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GameSpot's Guide to Age of Empires (back to home page)This will open a small remote window for navigating this guide
General Tips and StrategiesThe Civilizations you can playThe Units you can commandThe Buildings you can raise (and raze)Campaign walk-throughsExpert tips from two AOE programmers!Table of Contents
Egypt | Glory of Greece | Voices of Babylon
Yamato Empire of the Rising Sun

The CampaignsSoldiers Page 6 of 36
Egypt: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12

Egypt Campaign # 6: Farming

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The attack comes from the north. Be ready

Goal: Control the ruins and amass 800 in food.

The Skinny: You have to control the ruins across the river to the west. The Nubians are over there, so, in all likelihood, you'll have to defeat them. They'll also launch an attack against you, after a few minutes have elapsed.

Put one of your villagers to the task of chopping wood and the rest to forage for berries. Build another four or five villagers and have them pick berries. Upgrade your clubmen to axemen, and build another three axemen. The attack will come from the river to the north. Keep your axemen together to fend off this attack and don't let the enemy sweep by your axemen to harass your villagers. When the berries are picked, chop wood and build a market. After the market is built, you can farm for more food.

When the Nubians attack, fend them off then immediately counterattack. You should be able to kill many of their villagers and stunt their growth. Build an archery range and build some archers, then combine them with your axemen. March across the river, finish off the Nubians (either kill them all or kill all the villagers so they cannot collect any more resources to sustain them), and gain control of the ruins. As soon as you have 800 food, you win.

Dangers: The Nubians will attack. If you are not successful in holding them off and counterattacking, they will grow in strength and attack with greater strength. Don't be sidetracked by the ruins - the Nubians are the only threat.

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