Age of Empires IV: Tips to Help Get Your Army Up to Speed

There are many strategies you can master. Age of Empires IV, from build queues to troop management to Age advancement, that it can take several hours until you’ve found a path to success that speaks to you and your preferred style of play (not to mention finding a favorite civilization to play with).

In our experience, we’ve found that at the core of every strategy in Age of Empires IVHere are some tips to help you master everything, Skirmish mode in particular. Age of Empires IVoffers.

Check out these excellent tutorials in-game after reading this article. Age of Empires IVTo help you learn other strategies and tactics as you prepare to fight, you can access the Art of War Missions. Enjoy!

Rally Point Resources

Early in the game you’ll be concentrating heavily on resource gathering, like Wood, Food, Stone, and Gold. Rally Points can be used to help Villagers quickly get started collecting the resources. On These resources can be quickly used.

Select your Town Center, then click Right-Click on the desired resource location. This could be a forest, animal/Farms, or gold vein. All Villagers created during that time will be able to automatically gather the resource. As needed, update them to another location.

How to age up

You can pair this one with the “Rally Point Resources” tip above, but a crucial component of playing Age of Empires IV It is important to know when to Age Up. Each Age comes with new units and buildings that allow you more strategic options – such as trading Gold and resources with your allies or neutral trading posts via the Market (unlocked in the Feudal Age) or producing Siege Engines and units that will strike fear into the hearts of your enemies from the Siege Workshop (unlocked in the Castle Age).

To Age Up, you’ll need to fulfill a set of resource requirements paired with the construction of Landmark, or in the case of the Abbasid Dynasty, a wing of the House of Wisdom. It’s vitally important to know what’s required to advance your empire, and you can check at any time from the Tech Tree or by selecting a Villager and the “Age icon” from the unit card. HintFood and Gold: Food and Gold are essential for most civilizations to get out of the Dark Age.

Scout!

Information is knowledge. Knowledge is power. Everything is possible with power. Power is everything. Not Never underestimate the power and potential of your Scout. Especially in Skirmish and multiplayer modes where you’re given one for free (free!). It’s incredibly important to utilize this unit in the early phase of the game to get a general lay of the land to find resource locations and determine strategic bottlenecks. Most importantly, while you’ve been building your empire, your opponent’s done the same – utilize your Scout to get a sense of where your opponent is located on the map and what enemy production structures (and armies!) they’re amassing.

Scouts aren’t very powerful and should rarely (if ever) be used to battle enemies in the early phase of the game, but they are fantastic at a herding sheep (an excellent source of Food) to bring back to your Village to help with early Food gathering. And it’s not just the sheep that are nearby. If you can manage to sneak into enemy territory and pluck those herds from your opponent, it’s just one less advantage you’re allowing them in terms of resource gathering in the early going.  

Counters have the power to change

Once you’ve spent some time scouting, you may have a better understanding of how your opponent intends to attack you. Whenever possible, aim to create military production buildings that produce units that reliably counter your enemy’s. When you start building out siege and special units and embarking on Naval warfare, you’ll find a range of creative strategies to employ, but when it comes to land units, there are some basic tenets of the rock/paper/scissors mechanic to keep in mind:

• Spearman counters Archer
• Spearman counters Cavalry
• Archer counters Cavalry

There’s loads to learn from there, but this helps visualize the principle Age IV These are the battles that last.

Queue Multiple Buildings

Understanding your enemies is one thing, but assembling an army to make your adversary quake in their boots is another. Once you’ve built out your economy, you might consider queuing multiple military buildings at once. This will ensure you’re producing units faster, as you build out your forces. We’ve found it’s helpful to grab a single Villager who can plot out multiple Archery Range, Barracks, or Stable placements so you can get started queuing up unit production more rapidly.

Double Left-Click the same type of building once it is built (e.g. Barracks, Archery Range, etc.) Select each type and then start producing units. You can also update the Rally Points of both buildings while they are being selected to reinforce or move to staging grounds as you prepare to fight.  

Group Assignments

Many Function keys, such as F1, F2, and so forth are defaulted to be used. Your keyboard allows you to navigate quickly to the building locations within your Village. But something we’ve found to be useful is to assign these buildings to a Group so that your camera doesn’t ZoomReturn to your Village. This is especially helpful as you’re multitasking many elements, usually mid-battle, and it’s time to start replenishing your army in real-time.

Click Left-Click the unit-producing structures (or double Left-Click to select them all), then hit Ctrl+1-9 and assign it a group based on its number row. Cycling through these grouped structures, you’ll find that you can manage their building queues at any time in your navigation bar without the camera centering back to your Village, away from whatever you were just managing on-screen (troops, scouts, etc).

These tips will help your troops get up to speed. We hope that you found them useful. Age of Empires IVThis is. You can share your favourite techniques with Age of Empires IV players by visiting the Discord. Play! Age of Empires IVToday, Xbox Game Pass for PC and Ultimate available. You can also purchase from the Microsoft Store on Windows PC or Steam.

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