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Ha ha. Nice strategy. In the expansion to Empire Earth it gives Babylon the ability to build priest towers that automatically try to convert enemies that come into range. With a good deployment of those and normal towers and invasion would be thwarted by my priest towers converting their incoming troops and the ensuing scuffle between their invaders and the newly converted invaders. Later on you can upgrade to multiple conversions and building conversions as well. That and that the game spans 15 ages from Prehistory through Space warfare has rekindled my interest in it.

 

Thanks. Learned something new today. You cheatin bastard you.

 

Hey, don't get pissed off at me because I am smarter than you. Oh yeah - look at the enemies ship patterns and put some monks on an island they pas by. You can get tons of ships this way too.

 

I never really got in the habit of using monks. I may need to give this a try tonight. We should move this to a AOE thread for future reference.

 

Seemed like the only way I could get bombard ships or fire ships. Never could make them in the game for some damn reason.

 

I can't seem to get into it... any tips for gameplay??

 

I remember playing it a lot for a while, we tend to switch between different RTS games, but I can't remember why we stopped. The games were freakin' long was one reason, but I don't remember why else.

I do know that the stupid Conquer the World campaign would always make my computer crash, stupid Windows. that was discouraging.

 

whenever i get some extra cash, i'm gonna get ninja gaiden for the xbox. it's getting some of the highest ratings i've seen for a non grand theft auto game. hopefully that'll kill some time until halo 2 comes out. i imagine i'll be playing that for a few years.

 

empire earth

 

Hard to say. If you're familiar with the concept of this game and the others like it, and would otherwise dig it, then I suggest reading some game strategy information on rushing. That really got me revitalized on the game because I'm more of a sit back and defend, then build up and attack guy in theory. I got good enough at it that I could take out their initial defenses and make a strong dent in their infrastructure. Taking out their citizens really pisses them off.

When you're playing more modern campaigns, it's easy to raid them by taking fighters after their citizens and trade wagons.
They tend to be great defense against artillery attacks, too.


If you don't usually dig this type game, it's hard to suggest much, though you might dig the macromanagement of being able to use modern machinery in the air and on the water, so you might try a game that starts in the modern age, start out easy, and just bomb the shit out of them till you want to attack.