Originally posted by Izayoii:

i play on skirmish mode, and my score is always on lowest one, how is that possible? the enemy always got more than double score than me? i tried to build as fast as possible, but still lose......

i watch on youtube video, nothing help
-i play java version like 12 years ago

I mean maybe you are just bad, keep practicing, its a very competitive and difficult game

give up. this game are going to die

for me it was mostly vill production you pretty much always want to be training one. you could also check the endgame stats, look at the graphs and see where you are falling behind

as soon as I try hard in skirmish mode im totally dead!!!

Berries gather slower than huntables. Stay on huntable animals for as long as possible before transitioning to berries/farms

Originally posted by Swalmy:

Berries gather slower than huntables. Stay on huntable animals for as long as possible before transitioning to berries/farms

i tried that, but when all animal died, what should i do?

Originally posted by christianarndal:

as soon as I try hard in skirmish mode im totally dead!!!

hard AI is well called hard for a reason... you'll just have to practice a lot

Originally posted by christianarndal:

as soon as I try hard in skirmish mode im totally dead!!!

hardest mode is one of best for me, but i dont have any chance for extreme mode

chase the animals towards your towncenter once by a shot for several times,you can gather a group of animals to safer area to eat.

Originally posted by Tsundere Kanojo:

Originally posted by christianarndal:

as soon as I try hard in skirmish mode im totally dead!!!

hard AI is well called hard for a reason... you'll just have to practice a lot

It'll take more than that, I'm afraid.
"Practice" on what, exactly? The Moderate in doesn't implement any of the skills or techniques you'd need to fight against to beat Hard...this has been an ongoing problem for several years now.

Three suggestions for if you really want to get better:

1. Play the Art of War missions and get good at them. They will teach you many useful skills if you have not mastered them yet.
2. Decide on a build order (especially your first five shipments) and adjust it as needed when you lose.
3. Struggle. You will not win on higher difficulty levels if you do not fail a bunch of times and learn from them. You can get away with some really bad strategies on lower difficulties and you won't realise they're bad until a better opponent exposes them.

I recommend playing against the same AI faction on the same map one difficulty level above where you usually play until you figured out a strategy to reliably beat them with your main faction, then move on to others. This is how I managed to move from moderate to hard to extreme, and I believe it can work for anyone else with a decent knowledge of the game's mechanics and the will to improve :)

i have played ao3 deafult, i get this version now. is it many players playing ranked games?

Originally posted by Primhose:

Originally posted by Tsundere Kanojo:

hard AI is well called hard for a reason... you'll just have to practice a lot

It'll take more than that, I'm afraid.
"Practice" on what, exactly? The Moderate in :AoE3DE: doesn't implement any of the skills or techniques you'd need to fight against to beat Hard...this has been an ongoing problem for several years now.

You can set the player handicap option to on. I think hard is +35% handicap on a moderate. So you can set moderate to +15% or +20% handicap and see how that goes.

I've beaten hard before rushing them, putting immediate pressure and building right outside their base. That can be much more difficult to pull off depending on what race they are. I've beaten them with Malta and US which are my main factions. Its far more difficult to deal with hard if you give him map control of any kind.

Thats what she said!