Age of Empires 2: The Conquerors Walkthrough for PC Games Game Name: Age of Empires 2: The Conquerors Format: PC Games Submitted By: mikelar Here, developed alone by me and proven to work in online game after online game is a guide to getting a fast Dark to Feudal/Castle Time - This method can be used offline or online but proves more effective for the latter. Anyway, what to do.... Before the game starts, select the Aztecs as your - they start with an eagle warrior who has a brilliant line of sight making it easier to explore. First, create 4 villigers with the 200 starting food. You should also use the patrol function to send the eagle warrior on a parimeter around your town centre, this means you don't have to control him as he explores. Whilst he does this, get one villiger to build 3 houses, close to each other, which will accomidate for the new villigers -it will bring the population counter to read 4/20. The eagle warrior should find 8 sheep, which you should move to your Town Centre as soon as they are found, the Berry Bushes, 2 boar and 4/5 deer. You must understand that the map in each game, unless it is a custom map, is newly generated each time so that the resources are never in the same place, finding the resources fast is often down to luck but it is possible. Anyway, the eagle warrior should have at least found some sheep and the bushes by the time the villiger builds the first house. You should now send two villigers to build a mill next to the bushes where they will harvest food from them. The first villiger will now be created, send him/her to get food from the sheep, if you havn't found the sheep, send him to help with the bushes - keep looking for your sheep if you havn't found them, its important that you have 8. The next three villigers should then proceed, again, although it is unlikely by now, you not have found sheep so send them to the bushes, if not send them to get food from the sheep. Either way, by now you should have 2 or more people harvesting the bushes, the villiger finishing the last house and some getting food from the sheep, once the building villiger finishes, send him to help with the sheep/bushes. Ok, now keep creating villigers with the food the harvesters and sheep killers bring in. Send them to either the bushes or sheep, not anytinng else yet. Now, when all the sheep of gone you get hunt the boar, to do this succesfully, send one villiger to attack the boar, the boar wil chase the villiger so move him near the town centre were the villigers who were/are killing sheep can help attack the boar. Repeat for the second boar. Once the sheep and boar are killed send your villigers to kill the deer. Only when there are 6 people harvesting the bushes and 6 people killing sheep/boar/deer (totaling 13/20 on the population counter) should you change and create villigers to chop wood. As these are created, send them to the trees near your town centres, not near any forests as it speeds up time spent moving wood. Reapeat this until you have 18 or 19/20 on the population counter. Then, with the wood harvested, create one more house. Keep choping until you get to 100 wood where you can send all the choppers to build a lumber camp next to a lot of trees. Keep creating villigers to chop wood until the population reaches 23/25 were you can create 2 villigers which you can send to make farms which will help with food gathering. Then you should have enough food to advance to the Feudal age (requires 500 food). During this time, the villigers harvesting the bushes will have exhaugsted the food so send them to build a mining camp near a supply of gold (found by the scouting eagle warrior). Now all the villigers should be hard at work either gathering food, mining or chopping. During this time, build 2 more houses to bring the counter up to 25/35. Now if you wanted to get a fast Feudal then this would work, but I've advanced the scheme to speed up getting a castle age as well. Here's the rest... Once you reach feudal the villigers who were hunting the deer will have finished, send them to create farms (research horse collar in the mill if you can). Wait until your wood supply is back up and build a market and blacksmith, whilst waiting you can create more villigers to chop wood or, if you have the wood, build farms. By now you should have around 8-10 farms with enough people chopping to replensih the farms when they run out. In a matter of minutes your food will reach 600-700, keep creating villigers and farms if you can. You;'ll also notice you have more then the required 200 gold to advance to castle age, spend the excess gold on buying food and voila, 800 food and 200 gold read to advance to castle age in 20-23 minutes. The best step from here is to then build a barracks and create eagle warriors (20 food, 50 gold) to rush the enemy, they are effective against most things and are fast with a long range of sight. There, all done, now just practice the technique if it dosn't quite work how this is written, remember - the map always changes so each game is different and finding food can be difficult, with practice and experience, it all fits together though. Good Luck! Mike.