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Food
Used to train villagers and many military units, advance to the next Age, and research economic or military improvements.
Overview
Used to train villagers and many military units, advance to the next Age, and research economic or military improvements.
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
Used to train villagers and many military units, advance to the next Age, and research economic or military improvements. 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.
- Focus
- Resource
- Signature / category
- How it works
- Release / context
- Age of Empires II system
- Region
- Resource
- Classification
- Game systems