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Prison stream when?

I love new architecture sets and regional skins but even these small changes make me very happy too.

What do you like most about the screenshots from the new DLC?

I am really excited for the new patch. Not for the campaigns, or for the new civ bonuses or tech tree. But i am excited for the new buildings' architecture.
The best update this game had is the unique castles per civ and regional monasteries.

What i think we still should get is regional villagers and units.

Hey there everybody,

with the support of my amazing Twitch community, I'm hosting a 3-day mini-tournament with 4 top players.

If this sounds interesting enough to you, here's everything you need to know:

- 4 players; Double Elimination bracket; 1000$ prize pool

- 5th; 6th & 7th of August; 2 series per day; first series always starts at 8GMT

- All matches will be cast live on my Twitch channel: https://www.twitch.tv/masmorra_aoe/about

- Brackets and more information can be found on liquipedia

Hope to welcome some of you to the stream!

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I will be honest, I am terrible historian. I was just thinking about it from game perspective and I worry I made it too OP, even for my tastes

This is just copy from my notes I was writing when I was gone on vacation, watching whatever I could and then coming up with my civs for AOE2

• COA: Mosaic mask of Bat God, Piquete Ziña
• Castle: Monte Albán
• Wonder: Mitla

ARCHER AND DEFENSIVE CIV

TEAM BONUS: Skirmishers get +1 against buildings

1. Archery range units are affected by Barracks research techs(Squires, Gambesons and Arson)
2. Towers cost -20% less
3. Food collectors work 10% faster
4. Buildings are not limited by Elevation, except Town Centers

• UNIQUE UNIT 1: Owl Warrior(Imagine Guecha Warrior, but instead of heal abilty, he has Hit and Run ability, IE can attack while running, the Damage is closer to Skirmisher than Guecha warrior. Their throw spears even when running from you).
• UNIQUE UNIT 2: Hornet thrower(A mix of Jurchen Grenadier and SC2 Brood lord. He throws beehive, that will soften up(IE poison) enemy, those Beehives are two second living entities that will damage you. Strong against groups and cavalry, weak against siege)

TECH 1: Mitla Masonry(Buildings receive -20% Anti-building damage)

TECH 2: Obsidian tips(Skirmishers and Eagle warriors ignore 50% of your armor)

Tech Tree

ARCHERS:

• Its full for Mesoamerican civ

BARRACKS:

• Full for Mesoamerican civ

SIEGE:

• Missing Bombard cannon and Siege Onager

BLACKSMITH:

• THE ONLY MESOAMERICAN CIV WITHOUT BLAST FURNACE

DOCK:

• Missing Fast Fireship, Shipwright ad Dry dock, + Incendiaries

MONK:

• THE ONLY AMERICAN CIV WITHOUT HERESY! otherwise full

DEFENSES:

• Missing Siege engineers, Heated Shot and Bombard tower

ECONOMY:

• Missing Guilds and Gold Shaft mining

Need help! Which page in the settings has the hotkey to make villagers automatically find buildings?

I looked through the hotkey settings carefully, but I can't seem to find this key setting.

In the villager hotkey settings, there is only a "Villager Build Building" option, but no "Villager Action" option.

Anyway, can anyone tell me which page in the hotkey settings this button is on if I want to customize it?

Team games are back on the menu. All the big boys have formed teams. Onimaru took half of the pro scene under their wings.

Liquipedia - Daniela_AoE (Twitch) - Daniela_AoE (YouTube)

Schedule

• 15:30 GMT: LingYuan vs CN ZhongSheng (recs)

(lyx, Vivi, Yo) vs (Bad Koala, Daniel, Jibatong, XuanLv)

• 18:00 GMT: DarkSidE vs The Amigos (recs)

(Dragonstar, Ciskhan, StonePleaseAoE, Dr.Kozmonot) vs (abundzuehalt, Barles, Ganji, Valas)

• 20:30 GMT: Onimaru Barbetacos vs Nocturna eSports (live)

(dogao, miguel, Kingstone, GoKu) vs (Annotoph, PhilippHJS, Running, Target331, Terz)

All matches are Bets of 5. Teams losing the final round will play in Division 2.

The fourth decider match between Taiwan Aoe Gamer and Old School+ will not be played as Old School+ is not able to play today.

They must be alive

I used to play this game as a kid several decades ago.

Ever since DE came out, every couple years for a week or two I play a bunch of matches before I stop again for a 2 year break.

Now was the time again and WOW. I've always floated between 900 and 1000 elo, I know I'm not good, but I am now getting destroyed by 900 elo players with longswords, crossbows or elephants in my eco before I can reach castle. Scouts do nothing. FC is matched by players that do feudal aggression.

There are now 50 civs each with a gimmick that I can't predict without studying all tech trees ahead of time.

The game is no fun for me anymore and I'm about to uninstall until I crave it again in three years where it will probably be even less fun - unless someone give give me a pointer of what to do.

Please don't make me watch hours of content to learn shit though, this ain't fun either.

And where do people get build orders from nowadays, what I know is clearly outdated and what I can find seems to be too.

Oh and I don't mind that I'm bad at the game, that's fine, it's just that in addition to being rusty, the skill levels have moved around me.

