GUIDE · AGE PROGRESSION
Dark Age
Gather starting resources, scout nearby terrain, and establish the first economic buildings before choosing a route into the Feudal Age.
Overview
Gather starting resources, scout nearby terrain, and establish the first economic buildings before choosing a route into the Feudal Age.
How this system affects decisions
Economic systems are shaped by worker travel, access to safe resource sites, and the time spent gathering versus building or moving. Compare a change by how many workers it affects and how long it remains useful, then balance it against the food, wood, gold, and population required to keep the army active.
How to use this reference
Gather starting resources, scout nearby terrain, and establish the first economic buildings before choosing a route into the Feudal Age. The mechanic affects the pace at which resources can be gathered, exchanged, or spent. Compare its immediate cost with the production or research it delays, especially before an Age advance.
- Also known as
- Dark Age (Age of Empires II)
- Focus
- Age progression
- Signature / category
- How it works
- Release / context
- Age of Empires II system
- Region
- Age progression
- Classification
- Game systems