Age of Empires II: The Conquerors
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| Age of Empires II: The Conquerors | |
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| Developer(s) | Ensemble Studios |
| Publisher(s) | Microsoft |
| Release date | August 24, 2000 |
| Genre | Real-time strategy |
| Mode(s) | Single player, 1-8 person Multiplayer |
| Age rating(s) | ESRB: T |
| Platform(s) | PC |
| Media | CD |
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Age of Empires II: The Conquerors (sometimes abbreviated to AoC) is the expansion pack to the 2000 real-time strategy game Age of Empires II. The Conquerors is the fourth installment of the Age of Empires series by Microsoft Game Studios and Ensemble Studios. It features five new civilizations (the Aztecs, Mayans, Spanish, Huns, and Koreans), four new campaigns, eleven new units, twenty-six new technologies, new gameplay modes, new maps and different minor tweaks to the gameplay.
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[edit] New Additions
- Civilizations: Aztecs, Mayans, Spanish, Huns, and Koreans.
- Campaigns: Montezuma, Attilla the Hun, El Cid and several miscellaneous one-map campaigns (Agincourt or Hastings, for example).
- Game Types: King of the Hill (Wonder), Wonder Race and Defend the Wonder.
- Tile Sets: New Jungle & Winter tile sets.
- AI Upgrades: Villagers and siege weapons are smarter.
- New Units: Eagle warriors, Jaguar warriors, Conquistadors, Halberdiers, Missionaries, War Wagons, Turtle ships, Tarkans, Hussars, Petards and Plumed Archers.
- New Technologies: There are twenty-six additional technologies.
- Misc. Changes: Many smaller upgrades including: new multiplayer maps, the ability to have farms automatically replant, more efficient game recording, new technologies, and garrisoning in battering rams.
[edit] Gameplay
The gameplay in The Conquerors remains largely unchanged. Because of that, I will reiterate the basics.
There are four resources necessary to wage a successful war: Wood, Gold, Stone and Food. Wood is used for most buildings and some soldiers such as archers. It is gathered by having your villagers cut down trees. They can drop off the wood at a lumber camp, or your town center. Gold is used for payment. Usually this is used when creating military units. Otherwise, it can be used to pay for researching certain technologies, or constructing some buildings. It is harvested from gold mines. Stone is the least important, but still useful, resource. It's used for building castles and stone walls. It is mined from the few stone mines found on the map. Finally, there's food, the most important resource to any civilization. Food is used to create villagers and soldiers. It is used up the most and also easiest to harvest. Villagers can create farms, harvest from wild berry bushes, or hunt packs of boar/deer. If any of these resources become scarce, the player can simply create a marketplace and sell resources and sell surplus to buy what is needed.
Combat is usually close ranged. Close range units are the various types of infantry and cavalry. Infantry refers to fighters on foot. They are cheaper but weaker than cavalry. Cavalry refers to units riding on horseback. There are also ranged units, such as the crossbowmen and spear-throwing skirmishers. These units are weak to melee attacks and are best served as defensive units, or backing up a group of melee units.
For the destruction of buildings, there are siege weapons. These are destructive catapults and battering ram type weapons. The strongest seige weapon is the trebuchet, a slow loading, slow moving, giant catapult. Archers arrows are weak against all siege weapons.
There are different game types available to the player outside of the campaigns. The "Standard Game" mode allows you to set the map, the number of players, the AI difficulty and more. Objectives are changed depending on the game selected: You could make it so that whoever destroys each and every unit & building of the enemy wins, whoever reaches a certain score wins, whoever kills the enemies king wins, or you could even have a non-combat game where whoever builds a Wonder wins. These are only some of the game modes and options open to you before you start a game.
[edit] Online play
As of June 2006, The MSN Gaming Zone was shut down. Today the most popular places to play AOC online are Gamespy and GamePark. The official place to play chosen by Microsoft is Gamespy, but is widely disliked.
[edit] External links
- Official Microsoft site
- Official Ensemble Studios site
- Collection of Reviews of Age of Empires II:The Conquerors
- Age of Empires II: The Conquerors at MobyGames
- Strategies and Guides
- Age of Kings Heaven
- International Gaming Zone -IGZ-
- Age of Empires Union
| Age of Empires series |
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| Age of Empires | Rise of Rome Age of Empires II | The Conquerors | Age of Kings Age of Empires III | The War Chiefs | Asian Dynasties |
| Spin-offs |
| Age of Mythology | The Titans |
| Units |
| AOE:Age of Empires | Age of Empires II | Age of Empires III AOM: Age of Mythology |
