AlbShadoW Quite a few pros and intermediate players. But you'll find at least 1 noob game running usually. Online activity ranges from i'd say 100-200 players per day. This number can increase at certain time zones and days. Additionally, if there is a steam sale which sees the game on for around $5, then there will be a relatively large influx of players, both new and old.
Yeah I understand. It seems that quite a few people have done the same. Well, I can tell you that there are more ways than ever before to get better if that is what you wish. It can still be tough but i'd recommend starting off with 1v1 games. These are the best to help you progress through the game the fastest and you'll learn so much by watching the replays too. Once you feel more comfortable, you could see if one of the higher level players might have a game with you. There are always a few willing to play with noobs/inters. If you do happen to get on, you are more than welcome to add me on steam :) My nickname is [AS]_Serman. I'll be more than happy to answer any questions or help you out.
Still watching in 2020 - and very impressed. Good lesson in preserving your military until they are actually ready to fight the enemy forces, and to basically ignore the nuclear ICBMs fired at your cities - rebuilding what was lost even while the blast is still ongoing! In the end it seemed you were almost fighting the nuclear clock more than their actual armies.
I think survival in first 20-30 mins is crucial vs toughest mode. Once you get your resource generation in full swing RON's AI can't outplay human attack strategy..
Dude, EVEN in an area with little mountains. Inca BOOM BIG. Attack them early (rush) u easily defeat them. Allow them to boom, ur loss. Make a 1 v 1 vs toughest inca and let me see you play.
Bravo bravo ..ur will power is very good(even after 8 nukes on your main cities) very well played man, only a very few people know that strategy you implemented and very few people play like that. the only thing i dint like is that you build cities nearer to each other. the rest is kickass.
duzzles L turtleing? yeah idk if that is the correct word. but i was taking about the strategy of defending your city by strategically placing guard towers behind them, not barging into attack and patently waiting while you built more units. and when the town is reduced attacking with troops with backing from gaurd towers.
I always built the towers in front of the city and rushed into attack so as to protect my workers. the forward towers can then be used to kill vital units like supply wagons and generals.
small suggestion, try attacking supply wagons wen u r defending, attrition will do huge damage to unit health n will slow down the siege engines significantly. then u juz need to mop it up. all the best!
You know what would make this video great? Commentary. Explain what you are doing at various point and why. Add some commentary and you will get at least five times as many viewers. And it will be a big help to players just starting out.
***** Of course he doesn't have to give commentary if he doesn't want to, but plenty of RTS game videos have excellent commentaries. See ZeroEmpires commentary of pro Age of Empires 2 games for example.
Harry Flashman i dont think he can because he is focused on beating the bot and he wont focus if he talks. Either way we understand what does he do so isnt that bad.
@@justanunusualperson8913 A middle ground could be playing against a 'Tougher' AI (would be easier than this), apply same strategies and do commentary.
On standard 200 population the toughest AI bottlenecks themselves by building too many economic building, even tho they pretty much get turbo resource, they still build res and economy building in every city and by mid-late game they won't have population to build large armies, try editing the rules.xml and increasing population to 400 for example and then you will see the wrath of the toughest AI.
very hard to beat without rushing or without wonder, territory, capital conquest or other abusements of AI. this is the only video Ive seen beating toughest AI without this
Very interesting my friend! I can beat computer only on Tough, game is created to be very challenging and I do really like it. Nations are so realistically created, also every nation need alot different strategy, you played randomly and that means that you played many times this game. You are a pro player!
I personally go science, civic, commerce, then military for researches at the very beginning to quickly dish out that extra town and continue building eco without much idle time. You don't really need the market that early in the game (please correct me if I am mistaken) Really like how you had a strategy for every little scenario that played out during the game. I need to get back into this game I remember playing against 7 toughest computers in a diplomacy ffa on islands and it was absolutely crazy, having such little resource production facilities makes it difficult however diplomacy sure does help in a ffa!
