This build order is exactly what I needed to up my game. I can finally destroy the AI consistently on closed maps consistently, whereas before I was struggling so much because it would beat my up times to the point where by the time I got to click up to imp, the AI would already be storming my gates with mass units, now they don't even put up much of a fight.
Dude how did you deal AI's archers? I tried vs hardest AI, he comes with 4-5 archers first and few minutes 20 something archers/skirms show up and I get killed :(
Great video man thanks for this. Really helped me out, I have been just throwing myself into ranked after many years of intermittently playing single player. This helped me get better acquainted with the multiplayer aspect of the game!
That’s awesome mate. Really glad it’s helped. Keep practicing and you’ll get there! When you do start on the ranked ladder, accept that you’re gonna lose a lot of games until you get to the right level. And then it will become more fun. Just gotta get those early losses out of the way
@@MorleyGames1 I thought it can be done without hot keys? Lol standard HD is stupid. I was battle ready at 40 minutes in and they already had 40+ infantry with gunpowder firearms! WTF!!! beaten AGAIN!
@Captain Danger 100 wood for a mining camp means you will not build a blacksmith/market with this build order. 200 stone for TC's and you are back to zero. You need 650 for a castle. Simply moving the 3 gold vils to stone isn't exactly what I'd call a "fast" castle. You'd be better off send a couple vils to stone in the dark age or something.
hey great video! really simple and easy to understand. If u continue to show build orders it would be nice if u would make little summarys in between like 'now u should have 9 on wood, 5 farms... etc.' it would make it a bit more followable still great vid!!
Hi, nice guide - thanks. As this vid is 3 years old do you still think this is a good build order? I ask because it's one of the 1st search results on YT and i notice that you're 13:30 into the game with no military. I find in around 75% of games the enemy would have sent 5 scouts over to your base by that point and looking at your position here I think that would have done a lot of damage. I much prefer focusing on economy but find i have to create feudal age troops so i'm not caught with my pants down. Or is the idea that you survive any rush attempt and then hit castle way earlier than your opponent, setting up counter attack?
Hi mate, my videos are purely to show the build order steps. I think i also mention in the video that this isn’t really suitable for arabia and is more of an arena strategy. Can be ok for 3v3 or 4v4 on arabia but you would need to wall. If you’re on a map like arabia in a 1v1 then scout rush or archer rush is what you want. Yes my older videos are still the best for new or low level players as they don’t push deer. Current meta (and my latest builds) is to push deer
Emma Aya thank you Emma and welcome to the channel :-) quite a few more on the channel so far and there will be a few more tutorials to come :-) what would you like to see on the channel? I’m starting to branch off in to other games as well. Are there any you’d like to see featured? What other aoe2 stuff would you like to see?
@@MorleyGames1 i'll check your aoe2 vídeos; i've recently downloaded the DE to play with my friends on 2v2, 1v1 and 1vALL, but i've never played more than campaings in the past so i'm trying to stay tuned with mechanics and strategies on early - mid Game, specialy on early. Do you have a defensive/counter rush tutorial? That would be nice becouse as far as i've search through mainly the offensive tutorials pop up, thank you for replying!
Emma Aya no problem! Hopefully these will help. I’m planning on doing a unit counters tutorial and a scout rush vs archer rush guide which tells you the pros and cons of each which will include a bit about how to defend from them. Also planning on doing a top 5 tips for beginners. In terms of build orders for defence, there aren’t any really... I guess attack is the best form of defence. It’s more a case of knowing the units that counter other units
Thanks man! Straight to the point! Hopefully this will help me be able to beat the Moderate AI. Can pretty much all the time beat standard but moderate is such a leap for me
No problem! I would recommend not using this on an open map like arabia. This is mainly for closed maps like hideout, black forest and arena. For open maps, you should start trying feudal age rushes such as the archer rush or scout rush
Hi. It’s just a bit of text i put on screen when editing the video. In my new videos, i do actually use an app that you can download that runs on top of the game so you can see the build order. It’s not an in game mod, you’d need the link from my latest build order videos in the description
@@MorleyGames1 I see. Thanks! I'll probably put them in food or stone since i main Celts. This really helped me a lot since I'm a newbie and this game is sooo vast.
I'm trying this strat on xbox against Hard AI - I had a couple of hiccups here and there but still met Castle Age at around 16:30 game time. However, when Castle Age was at about 60% I got rushed by 5 scouts and had no military to defend myself. Am I doing something wrong? I have heard the AI is more aggressive on Xbox, but I don't know that to be true necessarily.
