Rise of Nations:T&P

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Hey all you RoN fans out there.I've known about this for a while but for those who don't, there's an expansion coming out for RoN.It's called Thrones and Patriots.It looks really great.Here's a link to a site that will tell you some about it:
http://www.ronoracle.com/html/overviewxpack.php

In the mean time that we wait for it to come out, anybody got any sites about ron? stories? questions? replays?
I might post later tonight.

Definitely getting that.

Don't really have any stories... but, um, the game kicks ass.

Rise of Nations rocks, I can't wait for the expansion.

Stories.. uh... I like to play on easiest and just ICBM the comp when he gets to the gunpoweder age. I can see it now:

Sir! We're invented the gun!
That's nice, but our capital was just blown up!
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Well, what's everyone's favorite age to fight in?
I personally love fighting in the industrial age because there aren't any annoying fireships and it can provide a challenge to win a war with low casualties(I usually take upwards of 75%).

I always end the game in the Enlightenment Age. Tanks and planes just kinda tick me off.

I'm not very good at the game, of course. I fight Easy enemies. I'm gonna move up to Medium next time I play, I guess. (Go me.)

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I play it on moderate and win most of the time, just takes me a little bit longer.I'll probably try the next highest level up next time, but that one I'll probably lose.But even if I do I'll keep trying, thats what I do.

Toad, what's wrong with planes and tanks? I know what you mean by annoying, but is there anything else? Well I like tanks and don't find them annoying, but bombers sure as hell are.

Edit: Man, I'm currently in a game thats going on 6 hours(saved game 8 player diplo with comps on an east indies map).It's gotten down to the final 3.I'm the British with tech stoppd at industrial age and my ally(Inca) betrayed me to fight with my enemy(Germany)against me.Although I control 79% of the territory I've had to make peace with them once to rebuild and gather my forces.It's extremely hard because I own territory down the middle with the Inca on my left and Germany on my right.Sense my war or wars started against these two my casualties have more than doubled from what they were originally after leading the main assualts that wiped out 5 computers.This is all on moderate.I don't know if any of you have advice on a different military grouping than mine, which all but the beginning has been whatever I can make and scrap together goes to the front, that will help a lot.Thanks for those who do give me advise.

[ February 26, 2004, 08:44 PM: Message edited by: General David ]

[imported_Parrakarry]

That is my favorite game ever... and I don't even own it. I'm buying it this weekend, hopefully... I've played the trial version for hours a day for the past several weeks. I play on moderate... but I play with tooons of comps. Generally 7. Makes for a nice game... only problem is that once everyone hits about the modern age or so, starts lagging like hell... and believe me, once I played it through the lag into the Information Age, and DAMN. "Missile launch dete-Missile lau-Miss-Mi" We got some trigger happy compies over here.

Best. Game. Ever.

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Nevermind about the advice, I won the game.It took me almost 7 hours, but I won the game.I defeated the Germans and Incas through sheer numbers.I'm not quite sure what wonders I took to get it, but I managed to get 270 population limit.During the entire game I took about 4800 casualties, and dished out around 5000.At the end of the game most of the map was still in flames and the majority of open land was rubble.One of the best games I've ever had.
Anyone got any stories of big battles?
How long has the longest battle you've ever had for one city or island lasted? One of mine has lasted for 2 hours of constant fighing.It was so great.

Well, tanks ain't so bad, since they're really not very different from cavalry at all. I just like cavalry better. And with tanks comes planes anyway. I'll grant that the biplanes are more funny than irritating, but you still have to modify your army to include anti-aircraft missiles and the like. It adds another dimension I don't feel like dealing with. First time I played with my brother, we went to the Information Age... and we were playing that island map where each nation gets its own island. And we both sucked at the game. Needless to say, no one won. We decided "screw it" and nuked the crap out of some whale until the armageddon counter went off.

[imported_Parrakarry]

I just played a game on Moderate against one computer on an Arena sized map... very very fast-paced fighting. The bastard had seized most of the territory early on, though, and won sheerly because of territory... he kept smashing through my cities, and I didn't have the resources to battle him in open combat. VERY fun game... I hope to get the full version today.

