Started playing again a month ago, platinum is not a fun place

hey again — i posted about the daily quiz a while back, and since then i’ve added three more little games 🙂

• Unit of the Day — guess the hidden unit in 6 tries. each guess gives you clues about its civ, type, cost and more, so you can narrow it down.
• Which Is Higher? — two units, one question: which one has the higher stat? see how long you can keep your streak going before confidently picking the wrong one lol
• Sheep Hunt — scout through the fog and collect sheep before time runs out. apparently collecting sheep in actual matches wasn’t enough.

just some quick things to play when you feel like a bit of AoE4 without committing to a whole match.

i also included a screenshot of the guide tab as a reminder of the other stuff in there — tech trees, community build orders, unit/civ comparisons, production plans and the battle simulator.

if you try the games, let me know how you get on! curious to see which one people enjoy most.

link: https://aoe4analyzer.app/download

Tell me your experience and why you chose to play this game

Hey y'all!

Ever since I was a kid, I've dreamed of playing Age of Empires on the go, and it finally happened 😀. As far as I know, I'm the first to get Age of Empires IV running on Android. The video is from my AYN Thor, an Android handheld with a Snapdragon 8 Gen 2.

It runs through GameNative, an app that plays your Steam games on Android, with a patched emulator and graphics driver I put together for it. AoE IV runs at about 60 FPS early in a 1v1 and about 47 FPS late in a 51-minute game, and you play it with the controller through the game's own controller UI. AoE II DE runs too, at a steady 60 FPS, and people who had been stuck on its splash screen for weeks now have it running on their own phones.

You need your own copy of the game on Steam. Everything else is free and open source, with a step-by-step guide:

https://github.com/tarikbc/ageofempires-android

Happy to answer questions in the comments!

How important is relic denial as a feudal all in player?

I would say right now this season with the civ i’ve been playing i’ve been pretty much strictly going feudal all in, My average match win is probably in the realm of 20-24 minutes. If it goes past 30 chances are i’ve lost.

I’m just curious since late games seem to be an issue for me i wonder how big of an impact relics are having on my matches.

I’m not gonna lie, I couldn’t even tell you what happens with the relics. I don’t pay any attention to them because chances are i’m not even going to hit castle before the match is over. Should i be leaving a couple units on the relics around the map just to make sure my opponent doesn’t get them? How many units should i put on each relic? Which unit would be best?

What age range are you in?

Mead is delicious and apiaries are awesome.

I will be naked bee skepping until Age IV.

Bolster your defenses with the Sacred Grove in
Age of Empires IV - Raiders of the North.

Unique to Vikings, this Religious Building regenerates health when no enemies are nearby, and increases the armor of nearby units.

Can anyone help me? My in game name is Timixa.

I have been playing English after coming back this season and I am just getting raided to death EVERY SINGLE GAME.

Sure I make lots of little mistakes but I can see my opponents making lots too. Just aoe 4 things ya know.

Even when I win it feels like I should’ve gotten destroyed at some point in the game and my opponent just didn’t capitalise on it

I’ve watched my games back and watched guides and I really can’t see a main problem that is getting me killed, I just don’t ever get enough units going after the 2tc

I would greatly appreciate any tips or tricks

Hey everyone!

This Halloween, I decided to make a full zombie escape mod, inspired by the old CS 1.6 Zombie Plague / Zombie Escape maps.

The main idea is that you have to run through the map and try to get out alive while hordes of zombies chase you the whole way. I wanted to bring that same feeling of a relentless chase to AOE IV, adapting it to the game’s controls and combat.

So I added five playable classes:

• Knight who can push through the horde
• Landsknecht who can cut down zombies around him in one swing
• Crossbowman with explosive bolts and Molotovs
• Musketeer with the sickest gunpowder weapon of them all
• Monk, the most fun to play! he can summon roots from the ground to push zombies back or slow them down

Also COMPLETLY new features with the mod:

• Blood! Actual blood splatters and decals
• Full ragdoll physics for zombies
• Custom zombie AI

I’d love to hear what you think!

You’ll be able to see the mod in action on the biggest GAMER Corvinus1 stream later this Halloween

P.S. I haven’t managed to get in touch with the other content creators yet, so if you’re reading this and would like to take part, drop me a DM!

Second post, I am malding now lol

My acc name is Timixa. Anyone that can check out my games is greatly appreciated

Just lost back to back to a burgrave, then got dunked on in a 36 min French game

I have 2 questions.

