First Look at Age of Empires and Counter Strike

I have seen people who said "Age of Empires - aaahh enough man" and "Counter Strike - childs play"

There is no need to mention that the most active games for an year at least in the great LANs around the world are Counter Strike and Age of Empires.

The graphics of Counter Strike 1.6 are worst to compare with Counter Strike Source. But what matters is game play right.

Age of Empires 2 TC AI Algorithm Writing and Strategy Making - AI Creation

Writing an AI in age of empires is very simple if you are a novice programmer of any language viz C, C++ or JAVA.

First thing in writing a program is making an algorithm. Write the algorithm perfectly and you can make the program much simpler to look and execute. And writing an algorithm for Age of Empires, the game which you might have played for ages is much more simpler. Your strategy itself is your algorithm.

I will try to explain my algorithm or my strategy. I do the things I wrote below,

1. First of all, once the game starts, you create 4 villagers.
2. Build a house with a villager or two.
3. Then you make the three idle villagers collect the food.
4. The next thing is making the scout explore.
5. .....
6. ..

These are the few things you need to write down before you write the AI.

The following code gives you more information on my AI TemperD.

(defrule

(population > 2)

(can-build house)

=>

(build house)

)

(defrule

(unit-type-count-total villager < 26)

=>

(train villager)

)

(defrule

(not(can-train villager))

=>

(research ri-loom)

)

(defrule

(building-type-count-total barracks == 0)

(current-age == feudal-age)

(can-build barracks)

=>

(build barracks)

)

(load "TemperD/TemperD-Resources")

(load "TemperD/TemperD-Strat")

(load "TemperD/TemperD-War")

(load "TemperD/TemperD-Research")

(defrule

(unit-type-count-total villager > 25)

(can-research feudal-age)

=>

(research feudal-age)

)

(defrule

(can-research castle-age)

=>

(research castle-age)

)

(defrule

(current-age == feudal-age)

(unit-type-count-total villager < 108)

=>

(train villager)

)

You can  get more information on how to write this in further posts.

Age of Empires Conquerors 1.0c & 1.0e Scenarios Server IPs [Share Post]

This post is exclusively created for sharing the Age of Empires The Conquerors Expansion Server IPs, mainly for Scenarios and can be used for sharing other games too. If you have Created the Game server, just share the IP here and wait for other to join.

You generally share the IP addresses in online chatting. Along with those places, you can share the same information here too. The better part will be that, one day, you can share your game information without logging in into any accounts.

Points to Note:

1. Share here too, not here alone.
   
2. Don't expect much till this post gets some age.
3. This is easy share method, where there is no need logins.

Just post the game information once and that must be enough. This post is all AOE Games and versions, not just conquerors. Give the game and version in your details.

Age of Empires Hamachi Networks List - Join for AOC and AOK

Gaming in Hamachi has been popular all along and rising every day. The main reason for this is day by day increase in the technology to improve the speeds of the Internet connections. The pings or latencies of the connections are being reduced day by day, due to increase in the server qualities and routing.

So, join the Hamachi Networks given below, leave when going offline. Some of the networks not created yet are YourAOE, YourAOE[0 to 9], JoinAOE, JoinAOE, AOENow, AOE Now, AOE Gamer, AOE PlayNow, etc...

Age of Empires Hamachi Gaming Networks List:

Password for all the networks is 1.

1. aoe24x7
2. 24x7aoe
3. 24x7aoe_0
4. 24x7aoe_1
5. 24x7aoe_2
6. 24x7aoe_3
7. 24x7aoe_4
8. 24x7aoe_5
9. 24x7aoe_6
10. 24x7aoe_7
11. 24x7aoe_8
12. 24x7aoe_9

You can create networks aoe24x7_0 to aoe24x7_9. Leave the networks while going offline when the networks are full so that other active members can rejoin and play the games in the networks.

Download Age of Empires Snow Template for Blogger Blogspot Blogs

This Template is made by using the Age of Empires Snow in Map as a background. The template is good for dark body font. The whole template looks exactly as the view that we see in the Age of Empires Game. The background also shows small pieces of trees in the upper left corner and a mud patch in the lower right corner. All the menu links which we use in the game are visible here but they are not assigned with any links for the web page. If you want to have so, you can comment me and I'll give you guidance or make the template itself.

The template has a menubar with 5 links, if you want to add more links you need to change the CSS Padding of the menubar class in the CSS of your blogger template. If you want to change any color of the link or text you can do it through your blogger edit fonts and colors Tab.

