Unit Counters - AoE DE Beginner Guide

Just getting back to age of empires 1, but don't know where to start to improve? Well, in this video, I'll go over the basic concepts of Age of Empires: Definitive edition regarding which units are good against other units. This video does not examine each and every unit match up, but instead gives a brief overview of the strengths and weaknesses of each unit.

1:07 - Stone Age Units
1:30 - Tool Age Units
3:18 - Bronze Age Units
3:54 - Barracks Units
4:30 - Archery Range Units
6:17 - Stable Units
7:29 - Siege Workshop
7:55 - Academy

8:34 - Iron Age Units
8:49 - Tower Upgrades
9:22 - Legendary Units.
9:45 - Barracks Units
10:28 - Archery Range Units
11:27 - Stable Units
13:23 - Siege Workshop
14:51 - Academy

15:54 - Final Thoughts

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[ahrooivalk]

I dont know why but Age 1 remain my favorite. It just has a charm to it for me. Ancient weapons in it.

[EzioIlMentore]

Ahh... AOE1... When every civ had Teutonic Knights.

[TheCatVtuber]

One more thing: Slinger has a damage bonus against buildings. Don't know the exact number but i'm sure it's there.

[bigoof]

Nice video but you left out the most important unit: Wololo man

[fabiocosta]

In this case, is scythe chariot, not scythian
Was battle chariots with spinning blades (in this case scythe blades, you know, the ones used to harvest cereals). They existed historically, but died out because the driver had to guide the horse directly adjacent to the enemy forces to be effective. And any guy with a spear could either thrust it between the spocks (and either block the wheel, break the wheel, or break the spear), or shut down the horses. Aaand because after stronger horses were bred, capable of carrying an armoured rider, chariots kind of died out for the sake of manuverability and speed.
EDIT: corrected mistakes

[rufy]

Ur on spirit of the laws upcoming aoe youtubers, well done!

[thelegendofarkantosgagaren]

Thank you for this guide. Finally i understand what i am doing in aoe de. I am sure you put a lot of afford in doing this video.

[dradonie]

Teutonic Knight is the son of the Centurion

[nathangamble]

composite bowmen are one of my favourite units. I never build swordsmen.

In original aoe, I often avoided the ballista tower upgrade, because the towers fire so much slower, so can easily be outmicroed. It's slightly less bad in DE, but still has some effect.

[nimanoe]

instead of calvary you now write cavlary, not sure if it's an improvement or not 11

[arnaudmahieu]

I still make slingers in the iron age. I play as the greeks, once fully upgraded they do wonders to support my hoplites.

[angelusmortis]

Scythe. Like the weapon. The Y makes the long I sound and the E is silent. Helepolis. Possibly just a spelling error.

[killuazoldyck]

Great video. This is really well done, SotL level of infovideo

[polishedpebble]

Where do you find the "bonus damage" stats? Is there a site that lists all these hidden stats?

[darkjul]

nice video i was searching guide for aoede but no way i found you thank you :)

[landochabod]

Nice guide.
One thing, though: it's not "heliòpis", it's "helépolis", from the greek helein (to take, conquer...) + pòlis (city).

[spartankongcountry]

Thanks for making this video. Very insightful and helpful.

[Panther_heart]

What a great video you did ! Thank you bro :)

[Seth]

This video is useful again, its getting fixed!

[alexmed]

It would be nice to tell us about the bonus damange a unit does to another one. I mean, we know bowmen deal bonus damange to axemen, but we dont know how much bonus damange they will do to them