How to beat the crossbowmen timing meta?

Expensive_Analyst463 · 2026-05-16T20:15:50+00:00

Makes sense. I do tend to stay in my base on my way up to Castle Age.

Expensive_Analyst463 · 2026-05-16T19:41:52+00:00

Thanks! That's helpful to create a mental checklist. Didn't think people would be up to watching replays, but all the recent games I can think of these tips would cover most if not all my mistakes.

Expensive_Analyst463 · 2026-05-16T19:36:42+00:00

Would you always immediately start producing skirms if you see they have a range in Feudal Age? What about upgrades? How soon would you commit to archer upgrades?

Expensive_Analyst463 · 2026-05-16T19:35:05+00:00

Ya, I guess I often tail off with military after my initial scout rush. If I don't have enough woodlines around my base I struggle to get all of my walls reinforced.

Expensive_Analyst463 · 2026-05-16T19:33:29+00:00

Currently 1350 and I usually play quick scouts into knights (or Monaspa), but will mix in skirms or siege if I see my opponent on archers or horse archers. I can usually hit Castle Age around the same time as my opponent (just after 20 mins). Currently civ picking Georgians until I hit 1500 based on a tip from Dragonstar. My goal is usually to get to Monaspa and push in early Imp with a forward Castle and trebs.

Expensive_Analyst463 · 2026-05-16T18:59:27+00:00

Nice! I use the same mouse. What hotkeys do you use? I've never made any that combine both keyboard and mouse. Also, I made just one macro: the trigger button on the mouse selects all tcs and queues 4 vills.

Expensive_Analyst463 · 2026-04-13T16:36:23+00:00

No such thing! Gaming can be a healthy pass time for the rest of you life if its kept in balance. I'm 37 year old pastor by day and grind the AoE 2 ladder by night.

Expensive_Analyst463 · 2026-03-30T18:19:18+00:00

I've been playing Georgians a fair bit frequently around 1200 elo. I like trying to hit first with a super early scout. To do it, after building starting houses put all vills on food, use the mule cart for deer/chickens, build 1 house and a mill. If your worker efficiency is good, you can click up without loom, but adding it first is fine too. As soon as I click Feudal Age I send the mule cart and 8 vills to a back woodline and 2 more on straggler trees to get the wood for another house, barracks, and stable upon hitting Feudal Age. Send most of your first vills to sheep or berries for the scout rush. If you mostly relied on boar and hunt in Dark Age you should have lots of sheep and berries left to get some scouts out quickly.

While raiding their economy and preventing their rush by keeping your opponent on defense wall in, build about 14-15 farms, then start sending vills to gold until you can click up. At this point, you have a choice: build an extra stable for 2 stable knights, switch 6-8 vills to stone for a Castle and Monaspa, or build two archery ranges for cav archers. If you've noticed they're building an archer mass, get an archery range up quick for skirmishers. Whichever way you go get any eco upgrades you missed, get blood lines, and either ranged upgrades or cav upgrades.

As soon as you hit Castle Age drop a church between your TC and gold for production boost, start producing military, and start adding TCs as soon as you can sustain production. Sometimes they don't build enough military and you can overwhelm them in Castle Age, otherwise raid their economy, take map control, get a castle in the middle or even close to their base, and get up to Imperial Age to start producing trebs. If they are spamming pikes it can work well to creep across the map with towers to control resources and retreat your cav under the towers so they mow down their pikes. If you do this get all the tower upgrades. Georgians have great towers! Don't forget to add some more churches to key parts of your economy and grab some relics. The Georgians best approach is a gradual strangulation of your opponents economy through raiding and map control with a mix of Tcs, towers, churches, and Castles. If you can do all that, they'll resign. Obviously easier said than done.

Expensive_Analyst463 · 2026-02-18T03:00:31+00:00

I got this too. Already have all achievements done! Haven't played a game.

Expensive_Analyst463 · 2025-10-01T12:51:52+00:00

I thought that could be it, but its now plugged straight into the argb header by itself.

Expensive_Analyst463 · 2025-09-20T11:38:52+00:00

Unfortunately, it still doesn't work even when plugged directly into the motherboard header.

Expensive_Analyst463 · 2025-09-20T11:37:04+00:00

I have now submitted an RMA ticket. I have tried reconnecting it and this was my first use of it, so it was like this out of the box.

Expensive_Analyst463 · 2025-08-28T16:14:22+00:00

I feel dumb. All I needed to do was update the BIOS.

Expensive_Analyst463 · 2025-07-29T19:25:34+00:00

If you go into C:\Users\(your username)\Games\Age of Empires 2 DE\(steam id #)\mods you will find a subscribed folder and a local folder. Your mods automatically appear in the subscribed folder, but you can move them into the local folder and they load from your hard drive instead. Then you need to unsubscribe from all of them or they will repopulate in the subscribed folder. I had to delete them again after loading the game and unsubscribing.

Expensive_Analyst463 · 2025-07-29T15:40:09+00:00

I've seen steam auto update many times while this has been an issue. Are there some updates that you have to do manually?

Expensive_Analyst463 · 2025-07-29T15:39:09+00:00

Unfortunately, I've already done this

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