5 Beginner Tips for Combat! | Age of Empires 3: Definitive Edition

[@seasonal_flu328]

lol, I remember when I was a kid, I used to train like hundreds of soldiers and just select them as a whole and have them attack the enemies.

[@Widgie]

Me too! I wish I knew more back then lol

[@neiljackson6382]

I still do that

[@GameInOne]

Wait so are you telling me that’s not a good strategy 😕

[@bernard3303]

One of my most memorable games was fighting a turtling ottoman player as russia, he built like 15 layers of walls, with towers and a massive number of cannons and jannisaries guarding them... and i had muskets ! 😅 so i sent muskets stack after stack to their deaths, destroying his walls 1 after the other with endless numbers of muskets. and i didnt even make a single cannon the whole game. Long story short after around 5000 muskets died the ottoman player surrendered after a heroic defence and was like, man your soldiers never end ! Good times

[@aztecgoldmontizuma]

Extra tip, settlers melee damage is way higher than their ranged. You can easily kill a lone hussar by mobbing your settlers walking towards him so most of them are in melee range and telling them to attack. I have had to do the same thing against artillery with mixed results. They can also more easily kill enemy settlers like that pesky one in the video building the wall.

[@CptTexas1]

On formations, the Defensive is great for moving around since they dont change between column to row and vice versa. It's like Napoleonic squares. I actually use the stagger mode with 40 and up because the firing line is wider and more compact so you have less units trying to walk around the sides to get shots and slightly harder to flank if against melee (useless in urban environments and sieges) . Literal Napoleonic Infantry tactics of square to move to firing positions I love it.

[@Widgie]

Thanks for letting me know! Appreciate it :)

[@anandb2]

Is there a way to set the default military unit posture to Defense. To make it retain positions after attacks. I cant find that option in AOE3DE.

[@CptTexas1]

@@anandb2 Not that I'm aware of Rise of Nations has that though. All they would have to do is add boxes on the bottom of training building to select starting formation. Might be hard for forts though.

[@Widgie]

@@anandb2 I don't believe there is I'm afraid :(

[@prueba9a956]

Those are some solid points man thank you

[@23StudiosSports]

Thank you. I used to be very good at AoE 3 the original... finally got in to DE and I keep getting demolished.

[@Widgie]

No problem! Here to help 🙂

[@23StudiosSports]

@@Widgie I always feel like I can’t keep up when someone rushes me or has a forwarding base. How do you defend against that? Do you send out raids to fend them off while you build? For example send longbowmen early if I’m British

[@Widgie]

Best way is to defend by getting minuteman and micro management of settlers. If you get the chance to raid with cavalry then do so. Try not to sacrifice military units and pick your moment carefully

[@patrickbraz9449]

your channel is exacly what I was looking for. Very nice video, keep rocking bro!

[@Widgie]

Thanks dude! Glad you like it 👍

[@TotalWarChronicles]

oh my god i have not seen you face for a while! im so glad i get to grace your holiness again!

[@Widgie]

Haha you're welcome 😉

[@TombstoneThe]

i remember years ago when i was playing OG Asian Dynasties on Steam, i was playing Japanese vs. an Aztec player when he made a unit i had never seen before. I was so confused how these funny guys with slings were killing my Ashis so handily... until i clicked the enemy unit and noticed it had massive ranged resists. Something in my brain clicked... i had seen something before... The "Melee" formation. Previously i had never seen the point. Why would I stop my musketeers from using their guns? Even vs. cavalry, they could never catch them anyways, so the melee attack would only be useful defensively. Until my next fight, that is. It's the last big noob game push. We throw our clods of enemies at each other... but this time i swap to Melee formation. Suddenly those slingers went from "impossible to beat" to "getting shredded like paper"! That's the moment AoE3 clicked and found a place in my heart. Formations are more than how your units stand around, it can completely change certain units' function and matchups.

[@Widgie]

Yeah it makes a difference when you start to learn formations especially when your enemy has falconets and you need to spread out and minimilise damage.

[@endijsurtans3767]

Hi man, i played aoe2 and aom as a kid but i played it lika a city builder😂, now i am trying to get good at the game i have 50h on aoe3 i can beat hard bot but not hardest is that good or bad for 50h ?

