GUIDE · AGE PROGRESSION
Imperial Age
The final Age opens the strongest shared upgrades and advanced unit forms, allowing civilizations to complete their late-game army and economy.
Overview
The final Age opens the strongest shared upgrades and advanced unit forms, allowing civilizations to complete their late-game army and economy.
How this system affects decisions
Treat research as a sequence of choices: check its building, Age, prerequisite, cost, and the units or economy affected. An upgrade is most valuable when it arrives before the army needs it and improves enough of the units already in production; researching every available technology is rarely the best use of a limited stockpile.
How to use this reference
The final Age opens the strongest shared upgrades and advanced unit forms, allowing civilizations to complete their late-game army and economy. 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
- Imperial 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