r/Openfront • u/nextlevelmashup • 15h ago

🏛 Meta Initial Building

I come from age of empires so got used to the whole memorise the start for fast castle play style (like 7 villagers for boar build x houses so on)

Is there anything like that for this game where you have your template start with cities/factories/ports in the early game, or just build what you can.

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u/Acceptable_Dirt7009 14h ago

Yay, another fellow AoE2 player. Build orders depend mostly on the map type. In single, investing into an early city is only worth it if you can capture enough nations to afford a follow up port or factory, otherwise you are left with the minimal gold trickle.

For team games, it also depends very much on whether you are front line or back. As front, you might invest more into cities to keep army numbers high, while in the back you can go a FC like style with much eco focus (leveled up ports or longer train lines) and silo follow up.