GUIDE · MAP STRATEGY
Map control
Hold useful routes, exposed resources, and key terrain so your army can move safely and the opponent has fewer expansion options.
Overview
Hold useful routes, exposed resources, and key terrain so your army can move safely and the opponent has fewer expansion options.
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
Hold useful routes, exposed resources, and key terrain so your army can move safely and the opponent has fewer expansion options. 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
- Map strategy
- Signature / category
- How it works
- Release / context
- Age of Empires II system
- Region
- Map strategy
- Classification
- Game systems