Content about: Age of Empires
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In most 25 years of playing Age of Empires, I have never completed the tutorial campaign before. I have now. 🎮
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Age of Empires | Ascent of Egypt - 12 Siege of Canaan
How to complete the ‘Siege of Canaan’ scenario of the Ascent of Egypt campaign in Age of Empires.
This video play through shows how to successfully complete the Siege of Canaan scenario in Age of Empires.
Unlike the most recent missions played, this scenario starts back at the beginning of time in the Stone Age.
The key to completing this task is developing your civilisation without discovery by the enemy until you are strong enough not to be overwhelmed by their incursion.
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Age of Empires | Ascent of Egypt - 11 A Wonder of the World
How to complete the ‘A Wonder of the World’ scenario from the Ascent of Egypt learning campaign in Age of Empires.
The objective of the ‘A Wonder of the World’ scenario is, unsurprisingly, to build a wonder - a pyramid in this case. This video play through demonstrates how to complete the scenario.
The end-term objective is to build a pyramid, and to do that you will need a stockpile of 1,000 each of wood, gold and stone.
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Age of Empires | Ascent of Egypt - 10 Naval Battle
How to complete the ‘Naval Battle’ Scenario in the Ascent of Egypt learning campaign in Age of Empires.
In the Naval Battle scenario, you need to retrieve the artefact being held by the enemy on the main island to the North of the map. This video play through shows you how to do it.
The immediate priority is to deal with the immediate naval threat building across the water - if you do not do this your own island will come under constant attack, making success much harder.
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Age of Empires | Ascent of Egypt - 09 River Outpost
How to complete the ‘River Outpost’ scenario in the Ascent of Egypt learning campaign within Age of Empires.
This vide play through show you how to complete the River Outpost scenario in Age of Empires. The real objective is to show you how to extend government into new zones of the map.
The objective island is right in the middle of the map. You can’t really miss it as you will be being shot at as soon as you find it.
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Age of Empires | Ascent of Egypt - 08 Crusade
How to complete the ‘Crusade’ or ‘Religion’ scenario in the Ascent of Egypt learning campaign in Age of Empires.
The objective of the ‘Crusade’ or more recently politically correctly renamed ‘Religion’ scenario is to convert the enemy catapult to your side, and bring it back to your town centre alive. This video play through shows you how to complete that.
It is possible to complete this mission relatively quickly. Build up a large enough force of axemen, slingers and archers to hold off the enemy.
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Age of Empires | Ascent of Egypt - 07 Trade
How to complete the ‘Trade’ mission in the Ascent of Egypt learning campaign in Age of Empires.
This video playthrough shows how to complete the Trade mission.
Similar to the previous mission, before you can turn your mind to trade, you need to deal with a few security threats from your neighbours.
First of all, set your villagers to collect wood, you are going to need a lot of it in this mission.
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Age of Empires | Ascent of Egypt - 06 Farming
How to complete the Farming mission in the Ascent of Egypt learning campaign on Age of Empires.
While the object of the farming mission is to teach you how to farm, that objective needs to be balanced by keeping the enemy at bay.
Seize the initiative - if you can take control of the sea crossings early in the game you can avoid having to deal with continuous waves of enemy attacks on your settlement.
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Age of Empires | Ascent of Egypt - 05 Skirmish
How to complete the ‘Skirmish’ mission in the Ascent of Egypt learning campaign on Age of Empires.
This short video playthrough shows how to complete the Skirmish learning mission on Age of Empires.
You will start the mission with 7 military units, and you will not be able to supplement that. Split your units into a group of archers, and a group of axemen. Use Ctrl+1 and Ctrl+2 while the two groups are selected to allocate the hotkeys 1 and 2 to those groups.
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Age of Empires | Ascent of Egypt - 04 Dawn of a New Age
Video playthrough showing how to complete the ‘Dawn of a New Age’ mission in the Ascent of Egypt learning campaign in Age of Empires.
The aim of the Dawn of a New Age mission is to progress from the Stone Age to the Tool Age, to upgrade you need to build a stockpile of at least 500 food, while building at least two of the stone age building.
Starting the mission with three villagers, set your villagers to work collecting food and wood.
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Age of Empires | Ascent of Egypt - 03 Discoveries
How to complete the third episode of the Ascent of Egypt learning campaign on Age of Empires with video playthrough.
The third episode of the Ascent of Egypt concentrates on the ‘Discovery’ mode of victory.
The mission is a very simple one. Take your villagers on a tour of the map, and claim all of the chalk marked horsemen in the ground - there are 5.
To do this though you will need a big enough force of villagers to defeat the enemy scout, and various natural predators present on the map.
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Age of Empires | Ascent of Egypt - 02 Foraging
Video playthrough of the second mission of the Age of Empires Ascent of Egypt learning campaign - Foraging.
The second video of my series playing through of the Age of Empires and expansion The Rise of Rome campaigns in Crossover on MacOS. I am playing using the original game iso with UPatch HD patch and Crossover.
The Foraging mission is another steady introduction to food collection in Age of Empires.
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Age of Empires | Ascent of Egypt - 01 Hunting
Video playthrough of the first mission of the Age of Empires Ascent of Egypt learning campaign.
The first video of my series playing through of the Age of Empires and expansion The Rise of Rome campaigns in Crossover on MacOS. I am playing using the original game iso with UPatch HD patch and Crossover.
The Hunting mission is a really steady introduction to food production in Age of Empires. Simply select your villager, right click on the herd of deer nearby, and once your food supply reaches 50 click on the town centre, and on the villager icon to produce another villager.
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Play Age of Empires in HD on macOS
Find out how to play Age of Empires in widescreen HD on macOS Catalina, putting more game on screen, and losing the black border to the side of the screen.
Here at MacRetro we have been hard at work upgrading our retro gaming environment ready for the 64bit era ushered in by macOS Catalina. As a result of Apple deprecating 32bit app support we've had to change our architecture for playing old windows games on Mac.