Hi, new player here (english is not my native language, sorry for any grammar mistakes) I found out the video to be really useful and it helped me a lot with not only my economy, but my understanding about build orders and basic concepts The only thing that got me confused was the build order in text in the description, telling me to put the "7th, 8th and 9th villager on wood, with 4 on total", I had to watch parts of the video again and again to make sense out of this, but the image that you provided in the description was easier to understand, after that I didnt have any problems I think that the build order in text brought more problems than it solved hahahahaha, maybe it was just the beggining that was confused, but I just followed the image and forgot about the build order in text But great video nevertheless! Helped me a lot with my understanding (directly and indirectly) and my play in general Keep up with the content!
@@Arbililbra Thank you for the feedback and writing such a nice thorough comment expressing your thoughts with the content I have created. I am glad in the end it was helpful and I will do my best to improve my content for the future. Thanks again!
I had a little bit of the same problem - just slightly confused about what villager we were up to at certain points, or felt like we skipped over one here or there. And you were right to talk about Population and also Villager number, but that was slightly confusing at times (e.g. villager 17 will be pop 18, sometimes confused me a little bit). But that's a really mild complaint, overall this was EXTREMELY helpful. Seriously, I watched it once, not enough to even remember the whole thing. Went and played, and I shocked myself how much of an improvement it was, it was dramatic! Compared to my normal time, I zoomed into castle and it was like "how did that even happen?, it was great - and I'm a pretty crappy player. So, thanks a lot for that. I've just watched it again, and literally taken notes. Cos I haven't got it down quite yet and keep messing up a few things. But anyway, thanks so much because it's helped me tremendously. A huge help.
@@465marko usually you say 17 vill pop 18 cause of the scout, that' because with some strategies and build orders you begin to make army in feudal or even in dark age while you keep increasing your eco, so it could be even 21 vill pop 29 (cause you make 8 scouts after going feudal for example)
@@Arbililbra yeah i think the description's numbers are off by 1. "8, 9, 10 on wood, 4 total" but that would only mean 3 on wood since 6 are on sheep and 1 is a scout, so wouldn't the 11th villager be the 4th on wood?
Thanks bro. Like others here, I played this back in 99 as a 12 year old. Iv just come back to it and been getting whipped and wondered how everyone was progressing so fast. Very useful
lmao same story for me, so I stopped playing against people. A week ago got my first win against moderate AI haha! Once I beat the hard AI I'll hop back on to ranked
@ 4:03 (how do i do the thing?) The reason for sending next 2 villagers to boar and removing 2 for farms is to eliminate villager idle time. There is atleast one second of idle time between them spawning and you sending them to farm. Whereas, they could automatically head to the boar while you take 2 right off to farms. No idle time.
Actually it's about creating 2 farms with the 2 vills that lured the boars and are low hp, as when boar and sheep ran out, you will usually send the sheep vills to a resource far away or to build and you want them to be full health while the weak ones stay safe near your first TC. If you set the rally point to any resource in the direction of where you want to build something with a new vill, you won't have idle time as well. When vills are on their way to build/gather something, they walk faster. So you can send them to a woodline 2 screens away but as soon as they reach your building destination, start building. Also garrisoning the vills in the TC and releasing them to their destination is highly recommended, for example when vills have to cross your TC to the other side, don't make them walk through. Garrison them from one side, Release with rally point to other side.
@@maranathashalom9402 I dont typically send those ones immediately to far away resources... Thats where I build new town centers. By the time the boar is gone its not time for a new TC yet. Shouldnt be sending early vills so far.
very very helpful video.. I played this in middle school and returned to it recently and was wondering how players online was going feudal and Castle so damn fast.. Thanks! subbed
Grade D But Edible... Thanks for the visual cheat-sheet. I use it when I'm not in the scenario so I can remember what to build next. I used to play when I was in middle school too but it's been a long time.
The reason for the two villagers going to boar, then the next two building farms is to save time. Villagers harvest from boar faster than any other food source, so you are saving time by using those two steps.
