Anyone else have problems signing up for this website? The amount of hoops you need to jump through ... just made a gmail account, then made an xbox live account, think I've linked the two? Now i have seen 3 different error pages every time i try to log in with no help links and now it's just given ...

ISLANDS MAP IN TOURNY!

MAKE IT HAPPEN!

Looking at the recent aoe2 tourny they seem to play on a wide variety of maps e.g Islands, base walled, big gold in middle etc Much easier to do with their civ balance though, the biggest issue we have is that after 1 month it can become clear that only 2-5 civs are viable (tournament setting) on an...

I always say focus solely on mechanics. If you can only click 30 times a minute and cant use a keyboard you're going to go nowhere. Once you can click at 150 apm then you're welcome to learn some strategy. Pick 1 or 2 new hotkeys to learn, once you've mastered them add another 1 or 2. (e.g hotkey fo...

Not that it is a big deal but not having stagecoach LOS is surely preferable to having it? Random RNG that the wagon comes along and scouts your raid since you can't see the wagon is a bit dumb. Its not like the guy with 4/5 tps on any cross tp map like high plains and arizona etc needs extra LOS a...

Not that it is a big deal but not having stagecoach LOS is surely preferable to having it? Random RNG that the wagon comes along and scouts your raid since you can't see the wagon is a bit dumb. Its not like the guy with 4/5 tps on any cross tp map like high plains and arizona etc needs extra LOS an...

What's a high level aoe2 player when it's at home?

ETA on when this is comming out? I assume soon since tournament has been announced.

First time I ever won anything in aoe3! Thanks for everyone who voted. :flowers: Mildly boring fact for anyone who's interested - I practised the strategy in question twice in the week before I played Mitoe, once against diarouga, and once against tabben, both who also happen to be nominated (coinci...

I assume mirrors would be banned otherwise it goes against the concept of achieving a high level of diversity which seems to be the point of the rules. Yes it favours people with a larger civ pool but that's not necessarily a bad thing. I'd rather have more civs than less civs (TWC event.) I think t...

Youssef wrote:challe vs knusch
brit vs port on florida
brit making grens to denie port water boom was so cool

That actually sounds pretty cool. You have a link for that as I don't recall hearing about this or seeing it live?

The current result is a massive insult to the hard work and dedication that Osmane has put in collecting and sitting on points for many years. People are so easily swayed by the current anti-umeu trend but come year 3000 long after we're all dead I gurantee King will still be sitting on his elo like...

I definitely need to incorporate the line "throwing egg soldier with a strong blood volume" in any future casts. Is that a grenadier or what looks like a hot air baloon?

Are you saying that the horse artillery cannonball can bounce up to three times and bombard twice?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wldt-DCsU2I So they basically chose the medieval era for all the right reasons. Also, he alludes to civilizations being much more unique in aoe4, similar to aoe3. That's great news for us aoe3 fans. Also, the big focus on historical accuracy is something that I think...

Agree, would need to see some gameplay to judge fully. Could be some neat new mechanics in there. Otherwise I'm not seeing any real innovation that differs it from aoe2, which isn't necessarily a bad thing for aoe2 players and the success of the game. Certainly not inspiring to me though and probabl...

Anyone know if this is one of them 3 hour streams where aoe4 will randomly show up in the middle for 15 mins or do I just tune in at 8GMT to see it? Cause I'm not interested in the other crap but would love to see aoe4.

I'll pick it up to play some of the new campaigns. I'm so predisposed to the aoe3 multiplayer lobby that the aoe2 one looks garbage to me. It feels so small? From what I can see there's no rank sort (#1 feature) and you can't see who's in the game without joining. To be fair it looks like they are t...

I never equaled my WPM on my mechanical keyboard as opposed to my dead MacBook. I think I could get 115-120 on the MacBook, and I'm probably 95 now. I haven't typed any papers on my mechanical. Your fingers can just glide over those flat, flat laptop keys. It's a little smaller too, which benefitte...

Don't think I've ever tuned into any bronze match for aoe3 or for anything else either, for whatever reason my brain has zero interest in these matches. I'd much rather watch the random lowbob ro128 match earlier on in the event. Like GS I'm surprised by the result so far. Infact I'd been toying on ...

Just saw this bug change: Indian Monks now have the previously missing AbstractElephant tag.

Any balance consequences of this or just a tag fix?

Nice write up! One thing though: don't find [building] hotkeys make your screen snap straight to the buildings? I think for production buildings you're going to use a lot - i.e. barracks, stable, TC - using control groups is better (and if you want to snap straight to them, just double tap). If the...

Yea this really needed to be nerfed, it's what gives India the unkillable army probably the only main change India needs from RE. Also seeing Brit cons always selected for 95% of games is just pretty meh. This goes for China aswell. I would say though I did suggest this in place of the otto consula...

Yea this really needed to be nerfed, it's what gives India the unkillable army probably the only main change India needs from RE. Also seeing Brit cons always selected for 95% of games is just pretty meh. This goes for China aswell. I would say though I did suggest this in place of the otto consulat...

why even do that when u can just snipe it I was thinking of the scenario we had in the NWC where (tabben?) microed 1 meele jan to kill 1 falconet because no other units were nearby. As good as abus are ... even 1 can not best falc in ranged mode. AFAIK the jan got stuck (bugged) on falc and he didn...

Meele abus taking down falconet with dodge micro. Probably would never come up though, but it does mean the technical answer is yes. Technically you could just juke all of the cannon balls and kill it at range more quickly. I assumed in melee range it's far easier to dodge, otherwise infantry would...