The Ultimate Archaic Age Beginner Guide | Reading and Scouting the Map

the Age of Mythology RK and early game in general can be a little bit confusing especially for new players even if you're following a build order that you found online the map might not allow you to hit the advanced time from the guide you're following the aim of this archaic Age series is to get you to the classical age by 5 minutes on almost any land map spawn with all the cves this will be done by identifying what map spawn you're in and which corresponding build you're need from the ones all Supply once you get to the classical age on even footing with your opponent the game of age techology really opens up for you I've made a PDF for all the build orders that I'm going to show during the series and it should be suitable for looking at on your phone it will have each of the beginner build orders you'll need to advance to the classical age on the majority of map spawns they'll all be on one page so once you've spawned in you'll be able to zoom in and follow it easily I feel this is way easier than what I used to do with a notepad when I first started I'm going to give each Civ its own video so it can be a little bit more detailed but before we go through that it's important to know how to read the map and Scout the map as each spawn is slightly different and if you follow the wrong build it might not work out as you expected there are four main types of map spawns and it's all determined by the amount of hunt in your starting line of sight I've separated these into high medium low and no hunt not all sibs will need a different build order for each one of these spawns so it's important to know how much hunt you'll need for each build the first kind is the high hunt start most build orders you'll find online will follow this High hunt start but not all maps are like this this is where you have enough starting hunt in your your main base to advance without having to move onto a secondary hunt pack for these builds that I'll share you'll need 1,000 food in your starting hunt pack this 1,000 food can give you up to a 445 Advanced time without needing extra food from any other sources this is the best map spawn for advanced times as there's minimal walking or waiting needed you can get to the classical agage with less food in your base for example 900 but for that you'll need a 430 Advanced time which isn't always achievable and I want to give these builds some Lee wve to make mistakes the second is a medium hunt start which is 500 to 999 food this is where you'll have a small hunt pack in your base but you'll need to find a second hunt pack before you advance to the next stage you'll also be needing to build additional granaries for the Greek and Egyptian players a 430 Advanced time is still achievable but it's not as straightforward as just having a large hunt pack in your base the low hunt star is when you have an even smaller hunt pack in your starting base with less than 500 food and it's definitely not enough to advance even if you go for a crazy fast build order you need to rely on your scouting and moving over to the second hunt pack at the right time the last one is the no hunt start and yes that means there's no hunt in your starting line of site this often happens on a map like Oasis and this requires quite an Adaptive build where you'll need to go on your starting food of berries or chickens and then adapt when you find your hunt with your scout now we've gone over some of the map spawns it's a good idea to look at how to actually Scout and why we actually want to scout so the obvious thing is we want to scout to uncover the map to see what it has but it isn't just a case of circling your base and hoping for the best you want to be actively looking for certain things so I have a a hierarchy order of what I want to search for the first thing is hunt packs which is obviously what we've been talking about a lot in this video finding your second hunt pack is the first job of your scout if your second hunt pack that you found isn't that close to your first or it's a long walk or it isn't worth it then it would be worth looking for a third hunt pack to maybe go to in of that one but that is your priority number one after this you want to look at your opponent's hunt packs where are they going to be hunting on the map and is it possible for you to stop them if their Hunt is in very defensive places then maybe you want to go for a defensive game but if it's right out in the open maybe you're going to want to advance quickly and take advantage of that and try and push them off cuz if you're hunting and they're not you have a massive Advantage the third thing you want to look for is Town centers this might even be up there even a bit further if you're a very defensive C but not all Town centers are equal some have amazing resources on like large gold mines behind or hunt on and others don't have anything so a good Town Center can really sway you to taking it or lead you away from it the last main thing to look at is your opponent's base and how aggressive you can be in it for example if they have a forward Gold Mine which doesn't have any towers around it maybe you want to go for a rush or if they have two gold mines at the back of their base it means they can might be able to Turtle there for 10 minutes and there's not much you can really do about it so then maybe you want to boom as well and then find your advantage