A house and a vill take the same time to build. If you are careful not to get housed, you can build houses with one villager only and keep 4TCs and one military building producing constantly. That frees one vil for eco and also you can make army. If you start making army quickly, make more houses, but keep one vil/house, as it is far more efficient (25sec/vil/house vs 19sec/2vil/house)
You know you got a mistake in the building order? You are sending vill 8 to build to the lumbercamp and send 8 9 and 10 to wood to get 4 vills on wood, that does not make sense. You could improve this by saying, that vills 1,2,3 and 4,5,6 go to sheep, vill 7 build the camp and 8,9,10 go to wood, too. In the Cheat sheet you chaned all following vill by +1. So the visual cheat sheet is correct, just your video description is wrong
This build order is great for maps where you are in a pocket or have walls. If it is an open map this build order will be vulnerable to early game rush build orders.
Great you have so many villagers...... but by the time you get to 25 villagers, someone will go Feudal.... and then light cavalry rush you and kill all your lumber villagers.......
@oof the truth actually you are the noob.... It seems you don't understand a thing I wrote.... The things you said are my exact point to the video presenter..... Are you really that slow or did you actually think people here don't know about creating spearmen and so on..... Come on man.... Get a reality check.... Or just buggar off already
Guide and build order are good to play with, you just need to pay attention to some details to better succeed, for example be sure to kill just one sheep at a time in order to waste no food. And usually before you lure the boar is good to build an house near it while you wait for other villagers to finish the sheep (min 3:15 for example it would have been better build the house with villager who took the boar, and then take it so you didn't waste the sheep that's in the middle of your tc, while the villager near the berries could have built a mill instead of the house). I don't want to be fussy, just here to help :)
Not bad at all, but in practise what if someone starts an early rush and pokes your vills/economy when you have no military? Or is this generally not an issue
This build order is great in team games when you are in the middle and have protection and great in 1v1 maps where you start off already walled off in a pocket.
Thanks for video. But after castle....how many villagers on wood, how many on farms...gold and stone?? Or is that then down to the individual?? Let me know thanks....
Hey man, super good video and very helpful! I got a question for you. I often play with my friend and he always plays with "high resources". Do i just keep this build order or should i do something entirely different?
You mean like build a house without clicking the house icon? There are hotkeys for all the commands for each unit that are very useful once you learn them. The hotkeys themselves are also very intuitively configured by default, but you can tweak some of them to suit your preferences.
Hi there, im very beginner on the game, but as I see, this build seems pretty the way to go , Except that what I tend to do is to build Defensively to prevent any aggressive rush from the ennemy. So, I like to scout ennemy base and see what he is doing. Is he gonna rush me or he is going for economy?. If he is going to attack me, I will build walls with 1 watch tower, 1 gateway, and/or maybe a barrack with 5-10 military and it will helps maintain untill the castle is made. And...when the castle is made, I place it to defend base since it shoots arrows with my watch tower and supporting the defensive wall I think it really depends from the game meta. In summary, scouting is very important on each game (im not doing it very AND I SHOULD!) Im just too lazy to keep alive my scouting char xD and Im very busy with my villagers since i'm a beginner :P
Problem solved! i didn t know that i can only you is in standard game! i was trying multiplayer!! so dumb from me... thank you very much for the reply!
It's actually alright. If you notice, you need the initial 4 sheep to keep villagers queuing in the first 3-4 minutes. By the time you lure your first boar, you're scout will have covered a good circumference around your base, and by the time you lure your second, you can start sending out your villagers to hunt the deer/goat near by. So you'll have a lot of time to search the extra 4 sheep. And if you invest a little bit in micro managing your scout to lure the deer, you don't even need to make the initial 8 farms till feudal because you'll get over 900 food just from the animals.
If I had to guess it’s a feature in Capture Age because he’s clearly talking over a pre recorded game. Idk though, just parroting what I’ve heard others say
This is a greedy strategy, if you get drushed you're fucked but if you hold on the enemy is going to struggle against your boom later on, when you FC into triple TC you can garrison vills and the opponent can't harass really well by that point you're set into outscaling your enemy and winning if playing properly. also make sure to wall WITH your buildings (like houses, market, blacksmith etc) you can't waste stone/wood on walls early on.
@@HappyToGame thanks man i finally figured it out. i love the visual cheat sheet, i use it every time now. do you have ones for cicero's other build orders?
