History VideoGame / AgeofEmpires

* YouHaveResearchedBreathing

* AnachronismStew: In most of every game's campaign scenarios, certain liberties are taken with the depiction of cultural groups due to the limits of the preset civilizations in-game. For instance, in the "Ave Caesar" campaign from the ''Rise of Rome'' expansion of the original game, the Britons and Gauls are depicted using the Hellenic and Mesopotamian civilization, due to the lack of a Celtic civilization, and in ''The Age of Kings'' the Roman Empire is depicted as Byzantines, who in turn use a Middle Eastern architectural style.

%%* SpeakingSimlish: Present in the first game, averted in every other installment.

* VagueHitPoints: In ''Mythologies'', the upgrade "Mother of Deceit", obtained from worshipping Nyx, has the HP of your units be hidden from enemy units unless there is an enemy unit directly adjacent to them, with it appearing as "???/???". The enemy units in the Greek campaign automatically have this upgrade in addition to Nyx's other upgrades whether or not they have Hades as their Major God.

* SpiritualSuccessor:
** ''VideoGame/EmpireEarth'', which was made by the same man who created ''Age of Empires''.
** ''VideoGame/EmpiresApart'' is a 2018 game that was designed to faithfully reproduce the spirit of ''1'' and ''2''.

* PromotedFanboy: The ''Forgotten Empires'' unofficial expansion for ''Age of Empires II'' was released in December 2012. In late summer 2013, a new official expansion was announced for ''[[UpdatedRerelease Age of Empires II HD Edition]]'' called 'The Forgotten'...

* MacGuffin: The War Wagons, Ruins, Relics, etc items to collect/control. They're typically one way to win the game -- although exterminating every other civilisation is pretty effective, too.

* ''VideoGame/{{Age of Empires|I}}'' -- 1997

* ArbitraryMinimumRange: Most ranged siege weapons in the series, and towers before "siege holes" is researched.

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'''''Age of Empires''''' is a series of historical RealTimeStrategy games by the Microsoft-owned developer Ensemble Studios.

* ''VideoGame/AgeOfEmpiresIV'' -- 2021 -- developed by [[VideoGame/DawnOfWar Relic]] [[VideoGame/CompanyOfHeroes Entertainment]]

* ''VideoGame/AgeOfEmpiresIV'' -- 2021 -- developed by [[VideoGame/DawnOfWar Relic]] [[VideoGame/CompanyOfHeroes Entertainment]]

* CriticalExistenceFailure: Any unit/building can be saved as long as it has one HP and you have a priest/builder to heal/repair it. But as soon as a flimsy arrow or a villager's punch hits it, it's gone for good.

* MacGuffin: The War Wagons, Ruins, Relics, etc items to collect/control.
* MoneyForNothing: At times a resource can get to ludicrous levels without the player having much to spend on it.

* PressXToDie: Pressing the Delete key while you have one of your own units selected kills that unit instantly.

* [[/index]]''VideoGame/{{Age of Empires Online}}'' -- 2011-2014 -- A {{defunct|OnlineVideoGames}} free-to-play free-roaming RTS with RPG elements.[[index]]

* [[/index]]''Age of Empires Online'' -- 2011-2014 -- A {{defunct|OnlineVideoGames}} free-to-play free-roaming RTS with RPG elements.[[index]]

* ''Age of Empires: The Age of Kings'' -- 2006 -- A Turn-Based Strategy spin-off for UsefulNotes/NintendoDS.

* ''Age of Empires Online'' -- 2011-2014 -- A {{defunct|OnlineVideoGames}} free-to-play free-roaming RTS with RPG elements.

* ''Age of Empires Online'' -- 2011-2014 -- A free-to-play free-roaming RTS with RPG elements.

* ''VideoGame/AgeOfEmpiresCastleSiege'' -- 2014

-> ''AAAAAHHHHH.....''
-> ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nr0zoGjulZ4&t=18 All hail! King of the losers!]]''
-> ''Nice town. I'll take it.''

* AlternateHistory: Some changes to the History are a bit boggling, deciding to be purely historical one campaign scenario and then changing history in the next, i.e. Scots winning Battle of Falkirk, Mongols overrunning Europe etc.

* ''Age of Empires Online'' -- 2011-2014 -- A free-to-play free-roaming RTS with RPG Elements.

* ''VideoGame/AgeOfEmpiresIV'' -- Fall 2021 -- developed by [[VideoGame/DawnOfWar Relic]] [[VideoGame/CompanyOfHeroes Entertainment]]

!!The series in general give examples of: