Age of Empires II – The Conquerors | Hotkey customization Guide by _LM_
Military:
As first, I will start with Military hotkeys. There’s 5 principal military buildings: Barracks, Archery Range, Stable, Siege Workshop and Castle.
For “Go to” command I set these keys:
A – Barracks, S – Archery Range, D – Stable, F – Siege Workshop, G – Castle
Unit Creation:
For unit Creation, I use Q, W, E, R in 3 principal military buildings and T,Y,U in Castle, Monastery and Docks.
(Archers are given as example)
Q – For Low attack / “No gold” units (Scouts, Skirmishers, Spearman’s);
W – First available gold units (Archers, Militia);
E – Units Available in Castle Age (Knights, Cav. Archers, Eagle W.)
R – Extra Unit (Hand cannoner, Camels, Huskarls).
For SiegeWorkshop the case change, I set them by order of display, Q – Ram, W – Onager, E – Scorpion, R – Bombard Cannon. (Ex. Train 2 rams – F+Q+Q).
T – (Monk, Unique unit, Galley)
Y – (Trebuchet, Fireship)
U – (Petard, Demolition Ship)
*For example, Imagine you are in feudal, and have 3 ranges and want to make 3 archers, (so you want to train 1 on each archery range), you do //img SW (S+W) + (S+W) + (S+W), close letters, fast to produce... Now you are on castle, your actions will be (D+E) each time you want to train a knight, (S+E) for Cav. Archers. It’s really fast… Or you can simply do (D+E+E), to train 2 units on same building but I DO NOT recommend doing this if you are looking for speed efficacy. Think with me, if you want to train 3 units on each 3 buildings, on first building everything is ok, but the other buildings are waiting till you fill the first with 3 units, and the last will only start producing only when the other 2 are fill with 3 units each, Now, How about if u hit (D+E)+(D+E)+(D+E) X 3? I know you get the answer…
If you want to train unique unit then the Action will be (G+T).
Army Stance:
Military Buildings:
As you can see, for “go to” command I set a “sequence of keys” (ASDFG), I tried to set a sequence too for building…
For building, you press “B” + (Building to be built letter).
N – Barracks, M – Archery Range, (,) – Stable, (.) – Siege Workshop, (-) – Castle
*My symbols may not be the same, just use the position and change according to yours.
Notes: That way, you can build and “Go to” buildings, really fast unit creation, set stances and patrol.
* When you have 2 ~ 3 Ranges or docks or …, I saw some people setting 7,8,9 key on each building and create, that’s not a bad choice when you are in a big fight like water. But if you have 7 buildings of same type, you should set your army with 1 ~ 4 by groups, train what you have to train and hit one of this numbers twice to focus in the fight again…
Military Map:
Economy:
For Economy I use some default, but I made good changes too…
I want to make you a question… what are the most two important economy buildings in the game?
If you said Houses and farms, you are correct, so I’ve got a way to build them extremely fast.
( B ) and( V ) hotkeys means Economy Buildings and Military Buildings respectively, the thing that you probably don’t know is that this is only for “show purposes”, they are the same for building. The trick I’ve created is:
- Hit B twice (BB) for farms;
- Hit V twice (VV) for houses.
Fastest is impossible.
Workers: The TC and villagers hotkey are the same as default (H+C), but they are not the only workers of the game, DOCKS… yes… Docks… for docks I set:
[ J ] - “Go to” Docks
[ C ] – Fishing ship
[ I ] – Fish Traps
(H+C) + (J+C), it’s all you need to keep your Economy active in Dark Age.
Building (B or V):
K – Town Center
L – Dock
Note: Read the military dock unit hotkeys on bottom.
Camps: “Will you make another sequence? Yes, I will…”
Building (B or V):
Z – Lumber Camp
X – Mill
C – Mining camp
For “Go to” command just press (CTRL + Z/X/C)
Other Buildings (Default): (B or V + )
Market - Build ( Ç ), “go to” (CTRL + M) – trade unit ( C )
University – Build ( U ), “go to” (CTRL + U)
Monastery – Build ( Y ), “go to” (CTRL + Y)
Tower – ( T )
Bombard T. ( R )
Wall – ( W )
Outpost ( O )
Palisade ( P )
Unit Actions:
Garrison: ( E )
Back to work: ( W )
Unload: ( TAB )
Set gather point: ( | )
Bell: ( P )
Note: If you are a beginner, stop using the F***ing Bell to garrison villagers, I also see some good players doing this too. Select attacked villagers, Set a number (I set 6 for rescue units) and garrison them on the TC. Unless all of your town are being attacked.
Economy Map:
*Hafl red and green means that the build key are the same as "go to".
Mouse:
- Wheel Up – Idle military;
- Wheel Down – Idle Villager;
- Wheel Click – Previous View.
Note: Is important to have good functions on mouse.
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I decide to make this Guide because hotkeys have been a great dicussing subject. You can pratice and it will really improve your speed in game when you know all. You can masterize this hotkeys in 2 weeks or probably 1 if you spend some time playing. Hope it helps people around...
PS: You can watch FeAge stream, he comment his games, comment some recs and he can explain your doubts about the game. I Also met Dreams there, these guys have been made such a good job to AOC community... Between other too...
