Guide to Army Compositions & Counters in Age of Empires IV (2024)

@othosos 7 місяців тому

This game is just really advanced rock paper scissors

@immorttalis 7 місяців тому

Every strategy game ever summarised right there.

@Admiralmoti 7 місяців тому

This applies to all RTS

@damelyngdoh2370 7 місяців тому

Adding micro to it makes it even more advanced

@eduardoserpa1682 7 місяців тому

And so are fighting games. Probably every real-time game.

@NolmanZ 7 місяців тому

All RTS but not Aoe1 😭

@nickf950 7 місяців тому

The real guide is the gold players in the comment section

@Calx9 3 місяці тому

I'm not even placed and only play against intermediate AI. Is this the place for me to spew my incredible game knowledge as if I'm conquer 1?

@Deathskull0001 7 місяців тому

A micro guide would be good, but mostly what interests me is your key bindings. As in how do you quickly split a blob of springalds into 4 to shoot at different mangonels or if you harass with cav, how do you split your formation into two bound groups quickly to go into opposite directions, etc

@thegittubaba 7 місяців тому

have you watched beast's keybind video?

@Acanis87 4 місяці тому

​@@thegittubaba His keybind video is horrible xD I really enjoy Beasty-Content, but that video was aweful xD At least, if you expect to learn something from it. Hes explaining his crazy stuff, yeah... But its impossible to do it like him XD...

@jordanleonard8198 2 місяці тому

You have to take the time to not play but learn and make your own to your own comfort and accessibility

@simsang1222 7 місяців тому

Not a lot of micro guides out there, would much appreciate one. Keep it it up beasty you da man!

@bademusoctavianjuvenal2702 7 місяців тому

Beastyqt: explains units strengths and weaknesses, how to counter specific army compositions and more. Me, an HRE main noob with my composition of pikemen, men at arms, landsknhechts and prelates, melting everything in my general direction: I'mma pretend I didn't see that

@Loreweavver 7 місяців тому

I know it's not accurate but I need HRE Huskarls

@terence7009 7 місяців тому

a guide that could be super handy, is perhaps on how to attack into someone booming early. my biggest struggle would be say for example playing delhi against abassid, and they have 2nd tc up almost immediately, by the time I even get a raider to their base, and it becomes extremely difficult to disrupt them from that point. or perhaps get around knight/archer from french into answering their 2nd tc, there has to be a way to practically deal with this, unless its just 2tc myself and then work into rams. but there's probably different approaches for different civs.

@TheHiveLife 7 місяців тому

I mean that like every one of his civ guides/build orders

@alcinkaya 7 місяців тому

Man have I been waiting for this. Thanks!!!

@mogger69 7 місяців тому

I think it would be helpful if there was an input map on the screen showing what keys you press on the keyboard

@simpicusmaximus Місяць тому

There is. It's literally a grid

@sreeravi25 6 місяців тому

I am new to RTS and still don't have the confidence to play PvP, but your guides are really encouraging and gives me hope that some day I might win atleast 1 PvP game!

@mirko7587 6 місяців тому

Who dares wins

@samuelcontreras9248 6 місяців тому

Play vs AI and build up as you go, do 4v4 players vs AI if you like until your ready to do some player 4v4

@ChanJustWon 4 місяці тому

​@@samuelcontreras9248 I did this, ahh, not great experience, team members just rage quit the moment the noob (me in said case) makes 1 mistake, 1v1's a whole lot better experience

@BatteryMCChappy 4 місяці тому

I'm not that good, I'm incredible at building and utilizing villagers and I know somewhat how to counter and overtake. Once my army is build I start building walls to defend then trebuchet for additional defense against there trebuchet if they have any, hell even against battering rams they slaughter. I keep calvary within my wall and move Maa out with archers and pikemen, by then I've built such a mass army that I can overtake most players. Holy roman empire.

@David-op6gh 7 місяців тому

Amaaaziing!!! we needed it. Thanks!!!

@illiazadorozhnyi301 7 місяців тому

Micro guide would be awesome, please do make it Beasty

@markmc5112 7 місяців тому

💯

@seeess925 7 місяців тому

TY very helpful. But I came here because my army and base got ate by elephant.

@anvilsnare 7 місяців тому

This is the content I need.

@demir9131 7 місяців тому

great content

@Kwambomb23 7 місяців тому

you could do a macro tips vid where you talk about how to minimize worker travel, how many vills to use to construct buildings. quick walling etc.

