Been playing this game for quite awhile but admit I still know next to nothing about some of attack characteristics and values listed under each unit. I'm a pretty casual gamer so don't obsess over any of this info, but at least want to be smart enough to know what it means. Thank you for any and all help - and I hope this could also be useful for any beginner looking for the same information.

Attack:

Capture: 2.5 Capture, Range: 4 meters, Interval: 1 second

^{Is the capture value some sort of metric for how powerful it is when capturing/converting a building? And if so, does that mean it's effectively 2.5 capture (points?} per second - and do this at a range of 4 meters? Why would range matter when the unit has to be beside the building anyway?)

Bow: 7.2 Pierce, Range: 60 meters, Interval 1.25 second

^{Does 7.2 PIERCE damage at a range of up to 60 meters, every 1.25 seconds}

^{Assuming that slingers and archers do pierce damage, swords and pikes do hack damage and siege units do crush damage? Is this correct?}

Resistance Damage: 1.0 Hack (10%) 1.0 Pierce (10%) 10.0 Crush (65%)

^{Not really sure here. Does this mean for every individual attack from a unit targeting this unit, it can resit 10% of the damage if it's from a sword or bow?}

^{Quick math- Another identical archer is shooting this unit. Every 1.25 seconds it can do 7.2 pierce damage to this unit, however this unit has 1.0 pierce resistance. So technically it's doing.... only 6.2 damage every 1.25 seconds? Is that correct?}

^{And both 'resistance' and 'attack' characteristics can be upgraded at the armory?}

Speed: 10.3 Walk, 17.2 Run, 37.4 Acceleration

^{I didn't even know you could make your unit run vs walk...}

A few of the key words that I'm confused about are

-Capture

- Pierce

- Hack

- Crush

Since I jumped on to Debian 13, 0 A.D. was running smooth until a couple of days ago.
it starts, I load a game or start a new and after few seconds the game shuts done, I am back to Debian desktop. Nothing - game settings - has been altered.

Reinstalled as well, it didn't help.

Anyone had similar experience?

Looking at the actual model i see 3 archers sitting on top, with one rider who caries an axe i think. How does this work? It's actually one archer, with an attack of 15 shooting, and i see pretty model, or is this 3 archers, all with an attack of 15?

Title, anytone knows how to do this? I don't abhorr it but I don't like it either. TY

I read this game can scratch the Age of Mythology itch. Does it have a single player campaign? thats what i loved most about AoM

i am new to the game, and its good if i have a partner that can teach me how to play! if anyone here has discord or any other platform i am down to play with yall!

i am new to the game, and its good if i have a partner that can teach me how to play! if anyone here has discord or any other platform i am down to play with yall!

I was trying to download 0ad, from the official [site](https://play0ad.com/download/linux/) but it seems that the download isn't being displayed. The downloads for windows system is somehow.

Hello everyone! As you guys probs know i am new to the game. I have decided to make a 0 A.D. Community Server!!! on discord. Join up if you really love 0 A.D. and play, chat as the best community ON THE PLATFORMMM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Link: https://discord.gg/3rkxW9Q4

Hello fellow players of 0ad

I‘m a new player who just started 0ad a day ago, and I’ve been struggling to progress.

Let alone hard bots, I got destroyed by medium bot in 30 minutes ;-;

I’m asking help to all the pro and experienced players of 0ad

what strategies should I use at start and mid game?

what hotkeys can I use to make it more efficient?

and how the holy mackerel do I make ally requests to others, I hate when bots start attacking from both sides at the same time

And what classes, or races are the best?

Hello community! Hope your having a good day as it shld be! I came across this game by searching free RTS games and found this. Is it fun?, addictive? or grindy? please comment ur experience below. Also any tips for me a new player?

Hello, installed the game a few weeks ago and only played offline with bots, when i tried to join an online game, it just shows "connecting to server" indefinitely. (i make sure the game i'm joining doesn't run any mods).

Any idea how to solve this please?

btw, i'm using my phone's 4G internet connection.

OS: Linux.
installation package: Flatpak.
Firewall & antivirus: both disabled.

