January 20 [ News Index ] [ Main Page ] |
Vote for Age of Empires! Please vote for Age of Empires in both the “Game of the Year” and “Best Real-time Strategy Game” categories! – The Archangel Elephants should not be in this game Anyway, since the Carthaginians _were_ Phoenicians, and they used elephants all the time (Egyptians did too, but not as often), elephants have a fine place in the game. They’re far from all-powerful anyway — they cost a lot but are vulnerable to priests & hoplites. On the other hand they look really cool and are useful in a number of situations. Especially in the early iron age. – Sandy “Sandyman” Petersen Ensemble Studios Hittites Kittens better than Sumerian Cats? Incidentally, our experience is that in a cat duel, Hittites beat Sumerians. The extra hit points make up for the slower fire rate. But Hittite cats aren’t that much better than regular cats against anyone else. I guess it’s a trade-off. If you haven’t managed to keep the Sumerians toned down and their cat horde shows up outside your walls, you still have a chance if you’re a skilled player. Take your anti-cat forces (whether they be heavy cavalry, priests, fast Greek hoplites, or horse archers) and split them up into at least two groups (three, if you’re nimble enough). Attack the cats from two different directions. When the cats fire at one group, flee with it and push ahead with the other. Use only small forces for this, because large forces tend to get caught in the radius effect. Keep probing in small groups and come from all directions. The cats will be pinned in one place and have to keep their eyes open for your guys. Also, remember that the cats dare not let you get in amongst them, because their own radius effect will kill them. – Sandy “Sandyman” Petersen Ensemble Studios ummm. I don’t know about that. Why it is true the “Hittite” kittens have double stone thrower, Catapult, and Heavy Catapult Hits points. The Sumerians have plus 50 percent Stone Thrower, Catapult and Heavy Catapult Fire rate. I play the Sumerians allot, mostly for the extra food production, but have had no pure matches yet against a Hittite player using a Cat Vs Cat Attack . – The Archangel GameStats Climbing Wow! – Heaven’s Angels would like to thank Imperious Rex and the fine people at Gamestats for letting us be apart of the greatest collection of gaming sites on the internet. Can’t wait for the next update! – 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 Age of Empires General Strategy Tips Your Gold or Mine Kittens & Tress |
January 19 [ News Index ] [ Main Page ] |
Upgrades vs Age Advancement What I find completely worthless, is the axe upgrade and building clubmen/axemen as well as researching fast armor and attack upgrade soon, for them. The cost in food is too high and you will die in the tool age. Building bowmen depend on the situation (if you can, avoid the cost in wood & food). You should build walls that will stop them (you basically start them 30 sec after you reached tool age, the time to research walls at the granary). Bowmen are very poor wall breakers and in case of trouble, you can put towers, or resign yourself to build bowmen should you see they will break in. The techs you have ignored can always be researched later if you want, and judge this with the resources you have. And lastly ,about choosing civs. After playing some games, you will find yourself using some type of units more than the others, because you feel confident with them. Choose a civ that benefit them in regards of techs they can research and the units they can build. Then you must determine how you will deals with others. I’d say you have to find solution against (in order of importance) siege weapons, priests, the fast units, err…those that move 2.0 tiles/second and faster whether missile unit or not, Infantry and elephants. You should cover all those and know what to do if you encounter a “purist” army. Naturally, you don’t build a purist army ever, so someone can exploit your weaknesses, and to exploit every weaknesses, you can’t do it with a purist army. Once the threat of any purist army is eliminated, then you can deal with any armies. After that, the winner will be the one who use them the best. – Omnivac Age of Empires Fan Sites The Temple pAC_manN’s AOE tip Page About Heaven’s Link page: I visit all the other AoE sites at least weekly, I have noticed allot of pages don’t have a Age of Heaven Link up that have requested a link on Heaven. Starting this weekend I will be deleting all sites from the Heavens link page that do not have our link up and/or that has not been updated in the last month. 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 Cheats Dark Rain – Composite bowmen to stealth bowmen – Hiding like Trees. Age of Empires General Strategy Tips My Thumb The Priest Defense The Best Offense |
