Because I used to be a part of the Heaven Games community when AoM was in pre-release mode I decided to go back there and see what I could scrounge up.

I posted the following in the AoE3 Quetion Thread:

I know this may be a pretty stupid question, as changing the root gameplay of a series usually isn't how to make friends within your core community; but here it is anyway:

Will the gameplay for AoE3 be the same as the previous Age of... games? I ask this because after playing the Total War games for a while I have become jaded towards the RTS genre because of the lack of tactical and Strategic possibilities in the Faux "Real-Time-'Strategy'" games. Most of the general RTS games such as AoM/WC3/C&C have the basic strategy of building quickly and clicking faster than your opponent to beat them. Speed, in my mind, is only one part of strategy and shouldn't be the key to winning, just an asset on the journey there.

I"m not here to slam the devs on this game as I"m sure I"ll be buying it, but I just want to know what I have to look forward to so I don't go thinking that it'll actually be about strategy on a tactical level and not simply a numerical/haste driven game.

Thankyou.
The Devs at Emsemble Studios have always been great at answering questions. Earlier in the thread they already answered some questions; most notable for myself was the mentioning of the board game Settlers of Catan.

I'll get back to you all when my question is answered.