This is good, what other natural combos are there? 4-gating with zealot/stalker is kinda like a pikeman/skirm rush. Maybe that one isn't as cut and dry.

mrGRAPE

Singapore293 Posts

November 23 2011 05:29 GMT

#102

I played some pretty competitive Age of Empires I back in 2000-ish, not sure if you want to consider that. Never played any other Age of Empires series competitively after that. Unfortunately it was so long ago I don't remember my game handle anymore.

PhiliBiRD

United States2643 Posts

November 23 2011 05:31 GMT

#103

ive played all the AOE3 games extensively but was always more of a SC person so I don't consider myself a "AOE" player.

Unless by just playing them makes me one. :-) AOE was so great... too bad the scene and gameplay never evolved to the level that BW did.

Indez

Australia37 Posts

November 23 2011 05:33 GMT

#104

age 2 was easily the best and most fun lan'ing rts

Fleebenworth

463 Posts

November 23 2011 05:41 GMT

#105

On November 23 2011 13:38 Beerdrinker wrote:
Any other MFO forum users on here?

Hah! I remember spending ridiculous amounts of time on mfo, especially once Dixit started frequenting the console forum

_spring_

United States7 Posts

November 23 2011 06:10 GMT

#106

I am L_Clan_Spring_ also BsK_Spring_ i was teamates with kkab-koven-grunt-halen in bsk and Chris-bling-capoch in L_Clan. iv spoken to the koreans "kkab has informed me that non of them have plans to move into sc2 and that koven is a gaming announcer for some Esport show in korea. I know bling-capoch have been doing very well in sc2 so far and I have recently moved to sc2 aswell playing as Spring in NA server. Iv been trying to get Chris to move to sc2 but he doesnt like the playstyle haha. wish me luck :-)

Moa

United States790 Posts

November 23 2011 06:14 GMT

#107

I believe the former best Age of Mythology player is Lizzuma who is in the complexity academy right now.

Hierarch

United States2197 Posts

November 23 2011 06:32 GMT

#108

iEchoic was a former AOE3 player

firehand101

Australia3152 Posts

November 23 2011 06:37 GMT

#109

Well it got me into RTS games, so yeah i transitiioned

loved it so much, will always have a place in my heart

ButtCraft

United States114 Posts

November 23 2011 16:07 GMT

#110

I was an AOE 3 player. I managed to get level 26 captain while only using the "shift" hotkey, and a build hotkey.

I bought sc2 and started using the keyboard (lol), and am now in the top 600 of NA as Terran.

Apolo

Portugal1259 Posts

November 23 2011 16:19 GMT

#111

I loved using the 12 range elite longbowman :') though mainly only on fun games, since on 1v1 arab hun 'hores', barely no one could use britons competitively let alone mass longbowmans. Mass mangudai, or pikemen with +8 attack rocked as well :>

I loved LN too, and i miss those huge random maps that SC2 doesn't have, where you could spawn right next to your enemies or very far away in a map that you would never see again. Every map in SC2 is tiny, everything tidily organized like a girl with obsessive-compulsive-disorder made it.

Imo, Aoe2 was the best followed by aoe1. Aoe3 doesn't even come close to those two in terms of gameplay, decks, trading posts, and almost all of the new stuff (apart from the graphics) made it much less fun.

Also for all you AoC'ers ou there

14
14
14 and wololooooo 1111111111111111

xD

Wildsound

United Kingdom144 Posts

November 23 2011 16:31 GMT

#112

This brings back memories of having to switch the phone line off and turn on the 56k modem to play online AoE2, i think it was through MSN gaming website.

"start the game already... start the game already... start the game already..." is the only dominant memory i have from that! That, plus raging when the modem went down or if someone had to use the phone line.

Vysage

United States117 Posts

November 23 2011 16:58 GMT

#113

My brother recently showed me AoE, which I played a tiny bit of when I was very young, so it was completely new to me. It amazed me how quickly I picked up the knowledge of the game now that I am a strong sc2 player. I even showed him some things he didn't even know (he only plays with cheats lol).

Would love to find some first person pro gameplay to see the proper way to handle this game and the apm involved.

marvellosity

United Kingdom36161 Posts

November 23 2011 17:20 GMT

#114

On November 23 2011 09:31 nkulu wrote:
I played a ton of aoe1 competitively. Back when I played sc2 actively i used to be around top 200 NA. Went by name __Vim on the zone if anyone would remember.

Rofl I remember than name! :D

Huitzi

United States33 Posts

November 23 2011 17:24 GMT

#115

I used to play AoE2 under the name fluffy_snake, then UD_DestroyeR and UD_PlayeR, I was around 1990 rating or so, I played AoM with my buddy DeaN but I got 1900 and left, I wasn't much into it. I played Age3 under the nicknames Mexico and had a smurf iamgrunt in which I got 33-1 or something like that, hehe, but I gave that to Black_Ice_Spain and he gave it to his friend... lol...In AoE3 I got to meet Artosis and his friends from micromedia

. Here in SC2 I'm a mid-master terran trying to get GM in season 5/6.

marvellosity

United Kingdom36161 Posts

November 23 2011 17:25 GMT

#116

On November 23 2011 13:13 Silentness wrote:

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Yeah Aoe of Empires 1 was my first RTS. I thought the game was pretty bad though

Everyone kept picking got damn choson. Legions were so damn cost effective in that game.

What? You clearly didn't play at any kind of good level. There were Cho wars where the rules was simply legions + towers only. But if you were playing a reg-match, an all cho team would have big problems vs a team with a Hittite support, because they had strong catapults + archers and Cho had no way to siege...

stokes17

United States1411 Posts

November 23 2011 17:27 GMT

#117

Isnt cecil sunkre like on the AoE balance team or was or something?

xJokeR

Canada1 Post

November 23 2011 17:37 GMT

#118

If i remember right, White-Ra said in an interview that he used to play AOE when he was figuring out RTS games. (see 0:55)

R!!

Brazil938 Posts

November 23 2011 17:39 GMT

#119

I played some AOK when I was very young but never online, internet here sucked major ass at the time.
Now, I wanted to ask what do you guys think of AOE online and how well do you think a mid-masters terran would do over there and if its actually a good (balanced and with a decent skill ceiling) game at all to begin with (I watched a game analyzed by Mista and I thought it was kinda fun).