January 18 [ News Index ] [ Main Page ] |
Submit Strategy Tips – The Granary – New Files Daily Lewis Dreams About Heaven Point taken – Read about it here – The Archangel From the Ensemble Data Base ‘gator = 0.5 wild elephant = 1 lion = 1.1 fishing boat = 1.4 fishing ship = 2 trade boat = 2 trade ship = 2.5 light transport = 1.4 hvy transport = 1.75 scout/galley/trireme = 1.75 cat trireme/jug = 1.35 villager = 1.1 priest = 0.8 all barracks units = 1.2 all foot archers = 1.2 chariot archer = 2 horse archer = 2.2 hvy horse archer = 2.5 elephant archer = 0.9 scout = 2 cav/hvy cav/cataphract = 2 chariot = 2 war elephant = 0.9 all academy units = 0.9 all siege workshop units = 0.8 That’s the facts, folks. Straight from Ensemble’s Studios database to you. – Sandy “Sandyman” Petersen Age of Empires Fan Sites Age of Empires Fun Page About Heaven’s Link page: I visit all the other AoE sites at least weekly, I have noticed allot of pages don’t have a Age of Heaven Link up that have requested a link on Heaven. Starting this weekend I will be deleting all sites from the Heavens link page that do not have our link up and/or that has not been updated in the last month. 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
Other BLT AgeToons can be found – Here Age of Empires Strategy Tips ummm.. It seems hard for me at times just to get enough resources to build what I need. – The Archangel The Greek Rush? Map directions |
January 17 [ News Index ] [ Main Page ] |
It won’t be long before we’ll be allowed to talk about TEAM ANGEL ON THE CLOUDS! Ion Storm Vs Heaven AOE & Scribbb’s Empire
Ensemble Studios Heaven is Waiting for you! The Ion Storm Vs Ensemble Studios Age of Empires Fan Sites This is one of the Greatest New Fan Sites I have seen in a while – two clouds up (ah.. thumbs up) from Heaven – 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 Strategy Tips World War II – Beach Head Walls Map directions More Kitten Tricks |
January 16 [ News Index ] [ Main Page ] |
More Q&A With Bruce Shelley VS This Evens It Up – One Match Apiece
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Co-Op Vs Heaven Talking about play games, a first for me, A Co-Op game, really Kewl! – For those of you that don’t know how… You setup a Cooperative (Co-Op) Game with two or more players by selecting the same player number before starting a multiplayer game. They share control of a single civilization. Each player can give unrestricted (and even conflicting) orders to all units. Vidguy and myself teamed up Co-op mode against Fatcat and Smoggie Boy on a large island Map. At first, it was a little hard to do the give and take with a partner (allot of chatting when on 🙂 – but after the duties (and Areas of our island) were divided up thing went real smooth! – A plus of Co-Op playing, you can see how other players use their Strategies in the games, a nice bonus. We sent Fatcat and Smoggie down in flames with a Huge Fleet of Jugg’s. Very Pretty to watch 🙂 Plus it was fun to win once in awhile. heehaw – The Archangell Talking about Standards More Kittens That said, I find it difficult to defend/attack against a battalion (10-15 at a time) of Sumerian heavy catapults(+50%ROF); even unguarded by other units. Now, cav r supposed to be the anti-cats force but when those cats advance in numbers and in waves….everything I throw at them just get killed before they can reach or finish them. They simply bulldozed their way through my town. Personally, I prefer speed over brute force; smaller combined forces over larger armies. So short of building a much bigger army, is there another more strategic way to deal with them? I have thought of some possible approaches: 1.CONTAIN THE FIRE – using fast civ to raid early and often so those Sumerians can’t develop or build up huge army (which I’ve used successfully against slower/less experienced player) 2.FRIENDLY FIRE – using fast cav to zig-zag around those dumb cats so that they kill themselves (easier said than done-I’ve yet to master this skill) 3.FIGHT FIRE WITH FIRE – build up bigger troops of Sumerian or Hittite(double HP) cats (what if random map gives me a bad starting location?) – NeZha I think ES made AoE to be the way that every tactic is countered. But Hittite cats are best defense against Sumerian cats, they simply kill them, and if you have elephants with cats, its even better. – Spider But those darn Sumerians are pretty good farmers too. Somehow computer player advances very fast to bronze with lots of farms:-( And then, well you know, then goes that cat attack. – Sphinx 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 My First Multiplayer Game Two points here Lewis – Your first mistake is using the words peons. The Villagers perform better if you call them “Villagers”, they are very self conscious of this. Secondly your comments about Elephants not respecting girls, ummmm.. I will send this off to Ensemble Studios and see if this can be reported as a bug to the programming staff! 