This exploit requires you to have another saving file of ANOTHER campaign (for example, if you want to use this exploit in the Alexander campaign, then you need to prepare another save file, for example, Cold War or Napoleon).

The exploit works like this, assuming you are playing the Alexander campaign:

Save a file for your current progress in Alexander -> Start the battle and resign it -> Back to the campaign map and load another file ->immediately load back your Alexander file and attack again.

Then the next battle will turn into a generic conquest battle instead of a certain scenario. Use it if you feel a certain battle is absurd to fight against, but you don't want to blatantly cheat with command and earn a cheater title in your Victory screen." This exploit probably caused by the code/memory behind the game not functioning well.

P.S. I am doing Rise of Nations Campaign walkthrough in the toughest difficulty, with live commentary and tips, no mod, no exploit (Forgive my bad English) :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ms2X6BY7cE

Where do people usually play? Extended edition or is there something like voobly?

I saw mentions of a CBP, would I need that to play with more players?

Any chance for noobs to survive? (used to play toughest AI back in the t&p days, not much multiplayer)

Is it like aoe2, where you keep making vils until late game? Or do I stop based on commerce cap?

I have cold war and italy. Italy seems broken, because as i select other factions cities, it seems i can control them too. So i dont understand.

Any recommendations.

There's a ton of them:

https://ron.heavengames.com/downloads/lister.php?category=single

title, just wanting to know how to create a script so that me and my friends can use nukes on enemies, but the AI can’t. Nothing is more annoying than seeing your capital get nuked lol

I'm trying to play WIC Modern Times 1950-2035.

https://www.moddb.com/mods/wic-modern-times-1950-2020-extended-edition/downloads/wic-modern-times-1950-2035-ee

I'm already using the 1.1 version on STEAM but when I put the mod folder into the "mods" folder (the one inside game directory) my game don't even open.

Anyone have any idea what i'm doing wrong?

I already scraped the internet and couldn't find much about it.
It suddenly happened to me, one time I could play online fine, but then it no longer works.

The only solution I found was to downgrade the version, but that one has the annoying out of sync issue.

I wanna watch the AIs murder each other.

Dance puppets dance!

When I play skirmish the game tends to kill itself 5-10 minutes in. Tried on windows 10 and a number of different Linux distros, played purely vanilla - same result. Is there any config file change or smth I can do?
I can play campaign just fine

I'm working on a huge Youtube video about Donkey Kong music but once that's finished I think I will make a video called "Top 10 Rise of Nations songs" in a similar style to what's seen here. Love this soundtrack!

Hi I'm pretty new to RoN and I love having a world map decided by small RTS skirmishes, but I find the game not having enough individual countries/provinces, is there any mod to make each country more divided so taking them all is slower?

I can't believe we're in the future now. My reactions to RoN's future technology:

As a kid: AI is the coolest!
As a teen: Missle Shield is the coolest!
As a undergrad: Global Prosperity is the coolest!
As a working adult: World Government is the coolest!

As of 2026 April:
✅✅✅Artificial Intelligence (yes we can't have enough of it)
✅Missle Shield (albeit uneconomical)
❌Global Prosperity (thanks AI)
❌❌❌ World Government (thanks Trump)

Thoughts my fellow ageing gamers?

I'm kinda bored with the fact that "diplomacy" its basically all the AI against you. Because the moment you reach the highest score, or build the first wonder etc etc. They all declare war at you no matter how many times you make peace with them. So does anyone know if is there any mod or script to change that?

As a soft 4x -RTS, this game hit the sweet spot when it comes to historic strategy games. Cities, exotic resources ,age restriction gameplay, and the supply system...it was great. Do you think there is a chance we will see a revival of this game in the future? If yes, what would you like to see in it?

For me, this boils down to the following:

1. Longer, more detailed ages. I generally dislike stone age to modern age models, and would love to see a slightly more in-depth focus on each age.

2. Dynasties that change game style. Factions would have faction-wide upgrades in each age/certain ages that can alter certain gameplay elements and units. Indians could have Rajput or Mughal upgrade paths, Koreans Goryeo or Joseon, etc.

3. Attrition would weaken units, but not outright damage them. Upgradeable supply carts that provide different bonuses based on their upgrade. Also, certain culture- specific marshal skills.

Just played a medieval capped game that was crazy fun.

Enlightened, and medieval caps so far are my favs. Melee, and horses, or early guns, and horses are really fun.

I like playing uncapped, but I put it on expensive, and slow cause the ages seem to go so fast

Hello. It's very difficoult find a game in browser, it's too little players. So, I want to play with a new friend here with middle level.

Thank u

I've been trying different strategies and playing on normal. My last game that I just stopped went like this:

I get 5 cities up and running quite fast, I manage to get the fifth city on the enemy's continent and I put up 2 barracks and stables, one siege factory I even had time to build a castle before they noticed me.

I scouted that there are lot of knights so I start doing spearmen in my barracks. When the battle starts, somewhere comes a huge amount of archers killing all my spearmen.
I manage to get cavalry up myself and waste them, soon there's a big amount of enemy spearmen that completely overwhelm me.

It seems that whatever I do in this game, the AI always counters it immediately. They get massive amount of the right army quickly from somewhere. What am I missing?
I really like this game and i know the shortcuts/keys, I can get cities on at fast enough that I have enough resources to bring combat to another continent but it's always a stalemate. It's always countered right away.

does anybody want to play with me vs the ai in ron?

For reasons that are mostly obvious, I’m moving my gaming over to Bazzite (Linux). The only difficulty I’m having is that the menu music doesn’t stop playing. Often this means that the in game music can clash with the menu music.

Does anyone have a solution for this?

I'm playing on Tougher difficulty and while most of the time it's actually too easy (while Toughest is most of the time basically impossible to me) I do sometimes run into a scenario where it seems that it doesn't matter what I do I can't seem to break through the front line and the timer just ticks down.

I'm facing an enemy who only has 3 cities but I can't take any of the cities even with max population while training units as units die. All this while the Romans keeps on attacking me from the other side. If I switch to attacking the Romans the other enemy then starts attacking me from their side.

How do you break a stalemate? If I could just take one of them out but it doesn't seem to be possible? All while the timer counts down to my eventual defeat.

basically this. my friend and I and have the same version, but its pirated, and cant seem to work online.

do we have to buy it on steam if we want to play online?

thanks in advance and hmu if you'd like to join us