A lesson in humiliation

[Nightmare99]

Hi i have play single player for a year or so and beaten monarch lvl.and thought i was now ready to kick some ass in multiplayer omg. how i was wrong i got my ass kicked like hell i have not been even close to winning in my first 4 games so i wonder if someone has some good advice for multiplayer games.I have anderstand that you need good defence and that chopping down the surrounding forest and jungle are important but are there other things to think of that differs from single player.

 

[PMabey]

military!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[gamedude107]

well i used to suck in singeplayer i still do lol but in my last game i was palying as americans and i put my workers on auto (i started at the latest age) my economy looked cool!

 

[Galileo44]

No, don't do autoworkers, they are aweful! Look at how badly the AI terrain is developed, you don't want to look like that. On the multiplayer side, build a big military. Be ready to spend half of your budget or more if you are near a battle front particularly in a team game. Production also becomes more important than commerce in MP. Finally, catapults are the key to success, hit any stack invading you and it will crumble with enough suicide cats, and they are cheaper than whatever your opponent will be building. Plus, they are great for citybusting on offense too.

 

[carl corey]

I haven't played multiplayer, but I guess you can consider it an "Always War" game. You can kill his scout? Do it. You can grab a worker? Do it. Kill a settler? Oh yeah! Open Borders? Yeah, right.

Also, there are a few articles about multiplayer in the War Academy. Have a look there.

 

[gamedude107]

in most games i dont autoworkers, those games i usually only had some roads conecting cities, not much resources being used, with autoworkers they do it better for me! i havent seen anything bad except them building a farm on uranium which didnt matter because i ordered one to change it to a mine and i already loads of uranium mines

 

[oyzar]

To optimalize your terain it is very important to not automate your workers as long as you got time to micro them. As the games go on(playing on blazing) you dont realy have time to control them anymore and have to sucum to the evilness that is automasation. I would advice trying a couple team games and get some tips from your team mates on how to play. That will probably help you imensly. Another thing is that archers are actually usefull in MP while in singel player you never even reasearch hunting unless you have some reasources for it. As ppl have allready said it is basically allways war. If you can stick a warrior in your opponents fatcross on a forested hill before they can defend it then do so just to anoy them, it will slow down their initial devolpment imensely. MP and SP are two totaly different games.

 

[gamedude107]

you may suck in multiplayer but at least you can play multi.


I cant play multiplayer games since when i click login it freezes as if loading but then suddenly carries on as if i never clicked login!