one million unique units to the mississippians

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>>2319314
>Tupi
made for Portuguese men

>>2319323
>Trying to look native
>Fake tits
why

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>>2319325
>why
why so they can give Age of Empires II HD: The African Kingdoms' very own Alberto Barbosa titjobs, obviously

>>2319325
so you'll pay for her onlyfans

Anyone wanna play team games? I'm 13xx team

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"Mighty soldiers, foward!"

why is the castle yellow

ded game for browns

>>2319325
>fake tits
>they're different size
?

but for real, there needs to be a mod with these in

>>2319351
t. brown

>>2319341
Nice game with only civs that should exist.

>>2319367
...Can't tell if that's sarcasm or not

>>2319371
Sorry, missed Armenians.

>>2319375
Armenians deserve to be in the game.

>>2318838
>Similar wheeled artifacts have been found across Mexico, dating as far back as 1500 BCE
They demonstrated the principle of the tool with toys, and then never actually applied it over the next 3000 years? That's profoundly embarrassing.

>>2319399
are wagons going to be useful when there are no draft animals?

I fucking hate historylets who don't (or are unable to) complete their analysis
>why did line infantry bunch up? Everyone was dumb
>why did infantry charge into machine guns in WW1? Everyone was dumb

holy kino
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJDGPIZ4yT8

>>2319386
Yes, actual armenians. Not whatever that civ is.

>>2319402
Human power is also effective, look as Meso trade carts

>More spear chuckers
JFL. Is this somehow more grounded than three chinkdoms?

>>2319414
...but I am playing as Armenians in that screenshoot.
What the fuck are you talking about?

>>2319418
no

>>2319419
Civ called Armenians that has nothing to do with actual armenians.

>>2319427
Ok.

They should flip the Tupi UU bonuses
Clubmen who wear nothing are only good en mass.
Archers who have an attack effect, can be be damage over time to represent the Tupi’s poisoned arrowheads. The origin point for the notion.

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>>2319399
>>2319415
As I said, they seemed to have used wooden rollers, and used wheels with rotary motion in textile and ceramic production, but as far as using wheels and axels on full scale carts rather then just the miniature ceramic models? No, probably not.

There are some depictions of wheeled carts in the Codex Duran (pic) and accounts which describe their use transporting monuments, but it's generally thought that this is more the result of Post-contact practices and technologies being retroactively applied to Prehispanic events. It's possible that they really did just use carts before contact too, but if they did it would have been very uncommon.

As >>2319402 says, without draft animals, and especially in a region which is largely swamps and jungles in the lowlands and mountain and valley ranges in the highlands, wheeled carts simply aren't that useful over people using back mounted carrying frames. Look at transportation and logistics in Japan for much of it's history, they even had beasts of burden and still relied on human driven logistics for the most part.

As for why no wheelbarrows, as I understand it, those show up pretty late even in Eurasia, and you need more complex wheel designs to support them and other devices that make use of wheels like water mills, and without an initial incentive to develop/use basic wheels for carts, they may have never had a reason to experiment with other uses and more complex wheel designs

Part of that might also be because wooden wheels benefit a lot from metal supports to avoid splitting, and Metallurgy shows up late in Mesoamerica: Gold, Silver and Copper smithing only becomes a thing around 600AD, and Bronze was only smelted starting a few centuries before Spanish contact. The lack of wheels might also have been a reason why metallurgy shows up so late, because making those metal support bands for wheels was a major driver for the development and iteration of utilitarian metallurgy in Eurasia.

1/?

>>2319438
>wheels with rotary motion in textile and ceramic production
Is this some kind of semantic trick or do you have access to secret history? My art history professor was a viciously anti-White La Raza type and even she didn't claim that Central Americans had developed the potter's wheel.

>HURR DURR SUDACAS ARE JUST GIMMICK UUs

listen up fuckers, this is what this game already has, right now on ranked (unique upgrades of already existing units doesnt count):

Archers

Archer that ignores armor
Long-range archer
Multi-shot foot archer
anti-cavalry archer
fast-moving high-hp archer
gunpowder foot archer
anti-archer archer
anti-building archer

Infantry

Infantry that heals, carries relics and fights
Anti-Infantry Infantry that levels up
All-around anti-cavalry feudal infantry
Fast moving Infantry
Charge-attack area-effect infantry
High-dmg low-hp infantry
Ranged infantry
Anti-archer infantry
ranged pass-through infantry
high-range anti-archer infantry
high-range anti-cavalry infantry
anti-gunpowder infantry
anti-unique fast-attack infantry
ranged-blast gunpowder infantry
bleeding dmg infantry
cheap-fast producing infantry
fast-moving ranged infantry
infantry that ignores armor
high-hp infantry
Hero-infantry that heals units
heavy-armored tower-building infantry
heaviest-armored infantry
hp-regen infantry
anti-archer infantry that swaps to heavy infantry