I am open to sujestions and sorry for bad grafic quality...
Military:
As first, I will start with Military hotkeys. There’s 5 principal military buildings: Barracks, Archery Range, Stable, Siege Workshop and Castle.
For “Go to” command I set these keys:
A – Barracks, S – Archery Range, D – Stable, F – Siege Workshop, G – Castle
Unit Creation:
For unit Creation, I use Q, W, E, R in 3 principal military buildings and T,Y,U in Castle, Monastery and Docks.
(Archers are given as example)
Q – For Low attack / “No gold” units (Scouts, Skirmishers, Spearman’s);
W – First available gold units (Archers, Militia);
E – Units Available in Castle Age (Knights, Cav. Archers, Eagle W.)
R – Extra Unit (Hand cannoner, Camels, Huskarls).
For SiegeWorkshop the case change, I set them by order of display, Q – Ram, W – Onager, E – Scorpion, R – Bombard Cannon. (Ex. Train 2 rams – F+Q+Q).
T – (Monk, Unique unit, Galley)
Y – (Trebuchet, Fireship)
U – (Petard, Demolition Ship)
*For example, Imagine you are in feudal, and have 3 ranges and want to make 3 archers, (so you want to train 1 on each archery range), you do //img SW (S+W) + (S+W) + (S+W), close letters, fast to produce... Now you are on castle, your actions will be (D+E) each time you want to train a knight, (S+E) for Cav. Archers. It’s really fast… Or you can simply do (D+E+E), to train 2 units on same building but I DO NOT recommend doing this if you are looking for speed efficacy. Think with me, if you want to train 3 units on each 3 buildings, on first building everything is ok, but the other buildings are waiting till you fill the first with 3 units, and the last will only start producing only when the other 2 are fill with 3 units each, Now, How about if u hit (D+E)+(D+E)+(D+E) X 3? I know you get the answer…
If you want to train unique unit then the Action will be (G+T).
Army Stance:
Military Buildings:
As you can see, for “go to” command I set a “sequence of keys” (ASDFG), I tried to set a sequence too for building…
For building, you press “B” + (Building to be built letter).
N – Barracks, M – Archery Range, (,) – Stable, (.) – Siege Workshop, (-) – Castle
*My symbols may not be the same, just use the position and change according to yours.
Notes: That way, you can build and “Go to” buildings, really fast unit creation, set stances and patrol.
* When you have 2 ~ 3 Ranges or docks or …, I saw some people setting 7,8,9 key on each building and create, that’s not a bad choice when you are in a big fight like water. But if you have 7 buildings of same type, you should set your army with 1 ~ 4 by groups, train what you have to train and hit one of this numbers twice to focus in the fight again…
Military Map:
Economy:
For Economy I use some default, but I made good changes too…
I want to make you a question… what are the most two important economy buildings in the game?
If you said Houses and farms, you are correct, so I’ve got a way to build them extremely fast.
( B ) and( V ) hotkeys means Economy Buildings and Military Buildings respectively, the thing that you probably don’t know is that this is only for “show purposes”, they are the same for building. The trick I’ve created is:
- Hit B twice (BB) for farms;
- Hit V twice (VV) for houses.
Fastest is impossible.
Workers: The TC and villagers hotkey are the same as default (H+C), but they are not the only workers of the game, DOCKS… yes… Docks… for docks I set:
[ J ] - “Go to” Docks
[ C ] – Fishing ship
[ I ] – Fish Traps
(H+C) + (J+C), it’s all you need to keep your Economy active in Dark Age.
Building (B or V):
K – Town Center
L – Dock
Note: Read the military dock unit hotkeys on bottom.
Camps: “Will you make another sequence? Yes, I will…”
Building (B or V):
Z – Lumber Camp
X – Mill
C – Mining camp
For “Go to” command just press (CTRL + Z/X/C)
Other Buildings (Default): (B or V + )
Market - Build ( Ç ), “go to” (CTRL + M) – trade unit ( C )
University – Build ( U ), “go to” (CTRL + U)
Monastery – Build ( Y ), “go to” (CTRL + Y)
Tower – ( T )
Bombard T. ( R )
Wall – ( W )
Outpost ( O )
Palisade ( P )
Unit Actions:
Garrison: ( E )
Back to work: ( W )
Unload: ( TAB )
Set gather point: ( | )
Bell: ( P )
Note: If you are a beginner, stop using the F***ing Bell to garrison villagers, I also see some good players doing this too. Select attacked villagers, Set a number (I set 6 for rescue units) and garrison them on the TC. Unless all of your town are being attacked.
Economy Map:
*Hafl red and green means that the build key are the same as "go to".
Mouse:
- Wheel Up – Idle military;
- Wheel Down – Idle Villager;
- Wheel Click – Previous View.
Note: Is important to have good functions on mouse.
_____________________________________________________
I decide to make this Guide because hotkeys have been a great dicussing subject. You can pratice and it will really improve your speed in game when you know all. You can masterize this hotkeys in 2 weeks or probably 1 if you spend some time playing. Hope it helps people around...
PS: You can watch FeAge stream, he comment his games, comment some recs and he can explain your doubts about the game. I Also met Dreams there, these guys have been made such a good job to AOC community... Between other too...
I am open to sujestions and sorry for bad grafic quality...