No you’re not doing anything wrong. Fast castle is best for maps like arena where you are walled. Scout rush is best for beginners. I don’t think AI is more aggressive, it’s just built around competitive meta play to an extent so it tends to feudal age rush
I’ve gotten feudal to 10-11min consistently but flop good to castle age. Always at 24 or so when I finally get there. Hopefully this will help me get it below 20min
You should be able to find them unless your opponent has stolen them as you will only use the first 4 before you collect boar. If your opponent has stolen them, you will need a couple of extra farms made earlier
I'm very new to the game. I'm confused, it doesn't look like you are commanding the villagers. They just do what you want immediately after spawning. Is this pre-loaded or something?
Hi! Yes this is using a replay rather than live gameplay. I use hotkeys so all you would see is the camera flicking around all over the place :) this way is so people can see exactly where villagers are going to. Also, welcome to the game! Let me know if you need help with anything
16 minutes isn't much of a 'fast' castle, to be honest. You can cut that number down to 15 minutes (25 vils or even 24) and still have enough wood to drop 2 TCs on castle age, and that's just my own homebrew build. someone knowledgable could lower that number even more. If my criticism seems a bit unfair, I blame it on the state of AoE2. The playerbase has gotten so good over the years that you really cant afford mediocre builds, you need to be as sharp as possible. So I guess this is fine for AI, but for ranked, I don't think it will hack it.
Hi, this was just a walkthrough of the Cicero build and is designed for beginner players. The standard fast castle that you would do on arena would include deer pushing and can be done at 24+2 without loom :-) even on arena, a 3 TC boom is not worth doing nowadays. You certainly don’t want to be doing this on open maps like arabia, even in team games. In team games you’d maybe want to do FC knights or unique unit in the pocket position although even team game meta has changed now.
@@MorleyGames1 Thanks for the reply. I didn't mean to get too critical, not all builds have to be 100% efficient, given most players don't even play ranked. Guides like these are still worth it for the majority who play only SP or co op.
@@windblownleaf6450 no worries mate, you’re absolutely correct in your comment that This can be done quicker, it’s just that this is aimed at beginner players who can’t push deer. To be honest, there’s not many maps that you’d want to do this build order on anymore it’s quite out dated. Maybe amazon tunnel or Black Forest but then you have to factor in sending a villager to wall up the choke points.
Haha yeah it’s a build to use on closed maps like arena, hideout and black forest or in open maps in team games where your allies can help or draw the enemy attention away from you
@@MorleyGames1 there is a simulation within the game of aoe2 that you can do. clicking castle at 12 minutes or sooner earns gold. clicking castle at 14 minutes or later earns silver clicking castle at 16 minutes or later is bronze
Could you please not ramble and actually get to the point!! How about actually telling us what you are doing instead of talking about the benefits of watching this video.
Lol. Don’t watch if you don’t like it. I literally explain step by step everything in the video. You can also watch this quick version th-cam.com/video/2OnHElM0DWM/w-d-xo.html
@@drviagrin3798 step by step and information about the point of the strategy. It’s a beginner’s guide…. as i said, if you don’t like my delivery style, find another guide
I didn’t, this was a replay of a game i played previously to demonstrate. I prefer to make guides from replays so that the screen isn’t flicking around everywhere from when i use hot keys
Check out the youtube channel membership options to get your own PDF build order guides - more than 50 to choose from!
This build order is exactly what I needed to up my game. I can finally destroy the AI consistently on closed maps consistently, whereas before I was struggling so much because it would beat my up times to the point where by the time I got to click up to imp, the AI would already be storming my gates with mass units, now they don't even put up much of a fight.
Awesome!! Glad you have found it to be useful!
What difficulty do you play, if you dont mind?
Hard and with random people
Dude how did you deal AI's archers? I tried vs hardest AI, he comes with 4-5 archers first and few minutes 20 something archers/skirms show up and I get killed :(
@@sagartale1I know I’m late but if you haven’t figured it out I think mangonels do the job tearing apart those ranged mobs
I lost four games this afternoon against moderate AI in a 2v2.
I tried this and won without breaking a sweat. Thanks! Works for HD just as well.
Congrats glad it helped
Great video man thanks for this. Really helped me out, I have been just throwing myself into ranked after many years of intermittently playing single player. This helped me get better acquainted with the multiplayer aspect of the game!
