Everything you need to know about English in AOE4

[@vladimiralexanderlagos1477]

I just bought the game, so this type of guide is really valuable to new players trying to figure out the game just now.

[@TekEffekt]

I hope you are enjoying your time with the game so far!

[@theycallmepotatoma]

Awesome man, i just bought it too! Let’s play!

[@elwell5]

Hey, how’re you getting on a year later?

[@createtaylor173]

I love this type of video. Would love to see one for HRE and the rest!

[@braindead8899]

HRE just dropped

[@thebutcherofblaviken7726]

You have helped me so much to improve in the game, thank you Beasty.

[@AndrejaPotic]

To be honest this feels more helpful than the original guides (not that they were bad, but I run into problems late game even if I execute openers nicely). Waiting for abbasid Hvala puno na videu, nerealan si igrac i pravo je zadovoljstvo gledati te 💪🏼

[@BeastyqtSC2]

Hvala i tebi!

[@Borando96]

@20:52 For anyone interested, it's a general rule for units, that they are at the same lvl as the age you get access to them. For example if you get knights/lancers in feudal/age2, you need to upgrade them, when you are in castle/age3, but if you only get access to them in castle/age3, they are already at the lvl of an castle/age3 knights/lancers. To be more concrete in this example, Rus and French have to upgrade their knights when hitting castle/age3, while other civs don't have to, because the others can only produce knights/lancers only after hitting castle/age3.

[@eduardoserpa1682]

Loved it. The top-level approach It complements really well the build order guides, since it's pretty easy to feel lost after you finish the 'core' of the build.

[@thorny7208]

Just a note, the English farms don't need to be in the mill influence for enclosures to affect them. All English farms produce gold once the upgrade is researched

[@TonysRacing600]

However a villager needs to work the farm, right?

[@davidpereira5969]

@@TonysRacing600 yes

[@ehad1753]

And another note, gold is produced consistently, walk time isn't a factor to how much gold you'll get from farms ^^

[@Borando96]

And another note: You can have between 8-12 farms in the influence of a mill. If you either use the 10 variant (or the 12 variant), you can build the mills/farms side by side and have enough space for 1(2) towers in between, pretty need in the late game when you have like 4-5 fully used mills and someone raids you.

[@franciscomelendeze]

Will farming upgrades affect the income of gold from enclosures?

[@augurheist5637]

Thank you for this video, honestly was super helpful to see what is unique about the English and how to play them as a beginner! I'm completely new to RTS games and I recently bought aoe4 to play with my bf (who was obsessed with original aoe). At first the idea of RTS was boring to me but I tried a few games and... now i'm hooked... I still suck but i'm trying my best to learn and improve each time. There are so many other civs to learn about and it's kind of overwhelming at first but I try to stick with the English first to get the hang of it.

[@eksteenius]

I have played English in aoe 2, 3 and now 4 and your videos have been very helpful. Until now my start has been amazing because i use 2,2,2 opening into wheelbarrow but hopefully this helps late game

[@La12blaugrana]

Best video explanation ever!! Gotta do this with the rest of the civs FOR SURE! hehe

[@GeimerisNeZaidejas]

13:05 - not sure if this is fixed, but age of noob did a video about enclosures and it works no matter where the farm is, you just need to assign a villager to work on the farm

[@harakari9100]

I was thinking about how I wish your guides did this, but I get its a big time investment. So I really appreciate this !

[@magicmacify]

I started with French, played and lost a bit with HRE and now going to English. The early farms and not to have go across the map for food in castle age looks appealing. Thx for your guides!

[@austinprevette474]

My man Beasty always motivating me to play some age. Keep it up brudder 💪

[@BoricuaGRC]

Awesome Deep Dive. Thank you! I would love these for each civ!

[@Kevin.Boyle007]

Wow! LOVE this style of video!!! Exactly what I was looking for - very helpful! Looking forward to more!

[@pgDraxos]

I would love to see more of these! This is fantastic

[@Naddabeht]

Really enjoyed the video. Learned what made English Men at Arms special along with the navy unique unit and tech. Looking forward to other civs I’m trying to learn like Rus and Mongol

[@luispulido9159]

Recently got into the game and gravitated to English, so this is a God-send, made quite a few things click on their general gameplan. Will be checking out the rest of civs you put out a video for, but right now I'm too hokked on the English XD

[@boomingcow]

Thank you Beasty, love this guide. Very helpful, I definitely learned many new things. Would be awesome to see another in-depth one for the French as well :)

[@belphegor_dev]

Very, very helpful! I hope you continue this series.

