Age of Empires 2: The Age Of Kings Submitted by: bad_maverick Gerson_Ariel_S@Yahoo.com Villager suprisse attack ------------------------ This tip will make an attack without 'attack'. This is the condition - If you play against computer, you have a neutral tribe, you have an ally that currently on a war with that neutral tribe. If ye want to help your ally do this. Create a group of five villager, upgrade the Loon tech., create university, advance the Fortified Wall, and gather stones as much as possible. Send the Villagers to the ally base and create Fortified wall nearby the Neutral's building, create 5 or 3 is recommended! If your 'just made' wall is attacked it's the main purpose! The next door building will be affect as well. While they're attacking their own building, create some more Fortified Wall beside the another building, eg. Monastery, or even Town Center! -NoCheAt- CheatMode: ---------- Update by: Grim Reaper 29.o4.2ooo Press ENTER while you are playing, it will open the chat window, then type one of the following codes: Code Result --------------------------------- POLO - Remove Fog MARCO - Reveal Map AEGIS - Immidiate Building ROCK ON - 1000 Stone LUMBERJACK - 1000 Wood ROBIN HOOD - 1000 Gold CHEESE STEAK JIMMY'S - 1000 Food NATURAL WONDERS - Control Nature RESIGN - Defeat yourself WIMPYWIMPYWIMPY - Destroy yourself I LOVE THE MONKEY HEAD - Gives a VDML HOW DO YOU TURN THIS ON - Gives a 'cobra' car TORPEDOx - Kills opponent x (where x is the opponent number) TO SMITHEREENS - Gives a saboteur BLACK DEATH - Destroying all the enemies I R WINNER - Victory CheatTip: --------- If you type in the words BIGDADDY when clicked on your town centre it will give you a ferrari with one hell of a canon -Submitted by mick Hill Command Line Cheats: -------------------- Use one of the following command line parameters to start the game 800 - Change screen res to 800x600 1024 - Change screen res to 1024x768 1280 - Change screen res to 1280x1024 autompsave - Enable Auto save Mfill - Cure display problems with some video cards Msync - Cure SoundBlaster AWE freezes NoMusic - Turn Off music. NormalMouse - Standard mouse pointer NoSound - Disable all sounds except during FMV sequences NoStartup - No pre-game FMV sequences NoTerrainSound - Turn Off all terrain sounds Hot Keys: --------- To activate one of these cheats, enter its corresponding hotkey below. Cheat Hotkey ---------------------------------- Build immutable structure - [Ctrl] + P New resource menu - [Ctrl] + T Speed construction - [Ctrl] + Q View ending - [Ctrl] + C Fast resources: --------------- Use the following trick to rapidly enter the cheat codes and get resources quickly. For wood, press [Enter], type lumberjack, highlight the word, then press [Ctrl] + C to copy it. Press [Enter] to activate the cheat. Press [Enter] again, then press [Ctrl] + V to paste the word on the screen for activation. Repeat to get resources quickly. This may be used with the rock on, robin hood, and cheese stack jimmy's codes. Hint: More bases advantage: --------------------------- To have a better chance of winning, you might want to build more than one base. Enlarge the base you start out with, making it completely fortified with at least two castles. Then, send a scout cavalry, or some other fast moving unit, to the opposite side of the map from your base. After you have checked the area and confirmed that it is safe, send a villager to build a castle at that location and fortify that base. This is very helpful if your enemy knows where one of your bases are located, especially during online play. Free ally: ---------- When you build a market, there is a chance that a rival tribe will ask you to send them a certain amount of wood, stone, gold, and food. When they do, click on "Diplomacy" or press [Alt] + D and click "Ally" on the name of that tribe. They will become an ally free of charge. However, when you do this you will no longer be able to align yourself with any other tribes. This is helpful if there are four tribes in the game. Save resources: --------------- When you are allies with others, do not build a market to avoid giving them resources. GameTip: -------- Press "qwerty" on the keyboard at the same time and you can edit the colours of the buildings and people Submitted by Richard net_boff@usa.net Hints: ------ Submitted by: Rene Trujillo Rojas renetr@prodigy.net.mx Hide Behind The Tower: ---------------------- Here is a Tip for a great idea! Build any type of TOWER you know. Put some of your military units behind the TOWER so the other players you are playing with cannot see. So then when they attack the tower your units come out and kill your oppents! For Larger Enemies: ------------------- Hit enter in the Imperial Age and type in "bigger baddies" exactly the way I did and you're enemies should get huge. They won't be harder though. This is a cool cheat, but has no effect. Submitted by Hank Grungey If You Are Playing A Map With Plenty Of Water: ---------------------------------------------- Stay(walk) near shore or on the shallow, use heavy demo ship to bomb them! One heavy demo ship can take out at least 20 infantry, monks, archers or light cavalry with it, or sevaral scorpions and onagers. Two can take out Knights, camels and trebuchets. Three can take out rams. Do not use them to bomb elephant, it is to costly unless you have too many resources.