Age of Empires 2: the best tips

Use the following tips on Age of Empires 2 to help you fight AI and other human opponents.

Defense tips for Age of Empires 2

These defense tips will help you stay on top of attacking enemies:

Ascend as quickly as possible to build barracks.
Then train a few units to eliminate enemies that are attacking you. At the beginning, a few units would otherwise cause great damage.
Once you have enough stones, you can build a wall to better protect your city. Build many gates as well, as they have more life than walls. A forest also serves as a wall through which units cannot pass. Connect the forests with walls so that you use as little stone as possible.
In addition, set up outposts behind the walls at regular intervals. These attack the opponents automatically so that they cannot destroy the wall unhindered. At the university you can also buy upgrades for the outposts, for example to increase your attack strength.
Castles are also particularly effective. Although these are expensive, they have a long range and do a lot of damage. You can even train stronger special forces here.

To win, not only do you have to defend well, you also have to destroy your opponents. How to do it best, read here:

Once you have units, attack some of your soldiers with your enemy. If he has not yet trained any units, he will do great damage. If he already has units, you have also suffered little damage.
To keep track of big battles, you can group your units. To do this, select the units and press [Ctrl] + ['Number'] to save the group to the corresponding number. If you now press the selected digit, the units are automatically selected.
Make sure you also use the individual special units of your people. These replace other units and are particularly strong. You can train them in the castle.
You should place the more expensive and particularly strong units in the second row. So you are not primarily attacked.
Siege weapons should also be out of the range of the buildings you attack. So you can inflict damage without taking damage.
If you attack buildings with siege weapons, you should not use additional melee units as these will be hit by the siege weapons.

If you press [Enter], you can enter one of the following cheats. Then you have to confirm this with [Enter] and activate a lot of advantages: