GUIDE · MAP STRATEGY
Scouting
Explore the starting area and likely enemy approaches to locate resources, terrain openings, and early threats before committing to a plan.
Overview
Explore the starting area and likely enemy approaches to locate resources, terrain openings, and early threats before committing to a plan.
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
Explore the starting area and likely enemy approaches to locate resources, terrain openings, and early threats before committing to a plan. 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