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Age of
Empires ~ Strategies
~Establishing Your Base~
By
Kleitus
The key to getting a good start is being efficient
with your units and production. Whenever a villager is done being build,
instantly build another. Keep your level of production up by creating
more Villagers, but at the same time, don't create too many, as you need
to save your food to upgrade to the next age. On the flip side, don't
upgrade to the next age too early and create only a couple of Villagers,
because the lack of production and resources will set you back
technologically. Balance is the difference between a good player and a
great one.
Establishing Your Base
Typically, during the first 10 minutes of a
default resources inland/highland/coastal game, there is a race to A.
Bronze Age and B. To mess your opponent's economy up enough to
slow him down.
Here is a basic, step by step way to start up your economy on any
default res game. Notice that the steps are fairly vague, and that is
because of the random maps, no one game is the same.
1. You typically start with a Town Center and three Villagers. As
soon as you enter the game, click your Town Center and create a
Villager.
2. Your first Villager should build a House.
3. Your second and third Villagers should look for the closest
berry bushes or shore fish, preferably shore fish in groups of 3 or
more. Shore fish are gathered TWICE AS FAST as berries. And 3 shore fish
are equal to 5 berry bushes. A preferable outcome is to get 3 shore fish
or more, and then to use your berries later instead of farms, which are
slow.
4. When you find your berries or fish, build your gathering
building by them (pit for fish, granary for berries)
5. Put as many villagers as you can on food, two to a shore fish
spot, one to a berry bush, but make sure you have enough houses for a
constant supply of villagers.
6. Your next Villagers up until your twelfth or so should harvest
wood until you get enough for a storage pit. Then build a pit by wood
and chop until you have enough wood to build either another pit (fish,
dumbos (babars/elephants) , deer) or granary (berries) or dock (sea
games).
7. Build your storage pit next to your forest and get more wood
for your next food source, preferably more shore fish but any food is
good.
8. Build Houses.
9. Build a Barracks before you hit tool.
10. A minimum of 17 Villagers is recommended. I personally do
20-24.
11. When food reserves reach 500, upgrade to the Tool Age.
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Villagers since July 1, 2000
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