+КОСОВСКИ ОСВЕТНИК I haven't played in quite some time now but I remember my logic being that I throw out two markets after I get science > civic > commerce and then grab the 3rd tier in civic and throw down a third city and a third market, more or less. It's all foggy and I'd be really really rusty if I played right now. I did rather rush markets as I want the gold generation to start pumping out scholars but idk, I rarely lost against the AI so it worked for me. Getting 3 cities as fast as possible was almost always my goal and I had pretty damn good success on toughest difficulty. If I'm being totally honest, I feel like I'd destroy this guy in my prime, not to be a dick but not using hotkeys kills me, lol.
ive played quite a few multiplayer matches recently after not playing the game for years and years and i gotta say the good old single horse archer strat running behind woodlines is still a pain in the ass lmao
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Good gameplay i used to play this alot whit my old vista and now i am buying the game again for my windows 10 from steam i play alot of age of empires too it would be great to see you play it
Wow. GG. So far I couldn't yet beat Toughest but looking at this vid it might have been only beacause I was too impatient. The first 20-30 minutes are just struggle because there is no way you get an advantage and the AI just keeps fucking you in all departments, miliatry, eco, territory and tech too. So I just usually rage quit at some point because I don't want to win by holding it until World Government and then nuke rush his capital, that's just cheap. But looking at this vid there might be a chance that I could have come back if I hadn't been so impatient, so I'm going to try it. Thanks for the vid!
I can never play the way you do. I cannot multitask, and I cannot think quickly! I like this game, but it is extremely difficult compared to Age of Empires.
In 'game time' i could play like he does, but in my time it would be roughly double- there is a pause button and you can queue things up and tell them where to go while its paused.
Age of Empires 3 is slightly less difficult compare ro RON, I can beat on Hard Age of Empires player, while in RON only on Tough. Point is that you need to figure it out how your computer think, and his stile of strategy is not changing, compare to human player where we all change our stile of game many times during game.
Interesting. I can't do these kind of tactics, I've always been the kind of person who likes sandbox so I always play between easy and moderate for the sake of not bothering of losing the game and setting the game from ancient age up to enlightenment age, I play this for the sake of it's medieval-gunpowder age theme. Specifically I like the American, British and French structures.
He was up against one of the best pro of the game who is a Korean. This game is a combination of managing economy, protecting economic resources and battle to win.
Wow. That's something! When it came to AI-67%, I thot it's game over. What a comeback! I like your limited resource gathering. It's a mistake I always do. Gather more resources than reqd, and end up with fewer military units during crunch times. Btw, how long did it take for you to master the use of special units and spies?
Good fight my friend , yes people are asking about commentry but I know commentry is not possible at this level of game which need complete focus attention good work my friend
Just wanted opinion on this : I tend to keep my capital in farthest corner, away from enemy, to defend it at all cost. And I keep 1 city at the front with considerable defenses and without any resource production in it, just for purpose of defense. But you kept the capital at the front. Is it that AI focussed only on one city just because it was capital? I mean if this is so, one can always keep capital in front with all defenses, and do resource production in other cities.
I don't know if this is a new strategy but it seems more people do keep their cap upfront. Reason being, it's easier to protect. So it IS closer to the enemy but also easier to defend. I also prefer to keep it back and make the cities closest to my opponents less economic...
maybe its a strat so the AI focuses on attacking that 1 city alone? You will notice he actually builds his production buildings behind the cities themselves, that way the AI will target the city and not the other structures(market,university), this way the city will become a tank(damage sponge), once it gets reduced, he simply moves his forces right next to the city, preventing infantry from capturing it. The thing players do against such overwhelming enemy is we tend to find the cracks in the AI. (AI will nuke cities themselves, doesn't care about other buildings) (AI will always focus on forts, bunkers, kinda like a priority target) (AI wont build docks unless its an island map,not great lakes) (i also seemed to notice that AI actually can't produce as fast as you in the final ages in terms of resources,even with many wonders, they also leave a lot of small cities undefended,just to increase territory size)
@@checkmate9099 I am not sure if keeping capital in front will make AI focus only on that. That's why I wanted more opinion on that, in case that's a known fact (I haven't researched on that). Personally I don't take risk of keeping capital city, or any city of significant resource production, in the front. About some other AI behaviors you have mentioned, I know and use most of them. I keep markets, universities, temples near the edge of city boundaries, so that I don't have to rebuild them once nuking starts. And I usually play Great lakes when I am playing just for fun (and not for challenge) as I already have a lake advantage.
Wow I am amazed! Good going :D I do have a question though. I can only beat tougher, but while playing conquer the world, I get attacked in the first 5 mins and a new wave comes about every 4 minutes. I just can't take it after some time. I try to lower their territory strengh but it just doesn't seems to make a difference. Any advice apart from economy? Thanks!
I always like to go for 2nd city as soon as possible. I think that would allow you you to have more resource options with city itself producing food and wood and also 2nd library. Plus you will get faster knowledge generation since as soon as classical age rolls out you will have 2 univerisities pretty early. As for the results... well I tweak rush rules for peace for 15-20 min but I can handle 3 toughest AI easily.