Cavalry

Cavalry that turns into infantry
Charge-attack cavalry
Anti-infantry cavalry
Cavalry that gets bonus with high numbers
Projectile-dodge cavalry
Anti-building cavalry
Melee-dodge cavalry
Cavalry that ignores armor
Anti-siege cavalry
highest-hp heavy armored cavalry
cavalry with bonus-area for infantry
ranged anti-cav cavalry
heaviest-armored cavalry
gold-generating cavalry
cavalry that levels up
Hero-cavalry that speeds up units
Hero-cavalry that increases attack of units

Cav-Archer

Cav-Archer that swaps to melee
Anti-Cav-archer Cav-archer
Mounted skirm
High-dmg low-acc cav-archer
Multi-shot cav-archer
heavy-armored cav-archer
anti-siege cav-archer
gunpowder cav-archer
mounted monk
charged-attack multi-shot cav-archer

Siege

Anti-projectil siege
cavalry-siege unit
heavy-cavalry pass-through siege
anti-massed unit ranged siege
cavalry-siege that swaps to melee
anti-cavalry one-use siege

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>>2319438
>>2319399
>>2319415
>The lack of wheels might also have been a reason why metallurgy shows up so late

Meant to also say "and metal tools" here.

cont:

Lastly, it could might also be because in Eurasia, metallurgy developed alongside cities and complex civilization (tho I've seen some sourced dispute the timing there), so their infrastructure and logistics was able to be designed around metal tools, wheels etc, wheras in Mesoamerica, you had cities and civilization for thousands of years already before metals show up (Teotihuacan, see pic, for example, rose and fell before metallurgy shows up in the region, and it was on par with some of the largest Roman cities), so even if they now could use metal tools, make supports for wheels, it wasn't worth rethinking society to switch over to them.

>>2319418
I admit that going with the Tupi, Muisca, and especially the Mapucha is a bit baffling for me too. If they wanted a South American theme, the Chimu and Moche or Wari or Tiwanku were right there, and would have been a better ft by being fully urbanized civilizations (at least I think the Moche were, I've seen some sources describe them as Chiefdoms though for some reason). Certainly I'd have at least picked one of those over the Mapuche who weren't even organized into semi complex towns the same way the Tupi and Muisca were.

Really though if I hjad my pick, it'd be the Mississippians, Purepecha, and Chimu

>>2319451
I don't mean potter's wheels, they didn't have those. It was another kind of device though I admit off the top of my head I don't recall the name. For textile production they're just spindle whorls.

2/2 for now

>>2319402
I find my yard wagon profoundly useful and I have yet to try attaching a horse to it.

>>2319409
nice

Die, Trojans, all the way to Ilium, you in flight and I wreaking slaughter behind. One by one, you shall die, till you have paid for the death of Patroclus and the ruin of the Greeks.

>>2319323
I was told that unmarried tupi women went around completely naked except for a belt.

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>I am forgotten...

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>>2319457
There are narrow circumstances in which a yard wagon is better than a Tumpline
Please I beg of you, just spend some time thinking about how your backyard in 2026 might be a different context to Mesoamerican terrain and needs

>>2319475
Not by me.

>>2319475
AoE1 was fun again as a little nostalgia trip, but it really just served to demonstrate why 2 is better. I can't ever imagine replaying those campaigns, and I've played every campaign in 2 twice over.

>>2319402
you don't need draft animals for
>wheelbarrow
>hand cart
>treadmill crane
>(wind or water)mill
and those are just examples from game techs. wouldn't a water pump be useful for people who built their city in the middle of a lake?

>>2319480
>wheelbarrow
>hand cart
in their circumstances, inferior to a Tumpline

>treadmill crane
primary usecase is lifting many heavy stones when constructing multi-storey masonry and required significant tooling. There just wasn't sufficient incentive

>mill
maize is ground wet, water mills focus on dry grinding. It's a whole different crop and process

>water pump
solves verticality issues, mesos were solving more for drainage and flooding which favoured gravity-based solutions rather than pumps

Somewhere like Colombia is going to have vastly different circumstances, needs, and resources compared to France

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Speaking of gimmicks, DE is still running on the Genie engine, right? That means they still have three gimmicks in store (well, two, since the Shrivamsha Rider already uses one).
https://expanding-fronts.fandom.com/wiki/Shielding
https://expanding-fronts.fandom.com/wiki/Power
https://expanding-fronts.fandom.com/wiki/Stealth/Detector

>>2319493
that's bullshit. the aztecs had highly urbanized areas where someone might spend their entire life in a city. are you telling me that a cart would be worse for these people that carrying shit on their backs?

