I'm bored and curious.

I have tried this but it doesn’t feel that good , maybe the French just can’t manage well with this strat ?

Even if I get 4 relics I feel like I give the other player too much space

I guess I don’t know which civs this is a good option against and which a bad one ?

I’m a lowly gold haha . Got up to plat 1 last season but haven’t played as much this season so Gold still

Hey everyone, I just released a new custom game mode mod for AoE4 called Civilization. It’s built mainly for 6–8 player FFA and Nomad matches, focusing on dynamic diplomacy, neutral objectives, and base inheritance. You can grab it for free right now in the in-game Mod Browser. Showcase & Guides:

• Quick gameplay showcase: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7blGfyh49RQ
• Full breakdown of lobby settings & mechanics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDRZXa62Nm8

Main Features

1. Base & Villager Inheritance

• When you eliminate a player by killing their King or Landmarks, you take over their entire base (TCs, production buildings, surviving vills).
• Inherited buildings re-skin to match your civ’s architecture (unique landmarks disappear).
• Anti-rage-delete mechanic: If someone spite-deletes their vills within 3 minutes before dying, those vills are restored and handed over to you. 2. Neutral City-States (Marcher Holds)
• Neutral settlements spawn around the map (findable directly through the UI).
• Patronage: Invest 100 Gold to build Influence. Top patron gets allied passive bonuses.
• Conquest: Take down their Town Center to choose one of three rewards:
  1. Vassalize: Receive regular military reinforcement waves.
  2. Capture TC: Claim it as an extra working Town Center.
  3. Raze: Instantly plunder 450 Wood and 450 Gold. 3. Dynamic Diplomacy (5 Alliance Types) You can form bilateral treaties with other players or AI:
• Economic: Get 1% of your ally’s total building value per minute (e.g., a TC yields 4 Wood + 3 Stone/min).
• Military: Your units gain +0.1% HP/Damage per 100 resources of your ally’s standing army value.
• Science: Tech discount based on what your ally has already researched.
• Trade: Trader movement speed boost scaled by your ally’s trade network size.
• Religious: Passive gold generated from your ally’s relics and sacred sites.
• Spying: Spend 100 Gold to reveal an opponent's army value, building score, and current tech. 4. Custom Victory Conditions & Pickups
• Relic Victory: Stashing the required relics in your monastery starts a global countdown timer (visible on the map like a Wonder).
• Sacred Site Points: Accumulate points continuously (600 / 1200 / 1800 targets) without sudden timer resets.
• Treasure Chests: Early-game resource caches scattered around the map for scouts to contest. 5. Caster & Spectator UI
• Compact / Extended layouts: Real-time RPM, active TCs, landmark status, and relic counts.
• 8-Player scaling: Clean top bar formatted specifically for large lobbies.
• King Under Attack alert: Player cards flash red when their King takes damage so casters don't miss kills.
• Chat replay: In-game player chat is recorded and visible to spectators/replays.

How to Play

1. Open AoE4 -> Community Mods.
2. Search for Civilization and click Subscribe.
3. Host a Custom/Skirmish lobby, select the Civilization game mode, tweak your settings, and start. Let me know if you run into any bugs or have balance feedback. Would love to hear your thoughts or see any recorded matches if you host one!

Hi,

for the unaware: Tughlaq War Elephants have trample, not just the Raider. Community members seem to be unaware of this fact that you can stack 20 War Elephants together and have the strongest front line push known to man.

https://preview.redd.it/qdqlo5crmckh1.jpg?width=407&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=69f68416bef8cf1ecbe9b45f864f9efa7708e358

That is all.

Been away for a while but I'm subscribed to him on YouTube and I saw the title of one of his streams is "helping prep for egc". Is he not competing anymore?

Thanks to everyone's awesome feedback, I added some sections to aoe4stats.com. Please let me know if you come across any issues or have additional comments:)

1. Civ WR by Map now shows how favored and how specialized each Civ is.

2. Pick Rate vs WR shows sleeper and overrated Civs.

3. Landmark Path is a wizard that takes Civ, Map and opponent Civ as inputs and shows your highest WR landmark path.

I hope this is useful to the community!

I know, first world problems
Can we add the missing nations user flares
Also would be cool’s to combine the format so like “HRE +flag”

Thanks

This is a general call to every player of Aoe4! The Quick Match Q needs you!

We have lots of fun maps, more /3 and /40 and waaay more map bans than Ranked.
So don't be strangers.

My buddies and I always play on 400 max pop or more where we normally go late into imperial age and I got curious as to what civs this may benefit/nerf in comparison to others.
We are still very new players so it would always just end in us doing multi hundred large armies of each civs best units but I'm looking to get better and wanted to make sure I wasn't neutering myself with civ choice in the future

I know two websites aoe4world and aoe4stats both give good information but the hours of gameplay is always the average. I know that I can maybe calculate and give estimation alone but I told myself since there are several websites related to aoe4 maybe there is one that I don't know.

The Templars have the largest number of unique units per name, an each age you advance you have three units to choose from- vaguely like the minor god system in Age of Mythology.

But I cannot for the life of me ever figure out which is the most optimal route to use.

I always choose Hospateller Knights- it seems logical because they can heal everyone as we go. But isn't the throwing axeman good? The Chevalier Confrere- what's the point, the Brother Templar is good?

Can anyone break it down?

Preface: I am not a good player

Today in 1v1 ranked, a Byzantine player took out my (Macedonian) TC with a ton of scouts and villies.

Is this a new meta?

Thanks

You’re close to each other so FC doesn’t really work but you also have choke points so aggression doesn’t really work. There are fish but they’re super vulnerable. I just play awkwardly then die.