Age of Empires ii

I have played ages and ages of age of empires II.

Let me give you a scenario. It is 3 o' clock on a saturday afternoon and my little brother and my cousin want to play Age. We get together, set up a LAN network and the age is underway.

We generally team up together and take on as many of the computer adversaries all teamed together as the game will allow.

The first step, is to get to the 2nd Age in order to build some decent walls.

The very next step is to build what we like to call the rainbow wall. Why the rainbow wall you ask? Because when 6 different colored teams attack your wall it becomes a rainbow wall. Cyan, blue, green, yellow and pink guys all battering against the stones in order to come in and batter your stones.

So the rainbow wall is as thick of a wall as you can possibly build. 20 wall pieces thick is generally what your aiming for but 30 is better. Once accomplished, you can add some castles here and there and pump out some trebuchets to knock back at the more dangerous long range weapons the computer will throw at you.

Somewhere along the way it's a good idea to build a market and something like 50 trade carts in order to get that economy pumping. There should be another 50 or so dudes chopping wood and maybe 50 farms or something.

Once that's done, you've got to figure out the best units to buy as far as not using much / any gold but still able to do some bruising. You'll want to have a healthy team of units on hand in case the unthinkable happens and the rainbow wall busts.

Okay, it's not really unthinkable at all. The rainbow wall is going to bust, it's just a matter of time.

Incredibly, as long as you've got some castles and trebuchets to send ongoing volleys of death at the onslaught, it will taper off. It may be an hour or two before it tapers off, but it will. The computer isn't smart about getting those trade carts going and they'll eventually spend all their gold.

At this point, marshall a huge force and coordinate a strike between your two comrades to get the maximum effect out of your resources.

You've got to have trebuchets and you've got to have protection for them.

Also, you'll probably have two or three of your squads blitzed before you manage to turn the tide to complete victory mode.

After you victorize, you'll want to look at your stats and find out who led the way in kills and resource gathering.

What's the longest and most impossible Age session you've played?