Relatively unused buildings go to the most inconvenient keys - i.e. The most common buildings require the easiest to reach keys - i.e. G for eject is very close to T and V to allow for quick town center and villager manipulation. Very similar motion as T + V for villagers. Shift + T then F trains a fishing boat at all my docks at the same time. The fire pit/consulate/arsenal is an important building for each civ and no civ has 2+ of these buildings so I put them all as the same key. Similarly bow/pike are right next to each other. Musk/Huss and skirm/goon each share the same respective keys because those compositions often go together. Some of the reasons/justifications for why I have what I have: The best hotkeys are the ones you create yourself, which make the most sense to you and your playing style

Shift + (build building 'x' hotkey) = find building 'x' change both to the same key to eject units from all types of structures) G - eject units (there is a town center eject units and a universal eject units. W - build market, train skirmisher type, goon type, explorer crack shotį - build fire pit/arsenal/consulate, attack move, train fishing boat Q - build house, train musketeer type, hussar type Mouse row 3 - find all barracks type buildings, find all stable type buildings, find all artillery type buildings Mouse row 2 - ranged mode, mele mode, cover mode unit tactics Mouse row 1 - alt (show hitpoints), find explorer I have an MMO style Logitech g600 mouse to help me out since my keyboard dexterity is not very good Formerly PR 31, 2300 1v1 ELO b/c I like listing worthless metrics that make me feel somewhat justified in wasting way too many hours into this game

Age of empires 3 hotkeys