Age of Empires 4 is a real-time strategy game developed by Water Thunder Studios and published by Xbox Game Studios, a division of Microsoft. Here are some of the main features of the game:
- Civilisation Features:
- England: easy to pick up and excellent defence. Building farms requires fewer resources, and peasants carry shortbows with them for some fighting ability. The landmark building Berkshire Palace can improve defence performance, and the castle grid can improve the attack speed of nearby units. The unique unit of Longbowmen is powerful and can be deployed as a defensive barrier against cavalry.
- China: The opening game has many peasants, which gives an advantage in economic construction. You can train court officials to collect tax money, and you can build two landmarks in one era. Entering the Tang, Song, Yuan, and Ming dynasties will give you different benefits, such as the Song dynasty’s focus on population and the Ming dynasty’s focus on military. Military units such as Zhuge Crossbowmen, Fire Spear Cavalry, and Hive Cannon are strong in later periods.
- Black Eclipse: There is only one landmark, the Palace of Wisdom, which can propel the civilisation into the next era and gain advanced technology. It has an excellent anti-cavalry unit, the Camel Archer, and a special mechanism called the ‘Golden Age’ that brings economic growth and faster research. Imams trained by mosques can provide benefits to the team.
- France: Cavalry is powerful, Royal Knights can be trained in Era 2, Crossbowmen and Cannons have unique advantages, and Cannons are good for siege. Merchants are fully functional and can return with any resources. Some buildings around the castle cost less and produce faster.
- Delhi Sultan: suitable for strategy planning players. Era 1 Mosques can be built to train scholars, bringing multiple bonuses to the empire, and technological research can be interrupted and continued, but requires scholars to be stationed. War elephants and war elephant archers have high life and attack power, but are expensive to train.
- Holy Roman Empire: Focuses on all-round development, Religious unit High Cleric can be trained in Era 1, increases peasant productivity and heals friendly troops. Buildings in the town centre and within the area of influence of large archery towers have emergency repair capabilities, and storing holy relics improves building vision, weapon attack range, armour and damage.
- ROSE: Hunting lodges provide benefits and generate gold income, as well as training scouts. Specialises in wilderness hunting, hunting animals generates gold and increases bounty. Wooden fortresses can be built, with wooden fences as the defence core. Shooting armies have high melee attacks, and monk warriors can inspire nearby units.
- Mongol: Nomadic civilisation, buildings can be disassembled and redeployed, camps can be quickly relocated for guerrilla warfare. Khan can be sent out for combat, and signal arrows provide bonuses to nearby military units. Early cavalry are excellent marauders, units can set enemy buildings on fire to gain additional resources, unique units of the Mongol Raiders move fast, have accurate archery, have long range and can shoot while running.
- Campaign Mode: Based on real historical events, there are multiple campaign chapters, which allow players to gain a deeper understanding of the historical development of each civilisation and major events, with a strong sense of historical immersion. After completing the campaign missions, some information films will be unlocked to further enrich the game content.
- Economy and Development System:
- Resource Management: There are four main resources in the game: food, wood, gold ore and stone. Players need to arrange villagers to collect them reasonably to ensure that there are enough resources to build buildings, train soldiers and research technology. You can also build a market to trade resources and increase the efficiency of resource utilisation.
- Era Upgrade: Players need to progress from the Dark Age to the Feudal Age, the Castle Age, and finally to the Imperial Age. Each era will unlock new buildings, units and technologies, players need to decide the timing of upgrading according to the situation and their own development needs.
- Tactics and Strategy:
- Troop Matching: There are many types of troops in the game, including infantry, cavalry, archers, artillery, etc. Each type of troop has its own strengths and weaknesses, and players need to reasonably match their troops according to the different battle scenarios and the opponent’s troop combinations in order to maximise their combat power.
- Terrain Utilisation: Terrain is very important in the game, players can use mountains, rivers, forests and other terrain for defence or ambush the enemy.
- Siege and Defence: Siege is an important part of the game, players need to build siege equipment to break through enemy walls and fortifications, and at the same time, they also need to strengthen the defence of their own bases by building walls, defensive towers and other buildings.
- Multiplayer Battle Mode: Players can play real-time battles with other real players to compete with each other’s strategies and operation skills, and also play against the computer AI to familiarise themselves with the game’s rhythm and practice tactics.
- Custom Game: Players can use the powerful map editor to create their own game maps and gameplay, as well as experience a variety of interesting game modes made by other players.
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