AoE4 Delhi Basics You Should Know

[@a4rino]

Hey Fitz, the wifi mosque is giving the full percentage boost. The home barracks would research the tech faster because you have a garrisoned scholar boosting with efficient production.

[@MrDombosfi]

Exactly. 2 * 41.5 = 83 -- > 1 min 23 sec

[@RabidHobbit]

I had no idea that efficient production stacked with the scholar bonus, wow.

[@jawohl7848]

wuz about to say the same

[@EurrikkeEdward]

@@RabidHobbit holy crap isnt that pretty frickin strong??

[@jeromemartel3916]

A quick pointer for the different time in the barrack with the wifi mosque: One of the barrack is affected by the scholar inside it. It not only boost the production by 100% but also the research time of that building by 100% making it a must have vs french for faster improvement to the spearmen. Also other tips: -Duplicating early building is super good on delhi for faster tech. Especially in the case of the mill early in the game. Most of the time, you will have only one mill stuck at researching a potentiel of 3 tech early in the feudal age. Building one other in transition can help you reach for the tier 1 +15% food upgrade faster, competing better with early 2 tc eco if you do all the upgrade. This can be used for lumber camp too. - You must plan the future. You want to ram rush someone? You need to start the tech earlier rather than later to be on time with the your push. Early forges are essential to delhi and the wood cost can be mitigated with scholar garrisoning in production building.

[@rahulgr3167]

Really good tips!

[@jigzo78]

I didn't realize that the garrisoned scholar boosted military research as well. that's huge!

[@YourTamedLion]

Great tipps fellow Sultan grubEle

[@jeromemartel3916]

Forgot to point out that for the tower of vicyory, you can rally your unit inside radius and shift click another rally order to where you want to actually them to go. This allow to ensure they go where you want and get the buff.

[@chronographer]

I didn't know you should shift queue rally points, that makes it so much easier.

[@nunyabizwacks6711]

i think they get the buff regardless as long as the building they are produced in are within the towers influence

[@zothantluangarenthlei5285]

I have been playing only Delhi since release without looking up any guides but this is exactly how I play them, quick sacred site capture, walling them... also fuck wolves on certain maps, they always attack my Scholars Another thing about Delhi which is probably unintended is if you place a stone wall/wall tower with a villager but let your infantry build like 1 palisade nearby, they go over to build the wall up even without taking their Age 3 landmark, this is pretty useful but I'm sure they'll fix this later

[@YourTamedLion]

Great Tipp. Wow 🤯

[@shelbytimbrook2095]

FYI, Sanctity actually allows you to capture holy sites in the first age if you for whatever reason haven't aged up by the time you have Sanctity.

[@AnuraagWagh]

Hahaha. Thats so true.

[@Blottingpaper]

Lets go fitzbro, hope your channel booms as hard as you do.

[@adn17]

Mosque wifi. This has to be the coolest concept in the game! Thanks for the wonderful and soothing explanation Fitz

[@Tom3K_grabarzzzz]

All the civs are so Well designed i that im playing with only few atm and with Delhi i played one game so far and they seem very interesting and fun to play but i Gotta Save them for later right now i want to master mongols and rus

[@Amadeus8484]

One of my favourite features is that the Hisar Academy gives you a trickle of food for every technology you have :)

[@jigzo78]

Early sacred site captures are great, I was ignoring them and underestimated the gold benefit early. I like going for the fast castle, building a keep and planting a mosque next to it so I can research boiling oil and villager production/drop off point from them nice and quick. Nice, safe and fast expansion and one of the unique techs of Delhi that doesn't get talked about. Also the forward mosque will give a small amount of healing to units if you go for the research from the age 3 landmark.

[@user-tj5yg5pk8v]

You can put buildings within the very top corner squares of the mosques influence to maximize how many buildings you can cram into one mosques area of effect.

[@Nickball97]

I love Delhi and have been trying them out, even beat a french player yesterday, but damn they are hard to play, probably the hardest in the game.

[@RabidHobbit]

I'm having trouble with Rus due to all the micro.

[@JimmySquiky]

My main stuggle with the Delhi sultante is surviving early rush. If I can reach age 3 I usually win.

[@RabidHobbit]

Yes, esp MAA rush. I think early palisades are probably the key.