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Earth and Water was a good scenario

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>>2319475
I'm a bit disappointed that they never backported all the campaigns, but then again what was ported is ridiculously easy and overshadowed by the newer campaigns they made for it. It leaves AoE I's situation being in an awkward segway between three releases, since DE also redesigns entire scenarios. Though they did finally import Regicide after Chronicles released, the king is slower than villagers with the wheel researched.

>>2319504
>are you telling me that a cart would be worse for these people that carrying shit on their backs?
Yes, they'd be using canoes or tumplines
Even European cities mainly used carts for inter-city transportation, after which they'd be unloaded for porters

>>2319507
>segway

>>2319506
truly a masterpiece to make a naval scenario in AoE2 not dogshit

>>2319418
yes
>>2319427
elaborate

>>2319520
>elaborate
nta but the armenians civ is really based more on armenian cilicia than armenian... armenia
case in point: the naval bonuses and focus on infantry instead of being another byzantosphere heavy cav faction like the georgians

honestly the Georgians are similar enough to what "Armenia" Armenia would have been anyway

>>2319475
Sargon and Pyrrhus were kino and I will never forget them

>>2319525
thanks for elaborating

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please buff handcannoneers. they (and i) need it.

the year is 2036
handcannoneers have received several buffs across the patches
handcannoneer guy is still posting, begging for more buffs, utterly insatiable
his greed sickens me

Why do elephants take six gorrilion bonus damage when monks already cuck them hard?

Cilician Armenians are Armenians though.

>>2319561
yeah and bretons are celts, but it’d be weird if the celts civ was based primarily off of them wouldn’t it?

>>2319577
That's a bad comparison. Celts are more of a linguistic group than anything else. An extremely vast one with many different cultures, from Ireland to Central Anatolia.
The Celts should in fact be renamed to Picts. There is nothing Irish, Welsh, Cumbrian, or Breton about them. A more apt comparison for your argument would be if there was a "Caucasian" civ and it was exclusively focused on Armenians, rather than a nebulous wider Pan-Caucasian civ that included elements of the Georgians and other various Caucasian peoples like the Albanians or Circassians. Or if a "Greek" civilization was based entirely off land-based Sparta, ignoring everything else.
Cilician Armenians are just Armenians.

>>2319402
yes?

>>2319586
thank you for failing to read any of the discussion around the post

>>2319590
you mean you insisting that a cart could never possibly be more useful than a backpack?

>>2319542
None of the new civs will use you and
my Tupi zergling archers will eat you alive, get fucked

>>2319606
Nobody ever said that, at any point
Why do this?

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REMOVE HINDU

Shame we lost that game

>>2319620
https://i.4cdn.org/wsg/1767272968279193.mp4" target="_blank">https://i.4cdn.org/wsg/1767272968279193.mp4

>>2319620
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>>2319622
>>2319628
top kek

Campaign maps are so tiresome.

>You have no space for anything
>There are 5 enemies all attacking you

Rinse and repeat.

>>2319647
just play on Standard difficulty sweetie

I really wish they added the QoL feature of "Select all injured untis"

I felt kind of bad about using bombard towers in the Vilnus siege, the AI just can't handle it (even with their massively increased cost of 300 stone)

I enjoy multiplayer seething every time there’s a new civ. Here’s to 100 more civs, although please try to keep them medieval and representing ethnic groups. No more 3k shit or splitting Italians into every city state.

>>2319620
>REMOVE HINDU
all you have to do is press Exit Game in main menu

>>2319670
>splitting Italians into every city state.

why are you so racist jamal?

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>>2319475
I haven't forgotten
even after all these years Voices of Babylon is still ludokino...

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>Why yes I do instantly resign when matched against DLC civs, how could you tell?

>>2319727
>DE ? never heard of it , Come play some HD

>>2319687
he is and just like all jeets he hates himself and what he is

>>2319687
Arent you a nigger irl though?

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>>2319773
>We must contain criticism and maximize sales bros. Let's just send all these debbie downers down to Madagascar where nobody can hear them, and if that doesn't work, my boy Reinhard will surely come up with something...

>>2319670
>please try to keep them medieval
tough luck, chud
this is the age of the mudhut

>>2319773
the target demographic is ESL r*dditors
not surprising

Let's try this again, but with more options
Pick:
>A tech tree
>Up to six civ bonuses
>One team bonus
>One castle unique unit
>One castle unique tech
>One imperial unique tech
Feel free to elaborate on your choices

>>2319809
Six is just too many

age of kings to age of kangs

>>2319953
Das rite!

How do I get smarter? My apm is like 30, surely I should be much higher elo than 1000 right? Also I have no interest in increasing my apm, I'm a 25yo boomer and my hand hurts if I tryhard too much with it.

>>2319953
African Kingdoms was over a decade ago, anon.

>>2319998
It's not about APM. You have to memorize build orders. You play either knights or xbows.