The video isn't even 15 min, you'll be fine if you have to delay early aggression with walls. If they are putting resources in early game, you should be much stronger in castle age (and you'll reach castle quicker). That's kinda the point of FC
@@Mitchmckeeguitar well the time stamp in the replay on top of the screen shows 23-24 mins when the video ends so there's that. delay early aggression with walls? that's quite a good bit of resources just for that and not what i'd call "early" really
@@renizer This is a greedy strategy if you get drushed you're fucked, the enemy simply countered you. You can still comeback by walling with BUILDINGS (NOT ACTUAL WALLS) and once you build the 3 extra TC's your economy is safe from harass for some time, if you survive you pretty much insta win because opponent won't boom in time to match your production.
@@HenriqueRJchiki i usually try walling like that but if he just sends you a handful militias (drush) or maas or archers, say goodbye to your eco usually.. at that point you don't have enough building put up usually to effectively wall around your base and/or if you start building more buildings during his rush that villagers will be gone soon enough too.
There's a lot of backround noises which are distracting especially for new players which find this harder to focus/process. Plus if you're making a tutorial/how to do you should make it clean and perfect, (the wood missclick, not scouting sheep etc.) Keeping it straight to the point with as little words as possible.
This does not look rush proof haha I do it about the same, but I also create a small army to protect myself in case of a rush (Or in case I want to rush). For example knights and archers are a good combo.
Would love to get feedback on this. Is this video, visual cheat-sheet and Build Order in Text useful?
Hi, new player here (english is not my native language, sorry for any grammar mistakes)
I found out the video to be really useful and it helped me a lot with not only my economy, but my understanding about build orders and basic concepts
The only thing that got me confused was the build order in text in the description, telling me to put the "7th, 8th and 9th villager on wood, with 4 on total", I had to watch parts of the video again and again to make sense out of this, but the image that you provided in the description was easier to understand, after that I didnt have any problems
I think that the build order in text brought more problems than it solved hahahahaha, maybe it was just the beggining that was confused, but I just followed the image and forgot about the build order in text
But great video nevertheless! Helped me a lot with my understanding (directly and indirectly) and my play in general
Keep up with the content!
@@Arbililbra Thank you for the feedback and writing such a nice thorough comment expressing your thoughts with the content I have created. I am glad in the end it was helpful and I will do my best to improve my content for the future. Thanks again!
I had a little bit of the same problem - just slightly confused about what villager we were up to at certain points, or felt like we skipped over one here or there. And you were right to talk about Population and also Villager number, but that was slightly confusing at times (e.g. villager 17 will be pop 18, sometimes confused me a little bit).
But that's a really mild complaint, overall this was EXTREMELY helpful. Seriously, I watched it once, not enough to even remember the whole thing. Went and played, and I shocked myself how much of an improvement it was, it was dramatic! Compared to my normal time, I zoomed into castle and it was like "how did that even happen?, it was great - and I'm a pretty crappy player. So, thanks a lot for that.
I've just watched it again, and literally taken notes. Cos I haven't got it down quite yet and keep messing up a few things.
But anyway, thanks so much because it's helped me tremendously. A huge help.
@@465marko usually you say 17 vill pop 18 cause of the scout, that' because
with some strategies and build orders you begin to make army in feudal or even in dark age while you keep increasing your eco, so it could be even 21 vill pop 29 (cause you make 8 scouts after going feudal for example)
@@Arbililbra yeah i think the description's numbers are off by 1. "8, 9, 10 on wood, 4 total" but that would only mean 3 on wood since 6 are on sheep and 1 is a scout, so wouldn't the 11th villager be the 4th on wood?
I'm a noob. Why do you need 2 lumber camps so early? Why not just use the one lumber camp?
Thanks bro. Like others here, I played this back in 99 as a 12 year old. Iv just come back to it and been getting whipped and wondered how everyone was progressing so fast. Very useful
lmao same story for me, so I stopped playing against people. A week ago got my first win against moderate AI haha! Once I beat the hard AI I'll hop back on to ranked
visual cheat sheet no longer works btw
Didn't know there was a mod for this, holy shit.
the wheel barrow is quite early, you can produce 3 villagers in that time. Always go wheel barrow research once your villager count is hits around 45.
