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Beginners Guide to Deathmatch in Age of Empires 3: DE (How to play like a top 10 DM player!)

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Reupload, so i have all the  starter  guides on this channel!
This video shows, how you play DM in AOE 3: DE. It guides you through the first few minutes of a DM match. You can use this in the ladder or against the AI. If you have questions, just let me know :). At the time of making this Video i was ranked 10# on the DM ladder.

If you are wondering: esoking was talking about the A move hotkey issue
Build Order and additional notes in Description
Start of the Game:

Build 3 stables (3 villagers with normal civs, if you have a civ starting with 7 vills, you use 4 to build the stables)
Build Church and Houses (2-3 vills, the rest of the Vills you have)
Click TC and make the militia and send them to enemy (kill the militia of the other guy, or snipe forward vills). Also Start producing vills
Build Native Trade post with explorer (if the map doesnt have them, make tcs)
Make Church Upgrade as soon as possible and send riding school, faster building, unit upgrade, fencing school, factories, tcs, rest of unit upgrades
After your stables are finished, make barracks/ outposts and foundries (usually you make barracks and get skirm)
Wait until your Riding school arrives, then start producing goons. Send them to the enemy and try to get some vills/ Or use them to defend
After your Barracks finish, make skirm
With foundry, make canons as you see necessary (if he has much inf, get horse art, if he has canons/mortars, get culv, if you want to push make mortar)
If your houses are finished, use the vills to produce tcs. Set a Gather point for all your TC's and produce vills nonstop.
Use your vills to gather the ressources, your civ needs most (food or gold). If you play some games, you'll notice it (germans being gold intensive/ Porto beeing food intensive for example)
Try to get good fights while getting map control. Fight under your towers or if you have more units/counter units. 
When you start running out of ressources and you are being pressured:
Use market and send unit shipment cards

Card Progression:
Usually:
Riding School, Stone Masons, fencing school, Dragoon upgrade, factories, tc's/vills. After that get the rest of the unit upgrades. When you run out of ress, send your unit shipment to stay in the game

Decks:
Are pretty similar to treaty decks. 
Most of the deck will be Unit upgrade and eco upgrade cards
The difference to treaty is that you put in TC's (if you have 2 tcs shipment), Villagers and Age 4 units

Civilisations:
All european civs are good for DM. There are some better than other, but generally you can play whatever you like best. 
Top Tier: Germans, Portoguese, Ottomans, French
Avoid playing the asian dynasties civs. They lack all the wonders, they dont have mercantilism (the XP upgrade) and are mediocre at best.
Natives are kinda week too, because they either lack good cards (factories, fencing and riding school (some not all)) and also their lategame is usually kinda meh (you barely see them in treaty too).

Additional Notes:
The AI in DM is pretty capable (highest difficulty), so you can easily practice against them.
In DM it is all about taking good fights and trading favourably, while taking map control. 
Usually if you take too many bad fights you run out of ressources and loose the game
Hotkeys are your friends! Use Shift click to build Houses / Barracks/stables

Additional good hotkeys: 
Select all tcs, Attack move, find explorer, homecity view
I usually put my barracks/stables/ foundries on 3,4 and 5 hotkeys. You can also use the Select all stables/barracks/foundries

Steam Guide:
https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2280801757

Tags: Age of Empires 3, Build order, Guide, How to play, Strategy, DM

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