AGE OF EMPIRES 4 | 5 Essential Tips for Rus (Faction Beginner's Guide) 

French! :-) I guess everyone loves that faction

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hey could you do all of them? Really great job by the way. You have a great voice for these kind of presentation and the video edit is top notch. Keep it up!!!

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Thanks for the kind words! Really appreciate it =)

Welcome to the greatest rts series of all time. Totally my opinion lol but I love ages and I hope you enjoy it just as much if not more my friend!

Oh wow! I figured it was the overlapping influence. Thank you for mentioning that!! 🙂

I didn't know that you could cut down the trees around the hunting cabin. I thought that if i cut down the trees, then the cabin wouldn't make gold anymore lol. I was trying to find places to put the cabins and find different places to get wood. I'm so glad I watched this video.

@@Ryzot I was doing exactly the same and still considering Rus powerful and really fun to play. Now, a new world just opened before me :)

@@Ryzot LOL me too

So the video is incorrect.

How do you use cancel animation?

How many hunting cabins do you make at the start? I'm considering forcing the hand on scouts (from the cabin, of course), getting to at least 6, so they move together and are capable of harassing and stealing basically whole deer patches in one go. Being together also mean I don't need to micro each one separately to kill deer faster, nor wolves; so although it may diminish the map revelation rate, the hunting rate will be way higher, I think. It does have a trade off with villagers though (60 food against 50). Now, because Rus are so efficient with wood, I still wonder what could the best first landmark be: Kremlin or Golden Gate? You can do 2 TC very quickly with GG, but maybe the bonus to wood gathering from the Kremlin is also worth it if you think of walling up (which is probably the go-to for Rus)?

@@wilssantos2 Golden Gate, no question asked, it can help you get 2 TC or get you to fast castle or get resources to fight back when put in a corner.

@@JuanxDlol Makes perfect sense. Golden gate is useful throughout the game, not just at the beginning, like the Kremlin, right? The Kremlin is good to make your base more protected from raids, but it's uses are more limited, depending on the aggressiveness of the opponent, then, it seems. And what about the second landmark? I understand the Abbey has been the go-to because of cheaper monks, but wouldn't the High Trade House be a good option in order to complete the bounty bonus in case the opponent denied you of hunts (plus giving gold and lowering the need for too many farms)?

@@wilssantos2 I go trade house when the map has few relics, then the house make it be a huge bonus (food source + the increasing bounty bonus).

Same dmg, each one will fire an arrow until the building is full

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right? I've logged an embarrassing amount of games with the Rus thinking that I needed to keep my lumber camps away from my hunting cabins

They'd be too weak otherwise, the thing that makes the rus so good is how they've got the best early game econ and will dominate the early game. They drop off pretty hard late game. If hunting cabins didn't even give you a trickle of gold mid-late they'd be near useless. Besides, gaining an additional 200g/min from about 4 well placed hunting cabins isn't breaking the game lategame. I still often see people ignore relics and they give 300g/min for 3.

Correct!

How is it broken when all civs benefit from this. All civs have the ability for scouts to carry carcasses too with the upgrade

In what way is that broken? It hardly matters even for the rus. You've gotta transition to farm econ anyway idk why all these old AoE fanboys want every single micro thing rather than have some quality of life so you can focus on the game instead of decay/projectile stutter stepping...

they added many new features to make civs different from each other, and this is a massive part of the rus' advantages. It looks at this point if they brought decay back, they would also have to delete other parts of the game and making it more 1 dimensional.

Still got at least a few months to wait till TWWH3 comes out! If it's too expensive why not try AOE4 on gamepass to see if it's worth it for you?

@@FatalExit + Gamepass is 1€ this month. So you can basically have AOE4 for 1€ ^^

No . the meta now is Mongol Town Center rush . 😂 rus aint nothing compare to that

You don't know what you're talking about if you say rus have best mid-late game. They have the best early that's it.

Wow, no, the Rus early game is actually not strong enough because you're focusing on other things besides ageing up or building an army. You're hunting, which is important for your eco in the mid-late game (you're improving your food and gold gathering rate and delaying the transition into farms). What is strong in the early game is the Rus defense. Rus can make early knights, but it's hard to harass with them early because contrarily to the French or English, this unit does not come from the opening landmark. Plus because they're more expensive then longbowmen or early horsemen, and don't heal like royal knights, your army will grow a bit slower than most of the main opposition in the early game. The best route is to create some knights and archers, yes, but to DEFEND your positions behind the reinforced palisades and the Kremlin/wooden fortresses. That's where the Rus wood efficiency comes into play. You get 20% more wood inside the fortress/Kremlin AoE and things are sturdier. A bit later on, the warrior monks are always great for defending behind the Palisades, and no one will dare approach the walls if you go wololo from behind them and kill their siege with the knights. THAT is how you'll be able to reach age 4 and then build your main army of Streltsy (A LOT), knights(a bunch), warrior monks (a few), Springalds (many) and bombards (some). Also, throughout the game you should be building hunting cabins on every patch of forest (overlapping the radiuses, but not covering the cabins with them) so that you have a regular stream of gold for the endgame. That way you can focus your villagers mostly on wood and food and get away with it. That's my main game plan, at least. And while I know it works, I'm still so bad that I can never pull it off properly. I forget to build the walls and the cabins, training the scouts, keep a steady villager production... I just suck. But I think I understand the concept hahaha

Youre really helping. Thank youu