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Age of Empires 2: The Conquerors Tactics & Guides -> Road to Expert -> Step 1 - Introduction

Step 1 - Introduction

What can we do to improve on these fields? Well, the answer is anything you can imagine can help you. It is important to know ourselves and to understand the resources we have. Watching a record we can focus on details such as how did ThuG_Ruso place his villagers to gather resources? Why did he make that wall and what benefit did he get from it? While we are walking the dog we can figure out that when we play against ThuG_Ruso we will lure our boar as soon as possible in order to avoid getting harassed by his scout, etc. It is very common to hear people saying "I don't know how to improve". Well, I think the right statement is "I don't know what I want to improve". In Aoc there are loads of factors we can approach individually. When we know what we do want to improve it is very easily to design a way to train it: I want to be able to manage 3 different groups of units simultaneously. I am going to pick a scout an archer and a camel and make slalom with them till I can manage them perfectly, or whatever you might think of, it is not difficult, I swear.

Another very important thing when playing aoc is to know how to use the time we have. It is impossible to control everything so it is vital to know how to choose between all the options we have those which are going to help us the best, so when we have 10 enemy archers walking towards our lumber we will use the game time we have to save our villagers instead of chasing deers away with the scout. Of course being able to build farms in 2 seconds instead of 8 always help in these matters.

To summaries these articles, these are examples of the way I approach Aoc and the how I use the things I've learnt to make strategies and game plays, as well as giving you some data and information that might be useful to you.

Karl & Ralber

You are now ready to move onto your first lesson, Step 2