AoE4 - Beginner tips and secret stats

A collection of tips, tricks, and hidden bonuses in Age of Empires IV.

0:30 General tips
4:25 Civilization-specific tips

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[darkmantlestudios]

AoE4: installed
Spirit of the law : watched
My first match: lost

[JJBeauregard]

I think I speak not only for myself when i say that SotL is a crazy blessing for the Age-community! Just imagine what it would be without him and his helpful videos.

[AntonyMBenedict]

AoE 4 seems like a good mix of AoE2 (units), AoE3 (landmarks for up, docks healing, water), AoM (choices when going up, unique civs), with unit abilities, wall archers, infantry building rams and siege towers etc. It's a really good mix. It just is not so polished right now. But definitely has a long future.

[EveloGrave]

I've been playing a ton as the Mongols and a few things I have noticed. I wouldn't call them tips or tricks more like bugs.
1 - The Lancer is stated to be available in Feudal age for the Mongols but aren't available until Castle Age, hopefully this gets fixed because it seems incredibly important.
2 - Some of the techs don't distinguish between the base upgrade and the stone cost upgrade. Not many but a few
3- Lancers made at the Khaganate Palace do not upgrade automatically when Elite Lancers is researched.

Actual tips.
Mongols gain bonus when trading. I see a lot of people under value The Silver Tree landmark. -50% gold cost and -50% build time for traders is incredibly powerful. Plus if you have a certain number of traders they gain a bonus where they get extra food and wood (as well as stone and gold if researched in the Imperial age) the more traders they have (up to 9).

Mongol research done at the Ovoo is incredibly important. Try to research those with stone. Having 5 seconds extra duration on Khan abilities is nice but 7 seconds is even better. Same goes with the Castle Age additional torches upgrade. Your melee army can shred through buildings like butter if this is researched.

If you research the Kurultai, don't forget you can move it! Send it to the front lines so your army has a 25% damage bonus for 30 seconds before engaging in combat. Be aggressive!

Prayer Tents can be upgraded in the Imperial age to act as Ovoo. They don't generate any stone but they do give the influence bonus. Make use of it in drawn out games.

The blacksmith upgrade Siege Engineering can be upgraded with stone to allow your infantry to construct most Siege Workshop units such as Mangonels. Powerful upgrade if you need it.

Remember that spending stone takes the same time as the non stone spent upgrade. If you know you are going to get an upgrade that is important (Looking at you Military Academy) it is best to research it once with the stone cost.

Once your ovoo is placed you can move your Town Center and spend stone to produce 2 villagers at a time for the price of 1 (well plus 150 stone) I don't know if this is worth it compared to making a 2nd TC at the cost of 900 wood but it's an option for quick and early villager count.

Huge huge fan of the Mongols most fun I've had in an AoE game to date they feel so much better than their AoE2 counterpart I hope everyone is enjoying AoE4!

[Olibelus]

Thank you! I just started playing and I'm amazed at how hard I suck.

[robin]

1:29 I love how those farms pay their respects to the fallen villagers.

[ECSmapdi]

Holy cow, THANK YOU for explaining what the campfire symbol over buildings meant. Been playing through the Norman campaign and couldn't for the life of me figure out what it was indicating, and all of my googling was in vain.

[WhiskeryMage]

Aoe 4 fills the niche that I was looking for: More specialized and unique mechanics than age 2 but more civs than starcraft or warcraft 3. Great!

[bomjus]

a tip for delhi sultanate, the influence area of mosque's is INFINITE as long as you expand it via buildings. you need to connect that influence area with any building that has research. so if you want to build 4 mosques in the back of your base, and buff the research of buildings further away, you can connect that influence area with mills for example.

[owenpoppe]

I'd like to see an in-depth look at how the holy roman empire's and Rus monks buffing units abilities work

[Drakkir_D]

Another tip for when walling, you can see a small chain-icon that indicates that there is no hole in the wall.

[Lex-dwng]

Just a tip about Chinese dynasties - while you can't go back to a dynasty you have already unlocked, you don't have to unlock them in chronological order, so if you want to end on a specific dynasty you just have to leave it for last.

[Alok]

I find it odd archers on walls are not hurt if the wall they're standing on crumbles beneath them.

[bdonaghu]

2:59 AoE4: destroying the meme where swords can destroy stone walls. Feelsbadman.

[-Raylight]

I don't even play AoE4, but I just love watching SotL's tips and secret at playing AoE4
Very nice video to watch while you drink coffee, tea, or eat dinner 😂

[thatsgottahurt]

Thanks for your AoE4 videos. I ended up watching them all after my first couple play sessions. They really helped fill the gaps from the tutorials and what I learned from playing. Its been quite a while since I've played any AoE game. Would love to see a hotkey and UI guide. Tips like holding shift to queue or why the English sometimes have the little fire icon over buildings (which I learned thanks to you)

[atrias]

Some really useful tips here! Thanks for the video! It filled in a lot of the questions I had about the game after watching a bunch of gameplay and guides.

[julz]

Aom4 just makes me wish we had a new Age of Mythology with updated graphics and more civs like the Mayans/Aztec and Native Americans. I miss the myth units :/

[mikewright]

The English sound so cute and funny, especially that male voice, like a friendly and happy Sims character with a bit of English in it. And I swear I hear small references every now and then.

[davidvondoom]

For Mongols, the current meta I'm seeing for them is a trade boom. Using the ovoo, you can create double trade units, for cheaper. This gives the Mongols a huge trade bonus, early in the game. And their outpost give traders extra speed, making it worth wild to have some along the trade route, for both protection and buffs.