Coming to the widgets, you should take care of your widgets by yourself. Also, you can see a search box and Recent posts widget here. The recent posts widget is a virtual widget which is using the Feed to show the recent posts, it is not directly showing the post in this blog. The widget gets the recent posts through the feed of the blog and it shows as a widget. Dont forget to change the feed URL to yours.

You can take a look at the template here,

Download Age of Empires Blogger Template

More games and more templates soon...

AOE The Conquerors Template for Blogger Blogspot Blogs

This Template consist of the background of Age of Empires the conquerors. It looks good. There are two versions in which one of the version consists of a menubar that matches colors with Windows Vista type of buttons, that is silver, and the second version has a menubar images that match with the template background itself.

Here are the two versions of the Age of Empires templates which are compatible with the blogger blogspot blogs around the web. These two versions of the Age of Empires The Conquerors templates are shown in the images below,

You can download these templates and put them to your blog, just by uploading the XML file which you download here. Download the XML Template from here and just upload it to the Edit HTML section of your blog.

Note: If you have any widgets which you do not want to lose, be careful while uploading, copy those widgets to the XML template before uploading it. Place the Widgets exactly at the same place where they used to be in the template you currently have.

Download XML Template

Download XML Template

Download Age of Empires 2 The Conquerors 1.0c Patch

There is a Game Update v1.0c for AOE2TC and here it is

Age of Empires II: The Conquerors Update v1.0c
The Age of Empires II: The Conquerors update v1.0c includes several game enhancements and fixes. The v1.0c update includes all of the fixes and content of the previous 1.0b update.

Age of Empires 2 The Conquerors Civilization Strategies

1. Never neglec the unique powers.
2. Research the unique techs.
3. The enemeis Civilization matters more than ours.
4. Counter the enemies civilization with cheap units agianst his unique units.
5. Use all the positives of own civilization faster to develop faster.
   

Download Veteran Blood Scenario for AOE.

Download Veteran Blood Scenario for AOE.

Download AOE Ancient Tower Defence Scenario

Download the scenario Ancient TD. TD means Tower Defence.

This is the file which you need when you want to play the Ancient TD Scenario in AOE. Generally, the file will be downloaded directly by the AOE client from the host.

The Ancient TD or Tower Defence is the scenario of optimization. Of course the whole game of AOE is about optimization of resources. The effective usage of resources is the key in the scenario.

Here are few points which are not concluded to be best, just some discussion

1. Aim is to kill all the units which are intended to pass the area.
2. The above demands lots of Towers. After all its a TD scenario.
3. Towers need stone and wood
4. Gather Stone and wood.
5. Towers must be upgraded. They must be.
6. So need kings.
7. Need Gold. Get Gold from relics with first 5 kings.
8. Gather Gold.
9. Mean while you will get short of the stone. Buy it from Market or Buy it with a king
10. Get Bonus Gold and Stone faster.
11. Take the extra space for towers.
12. Get gold from where ever it is available.
13. Keep creating trade units.

Ancient TD:
What matters in the end is just experience. Just try your own strategies. Noobs are always there in the net who are newer tha you!!! GL & HF!!!

Age of Empires The Conquerors Unit Attributes and Attack Bonus

In AOE the attributes shown for each player in the bottom bar are the statistics of the unit and will decide the strength and power and agility of the unit. The following explanation will give you a good idea of what the attributes are about.

If a unit has 100HP it means that he can take 100 points of damage at maximum. And the attack power of that unit says the number of enemy hit points he can reduce in a single hit. The armour given would be in 2 parts. One is for normal close attack and other is for arrows or ranged attack. The armour points indicate the number points he can shield when the enemy is attacking. Like if the enemy attacks with 9+4 points, out of the 13 hit points, the armour saves some hit points and that depends up on the armour points. If the armour of a unit is 2+3/3+4 and the attack of the enemy is 9+4, then the hit points reduced would be 13-5=8. So for each attack the hit points reduced for this unit will be 8.

In some cases there would be some bonus attack of a unit to another unit. Then the unit can do more than the indicated damage to the enemy unit or any building. For example, a pikeman with 6+4 attack power can do more than 10 damage to the paladin or an elephant.

