Press [Enter] to display the chat window and type one of following codes:
| Code: | Result: |
| cheese steak jimmy's | 1000 food |
| robin hood | 1000 gold |
| rock on | 1000 stone |
| lumberjack | 1000 wood |
| natural wonders | Control animals only |
| black death | Destroy all opponents |
| aegis | Fast building |
| marco | Full map |
| furious the monkey boy | Infantry unit that acts like a monkey but has 99 attack, 99 armor, 99 range, and 9 HP |
| resign | Instant loss |
| i r winner | Instant victory |
| torpedo<number> | Kill indicated opponent |
| polo | No shadows |
| to smithereens | Saboteur unit |
| how do you turn this on | Shelby Cobra car with twin machine guns |
| wimpywimpywimpy | Suicide |
| i love the monkey head | Tall, fast moving, useless villager |
Start the game with one of the following command line parameters:
| Code: | Result: |
| 1024 | 1024 x 768 screen resolution |
| 1280 | 1280 x 1024 screen resolution |
| 800 | 800 x 600 screen resolution |
| autompsave | Auto save game |
| NoMusic | Disable all music. |
| NoSound | Disable all sounds except during FMV sequences |
| NoTerrainSound | Disable all terrain sounds |
| Mfill | Fix display problems with some video cards |
| Msync | Fix SoundBlaster AWE freezes |
| NoStartup | No pre-game FMV sequences |
| NormalMouse | Standard mouse pointer |
Enter one of the following codes during game play:
| Code: | Result: |
| [Ctrl] + T | Alternate resource menu |
| [Ctrl] + P | Build immutable structure |
| [Ctrl] + Q | Fast construction |
| [Ctrl] + C | View ending sequence |
Press [Enter] to display the chat window and type one of following codes:
| Code: | Result: |
| pepperoni pizza | 1000 food |
| coinage | 1000 gold |
| quarry | 1000 stone |
| woodstock | 1000 wood |
| gaia | Animal control |
| reveal map | Full map |
| steroids | Instant building |
| no fog | No fog of war |
Advance to the Feudal age, build a Market, then create a Trade Cart. Use the Trade Cart to safely explore your opponent's territory. If your opponent is neutral, they will not harm the Trade Cart. Another trick is to create several Trade Carts and place them evenly across your opponent's area to see everything they are doing, without having to spend several thousand gold to research Spies/Treason.
Easy goldBuild a Monastery as soon as you reach the Castle age. Collect as many Relics as possible. For every Relic you have, you will get one gold per second. For example, if you have five Relics, you will get five gold per second.
Easy ambush winFirst, set "Diplomacy" to "Ally" with lock teams off and also the opponent set "Diplomacy" to "Ally". Then, build an army strong enough to destroy the towers and castles (if there are any), such as Onagers and Rams. Bring your army within your ally's walls and set "Diplomacy" to "Enemy". Then, attack at will.
Easy winFor easy victory over the CPU under any difficulty setting, place eight to twelve villagers into three control groups. Then, have two control groups working on gold and one working on stone until all of the stone piles and gold piles are gone. Next, build at least two of every building and upgrade everything as fast as possible. If done quick enough you should be able to either swarm your enemy or surround him with castles.
Free allyWhen you build a market, there is a chance that a rival tribe will ask you to send them a certain amount of wood, stone, gold, and food. When they do, click on "Diplomacy" or press [Alt] + D and click "Ally" on the name of that tribe. They will become an ally free of charge. However, when you do this you will no longer be able to align yourself with any other tribes. This is helpful if there are four tribes in the game.
