December 10 [ News Index ] [ Main Page ] |
What’s this? – Civ II Fantastic Worlds & Ego Boost When I got home today, I found a copy of Civ II Fantastic Worlds from my fine friend Martin at MPS. As the old Master of Civilization II Heaven and as the proud father of two Civ II Scenarios that appear on the new “Fantastic Worlds – Scenarios and Construction Kit”, all I got to say is… try the “Santa is Coming” and “Bears at Play” Modification Packages made by yours truly! What a year for the Archangel, in the Age of Empires Game Credits, Dark Reign Manual Credits, and now two Home made scenarios on a Civ II CD. Thats all the Christmas I will need this year :). Even with all this unworthy fame and fortune(?) – Loomer (Area-S) still doesn’t answer my emails :(. – The Archangel Age of Empires Hint Ego Boost – Part II (The Guest Book) Very nice site, very nice campaigns for the best Real-Time-Strategy-Game ever created! –Perseus and Xerxes -Nuremberg, Germany – The music on your home page is really cool! I look forward to coming back to this page over and over again! – Clinton Price – Auckland, New Zealand – One of the best sites I’ve come across since RA Sound info Good downloads Top Marks Will tell EVERYBODY about your site rgds IBYC – Ibrahim Bin Yaqub – London, U.K. – Wow, this is a great page. After i read the entire page, I really think that the infomation is so useful and I can kick everyone’s ass in zone.. *goes to the zone after sign this page*… 🙂 –Terenas – USA – This is really cool. It is the main reason I bought the game and the extra Ram to support it. Now I always check for current info an tips. Without Heaven all my villagers would be there ( heaven that is) –Kearnsie – New York, NY USA – Excellent site for an EXCELLENT Game. I have waited at least a year if not more for the game to come out. I was definatley worth the wait!!! – Tyler Ellingson – Torrance, ca USA – AA Michael, I just wanted to drop in this morning and commend you on your absolutely AWESOME Age of Empires Web site. The amount of work you have put in on the site shows, and I’ve heard nothing but great things from the guys around the office about this site and your efforts. I know all of the fans of AoE appreciate your efforts. You must be one of the chosen (or should I say Choson;-) Thanks for the support, and keep it up! Regards, Harter “harterfaster” Ryan Project Manager Ensemble Studios – ES- Harter Ryan – Dallas, TX USA – Wonderful site. Thanks for all the hard work. – Bruce Shelley – Chicago, IL USA – You’ve got a great page and all of us at Ensemble Studios are greatful. Thanks! –Thonny “Sir Anthonny” Namuonglo – Dallas, TX USA – Great site! Thanks for your support… Program Manager – Age of Empires – Tim Znamenacek – Redmond, WA USA – The first and still the BEST AoE site up. – Duncan McKissick – Dallas, tx USA – Very nice site dad. 🙂 – Kids! – Quentin McCart – Sault Ste. Marie, MI USA – Very Nice Site! AOE will revolutionize the gaming world, and I was glad to see that you guys were the first to cover it! – Patrick Sullivan – Rockaway Beach, OR USA – If Your into Age of Empires, then your site is the dogs bollocks.- Graeme McKenzie – Edinburgh, Scotland – Enough! – Sorry Folks I should be my normal Archangel Self Tomorrow – Then again? 🙂 – The Archangel Age of Empires Tips – Population & Priests Day 2 – What’s Your Favorite Single Player Game? Random Maps – Male 13 & Under – 6 times out of 187 Random Maps – Female 17 – 19 – 1 times out of 187 Seems like Male players have finally moved towards the Random Maps, my favorite!. Female players are still leaning towards Campaigns, but Random Maps are a close second! “Death Match” & “Scenarios” did not make it in the top of any sex/age group out of 187 responds! – The Archangel Age of Empires Tips – Me & My AoE Friends Age of Empires Fan Sites No, believe me Smog isn’t dead, it’s just his mother grounded him again for wetting the bed and this is the first he has been able to update this pages 🙂 – The Archangel Got a Fan Site that is not listed in my Links Section? Send me an email with the name of your site and the URL and I will post it up for you. – The Archangel Age of Empires Tips – 2 Hunting Tips |
December 9 [ News Index ] [ Main Page ] |
GameStats Compare RTS Games Forum – Heaven Help US! The old Master of RTS News – Drunk Old Man and that ever threatening Gabilan of Area-S are prowling the GS Compare Forums! If you have Comments or Questions about any RTS Game, these are the people to ask and listen to. If you run into Gabe… ah… sorry Gab, tell him the Archangel sent you! – The Archangel Age of Empires Tips Age of Empires Game Question It costs half as much wood/stone to repair than it does to build a new thing. It is definitely worthwhile doing a repair. If you are having a naval battle, and you are allowed to withdraw your half-burnt ships to repair, while your opponent just keeps building new ships, you will win, given equal amounts of wood. – Sandy Petersen (Ensemble Studios) Boot Mag Review