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although at some point it is quite repetitive to the AI.

I suspect that you are not running the DE version on your old Windows laptop, but an original one. In the DE if your match game asks you can choose from the original AI, the HD AI or the DE AI in addition to difficulty.

I do not know which AI version is used during campaigns but set it to hard and at ease playing AoE is no longer there. Defend this castle for an hour, after 10 minutes 3 enemies attack at the same time (so with coordination) each time with trebuchets and siege rams supported by troops. And if you survive that, the next wave is coming soon as the AI ​​doesn’t forget to launch attacks on my villagers further up the road to sabotage the economy.

Tricks where you have some economy running somewhere on the edge of the map, the AI ​​will find out and will send a dozen troops to finish those villagers. Or being on islands where the AI ​​won’t attack you, while I was fighting ashore I didn’t notice that transport ships had landed that had made short work of the island.

Either I play really jerk or the current AI in campaigns can no longer be compared with the original version at all. Anyway, nowadays I use shortcuts to stop wasting time setting farms while still playing against AI.

The definitive version really goes much further than what to polish up the game a bit, factions have been adjusted for balancing, but also under the HD version, extensions were released with new mechanics such as Portugal which has trading posts. But campaigns have also been reworked to deal with or integrate with these new mechanics.

I understand perfectly that the game is gaining popularity, it is becoming more and more easy to play hard to master, a feature that Nintendo knows all too well from classics such as Mario kart and Super Smach bro’s.

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