One unique feature of Age of Empires IV is its approach to campaigns. (Image credit: Microsoft) Age of Empires IV campaigns Players will have to try out similar matches for themselves. A huge battle raged - but we didn’t get to see who won. The Mongols had a huge army of cavalry, horse archers and trebuchets. The Chinese had a huge flourishing city, full of castles and siege workshops, protected by gunpowder weapons. The Imperial Age match between the Mongols and the Chinese was where we got to see Age of Empires IV in all its glory. These hardy, destructive units assaulted the sturdy stone walls of an English fortress, where individual archers rained arrows on enemy soldiers below. (This makes sense, as the Mongols essentially did the same thing in real life.) Tactics like this could open up a whole world of strategic options - but I’m also curious what kind of unique features the Chinese might have to counteract the hit-and-run playstyle.Īs the game moved into the Castle Age, we got to see the Delhi Sultanate’s unique feature: warriors mounted on elephants. When the Mongols were ready to go on the offensive, they simply packed up their yurts and took their entire base with them to a new section of the map. But the Mongols gave us our first look at some of the unique features we can expect from each civilization. The Chinese built a fairly conventional city with a town center, farms, a barracks and so forth.
Things got more interesting in the Feudal Age, where we got to see the Mongols and the Chinese get their bases in gear. An English scout attacked a contingent of Delhi miners Delhi pikemen fought back. The English/Delhi Sultanate match began in the Dark Age, where there wasn’t much to do except build farms, gather berries, construct houses and erect crude palisade walls. While a game like Age of Empires II has 37 civilizations (and counting), Age of Empires IV will start small with eight civilizations. To do so, you’ll need to build up cities, research new technologies and wage war against neighboring civilizations with a variety of infantry, cavalry, archer and siege units. However, the devs pointed out that anything more modern would technically have to be about nation-states rather than empires.Īs in previous Age of Empires games, your goal in IV is to take control of a civilization, and lead it through hundreds of years of history. This marks the first time the series has moved backward in history, as Age of Empires began in the Stone Age, and Age of Empires III left off in the middle of the 19th century. Like Age of Empires II, Age of Empires IV hones in on the medieval era, from the fall of Rome up through the beginning of the Gunpowder Era. (Image credit: Microsoft) Age of Empires IV civilizationsįirst and foremost: Age of Empires IV is an historical real-time strategy game, just like its three predecessors.
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