Hey all, I’ve seen many Rus players in here so hopefully I get some good answers. I really like the playstyle of Rus, but I’m struggling on knowing how many hunting cabins I should have down? Like endgame age 4, how many should I have down. Any other Rus tips are welcome. Thanks.

it's not about A-move, but rather, how to fight with

Small, even fights: a few units against a few units of the same type (e.g a 4 spearmen vs 4 spearmen in dark age, when my opponent and I are both templar knight. All my spearmen died, but opponents dies zero.)

Large, mixed-army fights: big battles where both armies have several unit types and each side has counters to the other’s units. I gets wiped out completely under such situation.

My short cut,

F1: select all infantry

F2: select all ranger

F3: select all calvary

F4: select all siege

Q: select all infantry on the screen

E: select all ranger on the screen

F: select all calvary on the screen

C: select all siege on the screen

Z: select healer

A Attack-Move

average APM is around 120~140

I've been struggling with insane stuttering with AOE4's campaigns on three (!) different PCs:

7800X3D/4090

5800X/3080

Steam Machine

Even on my 7800X3D/4090 PC, some missions, like the one I'm trying to play (Great Stand on the Ugra River of the Rus campaign), stutter like mad every half a second or so, going from my global fps cap of 157 (~6.3ms frametime) to regular 16ms and much higher frametime spikes. Nothing ever feels smooth.

I thought it would be a Windows thing, or something wrong with my PC setup, but the same frametime spikes happen on the Steam Machine, which is bizarre. Campaign is basically unplayable due to these performance problems. All my drivers are up to date, and heck, even if they weren't, the Steam Machine should serve as a control in this situation given it's an immutable system, and it's still stuttering like mad.

The Art of War Late Siege tutorial is another one that comes to mind that suffers from the same problem of regular stutters/frametime spikes. Anybody else have similar issues?

I bought my roomates Series S for like 50 bucks 2 years ago just to be able to play AOE4, loved it so when it was released on PS5 I was pretty hyped. I generally do not agree with pre-order but seems like it's a safe bet for Relic entertainment i haven't been let down yet.

My question is does anyone know if ill be able to pre-order dlcs in the future at some point or why they even block my ability to? It doesn't make sense to me and sometimes I like to pre-order dlcs to help with budgeting at the end of the month/get it out of the way type deal.

I don't have alot of experience or knowledge of how preorders work (I tend to be against them at all cost) but was wondering if anyone knows why sony users cant.

I'm a causal player who enjoys a good FFA, but damn near every game there's an obvious map hacker or premade teams. I'm guessing they have basically no anti cheat system, but its completely ruining the game mode. How sad do you have to be to cheat in a for fun unranked game mode honestly?? Any attempts for better anti cheat or banning cheaters going on at all? Im close to giving up on this game for good.

Happy October :)

🏹 high plat / low diamond looking for 2v2 partner

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I only ever played team ranked, until I came across 'Serjeant cheese' video on YouTube. I am a consistent Plat 1 - Diamond 1 team ranked player and only played 5 solo ranked games ever and with zero wins. With Feudal all in sergeant + bow rush with rams later, I am 11-0 and solo Plat 1 already. It is so broken and works against any civ. In 2v2 team games it doesn't work that well, only 55% win rate so far. But I love it and it needs to be fixed

EDIT: Edit due to people who think they are too clever. I know this tactic is not 'unbeatable'. I know the games are relatively low ELO. I know archers will work against this. You aren't the only ones with above average IQ to read 'countered by' section in the unit description. I just wanted to emphasize that it is a fun tactic, works well, and carried me to higher ELO than I expected. I know that eventually win rate will get noticeably lower. Also, I am not surfing obviously. I wouldn't post it here if I reached only Plat as a Smurf, right? Finally, the 'low' ELO you guys are accusing are 80% of the player base (Gold and below). And if this tactic works against 80% of the players with 11-0 record, it means it is somewhat broken as any similar skill player can basically memorize this and make it work.

I’m trying to master the Golden Horde—it’s a new civ for me, and I need some tips, especially for 2v2 and 3v3 team games. If you could share your thoughts, I’d like to know:

1. What’s the main strategy? 2TC, FC (Fast Castle), or 1TC feudal agro?

2. Which units or unit compositions do you do the most, and why?

3. Which stone upgrades economic and military should I prioritize?

   1. Are Kipchaks any good—is it worth investing in them?

These are my main questions; I’m really enjoying playing with this civ!

