What Is the Best Civilization for New Players to Choose?
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Greetings to the **AoE** community!
After I just got this game on Steam and aced the learning scenarios, I’m ready to take the next step.
I’d like to get into learning build orders and pick a civilization to focus on.
I’ve seen a lot of conflicting advice on YouTube about which civs are best for new players.
I’d love to hear what the active members of this community have to say about this, so if you have a minute, could you please offer me some ideas and explain why a particular civ is good for novices like me?
Apologies if this question has been asked a lot already.
Do the Art of War scenarios to learn a general start and the default of “lots of villagers.”
Franks are a popular beginning civ because they have a simple, strong strategy and several free upgrades into it.
First do the art of war campaign, then download the “interactive build order guide” mod, load the custom scenario and practice the build orders until you get a decent grade
Do whatever you find the most fun.
Play random civs, pick a few civs to play, it doesn’t matter.
In Aoe2 you learn strategies rather than civs.
At a high level different civs have different optimizations, but you need to learn the basic strategies before worrying about that.
Pretty much any civ can open with Scouts or Men-at-Arms, there’s no need to pick any particular civ or to stay with only 1 civ.
if you are new to the game just try to master the civs u like the most( it can be bc you like their units, their eco bonuses, even the building architecture).
There is no civ to rule them all to be honest.
If you haven’t finished them then do the art of war scenarios to learn more advanced strategies and play the build order guide scenarios in the mod workshop.
As for civs find what strategies you like best, archer rushing, scouts, men at arms, mass siege, etc, then find a civ good at what ever you like and try them out, it takes time to figure out your favorite civs so try everything.
If you want a good and easy civ to use I recommend hindustanis, franks and Lithuanians.
Lastly this question has been asked 1000s of times, I don’t know why the sub doesn’t have a beginner guide pinned.
Magyars.
Best for beginners.
Don’t pick Franks.
You might develop bad habits.
My ideology behind a civ for new players is this – pick a civ with a non-intrusive dark age food bonus so you can maintain a competetive feudal time while you are practicing and ironing out your inefficiencies.
This lets you follow build orders and learn those important feudal openings rather than crash and burn half the time merely because you are new and new players dont have the intricacies of dark age down.
With that I would say the following civs are best for new players – britons, franks, lithuanians, hindustanis, persians and mongols.
All of these civs offer a bit of help in dark age that directly increases your food income so you can do a build order smoothly.
To each their own.
My suggestion:
Pick franks.
Learn a standerd 21 pop scout build.
Practice it a couple of times against the AI till you get the scouts out.
Then play a couple of games at the hard difficulty.
If not then change difficulty to medium.
Once you can beat it, next take a different build order, I suggest drush or maa.
Then try an archer build.
Always practice the build a few times and then play the whole game.
Build orders are easily available everywhere.
Great quality ones are there from HERA on his discord but might be difficult.
Once you are able to do a scout into knight build and an archer into crossbow build against HARD AI, I suggest jump into ranked ladder.
You should land anywhere from 750-950 elo and enjoy some really good games.
Once you get a touch bored of franks, play some Huns magyars or Spanish.
Then try Britons with archer focus.
At the end of the day enjoy as much as you can.
That’s the main point of this game.
[William Wallace](https://ibb.co/mFQhXMD)
If I have to give you an advice it will be this one, play the civ you like the most, master the start with it and then try to move forward (some people keep playing the same civ over and over i.e.
Franks and Mayans)
Some civs have a weird start, like Chinese, Mayans, Huns and Gurjaras
Franks is a beginner-friendly civ.
Lithuanians also is very forgiving due to +150 food at the beginning
As others have said, do the Art of War campaign, it’s great.
For a beginner civ, it really doesn’t matter thst much.
Others will say Franks but I tend to disagree.
I would generally preach to avoud learning the game with a civ that has a dark age eco bonus as it can teach bad habits.
I would personally recommend the Bulgarians.
This is because they:
1 – have no dark age eco bonus
2 – Have a very simple, powerful game plan (man at arms into scouts)
3 – Are surprisingly flexible with good Infantry, Cavalry and despite missing crossbow they have good skirmishers and fully upgraded cav archers.
But again, it doesn’t matter what civ you start with really
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