Ask Apolyton Anything About Rise Of Nations

[MarkG]

attrition is off only with civs you're allied with.

[HuangShang]

what about nukes... there strategic (as well as realistic) values were very downplayed in EE, how about here?

[Viking Berserk]

What building and unit region are the Turks? They have a Middle-Eastern one?

[Viking Berserk]

they might get out of formation during battle(especially if you put them to chase other units)

Can't you order them to stay in box?

[Viking Berserk]

From Gamespy:

And yes, you really can play it on your lunch hour. Playtesters so far are able to go from the Stone Age to the Information Age in roughly 56 minutes, so you'll really get to feel the march of time.

Well, what if you do want to play Ancient-Information but don't want to be in Information until around 4-5 hours, is this possible?

[MarkG]

Well, what if you do want to play Ancient-Information but don't want to be in Information until around 4-5 hours, is this possible?

you can choose in the setup screen to make knowledge more expensive. that will slow down the game

[HuangShang]

what about nukes... there strategic (as well as realistic) values were very downplayed in EE, how about here?

and why the the mongols an independent civ?
the Mongols are not a nation any more than Man (ManChu-ria)

[One_Dead_Villy]

Mongols is an independent cause they are...they have a modern nation of their own in case u arent aware of and they had the biggest empire in the world in the 13th century and conquered most of asia. Manchurians while another norther tribe, their ancestral territory is still a part of China, so thats a totally different case. but if anything, they could integrate manchurians with mongols more then they can with China, since Manchurians had more common with them then Han Chinese.

[HuangShang]

bah! they'll come back and rejoin my empire
its the wests fault that they left a few decades back

and what about the nukes! why no answer?

[One_Dead_Villy]

a few decades back they were more in the pocket of the soviets

[HuangShang]

soviets r the west according to me!
they as much the enemy as germany was

[HuangShang]

lol ur very funny
but really,
they'll never get past Mongolia

and whys everyone so off-t

[One_Dead_Villy]

prove it on the battlefield!

[HuangShang]

lol

i will

[theponyguy1]

unit controls

I read in a preview that to change formation, all I have

to do is click the mouse. Do they mean press the

change formation button on screen? And also, if I have

a group selected, and then I click on the ground, do I

lose control of the units. I hated the fact in Starcraft

that when I clicked on the ground, I still was in control

of the units, and they still were in my unit info box.

I don't think Blizzard understands that some players,

sometimes, just don't want anything selected. I hope it

works like it did in EE and AOK, that when I click on the

ground, I don't have the unit selected anymore.