[转帖]AOE3试玩手记

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翻译：_URC_BEAR

The Discovery Age
探索时代
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During the Discovery Age your Explorer unit (center) is critical for building trading posts.  
在探索时代，探险家单位（中心）是建设贸易站的关键。
  
Players begin with a town center, a small group of colonists, and an explorer. The Explorer unit is unique: aside from having a good line of sight and a special ability letting him snipe environmental hazards in a single shot, he can't be killed by the enemy. If another player defeats your Explorer, he'll crumple to the ground but he'll still be alive. He'll remain 'captured' like that so long as enemies are near him. You can either ransom him back to your town center (literally paying the other player some gold), or you can rescue him by killing all the nearby enemies and allowing him to heal back up.
玩家一开始拥有一个城镇中心，一小队殖民者和一个探险家。探险家单位是很独特的：除了拥有很好的视野和一击秒杀危及他的野生动物的特殊能力外，他还无法被敌人杀死。如果另一个玩家击败了你的探险家，他会瘫倒在地但仍然活着，只要敌人在他附近，他就会一直保持这种“被俘”状态。你可以将他赎回到你的城镇中心（字面意思就是你付给其他玩家一些金子），也可以通过杀死他周围所有的敌人来营救他并让他自愈。

Although players in the Discovery Age don't have very many units, it's a pretty frantic age because there's a lot you'll want to do. First, you want to grow your economy fast, which at this stage means finding food (Age III has tons of animals to hunt) and building more settlers. There's usually a good supply of resources around the town center.
虽然在探索时代玩家没有太多单位，但依然是个疯狂的年代因为有许多事等着你去做。首先你要快速发展经济，在这个时代就意味着寻找食物（帝国3中有丰富的野生动物可猎捕）和建造殖民者。通常情况下城镇中心周围有相当好的资源供给。

More importantly, the Discovery Age is where you use your Explorer to find key points on the map. He'll discover little treasures scattered about (giving you bonus food or gold etc.). He can also find the major roads and locate the trading post sites and native villages. Only the Explorer can build trading posts. You'll want to do this! You want to claim as many of these sites for your nation. The cumulative rewards for doing so build up in a big way over time. If you manage to build a couple trading posts and your opponents each build only one, the effects will mount up: you'll get more shipments and your Home City will advance faster.
更重要的是，探索时代是你要用探险家找到地图的关键地点的时代。他能发现少量散布的宝藏（奖励你食物或金子等等）。他还能找到主要的道路和定位贸易站及土著村庄的地点。只有探险家能够建造贸易站。你会十分乐意做这件事，你想让你的国家得到尽量多的这种地点。如此做会随着时间的推移大规模地积累回报。如果你能设法建造多个贸易站而你的每个对手只建造了一个，那么效果会增长：你将更快地到货并且你的母城会进化的更快。

The Colonial Age
殖民时代
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Before long you'll move to the second age. Players who wish to rush their opponents will usually advance to here and then start sending over the musketeers. By now, especially if you've located and built several trading posts, shipments form the Home City should be coming at a good rate. If you keep shipping over military units, they can immediately attack your opponents. This in turn will give you experience, which will cause shipments to come faster -- it's possible to steamroll over other players this way if you caught them with their pants down.
不久以后你就进入了第二个时代。想要快攻对手的玩家一般都会进化到这个时代，然后开始派出步兵。到这时，尤其是如果你已经找到并建设了多个贸易站的话，那么你的母城将达到相当好的到货速度。如果你保持运输军事单位，他们就可以立即攻击你的对手。而随之而来的是经验的增长，经验的增长将使到货进一步加快。如果你抓住了对方的弱点，你可以用这种方法压倒其他玩家。