One More Time Question: And about that hardest diff setting. I’ve heard people say they’ve beat it and I’m wondering how? It usually takes me about 7-8 min’s according to the time line to reach tool age, and within a couple min’s of that (before I can get more than a few archers and perhaps 1 tower) I’m getting brutalized by bronze age units in droves. My usual opening moves are just to immediately build a granary next to the nearby shrubs, put 6-7 villagers on them, and use 2-3 more to get wood and build. If I make more than 8-10 villagers I figure their cost slows me getting to tool quicker and if I make less I figure I can’t gather food to get there. Any suggestions on how to stop chariots and catapults within 10 min’s?? – X Answer: In theory he could cheat because he can control all his units at once. In practice, this is reduced by the fact that the Ai requires him to get all his commands done in a certain amount of time — any units he hasn’t gotten to by then don’t get their new commands. Therefore, when you’re playing against the CP you’ll often see units sitting around doing nothing, just like you see when playing vs. a human. The CP is admittedly very good at some things — scouting and dodging, for instance. Hardest mode is intentionally almost impossible to beat. But Hard mode is just as smart as Hardest — he just doesn’t get the extra goodies. Note by the way that no CP ever builds walls — in that sense, the human gets the special perk, not the CP! – Sandy Petersen (Ensemble Studios) What’s Your Favorite Tribe? – Final Results And now – What’s Your Favorite Single Player Game? Campaigns – Male 13 & Under – 3 times out of 96 Random Maps – Female 17 – 19 – 1 times out of 96 Seems like Male players lean towards just about any game type (To early to tell). Female players, Campaigns! Out of 90 Male players, the 26-30 age group give the most responds so far. Out of 6 Female playersreporting in, the 20-25 is the age group. Another interesting point is – I thought for sure Random Maps were going to be a run away winner, not so it seems. Also “Death Match” did not make it in the top of any sex/age group! – The Archangel Age of Empires Fan Sites Got a Fan Site that is not listed in my Links Section? Send me an email with the name of your site and the URL and I will post it up for you. – The Archangel |
December 8 [ News Index ] [ Main Page ] |
Angel Team hard at Work Zakko is updating, yes it’s true, he has added a ton of new files in his download section of Heaven. Read Zakko’s News for all the latest in your favorite AoE files. What’s this Zakko, no information on your presentation for a Technical Writing class, you did? Hemlock, Heaven’s Own Tips & Strategies Page Editor is working like an old wizard that he is, and we should see some wonderful things in this area soon! While your at it check out VIdguy’s & Alexander I’s – Super Scenario Reviews recently redone for your reading pleasure! – The Archangel 3 More New Gamestats Affilitates! Daikatana – Just In Time (Daikatana) Give me a Free Ad & PR on AoE Heaven – Part I Thanks guys for the AoE Link! – please send Armageddon Gaming a email explaining how PR works! – The Archangel Give me a Free Ad & PR on AoE Heaven – Part II Do you have a multiplayer gaming need that just can’t be satisfied with home lan parties? Well, suffer no longer fellow gamers, Armageddon is upon us! With a past regular attendance of 60-80 players, Armageddon Gaming is THE gaming experience unmatched by any other. Our regularly scheduled events have attracted attention throughout California, and even the nation. With 16+ hours of gaming excitement, together with a network to support hundreds, Armageddon Gaming has become the largest regularly scheduled LAN event on the West Coast. With the untold amount of multiplayer games on the market today, Armageddon Gaming will only continue to grow. Many different games are played during our events: MechWarrior 2, Hexen 2, Quake, Doom 2, Nascar Racing 2, Red Alert, Total Annihilation, AoE, Jedi Knight are just a few played during our last event. Microsoft even sponsored an AoE tournament at our last event. – Tim McArthur Uh.. Well Armageddon Gaming – Thousands of AOE Fans will now visit your site – but where is Heck is your AOEH button!! Not even a Text Link – shame on you! – The Archangel GameStats Compare RTS Games Forum Updated (Again)! The GameStats Compare RTS Games Forum, can now be called “The Internet’s First Mega RTS Forum! Yes, Gamestats Super RTS Forum Sites include – Area-S, Max2 Outpost, Netstorm Island Sanctuary,Starcraft Tech Base & Age of Empires Heaven. Let the Games Begin! – The Archangel What the Heck is a Flare? (Scenario Editor) So flares are for fast starting scenarios, where the time of attack is the time the enemy army take to go there as opposed to spotting buildings with villagers, boats or army_explore_groups, and then sending the army. – Omnivac Go to the Heaven Scenario & Game Editing Forum for more information on Scenario/game