"as u enter game...press f11 to see time...on 9 min of game should advance to feudal age..18 min for castle..28 min for imperial...never queue up building for production..always take 5 at one time..time wil be saved." - escuthleo

"When staring a random map with high resources(1000 each), put one vill on lumbercamp, one on mill, and one on barracks. Immediately research loom and then you can go straight to the fudual age. Then make two more villies for each resource and have the last one build archery range and stable quickly. This allows much quicker castle age." - LordofThunder4

"Focus on your economy and build tons of villagers. If you want extra gold, use trade carts" - The Vile Tyrant

"Japanese - build samurai as soon as you hit castle age. have between 9-12 farms and 3 gold mines going at once w/3-4 villagers at each. Your gonna need food/gold and lots of both. Send out small groups (5 - 12) of samurai to key strategic positions. Samurai are the fastest attacking unit in the game. For every hit made by a Cataphract a Samurai delivers 2 strikes. A group of them eliminates the trample damage advantage. A battalion of 40 samurai will always kill 40 Cataphracts.

For attacking ranged civilizations; u need two blacksmiths. Research all armor and attack bonus for infantry. When attacking, attack in large battalions of Samurai with 6 cavaliers in front to take the initial damage. Then rush the enemy. Against Britons the hit ratio between LongBowmen and samurai is 3:1.

P.S. - oh yeah don't forget trebuchets......lots of trebuchets." - SithL0rd

"These are for death match with all tech given:
Make light cavalry and use them instead of outposts. They have as big as line of sight, you can alter their position, they can attack an enemy etc.

Find gold on the map at the start of the game and build towers there, so when you hav time you can smine it. Build town centres near rources away from your home town and then churn out the villigars to get the resources.


If there is water on the map. get the ships going immediatly. First one with a fleet can control the waters.

Get the walls up fast on a all land map. stop the enemy walking in." - Westredd