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Age of Empires III: Secret ESO Awards

chanceless — Sun, 19 May 2013 14:49:41 GMT

Age of Empires III: Secret ESO Awards

Hello together, a long time ago I found a picture in the Age of Empires 3 game files, the picture contains the awards, which can be taken. Click for the link.
I used the stringtable-file and got the meanings of the awards.

Brone, Silver and Gold medal (f.l.t.r) → These are the only used

Emperor Pin

Pioneer Pin

Conquistador Pin

Good Samaritan

Captain

Colonel

Field Marshal

Master Shepard

Master Hunter

Master Farmer

Master Carpenter

Master Merchant

Grand Admiral

Master Tradesman

Master Diplomat

Imperialist

Industrialist

The story of Mamelukes

Mike — Wed, 22 May 2013 00:10:53 GMT

I play this game for 6 damn years, but I figured out now that Mamelukes were Georgians. Not like I didn't know, the name was different and the story as well, I'm a Georgian myself and I know who Mamelukes were.

Mamelukes (მამლუქები) were Georgian children which were being stolen every time by Egyptians in the 16-17th centuries, because Georgian warriors were well known by their strength. So that's why Egyptians wanted to steal them, to rise them like Egyptian warriors for themselves.

There were fights there, like wrestling, but it was a bit different back then, Georgians always won. Once, a great man (ფაშა (pasha) in Georgian) came and said that his warrior was the best and had no loses, but neither had the guy which he wanted his warrior to fight against. This was happening in Egypt by the way, there, where the big selling was going on. The pashas and the people bet a lot of money on each warrior, but both were Georgians, they fought for long, none of them was giving up, then one warrior asked the other: - Where are you from? You're strong. - I'm a Georgian, you? - Me, too. They hugged each other like brothers, they recognized each other, they were old friends from childhood. This makes me cry every time, I have even watched the movie. The sellers looked at them and offered each other a really big amount of money, but each seller was offering the double price of what the other seller was offering, but... these 2 young warriors worth thousand (men). So the sellers said good bye to each other and took away the warriors.

The time has passed, a big battle has happened between Egypt and France. The one warrior became a Mameluke , the other one - a Gendarme or a Dragoon, I don't really know, he had a small pistol and looked like a Gendarme. So they met each other in the battle, they had those helms and armor on and couldn't recognize each other, the Gendarme killed Egyptians chief in the battle, the Mameluke wanted revenge and stepped in battle with the Gendarme, the fight was long, then suddenly, the Mameluke wounded the Gendarme in the chest, the Gendarme yelled his mother's name, nana (ნანა) and fell off from the horse. The Mameluke recognized that voice and the name (he remembered the time when they were playing together and he heard the same when his friend fell down), he got off from the horse, looked at him and asked who he was, but his friend could barely talk, he was near death, he pronounced the Mameluke's real name, Khvicha (ხვიჩა), and the Mameluke pronounced the Gendarmes real name, Gocha (გოჩა) and the Gendarme died.

Khvicha cried, what did he do to deserve this?! But the battle was going on, his mates came and asked why was he looking at the French dog like that, or did he became one? The Mameluke got mad about they dared to call his friend a French dog, he said his friend was Georgian like him and grabbed his sword, the Mameluke was strong, but not immortal, he fought long, until one guy shot him in the back and killed him. He fell down on his friend and died with him.

It's hard not to cry when you're listening to this story, especially if you're Georgian, I can't tell the story like it has to be told, my English is poor.

For any of you Georgians out there on forums that didn't know this, shame on you!

This story and the movie was, is, and will be my favorite :) 'cause it looks like a real Georgian movie, not like the ones that you see nowadays, pff...

So, the Mamelukes were Georgian warriors, rose as Egyptian mercenaries which were called Mamelukes.

I hope the story was interesting, thanks for reading, have fun :)

Mike (მიშა)

i'm here just for saying hello

Augustiello_the_SINCERITY — Sun, 19 May 2013 15:19:32 GMT

hi to all plaers of ao3......i missed u alot on this forum, but ... i am busy during this time, because, finaly, i am realizing my dream ... so , i have only 3 weeks for playing aoe3 actively .....

first of all, i wanna congratulate with TACTICAL WILLIE for beating me in an epic 2 vs 2 .... otherwise, despite my absence, i notice that still continue to talk about me ...i'm finally cured of my disease called: ranklove

nothing else, a hug to all of you, God bless you

say me hello ryan chaply ...

bye bye, u know where find me

upgrade questions

flick123 — Mon, 20 May 2013 15:23:00 GMT

Do Abus guns count as inf and art? would the French team inf attack card up the Abus?

Is the Aztec card that makes field and plantation upgrades cost 0 worth it? (in sup, not no rush)

German and French have team cav cards, do British have their own cav up card? so wouldnt it be better for the German, French and British to all send the cards and have the British make cav? (unless i am wrong in bold)

Can't Install FP 1.2

Mike — Tue, 21 May 2013 02:05:50 GMT

Okay, first thing you wanna know is that I'm not a noob.