I play Golden Horde pretty regularly, but recently switched back to Malian.

I was playing a Golden Horde player, and my heart sank when he amassed a massive army of only Kharash.

For a second I was horrified- I thought to myself, "Am I missing something?" but every time he did this I cut through most of his army (to much losses of mine).

Overall the guy didn't seem to know what he was doing or understand the goal of the game if your opponents are getting a sacred site victory is to capture that sight back. But the guy went with only Kharash, no siege, no archers, nothing.

So this leads me to a question- is there some benefit to a purely Kharash army that I'm missing that maybe this guy just didn't know how to execute?

I like to have the options not to center the visual on the productions Buildings when i want to queue units but at the same time when i select some villager currently working on some resource id like to center the visual on him. However these two mechanics are regulated by the same "find and browse Buildings and units" in the "controls" tab of the settings. Is there any way to work around that?

DLC drops in 4 days they coming for you

The following is the proposal for a new unit inspired by the Konnik from aoe2.

The Resurgent Knight starts as a Knight type unit which can conditionally turn into a Man at Arms type unit.

The unit would have 2 seperate health pools: HP1 (Horse), HP2 (MAA)

- Damage from spearman (and similar units) would be directed to one pool (HP1)

- Other sources of damage would be directed to the other pool (HP2)

If HP1 reaches 0 and HP2 is still positive, the unit turns into a Man At Arms type unit with the remaining health.

Do you think such a unit could work in AOE4? I didn't specify the numbers as they could always be adjusted for balance and it could even take 2 population space if needed.

Hi, im think od buying a dlc, what y’all suggest? Im going to buy it through xbox and im currently using game pass, does the dlc work on any of my accounts?

Was it effective for the effort? Barely. Was it fun? Absolutely.

How long does each crucible match take? Can I press save and go back to it the next day? I don’t really like PvP I just want to relax after coming home
From work

These maps are clearly made for 1v1. In team games, the entire map is just ugly dry land with minimal terrain. Walling is impossible and cavalry cannot be countered.

I wish they would increase the wood coverage proportionate to the number of players instead of forcing multiple players to compete over woodlines.

It's basically useless now in The Crucible challenges. I decided to start doing the challenges again recently. I only played them a bit when they first came out. Back then the Huihui was amazing. It did considerable damage and was great at taking out incoming trebuchets and other seige engines. Now it's useless against that. Since you are attacking walls or enemy keeps in The Crucible it's pretty useless. Doesn't do much damage to units or seige engines anymore.

“Only” ten days left to Vikings and Scots! Yeah time passes, even though very slowly now

Can we please get some more civ teasers? It helps a bit

I'm getting annoyed by this. Why is it that whenever you play ranked you have to keep playing against the same person over and over and over again? Is the game suffering from lack of players so much that the matchmaking has to do this? I'm not even high elo, this is happening in high diamond low conqueror.

I’m a father now. I just got back home after 6 days in the hospital for the birth of my son. Now, I have a newborn at home. I go days without playing, and when I finally do get a chance, I can’t seem to win a single match anymore. Thanks, AoEIV, those nearly 400 hours of gameplay were the best :)

Sorry, just needed to vent

I genuinely don't understand how to counter Macedonian feudal MAA spam. I was playing China. I proscouted 3 packs so i was in a pretty good position. I decided to play for feudal and we started fighting heavily in feudal. He was initially building horsemen + archer vs my spear vs horsemen. We traded quite a lot and we ended up farm transitioning in feudal. I then saw MAA. So my initial response was. I build a buttload of archers and kite away because even if he is mace with +2 range armor. I can still win with enough archer mass. I didnt opt to go for BBQ then Zhugenu because my reasoning was 600 resource could be spent elsewhere like more units but then i reached a point where it's not possible to fight him anymore because of the sheer MAA mass he was rushing me with. I genuinely dont understand what i could have done differently. We were fighting heavily and with my proscout i had way more food than him. So i opted to end the game by doing a big feudal push but that didnt work out so it became a stalemate. He wasnt letting go of the pressure either so i couldnt just go castle because i had to continuously make unit to fight for map control. I didnt want him to golden horn tower drop at boar and gold. So i kept on hitting him with horsey. My question is where is the window for age transition in this case?