Age of Empires II: The Conquerors Expansion Quiz

Answer: All players begin game play with huge stockpiles of resources and then fight to the death

Death match is a very good game. At the onset of game play you are provided with lots of resources to develop your military and then when you feel ready you can just engage your enemy in a huge battle. This is a great game if you do love going into battle. This game is available in "The Conquerors Expansion".

Answer: Conquest Victory

A standard victory is where any player can win by either killing your enemies, controlling all relics, or by building a wonder. This allows the individual player to decide their own way of winning during the game. Alternatively you can choose before game play which victory conditions you want to win with.

A conquest victory is different because you have to destroy your enemy by burning down all his buildings (except for - towers, walls, gates, relics, fishing ships, fish traps, transport ships, trade cogs, trade carts, farms and sheep) and kill all his military. Eluding your enemy is a good tactic here, especially if you set up your empire in different locations.

This victory is available in "The Conquerors Expansion".

Answer: Build the mine, and then mine the gold, depositing it in the mine

One of the new features in "The Conquerors Expansion" is that the villagers are now more intelligent. In "Age of Kings" they would build the mine and then stand there idly. In the expansion they will build the mining camp and then go straight to work mining whatever is close to the camp (either gold or stone).

This was a bit of a trick question as stone mine and gold mines are one in the same.

Answer: Gathering food and wood

This is a recommended strategy and you don't have to use it if you don't want to. It is merely suggested for beginners in the "Age of Empires II" manual. You will need to create more villagers to stockpile your resources and the only way you can do this is by gathering food. You will also need wood to build houses as houses control your population limit.

It is not recommended to gather gold and stone until you are in the Feudal age, as you don't need those resources till then anyways. You can't build walls and towers until the Feudal age, therefore you don't need stone. Upgrading is not possible without advancing to the next ages. Once you advance from Dark age to Feudal age, then it is beneficial to gather gold and stone as you use them for building walls for protection and upgrading your technologies. You can't build a castle until the Castle age.

Answer: Use the COMMA key

It's as easy as pressing the COMMA key to find your idle military units as it rotates around each idle military unit, so that you can give each unit further instructions. Also instead of using the idle villager icon you can use the FULLSTOP key to find your idle villagers.

Answer: Ring the bell at your town center to garrison them inside

Having your enemy come along and kill your villagers can slow you down, and maybe even lead to your demise. If this happens, you can protect them inside your town center, until the danger has passed. If your military has fought back and all is calm, you can un-garrison your villagers. When they are out of the town center they will automatically go back to what task they were working on.

Answer: By collecting 800 food, 200 gold and two feudal age buildings and then upgrading at the town center

As you progress from the Dark ages to the Imperial age you need to have the right amount of resources, and have built the right amount of buildings for each age. If you don't, you can't move your empire into the next age and therefore you can't reap the rewards of each age. As you advance through the ages you get more technology and stronger military units.

Answer: El Dorado increases the hit points of Eagle Warriors

Researching El Dorado is the Mayans unique technology. This technology will add 40 hit points to the Eagle Warrior. Other unique features of the Mayans are the Plumed Archers (a strong archer unit), building walls is 50% cheaper and the Mayan Empire starts with one extra villager and one Eagle Warrior (for use as the scout). All Mayan resources last twenty percent longer than other civilizations.

As the Mayans advance through the ages, archery range units cost less than other civilizations. The only set back is you get 50 less food on starting.

Answer: Farms replant themselves

There are a lot of new features in the "Conquerors Expansion", and one of them is the ability to queue farms. This means that when a villager has finished farming all the resources and if a farm is in the queue, a farm will replant itself. This won't happen if you have not put any farms in the queue.

Instead your villager will just stand there idly until you replant one for him. You need to click on your mill to queue farms. This snazzy new feature gives you one less hassle to worry about, especially if you are going into battle and need your villagers to work hard gathering resources.

Answer: Units can garrison inside Battering, Capped and Siege Rams

Putting military units inside your ram equipment allows for better protection. As well as protection, this also increases the speed of the ram and the attack points.

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