You really don’t want to lose an expensive warship, so you’ll probably want to bring them back to the shoreline when they get damaged until around Age 4.
On that sort of map, fishing boats are a key food gathering resource.
On maps with lots of water, you’ll likely build a dock and start to fight a war on the sea. Fishermen can double up as secret repairmen You should build more town centers as soon as you can, to maximise your villager production speed. It might seem overprepared, but if you don’t have enough then you’ll fall behind both in your society and your military. You need villagers to gather resources and build structures in order to have a healthy economy and society.Īlways assume that the computer is making villagers and then make slightly more than that whenever you can. Villagers are crucial to the Age of Empires experience and are secretly the most valuable and important unit in each and every one of the games.
