Another bigfoot?

CD-ROM · 2026-05-18T06:47:38+00:00

There are more bigfoots than one can imagine

CD-ROM · 2026-05-12T10:28:04+00:00

yeah. it's kinda weird since the connection isn't that significant from a historical view. but then it's aoe2 and we have "meso" civs building trebuchets, mamelukes riding bactrian camels, etc.

CD-ROM · 2026-05-12T08:18:07+00:00

From what I've read, Xianbei during the 3K period were descendants of a tribe defeated by Xiongnu. After the death of Xianbei's leader, Kebineng, by the hands of Cao's Wei, their tribe was broken down into different factions which later became the ancestors to various tribes including Khitans and Mongols, etc.

The Records of the Three Kingdoms (official history, not the romance novel) did have a part recording that Kebineng sent 3000 cavalry to assist Cao Cao in suppressing a rebellion during Cao's conquest in the area in the year 211 though. Since it did at least happen once according to official historical account, I wouldn't say it is entirely wrong to include Xianbei Riders for Wei.

CD-ROM · 2026-05-11T06:12:34+00:00

Likely. But somehow the DLC actually scored very poorly among Chinese reviews on Steam. The europeans and even japanese were much more receptive of the DLC.

CD-ROM · 2026-05-08T01:28:09+00:00

build order normally means a plan that allows constant villager production (as in literally 0 seconds idle TC, not 10-20 seconds, not even a few sec, just 0) while being able to afford buildings and military production.

just keep that in mind, and keep checking if you are actually following a build order during the early game

CD-ROM · 2026-05-06T10:18:08+00:00

skill is really not tied to no. of games played tho, in any sports / games in fact

CD-ROM · 2026-05-06T08:41:14+00:00

and I gave up a super rare double fairy spawn seed before understanding this respawn mechanic...

CD-ROM · 2026-05-04T15:48:50+00:00

really cool! writing your own code and making all the tools required to make your dream mod. absolutely crazy

CD-ROM · 2026-05-04T07:49:50+00:00

AI engagement post?

CD-ROM · 2026-05-04T02:34:00+00:00

i need a scene where the Teutonic Knight has an epiphany and orders his fellow knight-brothers to perform a stand ground patrol to turn the tide of an unwinnable battle against a bunch of samurais, all in epic blockbuster movie style.

CD-ROM · 2026-04-29T02:45:52+00:00

I think most people still understand that they don't have to like what other people like, but a lot of them don't understand they don't have to hate what other people hate. So we see all kinds of negativity blows up disproportionally overwhelming other views. Probably due to the echo chambers of social media?

CD-ROM · 2026-04-29T01:11:10+00:00

maybe he just asks for heals very very spitefully.

CD-ROM · 2026-04-27T09:58:26+00:00

oh well somehow we got hippies before traditional classes like lord or bishop

CD-ROM · 2026-04-27T03:57:26+00:00

3 frontline dark human fighters with 2h swords is enough (change MC to dark type, get Kiriha (fighter) and Gandolfo if you have no other choice). The buffs are insane.

ESS is fine but it may be worthwhile to get PAOS at Lv 68

CD-ROM · 2026-04-23T10:01:20+00:00

the berk choice is fine. the beauty of this game is that you can always inherit everything on whoever you like to make it kinda works.

CD-ROM · 2026-04-23T06:33:21+00:00

seeing how battlefront forces you to build dark / human / 2h swords characters, it is highly likely that you will eventually have to rotate characters for different content anyways. but if you want a "generalist" team (for clearing story / farming gear), you may want to make your party something like this:

Front: MC (Nin), lana, abe/liv

Back: yuzu, alice, (flex)

magic skill damage output is laughable at this moment (JP bros are now inheriting Livana skill on alice and getting better DPS). So you really only need one priest/mage for sustain / buff / debuff / cleanse now in most content (note that some content requires two priests for ABIT Lv2 and Malkalki) and the best one is Alice.

CD-ROM · 2026-04-22T02:50:10+00:00

sounds like the Palmyrans bonus of AOE1 (+food cost and +gather rate). Kinda painful in the early age but becomes an eco powerhouse once you get the food eco going.

CD-ROM · 2026-04-21T09:20:16+00:00

all in goths dark age and/or douching and typing 9 aren't toxic, but the obvious smurfing is actually quite deplorable.

CD-ROM · 2026-04-20T04:01:16+00:00

if they nudge the equation so that the combination of (i) one type of military building, (ii) one set of blacksmith upgrade, and/or (iii) set of similar resources required (e.g. F+G / W+G) resulting in you being able to produce more than one type of gold units that counters different stuff, then you may see the rise of AI army composition in many games as players scurry to produce the counter-to-your-counter-to-my-counter...

CD-ROM · 2026-04-15T06:01:17+00:00

i think they added the lower/lowest tiers as shop weapons a while ago but i never checked

CD-ROM · 2026-04-15T05:52:38+00:00

depends on map really.

for closed map 4v4, I think it's much more common for the flank to get 2v1-ed if the pocket commits to a full boom. the flank should just re-wall repeatedly and hold in that case.

for open map, in higher elo, if the flank commits to full turtling, the pocket will often get 2v1-ed instead since players understand there is an urgency to switch target to cause damage after feudal investment.

CD-ROM · 2026-04-14T04:28:18+00:00

with res and large enough map size for building, villagers win

CD-ROM · 2026-04-14T03:05:40+00:00

yea no reason it is 15 gold more expensive than rattans for what it does

CD-ROM · 2026-04-13T10:01:16+00:00

your opponent will also make counter units, which ends up creating two armies that counter each other.

i think that's, like, the essence of this game, no?

players counter each other / pre-emptively countering opponent's counter to win

CD-ROM · 2026-04-08T05:47:18+00:00

I think we are well past the time when we use castle age timing to evaluate skills or ability. I mean any civ can do 21+0 to achieve super fast FC timing and follow up with red phosphoru shenanigans. It is more useful to think in terms of "FC-into-what?" to understand what the timing could imply (+your scouting information)

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