Age of Darkness: Final Stand - Beginner's Guide
Age of Darkness: Final Stand is an extremely difficult survival RTS, and without the right knowledge and strategies, players may find victory unreachable. Players build and expand their city centered on their keep, and must defend from waves of nightmare creatures. Each wave increases the number and strength of enemies that attack, culminating in on final onslaught where the player will be assaulted from all directions.
The fantasy cousin of They are Billions is a ruthless battle for resources, land, and time. Players familiar with the genre will recognize the basic cyclical structure of play. Scout the area, expand the base, defend from attack. As the game progresses, new technologies will be unlocked, which provide access to better industry, weapons, and defenses, all of which are necessary to succeed.
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The most important lesson for new players is to always be expanding. Time is the ultimate limiting factor in Age of Darkness: Final Stand and players who don't use it effectively will lose sooner rather than later. Whenever players find themselves waiting, whether it be for a resource to fill up or a building to finish construction, they should think «what can I be doing right now?» The answer is almost always to expand. Early in the game, the player's most useful tool is their hero unit. Like Arthas in Warcraft 3, heroes are special units with their own backstory. With high durability, damage, and natural respawn, the hero is crucial to early game expansion because they can singlehandedly clear new areas, even before the player can produce other units. Claiming new land means new areas for farms to produce food, houses to increase population, and access to natural
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