Excellent! Glad it helped. I would recommend the archer rush and scout rush build orders would be next to learn so that you can do early rushes :-)
@@MorleyGames1 oh I will look into those for sure!
great tutorial mate! the best Ive seen on the topic so far
Thank you mate! And thanks for watching
Really helped me out. I’m still not ready to go online yet but am improving daily
That’s awesome mate. Really glad it’s helped. Keep practicing and you’ll get there! When you do start on the ranked ladder, accept that you’re gonna lose a lot of games until you get to the right level. And then it will become more fun. Just gotta get those early losses out of the way
How is it going for you now mate?
bro is there is any way i can play this game online ? i have it but its not for online
@@handsome-devilofficial8879 if it is the old CD version you need to download a client called voobly
Last time I looked I reached castle age at an abysmal 30 minutes in. I think even bringing it down to 18 minutes would be a massive improvement
Just takes practice with hotkeys and getting used to listening for the villager creation sound
@@MorleyGames1 I thought it can be done without hot keys? Lol standard HD is stupid. I was battle ready at 40 minutes in and they already had 40+ infantry with gunpowder firearms! WTF!!! beaten AGAIN!
I literally did a poor-mans version of this last night on Arabia! Got rushed by scouts and lost later on, guess you are right
Haha yeah not one for arabia I’m afraid.
Quick tip, after reaching 200 gold move your 3 vills to stone and make a fast castle
nice! :) thanks!
Unless that leaves you with less wood than you need for a market/blacksmith. Plus you need stone for both TC's.
@Captain Danger 100 wood for a mining camp means you will not build a blacksmith/market with this build order. 200 stone for TC's and you are back to zero. You need 650 for a castle. Simply moving the 3 gold vils to stone isn't exactly what I'd call a "fast" castle. You'd be better off send a couple vils to stone in the dark age or something.
hey great video! really simple and easy to understand. If u continue to show build orders it would be nice if u would make little summarys in between like 'now u should have 9 on wood, 5 farms... etc.' it would make it a bit more followable still great vid!!
Thanks man. I’m remaking them all using a new build order overlay tool that had that info on :-)
Thanks for watching guys! Do let me know if you have any feedback or requests!
Nice video Morley really useful thanks!
Ty buddy
Just bought thew game a couple of days ago and looking into tutorials... This one's definetly one of the best ones out there! Thanks mate
No problem mate, glad you found them useful. Welcome to aoe2! Let me know if you need help
Hi, nice guide - thanks. As this vid is 3 years old do you still think this is a good build order? I ask because it's one of the 1st search results on YT and i notice that you're 13:30 into the game with no military. I find in around 75% of games the enemy would have sent 5 scouts over to your base by that point and looking at your position here I think that would have done a lot of damage. I much prefer focusing on economy but find i have to create feudal age troops so i'm not caught with my pants down.
Or is the idea that you survive any rush attempt and then hit castle way earlier than your opponent, setting up counter attack?
Hi mate, my videos are purely to show the build order steps. I think i also mention in the video that this isn’t really suitable for arabia and is more of an arena strategy. Can be ok for 3v3 or 4v4 on arabia but you would need to wall.
If you’re on a map like arabia in a 1v1 then scout rush or archer rush is what you want.
Yes my older videos are still the best for new or low level players as they don’t push deer. Current meta (and my latest builds) is to push deer
Great tutorial, please keep on uploading
Emma Aya thank you Emma and welcome to the channel :-) quite a few more on the channel so far and there will be a few more tutorials to come :-) what would you like to see on the channel? I’m starting to branch off in to other games as well. Are there any you’d like to see featured? What other aoe2 stuff would you like to see?
@@MorleyGames1 i'll check your aoe2 vídeos; i've recently downloaded the DE to play with my friends on 2v2, 1v1 and 1vALL, but i've never played more than campaings in the past so i'm trying to stay tuned with mechanics and strategies on early - mid Game, specialy on early. Do you have a defensive/counter rush tutorial? That would be nice becouse as far as i've search through mainly the offensive tutorials pop up, thank you for replying!
Emma Aya no problem! Hopefully these will help. I’m planning on doing a unit counters tutorial and a scout rush vs archer rush guide which tells you the pros and cons of each which will include a bit about how to defend from them. Also planning on doing a top 5 tips for beginners. In terms of build orders for defence, there aren’t any really... I guess attack is the best form of defence. It’s more a case of knowing the units that counter other units
@@MorleyGames1 yes please! that would be great, these kind of guides are so useful, i'll be tuned on your content from now on, thank you!
thank you for the video, mate
Thank you for watching
Great video! Very easy to follow!