You guys need to watch the video of the that pro gamer Rise of nation extended edition. He's one of the best player of the game. Take note how quick he is and how he scouts for ruins and rates. Take note how he raids as well as his research patterns. He's in a clan and guess his name is IND_dangerous Dave. Take note too how fast he age up and how he battles.
would you mind doing one on nomad with research at very expensive and slow? I can beat tougher AI with the Lakota but toughest is still too much for myself.
Very nice game, couple questions though. Why did you make you middle city the capital? Why not the city furthest from the computer? Also why wouldn't you start directly into civic research? You can get you second city up much faster and get your economy off the ground sooner. Then go into the normal research progression.
Because that's how I've seen good players play online. I think its because you want to have your military buildings (towers, barracks etc.) near the front but also close to your capital. T he capital can be exposed at the back because your military should be up front. Also you assert your map dominance :p As for civic, yes I should have done that. And I build like that now unless there is fish or very good rares near me like diamonds.
I would ask somethin that's been buildin my imagination. It's about the "tCords/wCords", and those are about MAP SIZE. Is it possible to make a biGGer map than 140 (in game .rules file) without bugging and cursor unresponding or sometimes crashing the game? Thanks comrades 👊
Hi! Why is there a green light under the military units during the battle? (see 39.03 to 39.09 for instance) And what were you doing that caused flashes of white light at 41.40 to 42.40?
What I have learned from humans vs A.I. in strategy games is that all you have to do besides basic skills is know how to exploit their weaknesses. And BOOM you can beat every A.I.
very well done bro great vid but i wanna ask 3 questions: 1- why did u get ur capital to enemy's near? 2- why didn'u u make nuclear weapons? 3- why didn't u research Missile Shield first? The enemy threw countless icbm's to ur base.. i think u don't need artificial intelligence because of ur conventinal superiortiy..
since he put capital in front, ai only focused on that one city, leaving others safe. Missile shield was unnecessary as the ai places nuke directly on cities, so if you place the building far from cities the nukes become effectively pointless. Also the metal was really needed
I noticed in the beginning you were pulling civilian off already built farms to create new farms. Have you figured out that this is advantageous compared to creating a new villager and making a new farm?
Also you must explain why are you not making temple and doing taxation researches... it wouldnt be possible to mimic this with any other civ (except inca/egyptians)
and for granaries each cities u build and temples , also other staff those give extra income?when i play i just built ones and thought one is enough for every city
Aadithya Varma if you have extra resources market gives extra 10 wealth which you can use to buy scholars once you reached classical age. Making extra buildings like market against AI is ok but seldom used by pros on multiplayer unless you have extra resources or bonuses for cheaper buildings and won't affect your aging up timeframe. Food and wood are the most needed resources in ancient on most nations so building farms, citizens and woodcutters are the best strategy. Only ancient military raids by nations having military bonuses like astecz, British, Iroquois etc could hamper or annoy you to advance age.
@@hocman654 No. I've looked at the comments and saw some ppl say it's on Stream. I suppose that's the only place to play it. I was trying to get around it and use what I got.
Saurabh Kanhere Yes but it is extremelly annoying seeing them destroy your beautiful towns and wonders and being completely powerless to stop it.i want my victory to be clean,with the least amount of loses in both buildings and people.I am a bit perfectionist in strategy games.:P
@@skotiskiller Regarding that, an advice that works well against AI : Try to build all your buildings near the circumference of city circle. This reduces their damage against smaller nuke (sadly, not big advantage against ICBMs), coz AI never nukes anything other than cities.
The max duffucult AI will need max poppulation to be take down.. If you fight on two side AI, that will be game over for you.. I try that before.. I never win.. because all my troops need to battle just with 1 opponent.. and the other came from other side.. Thas just like walking.. (sorry for bad english)
Watching this right after beating the game on Moderate difficulty. And I had the max age set at Classical, to avoid the AI getting too far ahead of me. Felt so proud after winning, lol. To win at Toughest you probably have to be a proper nerd - remembering all the hotkeys, sequence of upgrades, knowing all the bonuses each upgrade provides like the back of your hand, etc. I don't have the time for that. The game is very fun either way. One of the most underrated strategy games out there.
Know whatcha mean. Played Vanilla about 15 years ago but not the expansion, at Very Slow speed with max win at Moderate IIRC. Coming back to it with Extended having advantage of quality videos by experts and Wiki Fandom for info can now beat AI at Tough on Slow speed. Don't think beating it at Toughest is in the cards at any speed but as you say it's fun. Love the colors and animations, building an economy and army/navy, crushing the enemy, etc. A great way to keep the ole noodle exercised as years go by.
