Building foundations reveal the ground beneath them and can be placed on partially black terrain. You need to be careful with this as melee units on stand ground are very vulnerable if not microed with scouts or man-at-arms it can be useful to use the stand ground stance when focusing specific units. When on aggressive or defensive stance, if a unit can't immediately reach the target you clicked, it will look for another nearby. 
In low numbers, box formation can be useful to have units closer together than they would be in line formation. when microing away archers or galleys as it's easier to fire with all units In some situations it can be useful to keep the horizontal alignment, e.g. Otherwise (less than 10 tiles) it will be horizontal. When units are in line formation and you task them away further than 10 tiles (or patrol), they will form a vertical line (along the direction they are walking). You can look at this thread for a reference on useful Userpatch hotkeys. You can hold Shift to train five units at a time or buy/sell/tribute 500 resources at a time, as well as place multiple building foundations of the same type. On Userpatch this deletes a control group definition On HD, the hotkeys for Control Groups can be changed and you can use the Ctrl+0 group. On Userpatch 1.5, if the option is enabled, pressing Shift+number adds your current selection to that control group instead of replacing it like Ctrl+number does. 
(Alternatively, pressing space also centers your view on your current selection) You can then select that group by pressing that number, and focus on it by double-tapping it.
You can create a control group by pressing Ctrl+number. If you hold Shift+Control, you can left-click a unit icon in the command bar to remove that unit type from the selection. If you hold Shift, you can left-click a unit icon in the command bar to remove all other unit types from the selection. If you hold Control, you can left-click a unit icon in the command bar to remove a unit from the selection. This can be combined with double-clicking If you hold Control or Shift, you can left-click a unit on the screen to add it to the selection. Double-clicking a unit selects all units of that type visible on the screen. It's a bit of a random selection, but there are some interesting mechanics or quirks that I think not many people know about. These are pieces of information that I've found out through my own research or heard about (Credit to ZeroEmpires, Resonance22 and SpiritOfTheLaw on youtube!) during my work on this guide, but that don't fit anywhere on the sheet itself. In addition to the info sheet, here you can find all manner of interesting and/or useful information on the mechanics of Age of Empires II
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