Beginners Guide to Supremacy

[AndiAOE]

So this is a guide i wrote for Beginners in Supremacy mode. It is a bit more general and a bit less indeph than some other guides i saw here. But i think it is good for newcomers to get the basics of the game. I inititally wrote this as a steam guide, but i thought i publish it here as well (Allthough there are less newcomers in this forum)
Did i forget something? then just let me know. Have fun reading :)

General Tips and Things you always want to do:

• Allways Produce vills
• Keep your villagers Working
• keep ressources low by Spending your ressources as soon as you can and get army or economy
• be active on map
• Get Used to hotkeys early!

Age 1:

• Send your Vills to collect seperate crates (food first, then wood)
• only collect as much as you need (all food, 100 wood) then build house
• Start hunting with your vills (Berries are slower than hunts)
• Scout with your explorer and get treasures (see Chapter Scouting)
• Start Herding hunts to your tc (you want 2 extra batches of them)
• if you found wood: Build market (and get food upgrade) or TP
• Age 1 card: usually 3 vills
• Age up politician: Quartermaster (400w) or 200 gold outpost
• while Ageing up scout your opponent (see chapter Scouting)
• During Age up split your vills accordingly (for hussars send 4-5 from food to gold)
• During Age UP get Market upgrades (food and gold) or trade post on the trade route (to get shipments faster)

Age 2:

• Immediately after ageup: send first card (if rushed, then units) if not 700 wood (wood is gathered the slowest. Food (from hunts) the fastest. Gold gather rate is between wood and food)
• gather the ress and build barracks/houses and get units out
• Try to always have a unit in Queue, so you can always get batches out (if you need them)
• with 700 wood you can get market upgrades (both food upgrades/first gold) a stable, houses and maybe a tp
• good cards to follow up (depending on situation and what you want to do), Villagers, crates, units
• Transition to age 3 with 700 gold

Scouting

Basic Tips for Scouting

Basic Tips
Use shift click for scouting
Scout for treasures and sheeps (if the map has any)

Treasures:
3 types of treasures
Easy: 0 - 2 (weak) guardians (monkeys)
medium 2-3 guardians
hard: 3 or more guardians (good guardians)

Get all easy treasures
get good medium treasures (scout, food and wood maybe xp and gold)
still: dont be too picky, get as many treasures as possible.
Treasures usually not worth getting in age 1: (non scout) units, pets, sheeps

how to get treasures with minimal dmg:
go in melee against bandit riflemen, pistoleros and caribeans
Use this Tricks to take minimal dmg

• shoot guardian
• move out of treasure "circle"
• when guardians turn around shoot them
• go back into "treasure circle" and kill guardian
• rinse and repeat.

BE CAREFUL! only do this if you know where the enemy explorer is or on locations which are unlikely enemy explorers will come (edge of the map). You can do this somewhat safely against civs which go for tradeposts.

at 3:30-4:00 send your scout to enemy base and look out for:
Forward vills who maybe want to build a front base
What ressources he s gathering: food + wood = crossbow pike, many vills on gold = Abus or uhlans, much wood = fishboom? Manor boom?
if and what military building he is getting (stable, barracks, foundry?). If he s getting none, he probably goes ff (or you didnt scout the fb)
if you can spot the first shipment it s also good to anticipate what he s doing (aggressive, ff or boom). Avoid loosing your explorer in the process of scouting

After you scouted:
get back and get medium treasures.

About scouting in midgame:
you can do this with explorer OR by raiding/ attacking the enemy
you want to look out for: Unit composition, unprotected vills,docks, and military buildings

Video to showcase Scouting:

Unit Composition:
Age 2:

• Musk/melee cav,
• Musk/light infantry(archer,crossbow,strelets) ,
• xbow pike,
• MAYBE: melee infantry/melee cav (hard to pull off)

Age 3:

• Musk + melee cav (hussar) + canon (falc)
• dragoons/skirmisher

Good Cards:
Age 1:
3 vills (allways a good first card for Supremacy), advanced tradepost (if you go for Trade route), schooner (if you go for water).
With civilisations which dont have 3 settler, first card can be wood trickle (distributism for india and russians) or wood crates
Age 2: 700w, 700g, Units, Villagers
Age 3: 2 falcs, 1000 wood, units


Thoughts for TG:
you usually stay with one unit type at the start (Melee cav, light infantry, heavy infantry) and you can go for more eco in Fortress age


Complete Guide in Video with Online gameplay:
Link to Steam Guide (I try to keep both synchronised, but dont judge me if there are some small differences): https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/ ... 2276240549

[iamcezzarmert]

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