So I found out I was rusty, very rusty, and after a series of losses I decided to practice against the comp to get my time up and here is my first game since then.

This game was just a series of brain farts and mistakes on my part, but it was against a lieutenant colonel, so still worth posting.



Here is my first big mistake, look at that herd, looks like just one herd doesn't it? Well, actually that is two very small herds. I didn't register that, instead I just thought, "Okay, I have the second herd, that'll last me until I build a second TC." My inability to count will bite me in my ass soon.



As I moved along I was going to do an FF or more precisely a semi-FF, I chose to do a Semi-FF using the 3 SW card instead of a military card or a Crate card because I knew beynd a shadow of a doubt he was going to do an FF and I was completely safe from anything except raids.

But that shouldn't have been a problem, except I had a big minute long brain fart starting at 6 minutes and ending ad 6:50 in which I completely spaced out and just ran on auto-pilot. This ed to the scenario where I just watched my Ulahns and Explorer be wasted with the same fascination one has while watching ants fight, I completely failed to have one thought while I was so totally spaced out.

This brain fart lasted until about here,



It took him attacking my villagers to snap me out of it, so I ended up losing some. I lost a three villager equivalent and he lost four huskarls.



Thats the fourth huskarl getting shot.

Well I aged up, and now here is where the two tiny herds bit me in the ass, for the three minute period between the last two pics, I ran out of food and had to move everybody halfway across the map to to find more food. This somewhat really hurt my progress, even though in all honesty my game was shot back when the Uhlans were killed. But I at least wanted to put up more of a fight.



But while trying to make something of an army, he omes in with goons and 4 cuirs and attacks...

For many, any months I have been trying to get my computer to play AOE III again. Its just not happening. Sigh...

My Clan is having a risk style conquer the world game using Age of Empires. I started with Spanish and California and attacked Rockies. My plan is to get to Hispanoila and Germany. With Germany I will win.

This is not showing the whole Screen shot. You need to right click and them click view image to see whole SS.

This is a special game since its my first post patch game. So I will give you SS for every battle.



I rushed with Dopples (For fun) Beat off his Muskets And longbow at first,started sieging his barracks Then he built 5 musketeers which engaged in melee combat. Killed them finished his rax and started sieging his tc. If I would have sieged his TC with my Uhlans and ignored his 5 muskets I would have destroyed his TC. He sent native skirms which counter Dopples So I decided to retreat and age.



He countered with actually a lot more units then this but my TC picked off a lot while he went after my houses then This happened and well he lost a lot of men. I raided his vills with my uhlans like they were going out of style and sent merc.



Here is a nice SS of my Merc. getting creamed I sent them there to hold off the Enemy army While I build my wall. They were beat but succeeded in giving me enough time to build my wall.I got my wall up but a corner was not wall off so his Longbow got out (It still bought me a few seconds more until he found it) thankfully...



I had cannons there which ignited a firefight between Cannon and Longbow surprisingly the cannon beat the arrows.



Got my wall fixed but Unbeknown to me there was a second pass across the river which he lead grenadiers across he used the Longbow as a distraction but I still saw them.(Look see the blue surrounded by a white circle those are grenades)



Well I sent a hoard of Uhlans down killed some vills but was slaughtered by his calvary and He sent a bigger hoard of calvary across that other ford which I know nothing about and began a almost comical chase. My War Wagons were chasing his Calvary as he killed my vills and unable to catch up thankfully I figured out that there must be a pass so I went to wall it off and found some gold vills and exacted revenge with Uhlans. :laughhard: I replaced my Eco by building a second TC and then attacked across that second pass.



I wiped that out and after 3 more skirmishes against muskets I won....

This feels like I am talking to myself. But here is the reason The above Screen shot was taken at 8 min.



Better time eh? And I had already massacred a ton of vills. And that Monk took some time also. Bottom line is... DOPPLES RULE!!!!!!!!

And let me tell you Those calvary isn't what killed the dopples. It was the flame thrower.

Yes I do!! Dopples area damage destroys them. Cho ko nues hp to low to hit and run. And quang pike hp to low to act as meat shield. LET THE PWNAGE CONTINUE!!!!!!!!!!!!!



I know it says 8 min. but I had to stop to kill some vills then he sent the calvary. That is my second wave by the way.