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MICROSOFT AGE OF EMPIRES II: THE CONQUERORS EXPANSION: INSIDE MOVES gives gamers the thorough insights and strategies they need to win at the latest version of this popular game. This guide offers an overview of civilization-specific strategies and backgrounds for the game, plus game analysis, tactical tips, walkthroughs, and game strategies. You will learn how to survive and thrive, defeat enemy states, accumulate wealth by trading and diplomacy, create and defend wonders of the world, and build your tribe into a great civilization. Plus, with two walkthroughs each mission included in the book, you can choose the one you want to help you win. This guide also includes exclusive "Battle Bits"-advanced player training scenarios, downloadable from a Web site (mspress.microsoft.com)*, to help players sharpen their Age of Empires skills. Author Mark Walker has contributed to more than 28 computer gaming books as well as regularly contributing to well-known gaming sites.
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Microsoft Age of Empires II: The Conquerors Expansion: Inside Moves ( Other)
- Paperback: 320 pages
- Publisher: Microsoft Press; 2000-09-09
- Label: Microsoft Press
- Studio: Microsoft Press
- ISBN: 0735611777
- Average Customer Review:
 based on 8 reviews
- Sales Rank in Books: #722173
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0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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Summary: Nice 2007-09-28
Comment: This book is decent for the price, it gives nice reference material. Just don't look for a lot of tips and strategies here, especially ones that haven't been tried already.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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Summary: my main and only ally in this game 2004-04-02
Comment: this book was sooo helpful that it would have taken me twice as long just to complete the scenarios, much less find all the secrets. the illustrations helped, not hinderd, the very deep walkthroughs that used multiple strategies instead of just one straightforward killing spree. i like working alone so when i'm playing true to history by playing as the byzantines and defending against the huns, turks, saracens, teutons, goths, persians and the franks all at once this is my greek fire against them. with it's help i bash aside their light cavalry and charge through their heavy infantry to take the heart out of each and every civilization and leave nothing standing except for mountains upon mountains of skulls... thats why i call myself nick the butcher.
2 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
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Summary: The best game ever 2004-03-28
Comment: This game is the best game I ever played. I wish I could buy it, but my parents say I can't because they need the computer for taxes and bills and also they don't let me in case it ruins the computer like one of my other games. So I play it at a friend's house. I never seem to get enough of playing it so I am sometimes late home. It is really interesting because some of this is like real life because each civilization is unique in it's own way with special things like each of their special units. Now I guess the only way to but it is if I buy a new computer so I can play on it, because my mom doesn't like me playing the game all the time.
9 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
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Summary: This is mostly a campaign book 2002-09-28
Comment: If you play campaigns and need help, this is the book for you. Over 2/3's of the book is devoted to walking you through the campaigns. If however, if campaigns are a thing of the past for you and you are trying to refine your skills to play against other people... this book is of little help. There are a couple of pages detailing the newest civs to TC, not much more info is offered than what comes with the aoe documentation. There are a few strategies that are described that are pretty basic and are useful if you've never or hardly played before. There is a section that supposedly has tips from the actual ES testers (3 I think)...pretty weak because everyone's preferences are always debatable. Anyway, they pretty much just give their opinions on what civ, what unit and combinations they like best. (To kill your curiosity, most chose Mayans for the archer/eagle scout combo.) Adding links in the book to aoe websites is a waste of space. You're better off going to Google and typing in 'AOK TC' and getting hundreds of links to sites that people actually use. So... since I don't really play campaigns anymore and I am a person trying to find resources to get better playing against other people, I found this book a waste of money. I only gave it an extra star because it details the campaigns pretty good.
2 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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Summary: Solid, but Limited 2002-07-17
Comment: This is a great book IF you are already aware of all the existing strengths and weaknesses of the civilizations that are not new to the Conquerors Edition. In other words, you better have the previous book if you want complete knowledge of all the civilizations.That having been said, the depth of the analysis for each of the new civilizations is impressive. It tells you everything you need to do to use a civilization's strengths to their best advantage. There is very little general training here, and so is not the right book for 'beginners'. I makes a fine addition to the knowledge base of an already experienced user who needs depth on what's NEW in this edition.
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