@GarrettBrown-di9dq 2 місяці тому

You're the best Beasty!!! Keep up the great work!!!

@arbtek2279 7 місяців тому

good guide.

@ZawZaw-yb3nf 7 місяців тому

Very educational, Im still very bad at Aoe, Thanks Beasty!

@2bearnest 2 місяці тому

I've been bad for 20 years

@seciumnagapi5167 Місяць тому

​@@2bearnestAs long as we're having fun, right! Right? 😅

@mrcoolabhishek123 5 місяців тому

Ty so much beasty

@AuziFox 7 місяців тому

@beastyqt what kind of keyboard do you use? Wanting to step up my ranked play but micro is lacking. Using mini huntsman, finding it difficult to key bind/ micro battle with it. Thinking of switching to full but not trying to invest into one if it’s not needed. Thanks

@TheCartographeraoe 2 місяці тому

Triangle formation is good for charging archers as the front units with get overkilled and allow you to get on top of the archer line

@zainqasmi 4 місяці тому

Can you do a guide on what tech should I be prioritizing in each age? esp as English. Thanks

@VideoMixer1000 7 місяців тому

How about a Guide to Decision Making? Pointing out for every civ what the key scouting points are. Example: Scout Mongols at 4:00 and at 6:30. When you see no gold at 4:00 then expect A if you see 2 on gold then B etc... So telling us when its important to scout, what we might see and what our reaction should be. I struggle that when i scout at a random time and see a random barrack to know what the meening of that is. If its normal to have a barrack at that time ,if its so early that it shows intend to rush etc... Hope you know what i mean. A how to scout and react against each race would be awesome. Sorry from germany so my englisch sucks

@Jan_Vogelsang 6 місяців тому

This is basically what build orders show you. Even if you don't play a civ, watch their build orders anyway to get an idea what they are planning.

@illustratedquotes Місяць тому

Nice tutorial!

@VII_Spiritual 7 місяців тому

🔥

@chrisnewtownnsw 7 місяців тому

basically the feudal Rock Paper Scissor combos are cav spear > cav archer > archer spear and then the castle Rock Paper Scissors goes knight horsem*n > maa archer > crossbow spear. Horsem*n being interchangeable with mangonel and crossbow being interchangeable with hand cannoneers.

@Marc-gj9vx 7 місяців тому

Not really accurate, horsem*n dont do well against mass of archers/crossbow. They do well against them in small armies. In castle its more: horses/knight -> Mangonel -> Archer/Crossbow -> Spear -> horses/knight MMA are their own category, and good against cheap units (horsem*n, archer, spear) but weak against expensive units (knight, crossbow)

@chrisnewtownnsw 7 місяців тому

@@Marc-gj9vx nah each generic unit beats 2, loses to 2 and is neutral to 1. so for example a spear beats knight horsem*n, loses to archer maa and is neutral to crossbow.

@Marc-gj9vx 7 місяців тому

@@chrisnewtownnsw spear definitely lose to crossbow

@chrisnewtownnsw 7 місяців тому

@@Marc-gj9vx the developers disagree when they made their chart.

@Loreweavver 7 місяців тому

Can you do a map guide? If not a map by map analysis at least a general strategy for the different play styles and civs.

@Grohtan 7 місяців тому

Good idea! I think he mentioned once though that making guides for maps for EVERY civ is way too much, so I think a broad introduction to the maps and their critical characteristics would be nice; like sheep situation, water access, trading, walling etc.

@Loreweavver 7 місяців тому

@@Grohtan that's what I was thinking. There's too many maps and too much potential for change between seasons for a detailed rundown. Even just a quick civ to map tier list like he did for civ matchups would be nice. Redundant maps could be clumped together. Idiots like me who spent a whole match looking for the second sacred site on boulder bay as Deli before finally just pushing a landmark victory can use all the heads up we can get.

@adriel8140 7 місяців тому

LETS KEE *pop* going!

@TheIBlackyI 7 місяців тому

but what to do vs Mass firelancer handcannon from china?

@kalebduggar4251 5 місяців тому

Do you have a build order guide for feudal-castle?

@fabiogiuliani5393 3 дні тому

what the different between shift+click and A+click? Thank you!

@Marc-gj9vx 7 місяців тому

Do a video on the wedge formation.

@christiansanchez4883 7 місяців тому

The only use I can think of it is to get the enemy to overkill your front unit(s)

@LillyAnarkitty 7 місяців тому

3:01 those perfect boxes he just drew are why he’s one of the best

@Kwambomb23 7 місяців тому

wait so if i A move horsem*n and select enemy archers they will only attack archers? I thought they kill the unit you select and then attack whatevers closest

@angryviking8808 6 місяців тому

Keep clicking my friend devote your entire game to clicking those dirty archers

@WPNSTV 7 місяців тому

What about ram spam? My most sucessful strategy has been Knights+Horse archers Rus into Imperial ram spam from the high armory. I've notieced a large majority of people can't respond to it well due to how supply effecient rams are. They either focus on my knights/horse archers and I start to kite/distract while the rams lay waste to their base, or they go after my rams and they can barely even hurt the rams before my army gets rid of them. It's very wood dependent but I dump almost all my vills on wood and kinda just all-in and it almost always works for me. But what is the counter? This comp wins me games against people that are way above my elo and I feel no other strategy comes close to feeling this OP. I notice most people start spamming spears into this and try to micro into destroying rams while also fighting knights if they get close, but the horse archers punish them as soon as they focus on rams and it's really easy to just kite around if spears start trying to fight the cav. Sometimes if the enemy has something ridiculous like really heavy gunpowder it fends me off but for the most part the rams are just overwhelming and overrun everything. I would like to know the official counters so I know what to look out for once I see people who really know the counterplay.

@honestymorality2897 4 місяці тому

Springalds

@JVTVable 5 місяців тому

does anyone know the bread and butter unit comp for byzantines ?

@Ferienpapst 7 місяців тому

You can basically counter every unit comb. Knights and handcanoneers get countered by spears and mangos.

@chrisnewtownnsw 7 місяців тому

hand cannoneers actually beat mango with equal resources. Better to use crossbow spear. Or hand cannon spear depending what age you're in

@kejadventures241 7 місяців тому

​@@chrisnewtownnswUnless you miss Click. Then all the math in the world won't help you.

@Adribird 7 місяців тому

@chrisbeer No. Mangos are better now vs ranged.

@chrisnewtownnsw 7 місяців тому

@@Adribird nope. see apollyon and his video for the hand cannoneer vs mango battle simulation. Hc wins and It is surprising I know. To find it search 200 Chinese hand cannoneer vs 50 mangonel.

@Adribird 7 місяців тому

@@chrisnewtownnsw 3 months ago I gave my answer to that test, specially about its population and total cost.

@user-eh8hm3pt1g 7 місяців тому

As an English player, I find it very hard to fight against knight civ like france (generally, hoseman+archers), since micro of spear+longbow is much harder than bows+knights. France archers can just F2A the floor, although shooting spearman is better, but with low APM, shooting at longbows is still worth it. Keep knights running between two forces can tank auto attack longbows But English should constantly moving spearman back and forth to protect both archers and spearmans, while targeting archers to shoot at enemy archers). And also the ratio between longbows and spearmans(1 barrack or 2? you need to scout) are hard to maintain, you should prepare enough spearman to prevent france knight rush, but also enough longbow to threaten france archers (or knights will just hover around and keep his archers moving forward, which force you to retreat) just wonder will it be better if I go with horseman+spear or horseman+less spear+a little longbows?

@rafamilk1 7 місяців тому

thats why you need to defend and tech into castle, making a narrow point with walls, and towers favours english defense, since you be fighting under houses and tcs where knights cant really do much

@user-eh8hm3pt1g 7 місяців тому

@@rafamilk1 English is terriable against franch in castle in long term... You go 2 tc, Franch got the map and 2tc(with better production speed); you go fc, Franch can harrase you and grab 1~2 vils / slow down your gold/wood then go castle. I mean I usually go only feudal aggresive or 2tc+straight to castle(palace) against them, 12~15 minutes is the best time for english to kill france Not complaining Fr>En overall, but in feudal age battle micro English side is just much more difficult, while macro difficulty france is harder.

@bastienm347 5 місяців тому

You missed a HUGE point. Some civ have men-at-arm at feudal. And you don't have crossbow then. How do you counter that with abbasid for exemple ? I mean there are civ that have nor MAA nor knight at feudal.

@chrisnewtownnsw 7 місяців тому

According to this explanation if you don't have feudal maa then there is no counter to feudal longbow spear that's why I don't think it's entirely accurate. I believe the knight archer does counter archer/longbow spear.

@bastienm347 5 місяців тому

No, if you don't have MAA, he said there are 2 counters. The 2nd one is cavalry+archer. You need to run around with you cavalry to get the archer and use archers to kill the spears. It seems harder thant MAA but doable. He even talk about fighting english: "They go longbow, so you go horsem*n, so they need to had spears so you had archers". But I think he did not talk about how to counter MAA at feudal, without crossbow or knight. So it seems that if you fight with a civ without MAA or knight at feudal, you need to rush castle age :p

@charlesf.9904 7 місяців тому

It’s an instruction

@Fu1153nd 7 місяців тому

I see what you did there

@FrostyBud777 7 місяців тому

Horsem*n / men at arms as enlish best combo in age 2

@bastienm347 5 місяців тому

Indeed, I really agree ! Without knights, I don't know how to counter this comp in age 2 ! Did you have opponents who have found solutions ?

@FrostyBud777 5 місяців тому

@@bastienm347horses are meta in this game. If you want to win most games, make horsem/knights and mangonels. Maybe 10-15 pikemen to help stop enemy horse charges. Got me to diamond rank doing this.

@paulberlin2380 7 місяців тому

I wonder how to counter Rus knights and Cav Archers? Theoretically Cav Archers are countered by Archers. But Cav Archers can simply run away from them. And Spears are killed by Cav Archers.

@nathank3190 7 місяців тому

Just got to be a rolling death ball against that combo. Spears and archers need to be holding each others pockets the whole time

@chrisnewtownnsw 7 місяців тому

knight horsem*n

@Adribird 7 місяців тому

Horsem*n, walls, outpost, mangonels.

@Inceptor1254 2 місяці тому

If you think you don't need this video, it's gonna be fun when you get that game with an opp that trashes your usual comp and you don't know what to do

@HamesAlwaysWins 7 місяців тому

now tell us how to defeat 50 streltsy + mangos + rus springalds.

@ReuterL 7 місяців тому

Mango+culverin, Chinese hand cannons, mass archers with heavily delayed late horseman charge/flank Mongol springalds

@david1913 5 місяців тому

what about obnoxious archer horses running in backlines killing villagers

@metasamsara 7 місяців тому

I started with Chinese when the game released, because I love defensive playstyle with walls and towers. But the civ felt kind of lacking in early game and lacks resources in late game. I also don't really like the tax collector system. Lately I've been learning French but not a fan of how easily they get countered by spears. What would you recommend? I was thinking going maybe HRE, or Dehli or Abbasid. But maybe with the new civs things will get better. I'm not convinced I want to give the devs any more money though the game was expensive af and they didn't deliver on a good map editor which was the main thing I was waiting for all along. The map editor we have is super laggy on my low specs and hard to use overall I just want something simple to paint landscape and chill not a full game studio tool... I hope the new maps will be good, I am all for more landscape tactics, I downvote all the flat maps lol. I also wish they would let people queue larger maps in multiplayer for instance large map in 1v1. PS: with French I struggle to match my opponent in production speed vs strength of unit and very often my troops die a lot faster than my opponent's which keeps me on production timer while getting rolled over. It's not even a resources issue I play coc economy very well but I really fall short in battles and my 30k stone walls are useless against one lil trebuchet if I can't contest forever. The royal knights are really bad at multi targetting they get in the way of each other a lot I find playing with archers and siege a lot stronger. The micro guide would help me for sure. Map specific main strategies overview and tips would be a nice series too.

@luciusnorman 7 місяців тому

I use french and english as main, but recently I started with abassid. Loved the eco abassid gives, it's crazy and it has a lot of upgrades that are fun to explore. Plus you don't worry about which Landmark to build and your trades give in an additional resource with an upgrade. You should try them

@kejadventures241 7 місяців тому

God damn this isn't a youtube comment this is a youtube story.

@sisi6679 7 місяців тому

word im not reading all that bro@@kejadventures241

@KingTUMMAN 7 місяців тому

From what you state here, I see a couple of problem (I'll ignore the fact that you bought the game just to complain about the map editor alone = not worth your money but whatever" first thing is you trade (by trade here = yours VS enemy losses) is not good, you said your Army die faster then look if your Army got Counter or lack Upgrade Second, this might be a bit weird but you playing French but downvote any flat Maps, that will kill your army for sure. for experience player it might not be a problem but it's a problem when you can't move your Cavalry around in time because the enemy keep dodging up and down the hills. Third, Siege engine meant to destroy a turtle strategy especially Trebuchet, if you plan to Stay Turtle all day you'll die by Treb spam in the end since the range is longer than you can counter and you didn't push it back. In the end, it's up to the experience, just play more, lose and learn.

@smithsmitherson 7 місяців тому

French knights are the strongest in game with free dmg upgrade and selfheal upgrade, play aggressive, try to kill enemy villagers and use bows for support against spears. Also you have knights in Age 2, while most other civs have them in Age 3. You just have to go into Age 2 within 5 mins, go mainly on gold and food with your villagers and pump out the knights.

@AkiZukiLenn 7 місяців тому

how to counter elephant?

@paulberlin2380 7 місяців тому

Spears, springalds.

@chrisnewtownnsw 7 місяців тому

crossbow spear

@MrTohaelhaddar 7 місяців тому

Ok what about tower elephant

@chrisnewtownnsw 7 місяців тому

@@MrTohaelhaddar knight horsem*n???

@lucadesanctis563 7 місяців тому

​@@MrTohaelhaddargunpowder, crossbows, spears. Delhi has to win most likely early as poss bef everything counters their elephants

@spazghetti7204 7 місяців тому

Please make a counter video for the currently over used ghulam spam. I understand denying stone and, knights and crossbowmen counter ghulam. But in practice it doesn't feel so straight forward

@terence7009 7 місяців тому

yeah, its hard to deny stone when they have enough for the 2nd tc within seconds of aging up. trying to learn how to deal with the boom as well.

@spazghetti7204 7 місяців тому

@@terence7009 I figured out the best way to counter this ghulam rush sh*t is to run knights. The abbassid rush with the ghulam is only really effective against the knight less civs

@wenholee5109 3 місяці тому

How to beat beasty?

@tycho600 7 місяців тому

I end up losing to my opponent because im respecting the fact that he will counter my 2 unit comp when in fact he retardedly masses one unit.

@Kwambomb23 7 місяців тому

hre imp horseman are knights XD

@tylerfrazier5043 7 місяців тому

Anyone want to write this all down somewhere lol?

@anonymeanonyme9755 7 місяців тому

And what do you go for when your ennemy doesn't know what he's doing and goes for a bit of everything ?

@chrisnewtownnsw 7 місяців тому

include your civs power unit into any double unit combo. Power units will break the well rounded army spam

@anonymeanonyme9755 7 місяців тому

@@chrisnewtownnsw Yes could work. When it comes to composition I find the scouting part very difficult too. I played as 3 TC French vs 3 TC Abbasid the other day. He went cav so I went pikes, easy. Then I had to focus on so many things I didn’t see he pivoted to mass pikes / mango. My pike / knights / got eaten so fast I didn’t understand what was happening (elo D2/D3)

@chrisnewtownnsw 7 місяців тому

@@anonymeanonyme9755 maa and spaced out archer combo would eat mango spear. Or just maa

@PervertedPanda3 7 місяців тому

​@@anonymeanonyme9755At the end of the day if you're not scouting or being aggressive you're the reactor, advantage will always be to the attacker unless you blindly got lucky with the counter.

@MusicReign 4 місяці тому

Why am I watching this. I only play team games and always just build mass knights xD Also the other players also mainly just mass one unit and add siedge

@bastienm347 5 місяців тому

No one knows how to counter MAA in age 2 with abbasid xD No knight, no crossbow, no solution

@user-wh2hv6dz9r 7 місяців тому

If u get infinite amount of resources and like 100 production buildings fighting in a choke point, Ottoman prob always win, cuz their infinite great bombards and they never die, they got infinite lancers to shield their bombards, infinite jannisary to repair their bambards, and infinite mangos + springs+ ribaus to combo with bombards. Their seige combo kills everything. Even Chinese seige can't beat those infinite great bombard combo cuz Chinese seige got heavily nerfed, Chinese bambard range tech got replaced and health got halved. Nest of bees only get 8 range which is shorter than mangos. When Ottoman get infinites resources, they kill everything, it doesnt matter what u make. Springs and anti-seige cannot do anything when they got that mass. Before u springs can do real damage, their great bombards+mangos+ribaus already killed hundreds. Even u get like 40x srpings vs 30x great bombards or 40x mangos, same population, u will lose. And knights cannot even get pass their frontline, not to mention they have mether buffs.

@jbosse138 5 місяців тому

Man you gotta try to cut out your keyboard clicks it's so bad

@us7876 Місяць тому

I'm sorry u may be knowledgeable but I can't stand the way you make the content. sotl, hera etc make things much clearer and don't need 30 min of yapping