# Age of Empires Online **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [September 3, 2011, 10:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/age-of-empires-online/595042 "2011-09-03T10:06:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Dave\_Hartwick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7feea3/32.png) [@Dave\_Hartwick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dave_Hartwick)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2011, 10:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/age-of-empires-online/595042/1 "2011-09-03T10:06:03Z")
Free to play RTS. Anybody tried it? [Link](http://ageofempiresonline.com/). ---
**Author:** ![Telperion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telperion/32/509_2.png) [@Telperion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperion)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2011, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/age-of-empires-online/595042/2 "2011-09-03T12:30:20Z")
I tried it when it was in open beta, and frankly I didn’t like it much. It’s very casual, which may not always be a bad thing, but when it comes to strategy it’s hard to feel that you can achieve all that much in a five-minute mission on a tiny map with a single route to the enemy. Besides, it didn’t feel like there was any real progression in the city hub either. A dozen missions in I would still only have access to basic clubmen and spearmen and a handful of buildings, and the enemy were all the same. ---
**Author:** ![antonio107](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7ea924/32.png) [@antonio107](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/antonio107)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2011, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/age-of-empires-online/595042/3 "2011-09-03T15:54:44Z")
I still do LAN parties with Age of Empires II: the Age of Kings, but this has caught my eye. I’m wondering how it compares…