VARANGIANS FOR ALL Prev >>2482311
Why the hell did they make the gurjara camel rider better than the hindustani imperial camel rider?
>>2492795who cares
>>2492800Obviously I do, retard. Imagine a cav civ having a paladin that is weaker than another's civ cavalier.
Is it worth playing these games for the campaigns?
>>2492784Haven't touched II in a long while, what the hell is that muscle icon in the Saxons' varangian guard? And why the... double varangian has a charge bar?
>>2492807>And why the... double varangian has a charge bar?Unique tech let's them throw axes before engaging in melee
>>2492807Saxon infantry get armor bonuses depending upon how many nearby infantry there are. That arm shows how many are nearby for that aura
>>2492804Most people only play SP so I would say yes. From what I've played they are pretty fun, but not quite as good as something like WC3. You do get a lot more content though. I've only really played age2 the past couple of years but from what I remember the other games are solid as well.
>>2492820Most people play SP? Anons, what are you doing playing by yourselves, you enjoy the AI?
>>2492816this game has aura effects now?
>>2492822devs are ouf of ideas but new civs need to be made
>>2492784https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jm53yTRBakHearth Troops suck ass compared to them
>>2492822>nowsince dynasties of india, but we have to pretend to be outraged about it now
>>2492822Has since georgians.
>>2492829the unit that is supposed to utilize it's ranged attack and has high pierce armor loses to the unit that excels at melee combat??
>>2492830I have been and continue to be outraged about it since the moment they added them. Cysion is a faggot who desperately wants this game to be AoE4, an arrogant shit who's assmad people like the original Ensemble devs more than the slop he churns out, so he goes out of his way to make the most retarded design decisions possible and trying to force the game to be "his"
>>2492821I feel like a lot of those people are just older and looking for a nostalgia fix. The rest is probably just turned of by the amount of time played it takes to not get stomped at the starting elo in online. If you're new to online the game can feel kind of stressfull and overwhelming. Also not everyone is willing to watch 2 hours of tutorials and practice for even longer before jumping into online. It's a shame because the MP is definitely the best part about the game
>>2492821>Anons, what are you doing playing by yourselves, you enjoy the AI?Yes? Unironically. I stage historical battles and scenarios and enjoy myself. I can save and load the game at any time if I feel like it too
>>2492841autism
>>2492822Teutonic knights always aura lowkey unc
can't believe they nerfed hand cannons instead of buffing them
>>2492830You talking about that one building that speeds up trade cars?
I'm trying to figure out a better layout for my RTS binds, what do you think?
>>2492920I think you should bang your head against something until you forget about whatever made you think wasd camera was a good idea.
i wish they'd buff handcannoneers rather than fuck with bohemians...>>2492864yeah.
what's your favorite gunpowder civ, HCfag?I only really go for HCs when playing hindustani.
>>2492804Absolutely Some are more detailed or immersive than others, but there's pretty much something to dig into if you're interested in world medieval history (unless its east asia) Compstomping can be comfy while the Chronicles campaigns up the character and intensity
>>2492942Why would WASD not be superior to mouse scrolling? You can give orders while moving the camera.
>>2492959bohemians. italians/portuguese are tied for 2nd place for me.
>>2492821i know i'm complete shitter tier so i've never even booted up multiplayer except to do coop with a couple of friends
>>2492821Why would I play with random nogs who I don't know
Should Anarchy be researched in castle age?
>>2492973using wasd to control the camera is slow and inefficient. if you need to move the screen a big distance in a hurry you either use a control group hotkey or click the minimap. if you only need to move the screen a little then you are probably microing and you want your left hand to be doing important hotkey stuff, not wasting actions adjusting the camera.
>>2492880Hindustanis/Persians Caravanserai have an aura that Heals Trade Carts by 1 HP/s and Increases movement speed by 20% Poles Folwarks have an aura that automatically collects and deposits 10% of maximum food from Farms placed around itCelts Castles(after Stronghold) have an aura that heals units in within 7 squares by 0.5 HP/sRomans Centurions have an aura that increases movement speed of the militia line by 10%/15% and Attack speed by 20% Georgians Fortified Churches have an aura that increases villager work rate by 10%Georgians Monaspas and Knights have an aura that increases Monaspa attackSaracens Monks(after Bimaristan) have an healing aura(excluding siege units) that heals units by 1.25 HP/s Muisca Settlements have an healing aura that heals units by 0.25 HP/s three kingdoms civs all have heroes with auras because Cysion is a mega ass faggot who made a dogshit DLC
>>2492784The Viking Varangian Guards also get +5 attack against cavalry.
https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2026/09/22/continuing-our-reset/>Activision will expand its remit to World’s EdgeDoes this mean they're fucking with Age of Empires?