Plus, wood can be quite scarce at that time.
@ 4:03 (how do i do the thing?) The reason for sending next 2 villagers to boar and removing 2 for farms is to eliminate villager idle time. There is atleast one second of idle time between them spawning and you sending them to farm. Whereas, they could automatically head to the boar while you take 2 right off to farms. No idle time.
Oh it did it^
Actually it's about creating 2 farms with the 2 vills that lured the boars and are low hp, as when boar and sheep ran out, you will usually send the sheep vills to a resource far away or to build and you want them to be full health while the weak ones stay safe near your first TC.
If you set the rally point to any resource in the direction of where you want to build something with a new vill, you won't have idle time as well.
When vills are on their way to build/gather something, they walk faster. So you can send them to a woodline 2 screens away but as soon as they reach your building destination, start building.
Also garrisoning the vills in the TC and releasing them to their destination is highly recommended, for example when vills have to cross your TC to the other side, don't make them walk through. Garrison them from one side, Release with rally point to other side.
@@maranathashalom9402 I dont typically send those ones immediately to far away resources... Thats where I build new town centers. By the time the boar is gone its not time for a new TC yet. Shouldnt be sending early vills so far.
very very helpful video.. I played this in middle school and returned to it recently and was wondering how players online was going feudal and Castle so damn fast.. Thanks! subbed
Thanks for the sub, comment and love for the video. Glad it helped!
Played this game as a kid, and now I'm trying to give it a whirl. Been practicing fast castle a bit, and managed to get a time on 16:20
Grade D But Edible... Thanks for the visual cheat-sheet. I use it when I'm not in the scenario so I can remember what to build next. I used to play when I was in middle school too but it's been a long time.
Good stuff! Glad the visual cheat sheet is helping out. Working on a couple more for End of April and May.
The reason for the two villagers going to boar, then the next two building farms is to save time. Villagers harvest from boar faster than any other food source, so you are saving time by using those two steps.
Appreciate the build order!
great tutorial but ur brightness is like... the sun itself
A house and a vill take the same time to build. If you are careful not to get housed, you can build houses with one villager only and keep 4TCs and one military building producing constantly. That frees one vil for eco and also you can make army. If you start making army quickly, make more houses, but keep one vil/house, as it is far more efficient (25sec/vil/house vs 19sec/2vil/house)
You know you got a mistake in the building order? You are sending vill 8 to build to the lumbercamp and send 8 9 and 10 to wood to get 4 vills on wood, that does not make sense. You could improve this by saying, that vills 1,2,3 and 4,5,6 go to sheep, vill 7 build the camp and 8,9,10 go to wood, too. In the Cheat sheet you chaned all following vill by +1. So the visual cheat sheet is correct, just your video description is wrong
The game says that you should have 8 farms, but you have 9, is there something wrong?
Nice! Thanks for that cheat sheet
Very useful
good video man im a beginner and learnt heaps from this! thanks!
Excellent Tutorial thanks
This helped me a lot, but i do get rushed every single time
This build order is great for maps where you are in a pocket or have walls. If it is an open map this build order will be vulnerable to early game rush build orders.
@@HappyToGame thank for the advice! This video helped me tremendously as a starter guide.
@@bryanguerrero6213 Really happy it helped you out. I do have another build order that is safer early game. It is the dark age rush build order.
Great you have so many villagers...... but by the time you get to 25 villagers, someone will go Feudal.... and then light cavalry rush you and kill all your lumber villagers.......
@oof the truth yes.... I know all of that.... But the guy in the video doesn't seem to realize it since he just focused on economy
@oof the truth actually you are the noob.... It seems you don't understand a thing I wrote.... The things you said are my exact point to the video presenter..... Are you really that slow or did you actually think people here don't know about creating spearmen and so on..... Come on man.... Get a reality check.... Or just buggar off already
Thanks man
Great video
Keep it this way
you have one sheep vanishing under your TC
Guide and build order are good to play with, you just need to pay attention to some details to better succeed, for example be sure to kill just one sheep at a time in order to waste no food. And usually before you lure the boar is good to build an house near it while you wait for other villagers to finish the sheep (min 3:15 for example it would have been better build the house with villager who took the boar, and then take it so you didn't waste the sheep that's in the middle of your tc, while the villager near the berries could have built a mill instead of the house). I don't want to be fussy, just here to help :)
Thanks for the feedback. I'll continue to keep working at it to get better.
