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How to Win at The Age of Empires Expansion

Published by Microsoft Games and produced by Ensemble Studios, Age of Empire's and its expansion, Rise of Rome, is a famous early Real Time Strategy game. It was one of the more successful RTS games and the first played by many. You start in the stone age and research new technologies and build troops to conquer the world. The most used victory condition is conquest.

Things You'll Need

  • Ages of Empires Expansion
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Instructions

    • 1

      Develop a strong enough economy to buy everything you need. The rate at which you can purchase new troops, buildings, technologies, and ages, is limited by the rate at which you accumulate wealth. You will need to have 10 to 20 workers to gather everything. In the beginning of the game, a worker has the same attack stats as a warrior, and is far more useful. Focus on getting all of your villagers created first.

    • 2

      Make your resources as close as possible to a collection point, so workers don't walk as far. When hunting, circle behind the prey and chase them towards a storage pit or town center. Advance to the 2nd or 3rd ages before trying to attack, unless on a small map with few players. Only save up your resources for when you need to get new technology or reach a new age. Otherwise, just keep building and producing military in a constant stream.

    • 3

      Create a scout. Explore the layout of the map, the choke points, the extra resources, the ambush points, where the enemy lies, what technologies, strategies and units he has created. The AI tends to stick to certain styles of attack, like defensive siege or offensive cavalry. Certain civilizations have different weaknesses and strengths to exploit. The Egyptians, for example, tend to only have a good cavalry but a terrible barracks selection. Once you know the layout, check your manual for their weaknesses and build a specialized strike force to assault them from the proper location.

    • 4

      Develop your plan of attack. Focus on what you need to research and build, and nothing else. Don't get distracted. If you don't need it, it is a drain on time and money. If the enemy has a lot of siege craft or archers, build cavalry to run them down. If they have a lot of barracks troops, build ballistic and archers to attack them while retreating. When attacking, use the terrain and send a worker or two along to build a closer reinforcement base. If they are next to a cliff or ocean, then rain death upon them from across it. If they are near a chock point, build a wall maze and archers to have them wander themselves to death, then invade. Build a trap and lure their army into it.

    • 5

      Attack as fast as you can. Destroy the villagers and production buildings as soon as you hit the enemy village. Once every building and villager is destroyed, they will be defeated. Sometimes a small group of villagers will escape and you need to patrol the map and hunt them down, but you can wait to do that if there are other enemies with which to contend.


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