Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings - FAQ v42

Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings - FAQ v42

FAQ v4.2

by Red Phoenix

Various Cheats

During gameplay press Enter then type any of the following "Codes":

Code Effect
ROCK ON 1000 Stone
LUMBERJACK 1000 Wood
ROBIN HOOD 1000 Gold
CHEESE STEAK JIMMY'S 1000 Food
MARCO Reveal Map
POLO Remove Shadow
AEGIS Fast Build
NATURAL WONDERS Control Nature
RESIGN You Lose
WIMPYWIMPYWIMPY Destroy Yourself
I LOVE THE MONKEY HEAD Gives VDML
HOW DO YOU TURN THIS ON Gives a Cobra Car
TORPEDO Kill Opponent
TO SMITHEREENS Gives a Saboteur
BLACK DEATH Destroy All Enemies
I R WINNER You Win

Command Line Cheats

Use one of the following command line parameters to start the game

800 - Change screen res to 800x600
1024 - Change screen res to 1024x768
1280 - Change screen res to 1280x1024
autompsave - Enable Auto save
Mfill - Cure display problems with some video cards
Msync - Cure SoundBlaster AWE freezes
NoMusic - Turn Off music.
NormalMouse - Standard mouse pointer
NoSound - Disable all sounds except during FMV sequences
NoStartup - No pre-game FMV sequences
NoTerrainSound - Turn Off all terrain sounds

Other Cheats

Ctrl T - New Resource Menu
Ctrl Q - Faster Construction
Ctrl P - Get Immutable building
Ctrl C - Show end sequence

Double transport ship capacity

To in crease your transport ship capacity without researching any thing. Go into the siege weapons work shop and create a few battering rams. Then garrison some troops inside the battering rams these have to be foot soldiers other wise it won't work. Then load them on to a transport ship. and you'll be able to quadruple your transport ship capacity

Make Unit Faster

When you click the make a man button on the toolbar click on the little flag where you can place the man you just started to create and keep clicking in the same place as fast as you can. It should double the time to make a man.

Cheats For DEMO version

Bring up the chat box by pressing ENTER then enter these codes

pepperoni pizza gives you 1000 food
coinage gives you 1000 gold
woodstock gives you 1000 wood
quarry gives you 1000 stone
reveal map reveales map but not fog
no fog lifts fog
gaia control animals not people