Ty mate
Might be a bit late, but thank you for the tutorial. I really needed this, after getting crushed in a mp game, lol.
Haha no problem! No not late, the channel is still very much alive!
Thanks man! Straight to the point! Hopefully this will help me be able to beat the Moderate AI. Can pretty much all the time beat standard but moderate is such a leap for me
No problem! I would recommend not using this on an open map like arabia. This is mainly for closed maps like hideout, black forest and arena. For open maps, you should start trying feudal age rushes such as the archer rush or scout rush
Here here!
Another good video. Thanks!
Thank you! I’m enjoying making them
Thanks man Ur video helped me alot
Glad it helped mate. Thanks for watching and hope you find the other videos helpful too. :-)
Thanks so much for this!!
No problem! Hope it helps
I just started AOE last month and I've fallen in love with the game. You and T90 are awesome content creators.
How do you manage your sheep? Do you manually send one to the TC when needed (no boar around etc?)
Yeah I just manually send a new one there when I know one is running out
would be nice to have some info on which civ's affect this a well.
It’s just s build for every civ
Really great with the summary on the right
Glad it helped. When I was learning build orders years ago I always felt it would have been best to have it on the screen
Really good tutorial for begginers, though i would like to see you pushing deers
Yeah was aimed at beginners who aren’t quite confident in pushing deer. I just released a 13 minute FC build for malians that includes deer pushing
@@MorleyGames1 Great! I just feel like beginners don’t know about deer because Aoe2 dosen’t highlight it in their tutorials
@@MorleyGames1 pudding in deer or creating a Mill near them is really good for extra food
For sure
This is 2 years old and still great
Yeah the build hasn’t really changed in 2 years so haven’t re-made it apart from my quick version
Do you have one for Navy
Water map's
I do have one yes :-)
how did you make that yellow sheet with the build order ingame is this a mod ?
Hi. It’s just a bit of text i put on screen when editing the video. In my new videos, i do actually use an app that you can download that runs on top of the game so you can see the build order. It’s not an in game mod, you’d need the link from my latest build order videos in the description
Thank you for this. One question though. Where do you put the berry villagers after it runs out? Wood?
Hey! Yes, that’s right, they went to wood although they probably could have gone to farms. Could even go to stone if you were considering a castle.
@@MorleyGames1 I see. Thanks! I'll probably put them in food or stone since i main Celts. This really helped me a lot since I'm a newbie and this game is sooo vast.
Glad it’s helped. You’re right, there’s just so many different strategies and ways of doing things
I'm trying this strat on xbox against Hard AI - I had a couple of hiccups here and there but still met Castle Age at around 16:30 game time. However, when Castle Age was at about 60% I got rushed by 5 scouts and had no military to defend myself. Am I doing something wrong? I have heard the AI is more aggressive on Xbox, but I don't know that to be true necessarily.
No you’re not doing anything wrong. Fast castle is best for maps like arena where you are walled. Scout rush is best for beginners. I don’t think AI is more aggressive, it’s just built around competitive meta play to an extent so it tends to feudal age rush
Thanks!
No problem!
With the power of this vid I went from sucking to being a fair bit better with eco. Thank you
That’s awesome! I’ve very recently re-made this video in to a 4 minute quick guide
How are you getting the villagers to go from Que to a task? I cant figure it out
From the town centre straight to a resource? When you have your town center selected, right click on the resource to set a gather point
How can i tweak this idea to not be so vulnerable in open maps? Started playing yesterday and having a blast learnin every civ
You can’t really, unless you build walls
I’ve gotten feudal to 10-11min consistently but flop good to castle age. Always at 24 or so when I finally get there. Hopefully this will help me get it below 20min
Let me know if this helps
how many hours does it take to get decent?
Depends on what you mean decent. If you keep playing eventually you will get matched with people around your ELO so you will be DECENT all the time :)
What happens to your population if you use houses as walls and they get attacked and destroyed ?
i have watched this video 20 times and still struggling lol.
What’s causing you the issues?
@@MorleyGames1 muscle memory 😂
hi where does the rest of the 100 villagers go?
It depends on what army you are making but generally 40-50 on both wood and farms and 20-30 on gold, 10 on stone.
What if you don’t find enough sheep?
