Age of Empires II (2013)

Age of Empires II (2013)

Age of Chess
Luca  [developer] 14 Aug, 2019 @ 9:14pm
Things nobody asked but I want to answer anyway - NotFaq
-Why king turns into berserk at T2 and into a legionary at T3?
they dont have anthing in comon!

The reason is only visual, I wanted AOE players to instantly know what level units only by watching them, and if you notice those units all use caps, so i liked the idea of a king kinda useless T1 unit but turning into a legionary able to spawn 4 units doing mass control in the arena atracted me to it.

-why you made a tutorial?

i don't know why, all those seconds before the game starts wasted, i will add a version without the tutorial someday.

-Tecla what does the word Gauch mean?

that word doesn't exist, but it looks like Gaucho in spanish, wich means something like "native", "indio", "domador" , farmers that have a lot of cattle, lots of it.

-What do you expect getting from Age of Chess?

Sincerely? i don't expect anything, I did because I wanted to, but now i've done it I wish something good happens with this.

-What do i do if I want to play but i dont have the mods?

You can play anyway, just ask some friend who has the mods to host it!

-What in the world is this map?

well actually this was a real quiestion and I would like to answer it but it doesn't fit the section.

-YOU HAVE too MANY GRAMATIC/semanthic ERRORS!

thank you, I will improve my english quality!

-Map is Gay!

this was also a real question so it doesn't apply to the topic. was it a question?

-how did you bring up with this idea?

Well I have come familiar with AGE map editor a while ago now, and my fisrt map was CTF arena, not very popular map, i don't recomend you to play it because its like not balanced, extremely boring, though it was nice, i felt proud of it. when Team Fight tactics launched, previously Autochess dota, i thought "woud be nice to have something similar in age of empires" but instantly came to my mind the limitations the editor has like not being able to use variables, hence the lack of random number, the multiple arenas would be insane in triggers amount, the imposibility to revive units, and many other features that makes you want to give up and do something else with your life, but my mind loved the challenge and it started automatically, so the next day my mind realized the Age of Chess (didn't knew it was going to have that name, i was thinking of medieval tournaments or something like that) was going to be witha central Arena, players taking turns to play against each other, and that simplified the trigs amount a lot, so I started drawing it, how it could be similar to the authentic TFT or Dota autochess, for my surprisse i found there was a penguin wich i could use like the pet of the game, added some range to it, and voila it is the ultimate unit picker! and every other thing happened just like that, found my way through the limitations of the editor, i had to fight with duplicates of the original unit the palyer has, and managed to make several abilities like tower spawn for robin hood, heal aura for monkas, special bonus to the team like armor to all units, atk to all units, max hp increase, i balanced the game also, i did'nt leave the units raw, it was not right. So as a result this is what it is, a beloved map, those who played it liked it very much and made me very happy, i want to keep updating this map so play it, find a bug, find something you dont like, and leave a comment.

-How many maps have you made?

2. actually 3 but realism scenario will be completed as a dataset.

-will you add more units to age of chess?

yep.

-will you add more abilities to age of chess?

yep. currently thinking of some units that add a chokepoint, critical strikes, and probably stuns, dodge, return from Ades(revive), some curses like slow, and who knows what more.

-is the game balanced?

Yep, though it has a rock, scissor, paper system, so if oyu cant win although you have more units, or more wood invested, it must be because of that.

-how you defeat frederick? he is so op!

he has low pierce armor

-how you defeat robin hood? he deals so much damage!

his towers have 12 attack, heroes like wwallace, el cid campeador, Guy josselyn, and the huskarl have more than 5 pierce armor, make sure the towers target them instead of your more delicate units.

-how do you defeat the queen? she is so op!

Long live the queen! she works best with the "spamer units" if she makes the combo you may be in real trouble. the spamer combo (legionaries and kamayuks) are weak against foot archers (robin hood, chukonu, organ guns, guglielmo embriaco)

-will Attila be replaced for Belisarus, who acts like a cataphract?

yep.

-how often do you update?

it depends. Adding a new unit means going through 100 triggers, but fixing a bug sometimes it isn't that difficult(3 or 5 trigs), so the more bugs you find the more frequent the updates.!
Last edited by Luca; 24 Aug, 2019 @ 8:18pm