Nov 2019 06:32 AM PST

    So I just completed my first Historical Battle in AOE2 Definitive Edition. There's no indication that I've completed it whatsoever. At least for the campaigns, although there is also no indicator, you can basically keep unlocking the next mission until you reach the achievement for that specific campaign. There's only one achievement for completing all the Historical Battles, so this method will not work. Anyone have any suggestions? I'm about to take a screenshot of all the battles and use paint to cross them out as I complete them lol

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    Read THIS if Ao2DE is constantly crashing for you...

    Posted: 18 Nov 2019 07:30 AM PST

    So I had this issue when after launching campaign the game would just crash to desktop every time. When I tried to play skirmish, it would crash after about 10-15 minutes. The issue is memory leak. So, if you are having the same problem, increase your virtual memory to about 20 Gb. It's pretty simple to do, just follow this walkthrough: https://www.x-plane.com/kb/increasing-virtual-memory-on-windows/ and restart your PC afterwards. Just to be safe, your Internet browser should be closed when you are playing DE so you ensure enough memory is allocated to the game.

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    Enabling the 'Enhanced Graphics Pack' causes all units (and trees) to disappear. Fixed by disabling 'Enhanced Graphics Pack'. Did I download 26 GB for this? How do I get it to work?

    Posted: 18 Nov 2019 07:25 AM PST

    Mapuches civ concept

    Posted: 18 Nov 2019 07:24 AM PST

    Mapuches civ concept

    Mapuches

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    Shield: Meli Witran Mapu - Civ theme: kultrun and trutruka sounds - Language: Mapudungun

    • Focus: cavalry and anti-gunpowder civilization
    • Architecture: Andinean
    • Free tech: Arson
    • Bonus:
      • Slinger make bonus damage against gunpowder units
      • Towers stone is replaced by wood
      • Start with a monk
      • Any good idea to replace the bonus is well received!
    • Unique unit: Toqui, cavalry unit with bonus attack against gunpowder units, becomes an infantry unit when it's killed. However, with Heresy, Toqui is killed without respawn.
    • Unique tech #1: Machitun, monks receives extra armor during healing
    • Unique tech #2: Wallmapuwen, Toquis and slingers make more damage against towers and siege units.
    • Wonder: Ruka

    Changelog

    • Andinean new architecture for Incas and Mapuches
    • Incan slingers is a common unit for Incas and Mapuches, no longer a UU for Incas.
    • Incas receives a new unique unit, Imperial Slinger, available at the Imperial Age, upgrading the common Slinger at the Archery Range, like the Imperial Camel for the Indians.
    • Elite Eagle Warrior disabled for Incas, to balance the Imperial Slinger addition.
    • New maps: Andes and Araucanía
    • New fauna: Guanaco (huntable), cougar (hostile), frog (shore fishing), huemul (huntable)
    • New campaign: Lautaro (based in the Arauco Wars)

    Scenario editor additions

    • Gaia: condor (bird)
    • Terrain: Araucaria forest
    • Buildings: Huari (andinean architecture outpost)
    • Units (based in AoE III - The War Chiefs): blowgunner, blackwood archer, ironwood clubman, bolas warrior
    • Heroes: Lautaro (cavalry), Caupolican (infantry), Galvarino (infantry)
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    Bagains

    Posted: 18 Nov 2019 05:38 AM PST

    How does Bagains (unique Bulgarian Imp tech) compare to other infantry technologies/bonuses?

    Bagains costs 900F, 450G and gives infantry +3 melee armor.

    The Burmese get +1 attack for free with every age (starting in the Feudal age) for a total of +3.

    The Aztecs get +4 attack for 450F, 900G.

    The Japanese attack 25% faster (starting in the feudal age).

    The Vikings have +10%/+15%/+20% HP in the Feudal/Castle/Imperial Age.

    After looking at these bonuses/technologies of different civilisations, I start to wonder how this technology is more competitive compared to the other ones. Also because the Bulgarians are missing the Champion upgrade.

    What do you guys think?

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    The New CIV Themes ARE AMAZING (Special thanks to TMC Productions for compiling them all)

    Posted: 17 Nov 2019 07:58 PM PST

    Mongols need to use the Castle's visual of Cumans and Tatars, not the one from japanese

    Posted: 18 Nov 2019 06:22 AM PST

    It's seems to be a fair improvement to the cultural visuals of mongols, the japanese/asiatic cultural buildings are really weird for them, there are closer to Cumans

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    Help? For some reason everything is super spaced out? And i can't find the fix for it.

    Posted: 18 Nov 2019 06:16 AM PST

    Do much people play custom games?

    Posted: 18 Nov 2019 04:22 AM PST

    I remember back during the original AOE2 days, I played and made a lot of custom games, such as RPG games, Blood type games, moba type games all made in the editor.

    I used to also make Campaigns and scenarios with a lot of triggers that got fairly popular during the Zone days in Microsoft.

    With AOE2:DE I had a look at the editor and brought me back when I used to make the games, and I wanted to make a rpg style game out of it, but was wondering if there was a big scene for this type of stuff, and where would you advertise it.

    I'm in the middle of creating a Archer Blood style game first, but I noticed the multiplayer lobby is a bit broken(only showing 4 matches)

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    I'm curious as to if the three kings featured on this picture are representing some prominent figures from the campaign. Can someone please answer?( In my opinion the man on the extreme left looks like an Aztec ->implying he might be Montezuma)

    Posted: 18 Nov 2019 02:10 AM PST

    How to use custom maps? (KOTD, ECL, HC, etc)

    Posted: 18 Nov 2019 07:04 AM PST

    I downloaded a mod that contains the major maps from Age 2 Definitive Edition KOTD, ECL, and HC tournaments. However, by selecting "Custom Maps", I could not access them. Is there another way?

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