Age of Empires 2 HD

Age of Empires 2 HD
>too strong for standard difficulty, 1vs3
>too weak for moderate difficulty 1vs3
What the fuck is this shit?

How do I get better?

play black forest and build a wall

Something something make Aztecs/Mayans pay for it something.

Kys.

that does not improve him, it simply hampers the AI.
You do not get better by metagaming, except at metagaming.

i'm sorry, user. i have wronged you. by all means, mentor him until his apm increases to an adequate level. when he wins the next aoe championship, i'm sure you'll shed many tears.

You have to play real people to get better, better work on that dark age optimisation

practise your dark age build orders, learn how to into eco

this game is trash

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I get to castle no problem but when I get there I don't know what to do next and I fall behind.

Use your houses and military buildings, supplemented by palisades, to make an early wall during dark and feudal age. Delete where needed to expand and send small forces to disrupt their economy.

sarcasm is a weapon of the weak

Town Centers on resources and boom.

how do we fix the Vietnamese

Go Japanese

We give them a different unique unit.

Let me rephrase that. It's not that I don't know, I'm just very bad a it.

>even the villager AI thinks farms are too big

yeah there's no point making rattans when they get fucked by mangonels even harder due to having less HP

Era fucking memers one of these ska ni köra något annat

Your only chance against AI without cheesing is to disrupt their economy as much as possible from as early as possible, since they'll be cheating resources
The hard part is doing that AND not slowing your own economy at all at the same time

And they already have better skirmishers than other civilizations. Why do they need two similar anti-archer archers? Wonder what were they thinking.

And their unique tech is shit too, it's only beneficial in team games and is the laziest thing imaginable

Anyone watching the King of the Desert Tournament? Any favourites?

>Loved this as a kid
>Play again as an adult
>Shit's just way too slow.
I got bored in the second quest. I honestly can't keep playing.

Turn up the speed yo. This happened to me when I got back too.

Oh shit there's a tournament? Thanks mate

how come boars aren't in this?

by playing ck2

I always root for Viper because his micro and game sense are ridiculously good and are really fun to watch

Link?

I'm rooting for Heartt, he's at a great level and he just beat Daut. Viper is like in another level tho', the best player imo. Always fun to watch him play.

I fucking regret that I opened this thread
Fuck back off to twitch you e-celeb worshipping redditors

I have a secret for you
how do you turn this on

(you)

>everyone's an eceleb

Visit Sup Forums and come back.

I'm pretty fond of TaToH. Dude has some skill. Viper is still GOAT but I'm glad that HD has revived the game somewhat and more people are getting interested. It's more interesting to watch than StarCraft IMO.

Which of the KANGZ factions is the most competitive?

>Malians
>Ethiopians
>Berbers
>Portuguese

the ai is really dogshit at dealing with rushes, a typical archer flush will turn it into a 1v2 at the 20 minute mark
the ai is also completely blind to cliffs and will fight downhill without a second thought, abuse that to curbstomp it into the dirt
they're also retarded the instant walls are involved, they will only attack walls if there's no other way through to your base, put your sick tower defense skills to the test and make a hedge maze of palisade walls and watch them walk through it single file into your castle for three hours

at the end of the day thought playing against the ai just makes you better at beating the ai

Malians are absolutely retarded at the minute with a double barrelled eco bonus and infantry that laugh at ranged attacks, they're definitely getting nerfed next patch
Ethiopians are alright but are really predictable and only become a threat late game
Berbers are even more predictable, but the Camel Archer is a gay tanky mangudai and is super strong
Portugese are the new water meta but are shit on land maps

what happens when the strong use such a weapon

portuguese is bullshit in overly long FFA games, given how the fedora is the only practical way to create more gold/stone once it runs out on the map.

there are no strong people on Sup Forums

So sarcasm is perfect for this place.

the expected result is currently only theoretical, but the implications are terrifying

How do i get good at this shit, is always end up playing this game like a city simulator, my economy is godlike as well as my army but don't know how to use each unit and always get fucked up

use hotkeys

ctrl + 1,2,3,4 etc...
with a double click you select all unit types

>get a 5 button mouse
>discover that clicking mouse4 cycles through town centers

I just bought this game a week ago and I absolutely suck at it, but I kinda like it. What's a good civilization that focuses on building a massive army to fuck over people instead of constantly harassing other players or rushing? Is such a playstyle even viable?

there's a high skill ceiling so there's a big gap between difficulties

Depends on the map mate, you'll quickly realize the meta changes considerably on each type of map
You're thinking of Black Forest with very defensive civs

because you aren't always going to be able to safely get yours, and kiting it isn't always a good option.

I see. Any beginner civs that focus on infantry then? Good tips for a noob? I appreciate anything, I'm tired of my friends assraping me everytime we play

Goths and there are plenty of youtube videos on how to play

Practise your positioning with infantry and cavalry doing the bulk of tanking and your support units like archers, monks and siege taking the flanks and backline
Byzantines are an excellent training civ as you get cheaper counter units, the cataphract is immune to anti cavalry damage and they get stronger buildings which means a strong defense
I absolutely recommend using them as they also have a very wide technology tree which means you get used to using everything

The only unit you need is cavalry archers and occasionally knights for siege weapons. And trebs for buildings.

Cavalry archers can rape entire fleets, genocide hundreds of civilians in minutes and decimate almost anything without suffering any damage.

Goths are a terrible newcomer civ as they get no economy bonus, they have no defense, and they're only good at imperial age spam with gunpowder mixed in

I'd recommend a civ with an open tech tree and no real gimmicky disadvantages and good defences. Good civs to start with are Byzantines, Spanish, Britons, Teutons.
Civs I don't recommend for starting players: Goths, Turks, Huns, Chinese and all Meso civs

He said he wanted to spam "infantry", though. Maybe the Tuetons? Get cheap farm, plus they get all upgrades to barracks units.

Teutons are a good fit, and they've got great defence too

THis game just fucking crashes instantly with no warning message right after the Microsoft logo, on windows 10, what the fuck is the problem?

>windows 10

there you go

Thanks guys, I'll try byzantines and teutons. I'll also try to complete the campaigns, though they're a bit too long.

Campaigns limit you to 75 units which is something you don't have to deal with in regular play. To me those missions were always more about trying to balance a small army with a small economy. They are still real fun, though.

Do yourself a favor and play a real game like Age of Empires 3 and put this ancient pixelshit away. Are you a fucking 3rd worlder or poor or 40 that you think you should play this eyesore? Only turbo-autists play this garbage.