The reasoning behind that is to set the rally point for all my military building into a desired location (extremely helpful to assist aggression and not idling army). In the early game it’s a breeze to bind my barracks, stables and archery ranges all together using CTRL + 5. So… Are you taking advantage of them yet?Įven if you have I am pretty sure you are missing out on setting static control groups.įor example, I use CTRL + 4 on my Town Center(s) & CTRL + 5 on all my buildings.

Great news! AoE2 DE comes exclusively with lots of advanced hotkeys unlike the previous editions of the conquerors and 2013( a.k.a HD). Set Hotkeys For Technologies Static Hotkeys Hotkey Combination: SHIFT + Mouse (Right Click) Or re-assigning siege rams for instance to destroy buildings in a particular order.

Why? It prevents you from idling villagers after they construct whatever you assigned to. Instead of writing down a how to use text section for every trick I feel it would be more interesting and easy to grasp if I render short clips for a tangible live-preview. The rest of them will be covered in the other sections of this guide. In this section you will learn most of those fancy tricks that the pros employ everyday.

The release of the definitive edition has been a blessing so far particularly in the amount of brand new mechanics that brings to the table.

Mods for age of empires 2