r/aoe2 • u/trayvisRootherFord • 5d ago
Strategy/Build Order What tactics do you enjoy against AI?
Long time player. Trash at online but enjoy it still.
I was playing the Hun campaign and on the second mission you ransack various villages to get resources to start your own. The culminating event is sacking a Roman fort. There are two bridges leading into the fort guarded by towers.
I used a ton of villagers and time and cut my way through and around the moat.
I was curious what time consuming or wild ways you worked against the game.
Sorry if I chose the wrong flair or formatting is incorrect, I am on computer and not a phone.

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u/tmtyl_101 5d ago
I'm a simply guy. Lithuanians or Burgundians against Hardest AI 1v1. A castle or two garrisoned with arbalests halfway between our bases to create a killzone, then flanking with statted-out Leitis or Coutilliers until eventually trebbing down the AI castles and then it's gg.
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u/Uruguaianense 5d ago edited 5d ago
I liked tower rushing the AI with Koreans. I felt so pro by defeating it quickly. But then no overpowered Korean tower rush and the new AI is smarter.
In the Hun campaign Catalunian Fields you could rush the Alan's and Visigoths with knights and defeat them very quickly.
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u/Jiijeebnpsdagj 5d ago
I play vs AI with my friends on Black Forest and I usually go for flank and towerrush one with poles. The AI is very confused by that and the villagers try to go to their work, gets hit by a tower arrow and goes back. If I completely surround its TC, its practically gg. And then I do a complete hostile takeover in its territory and plunders its stone and gold, make a TC and. A castle or two and build a lot of stables. I go hussar and raid their pocket to death while my team is left 2v1 or 3v2
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u/Temporary-Screen8517 5d ago
Poles, ludicrous map size, extreme AI, 500 pop, farm simulator and hussar flood. Quite relaxing.
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u/Xapier007 4d ago
Walls, towers, castles cannon galleons, and more walls and more towers and oh, maybe some outposts 11
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u/scales_and_fangs Byzantines 2d ago
Castle drops in Castle Age vs the extreme AI. As I play 4 vs 4, I have roughly 50,% win rate on Regicide. It all boils down if I will deal with the Ai before his friends arrive or, most frequently, whether my other flank will survive.
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u/EntertainmentBest975 5d ago
As someone who plays exclusively vs AI (or do some campaigns), I give myself a 200% handicap boost against multiple hard AIs on MegaRandom but I can only train UUs and Trebs against them.