0AD Field Manual

VOL.00

Army Counter Guide

Unit roles, hard counters, and emergency response patterns.

Reference VOL.01

Ptolemies Playbook

The worked example: economy, army shape, timing, and win path.

Faction dossier VOL.02

Attack Strategies

Pressure patterns, timings, flanks, and decision rules.

Offense VOL.03

Defense Strategies

Hold logic, tower play, walls, garrisons, and counter-punches.

Defense VOL.04

Scouting

Information gathering, map checks, tells, and scout habits.

Recon VOL.05

Economy + Upgrades

Resource flow, phase timing, upgrades, and scaling discipline.

Macro VOL.06

Map Reading

Terrain, expansion logic, pressure routes, and state checks.

Position VOL.07

Base Layout + Buildings

Placement doctrine, building priority, and defensive geometry.

Infrastructure VOL.08

Romans Playbook

Forward Military Camps, Marian Reforms, combined arms. Built for the human meta vs Medium AI.

Civ VOL.09

Germans Playbook

Nomadic boom, mobile civic centres, maceman building-killers. The winning human-meta civ.

Civ

CASE.01

Ptolemies vs Medium Romans · Alpine Valley

Minute-by-minute wave 1 + wave 2 survival, with the reusable 6-question framework for any matchup.

Applied CASE.02

Germans vs Medium Athenians · The Boom-and-Punish

First Medium win. Hyper-boom, forward tower bait, then a decisive over-extension punish. The right civ unlocked it.

Win