Rush Effectively in Age of Empires 3

How to Rush Effectively in Age of Empires 3

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Rushing in AoE3 is when you attack very early in the game(5-10 minutes) in order to kill your ill-prepared opponent.

Steps

1. Gather starting resource crates, beginning with food, then wood
   
2. Use all starting food to create villagers.
   
3. Put all villies on hunts and set the gather point for the TC to hunts
   
4. Continue queuing villies until you have approximately 10-11 queued
   
5. Ship 3 villagers as your first shipment, or, with asian civs, ship 300 food
   
6. While aging, shift about 7 vills to wood and the rest to food
   
7. Once in Colonial, build 1-2 barracks close to your opponents base (depending on civ) and begin queuing up both heavy infatry (like pikeman) and light infantry (like crossbows)
   
8. Ship 700 wood for a more powerful rush or ship infantry for a faster rush
   
9. Continue training villagers whenever possible, and put all new villies on food
   
10. Attack at 5-6 minutes with your army and continue to train heavy and light infantry
    
11. add all new soldiers to your current army and have fun destroying your opponent's town
    

Tips

• Time is of the essence in rushing.
  
• Different civilizations may require an alternate strategy.
  
• Upgrade if possible
  

Warnings

• Enemy may be ready for rushes, so the sooner, the better.
  
• Don't neglect your town when you rush, it's highly unlikely your enemy will be completely destroyed.
  
• Do not use this without heavy customization
  
• Keep Your villagers protected, they may want to rush at the same time!!
  
• While attacking keep an eye on the map!! your mind will be off of your town so watch and be rdy to garrison villagers (quick hotkeys "t"=town center "B" = town bell will help you be faster
  

Things You'll Need

• Computer
  
• Age Of Empires III
  

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