Gurken Khan

Reminds me of the same issue with the worker ele.

If anything goes they can just receive "gift from the gods" and get on with it.

We haven't talked about Diogenes a lot, have we.

As of this version I train my tower guys to elite rank and two of them can hold a building in enemy territory. Edit: I forgot to mention that I was referring to p3; doesn't work like that before.

Are they? When I look at the Roman swordsman from the castra (who is advanced rank if I'm not mistaken) and some merc swordsman (also adv. rank) I see the same values for their sword attack and worse for capturing (plus the merc can't gather).

Don't know a decent guide from the top of my head. Maybe the game bugged out or you didn't follow the instructions properly. A batch is a group of units you train together, achieved by holding the shift button when you give the training command (I'm assuming you're on Windows); you can change the size of the batch with the mouse wheel. You set a rally point with a right click while having the producing structure selected. HTH and feel invited to keep asking questions.

I've read some explanation here in the forums, and there's mouseovers where you select the map type in the game. Basically Random maps are generated procedurally while the others are of static design? I don't really know.

Yeah, that's normal. If you don't jump through MS's hoops (pay them money) the defender will not recognize your app. I believe there's a button like "more" where you can continue the installation anyway.

In Random Maps you can select up to eight players on Persian Highlands:

Here's an interactive online tool with 300,00 km of Roman roads: https://itiner-e.org/

That the installer just installs their version x in their path, with a working shortcut etc., and not care if there are other versions installed or not. I think other games like Battle for Wesnoth do it like that. Of course I'm assuming that this restrictive behavior is just legacy and can be disposed of.

I didn't try it but take your word. My question would be thusly: Why? Why on earth is the windows installer so extremely user-unfriendly when different versions aren't technically a problem? Could this be changed for future versions?

@AlexHerbert did in the post before mine.

You can download whatever regardless of what you have installed. However AFAIK on Windows you can only have one version installed; an old version will connect to that version's lobby which will most likely be deserted.