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#21 • Sep 01, 2025 • life

AOE4 Notes

Strats that helped me get to plat in 2 months of playing

How I went from dogshit and never having played an RTS semi seriously to Platinum in 2 months. Started off as Delhi but that was too much brain usage and micro for a new player like me, so started palying french so I could just focus early games and cook.

What helped the most was just building the right units, I’ve stopped going all-cav and now started building archers, more or less depending on what my opponent builds. I still lose late games alot but this is what changed my game most:

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This singular graphic has made me goated, my micro was already to be honest without even a lot of learning, just be self experimentation at a pretty good level. Nothing perfect, but I can manage the chaos because of all the experience I have. To add to my micro is udpating control groups with latest units to better manage on going fights, better manage sieges, set camera control groups to manage key map areas, and understand what the different actions do for military units.

Notes

13th Feb 2026

-> Use control groups more for managing units, cant do select all military, its ruining my game
-> Use camera control points, incorporate this into my game to speed me up
-> Come up with consistent, reliable control groups, thinking of switching scout to 5
-> Check if my control groups work without camera snap
-> Incorporate idle military hotkey so that I can rally my idle units in b/w fights
-> Not using A move was costing me alot, use ATTACK MOVE
-> Get rid of map rotation on zoom
-> Press S to stop sheep when getting under TC
-> Kill every sheep seperately with one vil so as to not idle all the vils that will get on the next sheep

1st Sep 2025

-> 2 stables need: (10G, 15F)
-> ABUSE ENGLISH TEAMMATES, USE HIS SHEEP, SPAM 2v2.

Build Orders:

French Feudal Destroyer:

  1. +6 on food
  2. Get atleast 1 sheep back early -> Scout aggro
  3. +1 -> House -> on food
  4. +3 on gold
  5. All on food after
  6. 5 villagers on FEUDAL (leave space for archery ranges, keep) (9F, 3G, 5AGEUP)
  7. 5 vills -> 1 house and 1 lumber and 3 wood
  8. +3 on gold
  9. AGE UP (4~) - (11F~, 5W~, 6G~)
  10. Blacksmith: Ranged Armor -> Rams
  11. All food after (keep going even uptil 16~)
  12. Keep raiding (Mills, Archery, Houses, Blacksmith on the side)
  13. 10 minutes (20F, 9W, 7G)

Delhi (dogshit):

  1. 5 villagers on wood
  2. 1 villager on mill
  3. 6 on berries
  4. 7th vil mosque -> house -> berries
  5. next 2 vils gold gold
  6. 8th vil on berries
  7. next 3 vils on straggler
  8. 4 food vills -> dome of faith
  9. 4th on lumber camp
  10. AGE 2 (7 on wood, 9 on food, 2 gold. Hit it at 4:20. 180 wood