Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition

Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition

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How many villagers to click up to the next age?
How many villagers should I have, to advance to the next age?
I am playing 4v4 team games on Nomad / Land Nomad map.

Normally I play like this:
25 villagers = click up to Feudal Age
35 villagers = click up to Castle Age.

However, I'm finding that other players are often getting to the Castle Age faster than me. This makes me think: people must be clicking up to Castle Age with fewer than 35 vills. I watched a replay of one of my games and the other guy clicked up with 25(!) villagers to Castle Age.

Can someone give me an idea what is the optimal number of villagers to click up to Castle Age?

Thanks
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Quintem May 17, 2021 @ 2:13pm 
I'm no expert but Nomad is a bit weird because you can build fishing ships that really up your food income. Land Nomad its a bit more standard also depends on where your allies build up and you do.

25 villages to go up to Feudal Age on more standard maps like Arabia would be slow.
Usually people go up with between 19-21 villagers. 19 being for fast rush with scouts before your enemy can wall of completely. 21 being a bit more economically focused.

35-40 villagers would be standard for Arabia style map for going up to Castle Age maybe more or less depends totally on enemy pressure and what you're building military wise.

A fast castle build is 25 villagers before feudal, you build maybe 3 more in feudal, then click up ASAP to castle age. This is common Arena or if you're the pocket player.
DMg Halt May 17, 2021 @ 2:13pm 
26 minimum in dark, 2 more in feudal, castle at around 15:30. That's the most straight forward and simplest answer.

More complex.... it depends. Lol. But 35 is definitely too many for a fast castle.
DMg Halt May 17, 2021 @ 2:15pm 
Disregard my last comment, I didn't see the part where you were playing nomad/land nomad. My fault.
theworld May 25, 2021 @ 8:49pm 
There is no answer, only heuristics.

1)Your civ.

2)How many boars you can get/ how good is your fishing? If your dock is contested with either allies or enemies or your 2nd dock is, then you're going to have problems.
Originally posted by Brutalist Ape:
How many villagers should I have, to advance to the next age?
I am playing 4v4 team games on Nomad / Land Nomad map.

Normally I play like this:
25 villagers = click up to Feudal Age
35 villagers = click up to Castle Age.

However, I'm finding that other players are often getting to the Castle Age faster than me. This makes me think: people must be clicking up to Castle Age with fewer than 35 vills. I watched a replay of one of my games and the other guy clicked up with 25(!) villagers to Castle Age.

Can someone give me an idea what is the optimal number of villagers to click up to Castle Age?

Thanks
i usually go 28 vills feudal 1 vill=29 click castle. or If i can spare it wheelbarrel instead of vill then click castle. I rarely do super fast castle.
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Date Posted: May 17, 2021 @ 2:05pm
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