Age of empires ii hd manual

You will find the one-sentence description of the civ and the bonus list on the tech tree From Feudal Age onward, gold will be crucial for most civilizations. Make sure to send villagers to mine it. And build a Mining camp there, of course! Depending on the map and your civlization, you may want to for a squad of military units and go harass your enemies. Just do not try to win the game yet. Leave the buildings alone, just kill some villagers and single troops.

In the Feudal Age, farming becomes the best source of food for most civilizations. Build a Mill and farms around it. It will speed up the gathering process. Also, queue some auto-reseeds when you have some spare wood. Again, depending on the map, you may want to fortify yourself a bit.

Gather some stone remember the mining camp and build some walls. Stone will also come in handy in the following age. Castle Age is most probably the most important one. Why not the next, Imperial, you will ask? Well, Imperial Age mostly upgrades the things you can get in Castle Age, so if you want to win the game, get ready now!

Again, a set of tips: There are two most crucial buildings of the Castle Age, quite much independantly of your play style and the map - The Castle and The Monastery. You will want to build them quick. The Castle is where you will recruit your special units and research some important technologies. Special units vary greatly, some are really powerful e. Teutonic Knights , some are quite much useless e. Turkish Jannisaries , but you want to have the castle.

You do. It will shower arrows on any enemies in range, so consider building it where it will be most useful. Monastery produces Monks, who are healers, converters meaning they can convert enemy units to your site and relic carriers. Depending on your civilization, you will use some of their skills or all of them, but generally you want to have Monks. While scouting in the Dark Age, you most probably came across a weird white-gold objects called Relics.

Now that you have monks, you should gather as many of these as possible and place them in a Monastery. This way, they will generate gold and collecting them all is one of the ways of winning the game! To pick up a relic, simply click it while controlling your monk. If the Relic is far from your base, consider giving the monk some protection.

There are many important buildings and technologies that become available in the Castle Age. Which ones you want to build depends on your civilization and playstyle again. Be sure to check out the University and Siege Workshop. As stated before, Castle Age is generally most crucial.

Build an army of units matching your civilization, fotrify yourself and decide how you you want to win the game more information on this in the Winning the Game section. There is not so much to be told about the Imperial Age.

As I said before, it is mainly a upgrade for the Castle Age, but still, there are some things worth pointing out: When you reach the Imperial Age, your Castle will get three important options - Trebuchets, which are the most powerful siege unit in game, Elite Unique Unit technology and a Unique nation technology.

Again, Unique units are not always that important, so for example Turks will wait before buing the upgrade, as there will be better causes to spend the resources.

For the gunpowder civilizations, Imperial Age offers a powerful unit called bombard, built in the Siege Workshop. You get of these and no structure will resist! Many units are upgraded in the Imperial age, e. Remember these upgrades and buy the ones that benefit you the most!

When you are done with polishing your empire, it is time to consider Winning the Game!!! Basically, there are three ways to win a AoE game. There are also additional modes like Regicide or point game, but this guide covers the standard game victory. So, to win, you can: 1. Conquer your enemies! This is quite stright-forward. You have to kill every last unit and destroy every last structure any of your opponents own.

The last man standing wins. Here are some tips: Walls and Gates do not count towards the structures you have to destroy. Build a Wonder! In the Imperial Age, you will gain access to an important structure called Wonder. The cost in high wood, stone, gold , but if you manage to build it and defend it for a certain amount of time, you won.

Make sure you have enough forces to defend it! Collect all the Relics! There are special objects on the map called Relics mencioned in Castle Age section. If you manage to collect all of them and then defend them for a set period of time, you won!

Again, your opponents will be notified when you get all the relics, so make sure you can defend them! If you manage to do one of these things - you are the Winner!

Do some celebrating and come back for another match! Colintel 25 Nov, pm. I only recently got this game, and I think it would've taken me a while to figure out all this stuff. Thank you! Ravor 25 Jun, pm. Pinnaculum 9 Jun, pm. Thanks a lot rated 5 stars and favorited. Very helpful. Sapakosa 5 Nov, pm. An obnoxious sax solo 14 Oct, pm. Cavalry for a teuton player is a relatively good option, because they do get paladins.

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