Thanks for this great video. Recently made the jump up from Intermediate to Hard and have been routinely getting my arse handed to me and in some fashion by the AI. I now realise where I have been going wrong. I have been placing too many villagers on gold and stone and nowhere near enough on food and wood. The tip with building the outpost around your attacking Longbowmen never occured to me and is a stroke of utter genius. i will definitely be incorporating that in future games as the English.
What a great comment!! Thank you so much. I'm glad this was helpful to you! And thank you for subscribing, I have another video going live in a couple of hours! 😁
@@mannsauce You're very welcome. Tried a radical departure from my normal tactics on AOE 4 this morning and attacked them hard and early with Longbowmen. I noticed something when reviewing the stats of when the Intermediate and Hard AI twatted me in past games. They seem to just constantly pump out villagers in order to boom their economy so that they can spam you with waves of troops. I used to get utterly ruined by the French in particular. So I implented your ideas and built up a raiding party as soon as I could and kept picking off their villagers, the AI shat itself, tried building stone walls around it's base and I just kept picking the villagers off 😂😂😂 I built my White Tower and some additional forts on the edge of their base to inflict as much misery and pain on them as possible and it felt good :D The amount of times I just sat back without trying to harrass the AI and got my arse handed to me on a plate makes sense now. Game was won in 5 minutes in Feudal.
@@jambokaos that is AWESOME mate!! It's a great feeling when it makes sense and you put new tactics into your library of wisdom. Strong economy = strong army, the more villagers youre pumping out, the better! Try and incorporate a second town centre, then you can get out twice as many villagers at once!! Very helpful for late game boom! Congratulations once again
Good video, a tip is to focus on advancing to castle age a bit more! Taking the second townhall landmark for the economy boost early game, because that's one of the bigger advances the English have. I always focus on getting the feudel and castle age as soon as possible (also more XP if you are first).
I think you did a fine job sir. I main the Mongols myself so things get very tricky if you don't push like this. I got lucky on the mastery and hit the hardest AI before they got to age 2 beat them in 17 min. Once I got to it age 2 I focused on getting military upgrades and sieg upgrades for my foot troops to build rams once you do that you can just spam as many engines in there base while you pick there villagers off. Again I like the video GGs sir.
Thats awesome dude! Sounds like a great build order you got. Mongols are in a great place at the moment. Thank you so much for the feedback and support!! If you want to play a few games some time, hit me up!
I was struggling with Hard A.I for a few days, then I saw this video and realised that I didn't build anything to cover my archers when attacking the A.I; I just sent Man at Arms with them, which was expensive. At the beginning of the game, I collected 400 food and 200 gold to get to the Feudal Age, in addition to 400 wood and 300 stone to build a Town Centre (where you built the outpost) in your game) when there's little to no army for them to kill my villagers. 8 villagers were enough to erect the Town Centre. Once I built the Town Centre, I garrisoned the surviving 4 villagers and let the A.I waste soldiers attacking it, then I built an archery next to the Town Centre and shut down their production by cutting off their supply to gold or their wall they started to build or any rock. I ended up winning the game in 30 mins by getting to the castle age then destroying their landmarks with siege weapons. I think I caught the A.I cheating, as they had 2 longbowman firing at the 8 villagers despite not having an archery - in the only area they built in, they just had a barracks and an Abbey of Kings, nothing that could produce longbowman, I had a thorough look closer to the end of the game while my villagers were building The White Tower to progress to the Castle Age and there was definitely no archery.
Thats awesome dude! I'm glad this video helped you beat the hard A.I! I think I'm going to do one for the Hardest A.I so stick around for that one!! Sounds like you were playing against the English yeah? Did they have the Council Hall up? That builds the Longbow units! Good move with the Town Centre! Which civ did you play as?
@@mannsauce I was also the English as well (I'm just starting out), I built the Council Hall and they built The Abbey of Kings. I did rematch them and it confirmed my theory about their archers without an archery. Their archers were coming out of their Town Centre and the certainly did not have an archery. I toyed with the Hard A.I this time and just produced 100 archers who arrowed their landmarks to the ground. I've got this game out of my system for now but I'll play it again at some point over the holidays and try Hardest A.I
what I dont like is when i play 2v2 or 3v3 with AI teammates they always die in the first 30 min. no matter what difficulty I set them to. I wanted to practice a little 2v2 but the AI on my team is def a level or 2 below the ai on the other team, why is it like that? ai shouldnt just automatically be dog water when its on ur team, kinda ruins the match. the real answer it to find a friend who plays i guess, but thats impossible, friends and plays AoE4? good luck.
Oh really! I haven't experienced that unfortunately. My only thought would be that it would encourage you to get better/ "carry the team". I could be very wrong on that. My recommendation would be join the AoE4 community page on Facebook. The community there is fantastic. Very different from other gaming pages/forums as its very accepting for new players. Thanks for watching!
Thanks for this great video. Recently made the jump up from Intermediate to Hard and have been routinely getting my arse handed to me and in some fashion by the AI. I now realise where I have been going wrong. I have been placing too many villagers on gold and stone and nowhere near enough on food and wood. The tip with building the outpost around your attacking Longbowmen never occured to me and is a stroke of utter genius. i will definitely be incorporating that in future games as the English.
What a great comment!! Thank you so much.
