Once in castle, you just spam a ton of knights. A reasonable time to make it to castle is around 17 minutes. The most viable strategies in castle age generally rely on the knight. Scout/Men at arms rushing is more like a xbow/pike rush because its pretty all in, but an archer flush is more like a semi ff. Some people, like the goths can do a men-at-arms rush. If you can kill alot of your opponents eco you can win here. You make archers or scouts in the fuedal age and raid your opponent's resources. It's pretty common, pretty much the equivalent of a cav heavy semi-ff in aoe3 (more than 5 huss). (Note: you will be significantly far behind if this fails) You can keep the opponent away from their food/wood and win the game by getting far ahead if the all-in does not fail. This is a 3/4 militia + starting scout rush designed to catch the opponent off guard if they do not scout. Or, if you wish for it to have no functionality at all when you double-click a villager, change the option to ‘Disabled’.Īll you have to do now is click ‘Confirm’ and your new settings will be good to go.Note: Arabia is one of the most popular/balanced maps. On the right hand side of the Game options, navigate to the ‘Villager Double-Click’ option and change it from ‘Select All Villagers’ to ‘Select Only Idle Villagers’. Microsoft / Age of Empires 2Īfter clicking on ‘Game’ there is only one final thing to do. The tab we’re going to need is the 4th tab along on the right hand side, called ‘Game’. Microsoft / Age of Empires 2Īfter clicking ‘Options’ you will be given a screen of settings that has multiple tabs at the top. We can change this in the settings quite easily, although it’s a little hidden away and easy to miss if you don’t know where to find it.įirst, click the settings cog on your Age of Empires 2 home screen, then click Options.
The awful thing about this is that there is no villager undo feature.
Unfortunately I can remember numerous occasions where I accidentally selected all of my villagers and moved them away from where they should be and onto a different task, or saw a streamer do the same. In fact, I can’t think of a single time whilst playing the game or whilst watching professionals play in top games that anyone has ever needed to select every single one of their economy units to move them elsewhere at the same time (a tiny exception here would be if using the Burgundians’ Flemish Revolution technology, though this would technically be to move military and not regular Villagers). Unlike hotkeys or control groups, the ability to select all of your villagers by double-clicking is almost always terrible. Presumably this has been added to the game to make things easier or more efficient…we just can’t quite work out how. However, there is one extremely frustrating feature in the game that you almost need to un-learn: the default, automatically-enabled feature that means you select all of your villagers when you double-click on one of them. This is an undeniable hack to increasing your ranked game ELO by a significant margin. If you want to get good at Age of Empires 2 then one of the most important things to master is the game’s hotkeys and efficiency-boosting features like control groups.