When I try to install it it doesn't ask me to show it the pass where I want to install it, if I don't do that then when I open it it doesn't work 'cause I installed AoE via steam. It just installs it on desktop.

Any ideas what I can do to make it work?

Also, where can I find the 1.2 fan patch notes? I do know some changes, that's why I'm installing it, but I don't want to miss anything.

Xfire

Flygonex612 — Tue, 21 May 2013 08:24:04 GMT

Hey guys, I just got Xfire!

So if any of you have Xfire, i'll add you :)

Just drop your names below.

Mine: doublerainbowz

Import Panasonic AG-HVX200 MXF to iMovie on Mac with best MXF Converter

daisy520 — Tue, 21 May 2013 10:11:18 GMT

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How to counter Sepoy?

SirBitar — Mon, 20 May 2013 17:36:45 GMT

Players who spam sepoy especially late-game seem to be invincible to me. I play with British and there seems to be no way I could get past an army of Sepoy. I try fully upgraded Redcoats, they die. I use Guard/Imperial longbowmen, they kill enough sepoys until the player switches them to hand attack and they slice through the entire army. Tried a mixture of both, no use. Cannons get the same fate. Cavalry get sliced with hand attack. Grenadiers proved useless. What do I do? And please don't say change civilisations, this is called running away from the problem not solving it.

Thanks.

French Cavalry Rush

Davi Macedo — Wed, 08 May 2013 18:03:21 GMT

Please tell me if there's any change I can make to turn this strategy better.

00:00/00:15 – ‘’Discovery Age’’: Coureur de Bois macro management

3 Coureurs shoot nearest huntable;

2 Coureurs gather food crates (gather from separate crates);

Queue a Coureur at the Town Center.

1 of the Coureurs that gathered food crates goes hunting; the other one gathers the wood crate(s). Leave coin crates (if any);

As your first shipment send the 3 Coureurs card.

00:15/03:15 – Preparing to advance to the Colonial Age

Constantly queue a Coureur at the Town Center until you have eleven; (The newly created Coureurs must go hunting. Set the Town Centre Waypoint to the nearest hunt);

The Coureur that gathered the wood crate(s) must build a market and a house; (If you started with only 1 wood crate, use the Coureur to gather your coin crate and buy 100 wood at the market to build the house).

Send your Explorer to gather the 2 treasures near your base, and then send him to collect any other food or wood treasures you may find.

Explore the entire map with your scout and then leave him near your opponent’s base in stealth mode, this way you can see which units you will face, where he’s villagers are gathering, etc.

After the Coureur builds the house, send him hunting. At this point, all your Coureurs must be gathering food from hunts. No exception.

Consider using 1 or 2 Coureurs to herd animals as close to your Town Center as possible.

Collect 800 food and age-up with the 400 Wood politician.

03:15/4:45 – During the transition to the Colonial Age

You must now collect enough resources to:

Purchase the first 3 economic upgrades at the market;

Queue 1 Coureur at the Town Center;

Build a stable (as soon as you reach the Colonial Age);

Queue 2 Hussars at the Stable (as soon as it is built);

Coureur allocation during transaction:

5 on food/6 on wood/3 coin;

Start gathering and purchase upgrades in this order: hunting dogs, then gang saw, then placer mines; Research these as soon as possible;

4:45/6:00 – ‘’Colonial Age’’: setting up military

Immediately build a stable with 4 of your wood choppers (this will take seconds 15 seconds). Quickly queue 2 hussars;

Queue a Coureur;

Use the stable builders to gather the wood crates and build 2 houses and then 1 barracks;

Queue another Coureur;

Your 2^nd shipment must now be available. Send the 4 Coureur card.

Re-allocate your Coureurs to:

9 on food/ 2 on wood (the 2 Coureurs that were queued)/9 on coin;

Your food and coin stockpiles have been piling up. Queue 3 more hussars so that you get your first batch of 5, (keep an eye on the training progress so that your first batch is 5 hussars, not 2 and 3 separately).

6:00/---

At 6 minutes you should have 5 hussars emerging from the stable, plus a very decent economy.

As soon as you can, train another batch of 5 hussars. Defend as needed with them, and if you’re not rushed, raid the enemy settlers.

Your 2 wood choppers have gathered enough for an additional house, build it.

If your enemy trains mostly units that counter your hussars, (pikeman, rodeleros, musketeers, etc.) use your barracks to make counter units yourself.

In this case, your 3^rd shipment should be the 700 wood card. Use it to make 2 more houses and train 3 batches of infantry (10 crossbowman, and 5 pikeman).

Good Luck!

Is Age of Empires III Still Thriving?

