Age of Empires - assorted hints and cheats

Catapults fire on Peasants
To fire on civilians, highlight a catapult and press [Enter]. Then
type: JACK BE NIMBLE. Depending upon its orientation, catapults
target different members of the populace.

Direction                          Target
East                               peasants
North                              cattle
South                              peasants
West                               Superman

Chariot archers fire faster
To activate this cheat, push [Enter] and type in:
UPSIDFLINTMOBILE

Composite archers become stealthy
To activate this cheat, push [Enter] and type in: DARK RAIN

Exceed Population Limit
If you need more units, but the population limit stops you, try
this. Bring your population to 1 unit beneath the population
limit.  Now, make sure you have lots of resources, enough to build
several units.  Next, go to all the buildings that can produce
units, and QUICKLY click on the icon that makes the unit. Do this
on every building as fast as you can, but you can only continue
until a unit is completed, thus bringing your population to it's
limit.  HOWEVER, the game will complete all the units you started!
With this, going fast enough, you, will be able to exceed your
limit by about 10 units.

Horse archers become black riders
To activate this cheat, push [Enter] and type in: BLACK RIDER

Invincible army
To activate this cheat, push [Enter] and type in: ZEUS

Make Priests have HP 1200 and super speed
type HOYOHOYO before researching at the temple one technology
doubles hit points from 600 to 1200

Slay select opponent
To activate this cheat, push [Enter] and type in: KILL <1 - 8>
Enter a value within indicated parameters.

Soldier wields nuclear weapons
To activate this cheat, push [Enter] and type in: E=MC2 TROOPER

Upgrade ballistas (range=100)
To activate this cheat, push [Enter] and type in: ICBM

Upgrade heavy catapults
To activate this cheat, push [Enter] and type in: BIG BERTHA





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