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Villagers are the key to a strong
economy, so keep building them!
The importance of having many villagers cannot be overstated in
Age of Kings. Often the inferior military player can win by sheer volume of the same unit, which in order to happen,
must occur with a superior economy.
Now obviously a mixed and managed military will win given equal economies. But we'll leave that for a later strat.
Villagers. On the road to becoming an expert you'll find that you can NEVER, and i mean NEVER have enough villager.
Just ask Maimin_Matty, who, if the game lasts long enough, will tend to have something like 150-170 villagers on
a population 200 map. But how can we reach this lofty goal?
Well let's just say it takes practice. But here's how we start. In every game from now on make this your goal:
No big gaps in villagers before feudal, and then once you castle, make at LEAST 5 new villagers every three minutes,
while attacking. This will mean that you have 100 villagers by one hour of game time. While this is a little slow
it will be fine to start out. As you make more villagers you will find you have resources to research and do just
about anything at once.
To do this obviously you're going to need more town centers. Every time you get 500 wood, peel off two villagers
from wood chopping and have them build a new town center near a resource, preferably wood/gold or wood/stone, but
near only one if you don't have a wood/mineral spot.
Also, if you've driven the enemy off his town, or just have a nice spot outside his town, definitely build there.
Set your all your town center's gathering points on a resource (IE wood or stone or gold, but each tc at a different
spot). That way you can queue villagers and not worry about assigning them a task anytime soon.
Concentrate on your military, but watch your wood, and every once in a while just tap h and hit c twice, and continue
until you've gone through all your town centers. IE hit h then c-c then h-c-c-h-cc-h-cc-h-cc until you've got two
villagers queued in each TC. You should be able to do this within 10 seconds with practice. Every once in a while
when you get a break in the fighting, grab some villagers off wood or something and have them build farms so you
don't run out of food. Idle vils, building farms and building buildings (including your new tcs) should be the
only thing you need to micromanage in your economy.
Finally, every chance you get click the idle villager button. With 100 or more villagers you'll get a lot going
idle if you don't click occasionally. Make sure to always rebuild farms, and shift villagers if you've got way
too much of one resource. The key is never, ever stop making villagers.
- This strat is courtesy of DaRq_DarkJihad and
taken from the AoK Heaven's Forum. Please visit DaRq_DarkJihad's web page at http://users.michweb.com/~kurtfm/darq.
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been used to establish military tactics. Learning them could improve your gameplay.
What do you think of DaRq_DarkJIhad's
assessments of villagers and their production? Jump here to discuss it in the Knight's
Forum.
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