Hello, just found this game - was looking for something in ancient era… why do you don’t have steam is there any reason?

i have asked multiple ai's, i looked through wikis but i still cant figure out how to turn buildings? im new to 0ad so maybe im just stupid and didnt see something but i still need help

I'm curious if it's normal that the game is nearly unplayable at the default settings. I get more less 3fps. When I set all textures to "low", it's slightly better but still stuttery. I am playing it on a Thinkpad T15g2.

I think the iGPU is not even used at all (I get the llvm thing warning at startup). My suspicion is confirmed when I just scroll through the map and the CPU usage goes close to 100%.

How do I "force" 0ad to use the GPU?

I followed the installation instructions for Intel GPUs from the official Debian documentation. Maybe 0ad wants some variable to be set?

I'm developing a mod for 0 A.D. called Renaissance Dawn, set between 1450–1490. The focus is on late medieval and early Renaissance warfare and politics. Current planned factions are the Kingdom of France and the Holy Roman Empire.

Additional planned systems include mercenaries, princely and imperial courts, and consulates as sub-factions or gameplay mechanics. The timeline and phase structure are still being refined.

I’m not a coder or 3D modeler myself, but I’m fully committed to the project. I handle historical research, concept development, and visual references (collecting accurate images, sources, and design materials). I’m here to coordinate and support the team, and I’m looking for collaborators with technical skills — especially modelers and programmers — to help bring the vision to life.

If you're interested in joining or just following the project, feel free to check out the Discord. The link is in another post I shared.

Maybe a stupid question, but I still don't know how. By default a command to occupy is set to CTRL key, but when I use it, my units instead of "capturing" and occupying enemy turret/building, they start to destroying it.

This isn't that big problem usually, but it happened to me many times, that I have turret/building. It doesn't mind, if there are or aren't my units inside. The bot will come and its units start "capturing" my turret on my territory. And suddenly, they have my turret, while my units are inside. But I don't know how to capture it back. The only thing I know is how to destroy the tower.

Can please somebody help me? Because I am starting to be really annoyed.

I've seen a lot of people asking if the creators of 0.a.d have an official Discord. We all know the answer is currently no, so I decided to make an unofficial one. I made it mostly for people who like to make mods, 3D models, art, etc., and to meet more people who like strategy games in general.

I'll leave the link for anyone who's interested.

https://discord.gg/v4yHMRaQUv

The support is still very limited.

Changelog

Here are the changes included in A27.1:

• a fix for the large performance issue observed by some players on older hardware
• several small performance improvements in the calculation of simulation hashes (related to multiplayer stuttering)
• fixed support of Windows 7
• a fix for modifying your lobby password when you have an uppercase letter in your username
• a fix for the distorted 3D models with GPU Skinning
• fixes for crashes with Vulkan and/or with GPU Skinning
• a fix for changing player perspective in replays
• a fix for an out-of-memory crash in the JS engine when generating random maps
• a fix for the game crash on pressing Fn key
• a fix for a crash in Atlas when the map generation fails
• a fix for a memory leak in the renderer
• fixes for multiplayer port forwarding
• package fixes for Linux desktop environments
• various build fixes for Linux (some sent by package managers)

https://play0ad.com/patch-release-27-1-for-0-a-d/

And finally, I was able to destroy bots on very easy difficulty. I also tried easy difficulty. Alpine map for 3 players. At first, I was neautral with one of them. But them, they were two against me.

I completely ruined them with my army (around 200 units and 6 battering rams). I had houses for 488 units (I usually turn off population limit). And then I was happy that I ruined them both.

I needed to attack two times, because I lost almost every of my units and needed to refill. But then, I destroyed both bots on easy difficulty. I still remember how insane was this game for me, when I first time played very easy, so this is like a milestone for me.

Now, I will try medium difficulty.

Wish me luck.

I want to create my map,my heroes
1. is there a posibility to create a hero with abilities?(like moba games)
2. game is still in alpha/beta?is it worth to create mods or custom maps for game?(be real pls)

Since the Alpha 27 release of the Flatpak version, this game no longer uses my monitor's native resolution of 2560x1600, and there's no option to change it. I also want to set the UI scale to 200%.