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Straight Archer Build Order

2022-04-18
By: Assassin
On: April 18, 2022
In: Blog, Build Orders, Generic Build Orders

The straight archer build will allow you to harass an opponents wood and wall lines and allow you to begin massing archers to make a critical ball of crossbowmen. Read More →

19 Pop Scouts into Skirmishers

2022-04-18
By: MonsieurBaggins
On: April 18, 2022
In: Blog, Build Orders, Generic Build Orders

Scouts are a standard build order to learn, but often you find yourself making scouts and being countered by an opponent’s spearman.Read More →

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Fast Castle into Boom

2020-07-27
By: MonsieurBaggins
On: July 27, 2020
In: Blog, Build Orders, Generic Build Orders

The Fast Castle into Boom, one of the best beginner build orders for closed maps. Learn the build for a 15 minute fast castle into a 3 town-center boom.Read More →

Scout Rush

2020-07-02
By: MonsieurBaggins
On: July 2, 2020
In: Generic Build Orders

The scout rush is the go-to build order for a new player wanting to learn how to learn build orders. Not only does the build not require gold to be collected, meaning that only 2 resources are needed to be focussed on, it also allows a player to understand the importance of efficiently balancing an economy, as you require ample food production to sustain villagers costing 50 food and scouts costing 80 food, and you require the wood economy to balance out new farms and to be able to place a barracks while advancing to Feudal Age and then a stable in feudal. As always,Read More →

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Drush into Fast Castle

2020-06-14
By: MonsieurBaggins
On: June 14, 2020
In: Build Orders, Generic Build Orders

The Drush into Fast Castle is an intermediate build order that, when executed right, can assist you in dominating a match. A foreword about this strategy is that it is used when a player feels their civilization may be best off doing a fast castle strategy for any particular reason, but they are playing on an open map in which they expect an opponents feudal aggression to be deadly, and they wish to place an opponent back economically so that a fast castle is unpunished. Objective – Advance to Feudal Age with 32 population Like most build orders, immediately build 2 houses, 1 with 2Read More →

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