TAD Specific Gameplay

German shipment issue

Wolfe374171 — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 05:38:06 GMT

Okay I'm by no means a hardcore player on here, I mostly play skirmishes against medium computers. I have noticed, however, when playing the germans that the cards that are supposed to change the extra units shipped (i.e. uhlans to winged hussars, uhlans to landsknechts, uhlans to hessian jaegers) don't actually work. They'll ship the mercs, but I'll still only get uhlans for the rest of the game. Is this a common issue? Is there a fix? It's not a huge issue really, but I DO enjoy playing the germans and it'd be nice if I could incorporate those units instead of just uhlans over and over. Any help would be appreciated ^_^

Oh and I am playing the asian dynasties expansion for this, though I have the native expansion installed too. I bought the package deal or w/e.

Civilizations Over Power

NandoNL — Sun, 24 Jun 2012 17:15:30 GMT

Hello guys,

I'm beginning to play Age of empires 3, and i wish i knew What are the most powerful civilizations and their main advantages (Late Game - Supremacy). Just over power civs.

currently i'm playing with frenches and portugueses. Frenches and Ports are good on the last game? Eco and Military.

Thankx

I may have experienced a bug on Last Stand at Fushimi

RL Nice — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 01:43:46 GMT

So I've finally started playing through the Asian Dynasties campaign. I got up to the Fushimi mission, things seemed to go well, until I had to escort villagers down the eastern road. I got twelve villagers out, a few kind of just stopped, I'm assuming because of pathfinding issues. I figured I'll just get the next villagers spawned out.

And those next villagers never spawned. The game just stopped spawning villagers. There's no way to beat the mission. I really don't want to play through all that again, especially if I have no idea whether I will run into this bug again.

Any suggestions? Preferably those that don't involve cheating because I want to see the cutscene that follows.

Hanc0ck

TacticalWillie — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 01:03:41 GMT

Lets start naming of all Hanc0ck's many, many, many smurf accounts.

I'll start with : Sanders0n_fin. CrocodileDundee_ (think they are spelt right)

Silk Road

Ivan Grozny — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 09:02:52 GMT

Okay, dumb question, but why are so many mods incompatible with silk road specifically? What's so special about those damn TPs?

Don't know about you guys, but in my experience quite a number of mods have caused me Oos when capturing those damn TPs.

Best civ in N3O FP?

murdilator — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 10:29:49 GMT

I've seen from time to time threads about "Best civ in FP," so I decided to make a thread about the N3O FP.

This is a thread for those of you who think that FP 1.2 should've gone further.

And its about the N3O FP, a continuation of FP1.2, that intends to balance all the neglected parts and civs of the game (including finally Deathmatch Balance and some minor Treaty balance), while bringing spice and all the useless units back into the game! This is the first and only patch that addresses important issues such as Water Combat, making European ships much stronger and better offshore support, while making the Native American canoes cheaper and faster training (to reflect their now greatly inferior state). Lategame issues have been adressed for all civs, and the European Church cards have been moderately improved, each European civ now receiving an extra upgrade, plus the current upgrades, if underpowered, have been properly boosted so that they can be used competitively in regular gameplay.

Also, all dumb lategame changes in FP 1.2 are reverted to their original states: including War Wagons, Cuirassiers, Lancers, Halberdiers and Jaguar Prowl Knights losing their Colonial Statistics.

Outposts now are cheaper and faster building, plus give a small trickle of resources, but have a lower build limit that increases back to normal upon hitting Fortress Age.

Musketeer, grenadier and ranged infantry combat have been addressed: Musketeers do less damage at range, but maintain the same againt Cavalry; from Industrial onwards, most most Musketeer units do their original damage against Hand Infantry as they did before; Grenadiers are cheaper, faster moving, have more range and much better hand attack. Counter Infantry Rifling is nerfed slightly, but also gives skirmisher units more damage against Light Cavalry. Light Hand Cavalry are cheaper, faster training and faster, while ranged cavalry generally do more hand attack. Heavy artillery are addressed and balanced, and do much less damage against ships. Ironclads are now also superwarships. Plus, techs like "Mass Cavalry" (at the church, reduced cavalry train points) have been returned to normal, but made cheaper. Natives like the Incans have also been more balanced. And of course there's more.

