The AI is TOO Aggressive

The AI after level 20 is a total b**ch 'cause the AI constantly attacks you. again again and again (The most annoying so far for me are the sea people swordsmen )

Also the AI is spawning units too fast! When I attacked an AI's base he was spawning new swordsmen ( FU too ) every 5 seconds!!!

Does anyone agree that the AI is far too aggressive?

I mean its good that the AI keeps you on your toes but its a bit excessive attacking every minute?

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you always have to destroy the sea peoples docks so they cant come to your island. then its very easy.

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2 docks hidden in the corner of the map asap.(within 4 mins). Gear econ to wood/gold. Group 6 triremes, kill their boats, camp their docks. gg.

For land maps gear econ for towers and walls early. Wall/tower up. Get to 3rd age. Mass CA = gg.

That heroic help (epic consumable) is very good just in case.

|||What I do for most quests is reach Fortress ASAP build stables / fortresses and spam DC and CA then attack. its just the insane speed of the ai's attacks. on water its much simpler but on land. its horrible!!!
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I've switched to a super defensive playstyle since getting to level 17-21. Lots of fully upgraded walls around everything with forts, towers and archers behind them. Then I just slowly build up a massive army and crush them all at once.

Unless is a sea battle, then I just park a single ship near where they build their docks and it's gameover, I win.

|||Dunno what you're talking about... 1 barrack + 1 archery stops any pushes AI tries to perform. Just keep these buildings busy with producing hyppos and archers and you gonna be fine.|||

My Egypt strat, mass Axeman and Slingers, hit Age 4, mass Ptah and Elephants.

Otherwise, rush Age 3, post Fire Ships around my island and sink every transport.

Greek strat: Rush Age 3, and place fortresses triangulating my base. Then hit Age 4, mass Ballista Triremes and destroy their transports and dock.

Celt strat: Just kidding...but I hear a single Celt villager can solo an epic Fortress. True story.

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"you always have to destroy the sea peoples docks so they cant come to your island. then its very easy."

yup

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I've recently jumped into the 20+ quests as well a few levels back, and yeah there is definitely a bump in difficulty.

I'm fine though, still all super easy for me as a AoE veteran. If you are struggling you are doing something wrong and you should be able to improve :)

Are you keeping a constant supply of units? Are you upgrading over building units, or upgrading before you have a substantial army? Do you keep making villagers non-stop until you have 50-60?

I'm pretty sure if you maximize this you will be fine. Economy upgrades are a must too when you have some spare resources. Use the market as well if you have sort of screwed up your resources income balance, very useful when you actually use the 80% penalty reduction from the Technology Tree.

I suggest you try and focus on spamming villagers non-stop, get a good income in resources going whilst keeping units coming out (1 barracks 1 archery as suggested above is fine early on, you can keep making units here).

1 tip: dont queue up a lot of units in a single building. For example early you will be balancing on like 300 food and 300 gold, don't queue up 5 villagers in this spot, or even more than 2. This is really important. Spread the resources you have over everything, that's units and villagers, maybe technology/economy/military upgrades too.

edit: another tip, put your melee units on defensive (D) and your archers on aggressive (F) this means your melee won't go in until they are close enough for all your archers to hit them. If you put your melee infantry on aggressive (or default btw, same thing), they will walk to your enemy and only 1 row or a handful of archers will reach them.

another; Priests are a must for defensive missions. Healing up your units after a battle saves you a tooooooooooooooon of resources each game, and will make it a lot easier to win.

Hope some of this helps!

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What I do is to upgrade to age 3 as fast as I can and just spam my base 1 fortress at a time and fully upgrade walls 2 -3 rows away from each fortress so infantry gets killed before reaching any of my fortress. To support my need for fortresses I just have like 20 - 30 farms and sell food and buy what ever resources I need from marketplace. My only units I train is priests and maybe a few battering rams. All my other units are converted units thanks to my priests

The 1 quest I completed the other day I cleaned 2 enemy base with 160 converted villagers..

|||Except for the elite quests, the AI is really easy imo.|||

@ The wall of text writer

I reached 1st leuit on aoe3 so i know alot about aoe3 and its basics but what i mean is i was doing a quest earlier today and the ai attacked with 30 hypaspsyts at 4 mins!?

I'm no expert but thats insane?!

|||It's really easy actually. Get 4 archers (or 6 slingers) as soon as possible, harrass and micro their villagers, and boom you're won already.|||That only works when they are playing fair, which isn't the case on many quest maps. They often start with significant resources and buildings and are scripted to build a certain number of specific units and send them at you in waves. Or even worse their units just spawn automatically at certain times. Some maps the enemy has no base or villagers, they just get unlimited free unit spawns to send at you over a period of time.
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i make things easy:

on a water map, i kill the docks fast, do a little water boom, build 10 elephants and win

on a land map, i just do my normal axeman, slinger, camel rush and pwn the comp.