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[Cool_Freaker]

So I got the original Age of Empires. I set it on easiest and tried to get a feel for the game. I got owned. Hard. 1 enemy heavy calvary killed all my villagers, entire army, and all my priests.

Then I started a new game. I got 10 calvary units, 10 Academy units, and I stormed their base. I got owned. Hard. Catapult triremes and catapults owned me.

Unlike AoE 2, in AoE 1, whoever has the most catapults wins apparently.

Then I made a lot of Helipolises, which worked, but they had like 20 priests which converted half. After I killed all the priests, they made more and converted the other half...

[Imtay22]

I've played that game a lot. Actually, I have it! It's really easy on easy once you get the hang of it. like get food and stuff first, and then get the military. You have to upgrade to get higher and more stuff. You need food and 2 buildings from your current age. Just keep trying and you will be sure to be good one day!

[Cool_Freaker]

I'm great at AoE 2, just 1 is crazy! 1900 food for an upgrade? And those towers- sudden jump from 5 damage to 20!

[Imtay22]

2 is pretty easy. Haven't played 3 yet. I know it is crazy. My bro is 8 and he is like the master at #1! I guess the first one is more challenging that the others.

[husker]

I have the first and the third one. The first time I play AOE 1 I got owned too, but you have to realize what's important to win. Get LOTS of villagers and then try building an army is my advice. I do think 1 is harder than 3. Good luck and keep trying!

[thejestergl]

Cool_Freaker, on Apr 28 2007, 12:46 PM, said:

So I got the original Age of Empires. I set it on easiest and tried to get a feel for the game. I got owned. Hard. 1 enemy heavy calvary killed all my villagers, entire army, and all my priests.

Then I started a new game. I got 10 calvary units, 10 Academy units, and I stormed their base. I got owned. Hard. Catapult triremes and catapults owned me.

Unlike AoE 2, in AoE 1, whoever has the most catapults wins apparently.

Then I made a lot of Helipolises, which worked, but they had like 20 priests which converted half. After I killed all the priests, they made more and converted the other half...

Haha for the most part a lot of RTS's are like that. To be honest the stratedgy in most of the games is actually just to go in fast than anything. I loved AoE and I wasn't too bad at it. Then again, I just play defense and let the Wonder do the work (Win automatically in 2000 "days"). It was a little cheap but still got the job done. When I played without wonders I usually still set up a wall and played a little bit of defense while my other men went around the back way. If you just try and hold out while the enemy attacks you, send your men around and take out their village which is often ungaurded. And yes catapaults do own ; priests own more though! haha.

Jester

[hitmanblood]

I played number one also but it was long time ago and I officially stopped playing when age of empires two got its expansion package. So one is good and interesting and it has great campaigns however as I see some of you played defence. Well my tactic was usually ofensive for the bigger time of the game. I could say that first several minutes I was playing like defence to dvelop my units but than I started attacks.

It is easy to some extent but in this case we could say that number two is really betterthen number one and it is really more interesting and funny and it had multiplayer so it was my multiplayer game.

I still remember how I played it over slow dial up

[only1try]

Ooh wow... 1? So retro... Haven't played it before, i have 2 and 3 and love em.

[Liam_CF]

There is a thing called cheats you know.

I've played all of the Age of Empires games and I prefer the third.

[HyBriD54]

Age of Empires I I thought was a lot better than it's successors (I've never played Age of Empires III but I have played Age of Empires II and I was a bit... disappointed). It was a lot more fast paced and it's graphics were pretty amazing for the time they came out. But some of the controls in the game were annoying, but that was maybe because I was too used to playing Starcraft, Warcraft II and Warcraft III as well as the Command and Conquer games. There were so many different civilisations, but they lacked variety, although some techniques of gameplay required only using certain civilisations, which made it slightly more interesting. In terms of difficulty, Age of Empires I was also a hell of a lot more harder than Age of Empires II (I loved the Castle in Age of Empires II though!). The cheats in Age of Empires I were also... amusing.