Like this some of the units with bonus attack are,

• Eagle Warrior against Cavalry
• Scout vs Siege Units and Monks
• Eagle Warriors vs Monks
• Swordsmen vs Buildings
• Skirmishers vs Archers
• Knights vs Archers
• Camels vs Cavalry
• Pikeman against Mounted Units and Elephants
• Jaguar Warriors vs Infantry
• Samurai vs Castle Units
• Tuetonic Knights vs Buildings
• Tarkan vs Buildings
• Cataphract vs Infantry
• Mangudai vs Siege Units
• Mameluke vs Cavalry

Some of these like the eagle warrior bonus attack vs cavalry are not indicated in game, but there is a definite +4 bonus attack for eagle warriors against cavalry, this is given in attilas noob faq.

Age of Empires the Conquerors MultiPlayer Online via TCP/IP

The game can be played online via TCP/IP if the IP of a host is known anywhere in the world, the requirement is the IP address of the server. Which can be given at anyplace on the net. The problem is the right time. The server will just wait for some 10 minutes and then he would stop the server.

There are many methods of exchanging IP adresses. Where eber you go for public chat, you can call soeone from there and give him the IP of your server to play via TCP/IP. The problem again with this is that the opponent may not be equally skilled.

The famous gamespy arcade is also helpful just to give the information of the server that is the IP address of the server and the remaining part is just to put the IP in the Age of Empires game.

To put the IP of the server in the age of empires game, go to the multiplayer option and select the last but one option, that is Internet TCP/IP. Now just press the showgames button and then give the IP address of the server you got from the internet. A game will be shown in the box below that showgames button then join the game.

Play Age of Empires Conquerors and Counter Strike 1.6 Multiplayer Online

There are many methods to play multiplayer games online. The best method is to use Game Spy Arcade. But there are some drawbacks with Game Spy Arcade like it cannot be used in institutions where the ports are blocked most of the times.

Also, there is a need to install the Game Spy Arcade software. One more this is you need to create a Game Spy Arcade account for joining the Game Spy Arcade.

Here, all you need to join the game using the IP given. So the input you are waiting for is just IP. So, you need to just chat some where to get the IP of the game host.

What you can do here is to just give the IP of the multiplayer game as a comment to this post. The players who ever want to join will join taking this as the input.

Thats how you can join either Counter Strike 1.6 or Age of Empires Conquerors,

1. For Counter Strike 1.6, the Server will give you his IP address, the players should join that server by giving the command like this in the console,

• connect 182.243.232.59:27015

• connect 59.93.64.59:27015

2. And for the game Age of Empires, just go to TCP/IP and click on join game. Now give the IP given here to join that game. Thats it, you are in the online multiplayer game now.


Start giving the IPs now.

Whats the advantage of this,

• No need for you to install any software.
• No need to worry about ports, just open this web page in any computer.
• No need to create any online accounts.
• No need to signin into orkut or any other social newtworking website.
• No need to keep some other program running while playing the game. Just open and close this web page.

All the best and enjoy!!!

Counter Strike LAN Gaming Event in India for SpringSpree '09 by NITW

SpringSpree '09 is a Cultural Festival of NITW for the Year 2009. It includes a wide variety of events to enjoy the three days spread from 23rd-25th January of 2009. GameDome is LAN Gaming event for SpringSpree '09 by NITW at NITW.

The Games include,

1. Age of Empires II
2. Fifa '08
3. Need For Speed Most Wanted
4. DotaAllStars
5. Counter Strike 1.6

See the given link for Details about Rules and Regulations,

GameDome::SpringSpree

The LAN Gaming Event at NITW is going to give a great opportunity to all the players in country to put a challenge to others and to prove themselves to be the best in the country. The Clan Gaming is at its best in the present compared to the mere past. The Clan Gaming is becoming popular day any day with the increasing number of BroadBand users and also because of the more and more Gaming Cafes set up.

NITW is one of the best places in and around the state where the players can get the real challenge on what they are willing to have one. It has a good number of nice players in the games like Counter Strike, Need For Speed, Fifa, Age of Empires and almost all the games which are most widely played around. Taking the factor of Multi Player games, it is quite interesting to have some Clan Games between all the gamers which could make them prove themselves to the rest of the gamers around.

Counter Strike 1.6 is one of the best games to play in LAN and Clan Gaming is most popular in Counter Strike 1.6 than other games in the Event. So, be there to challenge the others and also to accept the challenge from the rest. Competition method is 5 vs. 5. So, 5 Players per team are invited. Fifa '08, the competition method is 1 vs. 1. So, there its the ultimate challenge. See the link for all the details.