>>2320033
>You have to memorize build orders.
What does he do after the first 8 -12 minutes though? You know the game doesn't end when someone hits feudal right? There is more than "memorizing" a build order.

I want to avoid playing archers, skirmishers, knights, or scouts wherever possible.

What civ do I play?

>>2320121
aztecs

>>2320121
Celts

>2320122
>Aztecs
>Not playing skirms

>>2320122
>monk and infantry civ
Kino. What's the play? Monks and Pikemen? I assume Monks are good at high levels due to the conversions, and not because of the healing and stuff. Seems like an extremely gold-intensive strategy.
>>2320129
>Infantry and siege
I'm really low IQ and I always end up killing more of my own melee units with mangonels than the enemy's crossbows. I don't understand what people are doing that makes them so effective, outside of them being good against bunched up units. I do love fast infantry and Scorpions. Isn't that ultimately more of a Romans thing, though?

>>2320140
Infantry scorps is a totally viable strat, and yes, Romans and Khmer are the best scorp civs
Khmer you can do elephants, Romans do infantry

>>2320121
learn to phospheru and you can play with every unique unit in the game.

Mass militia and/or town center drops can also be fun.

>>2320121
Goths

>>2320148
does phosphoru fc still work? I thought it made the devs seethe so they nerfed it. how do you do it with uus that cost gold?

>>2320140
>I always end up killing more of my own melee units with mangonels than the enemy's crossbows
Sometimes my mangonels demand a sacrifice

>>2320169
yes it still works, the market nerf did not hurt the strat much (except for some food heavy units). And you usually position your castle covering gold and wood or put your reinforcements near your gold and wood for protection. If you meant food UU's you usually add farms and/or buy some food to produce units.

It can be a hard strategy but with some practice getting used to it, you can wreck people and make people salty with it.

Should of included a build order with my initial post, works mostly the same with all civs but some can do it faster i.e civs that don't make castle UU's or civs with good eco bonuses like ethiopians.

https://youtu.be/TjkQv15Q_kM

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why do some people just hate good graphics?
I get making the trees smaller, but geez isn't that a bit too much?

>>2320121
Bulgarians

>>2320203
nobody hates good graphics, we hate unreadability in dimetric perspective, which your insane example actually makes worse than base DE

Just giving you my worst take, But I honestly think that every civ should get a hero general unit. I know people would rather remove them from the chink shit civs, but I kind of would like to see what other civs would get.

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Just giving you my worst take, but I honestly would love to see a Roman civ in Age of Mythology. I know people will screech that it's just like the Greeks, but Roman mythology has many cool deities very different from the Greek stuff like Janus, Saturn and Quirinus and if they lean more towards Italic/Etruscan influences it could be very cool.

>>2320212
>Romans in AoM but instead of their gods adopted from the Greeks it's their emperors who were elevated to godhood

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>>2320212
Sure, probably wouldn't be hard to make as a counterpart to the Greeks, I'd play it. Then again, I would also play an AoE II-like civ themed around Abrahamic religions or some shit.

>>2320217
This is an idea far too based for Microsoft to comprehend

Romans should get Isis as a major god. You know it to be true.

>>2320204
bulgarians play knights and scouts
>>2320121
>>2320140
>I want to avoid everything that's not barracks

>>2320229
some posts are just too based of sissy jannies, but I saw that

>>2320212
The god artist for AoM called the Atlantean gods Roman. And several of their units are gladiators or Roman siege equipment.

>>2320202
yeah I meant food uus. when do you add the farms? I want to do it as spanish.

>>2320121
Incas, if you can manage to MAA + tower rush you can probably get away with eagles vs archers until you can mass slingers.

>>2320368
ALL of their units are roman + their ships.
It's just that their buildings really aren't, which throws people off.

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>>2320368
They also have Mesoamerican aspects too, llamas for instance

>>2320534
>Mesoamerican
>llamas

>>2320534
Meso = middle
Llamas are exclusively from South America.
You fucks don't even have any excuse anymore now that the Inca are getting their own architecture.

>>2320212
>>2320221
>>2320229
I'd only want the romans after we get Mesopotamia, the Andes/Inca, and Hinduism first

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HD or Definitive Edition? haven't played in almost 7 years (2019) and still consider myself to be a newbie

>>2319339
anyone?

>>2320707
DE, only reason to play HD is if you have friends playing that refuse to move or for nostalgia. Like 90% of people play DE.

>>2320710
Sorry lad, not today.

>>2320293
#NotMyBulgarians

>>2320707
HD barely justified itself when playing CD on Voobly was generally more consistent. DE more or less supplanted the former two with both campaigns and online.

>uhhhhh actually you should say central and south american
nah I'm just gonna say meso

>>2320768
meso civs: aztecs, maya
andean civs: inca, the new guys
simple as

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>>2320771
Kek, what causes this mental illness?