>>2493205expect DLC to be churned out faster and be of even lower quality
>>2493207>The great meme list of civs will become real
>>2493212Can someone repost it?
>>2493039It's worth it if you're confident your opponent is spamming archers.>>2493213Here ya go, fella.>tfw some of these civs actually became real
>>2493213>>2493215BIGGER.
they better make a USA civ
>age of empires loot boxes
Why do I never see Huns in the ladder at 1100?
>>2493221>Unit skins for real money>You'll live to see your empire being razed by a clown show of increasingly ahistorical and memey skins like that Pro Player skin for the Explorer in AoE III>And when the last Town Center falls, you will be mocked by a fully animated taunt as gaudy and flashy as a twitch superchat taking half the screen with a villager doing a Fortnite dance
>>2492842brother you are posting in an rts general on a cambodian woodcarving forum
>>2493205great, we really needed the talent that worked at halo studios to work on aoe2, I have high hopes for this game
>>2493227>mfw i only play singleplayer but i still have to sit through the screen at the end telling me to buy the age pass so i can unlock the monster truck cobra car skin at level 100 even though you only get xp from ranked
I should enjoy this before they start adding paid castle skins
>>2493264i hate the new campaign ui
>>2493222Need skill to play huns
>>2493221Worst possible fucking timeline
>>2493271You could have prevented this. You only had to bitch louder at The Three Chinkdoms civs being added.
>more new shit for the already bloated game to figure outI love DLCs! My favorite part of videogames is doing homework!!!
I am beginning to realize the worst part of multiplayer is when the game goes over the 1 hour mark and players are heavily entrenched. In SC all minerals would've ran out and people would be playing for max unit efficiency with what little they have left, but this game just keeps going forever as long as there's wood on the map.Is there some all-in strat I could attempt shortly before the game reaches this state? Especially in team games. It's not as common in 1v1 since you can't trade for gold, although it still happens.
>>2493216>wankas
apparently half of worlds edge got laid off
>>2493303>Revive AoE III, make expansions for II, IV and AoM>"HOLY SHIT! AOE IS BACK">Now half the studio got culledHa-ha...
>>2493308Classic hindustani
>>2493308to be fair World's Edge doesn't make shit, they're literally just business fags and managers who outsource the actual development to game studios like Forgotten Empires and Relic and CaptureAge etc
>>2493316>Thought I found the mythical based pajeeta>Turns out she was just another scammer bidding her timeMY CHICKEN... HAS BEEN MASALA'D! AAAH!
>>2493308>4th Egyptian major god cancelled>Sumerian pantheon cancelled>sorry AoMtards, it's not profitable enough so our priorities are shitfing towards microtransations in AoE2 and 4 onlyEgyptbros Sumerbros it has never been more over...
wtf is happening
>>2493334it's already starting, Activision stole your UI and will only give it back if you pay a microtransaction fee
>>2493327What AoM needs most is hotfixes for pathing and attack move and eggy buffs and even that happening is questionable after weeks of nothing.
>>2493336Goddammit
>>2493327>4th Egyptian major god cancelledS-Shut up...! Trust the plan...! Who the hell could be the 4th Major anyway, Apophis?
>>2493343Minhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Min_(god)and yes in the portrait he has his cock out for Arkantos
>>2493343I'm not even convinced by the three choices already made.
>new viking civs and campaign>it's about the gayest viking to have ever lived, harald hardrada the christcuckwhat a fucking letdown
>>2493347>Min's cult began and was centered around Coptos (Koptos, modern day Qift) and Akhmim (Panopolis) of Upper Egypt, where in his honour great festivals were held celebrating his "coming forth">One feature of Min worship was the wild prickly lettuce Lactuca serriola – the domestic version of which is Lactuca sativa (lettuce) – which has aphrodisiac and opiate qualities and produces latex when cut, possibly identified with semen.>Egyptian lettuce was tall, straight, and released a milk-like sap when rubbed, characteristics superficially similar to the penis. Lettuce was sacrificially offered to the god, then eaten by men in an effort to achieve potency.>Egyptian women would touch the penises of statues of Min in hopes of pregnancy, a practice still continued today.>There have been controversial suggestions, by authors such as British journalist Jonathan Margolis, that the pharaoh was expected to demonstrate, as part of a Min festival, that he could ejaculate—and thus ensure the annual flooding of the Nile.>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koptos_colossiFucking predynastic Egypt, man. Maybe Lovecraft was onto something when he added egyptians to his mythos.
