HOW THE HELL do you protect youre base?...

[BlackViper]

ive tried 4 games on the one just above easiest... and no mather how fast i try to build a smal army the AI comes and ♥♥♥♥♥ me sideways so hard i want to cry.

i cant build faster then i did.. i have 3 workers on every income resurce. i brought as many horses spearmend and normal fighters as i could..
and within 15 min the AI comes with way more then i even could have time to build and just ♥♥♥♥♥ my whole base over..

[Soccer]

Difficult to tell what you are doing so difficult to tell you what to do instead. Do you use build order from youtube videos? Everyone on sheep then 2-3 on gold? Then does you scout bring 4-6 more sheep?

Age up in minute 4-5. Build 1-2 military buildings and build from minute 5+? Frensh and english got military buildings as 2nd age landmarks.

1-2 wooden tower are also good for defense.

[kevolagyo]

3 workers each is was too less at 15 min mark you should be cooking new villagers nonstop until you have at least 80-100 of em, for constant villagers production you will need 4 gathering food constantly and increase as you proceed through the game.

play some art of war and/or campaign to learn the basics of the game
you might also want to start looking at some build orders for the civs you like to play

war is basically rock paper scissors... spearmen kills cav, cav kills archers, archers kill spearmen

[nOObIE]

lack of villagers is definitely your issue, keep producing villagers like kevolagyo said.

[Modragor]

Originally posted by BlackViper:

ive tried 4 games on the one just above easiest... and no mather how fast i try to build a smal army the AI comes and ♥♥♥♥♥ me sideways so hard i want to cry.

i cant build faster then i did.. i have 3 workers on every income resurce. i brought as many horses spearmend and normal fighters as i could..
and within 15 min the AI comes with way more then i even could have time to build and just ♥♥♥♥♥ my whole base over..

You have to build villagers until you have between 80 - 120 villagers. Also you should hit feudal age after 4- 5 minutes, meaning as basic strategy to put first 6 villagers on food, next 3 villagers on gold (building house + mining camp), then put next 2 villagers on food, then next villagers on wood and immediately go up by buliding your landmark when you hear the knocking sound telling you, that you have enough resources.

For more info look on youtube for build order and the civ you are playing.

[Aerond]

Build watchtowers. Build 10-20 spearmen+archers.

[Aerond]

Originally posted by Modragor:

Originally posted by BlackViper:

ive tried 4 games on the one just above easiest... and no mather how fast i try to build a smal army the AI comes and ♥♥♥♥♥ me sideways so hard i want to cry.

i cant build faster then i did.. i have 3 workers on every income resurce. i brought as many horses spearmend and normal fighters as i could..
and within 15 min the AI comes with way more then i even could have time to build and just ♥♥♥♥♥ my whole base over..

You have to build villagers until you have between 80 - 120 villagers.

Wow... Impressive. So that's the real strategy for this game...

[Modragor]

Originally posted by Aerond:

Originally posted by Modragor:

You have to build villagers until you have between 80 - 120 villagers.

Wow... Impressive. So that's the real strategy for this game...

It´s the basic eco in AoE games since 20 years, don´t know what you want to tell me?

[Aerond]

Originally posted by Modragor:

Originally posted by Aerond:

Wow... Impressive. So that's the real strategy for this game...

It´s the basic eco in AoE games since 20 years, don´t know what you want to tell me?

Congratulating you for teaching me?

[Bubs]

vs ai, even the highest difficulty, the people i play with don't do more than 80 villagers. sometimes i win games with 40 and 1 tc. If you are playing less than the highest, I would say 80 should be the max. But, if you want to optimize, ignore me.

[BlackViper]

Originally posted by Bubs:

vs ai, even the highest difficulty, the people i play with don't do more than 80 villagers. sometimes i win games with 40 and 1 tc. If you are playing less than the highest, I would say 80 should be the max. But, if you want to optimize, ignore me.

i dont survive more then 20 min, cause they come and ♥♥♥♥ me up.

[Pan Darius Cassandra]

Build more pylons.

[OADIF]

It sounds like you are new to age of empires games. I would start by going through the art of war training at least for early economy, late economy, and basic combat. Play around with campaign and then try your hand at skirmishes of increasing difficulty. Watching back your matches can be helpful to find ways to improve. Also lots of youtube videos out there.

In general if you find the AI is overwhelming you with numbers its because you are behind on economy. Aways have villagers queued from TC and spend your resources as soon as you can afford it. Most new players don't use their resources and will bank up 1000s for no reason.

[Samseng Yik]

Blaming others for own weakness is a modern trend now?
Maybe you can try watch videos at youtube how other people play at higher difficulty.
And just learn something from them

[Snickerbockers]

Originally posted by BlackViper:

ive tried 4 games on the one just above easiest... and no mather how fast i try to build a smal army the AI comes and ♥♥♥♥♥ me sideways so hard i want to cry.

i cant build faster then i did.. i have 3 workers on every income resurce. i brought as many horses spearmend and normal fighters as i could..
and within 15 min the AI comes with way more then i even could have time to build and just ♥♥♥♥♥ my whole base over..

you need way more than three workers on every resource. Initial workers should be mostly on food and also on wood to a lesser extent. Use the food to make more workers and use the wood to make houses so you can keep making workers. Eventually you want gold too for military and advancing to the feudal age.

That's the basic concept at least, there's a lot more nuance than that and im not particularly good at RTS games either but i do know that you need waaaaayyy more workers on food production than you have lol.

[Arc]

Keep building villagers and collecting food and wood, then gold. So like 10 on food, 10 on wood, 5 on gold early on, by that time you can build up barracks and field some troops, but never stop pumping out villages and aging up.

You can easily have 15 villagers on each resource into the mid game and more. I usually have 120 - 130 villagers, which techs upgraded and very small, strong armies.

You can also build up wooden walls, which are really effective and tunneling the AI to certain choke points. Look for hillsides, thick tree forests that are impassable and wall off access of the AI, just make sure you don't build the walls so close you box yourself in, it's more about building walls at chokepoints on the map.