Not bad at all, but in practise what if someone starts an early rush and pokes your vills/economy when you have no military? Or is this generally not an issue
This build order is great in team games when you are in the middle and have protection and great in 1v1 maps where you start off already walled off in a pocket.
basically better fo arena!
Thanks for video.
But after castle....how many villagers on wood, how many on farms...gold and stone?? Or is that then down to the individual?? Let me know thanks....
I had about 7 direct victories after watch the video.
8/15 doesn't mean the 9th villager is coming up, but the 8th - there's only 7 villagers and 1 scout at 1:50.
What's the reason for 2 wood camps? Why not send them all to the first one?
So your villagers don't end up headbutting each other, slowing production. Don't have to rebuild lumbercamp as quick either due to travel distance.
5:53 jebaited me
Thanks soo much man cant wait to try it!!
Thank you so much, all very helpful
im also wondering how the grit appear. I have it in the options but it wont work
I think you have to get the mod for it
will this strategy work against a feudal age rush
?
The starting sheep is a big issue for me normally, but when I play this custom scenario, they are always hiding. I really struggle to get all 8 sheep.
Wasted one whole sheep after luring the first boar.
Cual es el mode para que los edificios hagan ese efecto con la tecnologia y para que cambie las cosas de color con el mouse
Hey man, super good video and very helpful! I got a question for you. I often play with my friend and he always plays with "high resources". Do i just keep this build order or should i do something entirely different?
Shouldn’t you place the second lumbercamp next to the other one (not too close) so you can easier defend it with a tower or pikemen?
How can you build without moving your mouse on it ?
You mean like build a house without clicking the house icon? There are hotkeys for all the commands for each unit that are very useful once you learn them. The hotkeys themselves are also very intuitively configured by default, but you can tweak some of them to suit your preferences.
Nice tutorial but what about the deer?
Because deer has lots of variables they are usually left out on build orders especially build orders aimed towards beginners.
@@HappyToGame ah ok. That also explains why the art of war campaigns didn't mention anything about them.
Which build orders would deer be included?
Hi there, im very beginner on the game, but as I see, this build seems pretty the way to go , Except that what I tend to do is to build Defensively to prevent any aggressive rush from the ennemy.
So, I like to scout ennemy base and see what he is doing. Is he gonna rush me or he is going for economy?. If he is going to attack me, I will build walls with 1 watch tower, 1 gateway, and/or maybe a barrack with 5-10 military and it will helps maintain untill the castle is made.
And...when the castle is made, I place it to defend base since it shoots arrows with my watch tower and supporting the defensive wall
I think it really depends from the game meta. In summary, scouting is very important on each game (im not doing it very AND I SHOULD!) Im just too lazy to keep alive my scouting char xD and Im very busy with my villagers since i'm a beginner :P
Hei! i took the mode and it s not working for me... no text, no sounds... What can i do? please help
That really sucks. I will try it later tonight and see if I am running into the same issue.
Problem solved! i didn t know that i can only you is in standard game! i was trying multiplayer!! so dumb from me... thank you very much for the reply!
Yes it's for practice in single player mode. They won't let you get the advantage like that in multiplayer.
How to see time next the age?
mermaidboy89 f11
how do you use this guide mod? I downloaded enabled it in the mods but i dont see the guide or hear the voice when i play
Every time I do this, I only ever find my four starting sheep, it's like I only ever get 4 sheep.
Oh man that sucks. It does take practice to know where the other sheeps are, this is where your scouting skills come into play.
It's actually alright. If you notice, you need the initial 4 sheep to keep villagers queuing in the first 3-4 minutes. By the time you lure your first boar, you're scout will have covered a good circumference around your base, and by the time you lure your second, you can start sending out your villagers to hunt the deer/goat near by. So you'll have a lot of time to search the extra 4 sheep. And if you invest a little bit in micro managing your scout to lure the deer, you don't even need to make the initial 8 farms till feudal because you'll get over 900 food just from the animals.
what mod are you using that highlights things (for example, trees) when you hover over them
If I had to guess it’s a feature in Capture Age because he’s clearly talking over a pre recorded game. Idk though, just parroting what I’ve heard others say
Can I find this mod helper in steam workshop ?