Finally, to every one, be there irrespective of whether you you play games or not. Its the show time. Enjoy the Cultural Festival.

Age of Empires II The Conquerors Expansion Trial Help Topic

In the Age of Empires II The Conquerors Expansion Trial consists of a single scenario of the Campaign Montezuma. In this scenario, you will be starting with the Aztec Civilization and with three Eagle Warriors and three Villagers. The task is to finish the game by putting the four Relics inside the four Monasteries. If the monastery is explored there is a probability for the enemies to destroy it. If the monastery is destroyed you are defeated. So, keep protecting the monastery which ou have explored or just dont explore it.

Tepanaca, Xochimilco and Tlatiluco are the enemies you need to face in the game. Out of these three, Tlatiluco is the easiest to conquor. Firstly, you need to build a defensive strategy. For this you just need to go towards the Tapanaca's side, that is towards the top of the map. You will find a gate of Tepanaca as you go in that direction. You need to build a gate exactly beside the Tepanaca's gate so that you wont waste too much resources stone or wood. Also build a gate at your left side and make your development fast. See the following screenshots for reference.

While development, you need to exhaust the resources to get the required buldings and army. You reach the castle age and get an army of around 20 Military Units to take down Tlatiluco. But with Xochimilco and Tepanaca, you need to be careful.

Xochimilco and Tepanca, both try to attack you from the direction shown in last screenshot. Tepanaca will use Eagle Warriors and Plumed Archers. Xochimilco uses Long Swordsmen and Archers. No enemy uses seize weapons, so there is no big problem. Also, Tepanaca has two watch towers gaurding their base. Xochimilco and Tepanaca both use one Castle. Tlatiluco uses none. You need to build two castles to defend the gate shown in the third screenshot. You make the best of your army and then attack the enemies. You need to build a dock to finish the fourth monastery. Thats how you do. The Jaguars in the game wont hurt Eagle Warriors and Monks. Tlatilucos, military buildings are built at an island at the bottom of the mini-map towards your side.

Downlaod Age of Empires II The Conquerors Leagues Recorded Games

What are Age of Empires Recorded Games:

The professional gaming leagues held between different clans have their games recorded. These files are with extensions .mgx in the Age of Empires II The Conquerors version and are saved in SaveGame folder of Age of Empires. These are also reffered as Replays of the games.

Why to see Recorded Games:

The best way of knowing and understanding Age of Empires strategies is by seeing how experts play. You can see the games played by experts and get some help for yourself on how to play age of empires and what are the critical strategies they use.

How to see Recorded Games:

You can download them from the given download links. Once you finish downloads, just extract the .zip or .rar files and place the files in SaveGame folder of your age of empires installation. You can now open the Age of Empires game application. Go to the single player mode and go to saved and recorded games. You can see the file names here. Just open them. You can see the games in fast mode also. The controls are given in the bottom of the screen while playing the game.

The files you get from the package are .mgx files. You should put these .mgx files in the SaveGame directory.

Where to get Recorded Games:

There are many websites which have a good collection of recorded games of Age of Empires. These are some directories where some Age of Empires Recorded Games Downloads are given,

Download Links:

RTS Clan Leagues

esnips directory1

esnips directory2

Legion Cup Aoc

Legion Clan

IndusClan

The first link given contains a good number of latest recorded games to download with all the information about the game like map Arabia, Islands, Ghost Lake, Baltic, Black Forest etc... the duration of the game and the Clan Tags. These are league matches held between two Clans.

How to Record Games:

You can record your games played in the LAN or Internet. To do this the server who has started the game either in LAN or Internet must put the option record game. Then all the clients will get the recorded game in their SaveGame folder of AOE installation folder. You can record your own video of AOC 1 on 7 and put the recorded game in some file hosting websites and post the link on some website or blog. Your Age of Empires Conquerors recorded games will be saved in the same folder SaveGame in the AOC installation folders.

If you want to give any Recorded Games links, you can post the Direct Download links here as a comment to this blog post.

Age of Empires II Scenario The Land Nomad

The Land Nomad

Scenario:
This is a scenario for Age of Empires II The Conquerors.

Task:
Same as normal Random Map Game

Given:
Only 3 villagers.

What to Do:
Just build a Lubercamp and start collecting wood until you can get a Town Center to build one. Just after you finish building a Town Center, its just another random map game.

Tips:
You can use sheep to explore the map. Be quick as always.