In addition I have included an improved Drauger AI, which upgrades some new upgrades and has much better decks, and will often choose to build walls.

http://aoe3.heavengames.com/downloads/showfile.php?fileid=3363

This is a patch made by the me with help from people in the N3O clan for people in the community to enjoy, and also for my personal enjoyment. I have spent many hours playtesting and balancing. And I hope that you all may enjoy it too.

God bless!

regards,

murdilator

King of the hill thread for questions

TH3D3M0N — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 04:43:24 GMT

i was playing koth with a few friends on voobly today, and i deleted the fort

Questions:

1. Does it respawn?

2. If not, is it just a regular rush game?

india using BOOM units??? WTF

Manthan — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 08:31:57 GMT

i was playing 2day .. britsh vs india .. i am a indian player .. but today i wanted to try brit vs india .. i was brit ... when india (computer) reached 3rd age ... he attacked me ... but this time .. i dont know which unit was used at that time that my houses just got destroyed like BOOM BOOM ... i was like WTF?? .. i am an indian player but i never figured out these kinda BOOM .. lol .. it was not siege elepant .. it was something else i dont know .. which unit was it but it left my jaws open .. all i could see was my 2 houses destroyed like BOOM !! THT SOUND lol .. which unit is that which does like that in india??

Best civs in fan patch?

Lexmay — Sun, 16 May 2010 19:27:37 GMT

Wich civ is best in fanpatch?

Brit TAD vs Nilla

samirtobias — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 16:27:00 GMT

When looking at the newly posted 1v1 statistics for PR29-50 on great plains, Brits have the following win% (approx.)

Vs Dutch Nilla 41 TAD 64; French nilla 38, TAD, 39; German nilla 40 TAD 56; Otto nilla 36 TAD 38; Port nilla under 50%, TAD 59; Russian nilla 30, TAD 41; Spain nilla 40, TAD 66

Clearly some major changes have been made in TAD to give the brits a boost – what are they? What has caused the increase in win %?

German vs...

EtherImp — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:08:48 GMT

Germany vs the following civs...

Japan (Been trying Double-Rax Xbow/Pike spam, Semi-FF, and Merc FF)

India (Been trying X-Bow Defense)

China (Been trying 20 Xbow Semi-FF)

Iro (Usually do X-Bow defense..)

Sioux (Usually X-Bows/Pike colonial, and Semi-FF)

Aztec (Not even sure where to start here..Haven't played vs Aztec in forever)

What strats can I expect to see out of these civs and what strats should I try to use to counter them?

Also.. Ottoman Fast Revolt.. Best way to counter is to rush them?

Russian vs Azec

trycatchthis — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 01:42:02 GMT

Wvery time I start playing a particular civilization I notice another civilization that I have alot of trouble against. For instance Ottoman vs the Dutch. But this time I ha ve run into trouble vs the Aztec.

My game play type is superamacy and it 1 vs 1. Basically I find it near impossible to kill mass coyote runners unless I have equal numbers of muskets, unit upgrades and have managed to kill a few of hteir priest.

The aztec unit combo of coyote runners and maces feels kinda unstopable for me because

Coyote do fairly well vs the russian cossack
Coyote do extremly well vs villager are fast and have stealth
Coyote do extremly well vs muskets and the Russian player has to hit and run micro inorder to win vs equal numbers of Coyotes.
When maces are mixed with coyotes they will kill equal numbers of their counters.

How do you handle the Aztec as a Russian player?

Which do you like more King of the Hill or Silk Road or Regicide?

