The Complete Beginner Guide to Age of Empires 4

The complete beginner guide to help you get started with Age of Empires 4!

0:33 Picking a civilization
1:20 The start
2:40 Scouting for sheep, and food priorities
4:15 Advancing to Feudal age
5:40 Types of units
6:45 Market
7:15 Defenses
7:45 Rams
8:30 Building a strong economy
9:26 Hotkeys (F1 and F2)
9:57 What's unlocked in Castle Age?
11:02 Siege workshop and its units
11:50 What's unlocked in Imperial Age?
12:50 Victory conditions
13:28 Water units

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[naveendennis]

“When choosing landmarks usually there’s a trade off… but with English it’s a reading comprehension task “ 😂😂

[vladimiralexanderlagos]

That's a really stellar intro to the game. I've seen about a dozen videos of people discussing and playing the game and couldn't make much of it, and then SoTL comes in and nails it in just under 15 minutes. That's a pro creator move right there...

[jahrazzjahrazz]

3:50 Villagers actually have an "auto-garrison" key on G next to the manual garrison, so you dont even need to click the TC then, just the hotkey and they take cover on their own

[Scottzone]

Loved AOE4 throughout the beta. Glad to see you're making content on the game! :)

[asseenontv]

I'm loving the AoE4 content! I look forward to hopefully seeing civilization specific videos!

[ishizzle]

Thank you for uploading. I was a hardcore starcraft 2 player a while back, and this will help me in the transition.

[guinnessdiva]

This is so advanced for a beginner like me...I needed a what botton to press to make things move...might be back to subscribe one day

[schmid.]

I'm excited for when they add the editor, because then you can really make those math videos we love.

[_Chazzy_]

Honestly thank you, I wasn’t sure about how easy it would be to get into, but this was very well put together and easy to understand.

[roguethrax]

I enjoy the AOE4 content! Keep it coming :) I'll pick it up eventually, the campaigns look super cool.

[mr_ekshun]

A great follow-up tip, after you've played around a bit with the info in this video, is to then learn a single build and practice it. That's probably the most common, and crucial, bit of advice I see given to AoE2 players who are either new or wanting to improve their skill. Don't be super picky about which build as, once you've gotten good at it, it'll be much easier to pick up further builds to add to your repertoire.

[ErikSchierboom]

Excellent video! Can't wait for all the new videos you'll be releasing. You were my favorite AoE 2 content creator.

[leptoon]

Wow a beginners guide for a game I've been playing for nearly two decades. It's come full circle.

[fahimzahir]

The videos are pumping out like hotcakes!

[ryanrodgers]

Another note about "setting buildings on fire:" unless they changed something from the open stress test, buildings on fire will actually continuously take damage until they're repaired from their burning state. You can set a building on fire by getting it's hp low enough then walk away and let mother nature take care of it for you.

It's slow as all get out, but if you, or your opponent, take some damage on your buildings and fail to repair it from burning, you could be in some trouble later as your buildings seem to collapse from nothing.

[CptRice]

Thank you for working on AoE4 bro. Your voice is really peaceful to listen to. That’s the reason why I am watching your Aoe2 video, although, I haven’t played it for the past 10 years.

[mcintyreshayne]

This was an excellent introductory overview and reminder for this old AoE lover. Concise and informative. Thanks.

[Beef]

Biggest aesthetic gripe for me is the icons, I do miss/prefer the artistic AoE2 icons over the simplistic ones of age4.

[MytzerL]

This is, by far, the best video I've watched for begginers in AoE IV. And I've watched plenty now since I bought the game a couple of days before

[weszly]

Thank you for all the content, your work has been helping me cruise through my work days.
I’ve been learning aoe2 at an awesome rate these last few weeks and can’t wait to dig into aoe4.

Cheers.