"If, like me, you are lazy about quickly building up your economy, and you
end up fighting several enemies who all have in the region of 10 castles and
heavy fortifications, the best thing to do to defeat them is to create millions
of your most powerful unit; paladins for example, hurskals are very useful in
this respect because they are practically imune to long range fire and can be
created quickly at a baracks, and do some scouting; the computer is ususaly
stupid enough to leave a gap in his walls where he is cutting wood, and charge
all of your units in; go for his castles first, and don't divide your forces
unless you have to many to have them all attacking a castle at once.
The only way in which this tactic does not work is against bombard towers; go
around them whilst destroying them with trebuchets etc." - Robo
"well everybody is saying that the byzantines are the best, but i have
realized that the huns are the best because they dont need any houses, so you
can save up wood to build many barracks, archery ranges and stables (the more
barracks, archery ranges, and stables you have, the more spearman you are able
to create)" - diiiiiiiiiiiiiik
"ok the trick is at the beginning of the game, research loom and then
delete your town center. Then, delete all but one villager and keep 1. Take that
1 villager and your scout to the enemies base and attack. You will win every
time!" - weenis
"So, you must really like the game like i do, if you come to this site!
well, i am an Age of Empires Freak! i love the game, and have been playing it
for about 7-8 years. So far, I have found that If you are going on the
offensive, you could use the Byzantines, and if you are going more on the
defensive, a good team is the Huns, if you are on "all Technologies" and have
put in "aegis", a code that makes the game move along very fast. Now, I think
the Best team for offense and defense would be the Turks. I have used them,
because of their cannon-type units, and their high performance jannisaries. If
you decide to try this, follow the steps.
1.Build your city, upgrade all technologies, and advance to the castle or
imperial age(used better in the Imperial age) 2.after city is built, with
duplecites of each military building,build a fortified wall around your city.
3.after wall is built, put bombard towers and guard towers on the outside of the
wall, put them right against the outside of your wall.
4.after towers are structured, go to your siege workshop, and create 20 siege
onagers, and10 Heavy Scorpions.place the siege units against the towers, but
scatter them out.
5.After that go to your castle and create about 50-100 Eleite Jannisaries. place
them in groups of ten or so, with your siege units.
6. after that, build another fortified wall around all of your defense units.
dont forget the gates.
If you did everything i said, it will be virtually impossible for your enemies
to get into your city. you can follow up on there. i would suggest putting
knights on the very outside of your empire city, just incase your enemies decide
to bring along any other siege weapons or even tribuchets. good luck" - Kameron Elumbaugh
