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Pierce and hack armor upgrades first, then damage depending on most used unit. I usually play Rome or Sparta, so it's melee damage first.

Yes, Temple aura stacks with Battlefield Medicine, assuming the soldiers are idle.

Depending on your strategy, you have two ways to heal your troops. Active would be to focus on healers and research their upgrades. Passive would be to focus on garrisoning and Temple auras. Always focus resources only on one way in a match. Most good players focus on the passive way, as healers are far too fragile.

Attack move command is issued automatically for the selected units after they drop off resources, at the point where you right-clicked while holding the Call to Arms hotkey.

@Atrik I didn't know it works after Call to Arms, thanks.

Maybe wrong thread because this is not really a discussion? Anyway, in the Hotkeys options there is an unassigned key for "Call to Arms". Assign this key to Backlash or some other convenient key. When under attack, select all your soldiers (but not women) and use this hotkey. The sword icon will show up. Right click to a place where you want all selected units to attack move after dropping off resources. Ring a bell from civic center to make your women garrison. After the attack, send all soldiers to chop wood, then immediately assign some of them to stone or metal, if needed. Don't forget to send the women back to work by clicking the gray bell on the civic center.

Especially when half of the game's loop in the early to mid game is keeping your population up. Like, everyone practices getting to the 100 pop ASAP since it constitutes a major part of both economy and military gameplay. And here you have people who are automating it. It's wrong.

Not at all. Who said that I'm going to remain in SP forever? Also, I care about the game enough to defend the fair-play. And to call out those players who blatantly lie how something obviously unfair like an automation script "isn't cheating". Maybe I also want to win some fair games when I DO decide to play MP?

The very first (and obviously) reply after the linked comment was from Stan: My personal opinion about the autoqueue feature that was added to the main game is that it was a bad idea. The feature is justified on a grand-scale RTS such as Supreme Commander where the macro required is truly insane, but not in a classic style RTS game. From this, you can guess my opinion on all other similar modifications.

Car analogies for a competitive RTS game? That's bold.

You mean, all military units, like in Starcraft 2? It doesn't exist because most military units in this game are also your economic units. You can assign a control group to your CS and use Shift+Alt while mousing over any new units to add them to that control group. Then, just use Call to Arms hotkey when needed to send them to attack move some area.

Doing all that work alone to sling your allies in the very late game when you can't help in any other way might be alright. Doing it while you actually have to do everything else is indeed a nightmare. You need to compare the benefit of all that micro to literally any other action that you might be doing. You aren't playing in a "sea-based trade with land traders" vacuum.

I was trying to be funny, but it seems there are people who seriously want to add these. Just play the game and follow the basics. Watch the best players. Development work should go to more important issues, like campaigns.

- Pick all images depicting an Elite Roman Hastatus. Not Roman Swordsman, our newbies need to know the specific name AND be able to recognize an elite rank. - Pick an image showing the correct hero model (shows a hero icon of Publius Cornelius Scipio). - Type the correct specific name of this unit (shows an icon of Kushite champion temple guard). Now, THIS will definitely make beginners love the game.

I didn't know that. I thought that Medium bot builds and trains everything. In any case, Hard and Very Hard difficulties should only affect the resource modifier. Medium should be a "fair" challenge to the player.

Replay of me playing the Petra Expert Medium on Mainland. No major bugs, but the bot did throw most of it's units away on the first push. Maybe it's harder when the bot is set to Defensive? I've even played badly, didn't utilize most of the Roman benefits. RomansVSBritons_PE_M.zip

Mainland, Continent. Normal size. He also begins by training infantry and cavalry, not females. I'll test the new version.

It looks like a simple boat with a German on it.

From watching "pro" players, you can tell what sets them apart from others. 1) They never stop producing units. 2) They keep their resources low, always. 3) They have fast enough APM to micro while keeping tabs at home, even when there's lag in the late game. 4) They don't waste resources on tech that's not useful enough. @borg- doesn't even research "Baskets". 5) They prefer massive amounts of CS to training champions. The reason is that champions don't justify their cost in matches between the two good players. Champions also can't work. 6) They balance out their economy to avoid floating too much resources. 7) They make liberal use of barter. 8) They expand only when the supply of critical resources gets low. 9) They build only enough production buildings that their economy will support. Another reason to avoid training expensive champions. 10) They seldom build Temples. Healers are not that useful unless they're upgraded, which is too expensive. Others can fill in the blanks, but that's the gist of it.

Well, I've never bothered to ask such question, you got me a good laugh. No, the trader doesn't have to unload from the ship, he should remain inside to provide the trade bonus.

It increases the yield of the merchant ship if a trader is in it. Trade between allies is more profitable, but you can trade between your own docks and markets, as well.

True, you spelled it "0 ad". Irrelevant, since the game is well recognized, even by Google's AI.

@mod_3d, when will the most up-to-date version be available on mod.io? Also, the 0.7.3 version has a bug on most standard maps. The AI will not make a house and get pop-blocked forever.

Isn't "Ascendant" related to the fact that each civilization in the game is depicted as they were at the height of their power?

Beginners should be able to play against other beginners, not people who've played this game for years. For that to happen, more people have to play multi-player games. The MP player base is low, that's the core issue. How do you attract players? You do that with more SP content, that is both challenging and fun. Once people start having fun with your game, they'll be more inclined to try MP. You can't do this in reverse.