Questions tagged [age-of-empires-ii-the-age-of-kings]
Age of Empires 2: The Age of Kings (Often called just Age of Empires 2) is a RTS published by Microsoft in 1999, being the second in the Age of Empires series.
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How do "proxy" buildings even make sense in RTS games such as SC2 and AoE2?
In RTS games like StarCraft2 and Age of Empires 2, one strategy you encounter semi-regularly (at least at some levels) is when an opponent sneaks a worker close to your base, builds military buildings,...
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How do units reform formations after disruption?
When you have your units, for example, in line formation marching north and you then tell them to march east, there is some shuffling about and the formation turns as a cohesive body. The question is,...
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How do conversions with multiple monks selected work?
In AoE2: DE, I'm unclear with what happens when I have a group of monks selected and I try to convert an enemy unit.
My monks appear to all get exhausted after a conversion attempt.
Do they have a ...
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Age of Empires 2- multiplayer game economy score too high. suspicious to cheating
I'm playing Age of empires with my friends, and I have a question if one of them cheating - the Red player, who also won. He always uses Persian units and build lots of elephant units.
At the end of ...
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Can the original "Age of Empires 2" be played in two-player mode, so I can play against a friend (and a few computer-driven societies)?
Recently, I downloaded the game "Age of Empires II" (the original version of 20 years ago) on my PC. I would like to play that against a friend, both in the same room against each other (and ...
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Unable to see created game in AoE2 in Windows 7
I am trying to play in Local Lan multiplayer between a Laptop, which is connected through Wifi and a desktop PC which is connected through an ethernet cable to the same router. both PCs can ping each ...
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How do I make the AI trade for maximum profit?
I'm using AoE II: The Conquerors with the 1.0c patch, and I'm wondering if it is possible for two of my AIs to trade but for the max possible profit. For example, if the AIs had conquered half the map,...
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A detail picture or table showing what the symbols mean in the display in Age of Empires 2
The question is about AoE2: the age of kings and the conquerors expansion (I think it's same for both). I am asking about these symbols:
For example, the knife and armour symbols. I know the ...
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Age of Empires II automatically switches to desktop
I play Age of Empires II (no expansions installed on this machine), and something weird happens very often on my old Windows 7 PC.
After a few minutes of gameplay, AOE II auto reverts to the desktop ...
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How to specifically send either a chat message to all players or only allies? [duplicate]
With the definitive edition I want to play more of this old game.
One problem I've always had is how to chat only to allies or everyone.
It's unclear to me where the default Enter chat goes to, it ...
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How can we get a LAN Party going for Age of Empires 2 - Kings, or Conquerors?
My kids and I have decided to brush of the old AoE discs and have a network game but we are all unable to see each other's games and neither can we connect using the Directplay TCP/IP option?
Can ...
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Do I need a VPN to play AOE2 on the same LAN?
Trying to setup AOE2 HD game in order to play over LAN. I have several laptops connected via wi-fi by using home router. I create game on first laptop and trying to connect from another one. Second ...
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How can we assign handicaps in our Age of Empires 2 HD games?
Unlike later games in the "Age of" series, Age of Empires 2 HD Edition has no handicap system. This means that if a group of my friends want to play against each other, the game just turns ...
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Does the Emperor achievement counter reset when you save and load the game?
The Emperor achievement says:
You have killed over two thousand units in a single session. You are a legend to both allies and enemies.
Does that mean single instance of running the Age of Empires?...
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How to order your troops to guard a particular place?
I started playing Age of Empires 2 in 2008 but as I remember, there was an option to make your troops stand at a particular place and guard. Yesterday I downloaded it again (Age of Empires 2 HD ...
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Is it still possible to play AOE2: The Age of Kings over a LAN?
My friend and I still have copies of Age of Empires: Age of Kings and we have installed it both our laptops.
Is it still playable over LAN?
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Can you move more units at once in Age of Empires II HD than in the original version?
In the original Age of Empires II I built armies with more units than the game allows to move at once (40), even in the early campaign missions. Has this limit been increased in the HD version?
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Possible to play AoE2 without a CD drive? [duplicate]
This earlier StackExchange question asked a similar question, but no-one appeared to know how to effect this without downloading new software. I'm primarily interested in a registry or binary hack for ...
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Difference between Age of Empires 2 HD and the original Age of Empires 2
Are there any differences between the original Age of Empires 2 game and the HD remake? If so, what are they?
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How do I know if I should flush?
I've played a number games of AOE2 and I'm trying to learn better strategies. I thought it would be good to learn how to flush, but I'm struggling to know when I actually should do so. In some cases, ...
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What does the in-game score in Age of Empires II mean?
It consists of two numbers, how do I interpret these?
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Should I be advancing to the next Age/Level of units immediately or max out on the current Age first?
I am very much interested in strategy games such as Age of Empires, and one thing I always find hard to figure out is to whether I should:
a) Max out to the permissible level of all my available ...
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Age of Empires II - Music and dialog sound OK but no sound effect
I have recently installed Age of Empires II and its sounds are for some reason muted. Except the music and the sound of dialog in campaigns, but not even the dialog of the introduction of each ...
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AoE2/AoK LAN connectivity
With a group of friends, we fired up our old copies of AoK to play together through LAN, as the HD version (through Steam) only offered unplayable games.
To play our "not so recent" games, we use an ...
