I never played Age

[Anonym]

My friend recommended me this game because he said its cool strategy, I played alot of Starcraft, warcraft, civ, coh, etc.. and Age seems to be the most less skill based strategy game I ever played, macro or micro doesnt matter, each game I encountered same tactic, build walls as close as possible, build towers, then castles and just blob out range units. To me it seems like there is no real depth or skill to it.

[Cypress]

Well this has to be troll post, you can't be serious when saying warcraft or company of heroes has more depth than aoe2...

[Adventurer]

Originally posted by Anonym:

To me it seems like there is no real depth or skill to it.

So you would say that all of the players are equally skilled and the outcome is decided by their gaming chair?

[Thor II]

Are you really comparing CIV and CoH with AOE II? CIV is Turn-based Strategy and CoH is Real-Time Tactics, has nothing to do with AOE II. That alone disqualifies the entire post.

In Starcraft wins who knows more shortcuts and squeeze them faster, very little strategy involved. Warcraft had such a bad MP that its mods became more popular than it giving rise to a whole new genre of games, and it doesn't even have random maps.

[Nifrigel]

Originally posted by Anonym:

Age seems to be the most less skill based strategy game I ever played, macro or micro doesnt matter, each game I encountered same tactic, build walls as close as possible, build towers, then castles and just blob out range units. To me it seems like there is no real depth or skill to it.

Come back after getting into top 100 ranked with your gz tactic "build walls as close as possible, build towers, then castles and just blob out range units".

[Quarantined_villager]

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[King_B]

Originally posted by Anonym:

the most less skill based strategy game I ever played, macro or micro doesnt matter, each game I encountered same tactic, build walls as close as possible, build towers, then castles and just blob out range units. To me it seems like there is no real depth or skill to it.

hmm, well, I don't play ranked games, but I watched countless of videos how the best players went at each other.
The start is almost always the same and that's the boring part in my opinion.
But the longer the game goes, the interesting it gets.
Good luck managing your vills, and your military units at different spots at the same time.
That's not easy to do. SO much for macro or micro.

Well, you can pop out a bunch of range units. But experienced players know how to counter that easily and your plan basically disappears. What's plan B?

The strategies for late games is different and depends on the civs people play with as every civ got their own bonuses, strenghts and weaknesses. If you don't use those to your advantage, that alone will make you lose to experienced players. That's all for ranked.

I love the campaigns and the coop. So, there you have the situation that you must work with whatever is given to you and that is always different in every mission. You have to adapt.
If they are too easy for you, switch difficulty. Not all, but some missions will give you a good and sweaty time on hard.

AoE2 is not a fan fouvrite and beloved, well sold game for no reason, my friend.

Originally posted by Quarantined_villager:

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[JoshSA]

Originally posted by Anonym:

My friend recommended me this game because he said its cool strategy, I played alot of Starcraft, warcraft, civ, coh, etc.. and Age seems to be the most less skill based strategy game I ever played, macro or micro doesnt matter, each game I encountered same tactic, build walls as close as possible, build towers, then castles and just blob out range units. To me it seems like there is no real depth or skill to it.

I'll give you the benefit of doubt and try ignore that this is likely a troll post.

If you use micro, you can counter the enemies towers. If you use macro, you can get to imp quicker than your opponent and treb down his castles. So just in the one strategy you mentioned, there is both micro and macro counters.

What ELO are you? Have you watched any mid (> 1100) to high ELO games (> 1700 ELO)?

Age of Empires 2 is known to be one of the more in-depth Real TIme Strategy games ever made. It has multiple resource types, various technologies, and a ton of civilizations. I think your perception is warped by your lack of understanding of the game.

[Antares]

11111111111111111111111111111 um... First of all...

Actually you know what? Go out and find a job son. Because clearly you're bored AF!

[MFX_Media]

Originally posted by Anonym:

My friend recommended me this game because he said its cool strategy, I played alot of Starcraft, warcraft, civ, coh, etc.. and Age seems to be the most less skill based strategy game I ever played, macro or micro doesnt matter, each game I encountered same tactic, build walls as close as possible, build towers, then castles and just blob out range units. To me it seems like there is no real depth or skill to it.

Hey buddy. I think you got the wrong door. The leather club is two blocks down.

[Eternal]

So many people got triggered by this troll post...
He didnt even make a single trebushet
He does not even have Dark Dinner achievement which means he did not even complete tutorials

[Anonym]

Originally posted by Eternal:

So many people got triggered by this troll post...
He didnt even make a single trebushet
He does not even have Dark Dinner achievement which means he did not even complete tutorials

I have over 19 winstreak already without single loss by just abusing simple poor gameplay mechanic.

[Eternal]

Cool :) is that vs easy bots?
If you dont mind could we get any info on what game modes you play?

[Anonym]

Originally posted by Eternal:

Cool :) is that vs easy bots?
If you dont mind could we get any info on what game modes you play?

Quickplay 2v2

[Eternal]

See? That is your problem. Play ranked games or very hard/extreme bots if you want actual gameplay and i dont think you will be able to get very far without eating 2 pigs in dark age

Quickplay does not really care much about skill of players and is mostly populated by low lvl players drunk people or people that try wacky strats

[Cypress]

Originally posted by Anonym:

Originally posted by Eternal:

Cool :) is that vs easy bots?
If you dont mind could we get any info on what game modes you play?

Quickplay 2v2

Unfortunately Quickplay is a joke. In ranked, even players on the lowest elo eat both boars in the dark age. Eternal is totally right, if you dont even know the basics, you probably shoudln't make a post like this.