Creating the mandatory two Stone Age buildings to advance.Building Houses at a pace that neither leads to idle Town Center time nor a shortage of wood for other buildings.Maintaining a high Villager production rate.Players face four main challenges when trying to expand and advance quickly in the Stone Age. This is due to the more random nature of resource allocation in this game's random maps. Compared to some other games in the series, Age of Empires can have relatively loose build orders.