[@SuperFSA1]

great content beasty!, much love from brazil!

[@FacundoTupac]

This was really useful, please keep them coming!

[@PrincipalDBA]

Thanks Beasty. I only play English--for now. I am not satisfied I mastered it. My castle game is bad and I think I know why. Look forward to the other civs, my opponents. I have nothing to add, I think you got it all.

[@lucasmoreira3237]

Amazing explanation. Loved it.

[@davehorwell1841]

Excellent video, thank you for taking the time to do it.

[@MrLinkDay]

This is a nice guide, not only a build order but an overhall of the civ. Also about the extra farms around mill, you can do 12 if you space it one out, but the question is: would it be efficient?

[@diggoran]

Just a heads up: You can say this video showed the English civ “over all” meaning it summarized everything. “Overhaul” is when you completely change everything. You can remember the difference because “hauling” is working hard to carry a heavy load, so an “overhaul” is when you work hard to completely change a thing over.

[@NastyNate888]

Great stuff! Thanks for covering ones of the civs I was the most confused about. Next do Chinese :P Looking forward to more

[@con_boy]

I do a feudal push on ladder and it works even though it is mad I send 1 villager to chop a straggler tree and 5 and the scout across the map. New villagers go on sheep. The scout finds their gold and the villages build a racks out of sight begins a wood corner. Usually near stone. Pump villager then maa. Until you have 4 maa. After the racks I put the 5 wandering villagers at the proxy on wood. back at home tc the straggler tree will have 50 wood by now he goes mill and house then sheep then farms. All new villagers got to farms now. Once u have 4 maa attack gold. Build tower. Then scout the second gold and tower it. Use the maa to molest the gold. And use towers to make them archers too Basically you go Abbey of Kings at the proxy and go to stone on the proxy. Build archery at proxy and now whe u have 300 ish stone attack and (always retreat to abbey, never let anyone die) and mass push the tc. Build a stone wall over their tc and build the stone tower. Usually they quit then

[@silvertonbook]

Interesting strategy! What’s your name in aoe4 so I can watch your game play?

[@con_boy]

@@silvertonbook I'd rather not, it's easily beatable, your eco is behind .. but it DOES work with people who no idea about it

[@joshhill4610]

Good video Beasty. Should consider recording without audio next time and playing it over the top afterwards. The editing cuts make the background music sound a bit jarring.

[@yaboiiskii]

keep doing these king

[@DylanFalconer]

Please make more of these. So much gold in here

[@DrJeffreyTran]

Clap, clap. Gamers. This video is great for a gold tier newbie like me.

[@con_boy]

I don't understand that people say it is easy. English is a difficult civ. Staying 1 tile away with your long bows while attacking their gold villagers, or woodline at 5min mark, timing the spearman to come in perfectly. Turing it into a ram push before they get knights etc And retreating the push properly while forward vills building towers, and all the while macroing the farms, means basically you need fingers like an ocotopus

[@aidananderson9350]

Easy to learn, hard to master. It's a bit like French in that regard. It's easy enough to run over gold players with Royal Knights, get a huge advantage, and win games. It's quite difficult to manage 4 separate knights individually, applying pressure without losing any, and proactively controlling the opponent's expansions. English is the same. At high level, they require a lot of micro to be effective. At low level, you can just a-move longbows, or turtle to imp

[@amadeusbender3417]

Great Content like always Beasty. Would be happy if you could do something like that for Delhi too.

[@BigJambu]

Love this kind of guide btw 👌

[@cmeb1796]

Interesting fact is that the English man-at-arms is not actually the most tanky man-at-arms. It's actually the Abbasids man-at-arms with camel support that gives them the same armor boost as armor clad and an additional 15% hp from bootcamp. Also interesting is that the Abbasid food farming gather rate is also stronger than English since they get 35% gather rate (golden age + agriculture) instead of 30% and an extra 8% drop off (improved processing). English probably still best though due to enclosures.