HappyGoLucky — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 02:31:45 GMT

I like Silk Road the most.

silk road card & ottoman rush question

lucanious — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 09:48:14 GMT

does the silk road card affect TP resource/experience. this is TAD so is it 15 or 30% also does anyone have a way of leveling HC faster than the conventional method? new acc has new HC

king of the hill and regicide

banana_noob — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 17:16:22 GMT

does anyone play these anymore, cause i was on line 2day and saw no games

Warcheifs + TAD on lan?

theruss0n — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 18:37:54 GMT

organic savory beef steaks

blueunycorn — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 19:51:12 GMT

Probably it has already been asked but...

Bloody Azteck — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 01:04:21 GMT

why you can play regicide only in one map? and why your regent and castle will always be japanese?

fanpatch

footsoldier — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 07:16:11 GMT

what is it?

shipments

andrazovic — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 14:38:22 GMT

Hi,

I just bought Age of Empires Asian Dynasties and just played my first battle. I lost and I think I know why. Each time I want to send a shipment from my homecity it says Failed sending shipment. How is this possible?

can somebody help me?

thank

Greeetz

Andrazovic

Email Problems and hard to get support

MrMario — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 06:10:59 GMT

Just wondering why there is two differnet emails styles on the RE Site and the AOE site.

Age3Support@RobotEntertainment.com

age3support@robotentertainment.com

I have been trying to send an email for the pass 3 months or since RE has been annouced. I find it very annoying that I can't even get a reply from a company that provides support. I also find it very hard to even ask Microsoft themself from the contact list to get help as they tell me to contact you guys when I can't. So I am wondering whats going on and if you guys can at least make sure your email system is working fine and also get an auto reply so that it helps us know that are email got though.

Thank You

MrMario

low level home city

Akshat — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 21:46:38 GMT

i have reached a home city level to 96 with indians. i want to create a new low level home city say 40 or 20 how can i do that.

Aloysius think we're cats

Neverseperat — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:37:54 GMT

Read this:

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Community Manager

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Fort Blockade

Goaliath — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 18:05:53 GMT

Hello. I have recently been exposed to a very nasty trick of the europeans.

I have beeen cornered while being WAAAAAY too strong to take head on... and so one of my enemys revolted and surrounded me with forts. I couldn't bust out of the blockade, but then realized I HAD to or else lose my ally, and soon after lose my own village.

So, playing as the dutch, I came up with this ingenius plan: I sent in ja buncha carbiners and hussars, with mamelukes, stradiots, and hackapells, to draw the fire of the forts... and then I blew them up with petards. It was a very effective way of busting out and being able to put a village within my allys city limits... very soon after I busted out my adversarys normally woulda attacked my ally, but they were defending the forts. I also killed the fort support, so they couldn't just retreat to a powerful area. My cavelry overcame them. They had no army to beat me up.

With the Sioux Dog soldiers and War Club spam with seige dance will kill most buildings faster then you can say bob's your uncle. Thanks, Neverseperat, for that.

The iriquois can break out nearly as easily as the europeans. Just use mantlets to draw the fire and use rams to defeat the forts. If you can fit in, say, musket riders and tomohawks (iriquois muskets), more power to ya. I might want to put in some light cannon if I were you, just in case they wisen up and target the rams.

The Aztecs may seem as hopeless as the souix, but remember the arrow knights, notice they got runners as cavelry, use the eagle runners {and} the coyote runners to draw the fire and use puma spearmen, jag knights, macehaultins and puma spearmen to protect the arrow knights, and you suddenly realize their not so bad off, in fact are almost better off then the europeans.

(a. Try not to get this blockade set on you. (b. if you do, you now have this guide to help you. (c. if it doesn't, you have permission to sue me.

Consulate Relations

NotDan — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 02:08:26 GMT

I''m learning the Chinese and I have a question I have been unable to answer:

I side with the Russians initially from my Consulate to get the villager production boost and access to the Fort and Factory. If I was to sever relations with the Russians and choose the German allies instead will my Factory still generate resources and will my Fort still attack? To put it another way, do I retain structures and their benefits of the previous ally when I choose a new ally?