Fast build
When building structures, press on the building that is being built and click the construction button repeatedly to speed up building process.

Japanese
If you are playing with the Japanese, then a good way to destoy enemy buildings is to get some hand canoneers (about ten) from your archery range.

Then place them near to an enemy building. Get about three siege weapons and place them behind your hand canoneers. The siege weapons will attack the building and if anyone tries to attack them, your cannoneers will kill them quick smart.

Random Map Games
Select your civilisation, color, and when you can pick teams, put all of them on the same number as you, for example:

You: Briton
CPU: Celts
CPU: Chinese
CPU: Japanese

Select the hardest difficulty big map and large resources, then start the game.
Check your dipolmacy and see your allies - this will make it easy for you to collect resorces in any base without any hassle.
How to win? Select diplomacy and go to war with any one.

General Tactics
If you start on a campaign, save it first, then send a scout to look around the area and then load the game again and build a wall around the area you want.

Always send lots of men into the city to destroy it - don't send a trebuchet to destroy the towns' buildings one by one or the trebuchets will get destroyed so send 30-40 men to guard them.

Wonders
Trebuchets are a awesome weapon when used as long range artillary and when gaurded with troops, which work well when you need to destroy their town centre or wonder.

Do not start building a wonder until you have a big army as they do tend to want to destroy it. When new to the game set the game on conquest so they don't just build a wonder and win.

Skirmish Tactics
When playing a battle with multiple CPU players, try to stay away from your cpu opponents until you have a good stash of resources and a large army. The cpu players can be relentless in their attack, especially on harder difficulty levels, so it's best to concentrate on base defense to start with, then attack with a large mixed force.

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