Really well said thank you very much.
Nice Video, thanks for the cheat sheet. Could you make one for the Castle Rush into Knights?
When time permits I will try.
This is outdated... Faster castle is now on 25 vills going to feudal. And only 2 on gold. Also you should make farms earlier
@oof the truth true
But what about an enemy attaching you? You are not doing any defense
get walls
This is a greedy strategy, if you get drushed you're fucked but if you hold on the enemy is going to struggle against your boom later on, when you FC into triple TC you can garrison vills and the opponent can't harass really well by that point you're set into outscaling your enemy and winning if playing properly. also make sure to wall WITH your buildings (like houses, market, blacksmith etc) you can't waste stone/wood on walls early on.
where do i find the mod ?
where do you find this mod for DE? can only find the ones for the OG aoe2
nvm, found it in the game. how do i actually launch the scenario though?
I have a video on how to learn build orders. I'd recommend watching that and it'll show you how to launch the scenarios. Hope that helps.
@@HappyToGame thanks man i finally figured it out. i love the visual cheat sheet, i use it every time now. do you have ones for cicero's other build orders?
Nice! thank you
Lol I get decimated by enemy cavalry by 6-7 minute mark 🤣🤣🤣
I would only do fast castle in closed maps like Arena
1:34 my heart stoped
Good tutorial how to play sim city
Where can you get the mods
It's in the main menu. I have a video on my channel that goes through how to install mods.
Happy To Game I figure it out thank you
where is the cheat sheet?
There is a link in the description.
what a waste of sheep meat ....
I felt like screaming seeing that tbh, and was reading comments to see if i'm the only one. Thank you for this comment, now i know i'm not mad :)
damn youtube removing the dislike counter, i actually thought for a moment that this tutorial is actually good.
how do you get the game to tell you what to do? via voice
That's a mod in AoE2 DE that allows you to practice build orders. Interactive build orders.
23 minutes in: "that's when you start building your barracks" - yeah, if you're still alive LOL
The video isn't even 15 min, you'll be fine if you have to delay early aggression with walls. If they are putting resources in early game, you should be much stronger in castle age (and you'll reach castle quicker). That's kinda the point of FC
@@Mitchmckeeguitar well the time stamp in the replay on top of the screen shows 23-24 mins when the video ends so there's that. delay early aggression with walls? that's quite a good bit of resources just for that and not what i'd call "early" really
@@lolRNG not sure, still new to booming. was that mentioned in the vid as a prerequisite?
@@renizer This is a greedy strategy if you get drushed you're fucked, the enemy simply countered you. You can still comeback by walling with BUILDINGS (NOT ACTUAL WALLS) and once you build the 3 extra TC's your economy is safe from harass for some time, if you survive you pretty much insta win because opponent won't boom in time to match your production.
@@HenriqueRJchiki i usually try walling like that but if he just sends you a handful militias (drush) or maas or archers, say goodbye to your eco usually.. at that point you don't have enough building put up usually to effectively wall around your base and/or if you start building more buildings during his rush that villagers will be gone soon enough too.
hmm - i'd love a modification of this for a regicide gameplay (you start with like 15 villagers) because that's what we always play.
There's a lot of backround noises which are distracting especially for new players which find this harder to focus/process. Plus if you're making a tutorial/how to do you should make it clean and perfect, (the wood missclick, not scouting sheep etc.) Keeping it straight to the point with as little words as possible.
This does not look rush proof haha
I do it about the same, but I also create a small army to protect myself in case of a rush (Or in case I want to rush). For example knights and archers are a good combo.
You got a D grade though but the vid was helpful.
Two lumber camp, why? Huge waste of wood
I'm late, but it's for two reasons, the vils not Clash with each other, and not waste trees so fast
Yesss I will destroy my friend lol
This is silly, you don't have any army until min 19? Ridiculous
I think you should follow and actually learn the tutorial a bit more before making your own tutorial.
i dont know why but ye this tutorial teach u how xD
Please dont show guides when you cant even shft click the sheep.. gross