User blog:Minhthucdao1/How to start when play Age of empires I in Vietnam

Age of empires(I) is still a very popular game in Vietnam. Vietnamese and Chinese have created a unique game play for this game. So firstly, I will explain the rules they have created and then explain the game play.

Rule:

- You can't start war when you at tool age and stone age.

- You doesn't allow to build walls and towers.

- Only play in map Hill Country, the map that have no sea.

Game play:

Normally, the top player often at Bronze Age at 12th minutes with 23-28 villages. You have to be at Bronze Age as soon as possible because at the time war start. There is so many video in Youtube about it. You can search for it by go to Youtube and look for VietnameGameTV channel. Here is the link https://www.youtube.com/user/VietnamGameTV. I will explain the detailed in here.

When the game start, all you have is three villages, 200 hundreds foods and a town-center building at Stone Age. The first thing to do is immediately training more villages with all foods from town-center and you will continue to do whenever you have any foods until you have 23-28 (Shang civilization normally is 28 with cheap villages, Palmyran normally is 18 and other is 24) then you will save the foods to upgrade technology to Tool Age. Normally, top players with Shang civilization will start upgrade immediately right after training enough villages. After finish training villages with started food, you split 2 villages to build one house, the other village start looking for berry-bush nearby the town-center. After finish build the first house, you spread the villages outward the town-center to look for a berry-bush. There is always have a berry-bush nearby the town-center so remember to look just around the town-center in all direction but don't look too far but just one direction. Normally, with first 7 villages, split 5 villages to harvest berry-bush, 1 village for harvest lumber and 1 village go around town-center, look for new foods source. Remember to be aware of population limit in order to build more house in time.Before created the 13th villages, just concentrate on harvest lumbers, build house and look for new resource. When you have 13th villages, about at 3'20, you should find some animals, some forest, or any new berry-bush. If you find any group of gazelles or elephants nearby, lure them to town-center then harvest meats. Select a forest nearby to build a storage pit. Have 4-6 villages to harvest lumbers, your number depend on situation, whether you can bring animals to your town-center or not. In case you can bring many animal to your town-center then you don't need many villages harvest lumbers. Lure animals to town-center could take a lot of effort so normally, player only lures nearby animal and prefer berry-bush to far animals. There is a experience statistic for choose number villages to harvest lumber based on number of total villages you planed to created in Stone Age, they are 4-24,25; 5-25,26; 6-26,27. Build another Storage Pit near forest to harvest lumber when have more lumber and build a Barrack before you at Tool Age.

When you at Tool Age, you should have at least two Storage Pit to harvest lumbers. Then you choose a place to build an army building( it could be Achery or Stable)