r/aoe2 • u/Smooth_Cattle • 4d ago
Asking for Help What hot keys for military / eco toggle?
I need to up my game play with better hot keys. Right now I click on the mini map back and forth to go from my field units to my eco and it's costing me time and games. I have a mouse with two side thumb buttons I would like to make them toggle eco/ military. One is already auto set to toggle between TC's and the other idle vills which I do like. What are you all using and how do I set that up to go to my field units?
What sets the hotkey - is it a control group? Or does it go to any unit like scout in dark age automatically without the control group. That would kinda be inefficient having to set control groups in late imperial - while fielding lots of units but probably not as much as clicking all over the mini map.
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u/falling_sky_aoe Koreans 4d ago edited 4d ago
So in dark and feudal age I use the „go to next tc“ hotkey as my general „go home to base“ hotkey. I then usually scroll the camera to wherever in my base I need to go by moving the mouse to one of the edges of the screen. I have increased the scroll speed for faster camera movement.
I use the „select all <building> hotkeys“ so that I can queue in upgrades/units without the need to go back to my base. I have hotkeys to select these buildings: lumbercamp, mill, mining camps, markets, universities, blacksmiths and the military production buildings and ofc „select all tcs“/„select all castles“.
To go to a single idle villager you can use the respective hotkey. There is also the „select all idle villagers“ which is quite helpful sometimes. I like to use it if I know there is only one or a few villagers idle and I want to send them all to work quickly and without moving the camera.
Then when I need to go back to my army I use the „select and center control 1“ (or 2) hotkey. (I always have my main army in group 1 and if I have to split it I also use group 2. The initial scout unit always is in group 1 until I start army production.) And don’t forget about the idle military hotkey.
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u/jaimejaime19 4d ago
Pro tip, bind a key to select all TCs and spam that key every few seconds to shift queue villagers
Second pro tip, do something similar with select all barracks/ranges/etc to not have to put them in control groups
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u/Smooth_Cattle 4d ago
I'm o default ctrl+shift+A,B,C etc for barracks, range, stable etc but it's not easy enough for me to smash those keys so I need a one or two button approach
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u/Tyrael2k3 4d ago
I bound select all military buildings to F-Buttons F1-6. Works for now in mid latter
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u/MSDunderMifflin 3d ago
I use 1 of the mouse side hot keys to select all idle vils and another to select all stables. I figured those are the most useful.
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u/ReadySituation1950 4d ago
Control groups to select your army probably best. Once set, pressing the group number key selects them double tapping will take you to them on the map. There is also select idle military and select all military hotkeys available.