A rebalance of AoE RoR with 37 new civs, several new units, resource trading, harder AI, and much more. The goal of the mod was to stay as true to the original design as possible while still expanding upon the game and adding more depth to its design. Requires UPatch HD. To install: unzip the file(s) and move the 5thLegacy mod folder into your AoE directory/mods folder and load in UPatch's mod manager. Installing UPatch will make the mods folder in your AoE directory.
This is just an amazing piece of art everyone should play.
This mod is by FAR the best one Upatch HD has. 5th Legacy has 53 civs, a lot of balancing stuff, either regarding units, their cost, stats, new bonuses, rework in some old bonuses. One of my favorite balance things is the composite bowman moved to the iron age, so finally the improved bowman can have some place in the meta, and this is great for civs that only have this unit. We have new buildings, and one of them is called Trade Workshop. On it we can sell and buy resources, and this procedure is like making a unit (it takes some time to buy/sell, it's not instanteneous like in aoe 2). Walkable farms greatly helps to get food, we need less space for farming, trees have more wood, so longer games in hybrid maps are much more enjoyable. This mod is truly a master piece. It's basically the definitive edition that aoe 1 always deserved.
how can I say, just thanks for the mod, This reminds me of my problematic adolescence and how this game made me have a much better time, and seeing this mod has rescued the original essence, not even the DE could make the game shine like this mod does
amazing, must have mod for every fan of aoe..thanks for your hard work
Beuty ,¡i like it!
Now I've got something with more content than DE that can run on my toaster.
I liked so much, its better play than original.
I would just suggest do some things that doesn't change really too much the gameplay, as it was a new expansion:
*Reduce Villagers speed (with wheel), Increase Town center cost (wood and stone)
*You could do new graphics for same graphic units: Legion, Heavy Cavalry/Cataphract, Juggernaught, heavy catapult, heavy horse archer, marksman, heleopolis etc.
*I think mercenary its not a necessary unit, and can be misjudged as a cavalry.
*Add new terrains, trees?
*Gates?
*Add to this mod the Unique Wonders mod.
*Add some new units like:
Spearman/Pikeman (levy anti cavalry at academy)
Javelineer (anti archer at archery range)
Female villager
Elite Slinger(evolution)
Light Horseman (evolution)
Heavy Axeman (evolution)
Battering Ram
*And few unique units for some civs, like:
Companion Cavalry
Velite
Hastati
Scorpion
Cataphract Camel
Camel archer
Sacred Band
Immortal
*Substitute fantasy or innacurate civs with these:
Celts
Germani
Nordic
Huns
Nubian
Mayurian Indians
Indochina
*Gather Points? Villagers works as it builds near resource?
*Priest Heals automatically
*Barbarian Civ and Indochina new buildings set
*Add more heroes, female units and a "King" and "queen"
Some ideas, sprites you could pick on Age of empires 2 a mod: "Rome Returns"