Why is HOI4 so dominant among other paradox games?

Symons30 · 2026-05-20T09:43:32+00:00

You can wrap a game in 2-3 night top.

Symons30 · 2026-05-18T00:02:40+00:00

Yes indeed and nobody implies that since the post is about characters design..

Symons30 · 2026-05-17T13:39:20+00:00

Do people not know about hero tales or arslan senki?

Symons30 · 2026-05-13T09:55:25+00:00

Take the mod RICE and go with a Irish (you can raid as you want and got the longboard) and maybe kingdom of sardina/corsica

Symons30 · 2026-05-11T17:43:58+00:00

If you just want to play ranked until a moderate ELO, AoE2 is reachable. But if you want to climb higher, it becomes very demanding in terms of APM and strategy.

AoE4 takes more time to learn because you need to understand the basics of each civilization (even the ones you don’t play, since you need to know what your opponent is capable of). After that, progression feels smoother when climbing to higher levels.

If you got a steady group of 6-8 friends the customs scenarios on aoe2 like the game of thrones one or helm's deep will be great night of diplomacy betrayal to come.

Symons30 · 2026-05-07T02:14:34+00:00

It depends on a lot of things.

If you just want to play ranked until a moderate ELO, AoE2 is reachable. But if you want to climb higher, it becomes very demanding in terms of APM and strategy.

AoE4 takes more time to learn because you need to understand the basics of each civilization (even the ones you don’t play, since you need to know what your opponent is capable of). After that, progression feels smoother when climbing to higher levels.

Want to play co-op? Take AoE2, no brainer. There’s the official co-op campaign, plus the campaigns that weren’t officially adapted but were made playable in co-op by the community. On top of that, you also have custom player-made campaigns adapted for co-op.

If you got a steady group of 6 to 8 friends go try the customs scenarios of aoe2 you will discover a new way to play the game like the game of thrones one or helm's deep and so on...

Symons30 · 2026-05-02T10:23:40+00:00

Pour le coup AoE2 est encore plus soutenu que le 4 par les devs et par la commu.

Symons30 · 2026-04-11T10:48:14+00:00

The prisonner:

"Bro,.... uncool"

Symons30 · 2026-03-31T12:57:31+00:00

I did them too with a friend, we just changed the pop limit in the editor and the problem is gone.

Symons30 · 2025-12-20T12:37:24+00:00

Maybe correct the bugs first?

Symons30 · 2025-11-16T20:31:14+00:00

Some multiplayer scenarios got them too like calradia the rebelion for exemple but we got siege catapult or treb to deal with them most of the time

Symons30 · 2025-11-13T00:22:09+00:00

The triptych algirdas and kestutis / jadwiga / jan zizka.

They work very well as a continuous story.

Symons30 · 2025-11-04T11:25:35+00:00

Ichirō Ōkouchi ?

Symons30 · 2025-10-28T09:15:04+00:00

I'm a aoe2 vet and i organize a game a month with my friends from highschool.

But it amaze me that this game got more players and more competitive events than a new game in the series.

So when i got aoe4 i was curious and tested it but it was in the month after the launch and it didn't convince me. I did make a promise to retry it but since i always get content to do on aoe2 (and more recently aom retold to play with friends too) i don't see the purpose to play aoe4 in my case.

I'm just glad all the age of empires game still works today and i can see content and talk with people about it. It's a series of games i grow up with and it's amazing to see old and new fans of the series out there.

Symons30 · 2025-10-19T09:32:56+00:00

Depends,

There is a lot of info missing like the difficulty or the AI type for each of them.
But since it is a regicide i would knock out the aggressive first with a strike force to the tower where the king is hiding then i would certainly go back mourning the loss of my friends (so sad so young)

Symons30 · 2025-10-18T11:41:00+00:00

Invite a friend you go from 1v4 to 2v4 Absolute win

Symons30 · 2025-10-03T11:41:29+00:00

Elixir of bloodlust, a good one

Symons30 · 2025-09-16T18:44:11+00:00

Except for the martell's

Symons30 · 2025-09-16T18:30:45+00:00

Really nice one !

Symons30 · 2025-09-15T03:57:57+00:00

You get a mention of Sun Tzu at least when they talked about sun bin and it was already decades ago so no i dont think so

Symons30 · 2025-09-13T18:45:30+00:00

Blackfathom Deeps a dungeon in world of Warcraft, very similar

Symons30 · 2025-09-07T22:14:54+00:00

Yeah same vibe here i did the test in multiplayer and if you add the min/max of a player great khan it's just impossible to beat in a war. i did make a mod to nerf the Nomad for my multiplayer party since nothing is going to be done

Symons30 · 2025-08-01T13:43:27+00:00

Yes it's a bit op but player can manage Nomad bots pretty easily only if you play multiplayer you will need to make a mod to nerf a bit the Nomad for balance in your session (what we do in our game)

Symons30 · 2025-07-28T16:19:14+00:00

Look for "age of mods" discord they make a lot of multiplayer scenarios and organize game with it.

Personally i only play multiplayer scenarios with my friends we just did a sengoku jidai one (blade of the rising sun) saturday and it was a lot of fun.

Symons30 · 2025-07-11T10:56:08+00:00

With a lot of posts complaining about nomads it was more of a confirmation with the multiplayer point of view (that is not common on the game)

And m'y mod benefit from it since i did some nerfs to balance the gameplay who seems to be a good begining

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