Age of Empires II The Conquerors Civilization Strategies for Newbi

Understanding Age of Empires:

Age of Empires, a game by ensemble studios, has the most strategic game play. It is a great game to play online with human players than with computer multi-player games. The better part of the game is that it is game number of strategies, which are better than others in some way or the other.

Understanding Age of Empires Civilizations:

It has 18 different civilizations namely, Aztecs, Britons, Byzantines, Celts, Chinese, Franks, Goths, Huns, Japanese, Koreans, Mayans, Mongols, Persians, Saracens, Spanish, Teutons, Turks, Vikings. Each of these civilizations have their own advantages and disadvantages. The key of the game is that, a civilization appearing weaker than second civilization may be much stronger than the third civilization which is better than the second civilization. If you understand this, that is more than enough to go on your own. But is always good to what others strategies are.

Understanding Strategies:

Every strategy in the game has a strong point and a weak point also. It is experience what really matters when it comes to what strategy to use for the others strategies. But after all experience cannot be bought.

Basic Variables in the Game:

The first and important point you need to observe about the game is that, there are many different decisions to be taken like whether to create a military unit at this time or to go for another villager? Should you build a building with the existing for the age change or you create one? Should you change the age or go for some more villagers and military units? These are the variables to decide on,

• Whats your Civilization
• Whats your opponent's Civilization
  
• Number of units to use for a task
  
• Changing age at the right number of resources and population not by time.
• Selection of military unit
• Number of military units
• Which units to create and which not to
  

Basic Strategy of the Game:

1. Never let the stock piles overflow than required before reaching Feudal and Castle age. This means that you are using those villagers on unwanted task and that is a wastage of that many number of units in your population.
2. You need to know the number of resources you need by the time you reach other civilization.
3. You should see that all the gold and stone mines are exploited once you reached Castle age.
4. For extinguishing the resources very fast you need to have more number of villagers. The fastest way of creating more number of villagers is by building more Town Centers. The major difference comes here. The faster you build more Town Centers the faster you develop.
   
5. The fastest way of building an army is by building more number of military buildings.
   
6. The exact composition of the army, meaning the number of units of each kind, is a very important variable. For example, 50 Palladins can be taken down by 50 Pikemen. But if you have 25 Palladins and 25 Champions, the case would be far different.
   
7. Using Guard Towers is skillful task. The place where you build a gaurd Tower and the units surrounding it should be thought of.
8. Use your unique technologies and make sure that they are well used in the game.
9. Use appropriate number of Ranged Units and Non-Ranged units.

What makes the difference:

The strategies can be improved in a large view by watching the recorded games of experts online. The recorded games can be played by just placing the files in savegame directory in Age of Empires installation folder. Later in the game you can go to saved and recorded games in the single player game tab and then select the game.

You can see a good number of strategies of the game when the pros are playing. Certain Civilization start the battles from the feudal age itself. This is to make sure that the enemy will be took down before he reaches castle age itself or the imperial age. Because some of the civilizations are strong in Imperial age and the other are faster from the beginning itself. If you let the other guy advance ages completely, your civilization may not beat him at all in the Imperial age. Chinese is one civilization which you need to expert in which you should not let the enemy advance the ages.

There should be any restrictions like no dark age attacks or any things of that sort which makes the team with civilizations like chinese and aztecs suffer more than what others do.

Try exploring the map as fast as possible. Keep some pressure on the opponent. Keep on getting the resources from as many sources as possible.

Defensive and Offensive Civilizations:

This classification will help you decide whether to keep your focus on developing and advancing to the next ages or to keep on going for battles with the enemy.

Formations:

Formations make a lot of difference with the army consisting of ranged units and non-ranged units. It is better to go for the formation which will save the archers for longer time.

Bonus Attacks:

Bonus attack is a special attack bonus given to some units against some other units which are sometimes more powerful than the attacking unit.

• Pikeman has bonus attack vs Cavalry and War Elephant.
• Swordsmen have attack bonus vs Buildings.
• Knights have bonus attack vs Archers.
• Skirmisher have bonus attack vs Archers.
• Samurai has attack bonus vs all Unique units.
• Cataphract has attack bonus vs Infantry.

Like this the attack bonuses have to be kept in mind while making an army. Both your units and the enemy units have to be considered. Selection of the best unit is a key.

Use hot keys:

You may not consider this a big variable but is much bigger. Using hot keys makes a lot of difference in the game. You can think about the game for longer time than struggling around to find a Mill to fill with farms, or to create villagers, or to go to the buildings.

