This is a new series that's designed to teach you tips that can improve your gameplay, and some "fun fact" tips that are technically useful. These tips arent worth making a whole video about on their own, hence a collection in one video rather than the "quick tips" format.
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Hello, I’m Chris, and this is a new series of videos to give you a few small Arena tips which are too small to put into their own quick tips videos. Some of these are very useful to know and implement in your day to day gameplay, and a lot of them are “technically” useful but won’t make a noticeable difference in a game.
To start things at number one, the perfect time to bring in your first boar is when you have just started taking an animal under the TC. If your six villagers have just started taking a sheep or deer, send one to go and get the first boar immediately and they will return with the boar as soon as that animal finishes. This one is about minimizing the amount of dead animals under the TC.
On a related note, tip two is that you should send a villager to go and get the second boar when your first boar has 160 food left. This can fluctuate depending on distance but approximately 160 is a great all purpose number to remember. Of course, these two tips don’t apply to a couple of civilizations such as Britons and Mongols.
Moving on to tip three, The Spanish can start by building three houses at once instead of two. This is because you don’t need two villagers to build a house to avoid getting housed like most other civs.
Again to follow on from that, at number four, the Spanish can also get away with building their blacksmith and market with only two villagers. When one villager finishes the blacksmith they can help finish the market if its beside them and both will be built at the same time as a normal civilization using three villagers.
For tip 5, make sure you shift queue your villagers on your berries. This one is actually pretty good for efficiency. Shift queue two to take berries from one side, and another two from the other side. If you add a fifth villager to berries which we all sometimes do, leave that one loose. This strongly helps stop villager blocking and when you do it once, you don’t have to look at your berry villagers again until they’re done. Build your mill right against your berries, and task your villagers to take closest to furthest in rows. Pause to see a few examples on this screen.
I hope you enjoyed this first small tips video, don’t forget to join our discord that’s linked in the description. When you’re there, go to the set roles channel, and pick the Age of Empires 2 role by clicking on the emote to react to the post there.
