AGE OF EMPIRES 4 | 5 Essential Tips for Rus (Faction Beginner's Guide)

In this Age of Empires 4 Beginner's Guide video, we're going to take a look at the what makes the Rus special, and how their unique faction mechanics can be used to your advantage. From a variety of ways to generate gold to a few extra benefits when hunting, the Rus can ask for a very unique approach - those that maximize it will surely reap rewards. So join me as we take a look at the Rus' unique faction mechanics in Age of Empires 4 for today's set of tips and tricks.

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00:00 - Intro
00:33 - Hunting Cabins - Maximizing Cabin Use
03:38 - Bounties & Carcasses - Maximizing Your Hunts
07:24 - Wood Efficiency - Better Palisades, Better Gathering, Better Wood
11:30 - Warrior Monks - A Versatile Religious Unit
13:54 - Long-Game Champions - Hold Fast, Sally Forth
17:15 - Final Thoughts & Outro

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[Starl]

One of the most OP things about Rus are ... springalds. High Armory has a unique upgade to their range. This allows players with good micro to outrange and kill enemy siege units before they can do anything. Many top players already noted this practically uncounterable late-game composition: mass Streltsy, a couple of warrior monks with relics to chase off melee with convert and springalds to deal with enemy siege units, which in theory should have been a counter to that.

[CHEESENSPIEL]

regarding overlapping hunting cabins, there's no reduction to the gold per minute gained unless the influence of a cabin overlaps with another cabin itself, not the cabin's influence - then it's reduced to 0. So long as you're not placing cabins too close to each other you're actually incentivised to overlap them to make the most of your forests

[occamsblunderbuss]

The way you structure and organize your guides is the reason you are my "go-to". So concise, so logical, keep up the stellar work brother.

[nurkatnite]

completely new to age of empires and didn't even know about the gold generation with the hunting cabin. that alone helps me so much, thank you!!

[ArkanN]

Whaaat, how am I supposed to know that cutting trees doesn't reduce gold production. Thank you for the video!

[guillaumebeck]

Oh my god dude thanks a lot for all these explanations about the rus! I didn't find any interesting ones in Youtube yet! Also you explain everything well! thank you 😃

[HistoryBlast]

Awesome! Looking forward to watching all of these. I'm enjoying the Royal Knights of the French right now, so definitely looking forward to that guide

[zioalecpov]

Imagine your opponents who just start searching for deers and find'em all death. Creepy message to your opponent and good for your economy

[JMac]

Geat guide! Just bought AoE4 and would love to see more of these!

[Airseas]

Great guide! I'm just picking up the Rus so will put these tips into action

[gapster]

This is a mint guide! 👍🏻
I’m starting out, only had a few games with the English, tried the Rus and really enjoyed it, as a faction they seem pretty good …but I don’t know much.

[bushidoblues]

ty very much i learned space bar que selection, the warrior monk utilization, and wooden fortress defense with palisades. Crazy Ive already been doing pretty well without knowing!! TYVM!

[JuanxDlol]

Also, as a RUS player, i get up to 4-6 scouts on dark age for hunting and harass, 6 scouts can kill a villager that aint near the TC, you can deny resource collecting and even destroy some buildings, one match, i saw a english player trying to make a dock + lumbercamp oppening on a river map, he didnt seens intrested in sheeps after killing starting ones, so i got my scouts and started attacking his dock, forcing him taking villagers out of resources to counter, giving me more time to prepare for the longbow man rush, i got so much time more, that when i got to age 2 he just left.

[bryanheffner]

Your content is so great. Thank you, and keep it up! :)

[prestonfries]

great video my guy exactly what i wanted

[RK-pckt]

Great video! I would love to see the Germans (Holy Roman Empire) as next Faction! =)

[denom]

Don't know if its mentioned later in the video but while shift-clicking the deer with your scout is viable while ECO'ing its certainly not optimal. You will want to use the cancel animation to quick fire the deer with your scouts or risk an enemy player taking more deer than you whether they are playing Rus also or just trying to deny.

[benb]

I love these AoE IV videos, very informative. Should be official videos for the game.

Watching these makes me wish I could afford the game ☹

[kosak]

Does it make difference in damage, if you put archer or villiger inside tower?

[martingebel]

Nice vid my Guy thank you for the Guide 💪