Is it just me, or is Glest insanely difficult?

[wyvern]

Don't worry, that was my ignorance speaking. I waited thirtyish minutes and a bunch of people popped up ( after finishing their game ).

Ah, I see. Yeah, sometimes it is just like that...everyone just needs some patience then. 

@Wyvern, my only strategy thusfar is camping at my base with towers and many, many workers; slowly building a massive invasion force whilst having an impenetrable defence. Once I have an infinite supply of units, I attack. When my perishable resources ( I.E., gold, wood, stone ) die out, I break my army into two halves; one to stay at the main base and the other to protect the new base. Huzzah.

Hehe, turtling. Yeah, that's a good strategy until your opponent has a ton of splashy units. 

splashy units are nice but for one thing, they are usually slow, expensive and weak in close combat. admittedly both archmages and catapults, the main splash units can easily be overwhelmed by horsemen, and in the archmages case, by archers before they reach their target

[Omega]

How do you apply mods to GAE? I've looked at the wiki and rowsed the Mod board, but found nothing. Yes, I'm new to this whole shebang. ( Windows XP, 2004-ish )

https://docs.megaglest.org/Installing_Mods

[PrinceAnthrax]

How do you apply mods to GAE? I've looked at the wiki and rowsed the Mod board, but found nothing. Yes, I'm new to this whole shebang. ( Windows XP, 2004-ish )

https://docs.megaglest.org/Installing_Mods

I emphasis " looked at the wiki ". I managed to get Military, and Military alone, working, but every scenario crashes and the text won't show up. " ???Header1??? " etc.

[Omega]

Then you did it wrong. It's missing files, as I can judge by the missing language files. For Military, it has an installer, so use that to prevent mistakes. Next, read the article REAAALY slowly.

[the warlord of the reich]

hello

well if you want a really nice advice to a player suffering, use cheats, to the admins, my advice is to make the cheats in the typing manner, press enter type in blah blah blah etc

cheers and take care of yourselfs

[Omega]

Except that cheats take away from the initial fun and sense of accomplishment that one is meant to get from games. I never use cheats to learn a game, or on the first playthrough. In fact, I only use cheats in games to get things that the developers had stupidly locked away purposely (do they really think I'll attend some event in the future for one pokemon? Or that I don't mind beating a game in 12 hours, skipping all the cutscenes, side quests, running from every battle, and having no fun just to get the most powerful weapon in the game, all for a bit of a strength boost that isn't needed at all? Or that I'll have to send 12 friends a "letter" that they don't want in the game to get some legendary job class that is only helpful at maxed levels?).

At any rate, Glest needs no cheats. This was a topic of discussion before, but no consensus was reached, and besides, the lua console in GAE can give resources, create units, disable the AI, etc, anyway, and Glest's XMLs can be edited to change the stats of units, and finally, the CPU easy in GAE and MG is virtually you cheating, since you have twice the resources as the CPU does.

[Trappin]

When the AI finds your base it will rush units to that location - one way to delay this is by posting low cost guard units at a fair distance from your home base. Also, some maps are harder to win on than others.