If you're not rushing, then you'll use the colonial age to crank on your economy, trying to quickly get to the next age. Sending over shipments of colonists can make a huge difference here. Some people I talked to at Ensemble said that the only way to play is to truck over colonists as soon as each shipment is available during the first couple of ages.
如果你不快攻，那么你就用殖民时代暴经济，试着快速进入下个时代。这个时代派遣殖民者会带来巨大的不同。一些和我聊过的Ensemble成员告诉我玩这个游戏的唯一方式是在前期的几个时代里一有可能就运出殖民者。

Shipments from the Home City can also help you correct any mistakes you make in your play. During one game I realized I hadn't placed enough colonists on harvesting wood, and I desperately wanted to build a bunch of buildings. Rather than wait, I simply shipped over wood from the Home City -- tons of it. Great piles of it appeared outside my Town Center where it was easily harvested and I was able to go on an immediate building spree. Of course, this wouldn't have been an issue if I had planned better, but it was nice that I was able to correct my mistake.
母城的货物输出也能帮助你弥补一些游戏中的失误。有一次我玩到一半突然意识到自己没有在伐木上投入足够的殖民者，而我却急切地想建造一群建筑。我没有选择等待，而是母城输送木材——大量的木材。很快我的母城外堆满了取用方便的木材，我立即开始疯狂地建造了。当然，如果我计划得更好就不会出这个问题，但是我能够改正我的错误还是很好的结果。

During the middle game you can use your Home City to build up your economy or to support a rush attack.  
在游戏中期你可以用母城建设你的经济或支持快攻。

The Fortress Age
堡垒时代
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After collecting enough resources to go to the third age, the game really starts to feel like Age of Empires III. Starting with the Fortress Age you can start building cannons, and by this time your economy should be cranking fast enough that you can build a sizeable army at home instead of relying on shipments.
在收集了足够进入第三时代的资源后，这个游戏真正开始感觉象帝国时代3了。从堡垒时代开始你能建造大炮，而且这时你的经济已经启动，足够支持建造一只有规模的军队，而不是依靠货运了。

At this point, battles over trading posts and Native villages start getting pretty furious. You'll need those cannons if the player has built any static defenses, or if you want to knock down their trading posts in order to build up your own. A good mix of units is necessary, since your opponents will usually have a standing army. If you try to roll toward them with nothing but cannons, you'll be slaughtered. Screen your artillery with infantry and use cavalry to flank around and destroy any of their artillery before they can get close to your possessions.
这一时刻，围绕贸易站和土著村庄的战斗开始变得激烈，如果对方建造了防御工事，你将需要用到那些大炮，你还可以轰掉对方的贸易站以建造自己的。一只混成部队是非常必要的，因为你的对手通常都会有常备的守军。如果你想仅仅依靠大炮进攻，那么你将会遭到屠杀。用步兵保护你的炮兵，并且用骑兵在两侧包抄摧毁对方试图接近你阵地的炮兵。

Players didn't seem to linger in this age for very long, so you need to keep an eye on your economy in order that you don't get left behind. There was some disagreement as to the best way to use shipments during this later part of the game: if you save up a couple for emergencies, you can generate a large army tailored to your specific needs almost out of thin air. It's great to have a couple of shipments ready to go if you're surprise attacked; you can call up emergency reinforcements from the Home City almost immediately. Other players insisted that you need to use those shipments right away. It depends on your play style.
玩家似乎不会在这个时代停留很长时间，所以你要随时留心你的经济不要落后。游戏进行到这个后期阶段，如何最好的利用货运有了意见分歧。一种意见是你应保留一些作为应急，你可以根据你的特殊需要建造你的部队。当你遭到意外的进攻时，有一些应急的货运是非常好的，你可以几乎立即从母城调来援军。另一些玩家在坚持认为你应该随时用掉货运机会。究竟如何选择依赖于你的游戏风格了。

