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If ya wanna send me some Tactics send them to mickolota2000@age2zone.com. To take photos in the game hit the "printscreen" button next to scroll lock! It will be saved into the AOEII folder wherever you installed that, it should be saved as Aoe001 in the orginal Age Of Kings or Aok001 in The Conquerors.
This is what I call Castle Defence. It is a defence made of Castles, it is very expensive (Stone is rare and valuable but you should have plenty), but it's strong because you can generate units and Trebuchets for your assault and defence! Castles take take up a lot of space but they have the strength of a couple of Keeps and they can generate war units and they count as houses and they can garrison villagers and military units in them and it can get to a brilliant attack with say 20 villagers in it! And also the military units/villagers will heal themselves! The only flaw in this defence is Battering Rams attacking, so you should team up the castles with Bombard Towers as these can take Battering Rams out in 1 hit! Also try to get a good navy (Elite cannon galleons teamed up with fire ships and demo ships is an unstopable attacking force! Trebs will fall! The biggest fear is Bombard cannons but they are 50 resouces more expensive than Trebs. And Elite Cannon Galleons get a huge attack vs buildings or anything that villagers need to repair...like Bombard cannons and Trebuchets! On mon-water maps this is less effective...
Collecting surplus resources has only one drawback and that is house space. But the house space you are left with is plenty! If you can see i have 62092 food. And if you squint REALLY hard you can see I had doubled his score and some! I think he had 11871 and I had 25435.
I don't have any pictures for my new Tactics but they're not important! I apologise and I'll try and go on the zone and beat some people and get some :o)
The Castle Rush
Oh! This is a classic! First of all establish an economy quickly (about 12 mins) then advance to Feudal this is all you need to know for the time being. Warning there is a lot of writing!!!
Begin by creating 4 villagers (this is a default resource game and no reveal) and and scout out your immediate area (area close to your base) and find your sheep. Gather as many as possible! Use your beggining 3 villagers to build 2 houses. By now one additional vilager is created. Send him/her onto berries (build a mill next to the berries) and begin gathering. Once you've located your first set of sheep and got them safely to your Town Center begin there will be you 5 villager (for a 6 population) put him onto sheep along with your house building villgers. Now once villager 6 is created use him/her to build a new house and then put him/her onto sheep. Put villager 7, 8, and 9 onto berries (for a total of 4 gatherers) and then use villager 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, and 15 onto cutting all the lone trees. use villager 16 to build a new house. Remember to keep on scouting the map! Use villager 17 onto building a Lumber Camp (if you can not yet do it sue to lack of wood put him on cutting lone trees until you can) then put the next 5 villagers onto cutting wood (the house builder should be put on once the house is built) you should now have an 23 population. Get villager 23 to build a house and then cut wood. You should now have 14 lumberjacks. AT ANY POINT POSSIBLE BUILD A DOCK! This is important you should have a tonne of wood! And build many fishing ships! These will be your main source of food! Once you have your 14 lumberjacks going advance to Feudal. If your berry pickers have finished put thme on gold. If they've no let them carry on until they do. You sheep will have easily run out by now so you should have killed some deer and bore. If not do this when you sheep run out! When safely in Feudal build 2 villagers and get one to build a market and the other a blacksmith. Build a house once these are finished (or even before they're strated if needed!). And sell your wood for gold (We won't have enough to advance!) Now the two villagers you have left from building should build a barracks. Then you can either build a Stable near your enemy and build a few scouts. (they only cost food save your gold!) or put them on gold mining. Now you've advanced to Castle the fun starts! Gather up your hunters and drop off their resources and send them to your opponents base to build a Town Center now if your enemy hasn't detected you great! If he has garrison those villagers! If he deteceted you before it was completed flee and when he turns away build a further out Town Center and go in later! This can be great if you build a Town Center for them to flee to. Then garrison them! Now once your Town Center is built and safely standing. Build a Siege Worksop (and if you havn't yet build one a Stable) Now garrison your villagers and build two rams and attack (if you can afford Mangonels great! If the attack is successful try to build a Town Center Closer to the Enemy Town Center while the Rams draw fire. (If you catch the enemy in Feudal this is devastating) and garrison. If the Town Center attacks your villagers build further back. By the time its built the Enemy Town Center may be destroyed if not garrison the villagers again. If it is the enemy garrisoned villagers will get hurt! (They ungarrison south so always try to attack this direction) If you built in the north build knights early to catch them. Now he should be reeling in pain! Use you rams to attack farms and Knights to harrass villagers. YOU ARE VICTORIUS!!!
The Dark Age Rush
So here it goes. First, it was 200 pop, Japs, low resources. I think he uses Japs because of their faster hitting Infantry. He started out (he didn't give amounts of villies etc I'm guessing around 15-20) by gathering 1000 of each resource except stone. Once he did this he gathered about 10 of his villies and went over to his enemys town. Ouside of his enemys town he built 5 barracks'. He then used his resources (he didn't submit this but I think it would be best now to shift all your lumberjacks away from wood and put them on food and gold) to build Militia. He kept bringing 5 at a time. In other words every time 2 died 5 more would come. This part will take a lot of micro-management he may well bring forth his own Militia. Eventually after a lot of hacking the TC will fall. Get his/her villies. Speed is important. Try to catch him/her with 15 or less villagers otherwise he/she may flee and rebuild, never-the-less at this point he/she is dead. His/Her economy will be ravaged.Submitted by KWDDK. Thanks!
More on the way! So watch out!
