They need to add a unique unit mechanic as well. It’s weird playing the romans without having access to the legionaires. Or the fact that everyone can train hoplites, which is a greek unit.

When I first started AOE4 after completing half of the campaign, I tried my first Skirmish game. I preceded to get absolutely destroyed for my first five or so games. It’s a challenging but rewarding learning process.

Are their 'ages' you'd rather camp and build up rather than progressing for a time?

Buenos días yo tengo un pc gaming lenovo idea pad 3, con tarjeta gráfica Nvidea geforce gtx 3060 de 4 gb y 16 gb de memoria Ram. El juego en modo medio e incluso en bajos gráficos, tiene mucho lag , es imposible jugar una sola partida, a los 10 minutos empieza a tener lag. Está el Age of empires IV con defecto desde que se creó o es mi ordenador prehistórico?? Gracias por la respuesta

I used to play AoE 1 back in the day. Finally got the new one. This helped a ton. Thanks

Sad to see you go, but glad to hear you kept your integrity Age of Noob. I’ll never forget your old edit of my Top Khan mongol stuff back in the day… you can move on and start over somewhere new if you need to.

Why the title says AoE2 when you speak about AoE1?

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The Janissaries are clearly weak as a single composition. However, in AOE4, the Ottomans become quite powerful during the Age IV, and one of the reasons is the strength of the Janissaries. During the Ottoman's Age IV, most units consisted of Sipahi + Janissaries + Great Bombard. The Janissary is not a unit made for spamming. While sipahi and MAA and others are biding their time at the front line, more than 20 Janissaries open fire from the rear and Great Bombard fire shells, crushing most civilizations' Age IV armies. People underestimate the results of the Janissaries' battles based on only fragmentary results. This is a unit similar to the Terran Siege Tank from StarCraft 1. A unit comprised only of Siege Tanks is easily destroyed by the efficient and mass-produced melee attack units of the Zerg or Protoss, but the core of the Terran army is a 'well-combined army', and having Vultures and Goliaths escorting Siege Tanks is ridiculous. The Ottoman army should also play like this. I noticed a problem while watching several games played by Ottoman users for a while. They entered the Age III with too much hope for the Handcannoneer produced in the Age III, and when the economy was not stabilized, they produced only Janissaries and were trampled by MAA and knights of other civs. Janissaries should begin production in Age 3 middle time when the economy has stabilized and the base is secure. Of course, this does not mean that the Janissary is OP. In particular, gamers like Beasty (of course I respect his skills) are propagating that the Janissaries are a OP unit(S+), but I can't agree with that. Janissary is just... A tier. yeah.

Where are the improved Icons? I want them now!

Where are the improved Icons? I want them now!

After 2 years it is still true and not adressed at all. Can pls some StarCraft and or WarCraft developers pls fix the icon problem in Age 4? Thanks!

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The castle looks like something out of Stronghold

I’m sitting here watching this because my mate told me to get it and halfway though I start to trip balls because I can faintly hear Skyrim music

This is quite interesting, because you can tell this alpha version uses an aoe1 interface and some graphics as a base, but with aoe2 functions and buildings. I wonder if the developers perhaps tested the hard mechanics first, before then overlaying with some of the easier elements like graphics, into something that looks entirely more like aoe2, and not aoe1

How is the difficulty like in this game? I tried AOE DE today and refunded it with a heavy heart because the difficulty was literally unplayable for me. On Easy and Standard they act like hardest.

Yoo this was really good!

THE ABBASIDS 🏴🇮🇶

Do I hear skyrim music?

Is this game like stronghold legends?

I just started playing aoe4 because of the steam sale and your videos are really helpful! Thank you very much for these and for standing up against predatory design

please come back and give us your take on AOM Retold graphics!

I wish there hand cannoners where instead hand siphons

A person with your talent won't be lacking opportunities. It's their loss.

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

why does AOE 4 still makes the mistake of depicting a mangonel with an onager. Real mangonels are another term for a traction trebuchet where it used the combined manpower of a team of operators to pull ropes attached to the short end of the trebuchet beam. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trebuchet#/media/File:Wheeled_trebuchet_wjzy.jpg

lol the first tip I am already out. APM most definitely do matter. Not at great guide.

I played the PS2 version back then, i hated the controllers though

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Do you have any videos on age of mythology?

so wtf did i buy aoede for?

When I click on the trade button with a trader, and then try to click on an allies market, it says "cannot use this ability on this target" Right clicking on the market doesn't work either. My trader will just walk to the market and then go idle. How do you actually make them collect gold and return home?

why Do I Hear skyrim music?

I was ur 69th subscriber

Imagine how incredibly op that would be

Btw why the heck so many black units? Not to offend anyone, yes black people were also living under Ottoman Empire but the crushing majority of the population and especially troops were formed by white people.

This is also not only about AOE4. While some more unimportant nations get 2-3 different unique units in AOE2, I never understood why Turks had just Janissary which introduced as a cannoneers. Turks have a very very important unit too. Kapıkulu cavalries (i.e. Kapıkulu Süvarileri). Even in Persians, there are elephants and that special cavalry, but for Turks, just a Janissary. And in this one, no horse archers. Turkic people historically are the pioneers and artists of horse archery. Write "Turkish archery" on google and look at some facts about history. Horse archery is one of the main tradition of the Turks, and no, they never dropped this even in the late Ottoman Empire era.

That such baffling omissions are present in a 4th instalment of a 2 decades long franchise is a good indicator as to why it is important to keep the ppl who have known their craft well for years should be the ones working on it instead.

Hello Age of Noob want to ask I used all different tuning pack mod to increase byzantine population but always stayed at 200pop

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 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

Just got into the game now and this breaks my heart, your guide to new players was what made buy the game, such a shame

Really badly designed units overall. It forces the Turks to rely on seige engines. IRL the Ottomans changed warfare, the Janissaries were used as elite shock troops and would constsntly be put in the worst situations available, i.e. a breaking center or full breach in a seige, and they would persevere against anything. These guys literally made the knight obsolete in warfare as it was a complete counter, light armor, far ranging weapon, with am emphasis on mace close to close combat they were ridiculously effective.

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

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