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Guys, would you see this absolute shame? Here we are on a beta patch where you can play as two completely new sieves. And I'm playing against a freaking auto in this ranked 1v1. The ranked uh the ranked things are kind of they're not uh like I'm not unlike my normal ranked stuff here. Um everything's kind of mixed around and messed up, so things are a little different, but still like it this isn't real ranked 1v1s.…

RM 1v1 sample: 6,091,780 games. Overall win-rate leaders: Romans 54.3%, Tupi 53.3%, Bulgarians 52.7%. Most played: Mongols 5.7%, Franks 4.9%, Persians 3.7%. Elite slice: Byzantines 79.6%, Tupi 76.6%, Chinese 76.5%.

AoE2.ai is tracking 45,702 RM 1v1 players. Top five: #1 _LY_Yo 2,899, #2 Oni.Vinchester 2,892, #3 wR.Sebastian 2,870, #4 VIT Liereyy 2,840, #5 TAG_Sitaux 2,836. Longest hot streak in the sampled top ladder: 抖音ique (64 wins). Best sampled win rate with 300+ games: VIT | Hera 74.9%. 63 of the sampled top players have played in the last 24h.

Free Food Party reports 4,273 AoE3 players online. 43 observable matches are live, including 23 1v1s, 20 team/custom games and 38 automatches. Highest average Elo visible now: ktard115 vs srxs (2p) around 2,035 Elo. Snapshot time: 2026-07-26T05:30:35.491Z.

AoMStats published its latest weekly ranked-match dump for 2026-07-19 to 2026-07-25. 57,080 matches are available for analysis. 501,153 leaderboard rows are in the current snapshot.

My friends and I usually play in unranked 3v3 matches, but lately we've been getting completely destroyed. I got curious, since the gap between us and the people who beat us is quite noticeable. Using a website called "aoe2insighths," we realized that our opponents are almost always a mix of a novice player and one or two players with an elo rating of 1600-2000 (none of us have ever even played a single ranked…

My buddies and I just played a team game recently that lasted 14 hours before crashing. The enemy basically tried to take over the lakes on Four Lakes and built a ton of bombard ships and just gave up on land. We tried to use BBC and trebs and cav archers but couldn’t actually do anything to damage them. Is there literally any way to beat that “strategy?” And I put strategy in quotes because they also could never…

Hey, I’m coming back to the game and I’m trying to focus on one civ to improve. Forgive me if this is a common question, but I’m mostly playing Incas, but whenever I queue into a Sicilian player, I end up getting destroyed by Serjeant rushes. They have such great armour that I’m struggling to beat a mass of them even when I attempt a blind counter. All the decent counters I’ve heard are either unavailable for Incas…

The risk/reward of knights needs to change. If your opponent defends your knight harass perfectly, then you're even. Actually you're probably still ahead because you get free map control. If they don't, you kill 8 vils and win the game on the spot. If you can win the game on the spot you should be able to lose it as well by getting your knights trapped if you're the one not paying attention for 1.5 seconds.

My friend and I have been playing aoe4 for a while and we are pretty solid. We mostly play 4v4 ranked. Everytime we play though, we seem to always have a player on our team who either doesn't support us, leaves very early, or almost plays like they don't know what they're doing. I'm not saying we're the best players in the world or anything like that, but it just seems like we are always the ones always having to…

I just played a few games with the Danish and Poland-Lithuania and my quick review is: THANK YOU DEVS!!!! LOVE YOU!!! Poles-Lithuanians are very cool! Cool units and I LOVE the revolts variety they have (I love the Teutonic Knights from Livonia revolt, having the audio from AOE2 Teutonic Knights is an amazing Easter egg hehe) Love the design, the gameplay does feel European generic with a couple twists I do would…

Call me old but back in my day there wasn't anyone plugging in a keyboard and mouse to a console. But on the other hand, I cannot fathom how you'd play aoe on controller. But on the other other hand, I think halo wars was a controller game back in the day so maybe.