yo.. back to the historical age of empires 2: age of kings.
hmn.. read an unofficial strategy guide about it, but it doesn’t help much in the whole game thought, ^^ (my skills are better, only in AOE2;AOK not in WC3)
found a very cheating way to win, >.< .. yip a new skill, town centre bunker defence!.. a very cheating way to win, best combine with heavy siege (a dozen of trebuchet with at least 2 bunkers, town centre) or with cavalry troops (2 teams of paladins, 15 paladins in each teams).
The idea of the bunker is that your archer can seeks refuge and defence in the town centre, and when you are in the bunker, your archer will get a +1 damage bonus and a +4 range, not to mention that you will now have a LOS of the town centre not your archer. Thus when you team it up with trebuchet, it will defiantly bring chaos to your enemy.
For every bunker, you must place at least 5 archers in it, or else it will be a waste, at max also only 10, because the maximum amount of arrows that will shoot out will be only 10, usually I will get 18 archers and 3 builders with me, build 2 bunkers to defend a point (1 has 10 archers, while the other in another bunker) until my troops come. Don’t use castle or any towers to defend, stone are much more important to defend tight areas.
Bunker defence might be a very good choice if you have more wood then gold or meat, but then bunker defence has a big weakness especially when you are facing Celts and Goths, wood raiders deals loads of damage to your bunker before u can fence them off, while the husker can tank all your arrows. To defend yourself if your opponent using this technique, there is 4, if you play all techs; 1, get cavalry rush to racks the opponents’ bunker, archers and builders before they can have an anchor there, 2, battle ram with couple of man-at-arms or two handed swords man to get a charge into it, use the formation key ‘E’ to take less damage, 3, heavy scorpion and mongonel siege, best to used it when the opponent get cavalry to back his troops up, don’t forget those pokey pikeman, to charge on the cavalry, timing on this technique is a must. 4, bunker versus bunker! The best so far, takes time to delay everything in the whole game. Don’t get too near to the opponent bunker, or you will ask for trouble, if the opponent has 10 archer in the bunker, try stuffing back the same amount of people, but then with villagers not archer, and you find out that your bunker town centre health point wont decrease, cool eh..
Well that for all, AOK rules!
