When it comes to the Mongols’ case, the game shows a considerable amount of gameplay uniqueness, which allows innovative and powerful builds such as sending four Horsemen to guard Villagers that will build an outpost within the enemy’s territory. There is a lot of love and care to make them special, and it shows in the game. They bring a breath of fresh air to an old, known franchise with new ways to do old things that renew many aspects of the known Age of Empires gameplay.Īge of Empires fans often play different civilizations to appreciate their architecture and unique gameplay aspects. The Mongols are unique, aggressive, and fun to play. If the enemy cannot deal with it, you can keep training horsemen to harass their villagers while you expand around your own Town Center. Still, it can significantly delay the economic progression of the enemy civilization if you manage to build the Outpost next to their primary Wood or gold source. Once the Outpost is finished, the villagers can go inside and start throwing arrows at nearby enemy units. When you’re ready to build your Outpost, you should have four Horsemen and a Khan with you to help your villagers succeed.

Your Horsemen should follow your villagers to protect them from wolves or scouts, and the waypoint from the stable should be set to send the next Horsemen to wherever you are going.

Your Horsemen should be on the way after that, while you send your Villagers in advance towards the center of the map if you don’t know where your adversary is so far - or take your best guess and try to send them where your adversary might be based on where they are not.

When your villager goes to Gold, make sure to pay attention to your Wood count so you can build a Ger - the Mongols’ unique structure for collecting Gold - before the villager returns to the Town Center to drop the collected Gold. At this point, you should have brought back at least four sheep to your Town Center and sent your Khan away to find the enemy Town Center. When building a Stable, make sure to build it within the area of Influence of your previously built Ovoo.

That is why your micro skills must be on point to send any ship you find to the Town Center with your Khan - so you can have food for the Villagers to gather - while looking for the enemy spawn point. If the harassment doesn’t happen very early in the game, the rush will fail. In this build, you will be queueing up Villagers until you have your two villagers going to build the Outpost near the enemy town center.

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