This is the only civ in the game that if I see I'm going up against I know I'm losing. The only way I ever stand a chance at winning is if I'm playing India and I build a fort in base. Otherwise I get overwhelmed by a million rekruts and cossacks, and strelets. Spain is by far my worst match up against them, I just get swarmed so early on and despite aging up with 4 hussars, sending 7 rods and mm and timing all 3 of them together there is just too much of everything and all I have gets whittled down instantly. This civ honestly feels excessive to go up against. how tf do u beat them?

Are they just hellbent on destroying the Scourge? Or do they just want to end all form of life in the universe? I think the Scourge mention that they destroy every galaxy they come across. Do they do it to starve out the Prethoryn or because they really do want to kill everything? Also, is it them that kills ur behemoth? I rlly wish we could see them

This gamemode would basically be "what if aoe3 had boss fights?"

It would be intended to be a PvE where 3 or 4 players would have to team up to beat one huge, powerful enemy controlled by the AI. The game would start with the enemy having large starting infrastructure, imperial techs, many villagers on mills and estates, many resources, etc... but would leave the players alone for a certain time period (sort of like Treaty). This is intended to give the 4 players enough time to create a large enough force to not only defend themselves but eventually push back the enemy. The enemy would ignore max pop limits and would field several hundreds of military units. When the timer stops, the enemy AI goes in an all out attack, and their civ's theme would start playing for everyone.

A fun addition to this concept is being able to pick which civ the enemy would play, and having each civ have a different title.

The Brits could be "the Commonwealth", and would primarily use Imperial redcoats, rockets and king's life hussars, and would probably have more villagers than the other bosses.

The French would be "the Republic" and would actually be more like the Revolutionary France available in the game, fielding a lot of sans-culottes, voltigeurs and cuirassiers.

The Ottomans could be "the Caliphate", the United States could be "the Union", etc...

Do you think a gamemode like this could work?

Imagine how cool it would be to see huge cannons and ships firing off in the night... I wish night mode was a toggleable option, like it'd be in the list alongside "Free For All" and "Record Game"

title basically, I wanna know some ppl before I start

The Orange

At lunchtime I bought a huge orange—
The size of it made us all laugh.
I peeled it and shared it with Robert and Dave—
They got quarters and I had a half.

And that orange, it made me so happy,
As ordinary things often do
Just lately. The shopping. A walk in the park.
This is peace and contentment. It’s new.

The rest of the day was quite easy.
I did all the jobs on my list
And enjoyed them and had some time over.
I love you. I’m glad I exist.

Im seeing people say it does and others say it doesnt. I preordered, will I also have to buy the cosmetic pack on the 10th of september?

the player count posts I see on this sub are talking exclusively about steam users. I'm a microsoft store player that plays the game thanks to xbox gamepass pc. I know a lot of microsoft store players as well so whenever discussing player counts ppl need to keep in mind that total players are probably a lot higher than they appear if u just look at the steam player count.

Idk why it isn't already. When they sat around discussing what recognisable nations were formed after declaring independence from the UK did they really think of Haiti before Ireland? I think they'd be a great fit in the game and the 1798 Rebellion would be the perfect theme for an Ireland revolt.

Irish Brigadiers would be their main unit ofc, and I think a fun shipment for them would be "Choctaw Nation Support" that gives them food crates and a number of random native American units. I'm sure there's a lot more you could do with the idea of an Ireland revolt.

This is my first ever blind playthrough and I just finished the Voodoo Boys mission. Due to frying my brain with youtube shorts and insta reels slop my attention span is basically completely destroyed. I decided to side with the Netwatch agent. What I'm confused about is what happens at the end of the mission when you exit cyberspace.

Brigitte and all of the VDB Netrunners are dead. Was it Alt who killed them or was it Netwatch? And what happens to the Netwatch runners in this outcome? I think I recall Alt saying she killed them? If she did, why?

Much appreciated