I'm glad this was helpful to you! And thank you for subscribing, I have another video going live in a couple of hours! 😁
@@mannsauce You're very welcome.
Tried a radical departure from my normal tactics on AOE 4 this morning and attacked them hard and early with Longbowmen.
I noticed something when reviewing the stats of when the Intermediate and Hard AI twatted me in past games. They seem to just constantly pump out villagers in order to boom their economy so that they can spam you with waves of troops. I used to get utterly ruined by the French in particular. So I implented your ideas and built up a raiding party as soon as I could and kept picking off their villagers, the AI shat itself, tried building stone walls around it's base and I just kept picking the villagers off 😂😂😂
I built my White Tower and some additional forts on the edge of their base to inflict as much misery and pain on them as possible and it felt good :D
The amount of times I just sat back without trying to harrass the AI and got my arse handed to me on a plate makes sense now.
Game was won in 5 minutes in Feudal.
@@jambokaos that is AWESOME mate!! It's a great feeling when it makes sense and you put new tactics into your library of wisdom.
Strong economy = strong army, the more villagers youre pumping out, the better!
Try and incorporate a second town centre, then you can get out twice as many villagers at once!! Very helpful for late game boom!
Congratulations once again
Great video... I also make use of hot keys a lot so you can switch between units/buildings as quick as possible...
just used this tactic to win my first game against hard - thank you! Was not quite as smooth as yours but I got there
Good video, a tip is to focus on advancing to castle age a bit more!
Taking the second townhall landmark for the economy boost early game, because that's one of the bigger advances the English have.
I always focus on getting the feudel and castle age as soon as possible (also more XP if you are first).
Nice 👌🏽 video thanx for sharing
I think you did a fine job sir. I main the Mongols myself so things get very tricky if you don't push like this. I got lucky on the mastery and hit the hardest AI before they got to age 2 beat them in 17 min. Once I got to it age 2 I focused on getting military upgrades and sieg upgrades for my foot troops to build rams once you do that you can just spam as many engines in there base while you pick there villagers off. Again I like the video GGs sir.
Thats awesome dude! Sounds like a great build order you got. Mongols are in a great place at the moment. Thank you so much for the feedback and support!! If you want to play a few games some time, hit me up!
It is what it is.
Great video was stuck on hard ai for days😮
I was struggling with Hard A.I for a few days, then I saw this video and realised that I didn't build anything to cover my archers when attacking the A.I; I just sent Man at Arms with them, which was expensive.
At the beginning of the game, I collected 400 food and 200 gold to get to the Feudal Age, in addition to 400 wood and 300 stone to build a Town Centre (where you built the outpost) in your game) when there's little to no army for them to kill my villagers. 8 villagers were enough to erect the Town Centre.
Once I built the Town Centre, I garrisoned the surviving 4 villagers and let the A.I waste soldiers attacking it, then I built an archery next to the Town Centre and shut down their production by cutting off their supply to gold or their wall they started to build or any rock. I ended up winning the game in 30 mins by getting to the castle age then destroying their landmarks with siege weapons.
I think I caught the A.I cheating, as they had 2 longbowman firing at the 8 villagers despite not having an archery - in the only area they built in, they just had a barracks and an Abbey of Kings, nothing that could produce longbowman, I had a thorough look closer to the end of the game while my villagers were building The White Tower to progress to the Castle Age and there was definitely no archery.
Thats awesome dude! I'm glad this video helped you beat the hard A.I! I think I'm going to do one for the Hardest A.I so stick around for that one!!
Sounds like you were playing against the English yeah? Did they have the Council Hall up? That builds the Longbow units! Good move with the Town Centre! Which civ did you play as?
@@mannsauce I was also the English as well (I'm just starting out), I built the Council Hall and they built The Abbey of Kings. I did rematch them and it confirmed my theory about their archers without an archery. Their archers were coming out of their Town Centre and the certainly did not have an archery.
I toyed with the Hard A.I this time and just produced 100 archers who arrowed their landmarks to the ground.
I've got this game out of my system for now but I'll play it again at some point over the holidays and try Hardest A.I
thanks for the video and help
Thanks this is super helpful
Cool video man.
Takes his time explaining what he's doing.
Not to good while trying to multi-task
Thanks for taking time to comment! Not sure if your comments are positive or constructive criticism but I will take them!! 😁
@@tylerwalker8286 well it was a replay he was commenting on ! sooo not a problem
Very good 🦾👌💯
what I dont like is when i play 2v2 or 3v3 with AI teammates they always die in the first 30 min. no matter what difficulty I set them to. I wanted to practice a little 2v2 but the AI on my team is def a level or 2 below the ai on the other team, why is it like that? ai shouldnt just automatically be dog water when its on ur team, kinda ruins the match. the real answer it to find a friend who plays i guess, but thats impossible, friends and plays AoE4? good luck.
Oh really! I haven't experienced that unfortunately. My only thought would be that it would encourage you to get better/ "carry the team". I could be very wrong on that. My recommendation would be join the AoE4 community page on Facebook. The community there is fantastic. Very different from other gaming pages/forums as its very accepting for new players.
Thanks for watching!
Oh this isn't the #Hardest AI? Wrong video.
I can give the hardest AI a go if that's what you would like to see mate.
You sure you're going against the hard ai? 😂
This was recorded over a year ago, prior to the AI update