[@pranaypatil1969]

Great content !!!...subscribed

[@Widgie]

Thanks mate! Appreciate your support 😊

[@domenicobarigelli573]

Hi! How do you attack move? Any hotkey ?

[@Widgie]

Attack move hotkey for me on on the default hotkey setup is Z

[@driamalor]

Hey widgie, how do you select separate group of military? I did see often in your vids when you move the bowman and infantry separat. i dont get it how to select these different kind of groups without the mouse?? Thx for your vids man, i realy learned a lot of them!!

[@Widgie]

It's control groups, ctrl + 1 would create a ctrl group under the 1 key. The shift key adds and subtracts units from the ctrl group. Hard to explain here, join my discord server and I can explain easier :)

[@tokupuayemi3309]

u deserve to get famous bro

[@Widgie]

Thanks for the kind words dude, appreciate it ☺️

[@andreasjonsson3419]

What is the best civ in your opinion??

[@Widgie]

Good question! I would probably say either Japan or British

[@anandb2]

Is there a way to set the default military unit posture to Defense. To make it retain positions after attacks. I cant find that option in AOE3DE.

[@Widgie]

I'm afraid there's not :(

[@anandb2]

Hmm ok. It was there in Age of Empires-Mythology

[@arconrevan]

1:12 nigga what did you just call caroleans?

[@kkasfa1596]

This is actually quite helpful! Also, i only have the normal version because i don't have the equipment. Any tips on how to improve against harder AI? For some reason it's hard for me to find multiplayer.

[@Widgie]

Are you playing on the legacy version? I rarely play against the AI so I would suggest applying as much pressure in the earlier game.

[@cyclonegaming443]

For AI they attack outpost immediately, so cover you town in outposts and other defensive structures (it makes them spread out to seize the outpost) and have your units attack from both sides.

[@Bunno1177]

Thank you

[@Widgie]

You're welcome

[@raefgaied9011]

Which game should i play : age of empires 4 or age of empires 3 defenitive édition, pls help me ???

[@Widgie]

All depends on what you’re after, it’s a hard one. AOE3 has way more diversity

[@raefgaied9011]

@@Widgie so what should i download ??

[@melihkabaagac1414]

it seems like everything is "really really"

[@Widgie]

Yeah I need to work on my explanation, I can get a little carried away haha

[@esuba_gaming]

you have all the time idle workers

[@nishantbhide577]

Is there a way to select the same category of unit together ?

[@Widgie]

I don’t believe so

[@nishantbhide577]

Cool. Do you have a video on control groups ? How did you get like the infantry or the cavalry all together. Is that using control groups ?

[@Widgie]

@@nishantbhide577 just released a recent video on hotkeys :)

[@nishantbhide577]

@@Widgie Beautiful! Sorry for the noob questions. I’ve just been introduced to the game by friends and got whooped last weekend 😂

[@Widgie]

@@nishantbhide577 Welcome to this awesome community :)

[@marnixmaximus3053]

Yoo how can you set to seeing units through trees?!

[@Widgie]

it's in the game options at the moment

[@marnixmaximus3053]

@@Widgie I don't see it there, any specific name?

[@Widgie]

@@marnixmaximus3053 Must be in game options? Maybe check on the reddit forums?

[@nuruddinshah684]

nice tip but what is the hotkeys. If you want to make tips don't forget the hotkeys

[@Widgie]

I’ve got a hot key tips and tricks video! Already way ahead of you lol

[@nuruddinshah684]

@@Widgie link plz

[@Widgie]

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[@녹성-n5p]

How do you move entire army at once in non definitive edition?

[@Widgie]

There should be a small button near the minimap which should select all. There's also a hotkey of you check the settings

[@VeryPainfulPoop]

@@Widgie Alt+Y is the default :)

[@Widgie]

@@VeryPainfulPoop Thanks :)

[@christoesterhuyse8166]

Nobody: Me: Hey, why dont I play age of empires 3 in 2021

[@Widgie]

The DE version is really nice

[@christoesterhuyse8166]

@@Widgie Ok thanks, Difinitive Edition?

[@Widgie]

@@christoesterhuyse8166 it’s the remastered version of aoe3 :p

[@christoesterhuyse8166]

@@Widgie Aaahh thanks alot

[@Hidious10]

"really really"

[@Widgie]

Really really

[@Hipopian]

wtf that intro bro lol............