[@jaghal95]

English bonus farm + agriculture i guess it's like 45%, the camel support is another unit, its like english mma is more tankier with 20 monks behind heal him

[@cmeb1796]

@@jaghal95 Am kind of confused, English don't get access to agriculture it is a unique economic wing tech (not to be confused with the tier 1 farm tech horticulture). As for camel support, that's true but camel archers is definitely not a support unit. You always want them in your composition in Imperial even without considering this tech, unlike monks which are only situationally useful. So in truth it behaves just like a permanent +2 / +2 armour to all infantry than anything else, or at least that's the way I see it.

[@jaghal95]

@@cmeb1796 Oh yeah i confuse with Horticulture, btw Abbaside have general better economy , but if they have no trade in super late game they lose vs english infinity gold

[@cmeb1796]

@@jaghal95 And anyways lose to the totally balanced network of citadels

[@sliceoflife5812]

Unrelated question, anybody can point me toward how to get a similar hud that shows APM? I feel I could work on getting a higher number by first knowing where Im sitting at but I have no clue how to go about it and know my apm while playing aoe4

[@xxGANMUxx]

Let's be honest I greatly enjoy your presentation, discovered some great things (chad boys really ?) I even want to check out how to play the civ, guenuinely want to give it a tryhard, learning openings etc ... But as a baguette boy, I just can't X"D

[@PersianImm0rtal]

Please make more guides like this

[@dfgddgfdgf7317]

i bought the game 2 weeks ago currently england main maybe later i switch to chineese i like the eco building late game combat currently i struggle with the hardest ai ... in a setup where i face hardest ai late game i can win against it but 1vs1 it just dominates me it techs up faster has more and more troops i was able to defend into castle age against hardest ai in a 1vs1 but still got wrecked by it crazy how good the ai is by now it even sneaked around my castle found a spot where i have low vision to hit a weak point in my defense the ai hit feudal in 3 min 20 sec as rus even though i killed their deers

[@thomaschevrierlaliberte5884]

Very helpful video but I liked for the T-shirt first and foremost!

[@rubberbumm]

Wow I was quite suprised how many things I didn't knew

[@pedroalves9918]

thanks for the lecture!

[@Zetty545]

Thanks for the Video. How important is it to use the second TC Landmark? Or is it even worth to go for a 3rd TC with English ? Thanks

[@ideas_creativas]

Hello Beasty, maybe you can help me... i have a Problem with atack alert 1 vs I.A. or 1 vs 1 Since some weeks, when someone atacksme, i see red circles in the mini map, but i dont hear the sound of the atacking. I dont know if i changed something in the coinfiguration or something has changed with some patch. How can i do to reactivate this sound? And, could you give some advice to check better if someone is atacking me? Thank you very much.

[@KingHarrod3]

Yes!! Pleas do more of these. I am subed and will be back tomorrow for the next one.

[@unkn0wnrge189]

you became my viper in aoe IV, in aoe II viper was my youtube #1

[@debug7]

Great beginner guide.

[@VzlaLeo]

Great guide! would be nice to see an actual match too

[@araratll6374]

This is really helpful please do more!

[@rinaroo4734]

Thanks Beasty you Beauty.

[@TommyLikeTom]

this seems OP

[@tjbach8213]

I feel like people in this comment section would probably know but are the ten farms on a mill efficient resource collection wise? Or will it be slower than just the 8 because of walking time

[@Skillionaire005]

I love this video and series. Can you confirm if any parts of it are outdated now?

[@JuL3r]

With admiralty and enough sight, you always get the first shot.

[@ozgunhicdurmaz3445]

in feudal age if i upgrade armor clad and blacksmith ranged armor my man at arms wont take dmg from tc arrows?

[@muratsar3251]

It’s really helpful video.

[@Vei--]

Can wait for the rest of the civs

[@fbi9965]

Great video

[@auxiliarypriest7548]

Is it worth putting 12 farms around a mill or just sticking with the standard 8?

[@Auronthaw]

Let's look at the hard evidence... Beasty posts a video casting your boy LeeBerb who is, wait for it, an English main. Later, Beasty posts a video "All you need to know about English". I think we all know where Beasty is really getting his stratz guys....

[@thomaschevrierlaliberte5884]

Lol

[@funbucket09]

Hi. quick question. I have noticed in a few videos that you put your units into control groups 1,2 and 3 quite often (I saw you do the same for scouts). Just curious as to why you put them in all 3 groups? thanks

[@showmethefacts4061]

Loved it 🎉

[@Borando96]

@23:29 Does someone know how Arrow Volley scales with the Network of Castles? So is it additive, meaning your Longbows get +90%/120% or is it 70% and then 50% based on the new value/vice versa (even tho that would result in the same attack speed, but still good to know probably)?

