By AOE II FAN
Staff Writer
The early game is the most pivotal point in Age of Empires II, a real-time strategy game created in 1999 by Ensemble Studios. It has gone over a couple of renditions, with the latest being Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition, which is what this guide will be primarily focused on. Fast castling, which is getting to the Castle Age as quickly as possible, is an old but tried and true strategy.
This is the basics for getting a booming economy early on.
The numbers will refer to the villager count.
First, 3 villagers build houses and then harvest sheep
- 6 sheep.
- 7 build a lumber camp
- 7, 8, and 9th villagers chop wood.
- 10 villager builds a house and lures boar.
- 11 and 12 villagers chop wood.
- 13 villager builds a mill on berries.
- 13, 14, 15 harvest berries.
- 16 lures boar.
- 17 builds house then harvest berries.
- 18, 19 berries
- 20 builds a house and then a lumber camp in another wood line (this is important)
- 21, 22, 23, 24 to wood in a new lumber camp.
- 25 builds mining camp.
- 26, 27 gold.
- Research Feudal Age.
- One of the villagers in wood builds barracks.
- Villager 28, 29 mine gold.
- One of the wood villagers builds a blacksmith and stable.
- Research Castle age.
- While going to the castle research available technologies at the lumber camp and mill.
- 2 Knights at your stable and attack!