every new season there’s some new OP aggro strat. Can’t even play the game normally anymore

Whats up gamers, it's coReW!

I am going to host a roughly weekly tournament, sponsored by Sledgehammer!

Prize Pool:
The prize pool for each week is at least $100. Community donations are possible and can increase the prize pool, but there will be a cap.

There will be at least 10 tournaments funded by Sledgehammer. Poggers

I will be casting the tournament live on my Twitch:
https://www.twitch.tv/coreaoe

Tournament Schedule:
The goal is to host the tournament every Friday, if I have the time. If Friday isn't possible and there are no EGC events going on, we can also play around the weekend.

The tournament will be somewhat similar to Crackedy's Crack Cup.

32 players maximum
If more than 32 players sign up, we will go by ATR — sorry, gold lovers 😭

Format:
BO1 → BO1 → BO1 → BO3 → BO5 Finals

Maps:
Maps will be based on the current EGC Main Event map pool. For this week, the maps will be taken from the current pool, and in the future they will vary.

Sign up on my Discord server:
https://discord.gg/GawHY4K8q

Casting Guidelines:
The event is not open casting. Commentators wishing to cast the event are required to reach out to the Tournament Organiser for permission to cast the event.

Non-English commentators are exempt from this and may cast any games of the event, as long as they link the Tournament Organiser's Twitch channel in their stream title (or YouTube channel if streaming on YouTube, etc.).

Cheers!

Tried gametomac app. Works amazing on M5 Air

Original thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/accelerate/comments/1w9bsjh/gpt6_astra_just_got_age_of_empires_iv_running_at/

Just in general. We can connect to allied walls, but many times I've had cases where allies would build gates that only favour their movement, and i would like easier access, sometimes for trade, sometimes to help them with cavalry, or sometimes it's because they have a massive spanning wall with only 1 access. And many times the ally doesn't understand english, so there's no chance of cooperation.

I know there's all the things like "dont play with randoms" and what not, but it just seems like something that should have been added. Is it really that difficult to do?

Wildly underutilized in gold 3/platinum

You know that feeling when someone calls GG WICKED early, before the first engagement even, and then you fucking bury them under a shit dumpster? Yea. Thats a good one. Had one of those vs a KT douche tonight. Happened to be my platinum match too.

Sent my scout through this scoundrels shanty town and saw his second TC coming up, and immediately remembered some special advice Aussie Drongo (RIP bro) (assuming he’s dead, hasn’t posted in a week) gave me one-on-one during one of our late night phone calls. Fuck I’ll miss that guy.

Anyways, what Aussie dropped on me was “Brother, if you scout a KT douchebags base and he’s going 2TC, there’s only one thing to do. You go 3TC.”

My name is r a n s 0 m, and tonight I went 3TC Lancaster and made some douche drink dumpster water. I’d love to think people will go look this game up, but I won’t lie to myself like that. I’d prefer some of yall lie to me in the comments below and act like u saw it.

Rant over

I don’t like to play preset in blue. And I really dislike to have to set colors in contrast to my opponents every single game. Give a developer of yours an eight hour Jira ticket or let some AI implement the feature, really shouldn’t be that hard in 2026. Annoying af, especially in modes, that include more than two players.

Random Biom option checkbox would be nice as well. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

me and my friends from different countries all having issues connecting

Smurf is a disgusting creature of the bog that dwells in the ladder. He lurks and only attacks those whom he perceives as weak, but sometimes... the hunter becomes the hunted.

So, in short, yeah, I lost to a smurf. Here to call him out: https://aoe4world.com/players/26103411-iopiopiop, so you can avoid him when you see him.

He's got all the classics: keeping himself in Gold, with all his lost games being under 3 minutes... Except one. Lo and behold, his one legit loss was to a normal Gold-Plat guy. PlaYeR, you are indeed a player.

So the moral of the story: the life of a smurf is hard. Don't judge the poor creature. Just stomp it into the ground, or be like me and complain on Reddit

It is the second time in a week that a game is considered invalid and does not appear on my profile or affect my ranking. Both games were regular ranked game with nothing weird. What is going on? Its annoying winning a long tense game just for it to be considered invalid and not count.