Rise Of Nations IS A PERFECTLY BALANCED GAME WITH NO EXPLOITS - Most Overpowered Nation IS BROKEN

"Its not a warcrime if no one survives" Its not an exploit its how it was meant to be played

"... the amount of self-isolation we'll now be doing in the coming weeks... " weeks, yeah

Spiff: uses nukes Valefisk: finally a worthy opponent our battle will be LEGENDARY

This game is my father's favorite game. So imagine when he invites me for a game of this, and i just use Tea powered tactics. Balanced, as all things should be

Watching this video reminded me: A friend of mine pulled off a Spiff-level exploit in Civilization III - the all-worker army. Never built a military unit except the first warrior unit. Spent the rest of the game building workers and settlers. When war was inevitably declared against him, he had massive carpets of workers, who basically got captured until the enemy got tired or distracted by another AI war. In the same game, he had a world-spanning war which lasted over 4000 years over his refusal to hand over 17 gold pieces in the ancient era. It was hilarious.

"Researching existentialism helps expand our borders." I'm going to read Sartre at the edge of my property and see what happens.

I worked on this game for over 2 years. It's awesome to hear that it's still a favorite.

I'm in game design class, and we had to present our favorite game to the class, with an anecdote regarding it. I chose RoN, and the anecdote I told was forcing the AIs to economic agony and pushing back their borders so far into their country their towns would have paid taxes to me IRL. And once I secured 80%+ of world territory, they thought sensible to declare war on me. The I in AI has never seen more unfitting.

"Salute that picture of the queen you have hanging above your computer" Well apparently my queen is three fish

“They can’t report war crimes if they are all dead” What are you? The US military?

Wait, Spiff didn't jump into the middle of the video, I wasn't expecting that.

When I played this when it was a fairly new game, I would get instant AI tech that would have the spawn point go directly to the enemies' base. Many would be sacrificed, but I would laugh every time the computer players would constantly be bombarded with infantry.

When I was young and naive, I thought the general must be the best unit in the game because well... he's the general. So I made an entire army of generals. It did not work out well.

Hey Spiff, I think whole audience would agree it's the best time to exploit Plague Inc.

"Quite possibly the only game in existence where you gain active benefits for murdering civilians." Somewhere the entire GTA franchise sneezes

“They can’t report war crimes if they are all dead”

"Ha! You don't have any borders!" Lakota: "Borders? What borders? All I see is plains of land for us to keep."

Spiff: "How are they able to research without a library? They only have universities!" Me: "Can Spiff exploit this?"

Hey I'm ALWAYS glad to see Rise of Nations getting more attention! :)

1:00 5h into a stellaris game curently in a massive war in heaven with 50 years left until end game crisis well with the quarantine might as well make sure the galaxy burns