TAD Specific Gameplay

why haven't you tried the fan patch?

MNBob — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 21:59:12 GMT

As the person who created the "Patch Launcher" program that is used to change between the ES 1.01a patch and the fan patch I'd like to know what is keeping you from using the fan patch?

First some facts:

The patch launcher program is not a virus and does not contain any dangerous code. Run a virus scanner on the program if you don't believe it.
The patch launcher program allows you to easily change patches so if you are unable to find a game using the fan patch you can always exit AOE, change back to the ES 1.01a patch and re-start TAD.
The fan patch does nothing but modify data files used by the game. This is how all mods are made. No executable files are modified.

When the next fan patch is released it will contain some really cool new features other than just balance changes. For example we are fixing problems with many of the maps. We have added new map sets like Random Land Maps, Treaty Maps and Regicide Maps. A whole new set of regicide maps will be added as wells as a few other brand new maps as well.

So I encourage you to at least give it a try as it will provide you with a brand new AOE3 experience!

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?

Civs OP ?

sOLDieeR — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 09:37:42 GMT

About more than 10 months that it was not playing the AoE3 and yesterday finally I bought myself the TaD.

I have put to play and see that the civilizations are not so unbalanced. It is possible that even it has not faced his people of high level, but everything will be seen.

That civilizations are over other?

AH, I do not have clan for the TaD, if to anybody he is interested in it ... hehe.

Fanpatch 1.0 try it

ScreechingPhoenix — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 21:17:25 GMT

Wheather or not you like it, you should try it at least once, for example I at first seemed very against the fp, but once I decided to download it (even tho I dont usually use it) it seems to be a good choice once you get 1st liu +

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fanpatch

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

what is it?

Aloysius think we're cats

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

Read this:

Duncan Stanley

Community Manager

Prior to joining Ensemble Studios in 2007 as a Community Manager, Duncan worked at Ritual Entertainment, MumboJumbo, and GodGames in a variety of roles including technical support, quality assurance and package relocation engineer. Duncan has a B.A. in Political Science from Southern Methodist University. Duncan is responsible for customer support, forums moderation and website updates for Robot's products. He compares this role favorably to herding cats.

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.

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?

Email Problems and hard to get support

Mr_Mario — 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

The Netherlands Vs the Japanese

Matteous — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 10:53:53 GMT

Hello,

Unsurprisingly, I'm another player who's getting frustrated with playing the Japanese and never really being able to beat them in rushes. I am pretty good as the Dutch. Some of my thoughts include; shipping advanced arsenal to handle with infantry, and somehow destroying those shrines. I would appreciate it if others could post their advice.

Thank you.

Regicide Ideas

Lexavier — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 01:35:02 GMT

First of all, maybe a couple of new maps.

A Ceylon regicide could be interesting...

Mongolia regicide, sans walls?

2. Different Models for each civ

Indians- Shah (mounted on elephant) Regents castle with Indian castle architecture (sp?)

Chinese- Admiral Whatshisface from the campaign? Same castle

Japanese- shogun. same castle

Aztecs- similar to current warchief. Also, instead of Regent's Castle, maybe a temple of some kind

Sioux - similar to current warchief. No castle, starts with several Hunting Party units (maybe beefed up Dog Soldiers)

Iroquois- similar to current warchief. No castle, starts with Hunting Party Units (maybe beefed up tomahawks)

Europeans- Kings? Also, instead of regent's castle, king's castle, maybe fort with worse stats

On a totally unrelated note...

If only they made a Mongolia civ. Tents instead of houses, gathers food by tasking herdables on tents, buildings can be deconstructed into rickshaws and moved around. Mostly cavalry.

I don't see many people playing fan patch?

ConquerorIvan — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 12:00:42 GMT

I was just wondering whether it was just me being online at a bad time, or if people actually play the fan patch? cause every single game i see is CRC mismatch, and there seems to be loads more online players on vanilla than TAD.

Maximizing Population.

longhorns301 — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:35:18 GMT

How do u get ur pop. really high.i know the max is 200 but when i play some people they have like 300 so how do they do this. thanks srry im kinda new.

Orinico and TAD

Katana Massacre — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 22:50:05 GMT

So i have TAD and my mates have TAD and TWC, if i borrowed TWC and installed it then returned it and then loaded TAD and went online, would i be able to play on TWC content such as Orinico?

BTW, can anyone explain what Orinico is? All I've heard is that its got a river with walls and mortars.....

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 Question

GOSTY4LIFE — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 05:30:06 GMT

Sorry, this is probably a really noobish question. But, is there a minimum number of peopel near a trading post in silk road to capture it? I went up to one, defeated the guardians, and the one steppe rider I had left didnt capture it even though I left him standing there for a minute. Was it a lack of enough units, or a technical problem?

Once again, sorry for the noobish question, but I am a noob and new to TAD. Thanks!Q

GOSTY4LIFE

regicide

IloveWWII — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 00:15:06 GMT

OMG!

I tried regicide as europeans and natives and you still start with regents castle!

Someone should mod this map so euros start with fort and regent is some sort of general (kind of like cooper or edwardsn) and natives start with some super warchief (stronger that other regents) but no building for him. What do you think.

wow..

Wilson_teh_Great — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 01:07:11 GMT

I'd completely forgotten that Regicide and King of the Hill existed, until I happened to go into this section. Wow. People think Deathmatch is dead? This is dead.

The laws for sling shots.

alice123 — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 03:56:42 GMT

If I buy a sling shot from this company www.lducompany.com will it be ok to make it into the states? It would be coming from China. I have a friend in Australia who wants me to order one for him because he does not have paypal but I am worried that the slingshot will not make it through Australian customs. This LDU company says that they guarantee delivery to Australia for slingshots but I would like to learn some things so here I am asking. Here is the address to the guaranteed sling shot delivered to Australia for my friend http://www.liangdianup.com/inventory/271201AUS.htm but there is no talk about slingshots shipping to the USA if they are guaranteed or not for delivery.

Japs Vs. Indians

representin_gbg — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 03:39:06 GMT

My friend usu. beats me battle after battle until i destoy his economy or his ability to use it. I use yumi + samurai or ashigaru+flaming arrow to counter his ghurka+camel. Is there a better unit combo for me to use or a way for me to use this match up as intended. BTW if you're wondering how i win at this point i usu. have moratoru sprinkled about and i use Daimyos+Shogun to get rid of supply lines

Who here actually plays Regicide and if so how often?

HappyGoLucky — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 01:23:05 GMT

I have never played it online and only a few times against computer.

I wish it was a game mode that is available to play on any map.

ES please make it into a game mode so you can play it on any map.

i just astarted playing AoE again and...

jigabu — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 01:20:58 GMT

was wondering, why cant TAD play with TWC and vannila, i coulda sworn ES said they were ganna make it happen

New Ottomans

ChaobSiroc — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 17:18:32 GMT

What do you think about how the new Ottoman civilization works now that you have had a chance to actually try it?

hackapels????

DEATH_HOUND — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 17:06:40 GMT

i was playing french on the silk road map lrg silk road map actualy and i was able to build hackapels out of my sallon i won the game and i thought is was just amazing that they had an attack of 121 so i played again same civ and same map but NO HACKAPELS............ how do i get them again????

Talking about Silk Road Map

HappyGoLucky — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 03:37:13 GMT

Do you like this map and what do you rate the map from a 1 to 10?