Happy New Year folks! A few months in the making, I was finally able to finish this video and share these tips with you folks - be sure to share it with your friends! Thank you for the support in the past two years, and more awesome content coming in 2023. Take care and stay healthy everyone! Cheers.

You say speed doesn't matter but the intermediate AI say different

I know that you are currently taking a break from making content for AOE4, but I just wanted to let you know that this videos, and many other ones about this game, have been so much more helpful than any video from other content creators. Thank you for all you did!

extra tip: Establish a proper frontline. One mistake that I've seen even pro player make every now and then, at least in FFA games, is having their entire army production behind their main base walls, but the army itself, is currently fighting an opponent across the map. Your reinforcements will spend ages to get to the front, and being worth the resources you spent on them. By the time they DO get there, it may be too late for them to make a difference anyway. Get some villagers to the front, and build a military camp! Not, like. a singular barracks, archery range and a stable. Nah, get as many as you can, while still being able to actually use them once they're built.

The tip about high APM being superficial was spot on. I used to play against high diamond ranked Protoss players in SC2 who barely scratched 100apm while I was reaching 200+ and they were absolutely crushing me.

This is actually a decent intro to aoe4, gives me an idea of what game mechanics are important in it relative to aoe2. Solid video! Was checking your channel since I still await the day you find the free time and desire to host AoNCup4 and was watching old vods for nostalgia :)

That is a great video and with great tips. I had no idea of the control+click thing. I always double click and I hate how sometimes I miss the second clicks cuz of the hit boxes. One tip I would like to add also is to have one or more practice partners that have a similar skill level, it helps loads. Specially if your practice partner plays the civ you struggle against.

I only just figured out your tip about remembering to have fun in the game rather than just coupling my worth as a player to wins v losses. That is by far the most important tip in the list.

Playing this game series for years and still learning lots of things, thanks brothr

Love the cinematics. Great work!

Thank you for the video! Just got the game and am hopping straight into ranks.. I need to utilize a lot of these pointers! Thank you again !

Wow. Well worth the long wait! 👍❤️❤️❤️

I would love to see Top 50 Tips for Advanced Players one day 🤓

Man your videos are fantastic. Really enjoy them!

Great content here! Thanks for the tips and keep it like this, you're already my aoe4 reference channel

Magnificent video as always! really enjoyed the watch.

Great video mate!

Amazing video. Really informative and precise. Thank you!!!

ALL TIPS: 1. Strategy/decision making is worth more than action per minute (apm) or being fast at anything 2. Use hotkeys like selecting all idle villagers, etc. to do mundane stuff easier 3. play intro tutorial (if not already done) 4. don't hoard resources - keep less than a few hundred each in early game, lower than 1k in mid-late game 5. don't idle your town center - keep producing villagers 6. make tons of villagers - up to half population (100 in a 200 pop game) 7. avoid idle villagers and idle military - villagers need to be gathering resources and military can patrol or defend resources and villagers 8. be careful with boars - requires 7 or more villagers to take down 1 boar comfortably 9. prioritize food sources - order of fastest to slowest: 1) shoreline fish 2) boars 3) deer 4) sheep/farms 5) berries 10. learn build orders - like openings in chess - can get you faster to feudal age if you execute them well 11. learn to garrison units - esp. villagers - can select villagers and click seek shelter button - then return to work button 12. first town center has significantly more HP than secondaries 13. use scouts efficiently, gather sheep, see what enemies are up to, never idle scouts 14. training a second scout early game 15. refresh lumber camps by building a second one closer to forest to decrease walk times 16. straighter and longer wall sections are cheaper than shorter and multiple section ones - fewer angles saves resources 17. know when to do economic upgrades to resource buildings 18. setup economy for army composition you are targeting 19. only siege units can attack stone walls (except elephants) 20. incomplete stone walls can be destroyed by non-siege units 21. stone gates actually have directions that matter - typically point gate outward from base 22. put thought into wall designs - do not just encircle your base with walls 23. utilize outposts for vision, defend your resources, deny resources to others - upgrade throughout each age 24. use keeps defensively and offensively - defend farms - deny areas of map - less important in imperial age though 25. avoid long production queues - queue units more efficiently 26. pick up relics - extra passive gold - pick up 2-3 relics on way to castle age 27. use attack move command, do by attacking and moving the ground nearest enemy and not specific enemy or building 28. focus fire and kite with range units by attacking and running away from melee range, repeat - good in early-mid game otherwise amass fire 29. don't forget about blacksmith upgrades - prioritize upgrades for units you have now or plan on having soon 30. know your unit counters - e.g. spearmen counters horsemen, etc. 31. understand Lanchester's Law - military units, dmg outputs, outnumbering is important and not linear 32. use springalds against siege units - insane range and dmg against other siege units - must have before imperial age 33. no friendly fire in aoe4 - use weapons against enemies near allies without consequences 34. units take up different amounts of population space - e.g. siege unit is not worth 1 villager etc. 35. heal wounded military units with religious units 36. obtain map control - learn when to gain control/relinquish control 37. build multiple production buildings - not uncommon to have 5-10 buildings of the unit you are training - can train units 5x faster 38. check minimap regularly - helps react faster 39. use market to balance economy when necessary 40. population efficiency matters in late game 41. use rally points - tell units to go somewhere immediately after they are trained 42. utilize fast building trick - example: build a mill and then spam click the mill with farms to auto place them around mill 43. use shift commands more - quickly queue 5 units with holding shift and clicking queue once, or instruct villager to do 2 different things in succession, tell monk to pickup relic and go to monastery immediately, etc. 44. use ctrl+click - selects all of the same unit immediately, helps separate units 45. use control groups - select units and press number or function key to assign units to a group, now those units become a hotkey selector 46. tweak centering options - when hitting hotkeys to select units or groups you can change whether camera follows or does not 47. consider panoramic zoom level - change camera mode setting from classic to panoramic 48. read post game stats - gather insights on what to improve on 49. watch replay of game to see how opponent won against you 50. watch pro tournaments

