Age of Empires IV: English Build Order Guide

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This English build in AoE 4 is a tight, optimized Dark Age into Feudal pressure into economy snowball. The goal? Get your Longbows out fast, harass early, then follow up with a second Town Center and full map control.

Here’s a breakdown of the English build order in AoE 4, step-by-step.

Build Summary

• Opening Focus: Fast Feudal → Early military pressure → 2nd TC

• Landmarks: Council Hall (for Longbow production)

• Military: 5 Longbows, 2 Spears early on

• Villager Production: Never stop. Seriously. Don’t do it.

Build Order (Timeline Style)

00:00 – Opening Moves

• Queue 5 villagers to sheep (rally TC to sheep).

• First 5 vilagers gather food from sheep.

00:20

• 6th and 7th villager go to sheep.

• Rally point switched to gold.

00:45

• 8th villager goes to gold, builds a house and mining camp.

01:15

• Next 2 villagers to gold.

• Rally switched to wood.

01:35

• 1 villager to wood, builds lumber camp.

02:15

• Use 3 or 4 gold villagers + 1 rally villager to build Council Hall.

03:15

• Build house with a wood villager.

03:35

• Build barracks with a Council Hall builder.

04:00

• Barracks builder moves to wood.

• Rally point now set to stone.

04:20

• Council Hall finishes.

• Move all 3 Council Hall villagers to wood.

• Start making 5+ Longbows and at least 2 spearmen (3 may be ideal though if you can pull it off).

05:00

• Move 3 villagers from sheep to stone.

• Build a stone mining camp.

05:20

• Build a house and a new lumber camp near fresh trees.

05:40

• 1 more villager to stone.

• Rally back to sheep.

06:40

• 3 villagers to sheep.

• Build 2nd TC with stone villagers.

• Rally new villagers to gold.

07:00

• Keep producing military.

07:45

• 2nd TC finishes.

• Send 2 villagers to kill deer, then rally to wood.

Min-Max Tips

• Sheep Herding: Bring sheep behind the TC and spread them out. Avoid bunching.

• Meat Rotation: Assign one villager per sheep so others don’t waste time killing.

• Wood Micro: Don’t let new villagers idle on fresh trees. Guide them to trees already being chopped.

• Deer Prep: Send 2-3 villagers to kill nearby deer before the TC finishes building. Less running, more food.

• Constant Production: Seriously, never stop making villagers.

Final Blurb

This English build is clean, tight, and mean. You get early pressure with Longbows, a fast second Town Center, and the eco momentum to control mid-game. Just keep your production constant, keep your villagers working, and don’t panic if your first few raids miss. The English win by outlasting, not rushing.

And if you forget to make villagers… well, don’t.

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