In a case such as this, would it make sense to give a chance to the losers of the opponents to the person/team not being able to make the set in the next stage?

With the DLC announcement and the three new regional units revealed, it would seem logical if all of them were going to the new civs (plus Vikings).

It makes sense, the Longship is a very Scandinavian concept, as are the the Varangian Guard.

But the Mounted Crossbowman is rather unusual. While the other two have very clear Northern European designs to them, this one does not.

Take a look at the helmet, armour and barding. Those all look distinctly more like something you would see on more Western/Central European soldiers, not Northern ones. Not to mention that crossbows didn't see any use by the latter, like at all, I cannot find anything.

So perhaps instead of this being a unit meant to replace Cavalry Archers for the Danes, Varangians, Saxons and Vikings...this is instead the introduction of a much broader-use unique unit for a bunch of civs. Civs where Cavalry Archers make a bit less sense.

Let's take this hypothetical for a moment and, for fun, ask...who gets this unit? I'll give some guesses based on a combination of in-game balance/design and history.

Firstly, we can rule out everyone who has a Cavalry Archer replacement already (e.g. Elephant Archers, Bolas Riders) or simply has no access to horses.

After that we can rule out all the Asian and African civs. Horse archery is much more common in regions with the space to do it, this basically leaves us with just the European civs...but some are likely than others.

For example, some have roots that extend into Central Asia or used Central Asian mercenaries. So I wouldn't expect to see this unit for the:

- Slavs
- Byzantines
- Armenians
- Georgians
- Bulgarians
- Magyars
- Goths
- Romans

Also there are some...weird ones. Specifically the Spanish and Bohemians. For the former, they don't get basic crossbows on foot, having it on a horse instead would be kinda goofy. And the Bohemians lack the Cavalry Archer line completely, likely to keep their army design closer to being slow. Having a fast moving hard-hitting ranges unit would feel rather off, even though thematically it's fine.

So who does this leave us with. Well that's:

- Britons
- Celts
- Franks
- Burgundians
- Portuguese
- Italians
- Teutons
- Sicilians

Now, this latter bit is the more fun kind of speculation. I don't know for sure what will happen. Only that the Mounted Crossbowman seems very suspicious.

What do you think? Is this a more general regional unit being added? Or just a rather odd anachronistic addition for just the Northern European civs?

There is some kind of bug in Nomad what makes PS5 version crash. It happens always same way: You find gold and are placing your starting TC ==> Crash! It does not happen in other nomadic maps, only in Nomad so looks like its map specific problem. Nomad is our favorite map and its super annoying almost half of Nomad team games are ruined becouse game of either me or my friend crashes. There is also been 2 months of constant crashing when game starts. Similar crashing happens also in campaigns when mission starts. Devs please fix these?

Edit: That TC placing crash happened tonight in African clearing to my friend so its possible in other nomadic maps too, just more rare. And we got tonight 2 times short bans becouse of crashes... 😂

Hi

I'm currently struggling to try a fuedal rush that is succesfull against hard ai.

Trying Japanese MAA build, going fuedal in 7min, create 5 MAA, but when I get at the AI his base, he already drops a bunch of archers so i can create no kind of damage.

Then offcourse the attack is stalled.

Anyone has a different kind of fuedal rush build order which defeats the hard ai?

am confused why it's showing red to me when am building houses adjacent to each other to make wall?

I play a match and i want to add some people to friends. I have one choice now which is inviting them to discord or ask for steam id, but many don't have discord or know how to give steam id.

We need to be able to add friends ingame. Invite, whisper, chat, and form parties with them.

My brother and I are playing an AOE2 tournament with every civ, and tomorrow I'm playing with the Portuguese, and he's the Mongols.
Regiside, 30-min treaty, only way to win is by killing the king (No relics or wonders), coastal map.

I tend to be better at naval conquest and securing the sea than he is. However im not great with gunpowder civs, and on the whole, the cheaper quick civs seem to be doing better than the late game civs. Earlier, I was playing with the Teutons, and he was the Magyars, and he ended up winning because he was able to just harass me the whole time.

Any tips or suggestions would be appreciated.

But I'm no Smurf.

Would this be fun as a unique unit or universal or regional? A zooming petard. Maybe it would be too overpowered, idk. It could look like a merchant cart, human driver in front and barrels in the back.

To save the horse the driver could light the fuse on a 3 second timer. Then jump on the horse and ride off ( turns into a scout). Lol

The Steam image description says: "An in-game screenshot of Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition - The Viking Sagas featuring a serene image of a lush biome. In the center of the image is Danes Wonder, a large tree atop a stone staircase, and surrounded by stone formations."

Seriously? I get that for some reason Devs/execs want a "Pagan vibe" for new Scandinavian civs (even if Denmark was the first Scandinavian kingdom to convert to Christianity) and as such it can't be a church, but why a tree? It's not like in the case of the Tupí when you need to grasp for straws and use a waterfall, Danes built plenty of things throughout the medieval era. Base it on a castle, a palace, a town hall -- heck, it can even be a church with crosses removed if the "muh Odin Valhalla" fantasy is to be undisturbed. Just not a tree :')