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>>2320584
>Mesopotamia
they better have those goofy ass donkey chariots
closest we ever got was background art in the Sargon campaign, I want to see those guys as a real unit

>>2320771
But siege towers are a joke

>>2320771
they will do literally everything before admitting fire lancers are a retarded gimmick unit that should never have been added to the game
watch people start using rams instead of siege towers and be exactly as obnoxious as before, leading to a ban on rams

>>2320771
buffing siege towers so hard they had their cost cut in half and now go as fast as cav is retarded though. They should just be removed from the game since they have never functioned in their intended role.

>>2320802
Rams are much slower and take bonus melee damage, they won't function in the same way.

>>2320806
just slow them down and make it empty fire lancers' ranged timer when they jump out
ez fix

I like the sound design for siege weapons being progressively deeper drums
The rat-a-tat of scorpions
The deep booms of trebuchets

>>2320771
>Noooo i don't want infantry in my Age of knight and archer 2
Total pro death

>>2320830
Siege and Building sounds are an underappreciated artform. I'm glad it was all set in stone for AoE during the very last moments of the 90s.

>>2320769
And yes, the tupi, famous Andes dwellers.

>>2320771
why did you add this shitty gif thoughbeit

>>2320771
What the fuck? What compels this kind of idiocy?

If you don't use the Original Sounds mod you're not a real fan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjZAcx-SN8c
THE GOAT HAS SPOKEN
he makes some good points and gives interesting insight into the situation

>>2320975
Don't care. Stil gonna use Siege Towers because fuck them pros.

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>>2320975

>I hate the siege tower
>It was everyone vote to remove the siege tower
>But it was totally not me

Also removing mirror matches this late in the qualifier makes no sense

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>>2319314
I want a city builder with the exact graphics of AoE.
Yes, I want to steal those assets.

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>>2320992
Good news, my lord!

>>2320975
how the hell do you ban something in a ladder tournament? who is going to watch every replay on the ladder to see if someone is doing it?

>>2321037
I think you underestimate the amount of autism involved here.

>>2321041
>autism
this is literally a tournament with a prize pool
>>2321037
you obvously don't watch every single ladder game, retard. If someone reports it they will check the replay.

>>2321037
opponent reports it, the replay gets checked by admin, done.

>>2319323
I'd colonize the shit out of her

Make siege towers as slow as rams, make them drop out troops one by one with a slow delay, and make it so units can enter them from both sides of walls. There, fixed.

Delete fire lancers. There, fixed.

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I cant wait to kill filthy conquistadores in my favorite game
t.chilean mapuche

>>2321171
delete 3k civs, delete all indian civs, delete all american civs including cancelling upcoming dlc. There, fixed.

>>2321157
>Make siege towers as slow as rams
not quite that slow but definitely they need to be slower than they are now
>make them drop out troops one by one with a slow delay
this is not needed
>and make it so units can enter them from both sides of walls.
this would be beneficial

Is still don’t get why siege towers can’t just shoot arrows but like at a really awful rate?

>>2321203
would step on the toes of the war chariot (3k)

Gargarensis has invaded my home. I heard poetry from the closet and opened it to see that his army had grown enormous. I tried to fight, but could not outmatch the statue of Poseidon. I cried "PROSTAGMA" before a statue of Zeus turned me into a god instantly.

>>2321184
Kill 3K civs. Behead 3K civs. Roundhouse kick a 3K civ into the concrete. Slam dunk a 3K civ into the trashcan. Crucify filthy 3K civs. Defecate in 3K civs food. Launch 3K civs into the sun. Stir fry 3K civs in a wok. Toss 3K civs into active volcanoes. Judo throw 3K civs into a wood chipper. Twist 3K civs' heads off. Karate chop 3K civs in half. Trap 3K civs in quicksand. Crush 3K civs in the trash compactor. Eat 3K civs. Dissect 3K civs. Exterminate 3K civs in the gas chamber. Stomp 3K civ skulls with steel toed boots. Cremate 3K civs in the oven. Lobotomize 3K civs. Drown 3K civs in fried chicken grease. Vaporize 3K civs with a ray gun. Kick old 3K civs down the stairs. Feed 3K civs to alligators. Slice 3K civs with a katana.

why is ranged garbage in aoe4

>>2321157
They're ok being fast, just make them squishy.

>>2320986
based

>>2321203
better question is, why don't wall tiles shoot arrows at a really awful rate? That would actually historically make sense, especially with crenellations tech in the game

>>2321341
Just build towers, bro

I'm hoping the new dlc with give use some bonus for dark age aggression. Maybe something like Villager bonus damage vs buildings or some kind of new dark age unique unit.

