Rise of Nations: Top 10 Tips for New & Returning Players

Introduction

• Host: Twiglets2
• Focus: Tips to help new and returning players in Rise of Nations.
• Aim: Everything the host wished they had known when starting.

Tip #1: Managing Technologies

• Key Action: Press the Tab key to cycle through buildings with available technologies.
• Benefit: Saves time and helps track research opportunities.
• Note: Can quickly remind of available technologies, including those at the library.

Tip #2: Navigating Rivers

• Key Points:
  • Troops move slowly through rivers; avoid whenever possible.
  • Troops take double damage while in rivers.
  • Strategic defense: Place a city in the middle of a river's S-bend for added protection.

Tip #3: Efficiently Allocating Citizens

• Key Action: Create a rally point by pressing W for woodcutter camps, F for farms, and M for mines.
• Benefit: Newly created citizens will automatically move to the designated task, allowing multitasking.

Tip #4: Building Temples

• Focus: Temples add hit points to nearby cities.
• Strategy:
  • Prioritize temples in cities likely to be attacked.
  • Quick construction of a temple can increase city defenses against an immediate threat.
  • Temple hit points can be increased through technologies, making them crucial for city defense.

Tip #5: Unit Creation and Rally Points

• Key Action: Create a movable rally point by setting one on a unit, commonly on the patriot unit.
• Benefit: Newly spawned units automatically join the existing control group, facilitating unit management.
  • Use Shift + R to remove a rally point if needed.

Tip #6: Using the Patriot Unit

• Key Point:
  • Obtain your patriot unit as soon as you enter the second age by building the senate.
  • Armor bonus: Patria units provide a defensive bonus to surrounding units, crucial in battles.

Tip #7: Fort Technologies

• Focus: Research military upgrades in forts, particularly the tactics research at military level 3.
• Benefit: Enhances the armor bonus of the patriot unit and other troops, increasing army effectiveness.

Tip #8: Queueing Unit Movement

• Key Action: Hold Shift and click to set up a movement path for units.
• Benefit: Useful for scouting or navigating around enemy defenses.
  • Adding to existing paths is simple and intuitive.

Tip #9: Senator Bribing

• Key Strategy: Use the senator for bribing enemy units within your territory to weaken their forces.
• Benefit: Offers a cost-effective defensive strategy.

Tip #10: Auto Citizen Management

• Key Action: Adjust citizen settings in game options before starting the game under "Auto Citizen" and "Citizen Delay".
  • Set idle citizens to automatically gather resources or construct buildings.
  • Reduce delay time for them to act independently.

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