I have played the game since launch and sat through 19 min to find what i needed, thanks for the tip

Happy new year, thank you for your great content!

Awesome and mighty guide! Thank you!

Thanks for the great tips! Happy new Year!

Your channel is so high quality, definitely underrated. Hope you grow a lot with time. 👍

Useful tips ty man

I always wish this game went farther in the future i wish there was a RTS like it with this quality.

never get tired of that sweet skyrim soundtrack

Hoarding resources is my worst habit in this game. I’m sitting on +1k resources as a fallback in case I need to go defensive.

Tip 51. You can select a unit and una Shift+a pre existing control group number and this unit will be inserted in the existing control group, works also for inserting a group into a existing group

Shift + Number adds selected units to the control grouping rather than deleting the previous grouping and creating a new one, great for adding reinforcements at the base to your micro manage groups

Great video dude.

wow this vidéo is so good , i think you must work very mutch to do it , tnks for your work ^^it s amazing

Wow I’ve been playing this game for over a year and found several tips on here. Subscribing now

I’m an old AOE player but I’m new to AoE IV, many thanks for your tips, very usefull content .

Wonderful, super helpful video! Thank you for your current, subd!

Really cool video!

Thanks for the tip. The Tip 11 as very helpful because i only garrison units by using the TC bell! Using the hotkey T on villagers make sure my economy dont get all freeze when i under attack! Thanks a lot

Good video! I don't use Shift Click on Military-building maybe i'll try! What a good therapetic voice when RTS become too stressful

Thanks for the insight. Ballistas work great against cannons but i also use light horsemen , they can travel quickly and finishes them off. Also i use them to lure enemies into a good spot for archers haha or mass catapults

Thanks a lot. Keep up the good work! greetings from Brazil.

i discovered you channel when searching about painting guides for my lansquenet armies on the board I do not regret to enter a unrelated video of a game i dont play

I didn’t know the difference between attack command and manually clicking to attack. Thank you! Nice video again

thank you very much!

Finally this Video is Live, have been waiting for this.. :) thanks AON :)

Thank you for your good content sir

Very good Man ⚔️🛡️

Idle TCs always get me. It’s hard to remember that it doesn’t matter how much damage you do to someone’s economy if yours isn’t growing either.

Awesome video

Great video! As for the first tip, is there a guide for when certain high level strategies counter others? If I see my enemy going to a second TC, how do I know rather to go for a second myself, rush castle or attack all in? Also, regarding tip 46, I do believe you can double tap a control group key to center on them

I’ve only played like 5 or 6 ranked games in the year that I’ve owned the game, mainly because I’ve only won 1 or 2 and I DO get that anxiety of getting outplayed or straight whooped 1v1 online lol. Hoping this gives me renewed motivation to jump back into ranked!

one thing about speed is fumbling with the controls or being distracted which is something that takes practice to overcome. as for the minimap, it would be nice if we could make it a bit bigger

Huh, I didn't know Ctrl+click selected all units of the same type. I can use that tip cos I've been fumbling around fights with double-click and it's been a bit of a struggle lmao

Awesome tips.

Just bought the game, casually played AOE, AOE 2, AOE 3 but that was eons ago. Thanks for the tips.

Thank you comrad

amazing video thanlks a lot

thx!