>>2321344
yes please villager drush me that sounds so hecking fun

>>2321344
but anon the Tupis are in dark age all the time

>>2321184
based

With a game as simple as this why do FE take a whole fucking year to make a DLC with only a couple of civs? They have dozens of employees for fucks sake

>>2320975
RedPhosporu seething

>>2321443
Because there's a certain rate that most customers will accept buying DLC. People are crying now about 3 civs a year, any more and they would riot.

>decide to play team games for a change
>spend 10 minutes in the queue as someone alt+f4's every time I get matched into a game
>finally get an arena game
>Both pockets get instantly picked
>get 2v1'd on flank and flee my base
>pocket doesn't make any army until like 35 minutes
>we lose, pocket talks in chat for the first time all game only to trash talk the team
Never again

>>2321496
That's why you get a best mate to play team games together

>>2321496
You should've quit when you saw GhostMaster as your ally

>>2321700
Speaking mad shit for someone who won't 1vs1

>>2321679
I can't play with my friends anymore

>>2321700
Trvke

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In comes the flood

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>>2321868
the ganges flood is unstoppable... TheGhostmaster's izzat is skyrocketing all the way to brahmin caste... I kneel...

>>2321870
Shut the fuck up already

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We now have data of which countries players are tanking their elo intentionally the most

>>2321890
what about actual volume of players? which countries have the most?

>>2321890
>China
Is anyone actually surprised? What a shitty fucking culture, man.

>>2321895
surprising that japan is higher although i think the site is new and the sample size of matches on the site is low

>>2321890
>East Asia
>SEA
>Fucking India
Why are asians like this, what did Poland meant by this

>>2321890
>all chingchongers except polejews
Kek

>>2321890
imagine my shock, but it is dey culchuh after all.

>>2321890
DAMN SINGAPOREAN TANKERS

>>2321890
>almost all Asia

Brazilians being clean is a bit surprising.

>>2322016
south americans love the game too much earnestly to cheat

>>2321890
How do they figure out who's tanking?

>>2321890
I didn't expected poles there

>>2319475
We NEED an RoR-style DLC for AoE4, with each civ having unique mechanics.

>>2319773
so what is wrong with that DLC? serious question

>>2322078
<5 minute resigns

>>2322264
Kill yourself

>>2322280
Ok. What now?

>>2322285
Take up a new hobby
Get better clothes, learn how to style them
Start bathing more frequently
Go for a walk once daily, it doesn’t have to be a long one
Drink more water, not soda or juice but regular water
Breathe deeply and enjoy life while you still have it

who here has the highest mmr?

>>2322308
Probably not me but I'm 1700, I'm sure there are lots of people here higher.

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>>2322307
>until he finally breaks
Never, I have fun playing team games with friends.
Unlike you lot. I imagine you could actually have fun in team games if you all spend less time shitposting here and more playing the game.

>>2321312
Skill issue

>>2322308
Idk how anyone gets high mmr, I run meme strats until I actually win

>>2322341
What meme starts do you play?

>>2322349
Fucking mobile autocorrect

>>2322341
hi viper

>Take a look at the Iroquoise and Sioux' HCs in Definitive Edition
>The Shaman is missing in both and is now a hut called "Shaman"
Wait, what?

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how long did you fare at Thermopylae?

>>2322368
they renamed and changed a bunch of shit for "cultural sensitivity" with DE
are you just now trying it?

>>2322310
>Probably not me but I'm 1700
Liar or phosphoru rushing onetrick

>>2322460
I am the latter

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how does he do it?

>>2322487
He plays when the other pros are offline apparently.

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>>2322487
Happy Asian Man

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>>2322492
he's beaten a lot of pros during his streak, including Hera
also east asia timezone

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>>2322419
>Sparta's claim to fame is losing in style
>meanwhile Athenians actually drive the Persians out of Greece proper
if Chronicles taught me anything, it's that Sparta is overrated

>>2322436
I knew that already, but what the fuck that has to do with making those two disappear/turn them into buildings? Are old people taboo for burgerland injuns?

>play aoe4 against the cpu
>3v3
>enormous chore because AI never attacks with anything big, keeps a million niggers at base and never dies in landmark mode
>can't clear 3 bases of undying roaches myself so eventually get bored and have to do religion site victory

Wow this is trash

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https://www.ageofempires.com/news/the-last-chieftains-campaign-preview/

new info in the upcoming DLC campaigns

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>>2322681

>>2322682
>Left: Initial Concept Art
>Right: Final In-Game Design
damn they changed the dog a lot

>>2322682
AoE3 is back baby.

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Comfy

>>2322681
Tbh i find it quite smart of them to use rugs on rooftops to indicate player color in the new architecture.

>>2322681
>wooden forts
feudal age castles??

>>2322778
Probably replaces the tower and Stone is impossible to get in some maps.

