# Let's talk about the Hausa

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**Category:** III - Discussion\
**Created:** [May 19, 2023, 7:28pm UTC](https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/lets-talk-about-the-hausa/231308 "2023-05-19T19:28:07Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 20, 2023, 5:31am UTC](https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/lets-talk-about-the-hausa/231308/21 "2023-05-20T05:31:15Z")

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> [@anon18935754](#):
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> it is AWFUL and you cant change them to coin until they’re built either.

you can, I discovered this trick with hotkeys, so it does require some knowledge and getting use to

> [@A weird trick about hotkeys and buidings](https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/a-weird-trick-about-hotkeys-and-buidings/220592):
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> So I have noticed this and I am not sure how relevant it is (probably not) but… I have seen how in Age of Mythology players do this thing of queueing techs before the building is built by selecting a group of multiple buildings and clicking on the tech that shows up. While this sadly doesnt work for aoe 3, I have discovered a similar thing but with hotkeys So for example with rice paddies (and fields) there is a toggle that switches between gathering food of gold. the default is food and you …

> [@anon18935754](#):
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> I am learning to use the infinite salt mine and akan gold mine with the uni aura card and its… acceptable for medium length games.

the build you kinda want to go for if its late game salt is the berber card which sends 1 berber for every outpost and TC, you can send it twice if you remember to send it before imp and potentialy max out on salt mine with berber vils

On the topic of hausa food i am more convinced now that lategame food ratio for hausa is like 80 food 20-ish on gold due to how low some of the gold cost for their units are. they also have the ability to task cows onto field for like an extra 5 vils worth iirc and you can build up a reserve of food using the Akan exchange tech

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> Also mission fervor age 2 is ridiculous strat I’ve stumbled on during my Morroco build testing

yeah and they used to be even more busted with 360 hp base and 1 pop lol

With fulani you used to be able to infinite kite against any melee cav cause they essentially snare them and you have a ranged mass running at like 5 speed.

with the age 4 card they can even support cav masses and speed them up even more

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