Cheat Codes:
Activate the following cheats by pressing [Enter] during game play and then entering the corresponding codes:
CHEAT FUNCTION – CHEAT CODE
1000 food – cheese steak jimmy’s
1000 gold – robin hood
1000 stone – rock on
1000 wood – lumberjack
Cobra car – how do you turn this on
Control nature – natural wonders
Destroy all opponents – black death
Fast building [Note 1] – aegis
Flying dogs – woof woof
Full map – marco
Instant loss – resign
Instant victory – i r winner
Kill Opponent 1 – torpedo1
Kill Opponent 2 – torpedo2
Kill Opponent 3 – torpedo3
Kill Opponent 4 – torpedo4
Kill Opponent 5 – torpedo5
Kill Opponent 6 – torpedo6
Kill Opponent 7 – torpedo7
Kill Opponent 8 – torpedo8
No fog of war – polo
Saboteur unit – to smithereens
Suicide – wimpywimpywimpy
Tall, fast moving, useless villager – i love the monkey head
Furoius The Monkey Boy appears at original town center.
It has 9 HP, 99 attack, 99 pierce armor,
and kills anything (including buildings) in three hits – furious the monkey boy
Note 1: This will also affect your opponents.
Saxon Revolt scenario:
There is a secret scenario named “The Saxon Revolt”. To enable it, enter the “Goodies” folder in the game directory. Instructions for enabling it are inside that folder.
Faster Teutonic Knights:
For faster rams and knights, get a ram capped ram or seige and fill it with Teutonic Knights.
Gates Glitch:
Go to the map editor and name any team “Gates”. When you test the scenario, all of your gates will be damaged if you walk through them.
Free extra resources:
On the first map of the Attila the Hun campaign, move Attila away from where you get him. Wait until one of the Tarkans say “Bleda wastes our time. Let us follow Attila.” Send Attila up to Bleda, set Bleda’s Huns to neutral/enemy, and start killing Bleda. Once you get the Tarkans, send them up to help Attila. After Bleda is dead, go back to the camp and kill any other Tarkan that do not convert. Once you get the resources from Bleda’s Huns, head over the northwestern bridge as one of the Tarkans suggests. Once you get those villagers, GAIA gives you some resources. Return into the Hunnic camp to have Bleda’s Huns give you more resources.
Pass enemy gate without attacking:
Build a trade cart and put it with your army when you get to the gate. With a trade cart, it will open because you have the trade cart with you. You will be able to get all your soldiers past because the gate won’t be able to shut since your soldiers are blocking it. Your soldiers will then be in the enemy base.
“Age Of Empires 2: Age Of Kings” campaigns:
Start the game, click “Single Player”, then click “Age of Kings campaigns”. All the original campaigns will then be available to play.
Easy wins hints:
-To easily defeat the CPU under any difficulty setting, place eight to twelve villagers into three control groups. Have two control groups working on gold and one working on stone until all of the stone piles and gold piles are gone. Then, build at least two of every building and upgrade everything as fast as possible. If done fast enough, you should be able to either swarm your enemy or surround him with castles.
-For an easy win against NPC characters, make a map using the map editor. Give yourself 99,999 of every recourse and your opponent about 20,000. Go to the options and disable the siege workshop and the trebuchet, then edit all the other options as desired and begin the game. It will be a much easier game even under the toughest difficulty setting because the risk of long ranged attacks and siege weapons that quickly destroy your buildings has been removed.
-You can easily defeat any infantry from Elite Teutonic Knight to Militia by using your Arbalests. To do this, build an Archery Camp. Research the Archer to Crossbowman then to Arbalest. These Arbalests when fully researched (for example, Carthaginian Tactics) are extremely powerful in ranged attacks but somewhat weak in combat. Create fifteen Arbalests.