Win Water

Build Guide

'Age of Empires II Build -' + build.name

Build Overview

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Pros & Cons

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Tips

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Video Examples

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Note: the number on the left indicates your current number of villagers. Don't know where this is?
3
Queue up Villagers

Queue up as many Villagers as you can in your Town Center

2 Houses

Two Villagers build one, one Villager builds the other

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    When finished, send them to Sheep

4-6
Sheep

Send your new Villagers to Sheep

7-10
Wood

Send your new Villagers to collect Wood

11
Lure Boar

Send your new Villager to lure the nearest Boar

12
Dock and 2x Houses

Send your new Villager to build a house near the water, then build a Dock close to deep fish, then build a second House

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    When finished send them back to Sheep / Boar or gather Shore Fish

(4x) Fishing Ships

Make 4 fishing ships on your Dock and send them to Deep Fish

13-14
Wood

Send your new Villagers to collect Wood

15
Lure 2nd Boar

Send one of your Villagers collecting from Boar to lure your 2nd Boar

16-20
Sheep/Boar

Send your new Villagers to Sheep or Boar

21
Sheep/Boar

Send your new Villager to Sheep or Boar

Loom

Research Loom in your Town Center

Queue Feudal Age

Queue Feudal Age in your Town Center

Wall up!

You will be focusing your attention on water, so you don't want your enemy to attack you on land

  • Take a Villager Sheep / Boar to...

Wood

Send your Villager to join your Lumberjacks

  • Take 7 Villagers from Sheep / Boar to...

Lumber Camp

Build a Lumber Camp on a second patch of wood

  • Take 4 Villagers from Sheep / Boar to...

(Gold) Mining Camp

Send your Villagers to build a Mining Camp next to Gold

  • Take a Villager from Sheep / Boar / Shore Fish to...

Dock and House

Build a second Dock and then a house next to it

  • Take 2 Villagers from Sheep / Boar to...

Straggler Trees

Send your Villagers to chop wood from the Straggler Trees next to your Town Center

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16
4
1

Feudal Age

21
Double-Bit Axe

Research Double-Bit Axe in a Lumber Camp

Fire Galleys

Queue 2 fire galleys in your Docks

  • Take the Villager that built the second Dock to...

Dock and House

Build a third Dock and a House next to it

22-23
Gold

Send your new Villagers to mine Gold

24
Mill

Send your new Villager to build a Mill next to your Berries

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    When finished, send them to Berries

  • Take your 2 Villagers gathering from straggler trees to...

Food

Send your Villagers to Berries or heardables if you still have any

25
Berries

Send your new Villagers to Berries

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4
14
6
1

25
You take it from here

Depending on how the game plays out, you may want to expand your navy, go for a fish boom, or start developing an army on land