As I said, I've played a few 8-person games on Big Huge maps... insane, man. Just insane. I set it on diplomacy and we're a go. Once it gets to the end, there is BITTER fighting going on. One game comes to mind... I was Egyptians, since I only have the trial right now, and hadn't been paying attention... suddenly I realized it was the Information Age and everyone but me had nukes. Fortunately, I'd been using all my resources to upgrade, and got a missile shield. Only one nuke hit me... then I built six missile silos and the rest was history. I was VERY careful with my nuking, however... I only used 6 nukes, actually. All ICBMs, true enough, but still not quite enough to tip the scales of Armageddon. I would've used more, but by that time all the comps had developed missile shields anyway. I used my nukes strategically, only using one right before I invaded... managed to barely come away with a victory.

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Nice Parakarry, I hope you get the hole game.I wish I could play online with other humans, but my firewall blocks my IP address and all, still haven't managed to get around it.Well anyway, I hate nukes and all, but love them too.The computers I face always use them and end the world because of armageddan which is why I hate them.I don't mind getting nuked that much.Lol, that reminds me of a game where me(British, almost always the British) and the French were the world powers in a diplomacy game.It became a 4vs4 and at the end of it me and France had nuked eachother so much that we went from the world powers to the bottom of the barrel by a LOT.Eventually a computer launched the last nuke killing everyone but it was a lot of fun.

[imported_Parrakarry]

In all my games, no one can be allied with more than one other person... there a way to play a diplomacy when you can be allied with anyone?

FINALLY got the full version today... I just played a game with my brother and a buncha compies, but he had to quit, so I just stomped the comps... researched everything but missile shield and had a helluva time. I had a supercollider and Artificial Intelligence, you see, so I was basically having a ball. This was on East Indies, and first I stormed through Green's base, nuking a city first then just stomping up to it with tons of infantry and capturing it, since I had World Government. Finally got his capital... then it was me and Yellow against Purple. At first I tried the same strategy and made it a ways, but he had a HUUUGE navy, so all my guys got killed on the way to his capital... I had trouble deciding what to do for a while, but finally built up a huge fleet (or tried to... was running out of oil ) andsent it over to occupy him. Yellow caught the hint and sent most of his massive fleet over as well, and while they were occupied, I snuck about 60 Shock Troops and 30 Anti-Tanks across (I'm usually Russian), and while they were sneaking across I nuked his capital again. I lost most of my guys, but his fleets were too occupied blasting my ally's fleets out of the water... I finally won. Great game, but I was the only one nuking... probably because generally I'm the only one in the Information Age for about 20 minutes. Not this time, but still cool game.

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Yeah there is a way.There's team games and all but in custom diplomacies where you make allies during the game itself its extremely and I do mean EXTREMELY hard to get allied with a computer that is already allied with another.It is possible, or it's been a glitch everytime I've done it.Also Parrakary, communicate with your computer allies.The game comes with a set of commands so you can order them around to a limited degree.But if you can't find them here they are (type in chat):
Sorry, I'll post it later.I can't find the thing that has it on it, its here somewhere but I got a couple dozens papers and manuals on my comp desk.I know its one of these.Somewhere.....

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You mean the system where you type, like, 9 and say "I need oil"? I've done that before, but to a rather limited extent... very cool stuff.

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Yeah, that system.Sorry I still haven't found the thing yet.I won't be looking for it again till tommorrow because I had to stay late at school setting up for a musical.If you go to www.riseofnations.com you could find the system there for the list.My favorite is 74 or 72 taunt, "Owww.My Eye."

[imported_Parrakarry]

That's okay... I got the same stuff somewhere around here.

Woo, just played a game on Moderate. I couldn't tell the difference between it and Easy. It was really cool, actually-- even though all the civs were random, we ended up as the Maya (me), Inca (my ally), Aztec, and Bantu (my enemies). So we were all the "savage" nations. It was cool. I kicked ass. It was pretty easy though.

WHEN WILL THIS COME OUT

I MUST HAVE IT

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Lol, sorry I didn't respond to this sooner.It's supposed to come out.... BUM BUM BUM!!! BAH!!!, heck if I know.


Lol, just kidding, it should come out sometime this spring/summer.Atleast, the last I heard.

Cool. If you hear a date, keep us up to speed.