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    Age of Empires II NAC 3 - Day 4

    January 07, 2020

    Age of Empires II NAC 3 - Day 4

    NAC 3 - Day 4

    Posted: 07 Jan 2020 02:30 AM PST

    Visual Build Order Cheatsheet - Fast Castle Boom

    Posted: 06 Jan 2020 11:52 PM PST

    The best solution

    Posted: 06 Jan 2020 01:48 PM PST

    I HEARD YOU NEEDED A TEAMMATE

    Posted: 06 Jan 2020 08:18 AM PST

    What do you like about your favorite civ?

    Posted: 07 Jan 2020 04:57 AM PST

    I find the malians to be crazy fun to play because of their insane flexibility.

    They have almost everything above average. Their cavaliers hit harder than paladins. Their light cav defeat even mongol hussars. Their champions resist arrows. Their camels are among the strongest in the game. They can go toe to toe with even imperial camels.

    Their unique unit the gbeto is cool as hell and fun to play. Theres very few better raiding units in the game.

    Their archers are weak in imperial. But that's made up for by the fact they get hand cannoneers faster than all other civs except one. And their unique unit has a ranged attack.

    And thats just the imperial age. Their feudal age is pretty close to the best in the game. With man at arms that shrug off arrow fire. And an economy thats perfectly designed for an archer rush.

    You can rush with knights or crossbows in castle. You can even do longswords as the malians are one of the very few civs where thats a viable strategy.

    Their late game is a little weak. We can do everything sure but we lag behind the more specialized civs. This is mostly made up for by the fact that we can make a strong army for cheaper than most civs.

    Theres not much I would change about this civ. But to help their late game I would give them the Heavy Scorpion. Just so we have some sort of power unit.

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    I made a Civ overview excel sheet!

    Posted: 07 Jan 2020 07:22 AM PST

    https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1lXQCUFxszv5p6g2_oUw6vDjuCtj1VoV0gFdyvYdTX-I/edit?usp=sharing
    Because I could not find a nice overview of all the civilisations, I decided to make one of my own. You can view and copy the sheet with the link above. Current content:

    • Scoring system, mostly copied from Spirit of the Law, with a few tweaks. Max tech civs are emphasized.
    • Every unique unit, tech and civ bonus in one sheet. If moved to the left all info from Tech 1 to Civ Bonus 4 can be seen in a single screen, provided you have at least a 24 inch screen.
    • Civs, techs and unique units all hyperlink to the wiki.
    • Legend sheet for information.

    All feedback is welcome, but I'm mostly interested in:

    • Feedback on the layout/coloring
    • Feedback on the wording in the sheet, it can be hard to provide clear information with limited space
    • Pointing out consistency or spelling errors
    • What other information should I provide in the civ megasheet?
    • Would you like another sheet on units? eg sorting units by armor, damage, HP, et cetera

    I personally use this sheet on my second screen when I'm playing. I have a nasty habit of forgetting small things so this reminds me of those when playing against more obscure civs. I mean, i never knew that Khmer elephants were so speedy!

    I hope someone will find this useful, thanks for reading.

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    Get you a man who can do both

    Posted: 06 Jan 2020 08:50 AM PST

    The DauT slide...what is it?

    Posted: 07 Jan 2020 06:56 AM PST

    I continue to see this spammed in all of the chats during live streams. As it was pretty easy to figure out what the DauT Castle was, because the term is frequently used in game by casters, this one, I have not heard...maybe it's nothing. Maybe the countless hours of lost sleep are for not. Either way, thanks for the help AoE II community.

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    My idea for Vietnamese rework.

    Posted: 07 Jan 2020 05:44 AM PST

    First. Their unique unit.

    The rattan archer seems kinda useless when you can make imperial skirms.

    Their unique techs are kinda bad. One buffs their battle eles hp. Fine by itself but is it really necessary? The other... Well. It gives everyone on the team gold.

    I propose: Get rid of the elephant unique tech. Instead merge it with the archer bonus:

    Battle elephants and archers have 20% increased hp.

    They need a new castle age tech. I propose:

    Rattan archers. Your archers move 10% faster and have +2 pierce armor.

    Remove the rattan archer. Replace it with a new unique unit.

    I didnt put much thought into this one but:

    Guerilla warrior: Infantry Unit. Does not warn enemies when attacked by this unit

    (No "You are being attacked by -player!-)

    Again there's likely way better ideas out there.

    So what about the imperial skirmisher? Maybe we can give it to the Khmer. Idk.

    Paper money just needs changed. I don't have any idea about this one.

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    Old competitive AOE2 footage?

    Posted: 07 Jan 2020 12:14 AM PST

    Hello everyone!

    I was wondering how the playstyle and meta has evolved during the year. But I wasn't really able to find old competitive footage, even before 2013 it's not very easy to find on youtube.

    Does anyone know where we can find such games? Ideally already with players with know like DauT or Viper?

    Thanks in advance, that would be really interesting!

    Cheers,

    LEFog

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    Why we need ELO for unranked games

    Posted: 06 Jan 2020 02:47 PM PST

    As someone with over 1000 hours played on AOE HD, I feel I've a good bit of experience with the game. HD had its problems, like the time they broke ELO for months, but for the most part it was easy to find a balanced and fair match.

    The removing of ELO from games found in the lobby browser is really hurting my enjoyment of the game. It's almost impossible to tell what skill level you're going up against, which often leads to wildly unbalanced teams and really one sided games.

