Age of Empires Tips

Opening Moves: Go Fishing!
Veterans know that catching fish is the fastest, most efficient,
and least expensive way for your villagers to gather food in the
opening moves of the game. Gathering berries comes second, and
hunting is a very poor third. If you have to gather berries, place
a granary close by so that your villagers won't have far to walk;
every step they have to take is another nail in your coffin if the
other players are faster. This goes double for hunting. If you
absolutely must hunt for food, circle around your quarry and drive
the herd toward your town centre or storage pit so that when you
bring down an animal, your villagers won't have to walk far with
the meat. The clock is ticking double time when you hunt because
the meat decays as it lies on the ground unattended.

Today's Age of Empires Tip: Get Defensive: Run Away
In the Stone and Tool Age stages of the game, there's an under-
appreciated tactic: running away! A villager who runs away can
rebuild elsewhere. If your main base is overrun, you can still
recover. As long as you can escape the attack and still have
enough wood to build a new storage pit, you can recover from just
about anything in the early stages.
















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