hey guys spirit of the law here if
you're anything like me a typical game
of Age of Empires 1 against the computer
works in three phases phase 1 you grow
your humble town into a bustling
cultured city you love your people and
rule benevolently phase 2 the AI
destroys your armies and burns
everything you once loved to the ground
phase 3 you use cheat codes to turn the
tides burning the a eyes town and making
everything right in the world again this
video is gonna be all about phase 3
let's get started first just to keep
some organization here I'll start with
the basic resource cheats
these are just a little bit of help and
typing any of these four will give you a
thousand of each resource they're sort
of themed appropriately so they're
pretty easy to remember another two that
are easy to remember and great to know
our reveal map and no fog now let's say
you're in a game minding your own
business and a player starts attacking
you if he's starting to get on your
nerves
just look up his player number in the
diplomacy screen and type kill and his
player number what if it's everybody
though and you don't want to do all of
them one by one well in that case just
type die three times with no spaces it's
basically the same thing but for every
player home run also does a similar
thing but just lets you automatically
win without destroying their town so
it's a bit less satisfying
now the next two you probably won't use
but they're good to know so you don't
accidentally type them in the code
resign will automatically make you
resign and the same with Kerry Kerry
though that one also destroys everything
you have in the process now let's move
on to the next phase of cheats which is
the unit modifying cheats they don't
give you new units but take your
existing ones and make them better or
more interesting to start with the Gaea
units my favorite is King Arthur which
makes all the birds into dragons
there's just something epic about
building your town with a dragon flying
overhead as a bonus they also circle
around the hidden secret gold deposits
on the map which are really useful in
the late game yeah I'm kidding they're
just kind of glitchy sometimes another
guy a related one is that you can make
animals into their alpha versions
previously called the King version which
gives them more health attack
and speed if you decide you want to go
for a real challenge though the cheat
code Gaea will let you control those
animals though there's no way to get
back without restarting so be careful
with this one
now what about making your own units
better well to start with villagers why
not give them some steroids just like in
real life it makes them build and gather
resources instantly a word of caution
though is that this one applies to all
players and the AI is particularly good
at using another villager cheat is
Medusa at first it looks like it renames
all of them and that's it there's no
stat changes but after any of your
villagers die they come back as black
riders which are like a weaker cavalry
Archer if one of those black riders dies
it comes back again as a catapult
unfortunately if the catapult dies
that's it but it's still a lot of value
for that initial 50 food investment in
the villager moving on to some military
units now chariot archers are a super
popular unit because they don't cost any
gold normally they move about the same
speed as a camel rider and fire just a
bit slower than an improved bowman
typing up sid Flynt mobile makes your
chariots move three times faster and
increases their firing rate as well you
thought they were fun before but now
they almost stand a chance against the
Academy units moving on Age of Empires
is not a game normally known for its
stealth but Dark Reign turns it into
exactly that by making your composite
bowmen into stealth archers this lets
them disguise themselves as trees
whenever they aren't moving now the AI
doesn't seem particularly thrown off by
this and it negates your archers
upgrades and changes their stats so it's
not necessarily a better unit the main
advantage is they can now walk on water
which makes them a great option on
island maps but still that's pretty
dangerous you send units over and they
could run into trouble and not come back
if only there was an easier way to
attack other islands it turns out there
is type icbm to turn your ballista bolts
into intercontinental ballistic missiles
with 100 range that can easily destroy
the enemy Islands while you sit in the
comfort of your Island villa
and speaking of siege catapults also
have a few of their own upgrades Big
Bertha for example renames them and
gives them extra attack hit points and
range but most importantly a huge blast
radius entire towns can be taken out in
just a few shots another catapult sheet
that can be combined with Big Bertha is
Jack be nimble which makes your
catapults fire things other than stones
there are a few different possibilities
depending on the direction that you're
firing and it can be one of several
objects that either spin or don't moving
on now from siege have you ever run into
the situation where you've invested
maybe a bit too heavily on the water and
the AI just hides further inland outside
of your range it's pretty frustrating
normally you might just delete your Navy
to open population space and build an
army but no longer with flying dutchman
you can bring your juggernauts onto land
unfortunately this only works with
juggernauts and not all ships they're
basically just catapults but at least
you're getting some use out of them and
there's simultaneous fiery explosion and
splash animation coming out of the grass
are surprisingly entertaining to look at
now the last two cheats that modify
units are for the priests the first one
greatly increases priests HP and
movement speed they still do conversions
like normal but are now much more
difficult to kill the second one is a
unique unit called st. Francis which you
get by typing convert this with an
exclamation mark if you have a temple he
only has 25 HP and walks very slowly but
has 200 attack that he unleashes as
lightning bolts from the sky at a pretty
quick recharge rate okay but now let's
get into the really funny units these
the ones that you bring out when you've
just had enough you've given up even
pretending to play fair and just want to
bring out the guns and lasers first we
have the baby on a tricycle there are 5
different codes that will give it to you
Austin Powers pow with or without
exclamation mark power unlimited not to
be confused with unlimited power and
this one long one that nobody would
bother typing baby Prez as it's called
has great HP attack armor range and
speed it's a very well rounded unit and
the animation is particularly good when
its HP drops to zero it does a nice
little flip and just sits on the ground
another cheat unit is the mechanize ugh
2:09 by typing in storm billy all as one
word they're not as strong as baby Prez
in terms of attack in HP but there's
still more than a match for conventional
units I personally think they look a bit
cooler as well
but while robots are great and all what
about cars well you get two models to
choose from the first is Big Daddy all
one word it's 300 attack and damage
radius make it great at taking out towns
quickly typing in big momma this time
with a space gives you a different model
of car this time with much less attack
but a faster firing rate they end up
being pretty similar in their
effectiveness against buildings and the
biggest thing to watch out for is just
to avoid friendly fire to finish off the
list now I have my two favorites they
look very similar and make for an
incredible combination the first is e
equals mc2 trooper also known as the
nuke trooper I don't know if it's the
way they run the explosion animations or
the 300 damage with a massive radius but
I just love something about them now
that all being said they do have two
drawbacks first of all they're
vulnerable to friendly fire because of
their damage radius so you'll find
yourself free typing equals mc2 trooper
a lot and all without the ability to
copy and paste the second compounding
problem is that it's easy for units to
get close to them thanks to their
relatively slow 9 second reload
that's why new troopers need some sort
of close-range support and that comes in
the form of my favorite cheat code unit
boat on man
similar in appearance and statistically
weaker than new troopers laser troopers
have one key advantage and it's their
rapid-fire close-range attack that means
they're impossible to get close to even
a relatively small number of them
quickly hits a critical mass that
nothing can touch though they can be
converted so watch out for that of
course nothing is stopping you from
mixing and matching and nuke and laser
troopers are only one of the many
combinations that make for a satisfying
way to crush the AI so those are all the
cheat codes that I know of if there are
new ones introduced in definitive
edition they haven't made those public
yet the full list of all the ones that
cover it is down in the description
below as well as any new ones that come
out if they do but that's all for this
one thanks for watching guys and I'll
see you next time
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