What do I do against hre burger? I tried 2tc and longbow rush. Wasn’t close either time. Yes my macro was a lil off but I’m sure his was too. Gold things

How do you protect your sprawling English eco on dry Arabia? I survived the initial onslaught after getting my 2tc down and was feeling good, but as my base expanded I just couldn’t defend it. There were no walling opportunities so I was just pinned with knights perma running around my base while he was doing whatever the hell he wanted at home

Another thing that these games have (will have) in common is a Civ with Villager auto-queue
Seeing how much of a issue some people see in Villager auto-queue i wanted to show this comparison not only as a fun parallel but also as a sign that this feature can be balanced, unique and interesting

Also want to point out for AoE4 players that AoE3 Ottomans were OP for quite a while (considering lack of patches) and their villager production is one of the main reasons
Because of their auto-queue Ottomans could Age Up to Colonial Age (Feudal) almost faster than any other Civ and Fast Fortress (Castle) or even Fast Industrial (Imperial) are very potent strategies with them (not only because of auto-queue but that's for another story)

Again feel free to ask anything regarding AoE3 specifics - glad to answer any questions!

My previous post with units comparison - AoE4 and AoE3 new Units comparison

Currently having the time of my life on a 12 game reverse heater (conq1 to plat 3), can you beat that?

Not sure if this is allowed but I’ll try anyhow. I have been trying to get to Conq in 1v1 ranked since game release. Highest I made it was diamond III last season thanks to some coaching by Xardas as well as others who helped which were awesome but I am always looking for more advice.

Now I’m at diamond II this season and feel like I’m hitting a plateau again. I would do coaching again but just not enough time and honestly I’d rather be playing alone in my basement like the neck beard that I truly am. I only get to play 1-2 games max per night so it’s tough to even sit down and review replays. What I’m asking the community for is to review at least some of my games, write up some tips or things I need to work on and help me get to conq. I’ll pick the top 3 responses.
-First place will get new dlc or 15$ cash.
-Second place 5$.
-Third place 5$.

Additionally,
If I get to conq I from your advice or I felt that it helped the most, I will GLADLY buy you the next dlc or any dlc you want or work something out.

If you doing it for the love of the game then feel free to donate.

As for my profile(https://aoe4world.com/players/76561197992632881). Name is Panda- water monster with long neck as in-game pic since apparently I picked the most original name so it’s hard to find in game).

I’m a KT main for the past two seasons pretty much with ~ 150 games. My main strat is dark age aggression going into 1 tc feudal agro. I 2tc against English and HOL.

I need the most help against jap, gh, rus, and ottomans. I also need help on water maps. My recent water games I feel like I’m just ass against other diamonds and low conqs.

Open to any and all advice though( such as: should I even be dicking around with dark age ???). I think I’ve watched every single KT video on YouTube but always open to learning more. If you want to use me for a video or stream go right ahead.

Thank you in advance. I’ll close the “contest” on midnight EST of October 28th( day before dlc release). Cheers and can’t wait for dlc release !
-Panda.

EDIT: ZeroEmpires responded!

We're addressing this (either for launch or shortly after), because we totally agree that this isn't the right look for the unit. The blue should be removed and the white crossed bands are intended to be left.

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Hey, AoE4 reddit, where my Scottish historians at? At some point, did soldiers just straight up wear the Saltire flag on their tunics? It's...certainly one of the looks of all time.

This is from the Age 2 screenshot on the info page: https://cdn.ageofempires.com/aoe/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/civpage_scots_age2.webp

Ranked team games is so f..king broken due to all the booster smurfs, like this one for example:
https://aoe4world.com/players/18646910-

380 mmr in 2v2 but 1400+ in 4v4, teaming with nicks just like him, all dumped in various modes, this should not even be possible imo

Queuing 3v3 or 4v4 during prime time for some regions, most teams are made up of conqs + dumped booster (conq) smurfs like the above. It is SO frustrating to play against, loosing so many games to this BULLSHIT. And loosing so many players, most of my friends have quit aoe4 due to this never being fixed. And I seriously cant understand why nothing is ever done!?

So, devs/game managers. Its been 4+ years now and surely you are aware of this bullshit behaviour , why do you never fix this? There are lots of fixes you could do to improve team game match making to stop the non-stop never ending abuse of booster smurfs.

I really really want to know. I know you read Reddit sometimes. Please answer us!

There have been literally 100s of posts like this and you still do nothing. Why?

For reference I am about Conq 1.. this matchmaking is the equivalent of me playing someone in Bronze 3 / Silver 1...

Absurd matchmaking recently.. stuck in lobbied with either players who are on another level of sweat or people who are majorly smurfing, can't talk about where they are from tho.

Quickly fielding units like the mighty Gallowglass and nimble Border Reivers, the Scots Mustering Hall awaits in Age of Empires IV - Raiders of the North!
Muster warriors using Food and Muster Charge costs and add military buildings within its influence to improve the power of mustering.💪

Hello all,
I love playing 2v2v2v2 nomad games because I like playing with a friend. Unlike FFA’s, these games snowball pretty fast as a team dies because the 3 teams remaining end up in a 2v1 situation pretty quick. In traditional FFA, there are 7 more “teams” to play so it’s not unbalanced immediately after the first few people die.

That being said, I wish we could somehow get a 16 players mod allowing for 8 teams of 2 players. What do you all think about that? I believe it’s a server architecture limitation and allowing that would require some pretty big updates on that side but I still can’t keep myself from wishing that they implement that.

Thank you