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Hi,

I am writing this quick post to help my colleagues get more knowledge about AOE, cz we just changed our evening game session from MOHAA to AOE just for the change of taste. Also AOE is real time strategy game.

So here are the quick tips:-

1) First thing you need is to select your civilization, That is important step, and it takes time to understand that which civilization works out best against particular civilizations. few examples: If your enemy has GOTHS, and you select any civilization which has their stronger units as archers then it will not work against Goths as GOTHs special units has strong Armor against archers. other example can be that if you make up an army of paladins, huge army of paladins and your enemy has the civilization “Saracens” They will massacre your strong paladins within seconds with their special unit “Mamulakes”..

Each civlization’s stronger unit is produced from the castle. e.g. “Mongols” castle will produce their special unit a horse archer named as “Mangudai”.

The effectiveness of units against each other is realistic as it were during the earlier ages. e.g. If you got paladins and enemy makes pikemens which are relatively very cheap but very effective against mounted units, then eventually your loss will be more as compared to your enemy, keeping resources in mind.

2 ) Starting from the dark age, first thing you need to concentrate is to create more and more villagers, more villagers you build, more resources you will be able to gather and so utlimately more and powerful army you will be able to put up. So keep on making houses and keep on making villagers.

3 ) You need to keep checking the idle villages, put them at work. Each second is important.

4 ) Find out relics and capture them asap.

5 ) Keep doing important researches

6 ) Never make an army of a single unit.. Select your 3 or more fighting units.. Make them in numbers and do all relevant researches for that particular units.

7 ) You need to make lot of army buildings, stables, barracks, archery range, so incase your army is defeated, you can quickly re-make the backup.

8 ) During large battles, micro management is very essential, like a general during the real battles. If you make an army of 100 units and your enemy who got 10 units can finish off your army, if you put your army over your enemy without managing, your enemy’s siege weapons can destroy your army, unless you micro-manage your units to kill that siege weapons. You have to select a group of your army and keep killing high priority enemy units. don’t select all of your army for that particular task otherwise they all will be focusing one unit and will take losses from the surrounding enemy units. keep few of them fighting with their own AI.

9 ) If you are playing in a team then do make a market at your earliest and start trading, and yes don’t make one or two trade carts…. Make them in numbers!!… For 200 population limits, atleast make 15 trade carts.. They will give you enof gold that you don’t need to go and find goldmines.

10 ) Keep assisting your partner(s). cz If they die, your chances of survival will be very less. Infact continuously coordinate with each other. Plan the attacks together. Its all about team work.

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