SirBitar — Sun, 19 May 2013 23:54:09 GMT

I have been playing AoE3 ever since its release. Seven years now. I have noticed how the number of players has declined to a little 2000 players on weekends and as low as 500 on weekdays. But I still see newcomers who had just purchased the game a day or two days ago. My question is, how long do you think AoE3 will go on for? Is it doing well or are we going to witness a very sad demise to this unbelievably amazing game?

All your comments are appreciated.

Am I missing something here?

Ivan Grozny — Sun, 19 May 2013 20:52:51 GMT

When you enter the "player statics" in agecomm, there appear a list of all the civs in the game, how many times were they used, how much they were used as % of total, and their win ratio.

However, I noticed that if you combine the used % of all civs in TAD, you get more than 100%. Slightly over 150% if I'm not mistaken. This doesn't happen in vanilla, where you do get the 100% correctly.

So, am I missing something or what?

Coolest Civilization?

Kitty :3 — Sun, 12 May 2013 17:31:19 GMT

Just wondering guys what do you think is the coolest cilvilization?

He drop and I lost ?

Kamalpreet Singh — Sat, 11 May 2013 13:55:18 GMT

great plains

guigui1714

1650

16.65

Jeffrey47

2095

34.07

0:05:57

2013/04/16 19:08:00

We played on ES rated game and by 5 mins I had 3 hussars and 15 Janisaries in his base and at that time he didnt even had aged up and he staarted to make a blockhouse ( russian ) i killed the vill and also the blockhouse and he DROPPED .... and i thought i got a easy win

I went back to eso and saw that I had LOST that game ?

How is it possible ? Any fix please ?

You know that you play aoe3 too much

Jerom — Fri, 17 May 2013 10:45:53 GMT

When you wake up and want to ship 3 villagers because that's how you should start, and then get confused because you can't make it work and then get scared that you're going to screw up the test you're going to do that day because you fucked up your build order.

This is genuinely a true story... gosh I hate the part where my brain doesn't function at all in the morning lol.

what timezone does eso use?

Flygonex612 — Sun, 19 May 2013 13:27:10 GMT

I want to create an account on a certain date, but I live in Australia, so I'm not sure when I have to make the account for it to be the dat I want on the eso servers.

So could anyone tell me which timezone the eso servers use?

Kingdujuvu is a maphacker

Kingdesuvu — Fri, 17 May 2013 06:17:01 GMT

he maphacked vs me in a deathmatch game, and said i cheat cause i took all the trade post at the start yet they are all unbuilt. after 2 hours of the game being frozen it went out of sync. i hope that ryz0n can ban him!

The best signature ever!

Mike — Fri, 17 May 2013 19:43:17 GMT

I was just checking one topic and I saw this:

http://i234.photobucket.com/albums/ee140/Shamshar/1213498071323.gif

It is 5 minutes long :D if you have nothing to do watch this and have fun :D

Great feelings

deadlywarrior — Fri, 17 May 2013 08:47:09 GMT

Somtimes, I create very simple scenarios, just put like 200 skirmishers and 200 ruyters, and then a small number of gendarmes and ronin is all that I need for a great feeling

Just saying, lol

Background maps

Danius M — Fri, 17 May 2013 13:30:34 GMT

I was wondering if there exists the whole background map of the Americas. By digging through the game files I managed to paste together a map, but it still has missing bits and imperfections. It is however obvious that such a map existed, so I was wondering if it could be found.

Double Decking

TychoPsycho — Fri, 17 May 2013 01:22:03 GMT

Is double decking still used? I've seen old threads about it but I haven't heard about people doing it in quite a while. Was there some patch that stopped it, like they did with map hacking?

http://www.darksithempire.shivtr.com/

NightBlade545 — Wed, 15 May 2013 07:32:59 GMT

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India

emsstewart929 — Tue, 14 May 2013 21:38:23 GMT

So ive been playing with india and i like them i know dont call me a lamer -_-. So i know that the 10/10 rush is super op in all but i was wondering why my ff isnt as good as syuri_ougiyagatu's and by as good i mean time. I get to the fortress around 620-30. I know dont tell me that indias ff isnt as good as their rush ik. But i just like it unless im playing a defensive civ. But anyway i need some help so could someone give me some advice.

Rush

loo96 — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 04:12:20 GMT

Hi, I'm a beginner. I played with a player online the other day and his rush was super quick. What are some good ways to defend against a rush whilst maintaining a stable economy? That pro was "pokolo" or something.

Russian train time for villagers

artisticcheese — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 17:31:08 GMT

I can see that one of unique characteristics of Russia civilisation is training units in batches. My question is wether training 3 settlers takes as much time as making 3 settlers for other civilizations or it's making 3 settlers in 1 settler time for other civilizations?

people have moved on to aoe 2 remake..?

heime2003 — Mon, 06 May 2013 02:06:37 GMT

recently ive noticed less people come to my game even though player count displayed same

player count includes all players playing eso games?