🙂 – The Archangel Having pachyderm problems? Here are a couple of solutions that work best for certain civs. Priests. Elephants are slow and stupid, teach them the merits of your religion. Playing against Persian elephants? Priests still apply, but this time put something nasty in front of your preachers. Say..centurions or even better helopolis. Instant Alpo for any who would so arrogantly refuse your conversion. Just remember that centurions work best ONE on ONE against elephants while the opposite is true for ballista/helepoli. Chariot Archers or Horse Archers. Hit and run or use two groups. One for the ‘phant to chase and the other to pincushion dumbo. – Bazooka Centurions kill elephants. But Catapults kill cents. Cavs kill Cats, but elephants kill cavs. So… You need a couple of cats to distract him with. Send a group of cavs behind his elephants to kill the cats. Then send in your cents to kill the elephants. I know, easier said than done, but that’s what you’d have to do. Remember, a mixed force is the best force. – Ibrahim I think priests are undeniably the best way to deal with elephants. They are great units (a bit slow but hey). But the cost is a bit steep and the build time is slow. They are much better when acquired than built. But those pesky cats are raining on your priest parade. So what I do is build chariots (yes chariots), you were using cav so hopefully you have the armor upgraded. Send about 5 chariots out and around the elephants and right in at the cats. You may have to weave back and forth as you come in if the cats are leading you. Hopefully, when you reach the cats some of the cats will help you kill the cat your fighting and the ones your fighting won’t be able to fire on you (min range of 2). If the elephants come in to help they will also hurt any cats that are adjacent to them. You may need more than one group of chariots to finish off the cats. Then just start converting the elephants. Don’t forget to heal them when your done and thank your enemy for the army. Why chariots and not cav? Chariots are cheaper and will get the job done. These are suicide troops whose only goal in life is to rid you of the evil cats. So far I have only run into one person adept enough to not lose all his cats to a few groups of chariots. In a pinch you can use villagers too, especially the Assyrian and Yamato villagers. – ZipperHead Age of Empires Strategy Tips Highland maps Second question, how many villagers do people build before tool age on average. I know it depends on the food you find around you, I personally keep building them until I hit 500 food which usually is around 24-26 villagers, and never do I advance with less than 20. – Ender It’s true that highlands maps have at least one player not near forests almost every games. Usually, you take care of this problem with the trees around your town center right from the start, and put a storage pit later near a good spot that you have found. This way, you can keep up with the others, and given the size of the home bases that players usually have, storage pits far from your town center would fall into your zone of control, anyway. I think it’s a way to view this, and that it shouldn’t be considered a disadvantage. I’m revising my starting strategy now, and I think the optimum would be 16-20 villagers. Food is usually no problem (only the time needed to find it). It is always near, and you want to avoid exploring just 1 tile away and passing by. An expanding circle is the best method, usually. There’s always near, at least 2 berry patch (average of 6 berry bushes each) and 2 elephants for a total of 2400 food. Basically, it’s more than what you need for 20 villagers and going to tool age, and what you should look for. Gold and Stone will also be no problem as they are also near (at least one patch each), and you find them in your initial exploration searching for food and a good-size forest. – Omnivac |