The fact that bowmen and crossbowmen are not a separate unit.
I would prefer skirmishers are replaced by a bowman line and the archer line is all crossbowmen similar to AOE4.
I don’t know why this bothers me so much.
As someone who only plays random civ: people picking civs.
Nothing like matching a random civ against whatever your opponent thinks is the best on the map you’re playing…
Getting rushed before castle age.
And annoying onegers spraying my men from across the Black Forest.
Cannot shoot them down
Getting scout rushed, woof
No team party.
Just let us party
Age of buildings
I had the same frustration, so I made a mod it https://www.ageofempires.com/mods/details/44100/
It makesyour menu buttons blue so that you know upon entering the main menu if your mods got disabled.
Red means stop and reset your mods!
Hole, holes, holes.
But as my dad once said, if u make a carless mistake, it just means u didn’t practice enough
Useless allies, like they don’t help when I’m flaring and asking for help.
There was this one time where on BF my magyar teammate refused to help me in anyway because “you should’ve walled”, he walled for me in dark age and I tried to stone wall but my walling vills died.
my AI teammates hitting me with a 4 every ten minutes.
like bro, get your own resources; I’m playing an AI team game because I want *less* pressure, not more.
Pro-tip: set a custom background for the main menu, and then when you load the game and the background is different you know the mods have been disabled.
The fact that attacking animations for melee units don’t line up with the unit actually dealing damage.
Pikaman: *poke poke poke poke poke*
*Deals damage twice*
Compare this to any other game, and AoE2 feels so clunky because of it.
Playing in the evening keeps me awake at night but my only free time is in the evening
Random player drops two minutes into a team game.
Impossible-to-see holes in my wall ([example](https://www.reddit.com/r/aoe2/comments/xem8dz/sometimes_i_really_hate_this_game/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3))