[@nunyabizwacks6711]

just get earlier archer range and/or rax and garrison ur scholar in there. I feel like english longbow rush is the only one that should be hard to deal with because u can produce alot of units with dehli early

[@jasonsmith1950]

I've been trying to come up with an effective strategy for the Delhi to use the Tower of Victory. I think that it would work best with a prolonged dark age on an easily wall-able map (like black forest). The basic idea is that you wall aggressively to delay any combat and use the time to build up (producing an additional scholar in the dark age, capturing sacred sites, maybe building an extra mosque to allow simultaneous research of mosque techs, build a small army of spears, etc.). I haven't tested this out so I don't know how viable these ideas are, but I'd expect Tower of Victory to be more powerful if you can get around the fact that paying full-price for scholars is a really slow start (especially if it's built in an aggressive spot, such as next to a sacred site).

[@jonah741]

Don't produce an additional scholar in the dark age, instead rush to Tower of Victory and then focus on wood during the building period. I place it in a forward position if possible with a lot of space around it. You can build with 2-4 vils. In the meantime, you're going to focus gold and wood while producing vils and a few spearmen. You need to be chopping a ton of wood as you enter Feudal. During Feudal age you're spamming structures - you especially need to build palisades. Especially if you don't have choke points. They are cheap and allow you to respond to threats. Palisades allow you to see threats and answer them. Build with zigzags and make small cells if you need to. [Build palisades]. Palisades stop or funnel cavalry into your spears. Build Palisades. Two blacksmiths, 1-2 barracks, 1 archery range placed strategically around your Tower of Victory, rallied to the aura. 3-4 Mosques. You want enough gold for three mosques to fill themselves up before you hit Castle age. Since you need to spam wood at the start you won't have enough gold income, so just have the idle mosques researching the technologies you want (Scholar HP is VERY powerful early). After youre sitting nice on scholars and structures researching, switch back to a food/gold economy. You should go Tower of Learning. If you are attacked before you reach Castle you need to ungarrison some or all of the scholar you have and use them to defend yourself. A few spears, bows, and those 6 idle scholars are incredibly powerful when the enemy is forced to fight on your terms (palisades). The scholars are keeping your few units alive, and they are fighting with the +15% attack speed boost, and at some point you finish your +1/+1 upgrades. If you use your units correctly you are incredibly hard to kill in Feudal. Losing research boost time is not as bad as it sounds if it means you completely waste your enemy's push. Once you hit Castle age immediately research the most powerful unique tech available to Delhi: Forced March (Blacksmith). Close behind that is Honed Blades (House of Learning). Also research Swiftness (Mosque) and all of the blacksmith upgrades. At this point you have three or four fully stocked mosques and all of these research incredibly fast. Once your Castle age research is queu'd you need to set up 4-5 barracks, and 3-5 archery ranges near your Tower of Victory. Build a few more scholars and garrison one in each of your Barracks/Archery ranges. At this point you can literally just spam Men at Arms. Mix in a few spears and some crossbows/archers. Don't worry about elephants UNLESS you need them to defend. One safety elephant is fine and does do a lot of work, but they are slow and expensive. When your research finishes up, or earlier if you don't care as much or have what you need, ungarrison your mosques and send them with your army. Forced March and Palisades. As you push out with your MaA/Scholar/XBow battallion, use palisades to protect your flank as you secure relics and sacred sites if you want. You can literally just zerg in and kill most people right now. Use Forced March strategically. The speed boost is INTERRUPTED when the unit issues an attack command. Select 5-6 Men at Arms, then just send them (Don't attack move) just behind the enemy Mangonels (Because they are currently spamming Mangonels after they see 80 infantry in a ball). They will dodge under the Mangonel shot and end up right on top of the Mango, with +15% attack speed, and kill it in less than a second with Honed Blades. If you are fighting with cavalry, use Forced March on your XBows and reposition behind a palisade or line of MaA. If you are WINNING against cavalry and they are running, use Forced March to reposition your XBows to get a few more shots off. You can OUTRUN CAVALRY with MaA or with PIKES with Forced March. One thing that is incredibly effective is to Force March a handful of crossbows away from the fight and into the enemy's resource lines and just let them go ham. They will 100% get their value before they can be responded to. After you destroy their siege weapons, you can return to your palisades and heal up your army in a few seconds and do it again with reinforcements and rams. You need to kill most people before late imperial with this strategy, but it scales fairly decently and always has the potential for landmark snipes with sprinting Men at Arms. Behind this if you've setup a secure trade route you can go Hisar Academy to get some ultra-lategame longevity with infinite food/gold. Palace of the Sultan is powerful but imo not worth the 3 population/elephant, +4 locked up scholars, so I've actually been liking the free food trickle. I think Delhi is very strong, but Chinese gunpowder is scary.

