Anyways, I've been playing the spanish a lot and really like them.
Some things:
I played against Brits on very hard, and it was really cool. My first time i played on very hard i got my butt wooped, but thats prolly because it was only my second time playing any game of aoe3. Then I played them again on New England. I was under constant assult from Iroquois mantlets and tomahawk warriors. They started to desolate my base and built thier fort just ouside of it. Lucky i caught it in the process and killed it halfway before it was built...
Finally i got to fortress age and orderd some falconets and then built artillery foundary to make more. At this point I stationed my fort at the North-east entrance to my base with 2 cannons, 5 draggons, 10 hussars, 2 monks, and 5 skirms to protect. On the other end (North-west), I had an outpost, 3 cannons, 15 skirms, 10 muskets and 3 monks.
I tried to make some counter attacks but decided I could not, due to the fact they had constant men coming in and i couldnt get my troops out to do damage before they were back into my base. I slowly built. Finally I started to grow an army up inside my base. I had very very limited reasouces due to the fact i had to keep resupliing my armies to defend, and they cup me off from outisde. Finnaly i trained 10 skirms, 10 muskets and 2 cannons, took my left defenses and started to march out of my base. I easily destroyed thier constant attacks commming at me and i took out thier 2 Native camps, wich was, thier entire attack force usually. They then came up to my with many cannons and longbowmen and totally killed me. I was again stuck into my base, defending as they took back thier native camps. Where the hell they got all this stuff, i dont know but it seemed they have to of had like 20 barracks while i only possed 4. I masses food shipments for villies, built 3 full mills with all upgrades, and 3 plantaions with all upgrades. My wood was fine inside my base as there was a lot around. It was then, that i went into a turtle boom. I stocked up my front lines so thier attacks were futile, until after like 10 when they actually killed something. My massive monks were very useful in healing after each assult. By this time, I had destroyed thier fort that prevented me from attacking them directly from my North-east entrance. I saved up for the Imperial age. Once I saw what you could get in the imperial age, I litterally crapped my pants....12 musketeers and heavy cannons, or crates of 2000 coin. Each refilled my troop shipments. I took the musketeers and cannon. Once i got to the Imperial age, i built the capitol building wich has some very sweet, powerful techs. Also, once in the imperial age, It refreshed all my unit shipments, so i ordered 3 cannons, 1 mortar, 8 pikemen, 4 hussars, and 6 lancers from my HC. Now is when i totaly creamed them. My army was far far supieror to thiers now, not by numbers, but by upgrades. I marched out like an invincible god and destoryed thier native camps once again. I then place a small part of my army at thier rear entrance, and fully asulted thier front. It was no match, they had so many guys in there, so many towers in thier base it was amazing, I lost maybe 10 guys (bet you didnt think that I have to hand it to ES, they did an AMAZING job on the imperial age. It is truely a stalemate breaker. And for 4k reasources each of coin and food, its not something your going to get every game. During my play, i noticed a bug that i totally hated. If its not a bug, then it is very anooying. The enemy army, before I had decent defenses, came in, just mellowly walked through my base until it hit the South edge of the map and sat there, after about 30 secs, they attacked me. This was very annoyng because I would have to have troops go to the back, and kill them. When they would have suceeded much more if they just attacked as they went through my base....Hopefully this isnt something that happens in the real game.. A few more things: 2. ES is doing a very good job.
1. I realize there are bugs, and some of them are annoying(such as gaurdians not attacking, gettting full health after i almost kill them) but I also realize this is a demo. I AM VERY HAPPY WITH IT. Im not bashing the demo, im actually very satisfied with it. At least i get to play the game....
If anyone else has a story/comment they want to post about a really fun game they had, post here annd disscuss. Sorry mine is so long...lol
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