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>>2493354you lost paganny.
>>2493303Deserved. They're the ones who come up with the shitty ideas.
>>2493303They probably barely have any staff at all, how tf do they cut
>people shocked how good Varangians are earlyIf you played Dacians in Chronicles, you knew what was about to happen.The issue is maintaining that gold income without hunting. I actually haven't tried fish traps yet, but you do get issues when you're forced to play defense. It's an aggressive civ.How is the knight trample damage?I remember trample being OP in AoE1.
>>2493308Well we warned them III was never gonna be successful.>>2493321Fuck, that means they're gonna force enshittify it.
>>2493334Have you played RoR with UI mods?>Cataphacts turned into legions in the UI>Legions turned into monks, which don't exist in AoE1You can't use mods on it.The game is notoriously buggy to mod before taking into account DRM they tried to force into DLC content.
>>2493327Don't joke, they might unironically do this because they don't bother growing games. The see whales and just tap into them.
>>2493253I knew glowniggers weren't gonna let something we like be fun for too long.
>>2493412No but rebooting laptop fixed it :DD
this is where they jumped the shark
>>2493443>It was a setup so they can sell you the Uber Rare™ Catapult Galleon skin that throws cows in the futureI kneel, Activision...
Has the arabian desert been in map rotation before? I've never seen it before. Really nice to have an arabia where it's more difficult to wall. Hope it sticks around
>>2493443So this is too far but vikings getting a big cannon was okay?
>Ratha getting nerfedWasn't that unit POS to begin with? At least to my understanding
>>2493450Yes, for a multitude of reasons.
>>2493440I noticed DE often bugs like that.Memory overflow?
>>2493443The problem with keeping things aligned with history is that it doesn't make a good rts.But Lou Chuan's was when they REALLY jumped the shark.
Why is Varangians the only new civ I've faced today (roughly 10 games)? Where the fuck are the other viking civs?
>>2493477Kinda meh.
>>2493466>Catapult Galleon, but china>Closer to the AoE I timeframe than AoEII's>All-around stronger and better than every other siege ship, including the one with the fucking cannonKowtowing harder than Blizzard to the bug kingdom.
>>2492804isn't the playerbase like 80% SP only?think I saw something to that effect once, but don't know where
>>2493479They should have tried harder to avoid antiquity warfare ay. It's a totally different beast ay. No proper ballistas for starters after antiquity. They were noticeably shitter after rome because of expense required.Man they really could have just made Chronicles and AoE1 spinoff. ngl. I prefer that period of warfare. Medieval, pre-high middle ages is interesting, but after that it's just early modern warfare and I just start treating it like modern warfare with tactics.Although I did that with ballistas too in AoE1. You just bombarded them with ballistas.
just finished the first missionHarald's VA shows more emotion reacting to Saint Olaf's death than the entire 3K VA cast combined, so that's a good startlet's hope it doesn't fall off
Did this happen for anyone else in the second mission? What even is this unit
>>2493525Looks like that chink treasure fleet ship that appears in AoE III
>>2493525you have mods
>>2493515>We could have been kings, Olaf! And now I have nothing! Nothing!>Why? Why did you have to die? Why did you have to leave me here all alone?
>>2493454Ratha have been meta since phosphoru.
So, varangians actually fuck this game up completely. >can't use cav, they're anti-cav>tanky armour, can't use archers>militia, their "weakness", do nothing>even stand through siege attacksOnly monks can beat them, but fuck me they're fast.Extreme AI raping me. I was kinda on top until they massed. That massing effect makes them bordering unstoppable.Also, walls in this game are now Stronghold tier illusionary. What has happened to them?I don't remember them being Sierra bad ever.
>>2493596>tanky armour, can't use archersthey have the same armor as militia line>militia, their "weakness", do nothingI haven't tested it myself yet but I doubt this is true
