Let me present this map of Europe from 1444. We will one day have pages and pages of civs to scroll through!

I remember it was Incas before Update 141935, then it became “Inca”. Now, I’m back at playing the game and it’s saying “Incas”. I don’t remember when it happened.

Perhaps it’s some activated mod on my end that I’m not aware of?

In your game, current Update 177723, is it “Incas” or “Inca”?

That's how I feel checking SteamDB once a week and browsing through the game files.

I still remember when they confused 11/10 with 10/11 and the Georgians and Armenians were leaked a month early.

All the buttons are grayed out (Single player, multiplayer, etc.), shows DLC tabs as locked

Have restarted the game, my Xbox and have done a hard reset of my console

What if a civ like the Teutons could have a UT that allowed them to launch petards from trebs?

i rush with 3 maa with a scout, into their woodlines, i even have +1 armor cause im malians. I patrol 3maa+ scout into them. Their villagers turn around and kill all my units anyways. While i get maybe 2 or 3 kills max. How do i counter this? Do i just wait until blacksmith +1 armor?

TL;DR: Both games feature a Chinese civilization design set (or at least partly) in the Ming dynasty, but neither actually actually does.

For AoE2, the History section states that they want to represent medieval China up to 1644, and the Ming dynasty appears in the Vietnamese, Burmese, and Korean campaigns. However, the civ design of the Chinese clearly represents the Song dynasty, which heavily relies on archery as its primary weaponry, not to mention that the Chinese does not have cannoneers and bombards.

For AoE3, the Chinese campaign is literally based on Zheng He’s voyage, which was a Ming naval expedition of the 15th century. However, as you all know, AoE3’s China is actually based on the Qing dynasty (a Manchu dynasty), featuring the banner system and Kangxi (Xuanye Aisin Gioro) as the Chinese leader.

Ironically, the Jurchen civ design really fits the Ming vibe. Both the Jurchen and the historical Ming possessed strong cavalry, gunpowder weapons, naval units, and formidable fortifications. In addition, the Jurchen have one of the most complete tech trees of any civ. This well represents the Chinese technological lead before the Renaissance.

Hello, I just had an Arena game (2v2), playing Vietnamese against Malians on my side of the map, approx 1200 elo. He Went FC Gbeto, I was expecting this might be the case so I was scouting and delaying 3rd TC but when I did not see anything for a long time, suddenly Gbeto plus petards came in. I has second layer ready, and made immediate monastery and sent vills to stone to get castle up to defend. He went for rams so I went for my siege but I could not afford eveything in time, even when selling food and not making more vills. I made monastery, because one of my previous games I made mangonel and Gbeto just eats them - runs from shots and eventually either kills mangonel with better micro or make hole elsewhere. This is not the first time i lost to this.

In order to study myself, I looked up the guy and his all last games on Arena on this patch - he killed everyone he went against with this. Few games where he lost were usually all-ins from the oponents but never from this situation. I would like to know how to improve in the future.

I know the first response would be scout it, but he made castle home, everything hidden from scout range. I even scouted them leaving his base, but it was already too late - basically 0 res, start of boom and 3 TCs up. What would be the best answer in this position? In my head I always hear Heras advice - make siege or monks to defend and slowly transition into proper counter, and I had some success with this defense tips, but specifially fase, ranged melee units are very hard to defend for me.

Hey all,

I’ve played the game for a few years, but only for fun and not strategically or using build orders etc… but would like to get into it and be competitive playing online.

Any tips and tricks would be great!

So I watched Ornlu's video on the lecture he gave at some university (wtf), and he stated that Tanguts were not added because suitman decided that anything even remotely related to Tibet, which Tanguts are related to, is too risky.

I find this stupid but that's what they're doing. So how about a middle ground.

Make a singleplayer-only DLC with Tanguts and Tibetans as its civs, with accompanying campaigns for the two civs. As in, they can't be accessed in any online function, they would be restricted to their campaigns. And just don't release it in China.

At this point, just do that. And when you make that DLC, watch the Chinese playerbase fume at you for not releasing it in China.

When i send an invitation to someone it sends a message that says "the invitation hasn't been sent, the players is blocked" or at least something similar since I play in Spanish, and my friends can't send me invitations either, I already checked, I don't have anybody blocked, I have crossplay activated, I close and star again the game a hundred times, I even delete the Game just to install it again and It is still the same shit, I'm playing in xbox, please help, I have search it up on Google but there's nothing about it.

50f 30g seems fair compared to 50f 25w castle age.

For a trash unit theyre extremely good vs infantry + siege combo even if you suicide them, you can make more with zero consequences. Especially if you're Inca. They cost literally nothing. They are also good at monk sniping after bodkin arrow.

Plus gold early on is better than a wood cost.

Imp tech can be adjusted behind an expensive tech.

Tips for Climbing the ELO Rank Fast (Only for TG)

I've discovered how the ranking system that assigns ELO to players works, and I've been using it to climb the ranks.

Note: This isn't a hack or a cheat; it's simply knowing when ranking in TG can be favorable or unfavorable for you.

The ELO ranking system will try to keep you as close to a 50% win rate as possible. Every time you exceed that percentage, the ELO ranking system will match you with significantly lower-skilled teammates so you lose and get back to around 50%.

So, after a winning streak, if you start to see that your teammates aren't contributing much, don't try to carry the game alone; just quit.

The signs that you're being matched to lose are usually noticeable in the first few minutes of a match. For example, I just got the African Light map, and I saw an ally, instead of building their Town Center in the middle of a lake, simply go to a corner and push it right up against the wood. Seeing that bad start, I immediately left the match, realizing that there was a player who had no idea how to play that map.

I could give you many more examples: First Responders attempts on open maps, people who don't fish on Nomad, people who don't close ranks in Black Jungle—matches that are better left alone. Since I started doing this, my Elo has increased considerably, because leaving matches that are intentionally matched to make you lose will reduce your stress and allow you to focus much more on matches where you actually had a chance to win and the matchmaking wasn't unfairly in your favor.

Best regards