[@YourTamedLion]

Love the Delhi so far. And even jf in the video you overlooked small things like "sanctity" allowing holy Site capture even in dark age and garrisoned scholar additionally reducing Tech Upgrades in that building by 50% of what you already have reduced it to with mosques, this Video and comment section is already a great place to find useful tips for this complex civ :)

[@loweloking88]

With Delhi I spend the resources and wall right after my mosque is done. No other empire in this game needs to wall as badly as Delhi does because they are extremely vulnerable before castle age since the entire Civ focuses on tech building dark to feudal and not combat. Late game they will destroy everything with elephants so you really have to defend defend defend early

[@armagedoc66]

Good thing mosque influence area is quite big. Can fit many many buildings. And stack 2-3 of them.

[@chronographer]

Additional buildings extend the range. E.g. A blacksmith still will get the buff if it's next to a house that is within range of the mosque. And a stable next to the blacksmith will get the buff too. Etc. Similar mechanic to the golden age.

[@chronographer]

Just remember you still can't pick up or capture the relics until you get to castle age. Took me a while to work out why I couldnt get the scholars working properly. Also I'm fairly sure sanctity allows you to get the sacred sites from dark age, not age two. Although you might not have the scholars to spare without the dome.

[@user-tj5yg5pk8v]

Any building connected to a mosque yeah. There's a tooltip for it

[@err0r-completion]

how are you giving yourself unlimited resources in the demo/solo mode? I want to practice a few things but can't find any cheat codes or way of doing it.

[@relhaz4326]

Yo Fitz, Berries or Hunt for Delhi? Hunt is obviously more dangerous, but if there was no harass, are hunts still faster?

[@chronographer]

Berries last you ages with the mill bonus from Delhi.

[@Glamy001]

It’s the same rate for dehli

[@excaliburton3585]

So, If I build a mosque, un-garrison my scholar, delete the mosque, and build a new one, do I get another scholar? Or is it literally the first mosque you construct? Likewise, if one were to cancel their first mosque, or lose it for some other reason, would they miss out on the free scholar?

[@zothantluangarenthlei5285]

Only the first mosque, if you delete the first one the Scholar inside will just get ungarrisoned

[@excaliburton3585]

@@zothantluangarenthlei5285 Thank you for the reply! I realized after asking the question that I could just test for myself. Oops... Just for posterity's sake, I'll share what I discovered: If you delete the mosque before it finishes, to relocate it or whatever, you don't lose out on the scholar, but if you delete it after it goes up, and build a new one you don't get a second scholar. Sometimes the Age team words their bonuses/ techs in a misleading way, so I just wanted to see exactly how it works. I was mostly curious because the mosque only costs 100 wood, whereas the scholars cost 150 gold, I know more goes into it than that, like villager idle time and the micro you'd need to build three mosques in a row without losing too much time... TLDR I figured if you could save that gold early you could still age up on time and have a slightly faster research speed. In hindsight, I realize, even if it did work, how much of a setback it would be even attempting it, considering how tight the feudal age can already be. Sometimes thinking outside the box is fruitful, sometimes not. This time was a "not" time. And on that note, KZbin, I hope you're all enjoying Age 4 and/or related content. Take care.

[@diobrando6147]

@@excaliburton3585 Had that Idea 10 minutes ago thanks for testing haha

[@excaliburton3585]

@@diobrando6147 For sure! I'm always happy to find the answer to one of the random questions my brain keeps me up till 2am with. lol

[@YourTamedLion]

@@excaliburton3585 us research fans Just NEED to know the answers 😅 Seems typical for a Delhi players.

[@burjisazrael4164]

Wi-fi won't reach that far. It's probably radio or satellite!

[@YourTamedLion]

The difference in the video was that the one military building had a scholar garrisoned INSIDE. That cuts the time for Tech upgrades of that building by an additional 50% on top of the bonus from mosques.

[@tbone8358]

0AD is better than AoE4