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Early outposts shielding your villagers can later be upgraded to guard towers. As you advance through the game, you can build magnificent walls from stone which are much stronger and easier to defend. Try to make use of nearby natural barriers like forests and mountains. Wall upīuilding a simple wooden wall early on will help to keep your burgeoning town safe from raids.

By default ‘,’ and ‘.’ cycle through idle military and economic units, which make them immensely useful. This is handy for sorting your units into groups which are best for responding to specific threats, or for gathering them all together into one monster battalion. You can create control groups by holding ‘Ctrl’ and pressing a number, and then select them by clicking that number. ‘H’ puts your town centre in the middle of the screen, while ‘F1’ shows all military buildings. Hotkeys and the keys on the left-hand side of your keyboard are really helpful for saving time. Support your resource gathering with economic drop-off buildings like the mill, lumber camp and mine. Build a couple houses so you don’t bump against the population cap. One villager on gold should be sufficient for meeting the 200 gold requirement for aging up, while gathering wood will let you construct buildings.

Food also lets you build villagers, which you should always be pumping out in order to expand your economy.

A stockpile of 400 food is needed for upgrading to the Feudal age, and hunting provides food quickest (besides fishing). Harvest timeĪs soon a you start a skirmish, your priority is to order your resource-collecting villagers to start harvesting food from the sheep in front of you. Here are a miscellany of tips covering early build orders, basic hotkeys and tips on counters to keep in mind before you charge into Age of Empires IV’s skirmishes and multiplayer. Yet Age of Empires IV’s tutorial mission will only take you so far. The real-time strategy of Age of Empires IV encourages smart thinking and quick reactions as you marshal your forces to dominate your opponents.