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Why do my huns need houses in AOE II Conquers expansion
So the Huns in AOE II Conquers has the special benefit that they do not need any housing and as a penalty for that, start with 100 less wood.
So I a few minutes after starting a game, I found out that ...
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Can the original Age of Empires II be played online thru GameRanger with the HD version on Steam? [duplicate]
So my question is if the original Age of Empires 2 can be played online with the Steam HD version of the same game through the GameRanger software, not through Steam?
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How to play Multiplayer in Age of Empires II? [duplicate]
How to play Multiplayer game in Age of Empires II: Age of King? With an application or from the game?
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How to enter triggers in map editor?
I started playing AoE after a long time, and now I'm creating a custom map.I want to specify the conditions for victory in my own way.
I don't know how exactly to create custom objectives,but I ...
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Age of Empires 2 Direct Draw Compatibility issue
This has happened to a number of my favourite games now and its infuriating!
Is there a way I can make my GForce graphics card compatible with DirectDraw to run AOE 2 on my new windows 8.1 machine?
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Can I get relics back from AI players?
I like to play with a computer ally so I can trade for gold, but he takes all the relics. I know it's possible to wall them, but is there a way to get the relic back after the AI has taken it?
It ...
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What are the base Line of Sight values for units in Age of Empires 2?
I've been searching the internet for a chart or even a wiki with either compiled unit info or various individual information about units in AoE2 (either AoK or AoC expansion, preferably the latter) ...
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Does Spies provide Line of sight for my Ally with Cartography?
According to the Wiki, Spies is a technology which
allows a player to see their enemies' Line of Sight.
And Cartography:
allows a player to share their allies' Line of Sight.
In this case, if ...
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Is there any way to play AOE2 without a CD legally?
I can't seem to find anything online that would suggest I can play this game legally without a CD. Not to mention, the CD I own has a chunk of it missing (it still plays fine and installs fine), and ...
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How do you counter a mangudai and paladin combo?
I am fairly new to Aoe2 . I just started playing multi-player game mode with my friend and he always takes me out in imperial age with Elite mangudai and a Paladin combo. He also micro-manages these ...
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Can the original Age of Empires II be played online with the HD version on Steam?
My friend has an original copy of the game and was wondering if he could play online with me if I buy the HD version on Steam.
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Modify Hotkey for Age of Empires 2
I will probably purchase the remastered edition of Age of Empires 2 when it launches on April 9th on Steam, but at this time I do not have my original copy of the game so I cannot test this feature...
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My mouse doesn't show up during gameplay
I am playing Age of Empires on Windows 8, through my Mac with Parallels, and I am thinking that it is either a problem with Windows 8 or Parallels because it didn't happen on my home computer running ...
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Age of Empires II: Problems saving in the Scenario Editor
I have found an extremely annoying problem with the scenario editor in Age of Empires II. When I open a previously saved map in the editor, I sometimes discover that the last minutes or hours of work ...
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AOE 2 Windows recorded game on Mac?
I owned a PC during my college days and have a whole collection of recorded games (around 1000 games) played during that period. Now I own a mac and would really like to watch those games again, since ...
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What are the differences between the difficulty levels in the Campaign and Skirmish modes?
What are the differences between the Standard, Moderate and Hard difficulty levels in the Campaign mode?
What about between Easiest, Standard, Moderate, Hard, and Hardest in the Standard/Multiplayer ...
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What triggers a battle event in timeline?
In Age of Empires 2, what is the trigger for drawing a battle event in the Achievements timeline? It seems to be very far from actual happenings, but I just can't get what is a "battle" for the AOE2 ...
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How do I play Age of Empires 2: Age of Kings multiplayer with a mac and a pc?
I'm not sure what the problem is. I just can't find any games or connect to them. It works between two macs. There was a similar question claiming that it does work but not stating how.
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Is Age of Empires II: The Conquerors playable on Ubuntu?
Is it possible to play Age of Empires II: The Conquerors on Ubuntu?
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Why are my AI enemies surrendering all the time?
I recently started to play AoE2 again and tried to play some random maps against AI opponents. I set the difficulty to "Moderate" (3 of 5) and started the game. But every time after exactly 5:01 min ...
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Age of Empires The Conquerors Windows 7 error
I'm trying to play the Conquerors on Windows 7 but I get the following error:
Age of Empires II Expansion has stopped working
The Age Of Kings runs just fine
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Can you play Age of Empires 2 multiplayer between PC and Mac?
My brother and I have a PC and a Mac, and we want to play Age of Empires 2. Is the multiplayer compatible between the two?
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Timeout issue on LAN Multiplayer with Age of Empires II: The Conquerors on Windows 7
I'm attempting to connect to me and my brother's computer to play our old Age of Empires II The conquerors through our LAN connection.
The thing is sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Almost ...
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Why does Age of Empires II think my disc isn't valid on one computer only?
I have the Age of Empires II Gold Edition which contains both Age of Empires II and the Conquerors discs. I have lost the Conquerors disc, so I am trying to play just Age of Empires II. However, on my ...
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Age of Empires (1+2) online?
Can I still play Age of Empires 1 or 2 online? The GameSpy room for AOE 1 is always empty.
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Can I play AOE 2 over LAN, cross-platform, between Mac and Windows?
A few friends and I want to play some AOE over the weekend. I have a MacBook Air, and they have PC's running Windows XP. They are all able to connect to a single host using the "Local Area Network" ...
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