| Age of Empires is a real time strategy game for the | | | | on food. |
| PC. In Age of Empires, there are three common | | | | 3. Create villagers until you hit the population cap |
| strategies, rushing, booming, and turtling. Rushing | | | | tasking them appropriately. |
| consists of getting to age 2 ASAP and building a | | | | 4. Have the last villager build a house. |
| barracks so you can create a small army and cripple | | | | 5. Build five more villagers and make sure that there |
| the opponent's economy early on. Booming is where | | | | are five on each resource |
| you start creating villagers right off the bat and create | | | | 6. Age up with the philosopher prince, and then build |
| an enormous economy so you can make a massive, | | | | four villagers. |
| fully upgraded army later in the game. Turtling is, in my | | | | 7. While you age up have a spare villager, build a |
| opinion, the best of the three strategies, you start by | | | | barracks and build five skirmishers and five pike men. |
| fortifying your position immediately and spreading | | | | 8. Build a new town center close to your old one and |
| across most of the map, after they fortify, they | | | | build a similar wall around it. |
| essentially become boomers. This guide will hopefully | | | | 9. Build an extra house or two and age up with the |
| help you turtle your way to victory. | | | | exiled prince. |
| If you want to turtle you need to have a good | | | | 10. Build 5 more villagers and a wall that encompasses |
| civilization. For the purposes of this guide, I will be using | | | | your entire base and build a new town center near |
| the Portuguese because they get a town center | | | | your other two. |
| wagon every time they level up. | | | | 11. Continue to act like a boomer until the end of the |
| | | | game. |
| 1. Start by building a wall around your town center, a | | | | I hope that this guide will help you in the battles to |
| SMALL wall that just barely gives your settlers enough | | | | come, but remember, the best boomer will defeat the |
| room to get out. (If you have extra wood lying around | | | | best turtler, the best turtler will defeat the best rusher, |
| build extra gates around the town center. | | | | and the best rusher will defeat the best boomer. |
| 2. Task three settlers on wood, one on coin, and two | | | | |