[@lineasevenadam5009]

They add up. They shoot like machine gun

[@lunattyyk]

English dont have culverin, doesnt it make them pretty bad later on?

[@grdks981]

You can fit 12 farms actually :)

[@lucasmoreira3237]

More, please. 😃

[@nopurposeposting1548]

cant believe beasty learned from casting the lowest elo player about wyngard

[@bill123f2]

With English i used to go for white tower only to have seag workshop

[@con_boy]

It's a legit strategy, it means you need to go on stone early but to be honest you are saving 800 stone and 250 wood (keep + seige) and a tc is only 300 stone 400 wood so in ruthless tactical terms, keep is always maths better by far

[@bill123f2]

@@con_boyyes insta profit

[@con_boy]

@@bill123f2 for eco timing the tc is better ...for sheer domination the castle is... If I go white tower it's usualy sone aort of mid map or even proxy ..I focus a treb out at the same time. And I also plan to go fast imperial . And basically just rain death on their tc and start dominating a gold mine or something near their tc. Need knights or maa too. If u get to imperial I usually go Berkshire and a 3rd keep too. All in the proxy and they just melt if they can keep u back

[@matthewbenney70]

yes yes yes more please!! :D

[@Lukasmaio]

i liked i enjoy make more!

[@brucewayne-bv4ok]

*On paper English has so many advantages ! wonder why it's not a top civ*

[@Treesssy]

Current high level meta is to take map control, none of English's niche's cater to taking map control, only staying in your base

[@tylerrichter4066]

Early men at arms is terrifying from english

[@PhucNguyen-zz9wu]

Thanks for the game

[@BabuBakthavachalam]

Thank you

[@sovietdoge4963]

More of these ^^^

[@aronkubler7419]

How do you get unlimited resources in an AI game?

[@arturfernandes59]

You have an option to start with maximum resources in one of the game tabs, not sure if it is the second or third tab though 😅

[@umpalumpaian170]

I know your secret Wamans been playing your red bull games lately. Shes boosting u

[@LeoDaV]

Please do Rus next, jefote!

[@94boppers]

* supportive comment *

[@keizan5132]

Better English classes than Open English.

[@kmikel3669]

Hey beasty, I know you get a lot of requests and silly comments. Im a fan of your work ethic and content and am playing everyday at least one game. But for real man is there a way you could review this one game I played. I'm only a silver I player but I played these Mongols and just want to see what I could've done differently. I really thought I was doing well and then by mid to late feudal it starts falling apart. This game sticks with me because I ben practicing and I still just can't get it together. This player want ranked but had a higher base level than I did. You can share this video on tour you tube but for real man my aoe4 screen name is HEIDO KUSCCCHNIF and the game is the last one I played on 09/27 which I lost against the Mongols. I hope you see this and can just spend a few minutes man, and thank you if you could. I want to get better

[@bill123f2]

How much times you say the word insane 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@jonspoard8416]

This game is screwed because of these guides. Wheres the guide to stop the English that I'm facing non stop at Gold 1?

[@j.franciscox3318]

7:47

[@twinsen1949]

DO ONE ABOUT OTTOMANS! OOOOOTTOMAAAAAAAANSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

[@grazianorizzi8343]

HRE PLZ!

[@ermutanda3802]

why is Max Verstappen teaching me how to play English in aoe4

[@Yourmomma568]

Neato

[@uriahgiet]

second comment! I love videos like this

[@fearmaker1000]

English= EZ Mode

[@odenircesarneto6425]

Gaymers from the flat universe

[@DanMnz]

If you have time you can fit more farms? It's not a time thing lol. If you are having issues with the farm setup, you losing a game isn't due to the extra second that takes. You made a video about "everything you need to know..." and you don't know a lot of stuff, so you're asking the chat for help. Classic example of the downside to youtube videos from amateurs.

[@diobrando6147]

hahahahaha

[@j.franciscox3318]

GAYMERS!

[@diego.silveira]

Useful content but you don’t have to make the pewdiepie impression…

[@lisamead3306]

Thank you