>>2320771
>>2320975
That's so gay, man
Siege towers NEVER get used and once they finally get a spotlight they get banned immediately
It's always pros screeching and throwing a tantrum when something fun happens in the game

>>2322786
probably functions exactly like the already existing ingame fort, just less armor and HP

>>2322778
>>2322786
>>2322819
>the Europeans will construct Wooden Forts to strengthen their hold on your homelands.
sounds like the spanish will have kreposts in the campaigns

>>2322778
Nah it will go:
>Castle Age -> Imperial Age -> Colonial Age -> Fortress Age

>>2322806
If the fucking 3K civs weren't playable in ranked then it would be fine.

>>2322893
jungle monkeys had castles?

>>2322290
>Start bathing more frequently
Tough talk for a dalit
>Breathe deeply and enjoy life while you still have it
Now that is some good morning shit right there

>>2322681
>>2322767
So are the inca getting new architecture assets?

>>2322975
Correct, all the Sudacas are sharing one set

>>2322979
>Sudacas
You are still a spic

>>2322908
No. Their "castles" will be glorified palisades on a hill.

>>2319791
I don’t care about huts I just care about time frame.
>>2321466
Only multiplayerfags bitch and their status as people is questionable

>>2323005
Works for Huns desu

>>2322999
KEK

i love how someone is spamming that theghostmaster is a jeet when you can just check his nationality on aoe2insights.

>>2323063
...you are aware dlcs with no multi civs sell like shit, right?

>>2323190
wasn't the alexander dlc one of the best selling ones?

>>2323193
No. 3 Chinkdoms was.

>>2322979
screenshots I've seen of the architecture set for the Tupi etc doesn't look much like Inca stuff though

>>2323230
Tupis are only shown in feudal age, the rest are in castle and beyond.

How much longer will Memb stream for? His viewer numbers are always terrible. Kek dumb ESL BTFO

>>2323273
>ESL
This game is run by ESL's
You dont belong here

>>2323274
The goat is EFL thoughever

>>2323163
why are you talking about yourself in third person?

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>>2323273
Seems fine to me.

>>2323275
Ah yes the muslim canadian Hamzah El-Baher with Palestenian heritage
Turns out ESLs are more western than the EFL themselves

Big thinkin'

>Siege towers is too strong it is just koreans siege tower fire lancers on ladder
>Now we have gotten rid of siege towers we can play a wider variety of strategies such as koreans guard towers plus fire lancers
You all owe the siege tower an apology, the real culprit is fire lancers being OP

>>2323297
What if it's just Koreans being op

>>2323297
fire lancers were always the problem, but to address it redditors would have to admit adding more shitty DLC gimick units is a bad thing and that's never gonna happen

give me your unit gimmick ideas for the next dlc after this one

>>2323311
What is the siege tower if not a gimmick DLC unit from HD?

>>2323299
You never saw Koreans on land maps before fire lancer addition
>>2323311
It would be alright if Fire Lancers were good in castle age but then fell off in imperial age, they don't they are still good because they have 85 HP and they benefit from gambesons so they can be pretty tanky, and Korean fire lancers are cheaper than champions.
>>2323316
A man at arms but it is actually 2 midgets in a suit of armor, upon dying it splits into 2 manlet in arms. This will be only available to the Asian civs but Malay gets karambits at the barracks instead

>>2323276
why wont you shut up about theghostmaster being a jeet when it's easy to prove he isnt? we get it, you're a spic and want to feel superior to jeets, but you're just a different type of nigger and should leave this jeet spam to /v/.

>>2323329
don't feed the trolls, dude

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When in doubt, sling the Goth
Almost died to their combined castle age push tho

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>>2323316
A support unit that gives every unit in a small radius around it that extra hp "dodge" bar that the Shrivamsha Rider has.

>>2323325
guy who does extra damage against low-armor units
he doesn't actually have high base damage, he just gets a damage bonus against units under a certain armor threshold

>>2323316
Feudal age weaker version of scorpions that auto upgrades like camel scouts.

so let me get this straight, aztecs have the best raiding eagles, mayans have the best eagles for battles, and incas have just worse mayan eagles?

>>2323390
90% true other than incas are best at anti-ranged in post imp.

incas have cheaper eagles and aztecs have faster training eagles, mayas have nothing before expensive imp techs.

I personally like aztec eagles for noburu rushes since feudal eagles train super slow. Also they are good for supporting aztec monk siege rushes.

>>2323190
Name one main game DLC which had new civs but no multiplayer. There’s only v1 of R&R which is aoe1 and chronicles which is aoe1 2.

If they brought out proper DLCs with new civs and campaigns for the actual main game (like they did without issue from The Forgotten to DOI) and did it 5 times more frequently than they do now, ignoring all multiplayer shit, it would be a success

Why did lamer legion gave up

>>2323163
he's from India, so what? A lot of people are

>>2323397
>one sentence horror stories

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>>2323397
I'm Argentinian.

