FoEhints: Fighting in the Colonial Age in Forge of Empires

FoEhints: Fighting in the Colonial Age in Forge of Empires

The Colonial Age offers a very balanced set of units. Each has its own specific strengths. Grenadiers and Rangers have been given special abilities and the strength of the Field Guns is even strongly emphasized by the quest series. While earlier ages essentially simply offered a stronger variation on the units of the previous age, the Colonial Age brings new aspects to the game for the first time, which also allows the player to take additional strategic approaches in combat.

The light unit of the Colonial Age is the Ranger. His special ability stealth allows him to hide in the forest with the effect that these units can only be attacked from the immediate neighboring field, which mainly eliminates artillery and musketeers. As with all light units so far, forests and bushes continue to offer protection when hit. The Ranger has the highest basic value for attack strength and additionally special bonuses against cavalry.

The fast unit of the Colonial Age is the dragoon. Its strength lies in its use against artillery and musketeers. Among players, dragoons have a very bad image - wrongly so I think. However, you have to consider very carefully when their use is really useful.

Musketeers impress with their range. Especially against heavy units, the grenadiers, they are the weapon of choice. They themselves are very sensitive to hits, but can often take out the enemy before they reach the musketeers. They benefit from the field type rock, but this bonus is relatively small.

Grenadiers, the heavy unit of the Colonial Age, have at first sight the same values for attack and defense as dragoons, without their great mobility. Nevertheless, they enjoy much greater popularity. This is due to the fact that there are many plains on most maps and these give the grenadiers additional bonuses. Furthermore, this is the ideal counter unit against the strong Rangers, which are used by players and computer opponents very often. The decisive advantage of the Grenadiers, however, is that for the first time a heavy unit has an attack range. This avoids the counterattack against dragoons and rangers. Used correctly, this actually makes a big difference.

The Field Gun is already very much in the foreground through the quests. Neighboring players are often attacked with 8 Field Guns at this age. Although the basic values of this unit are very modest, its range is simply enormous compared to the mobility of the other units. Like the cannons in the LMA, Field Guns also have the characteristic Dug-In bonus. Despite this considerable bonus, the Field Guns are in bad shape once they are within range of the enemy. Their strength comes into play before that. And often there is not much left of the enemy units after two turns.

If you have at least some first combat bonuses in Colonial Age, you can easily reach level 1 of the guild expedition in auto-combat. With a bit of brain, you can also make good progress in level 2. By now at the latest, players who don't want to trade only, should have the Statue of Zeus, the Aachen Cathedral, and the Castel del Monte. You don't need these for the sectors on the map, but at the latest for level 3 of the guild expedition, combat bonuses are more than helpful. Before players got so many event buildings through events and the guild expedition, the rule of thumb was that the average player would need about a year to reach Colonial Age and have the three battle buildings at level 10 each. In the meantime, this is certainly faster. And whoever has achieved this is not only well prepared for the further ages, but also for the guild expedition.

[wrench_shorts]

You have a beautiful voice, these videos are a pleasure to watch

[lisagrosman]

Thanks FoEhints! I am about to move up to CA and I have the CdM, Aachen, Zeus and so on. This is very helpful as I am hoping to be a fighter as well as a trader. Thanks! KingScorpius77

[teachandfunnstuff]

Thanks for the colonial fight tips fo!

[IronGoldfish]

Does auto-combat take into account the stealth ability of the rangers (making it a good idea to use rangers against field guns in auto)?

[MreenalMams]

Never knew any of that when I was in CA.. please make one for Induatrial Age soon..

[MrStrepsilz]

I really enjoyed your fighting tips videos! Can you do one of the contemporary era?

[katoele]

Thx for the nice informative video. i am planning om going from HMA to CA soon. I like to do mostly auto-combat in GBG, what unit combinations would you use for that? I have rogues I can use. I hope you can help me with that. it might be nice to also cover that in your next video's about fighting in a certain age.

[luismagalhaes]

How do you choose the teams to auto battle in GE ? It's easy when the enemy has the same units, but what about when you are against a mixed team?

[Unknown-ohue]

Do you know why the fighting AI likes to line up units in straight line?

[Goremize]

I love fighting in the CA, conscripts are fun

[jurjang]

What is a good setup in the new ge 58-64 in ca? I can't defeat them whatever setup I use. Thanks

[teachandfunnstuff]

FoEhints how is stuff while in quarantine?

[hatsunemiku]

Why Grenadier icon has iron helmet instead od a hat with a feather? any graphic changes were made?

[miguelferreira]

so, im a player in the tomorrow era, but i want to take a lot of sectors in the colonial one, which trops are the best with 7 secret agents then? (got 450% atack bonus)

[gijsvandergracht]

Your videos are good, but can you please turn down the volume of the intro and outro? They are so much louder than the rest of the video, and trust me, your video's volume is already enormously loud. But with your intro and outro I have to mute my devices, I only turn on your sound after it.

[razielnecrolektrik]

I know that I finally reached 1 year of play December 3rd. But I got up to LMA quite fast but then I spent all the way till the last week of May in LMA, I was getting provinces by goods as I had pitiful attack! I remember these units thinking I can't wait for colonial! When I moved up to colonial I did so thinking the North American map was CA, But I began getting much more boosts, and I finished the whole INA map and most of PE with CA units fighting but that was because I had gotten Virgo Project! But I loved CA units but was greatly unimpressed with INA units also I had gotten 3 Governors Villas At level 9 right after moving into INA and I would keep getting the native American units which are terrible compared to the units you can produce in Industrial so I spent 8 days in INA, but this video reminds me of the fun I had in CA! Thank you

[trevorhoward]

I hear colonial age is the first good era for fighting, is this true? I'm working my way up and want to camp in a decent era for GE and GB.

[victorabel]

¿Para cuando los subtítulos en español? :(