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Using Vengeance + Animosity is pretty effective, especially at higher levels. It takes a long time to kill the Radiance, especially if the entire enemy fleet is damaging its self at the same time. Other combinations are Malice + cleansing brilliance, though this is now more difficult to pull off well. Malice is still good though, a very useful ability. Keeping the Halcyon carrier around with illuminators is good, it increases their rate of fire. This is good for all of your sh

[quote]...And if you say i cant beat you in a long paced out game play me in nr in aoe 3 ill whoop you.[/quote] Wait... you are willing to play the Age of Empires III Special Olympics that is a No Rush game, and are complaining about this? In AoE, I can have a maxed out army in about 20 minutes. For the rest of the no rush period, I sit and do nothing. This is boring. Sins may feel slow, but that is probably just because you have no idea what is going on. I am never less active in this

I have been trying out the Vasari, and while I like their mining based economy and their technology (especialy the phase gates), I have trouble constructing a good fleet with them. I have been building fleets made up of mostly Assailants and the Vasari Carrier ships, with phase missiles maxed out. This is then supported by other ships (like Heavy Cruisers or Flak, depending on what my enemy has). This fleet seems to work fairly well, but it doesn't seem as commanding of the battlefield as

ok, thanks for the response. It was kind of a let down to just win without first actually annihilating them though.

My brother and I were playing a 6 player LAN game, against 4 'normal' computers - we just got the game, and had played an experimental 1v1; this was our first real game. In any case, after about 4 hours, we had eliminated two of the computers and the fleets of the other two, and were moving through their planets. I had decided to clense the pirate threat once and for all (they were annoying, and nobody else had any sort of fleet to speak of). I jumped my entire fleet there, and after abo

How do you know if there is an artifact on the planet without exploring it first?

The Advent can get a refinery-type structure? I didn't think that they could.