    Yes I know I could play ranked for a more fair challenge, but ranked forces a random map from a pool, it's too restrictive.

    Me and 3 friends play AOE2 most weekends and have done for years. I honestly love the definitive edition and think that most of the changes made to online have been great (since the Cumans were patched). I really hope the devs see this post and consider adding an unranked ELO system.

    The last few weekends we've been pretty much unbeaten and it's not because we're amazing players (~1680 ELO on HD). It's just very hard to find a fair game that is unranked.

    This isn't meant as a negative rant about the game, we all love it and love the passion the community and development team have for the game.

    I'd like to hear others thoughts and if anyone else has any suggestions as to how we can improve the unranked balancing.

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    [Help] Is there any guide on how to play the map "steppe" from the ranked Maps?

    Posted: 07 Jan 2020 06:05 AM PST

    I was mostly playing 1 vs 1 Arabia on voobly tho.

    No clue what to do on this map.

    Do you always go on berrys with your tc?

    Do you build additional mills for the deers?

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    Buggy melee units in DE Liereyy v The Max | NaC3 @1:16:20 mark: Eagles standing still for 5 seconds!!

    Posted: 07 Jan 2020 06:03 AM PST

    Stone prices were like 719 gold per 100

    Posted: 06 Jan 2020 07:09 PM PST

    [Lore] Do Age of Empires 2 and Crusader Kings 2 play in the same universe?

    Posted: 06 Jan 2020 04:55 PM PST

    Aside from their naming similarities (both have a "2" in their name) I find it quite interesting that so many Civs are represented in both games: Franks, Britons, Cumans, Persians, Mongols, Aztecs, Berbers, Slavs, etc.

    That made me think that maybe both games could be connected in the lore somehow. Like both could play in the same universe.

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    What do you guys think? Please share your thoughts in the commets down below!

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    How to deal with castle drop from MANY villagers, not just a few

    Posted: 07 Jan 2020 06:32 AM PST

    I know it is possible to stop a castle drop by building two towers and shooting down the building villagers, but not when there are many many villagers building it. What if the opponent just builds castles within range of your tcs with so many villagers you cant stop it from going up and it goes up so fast? I have lost many many games due to castles dropped right in the middle of my base, for example I am microing elsewhere and suddenly there is a castle in the middle of my base and I lose all farms and TC. It seems super hard to prevent, it isn't always possible to use walls all around your tcs everytime you play either. They can even quick wall in their building villagers so that only your ranged units and hastily built towers can attack. And each castle takes out your whole eco, your farms and TC and any buildings you have nearby.

    Honestly I'm at a loss how not to keep losing games to aggressive castles..... Tips?

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    Definitive Edition Shift-Mousebutton1 not work?

    Posted: 07 Jan 2020 06:29 AM PST

    Looking for one of you brilliant people to shed some insights on my hotkey problem.

    I'm programming hotkeys in DE. I have two extra mouse buttons by my thumb on my mouse, pretty standard design. I am trying to hotkey shift-mousebutton1 to go to TC and it is not working. Do the mousebuttons not work with modifiers? Is there something else going on? Any help is much appreciated.

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    Art of War Missions "Early Economy" | Gold Medal

    Posted: 07 Jan 2020 02:25 AM PST

    Douched (x5)

    Posted: 06 Jan 2020 06:10 PM PST

    I just got done with a game and got douched, not once, not twice, not three times, not FOUR TIMES, FIVE FUCKIN, TIMES.

    I would have got killed off a lot earlier in the game if I wasn't Incas and didn't have my beefed up vills.

    Got to say I'm absolutely fuming inside, and whoever that Canadian was I was playing, fuck you. It's nearly 2am here in Scotland and you're lucky I'm off work tomorrow and entertained it for so long. Canadians are meant to be friendly people, but I guess that's not fucking true. You have done your country a true disservice and are an absolute fucking disgrace to the flag.

    But, in all honesty I respect the level of doucheness required also. Again though, fuck you, you fucking douche.

    gg & good night

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    Noob Multiplayer Questions

    Posted: 06 Jan 2020 10:12 PM PST

    So I just played my third multiplayer game. My ally got attacked. By the time my army was ready he surrendered. After this, I initially I tore down both the opponents towns, but the game dragged on and they gradually attritioned me away. Advise on what to do in this situation? I wanted to help the ally but I had barely started building troops when he was attacked.

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    Vikings Longboats should get the Step Lancer treatment in terms of stacking up!

    Posted: 06 Jan 2020 04:10 PM PST

    It's absolute ridiculous how 30 longboats can stack up at the size of 1 mill, I don't believe they need to have this feature to be viable! Any thoughts?

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    Thank you to AoE2 for introducing me to this guy years ago, now I'm about to put him up on my wall!

    Posted: 06 Jan 2020 09:43 AM PST

    Is there any way to reconnect to a game when AoE2DE crashes?

    Posted: 07 Jan 2020 03:43 AM PST

    I don't think so else it must be super secret but I still have to ask. So I was playing a 4vs4 and suddenly the game freezes and crashes. When I restart it I'm in the start screen so I guess there is no way to go back to the game?

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    I need help....

    Posted: 06 Jan 2020 11:55 PM PST

    This is me:

    https://youtu.be/Ur-im9pGXXc

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    I played a ranked gold rush game (1v1) and since I consider myself a "newish" player, I would love some feedback on what I did wrong.

    What should I focus on more?

    Thank you T_T

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