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If your enemy spends their time capturing a house and deleting it instead of killing your women, thats much better for you. You can easily gather the wood for a new house in the time he takes to capture with the same amount of soldiers. (capture strength of infantry is 2.5 if im not mistaken, while gather rate for wood is 0.75; a house costs 150 wood and has 500 capture points. So it takes exactly equally long to gather the wood as it does to capture the house. Cav is even worse at capturing, also there is a base capture point regeneration that i havent taken into account. Also he has to walk across the map to get to you.) Now, you do lose time on construction because you have to rebuild the house, but thats nowhere near as bad as the time you would lose if he killed your women gatherers. And those walls give you the time to react, cause it takes much longer to capture them than to kill a women (or even a soldier).

It works in this game because of the CSs, but... ...what if it's not? Sometimes you train a bit too many women, and you need some kind of protection. Building palisades is your best bet in the early game, but because trees don't have proper collision, enemy can just sneak in through the forest. The solution is to surround open side of the forest with walls, which is more expensive. Walls don't build fast enough, so you need more builders to make it before the enemy rush. Making towers is a better option, but you need soldiers to man them or they're useless. Walling with houses will expose them to the enemy, who can just use capture->delete tactic to cost you both population and 150 wood per house. Both of them vital in the early game. BTW, why do houses need on average 40 seconds to be built? It's frustrating, especially considering there's batch training which makes you build houses almost continuously.

This is a very good tip. You have to build houses anyway; try to use them to "wall off" an area instead of just randomly placing them anywhere. Especially with civs that have small houses, you can surround your entire field economy by lategame without any real additional investment. As ffm mentioned, to not have unnecessary long walking times, you should include palisade gates at regular intervals when doing this.

Atm. for me it depends. Ideally, long time ago when I could out-boom other players it's not necessary and slows you down (hence turtling). I prefer amoebae-style reach for extra res. or be near the front player. That again makes my base a bit weaker. House walls in combination with surrounding hills and just some gates are a good compromise. Especially if you expect another player to come with lots of cavs or siege maps (Corinthian isthmus, ambush) I get infuriated when I see teammates building huge stone walls, indicating they have no intention in joining a fight anytime soon (except they communicate before, "I turtle you can help on the other side") Another huge priority is that workers should not walk across your base a lot. So if you think on that side could fit some wall/building use only a few workers and preferably ones from nearby or maybe don't at all. That also goes for amoebae-stretch for res, it could be bad to stretch for some berries if you're exposed there and don't have any other business there.

@Gurken Khan it can be fixed by giving them a "selection group name". I'll make an issue.

Well, it's not what I expected, and I don't think I've had it before. And frankly I don't like it.

Not specific to a27.1. Not really a bug neither. A variant of the marine seems to have been created in order to make it unlocked by default in PII in the gymnasium. https://gitea.wildfiregames.com/0ad/0ad/commit/ba635f2790762fbf74541013a6247619519c0ebc

My marines are not bunched together. I think one batch is from the Gymnasion and the other from a dock, still... (Ctrl group 4, should anyone bother with the save.) savegame-1900.0adsave

Almost never. "That city is well fortified which has a wall of men instead of brick." Why would you wall off a wood line? It's full of soldiers. You can build palisades in neutral territory though if you want. Towers: Usually zero, but they are much more common than palisades let alone walls ;-) The most effective way to use walls might be to chose Iberians ;-)

Do you wall in often? What is your solution to walling off wood lines? How many towers do you usually erect to support the boom? Any tips to wall in effectively in 0 A.D. are also welcome.

Hey. I think the performers can work with the sheet music for the original instruments and adapt to what they have. But the planned leading wind instrument is likely to be the ocarina. There are some festivals upcoming in late August and mid October. I don't know what was available and how long it would take to assemble the sheet music, but I appreciate the time. Thanks.

a second group with ctrl + number for siege, and shift right click and make a way

That's actually a really cool breakdown — love how you're balancing things while keeping that historical flavor. The camel addition for the Persians is a great touch. It’s a fun detail that also has a real tactical logic to it (horses freaking out around camels is historically documented, after all). Definitely adds depth without just stacking more cavalry. I like the idea of giving the Romans a sword bonus too — feels appropriate, and the nod to Iberian steel is a nice bit of realism. As for Sparta, champs being stronger makes sense, and having the heroes appear in P2 with nerfed stats but full bonuses sounds like a solid compromise. That could create some really interesting early-game decisions without being OP. And yeah, the Celtic Coalition is shaping up to be really diverse. Even if the Gauls were more about raw infantry and numbers, bringing in units from other tribes makes it more exciting to play them. Looking forward to seeing where you take this next — keep it up!

There are some issues with building from sources though, mainly the sheer size of the repo, and since the assets are not cached, it will take another 2 extra GB of space. But other than this you should be good. Regarding the flatpak it's maintained by us, so if it's the content rather than the technology itself that's the issue, you are safe with it.

@Ludwik RTS games are tough. Not a lot of people can stand the stress of multitasking, managing the economy with 4 different resources, micro and macro needed to win games. Maybe 0 A.D. just isn't a kind of game for you, and that is OK. Thank you for trying it out!

I don't remember having this issue, but pathfinder still needs some work. Are the siege engines in formation? You could try to disable it by setting them on the "x" (no formation).

Whenever I try to muster my army and form an attack, it ALWAYS ends up that the siege engines lag behind a huge amount, and will even actively move to the back of the formation when the army gets close, even when I highlight them separately. The sieges will be in the front, and will immediately start driving in REVERSE for some reason. Need a fix badly.

Hello, It's really too difficult to play online. I've never won a game. I don't speak English, and the chat is only in English, making it impossible to understand anything. I'm giving up and deleting the game from my computer. Thanks again to everyone who tried to help me.

i installed it and everything is working fine

I totally agree with your choice - A23 really left a strong impression and still feels like a classic. It had a good balance between performance and atmosphere, and the AI improvements and unique champion units really added depth to the gameplay. For me, it's details like these that make a game feel alive and exciting. Sure, later alphas have added a lot, but that "old school" feel of A23 is really hard to replicate. Thanks for the great breakdown!

What version of Ubuntu do you have? Secondly: building from source is not that scary – you just have to write it down in steps. Best regards. PS. I would avoid Flatpak.

Yes my friend, you do. Btw. the only buildings where archers add more arrows than other soldiers are walls.

Thanks so much for this! Definitely going to try it out!

Update: I think I had the wrong commit for flatpak originally, which is why it didnt seem to work... This one seems to work so far: sudo flatpak update --commit=23651e2468be2d470ab01600ef5ae2e3314062c39d9faf0febcfff7d4c18fec0 com.play0ad.zeroad but perhaps I should go back even further to this commit: 8323bdb2df460d5b97781f728bf70ba4eb7240af as it seems to correlate well with when the 0.26 version was released https://github.com/flathub/com.play0ad.zeroad/commits/master/?after=1108f36d9d0e2b174a31009f68e102aebe7542e9+34