• Tapping H, C,C,C,C does not take a second to do, and hence is better than going to Town Center, clicking on it, then going to villager icon and clicking on it for four times.
• Use hot keys to build buildings like B,E for House, B,F for farm, etc...
• Do group your army. You can group your units using Crtl+(1-9). You can have many groups like this. So that you may not waste time to group the units which are to be sent for rescue or to attack. Never keep on tapping attack key continuously on the enemy army while your army is in selection as your units all try to attack that guy only.
  

Some more:

The speed of the unit is also a key variable, even though it seems normal. Don't cluster your non-ranged units as they take time to spread around the enemy units. And in the case of ranged units clustering them may help as the enemy units does not get the contact with all the units at once. The effective area exposed for the attack decreases. But the more important point is to keep in mind the siege unit attacks. If you cluster the units. All those units may be killed with a single attack from a siege unit like Onager.

Putting apart everything, all you need is experience.

Age of Empires Zycat Attilla The Mayans AI Files for Computer Players

What is Zycat, The Mayans, Attilla

The AI folder in Age of Empires is the thing that controls the Artificial Intelligence of the computer players in single player games. This will change the way computer plays the game. The computer gameplay by default is very passive and not at all advisable to play for better improvement in the game. This is because the computer wont play very aggressively but it plays collectively.

If you want to play a challenging game with the computer then you must install these AI files in your AOE installation so that the computer plays according to this AI instead of the default AI. The Mayans, Zycat and Atilla these are three different parts.

How to install:

For installation of these AI you need to put the *.per and *.ai files in the AI folder of the Age of Empires installtion folder.

Where to download:

You can get the files from heavengames.com. You extract the files in the package and put the respective files and folders in the AI folder.

Only in the Single Player:

These AI can be used only in the case of the single player games and it is not possible give this Ai for computer players for multiplayer games.

What does Zycat do

Supports taunt like 100 food, wood, gold, stone. Plays based on the civilization and its strengths. Economical usage of resources. The age changes are also done very fast.

AOE Scenarios CBF, Mini CB and Rambit CB

There are many scenarios which are played online in many communities, but the most played scenarios are only some like Rambit CB, Mini CB and CBF.

Rambit CB:
What are we Given?
In this scenarios you will be given 4 kings a king at the super hero store, three castles, many towers in the middle of the map, a house guard looks like william wallace/champion a house a wonder and unlimited resources. All you need to do is to protect the wonder present in between two of your castles and destroy the other players' wonders. You can only create your unique units based on the civilization you get.

**Why are kings useful?
You can buy powers using your kings. Its like they are the money. You send them to some store which you like to have, they dissapear and that power or unit will be given to you.

Additional Kings
For every 50 kills you will get a king and for every 2 razings you will get a king.

**What are Razings?
Razings are the number of building destructions. And also please note that a Gate will be consodered a razing but not a wall.

Aiming towards success:
You can use the kings to buy more powerful units and powers, but you need to be wise while selecting the unit to buy. Wait and buy a better unit or go on buying cheaper units.

**What are respawning units?
Respawning means they spawn at the spawn point after they are killed. Its like they take birth again if they are killed. But they are created at the base and not where they are killed.

The Towers:
You will get the towers in the middle of the map. So protect them as far as you can. they will help your archers garisson and fire arrows. Try to destroy your enemies' towers first, so that you can have the control over the Middle Hill.

The Middle Hill:
This place, the middle hill will allow you to gain hitpoints and attack strength to the units who ever go there. It also hepls to power up the heros faster.

The Herald:
The Herald is considered to be most powerful and when you get the herald first it means that you are going to win.

The House Gaurd:
The house gaurd will go on strengthening untill you save the house in front of your gate. If you lose your house, the house gaurd stops powering up. So this also means that you should destroy the enemy house as early as possible.

Mini CB:
This is scenario in which you will be given two castles and unlimited resources. Two respawning palladins and a hero are given. The hero goes on powering up with time. You need to destroy the enemy castle buildings. You will get kings to buy units and powers if the scenario is Mini CB Store Version.

CBF:
You are given 7 Castles and you need to destroy the other players' 7 castles. Unlimited resources. And Villagers at 500 and 600 kills with 1500 hit points. No kings to buy any powers. You can build Seige Buildings, Barracks, Archery Ranges, Stables and Towers but no Castles.

This is it for now. For more see the complete scenarios post in this blog. The download links are also given in this blog.