The Industrial Age
工业时代
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When players advance to this age the map starts to look considerably different. Whereas it was originally a pastoral landscape teaming with wildlife, by this time there are outposts everywhere, soldiers guarding trading posts, and huge cities of buildings often guarded with walls. The dirty ruts that originally marked the roads are now replaced by twin railroad tracks, with gorgeous steam locomotives chugging along.
当玩家进入这个时代时，地图看上去就相当的不同了。从原先四处是野生动物的田园风光，这时到处岗楼林立，士兵守卫着贸易站，大型城市常常被城墙保护着，早期以脏乱车辙为标志的道路如今变成了双轨铁路，豪华的蒸汽机车来回穿梭。

Meanwhile, fighting between players has reached its peak. If your economy can't continually crank out large armies of various units by this age, you're going to lose. (And don't forget to build houses -- that's the bottleneck that always did me in during playtesting.) Battles in the third age tended to be relatively small, but by the Industrial Age isn't not uncommon to see long lines of musketeers or mobs of dragoons charging into battle. Large groups of cannons make short work of enemy structures: If even four or five get within range of a building, it doesn't stand for very long.
同时，玩家间的战斗达到了顶峰。如果在这个时代你的经济无法支撑连续造出各种不同类型的单位，那么你就要输了。（还要注意建造房屋--这是我在试玩时最常遇到的瓶颈。）在第三时代战斗的规模是相对小的，而在工业时代大队的步兵和成群的骑兵冲进战场的场面一点都不少见。大群的火炮快速地摧毁敌人的建筑：只要有四五个火炮进入射程，被攻击的建筑就坚持不了多久了。

The steam locomotives are my favorite piece of eye-candy from the Industrial Age...  
工业时代我最喜欢的养眼之物就是那蒸汽机车了。。。
  
At this point in the game, you'll have to really start paying attention to formation battle tactics, making sure that your large army isn't flanked or mobbed together where it's susceptible to cannonfire. Between your economy and the Home Shipments (which should come pretty fast given the intensity of the fighting), there's no reason you shouldn't have tons of units spewing forth from your town: it's all battlefield tactics form here.
游戏进行到这一点，你需要真正开始注意战斗编队战术的使用了，一定不要让你的大军被侧翼包围或象乌合之众般的聚成一群，这样会很容易遭到射击。而对于经济和货运（由于激烈的战斗，货运速度已经很快了），已经没有理由不用掉货运造出成群的单位了：从这时开始战场已经是无处不在了。

The Imperial Age
帝王时代
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Yes, Age of Empires III has a fifth age! The Imperial Age is unlike the others, and the designers consider it a sort of "tiebreaker" age. It costs an obscene amount of resources to advance to Imperial, easily ten times as much as the previous ages. But it opens the door to 'superunits' like Imperial Artillery or Imperial Dragoons who are absolutely devastating on the battlefield.
是的，帝国3有第五个时代。帝王时代与其他时代不同，设计师有意把它设计成一个“破坏均势”的时代。升级帝王时代要花费巨额的资源，十倍于升级以前的时代。但它向诸如帝王炮兵或帝王骑兵之类在战场上具有绝对破坏力的“超级单位”的开启了大门。

During our playtime with the game we never had cause to go Imperial, so we don't know what all it entails. However, the intent is that the Imperial Age will end any stalemate. If a couple of players are locked in stagnant combat for a while, the first player able to invest the considerable resources to go Imperial will be able to turn the tide.
在我们试玩这个游戏的时间里我们从来没有理由去升级到帝王时代。所以我们无法了解它的必要性。当然，帝王时代的目的是终结任何僵局。如果几个玩家被僵持的战斗拖住了，那么第一个能投入大量资源升级帝王时代的玩家将有机会打破均势。

CQJ-丝丝记忆

那钱用到什么地方去了？泡妞去了？

天使归来

觉得很不错..[em05]

_CCC_大智

殖民色彩很浓……看来又只能玩D版了，24

天使归来

我从来没想过要玩Z版的帝国三...没闲钱~

小狐

那太悲哀了...