You should be able to find them unless your opponent has stolen them as you will only use the first 4 before you collect boar. If your opponent has stolen them, you will need a couple of extra farms made earlier
I think one of my downfalls is once I have 5 farms going I start to queue up and spam reseed which uses up a ton of my wood.
Just use the auto reseed button at the mill if you are playing on definitive edition. No need to queue farms :-)
why don't you put the house in the build order?
This was one of my very first videos. I tend to add in when to place houses now
I'm very new to the game. I'm confused, it doesn't look like you are commanding the villagers. They just do what you want immediately after spawning. Is this pre-loaded or something?
Hi! Yes this is using a replay rather than live gameplay. I use hotkeys so all you would see is the camera flicking around all over the place :) this way is so people can see exactly where villagers are going to. Also, welcome to the game! Let me know if you need help with anything
Damn I have like 40 villagers still no resources staked your in the castle with %25 of the work I put in
Just takes practice:)
16 minutes isn't much of a 'fast' castle, to be honest. You can cut that number down to 15 minutes (25 vils or even 24) and still have enough wood to drop 2 TCs on castle age, and that's just my own homebrew build. someone knowledgable could lower that number even more. If my criticism seems a bit unfair, I blame it on the state of AoE2. The playerbase has gotten so good over the years that you really cant afford mediocre builds, you need to be as sharp as possible. So I guess this is fine for AI, but for ranked, I don't think it will hack it.
Hi, this was just a walkthrough of the Cicero build and is designed for beginner players. The standard fast castle that you would do on arena would include deer pushing and can be done at 24+2 without loom :-) even on arena, a 3 TC boom is not worth doing nowadays. You certainly don’t want to be doing this on open maps like arabia, even in team games. In team games you’d maybe want to do FC knights or unique unit in the pocket position although even team game meta has changed now.
@@MorleyGames1 Thanks for the reply. I didn't mean to get too critical, not all builds have to be 100% efficient, given most players don't even play ranked. Guides like these are still worth it for the majority who play only SP or co op.
@@windblownleaf6450 no worries mate, you’re absolutely correct in your comment that This can be done quicker, it’s just that this is aimed at beginner players who can’t push deer. To be honest, there’s not many maps that you’d want to do this build order on anymore it’s quite out dated. Maybe amazon tunnel or Black Forest but then you have to factor in sending a villager to wall up the choke points.
Please redo this video on Xbox using a controller. It would be much helpful
I don’t have an xbox. You can still do this on xbox. It’s just a order of where to send villagers
Summary:
4 on berries
7 on sheep and boar
2 on farms
8 on wodd
3 on gold
Right?
You got attacked, I guess you lost? Lol gg anyways haha
Haha yeah it’s a build to use on closed maps like arena, hideout and black forest or in open maps in team games where your allies can help or draw the enemy attention away from you
@@MorleyGames1 okok thanks. Im new to aoe 2 (after like 15 years of not playing) so im new to all of this
Welcome back to aoe2 :)
Does anyone here know how to play AOE 1? I'm a master of this game. haha. challenge the world
@@Mastersofwarvn i have some aoe1 builds
@@MorleyGames1 i care if you know how to play it or not haha
@@Mastersofwarvn yeah, just click buttons and hope for the best. That’s how i play aoe2 😂
you earned silver you nearly got bronze man. you missed gold by 1 minute 30 secs
Lol what?
@@MorleyGames1 there is a simulation within the game of aoe2 that you can do. clicking castle at 12 minutes or sooner earns gold. clicking castle at 14 minutes or later earns silver clicking castle at 16 minutes or later is bronze
Ah the art of war. Yeah this is a different build and has more villagers. This is the one from the build order mod
Could you please not ramble and actually get to the point!! How about actually telling us what you are doing instead of talking about the benefits of watching this video.
Lol. Don’t watch if you don’t like it. I literally explain step by step everything in the video.
You can also watch this quick version
th-cam.com/video/2OnHElM0DWM/w-d-xo.html
@@MorleyGames1 no you don't just explain step by step you mention unnecessary things and ramble.
@@drviagrin3798 step by step and information about the point of the strategy. It’s a beginner’s guide…. as i said, if you don’t like my delivery style, find another guide
@@MorleyGames1 yeah bro, stop rambling, i paid good money to watch your video /s
how did you get your villager automatically on the second boar?
I didn’t, this was a replay of a game i played previously to demonstrate. I prefer to make guides from replays so that the screen isn’t flicking around everywhere from when i use hot keys