Age of Empires III Interview and Pictures!
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Myoclonic Jerk
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hey now is not a bad time to start! Try Ages of Mythology it was my first PC strategy game too! Very simple and nice game, not difficult for n00bs
Loved those "God Powers" :lol
Oh, OK. AoE II doesn't really go for the historical accuracy. There are some single-player campaigns that loosely follow a historical event, but that's about it. The developers basically try to make each civ different from the others by having unique characteristics such as weapons, special moves, and special attributes that were part of that civ. (For example, nomad civs get a speed bonus, agricultural civs get a farming bonus, etc.)border said:
You should try it before AoE III comes out. IMO, AoE II (and the expansion pack) has the perfect gameplay element for a RTS game. Some get too complex with the rock-paper-scissors scheme that turns into a rock-paper-scissors-glue-tape-horse-car-truck-airplane type scenario. But AoE II seems to balance it perfectly -- easy to pick up and play, but tough to master.
AirBrian said:
Rome:TW is kinda like Civilization-lite, but you get to play out the conflicts in glorious 3D. Hundreds or even thousands of units crashing into each other, it's cool to see exactly twice. Somebody is going to feverishly argue with me about this, but I thought that watching the battles got boring very quickly. Sure, you could try to micromanage your legions and gain an advantage, but half of the battle strategy is marching your units into flanking position and making sure your ranged units are behind your heavy infantry. After that you basically just crash your armies into you opponent's and wait for the outcome. After a couple battles I ended up leaning heavily on the "automatically resolve battle" button and just playing the Civ-clone portion of the game.
AirBrian said:
It's a TBS civ game combined with a RTS basically all resource gathering and strategic decisions get made in turn based and the actual attack plays out in real time. Really nice as you're completely focused on combat when you start the fighting. The combat happens fully 3D, you control a group of units (80 spearman for example) instead of single units and this leads to the possibilty of HUGE fights, I've had 1000 on 1000 fights for example, and I only had 16 groups to control so it was really streamlined (You're limited to either 16 or 18 'groups' of units, don't remember). Assuming two sides are evenly matched and one side hasn't completely outhtought the other (if side A is cavalry heavy, and side B is chock full of spear infantry, then side A = punkd), then the name of the game is manoever. You have to work to make sure your units are attacking the right opposing units and the opposition does the same (keep cavalry away from spearman, keep your range units away from mellee etc.), and you have to set up flanking manoevers. Flanking is DEVESTATING in this game. If you can get your cavalry to charge infantry from the sides then they go FLYING and they drop like flies. Hell it doesn't matter how many spears the infantry has if you charge them from the flanks (or better yet behind). Tieing up your infantry with thiers and then sweeping with cavarly is a bread and butter strategy.
Morale plays a big role, overmatched units will eventually leg it, less trained units will run quicker.
Sieging cities is the same except the battlefield is completely different. You have to knock down a gate or a wall with siege equipment and basically your army squeezes through the gap while the defenders can mass infantry to hold you off. Defenders have advantage, but attackers have plenty of ploys as well.
Edit: Slo is right, the tactics don't vary greatly so you might get bored quickly playing against the A.I. I enjoy playing the RTS though because you can still pull of crazy stuff like tempt a huge mass of infantry into charging my light cavalry, have light cavalry run backwards, causing the invaders to run right down the middle of the rest of my army which promptly clamps down on 'em from both sides. Stuff like that. Romans are of course overpowered in the game. Decent to good in everything + godly infantry.
tahrikmili
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Rise of Nations and Rome: Total War are possibly the best strategy games in recent history..