1.
How much does it cost to advance to fuedal age?
Correct Answer
C. 500 food
Explanation
It takes 500 food. 800 food and 200 gold is the price for going castle age.
2.
How many villagers can garrison a teutonic watch tower?
Correct Answer
C. 10
Explanation
A normal tower can take 5, but thanks to the teutonic perk you get double: 10.
3.
What is the price of a mongolian siege ram?
Correct Answer
A. 160 wood and 75 gold
4.
The best unit to counter an elite teutonic knight of these four units is:
Correct Answer
D. Elite samurai
Explanation
Since mamelukes do melee damage they can't penetrate teutonic knights armor. Skirmishers have inssuficient attack power and cant attack in short range. Caveliers are okaish, but their attack is mostly blocked by the teutonic knights armor. Samurai, although also doing melee damage, have a nice bonus against unique units, such as the teutonic knight.
5.
The production time of a villager is:
Correct Answer
B. 25 seconds
Explanation
It's 25 seconds. This might be usefull for calculations when constructing or practising a new built or strategy.
6.
How many petards are needed to destroy an unupgraded stone wall gate?
Correct Answer
B. 2
Explanation
It's the same amount as a normal stone wall segment, and one less than you need against a fortified wall.
Make sure you have enough petards to get in in one go!
7.
What does the abbreviation "SO" stand for?
Correct Answer
siege onager
Siege Onager
Siege onager
Explanation
In heated battles, using abbreviations like these can save a lot of precious time!
8.
The onager upgrade can be purchased for a mere:
Correct Answer
D. 800 food and 500 gold
Explanation
The siege onager upgrade costs 1450 food and a 1000 gold. Knowing how many resources to gather for the upgrade you need will help your eco balance a lot!
9.
The "cut bug" happens...
Correct Answer
A. After a game is being restored
Explanation
Very annoying bug that wont let you cut wood by right clicking the forest with siege onagers. Manual attack ground shots will still clear trees however!
10.
The highest achieved rating showed in Microsoft Zone was held by:
Correct Answer
C. Yazgi
Explanation
A rating achieved by point trading, and pretty much undermining the usefulnes of the rating top list back in the zone days. Trick question, my apologies!
11.
What letter is used to describe a signal or a flare?
Correct Answer
x
X
Explanation
Using this abbreviation will save some time better spend elsewhere!
12.
What does "trush" mean?
Correct Answer
tower rush
Tower rush
Tower Rush
Explanation
Many strategies got names very similar to this one, like grush, flush, drush etc. Definately a must know if your playing teamgames and you are planning a strategy.
13.
What map has standard resources?
Correct Answer
C. Islands
Explanation
Scandinavia has no berries.
Ghost lake has much more sheeps
Migrations lacks boars
That leaves islands.
14.
How many sheep does each player have on arabia?
Correct Answer
B. 8
Explanation
Usually in three groups, two groups of two and one group of four closest by your town center.
15.
Select all units that can get rid of trees.
Correct Answer(s)
B. Villagers
D. Siege onagers
G. Trebuchets
Explanation
A villager can chop wood, a siege onager can shoot it down, as can the trebuchet.
16.
A Frank paladin has this many hitpoints:
Correct Answer
A. 192
Explanation
Thanks to the unique technology providing extra HP for Frank cavalry, they have 192 hitpoints as opposed to the 180 hitpoints for paladins with bloodlines and 160 hitpoints for paladins without hitpoints for other civs.
17.
Select all civs that have siege onagers.
Correct Answer(s)
B. Saracens
C. Celts
E. Teutons
Explanation
Other civs are Aztecs, Koreans and Mongols.
18.
How fast a monk converts a unit depends on:
Correct Answer
C. Both of the above
Explanation
Units like scouts and eagle warriors have extra resistance against conversion. Also the teuton team bonus gives extra resistance.
19.
If your good, getting 200 villagers, on arabia, before 28 minutes is possible.
Correct Answer
A. True
Explanation
The record is in fact a little faster than 27 minutes.
20.
Players above 2300 rating never lose villagers when luring boars.
Correct Answer
B. False
Explanation
It happens quite often actually, with lag being the most popular excuse.
21.
How much wood does it cost to built two archery ranges and a blacksmith?
Correct Answer
D. 500
Explanation
175+175+150=500 wood
22.
What civilization is able to research "zealotry"?
Correct Answer
D. Saracens
Explanation
Zealotry is the Saracen Unique technology, providing +30 HP for camels and mamelukes.
