Age of Empires 2 - The Age of Kings

Hint:
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Submitted by: Valentin Popescu

If you build a long wall with many gates and your peasants are opening
the gates for your enemies you can block the gates:
--just click on the gate and then clic on the icon
that appears in the left corner so it will be closed
untill you will open'it again. If you close all gates not even your
allies can get resources from your land.

Hint:
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Submitted by: aunonamys

Click on a unit or building and press delete.
The thing you clicked on will kill itself!!!
You can do the same thing with a group,but you
must click delete alot for it to kill everyone.
(only works on your own stuff)

Cheat:
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Submitted by: Richard Smith

When putting cheat codes into the chat box, hightlight the cheat with the
mouse and pres Ctrl+C to copy it, press Return twice to bring the cheat box again.
This time instead of typing the cheat again, just press Ctrl+V and paste the cheat
back in.

Cheat:
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submitted by:Paul Van Zweel

Press enter for the chat menu and
type in the following cheat code:

BIGBROTHER - This will give you a chair with a
rocket launcher

Hint:
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Corey , Submitted the following Information:
Email: kelly6@quest.net

keepping a live; if you are being attacked by an
enemy and they are headed for you towncenter (Or
something you can garison people in.) click your
staple and set the gather point to that building
and make some units and when your building ungarisons
your men they will kill the enemy that is attacking you!!

GameTip:
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Submitted by: harsha
kr_harsha_3@yahoo.com
Its like this in a three player game when you become
an ally with one player construct 15 batterring rams
and take them to the ally's kingdom and place them
near the important buildings like town center etc.
then take a mangonel and select attack ground and
rightclick the allys building he will become mad at
you and he will become an enemy then use all your
battering rams to destroy the ally.

Villager suprisse attack:
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Submitted by: bad_maverick
Gerson_Ariel_S@Yahoo.com
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:
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Update by: jaideep karale
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
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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
helloknight - palladin health increases to 192(only in franks)



CheatTip:
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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:
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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:
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To activate one of these cheats, enter its
corresponding hotkey below.

Cheat Hotkey
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Build immutable structure - [Ctrl] + P
New resource menu - [Ctrl] + T
Speed construction - [Ctrl] + Q
View ending - [Ctrl] + C

Fast resources:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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When you are allies with others, do not build a market to
avoid giving them resources.

GameTip:
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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:
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Submitted by: Rene Trujillo Rojas
renetr@prodigy.net.mx

Hide Behind The Tower:
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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:
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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:
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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.

Cheat:
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Submitted by: Joshy

Get 1 milita, 1 archer and 1 spearman. press enter and write in GUN.
Then select all the men and call them GUN1. Press enter and put
in the code Gun1. now your men all have machine guns and take away
99 and have 99 health. Press enter and write in furious the monkey
boy. you get a ape which takes away 99 has 99 health his armour is
99 and his range is 99.

Hint:
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Submitted by: Damian
In Battle (game) always put swordsman on flat ground and archers on
hilley grounds and then you have a better chance of wining.

Hint:
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Submitted by: Damian
At first of a regicide you get 10 villages at start, so all you have
too do is to put 3 on wood, 3 on food, 2 on gold 1 on stone, then
leaves you 1 villager then with your last villager put it to work for
buildig your millitary base. then just slowly add villagers from your
town centre and put them on resources.

Cheat:
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Submitted by: BigBozoBoozeDude

Type in the number that corresponds to the number that appears next to the
taunt to access it easily. I like "Long time, no siege" and "Don't point
that thing at me".

Cheats:
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Submitted by:BigBozoBoozeDude

Note: You must hit enter to access the cheat mode.

Type In wimpywimpywimpy to defeat all of your allies.
Type in "Resign" to make all of your enemies immediately resign!