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I find it funny how both the people I beat and that beat me always have higher APM than me (I average around 27, with peaks no higher than 40)

>>2323429
same, half the time my opponents have more than double my apm, makes me wonder if most people waste a lot of their apm by autistically spam clicking

high apm is good if you are well coordinated
if you are not well coordinated and you're just clicking like an ape you will accomplish fuck all and die to a better-coordinated guy who clicks slower
this is known to us

>>2323388
OH N-

>>2319314
Are there good mods?

>>2323395

yes, they abandoned the ship, now its terminally dead
this redbull might be the final sponsored tournament of all time

>>2323332
i wanted to say nigger and spic before i went in a trip

>>2323479
The Last Chieftains will be the last AOE2 DLC....

>>2323479
is the comp scene dying good or bad for the game?

>>2323514
Bad.

>>2323514
i mean the current comp scene is trying to ban mirror civ picks and siege towers

>>2323316
Hero monks that resurrect as an active ability on cooldown, and of course a healing aura (yes like Saracen UT but good)

>>2323316
Court Wizard unique monk that has a manually targetable AoE ability that curses enemy units to damage themselves when they hit other units.

>>2323316
Short ranged foot archer that can fire while moving.

Slow moving heavily armored archer.

Infantry unit that when it kills enemy villagers it converts them into a militia line troop, or converts enemy trash units it kills.

A javelin chariot unit that has a button that you can press to allow the chariot to make a cheap disposable infantry unit.

An infantry unit that can steal the weapons of its enemies, if it kills an archer its attack becomes ranged, if it kills a cavalry unit it becomes a cavalry, if it kills a gunpowder unit it gains a gun.

A cavalry unit that provides aoe healing to other units nearby each one providing 1 hp/min to a cap of 30hp/min, It is otherwise an okay melee unit.

An infantry/villager hybrid unit that can collect resources and repair siege/buildings.

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>>2323479
>this redbull might be the final sponsored tournament of all time
I'm not sure if you've heard the news but Vitality entered the scene already and took GL's spot

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Queued some ranked 4v4 with my mates last night. Arabia favorited the whole time.

10 queue pops for Arabia.
6 of them someone queue dodged or had their queue crash.
4 times actually launched the game, but had one or multiple players immediately desync the second the map loaded.
0 actual games played on Arabia during a 4-5 hour session.

Is it fair to call this literally unplayable at this point?

>>2323602
Arabia 4v4 being the most boring, unimaginative shit might be a reason. Other than that, yes dodging is a problem lately.

>>2323603
the desyncing is worse than the dodging

>>2323615
I blame the console patches.

>>2323407
and I'm Santa Claus. Urugay, Peru, Argentina, what's next? Bolivia? You're running out of fake identities. We all know who you really are

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I'm worried for my boy Vinch.

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>this guy walks up and slaps your town center's ass
what do?

>>2323316
MOUNTED
CROSSBOWMEN

HOLY SHIT
That unit has been in the old ass chivalry mods where all other aoe2 dlc gimmicks came from.

>>2323534
Mirror matches are just incredibly boring to me.
What's wrong with siege towers?

>>2323696
>What's wrong with siege towers?
Pros learned that Fire Lancers still recharge their ranged attack while inside a Siege Tower so they're being used as taxis for those units who instantly get out, shoot, then go back in and run until they recharge.

now that the dust has settled why do 3k civs flop?

>>2323642
>MOUNTED
>CROSSBOWMEN
What would their purpose be though? A short range armor ignoring CA?

>>2323734
this isn't how crossbows work in aoe2

>>2323736
TELL ME THEIR FUCKING GIMMICK RIGHT FUCKING NOW

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that's gotta suck for vinchester

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>>2323745
?

>>2323750
Vinch just won with MbL in nick of time.
Therefore it got updated just after deadline.

TIEBREAKER MATCH VINCH VS HEARTT INCOMING

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>>2323750
vinchbros...

>>2323633
>and I'm Santa Claus
Papa Noel why you left me boxers this christmas? You did the same thing the last 10 christmases

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>>2323602
Yes the game is full of jank and dodgers
On a side tangent, how the FUCK do you favorite and actually enjoy playing fucking Arabia?
It's probably the most dull and repetitive team game meta in the game, only absolute metaslaves enjoy playing Arabia

>>2323737
Crossbow shots at >50% hp, turns into sword cavalry at <50%, like jian swordsmen but changing their attack entirely.

>Ladder is a shit show now
Kek

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Is there a reason why the ingame recs are working like putrid trash? I'm trying to watch my previous matches and it's laggy and even froze my PC once already. This didn't happen last year.

uhmm why are they bending the rules for some z*gg*r?
I thought this community was hecking wholesomerino?

>>2323787
qrd?