AoE2 and Expansion - Difficulty level?

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celestebREMOVE@telusplanet.net (CelesteB) wrote in news:42b0b055.10106828
@news.calgary.telusplanet.net:

> Hey all,
>
> I'm relatively new to strategy games (I've only played Age of
> Mythology Gold, Armies of Exigo and Spellforce) and I'm finding Age of
> Empires 2 rather difficult on standard setting. Is this game harder
> during the capaign mode than others out there? Or amd I an idiot? *g*

Didn't seem that hard to me. You probably need a bit of multiplayer
training to get the game automatisms "well enough". Nothing clever and you
certainly aren't an idiot but in the scenarii where you produce (I vaguely
remember some Barbarossa ones) multiplayer style helps _a lot_. Rush and
kill one faction while eventually barricading the others, then leisurely
overhelm the remaining opposition. In some Joan of Arc scenarii, knowing
how the AI will react to your move and preserving your forces carefully is
the key. Don't remember much more, but that was long ago.

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On Wed, 15 Jun 2005 23:18:00 +0000 (UTC), Pierre Vandevenne
<pierre@datarescue.com> wrote:

>celestebREMOVE@telusplanet.net (CelesteB) wrote in news:42b0b055.10106828
>@news.calgary.telusplanet.net:
>
>> Hey all,
>>
>> I'm relatively new to strategy games (I've only played Age of
>> Mythology Gold, Armies of Exigo and Spellforce) and I'm finding Age of
>> Empires 2 rather difficult on standard setting. Is this game harder
>> during the capaign mode than others out there? Or amd I an idiot? *g*
>
>Didn't seem that hard to me. You probably need a bit of multiplayer
>training to get the game automatisms "well enough". Nothing clever and you
>certainly aren't an idiot but in the scenarii where you produce (I vaguely
>remember some Barbarossa ones) multiplayer style helps _a lot_. Rush and
>kill one faction while eventually barricading the others, then leisurely
>overhelm the remaining opposition. In some Joan of Arc scenarii, knowing
>how the AI will react to your move and preserving your forces carefully is
>the key. Don't remember much more, but that was long ago.
>
>--
>Pierre Vandevenne - DataRescue sa/nv - www.datarescue.com
>The IDA Pro Disassembler & Debugger - world leader in hostile code analysis
>PhotoRescue - advanced data recovery for digital photographic media
>latest review: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1590497,00.asp

Heh, my strategy so far is turtling - I dig in and build away until I
can take over the map. I'll check out multiplayer strategies at
heavengames and give that a shot. Maybe I'll learn different
strategies

Thanks,

Celeste
"Born to Rune" - T. Prachett