Guide to Blacksmith Upgrades in AoE4! 

IMPORTANT EDIT: Please ignore the Military Academy section in this video and refer to the newly released dedicated video for it: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_JrcyLXci4Q.html Hello everyone! I've made some changes to my audio setup and added a new outro. Let me know if you prefer the new narration's sound compared to the old one. Cheers!

I had to rewatch the video, the first time watching I was mesmerized by the beauty of the graphics

YESSS Age of Noob is back!

1 thing to note is ranged attack doesn’t increase the damage of gun power def units, and a big reason why ranged attack is so good, at least in fuedal, is becuase archers have 5 attack vs 8 for spears, 9 for horseman, and 19 for knights, making it give them significantly more damage. I would say that the order of getting the upgrades is correct for fuedal, but in castle it’s almost always better to get the defense upgrades, since archers become pretty weak in late castle, and crossbows don’t benafit as much from extra. Anouther thing you didn’t mention is attack thresholds. A archer takes 4 shots from a horseman to kill, however if you have mdef, it takes 5. However, if the horseman have matk, and the archers don’t have mdef, it doesn’t actually do anything. It’s actually super important to know these interactions, a knight kills a spear in one less shot, and takes one more to kill with upgrades, while a spear will kill a knight one hit faster, but won’t survive one more hit. Interestingly, ratk doesn’t actually increase an Archers kills speed vs spears, it takes 8 shots either way, so if you are playing knight archer, and your opponent is go horseman spear to counter, the correct play is actually mdef matk ratk, not ratk mdef matk like most people think. Anyway, I love your vids man.

Oh yes, back on track with in-game mechanics! I hope you can cover the navy upgrades, as if they are even worth getting. (Feel like most navy fights are decided by feudal without upgrades). Also just your regular reminder of still waiting for that video about Mongol Imp-upgrades.

Your content is great, but the absolute best parts are the inbetween moments where Skyrims' music rocks in AoE's gameplay. Fall in love with it every time! Keep it up!

Great video mate really enjoyed it. Great production! Looks really professional!

I really like these new videos. The biggest thing the AOE 4 community has been missing is a Spirit of the Law type channel explaining basics to us noobs. Also, your videos are really concise and don't waist any time.

Brilliant video as always age of Noob :) love from Japan/the UK!

Great stuff mate.

Love your videos!

Great video

pleasure to watch.

When it comes to melee units, it's important to split them into high/low dmg and high/low resistance. For example for knights the defensive upgrades are important, because you significantly reduce the relative incoming damage. Whereas for a pikeman the attack upgrade changes a lot, because it has a low base damage. A knight won't really profit much from +1 additional damage instead. Just examples.

Ranged armor into melee damage is huge for civs that play into horsemen on feudal age.

Well made

Would have loved to see the difference between each civs unqiue blacksmith upgrades. Like, is HRE Meinwerk actually worth pursuing for those 2 extra unique armor upgrades?

I will prioritze melee attack only if i play Ottoman or delhi against HRE because typically i want tons of supahi/horseman to deal with those man at arms, range attack upgrade is great as well but i prefer getting bigger mass of horseman than archers in those situation.

PLZ explain the arrows minigun from buildings🙏

can you cover fishing eco next?

Holy, I never noticed how awful the icons were until now, and I look back at the icons for attack and armor upgs in sc2... and now ill never forgive you since i cant unsee this

interesting

*infantry units for the siege tech, not melee units :p archers can also build rams

mmm, comparing to your other videos this looks a bit too basic, i was kinda expecting either usual timing for upgrades, or perhaps amount of units when it becomes relevant/irrelevant, or well, when does an upgrade reverse the lanchester law, since one upgrade cost almost 2 units for feuda, 5-7 in castle, and some more in imperial. i guess it sounds stupidly hard to try and find such things, but well, the eco upgrades video has that so here im complainin about free stuff kek

What is the mod of that scenery?

Thank you for the video! Could you elaborate on the difference between production speed and training time? I don't get the difference

I thought it worked like for example: you both have a group of archers, if you have less archers you prioritise missile armour (because you'll be copping more shots) and if you have more archers you prioritise missile damage. Surely this makes more sense right?

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Does blacksmith upgrades affect villagers?

So generally, melee attack upgrades are the least important to prioritise on, that's kind of fortunate/unfortunate for the French

I love your content. but this video would be much better if you showed at what number of units the upgrade in the forge pays off, and at what it is better to add a few more units to this cost. At least for the standard units that everyone has, such as spearmen, archers and horsemen. Without this information, the video seems superficial. Usually, your videos are very meticulous and detailed. And I'm still waiting for a video about the new HRE military upgrades and how effective they are. The developers should see that Mainwork is still useless before the start of the next season.

Great video, but it's too fast. I had to pause and rewind multiple times just to be able to follow along.

Aa

I disagree with your reasoning for armor over attack for melee. You are just ast likely to have two attacking one of their units as they are. I'd say if you have the larger melee army you are better off getting melee attack over armor, and if you have the smaller one you are better off getting armor. Also the attack will help melee fight non melee units as well. Which armor doesn't.

Yeah the icons are awful, but great vid thanks!