Don't play on TWC, there arn't many people on it. Either buy TAD or still to the original. It is quite easy to get a game I find.

Rather play vanilla or TAD+TWC. There are always around 2000+ people on, but on vanilla, there are many more "nr" games than on TAD, where there are many more regular games.

i find that nr games sucks, because i like to rush

So then i will stick to vanilla

I think you missunderstood. TAD= Rush Vanilla=No rush. TWC=noone plays.

there are plenty of people playing "rush" games on vanilla, but most of them are on Quick Search.

Really? Well, if you don't use quick search, you'll find that the games that are hosted are 80% nr games, 15% regular games, 4.9% scenerios, and 0.1% FFAs. No one plays ffas on vanilla

I swear, FFAs are the new NR in TAD. Some of my friends play exclusively FFA (probably to stop their pr from dropping lol)

Atm there are 4 nr games and 11 rush on vanilla.

@whitetiger
People still play rush games on nilla.
Its just that there are more conscripts than say leutenants or MS.

If you ever wanna play a rush game add me up on eso.
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I've been playing vanilla recently and didn't have problems getting games. At first I used to host 1v1 games myself, I rarely had to wait long.
Now I'm mostly using quick search, which once again hardly takes more than half a minute to get a game. I had some pretty good games there, too; several players of 1900+ and even some 2100s in there.

I posted a similar thread a few weeks ago, you can check that one for some more HG players in vanilla. When you see me (Thrar) online we can play a game, too.

I need some practice now before i can even match you guys

now im a noob, my micro'ing sucks. But im training:P

but i have used quicksearch, and in 30 sec i got a game and even better, there are more people playing now than a year ago, atleast when i played it. 3300 now online against about 2500 a year ago.

Lucky, I get the failed to join game thing a lot, so it's hard to join some of the games, especially fellow forumers/friends games.

I think TAD has an overall less amount of games, but an overall more regular games, and more experienced players. From my point of view, the people on TAD are slightly better than the people on vanilla (not sure about higher ranked people though, but most high ranked players are on TAD).

I think TAD has an overall less amount of games, but an overall more regular games, and more experienced players. From my point of view, the people on TAD are slightly better than the people on vanilla (not sure about higher ranked people though, but most high ranked players are on TAD).

Your right there. All the experts play TAD.


I prefer TAD, mainly because it is just newer.

Although, you can still play VANILLA and just do QS.

But, don't do QS on TAD, unless you want your opponents to be in this order: Japan, India, Japan, Japan, Japan, India, India, Japan, Japan, Japan, Japan, Germany, India, Germany, Aztec, India, Japan, Japan, Japan.

QS on TAD is full of lamers.

So, TAD is good, but, if you don't have it just try QS on Vanilla.

Don't play TWC as you'll hardly get any games.

The Warchiefs community appears to be non-existent, which is really quite lame since I want to use the three extra civs, but I can't find TAD anywhere.

There are a few Rush games on AOE3 but I think NR are more common. On the off chance you find a FFA, be HAPPY!

There's also a lot of Lost, occasionally an Earth map and lots of cats and mice/mice vs mice games.

At least you don't have to worry about Japan/India lamers on the original, the civs are kinda somewhat a little bit balanced.

Just watch out for the occasional IOR. Be sure you know how to defeat jan rushes.

I just purchased TAD yesterday, so I have not really had a chance to look at it. I play Vanilla on a regular basis and I never have trouble finding a rush game at all. In fact, I see more rush games on Vanilla then I see NR games.

Off Topic - I have only had this game since July of 08. So anyone willing to help me with TAD, that would be great. I am a Sgt. Level 15. Does that even carry over into TAD, or do I start as a conscript again?

You have to start over as a conscript again Oh well, have fun killing some noobs! Lol.