Tips: Use control groups. They make switching between your bowmen and your priest much easier. Consider using slow speed during fights. This makes unit control easier by giving you more time to react. Save scum. The first fight is extremely random and has to go perfectly. Saving after having it go well once means you don't have to keep playing through it again every time you restart.

oh the nostalgia...the hours i ve spent playing these as a kid )))). very cute games.. but very tough... they didnt hold back on difficulty back in the days.

19:29 Priests can heal each other. It's just that the pathing is terrible, and the priests couldn't work out how to walk around your composite bowmen, so they couldn't get close enough to actually do it, even though they were right next to each other! The pathing in pre-2000 RTS games always seems to be broken in different ways - in Starcraft your units will walk across the entire map to find an alternate route instead of waiting for a unit in front of them to move out of the way, and in Age of Empires they won't move at all if their path is blocked.

In my opinion, one of the crucial differences between new and elder RTSs is, that nowadays they are like: "Ok! Here's your objective, here's the path, here's the enemy, here are resources, conveniently placed all together. Have fun, who-ho! ^_^" And back in the day they were more like: "GET YA BUM OUTTA HERE AND DO IT! WE AIN'T TELLING YOU S***T!!!" 😂

You were on the right track when you were attacking Brown, except you were killing his villagers, you shoulda been converting them! Then getting them into your transport so you can build a base and create units of your own! Also you really should save when things are going well, it makes your life easier :P

Haha you are such a bad gamer, but I love it, id never think someone liek you would be into this stuff. Keep it going!

WOW nostalgy of my life

This is a strange one for sure. I think there's a pretty clear intended path of first sailing west and getting the yellow villager to build your base in the middle, but it's weird how the devs didn't give you say a couple of cavarly to deal with those catapults. It's almost like they expect the player to be a micro expert. The way the AI behaves here is also really cool, how red will always bring their transport reactively once you try to convert their units, and the yellow vil always stays in place. You'd almost think the game had custom scripting! Otherwise the AI is rarely this reliable.

It's so interesting to play the very first game and the very last game (AoM: Retold) at the same time! That's terrific 👍. How does it feel?

You kept making mistakes should I even say more than usual. 1) Priests can heal each other, but they were stuck in an unusual position because of how the bowman were placed. 2) There are plenty of ways to get the catapults/villager on the west island. a) load just the archers in the transport, kill the catapults. get the archers to another island. come with the priests to get the villager b) if you want a catapult do the same but kill just one catapult. That way it will be half as difficult. 3) here would be very useful to use diplomatic stances. Just set everyone on neutral and you won't be able to accidentally kill anything. Switch them pack after getting both priests. (and western island if you decide on that) 4) I'm really disappointed the thought that your archers might outrange the towers never even crossed your mind. You more like accidentally stumbled upon it. 5) Use save / load game if the mission requires it (like in this case)