designing. – The Archangel Age of Empires Scenario Tips – Placement of Units Well, yes and no – Read “What the Heck is a Flare?” – to get around this terrain problem. – The Archangel What’s Your Favorite Tribe? – Final Results (Agers Age – Tribe – # of total – total Age responders) Male 13 & Under – Greeks – 4 times out of 295 – 20 Female 13 & Under – Shang – 1 times out of 295 – 1 What do we have here? – Seems like Male players lean towards the Greeks and the Female players, the Assyrians! Out of 275 Male players, the 14-16 age group seems to be the most popular. Out of 20 Female players, it’s also the 14-16 age group. The really interesting thing I noticed was the (Percentage wise) its almost even in both Male/Female age group for number of players. – The Archangel Age of Empires Gaming Tips – Multi Team Play GameStats Christmas Giveaway Continues until Christmas!! Gamestats Spotlight – Area-S “The Real Time War Zone “Greetings fellow RTS fanatic! You have come to the right place!! Area S is your source for up to the minute news and information on the wide world of real time strategy war. So sit back and let the RTS pimps at the S deal out all the dirt that the serious hard core swank ass RTS playin freak needs to survive in this crazy world. Continuously updated, constantly hilarious and always steppin on the toes of those that would challenge us… we are Area S!“ If you ever get bored of Heaven (Doubtful) – You might want to check the S out. Age of Empires Fan Sites Age of Empires Gaming Tips – One Agers Plan |
December 7 [ News Index ] [ Main Page ] |
A Work of Art – Heaven’s New Review Section! Area S puts the spotlight on >IF NEWS & Text based RTS Games Game Cheats
e=mc2 trooper What’s Your Favorite Tribe? – Updated Female 14 – 16 – Assyrain – 1 times out of 237 Male 13 & Under – Greeks – 4 times out of 237 Seems like Everyone has a favorite Tribe! – The Archangel GameStats Christmas Giveaway Continues until Christmas!! Gamestats Spotlight – Jedi Knight “Jedi Link” Jedi Knight requires players to navigate through more than a dozen complex and incredibly detailed multilevel mazes and environments as they face powerful enemies and once-again fight for the Rebel cause. Cinematic full motion video sequences punctuate the action and weave a compelling new tale in the Star Wars universe. Age of Empires Fan Sites Age of Empires Gaming Tips – Priests |
December 6 [ News Index ] [ Main Page ] |
GameStats Compare RTS Games Forum Updated! How can I say this? – The short and long of the matter is I forgot about our fellow Gamestaters over at Area-S! They have been added! This latest addition will raise the level on the forum, that much I can be sure of 🙂 The GameStats Compare RTS Games Forum, can now be called “The Internet’s First Mega RTS Forum! Yes, Gamestats has added Two more Super RTS Sites to the line up – Max2 Outpost and Netstorm Island Sanctuary. These two sites join the fine company of two other Gamestats Sites – Starcraft Tech Base & Age of Empires Heaven. Let the Games Begin! – The Archangel Tribute to Computer Player I think it has more to do with the AI’s ability to do many things at once (or at least in the flash of an eye). Takes it a millisecond to build farms, create villgers, build stuff, etc. Takes us mortals much longer, no matter how good we are. I think this gives the AI an advantage, but certainly not an insurmountable one. I’ve found that even against hardest if I can get walled in quickly I can beat any early advantages they get. – John S. Crouch Two questions have been asked. Here are the replies: If you have 2 or fewer computer players, they are your enemies. If you have 3 or more, then at least one will start out neutral to you. The neutral one will remain neutral until you attack him or a certain amount of time into the game (about 20 minutes) — these make him turn hostile. You can make neutral CPs into an ally by tributing 1000 stuff to them. This doesn’t have to be gold. It can be food, wood, stone, any combination, but you have to do it before he turns hostile. When starting a scenario, if you start a CP as on different Teams from one another, they will be hostile to each other and fight between themselves. If you set a CP on the same team as you, he’ll be your friend. As to the complaint as to why the CP gets to the Iron Age sooner than you, I suspect it’s just lack of experience. Just keep practicing — pretty soon you’ll be beating them every time if you want. – Sandy Petersen(Ensemble Studios). Cheat
