I can beat hard ai

[Minatec-Eressëa]

i've been trying to beat hard ai as rus for 4 days straight and ive made no progress pls help

[Maladie.]

better macro

[Minatec-Eressëa]

Originally posted by Maladie.:

better macro

can you elaborate im kinda new to the series

[aurealismo]

Maybe try to play in a map that has choke points like black forest or mountain pass? It should be easier to build your defense. But you still need to build up your eco fast, and mass your army to repell the attackers. Make a raid if you can, harassing their villagers. Also always constantly check your TC to never stop producing villagers.

As for Rus, there are several Youtube video you can watch for some tips. You need to utilize your scouts to hunt for animals to gather some golds and generate bounty for faster resource gathering. I always focus on food & gold when playing as Rus, so i can easily spam Early Knights on feudal.

[Minatec-Eressëa]

Originally posted by aurealismo:

Maybe try to play in a map that has choke points like black forest or mountain pass? It should be easier to build your defense. But you still need to build up your eco fast, and mass your army to repell the attackers. Make a raid if you can, harassing their villagers. Also always constantly check your TC to never stop producing villagers.

As for Rus, there are several Youtube video you can watch for some tips. You need to utilize your scouts to hunt for animals to gather some golds and generate bounty for faster resource gathering. I always focus on food & gold when playing as Rus, so i can easily spam Early Knights on feudal.

ill give this a try im usually good about building up bounty quick with scouts but i always end up fumbling around age 3

[Pugs]

Originally posted by Minatec-Eressëa:

Originally posted by Maladie.:

better macro

can you elaborate im kinda new to the series

When this stunad says macro and nothing else, they mean building an economy and military/buildings in a fashion that is most efficient. Are you building your economy efficiently? Are you picking up resources you may not need in the moment? Are you maximizing the use of your workers and ensuring they aren't standing around idle?

[aurealismo]

Originally posted by Minatec-Eressëa:

Originally posted by aurealismo:

Maybe try to play in a map that has choke points like black forest or mountain pass? It should be easier to build your defense. But you still need to build up your eco fast, and mass your army to repell the attackers. Make a raid if you can, harassing their villagers. Also always constantly check your TC to never stop producing villagers.

As for Rus, there are several Youtube video you can watch for some tips. You need to utilize your scouts to hunt for animals to gather some golds and generate bounty for faster resource gathering. I always focus on food & gold when playing as Rus, so i can easily spam Early Knights on feudal.

ill give this a try im usually good about building up bounty quick with scouts but i always end up fumbling around age 3

Then you need to harass their eco, otherwise you let them build up resources & they will surely sending waves of raiding party to you. Early knights is suitable for this job. Try to send 4-6 of them to their base & attack their villagers using hit & run tactic.

[General Oliver]

play black forest, build the kremlin at the main choke point, lumber camp next to it. fill it with your soldiers of choice. i prefer using archers. wall your choke points with wooden forts next to them filled with units. once in castle age. i start producing knights with warrior monks with cav archers. you can try to take the sacred sites, easiest victory. or go for imperial age with the high armory, mass produce bombards and stresky (hand cannonors) and attack. i play against the hardest ai and its rather easy after the rushes.

[Feng Huang]

Go fast castle. AI is really bad at attacking early. At hardesr first attack doesn't come until maybe 8mins into the game. You can be Castle age by then. Or you could do feudal aggression if you kill a few villagers AI usually goes stupid with economy.

What civ are you playing anyway. So we can give more specific advice

[Razorblade Nipples]

Originally posted by Normalcarrot:

play black forest, build the kremlin at the main choke point, lumber camp next to it. fill it with your soldiers of choice. i prefer using archers. wall your choke points with wooden forts next to them filled with units. once in castle age. i start producing knights with warrior monks with cav archers. you can try to take the sacred sites, easiest victory. or go for imperial age with the high armory, mass produce bombards and stresky (hand cannonors) and attack. i play against the hardest ai and its rather easy after the rushes.

Is it true it doesn't matter what you fill a keep with as far as damage dealing goes?

[General Oliver]

Originally posted by Razorblade Nipples:

Is it true it doesn't matter what you fill a keep with as far as damage dealing goes?

from what i've seen, it doesn't matter. i always fill my kremlin with my 7 scouts after stealing hunts

[Krypton]

You shouild try Very Hard AI, I think it's easier than Hard Ai

[PK SPACE JAM]

I just beat the hard AI for the very first time this morning after trying for a week, things that helped - walling and harassing the AI's villagers, even if you don't kill any, if you can keep them from gathering resources efficiently it helps, the Hard AI doesn't seem to have a rebuttal to a rush strategy as I just rewatched the game and it went the whole time without trying to find gold after denying it one close to it's TC from near the start.

[FloosWorld]

Originally posted by Minatec-Eressëa:

Originally posted by Maladie.:

better macro

can you elaborate im kinda new to the series

In RTS in general marco means collecting resources, building up an army etc
Micro on the other hand are the details like moving units within battles, reassigning villagers to different resources