When the game begins, there are a few steps that must be done in very quick succession:

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Age Of Empires 1 Best Civilizations

• Immediately create 4 villagers from the town center, depleting all 200 food. The default hotkeys are H for town center and C to create a villager (only after selecting the town center). Thus, the fastest way to do this is to press H and then press shift-C. The shift selects 5 at a time. This pattern is perhaps the most important hotkey pattern in the game.
• Have two villagers build two houses. This will temporarily increase the population to 15, allowing more villagers to be created. Do not have one villager build one house each - both villagers build one house at a time in order to keep the steady flow of villager creation. Once the two houses are completed, have the two villagers build a lumber camp near a forest (your scout should have already found at least one by now).
• Select your scout and scout around what is currently visible to you. Finding the 4 initial sheep is critical in the Dark Age - the earlier they are sighted, the better. Occasionally, one of the sheep may already be visible in the fog. If this occurs, have the scout go to where the sheep is. The 4 sheep will be converted to your colors and you can continue scouting for the other 4 sheep (in pairs) that are farther away, the berries, two boars, deer (not available on some maps), gold mines, and stone mines.
• Have the other villager chop wood near the town center.

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The eight civilizations are a good spread of the different cultures that competed for the New World. They're pretty balanced, but some lead themselves to specific strategies than others. Civilizations The eight civilizations are a good spread of the different cultures that competed for the New World. They're pretty balanced, but some lead themselves to specific strategies than others.