23.
A missionary benefits from bloodlines.
Correct Answer
B. False
Explanation
Strangely they do not benefit. I guess breeding technology is far more complicated with donkeys than with horses :)
24.
You are playing 1v1 arabia huns war and your opponent reaches fuedal age around 11.00 minutes. At this time you scout his base and you can see he has three villagers on gold and one farm. What strategy is he most likely using?
Correct Answer
A. Archers or archers with skirms
Explanation
Tree villagers on gold could also signify a heavy drush or a fast castle. However with a drush you would not expect such a fast fuedal time and for a fast castle you would usually need more than one farm. One farm is more than enough to keep vil production going, in combination with the berry income and the last sheeps.
25.
What especially makes a start on migration tricky?
Correct Answer
B. Chance on very far starting sheeps
Explanation
This can really mess your start up, casuing you to have to mill berries, resulting in a late dock and thus late fishing ships. This usually results in later fuedal times or less population when hitting feudal.
26.
Which unlikely event is actually possible?
Correct Answer
D. Repairing a converted siege onager with a civilization without siege onager technology will demote it to a mangonel or an onager.
Explanation
Really surprised me aswell when I came across this in a michi game. I was planning to make a new hole in the wood wall with it but bad luck, I couldn't anymore.
27.
Which warlord was featured the final single player campaign of age of kings?
Correct Answer
C. Barbarossa
Explanation
The right order: Joan of Arc (franks), saladin (saracens), Genghis Khan (mongols) and Barbarossa (teutons).
28.
Which unit costs more gold to produce, a paladin or a war elephant?
Correct Answer
C. They cost the same.
Explanation
A paladin is 75 gold and 60 food, an elephant costs 75 gold and 200 food.
29.
Which Turk unit costs more gold to produce, a hand cannon or a janisary?
Correct Answer
B. A Janisary
30.
A bombard tower benefits from ballistics.
Correct Answer
A. True
Explanation
It benefits a lot from ballistics. Without ballistics it wont hit a paladin running under it, with it it will definately hit it unless it makes unpredictable movements.
31.
A scorpion benefits from the blacksmith.
Correct Answer
B. False
Explanation
In age of kind it did, but in the conquerors they took this upgrade away. Since it is very overpowered it is usually banned in AoK games.
32.
A ping as low as 30 will ensure a smooth game.
Correct Answer
B. False
Explanation
a ping of 30 means that there is a connection problem. No game at all!
33.
The mangudai is the unit with most upgrades affecting him. How many upgrades have an effect on the mangudai?
Correct Answer
D. 15
Explanation
5 from the blacksmith (3 range, 2 armor)
2 from the stable (speed + HP)
2 from the archery range (accuracy + armor)
2 from the castle (production speed + elite upgrade)
2 from the university (accuracy + damage)
2 from the monastry (2 monk conversion protection)
34.
A halberdier does the same amount of damage against elephants as against paladins.
Correct Answer
B. False
Explanation
It does way more damage against elephants.
35.
A house costs:
Correct Answer
B. 30 wood
Explanation
fortunately only 30 wood.
36.
What is the difference between ballistics and thumb ring?
Correct Answer
A. Ballistics lets you shoot moving targets whereas thumb ring improves general accuracy.
Explanation
Also ballistics apply to more units, like ships and castles.
37.
Crater lake looks most like:
Correct Answer
D. Baltic
Explanation
Crater lake is basicly baltic with a big island with a lot of gold and wolves in the middle lake.
38.
Usually the best unit to counter a crossbowman with is a...
Correct Answer
C. Skirmisher
Explanation
I m 100% sure terror would say a monk is better, but since skirmishers do bonus damage to archers and have excellent ranged armor, they are usually the best choice here.
39.
Usually a mangonel works great against...
Correct Answer
B. Ranged units
Explanation
They can one shot kill most ranged units because of their low hitpoints, and they neglect the range advantage ranged units have over most other units with their own big range.
40.
A scout costs...
Correct Answer
C. 80 food
41.
A castle costs...
Correct Answer
D. 650 stone
Explanation
For Franks it's 488 stone however.
42.
When villagers finish building a building they will automaticly go on to the next building site, unless it's to far away.
How many tiles can be between the builder and the next building site for him to automaticly go on to the next building site?
Correct Answer
C. 8 tiles
Explanation
Tricky question, and one most expert players know by feeling instead of by counting tiles. Could be usefull knowledge when letting villagers built intricate wall segments and you don't want to keep babysitting them.