I’ve played AoE since the first version along with various others. Are there any games like AoE or C&C - real time, build bases to built units, harvest resources - but MUCH larger maps? That allow you to turtle up at a nice slow pace and then take out your enemies?
I play Civ and with mods for larger map sizes, it fills one need, but I’d really like a larger real-time harvest-resources type game, so… figured I’d ask.
I’m a casual player. I tweak settings on AoE to slow down the AI coming to attack me so I can build up walls and impenetrable lines of outposts and keeps. heh. So then I can send out raiding armies at my leisure. But it’s not perfect, and the largest maps are still too small for my preferences.
Nova Roma is really nice as a city builder - if that had huge huge maps and other cities t conquer, it might be perfect. heh.
0AD is a nice open source project started many years ago forked from AOE and is now an independent project and very customizable. It gets more impressive from update to update. If you play online you have or dont have the same turteling time like in aoe tho, depends on the set armistice time. Big Fan, very detailed, beautiful designed and historycally accurate!
I hope they stopped having different meta for male and female villagers. Last time I checked they were better in certain tasks based on gender.


