5 Beginner Tips for Combat! | Age of Empires 3: Definitive Edition

Here with the second guide video for all things combat and military related! I hope you find these beginner/intermediate tips helpful when you're out on the ranked ladder! Please let me know your thoughts in the comments below!

Intro: 00:00
Tip 1 - Basic Counters: 00:24
Tip 2 - Attack Move: 01:36
Tip 3 - Unit Formations/Modes: 02:51
Tip 4 - Build Military Buildings closer: 04:32
Tip 5 - Sacrifice snared units when retreating: 05:51
Extra tip! - Keep Artillery Focused: 08:14

Enjoy!
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[seasonal_flu]

lol, I remember when I was a kid, I used to train like hundreds of soldiers and just select them as a whole and have them attack the enemies.

[aztecgoldmontizuma]

Extra tip, settlers melee damage is way higher than their ranged. You can easily kill a lone hussar by mobbing your settlers walking towards him so most of them are in melee range and telling them to attack. I have had to do the same thing against artillery with mixed results. They can also more easily kill enemy settlers like that pesky one in the video building the wall.

[CptTexas]

On formations, the Defensive is great for moving around since they dont change between column to row and vice versa. It's like Napoleonic squares. I actually use the stagger mode with 40 and up because the firing line is wider and more compact so you have less units trying to walk around the sides to get shots and slightly harder to flank if against melee (useless in urban environments and sieges) . Literal Napoleonic Infantry tactics of square to move to firing positions I love it.

[TotalWarChronicles]

oh my god i have not seen you face for a while! im so glad i get to grace your holiness again!

[patrickbraz]

your channel is exacly what I was looking for. Very nice video, keep rocking bro!

[StudiosSports]

Thank you. I used to be very good at AoE 3 the original... finally got in to DE and I keep getting demolished.

[TombstoneThe]

i remember years ago when i was playing OG Asian Dynasties on Steam, i was playing Japanese vs. an Aztec player when he made a unit i had never seen before. I was so confused how these funny guys with slings were killing my Ashis so handily... until i clicked the enemy unit and noticed it had massive ranged resists. Something in my brain clicked... i had seen something before...

The "Melee" formation. Previously i had never seen the point. Why would I stop my musketeers from using their guns? Even vs. cavalry, they could never catch them anyways, so the melee attack would only be useful defensively. Until my next fight, that is.

It's the last big noob game push. We throw our clods of enemies at each other... but this time i swap to Melee formation. Suddenly those slingers went from "impossible to beat" to "getting shredded like paper"! That's the moment AoE3 clicked and found a place in my heart. Formations are more than how your units stand around, it can completely change certain units' function and matchups.

[endijsurtans]

Hi man, i played aoe2 and aom as a kid but i played it lika a city builder😂, now i am trying to get good at the game i have 50h on aoe3 i can beat hard bot but not hardest is that good or bad for 50h ?

[driamalor]

Hey widgie, how do you select separate group of military? I did see often in your vids when you move the bowman and infantry separat. i dont get it how to select these different kind of groups without the mouse??
Thx for your vids man, i realy learned a lot of them!!

[kkasfa]

This is actually quite helpful!
Also, i only have the normal version because i don't have the equipment.

Any tips on how to improve against harder AI?
For some reason it's hard for me to find multiplayer.

[domenicobarigelli]

Hi! How do you attack move? Any hotkey ?

[anandb]

Is there a way to set the default military unit posture to Defense. To make it retain positions after attacks. I cant find that option in AOE3DE.

[andreasjonsson]

What is the best civ in your opinion??

[raefgaied]

Which game should i play : age of empires 4 or age of empires 3 defenitive édition, pls help me ???

[nuruddinshah]

nice tip but what is the hotkeys.
If you want to make tips don't forget the hotkeys

[nishantbhide]

Is there a way to select the same category of unit together ?

[melihkabaagac]

it seems like everything is "really really"

[marnixmaximus]

Yoo how can you set to seeing units through trees?!

[녹성-np]

How do you move entire army at once in non definitive edition?

[christoesterhuyse]

Nobody:
Me: Hey, why dont I play age of empires 3 in 2021