12/25/2023 0 Comments Age of war 2 impossible![]() Stars are easy to get, technologies are horribly expensive, and as a result by late game of the one game I survived, I was entering the Early Modern era and just discovering boats that might survive the ocean. * Era pacing is terrible, with technology lagging terribly behind era/civ choices. Which also isn't interesting, or challenging, or fun. In that game, I rolled to victory without any of the other AI even trying to attack me, and by turn 100 I was ages ahead of everyone else. I have had one game in which Green somehow got distracted or I skirmished enough of his tribe before it formed that he couldn't get his act together. Just consistently 50 turns and game over because I'm wrecked. There's no diplomacy I can offer him, no tribute I can pay to make him go away, no chance to hire mercenaries, no chance to even build a defense. This isn't interesting, or challenging, or fun - the AI simply takes their massive production and technology head start and wallops me before I can even begin. And even that level of population and production takes the time to build two districts to get set up and whoops now I'm out of time to build the eight units I need to defend my borders. I don't understand how the devs think I'm supposed to have enough troops to defend against that when troops cost population, and I can't get population more than once every four turns. ![]() In 90% of those, some time between turn 40 and 45 the Green AI declared surprise war and attacked me with six to eight units, all of which were promoted and specialized. ![]() ![]() I have started maybe fifty games in Open Beta, on the Nation (default, middle) difficulty. ![]()
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