later on in the game one thing to also mention is you want to look for herbl like goats and pigs this is kind of map dependent though so some maps like frozen wastes frozen lake or Oasis have a lot of heres so this would be up there on that list but if it's one that doesn't have a lot of herbl then it's just pretty low down and you just you get them when you Scout this is the basic list but I do want to show some examples cuz I think it'll be a little bit easier to visualize I'm going to show some examples of scouting and agent mythology so as you can see here we've got our two we've got our two giraffes born which is 600 food which means we're going to need to be finding a second hunt pack so the first thing that you want to do with your scout as any Scout is find your second hunt unless you've already got a th000 then you're probably fine so luckily for me in this game we find it straight way with our zeas here so now we found the second hunt we don't really need to find another one so what we need to do now is think about what sort of game we really want to play so as you can see there I just looked at the town center it's this is quite an open map but if you can get a really good Town Center then uh the game just the game just completely changes for you so here we go I found this second Town Center here which is a possibility cuz it has an elephant on it if you can ad Advance quickly get a second Town Center drag the elephant under uh it's just uh something that your opponent can't really attack until the elephants all gone so it's just something really good to look for I would say hunt first then Town centers so I've looked at the hunt I found it I've also uh queued up some villagers to go there cuz I need to do that for my build and then after that I've looked at the Town centers after that I want to see is it possible to rush the opponent so as you can see here I mean I'm against an easy AI just to to show how it works um but what we're doing is we're scouting out his base to see if he has an exposed gold mine or where he will go for his hunt um so I'm just circling his base to see what he's got obviously he had the same hunt start as me but sometimes the maps screw you you know you could have a look anyway I haven't found his gold mine yet and the only place I haven't looked is the front so I'm just assuming that he's going to have an open gold mine so now this sets me up for what possibly could I go for here I could go for some kind of Rush and some Athena rush to go on the gold mine or I could go for the town center and play kind of a more boomy game um this is the AI but it's against Gaia so probably a rush is is is better probably a rush is better um as I see the Scout here I just give him a little whack um but now what I'm doing is uh I'm Scouting Around for his hunt and and uh his town centers my Scout does go a little bit Wayward now uh but then I realize what I'm doing and uh get back to the the hunt so let's go for another example here we are with example number two so we're going in as Raw on Frozen waste so we get a very good hunt pack to start with which is on the high hunt list Egyptians don't need quite a thousand food because they have the Pharaoh or priest empowering so what do we want from from this map first of all we ra so Town centers are pretty high up on the list and this is frozen wastes which has a lot of goats on the map so what what we want to do is again find a second hunt pack cuz that is pretty useful um and we're also looking for goats and a decent Town Center so we will have the priest to empower and the F to look around so we find some hunt there it is aggressive hunt um and warus can be very aggressive uh this is something that I didn't mention actually because not many Scouts are heroes but as you're using Pho Scout he can just pick relics up straight away uh so we find a relic we just pick it up doesn't really matter what it is we see a town center here um on the first glance the Town Center doesn't look that good but you just want to have a look around it the Pharaoh has quite good line of sight which is why you want to scout with him as as ra and I realized that I actually missed a possible hunt pack there so I'm doing an extra circle around um when your ra the priest does does empower it isn't as good as the Pharaoh but the Pharaoh scouting can be invaluable so it's just good to use him um here we go with another Relic so I'm just checking to make sure that my one's better than that that's the fets of fenri which is a pretty useless Relic uh apart from against that aggressive hunt and here we go we pretty much found the jackpot and that means that that town center is what we're going to go for so now we've done our job when you're ra it is a little bit different when your other cves because your empowering can be better than your scouting um so once you found exactly what you need you just bring the Pharaoh back and he can start empowering The Granary and move the priest over to to help with the gold mine this was the first video in the series for the arc cage beginner guide if there's a Civ that you'd like to see up first please let me know and I'm not not sure how to distribute the PDFs whether it's a good idea to set up a Discord or some kind of Google drive or something please let me know in the comments of what you'd prefer

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Length: 10min 10sec (610 seconds)

Published: Thu Apr 11 2024