The Skyrim music goes hard on this haha

Lovely said 🥰

22:53 i heared stronghold crusader music in background awesome. and thx for tips

Nice use of Knights of Honor 2 and Stronghold Crusader OSTs lol

This video was really made at the perfect time as I am recently trying to get into Age of Empires, fantastic video, thank you.

I’ve beat all the civilizations on absurd with the English on every map, and I do it first by protecting my village with a ton of castles and a lot of bowmen. After that I build 25 stables outside the enemy camp and queue 200+ of them and keep attacking in waves. On absurd I have to block off in walled sections using the trebuchets to clear the path in front of me.

I agree with what you last about it being a game, don't stress too much about it and enjoy it. But I think it will be harder for some to do that after you just mentioned pro gamers tournament with a prize pool of 300k. This is why I steer clear of pro-player content because I get competitive and stress too much about it. Something to consider for those who are like me.

Do I hear Skyrim music in the background?? Love the guide man this should help me a lot

i am one of the slow ones, thank you for.motivating me ❤

Spirit of the law did a great lancasters law video. Id recommend that till AoN makes his own video. As for monks picking up relics? Did they change that when i wasnt looking? Last i played, i wasnt able to rally pick up relic and put in building. I could rally move next to building. But not put inaide building(while prelate doesnt yet have relic).

i know almost all of them, guess i had to practice them more since iam top 10k in solo but top 1k in teams. AoN you da best!!!

this is the best video for beginner

rts is back baby

I dont know why im here because i dont even play AoE4 lmao maybe because KZfaq knows im looking for new RTS to play. Still good video and tips! I still prefer how AoE2 stills looks and plays the better (the remastered)

I would love to know the hotkeys for the Xbox x. I switched to keyboard and mouse, but the settings only show the hotkeys and controls for the controller

how do i set up a lan match with my bro in the same network as mine?

I am a beginner and just bought age of empire IV anniversary edition but when i try to play skimmish there is no ottoman empire that i can choose do i have to unlock ottoman empire first if so how

AmazIng video.

mehr von den coolen alten Einspieler wären klasse, ansonsten top Format freu mich auf ein neues Walulis Kapitel

Amazing video.. I'm new player so I leant many new thing

40 hours in and can confirm I'm still a noob.

9:06 I need tips for eco balance for photonman please

GENIO

If you double click number 1 if that's what you set your men to, the camera will center to them, but if you click once you have to manually move your camera.

ngl I need tips 11, I played AoE2, AoE3 and age of mythology way back ago when I was just entered Junior High and I remember whenever in danger you could click the bell icon in TC and all villager will automatically seek shelter, now when I played AoE4 my villager were attacked and I want to have them seek shelter but couldn't find the bell button or equivalent of that in the TC which ended in half of my villager died while I scramble to click each villager to enter TC, Outpost or Castle manually

It wouldve been funnier if you followed up #27 with #28 - attack-click to get rid of priority units (ex. siege, high dps units)

The skyrim theme ❤️‍🩹

How do you up the player count. I hate when I play AI. It only lets me do 100

What is the song at 4:28?

The outback octagon make me a lot better in ffa

Man i really like this game, i am kinda missing more civs tho

Me, who do not play AoE4: Okay coach I got it!

some good beginner tips :) someday i'll beat easy AI heheh

hi, i'm new to this type of games i've like 50 hours on aoe4 but one big problem for me is that beeing aware that i'm a complete noob, i keep beeing playing against lvl 300+ players even in ranked. I wanna learn beeing better but also wanna have fun overhall and it's not fun at all to get shit on every single game. Does anybody know if there's a way change mm system? Or shall i just keep getting rolled untill i get better and probably leave the game before this.

I think it would be a good tip on how to properly avoid mangonel fire?

In warcraft, theres a way to have a unit immediately follow your champion once theyve spawned, is there such a thing in AOE? Like have them follow your army right away?

Tip 46. Double tap the control group number to center the camera on the group.

I would include that shift+building 8 farms around farms (or tcs) makes a lot of idle time of all those villagers, you have to manually click each of them on separate farm to make them build it all faster (might save about 10+ seconds of idle time)

Regarding tip 46: you can select "select only" in the settings and then use the focus hotkey to jump to the location of the selected group. This helped me a lot.

How much of this applies to console players? I mean obviously the commands and such won’t apply but I’m wondering if there’s a similar type of key bind or command and such that console players can use as well. A sort of substitute from the computer controls

Is that the skyrim ambiance music in the background?

what's the future soldier in the 18th rule at 09:06?

Question: in the late game is it not better to have fewer villagers and more military units taking up population space?