Jack be Nimble Question to the Designers There is no programmatic relationship between build time & hit points — the quantities are independent of each other. Hence, if a particular building takes longer to build, this is just because the designers wanted it to take longer, _not_ because it has more hit points. Though there is a definite design tendency for bigger things to take longer. it’s _only_ a design tendency. – Sandy Petersen (Ensemble Studios). Alexander I with another Heavenly Scenario Review! Scenario Name: Battle of Bung Hole Having had a bad day (my boss knows just how bad) I though what the hey, let’s try out a scenario that sounds like it could be fun. Bung Hole? Yeah, here’s somebody who has done something different, something funny in a kinky kind of way—much like I go through life at the office. Well, guess what? It was so unfunny I think a system crash would have actually relieved me and cracked me up more than this scenario did. The map is not shaped in a way that you or I would think it might be—considering the name. No funny little droplet islands or forests so curvaceous as to suggest the superstructure that is commonly punctuated by a bung-hole. Even the trees fall like normal logs. No strange, log or hole shaped groups of fauna. It really makes this editor wonder if he missed the point somewhere. Now, just so you don’t think I’m picking on this scenario because I’m in a foul mood (some people would venture the opinion that I’m always in a foul mood <g>) I’ll tell you that the author is quite sincere about the intentions of the scenario. A basic, peninsula type map for eight players and no priests to absolve away the hostilities. No mas. That’s it, take it or bung it. He even coyly admits that bung-hole isn’t much of a name but he was ill at the time and at a creative ebb. All I can say is: I hope you are feeling much, much better. Let’s see, uhh, yes….that’s it—sorry folks, I just dropped off to sleep again, but then the scenario will do that to you. You start off on a large island with two shallows and some mean neighbours who are quiet initially but then keep on coming over to ask for some grey poopon. From then on you can be sure that it’s going to hit the fan. Some walls are in order and will allow you to hold the fort quite nicely. Naturally, you and your neighbours can progress through all the ages and most of the corresponding technology. You have good resources in your hinterland which I always find convenient and secure and there is plenty of room to build. Although not a waterworld, there is quite a bit of water and you will be needing those triremes and catremes soon enough. Basically, if you chop down all the trees available to you, you can build a massive navy consisting of three strike groups that can flush the major contenders to the ‘throne’ down the tubes pretty quickly (squirts campaign) or you can get your armies to hack away at the multitude of the civilizations and thus go the slow attrition route (constipation campaign). The author admits that this is not much more than an exercise in playing Age of Empires without the fuss of priests. Yes, there are no priests for any of the civs and for those of you who think that is a vast improvement, then give this scenario a 7/10. If that’s not your game, then give this one a miss. – Alexander I (Senior Review Editor) Another Great review by Alexander I! You can find all of Alexander’s Reviews next to the scenario he has reviewed. Coming soon Heaven’s Own Scenario & File Review Section. We are just waiting for the “Vidguy” to get enough brownie points to get pass the pearly gates of Heaven, so he can start on the pages! 🙂 – The Archangel What’s Your Favorite Tribe? Female 14 – 16 – Assyrain – 1 times out of 149 – 1% Male 13 & Under – Phoenic – 3 times out of 149 – 2% Ah.. I thought so! No, not really, but very interesting results never the less. – The Archangel GameStats Christmas Giveaway Continues until Christmas!! Gamestats Spotlight – Myth The Fallen Lords “The Myth Grimoire” About the Game: Myth: The Fallen Lords brings you a world where the living are fighting a losing battle against the risen dead. You direct the Armies of the North as they struggle to withstand the onslaught of the Fallen Lords, a cadre of ancient and terrible sorceror-generals who are laying waste to the land with legions of vicious beasts and the tireless undead. A complex story, narrated by one of your units, takes shape as the campaign against the Fallen progresses over months and hundreds of miles. You also battle betrayal and cowardice in your own ranks, while rivalries amongst the Fallen can turn to your advantage. Cell-animated movies and strategic battle maps drive the plot and enrich a mintutely detailed fantasy world. All the while, a comet hanging in the Northern sky casts its fearful glare over the spreading horror. An eternal cycle of mythic bloodshed begins anew… Age of Empires Fan Sites Age of Empires Gaming Tips – Naval Battles Scenarios and Files Download Information Submittal must be a zipped file (as an attachment to an e-mail) containing the scenario and and text file containing the following: Your name.Your E-mail address. A description of the scenario. If you do not want your name and/or e-mail address posted to the web page please mention this in the text file. If you have all this information ready to go, send it to me at: Zakko – Heaven’s Master of Files. – Zakko Best Playing and Scenario Tips will be posted in Daily News |