OK, this strat basically puts a lot of longbows and pikes in ur opponents base at around 6:00-6:30 depending on how good you are and what treasures you manage to find.
This is a pretty rough build order that propably needs some improvement so any suggestions would be appreciated.
Age I
*2-3 vills hunt, rest on crates (food first)
*after collected crates, have a settler build a house and set the spawn to hunting. All vills hunt.
*First card is 3 settler.
*Click age up at about 2:50 with 16-17 vills.
Pre Age II
*Switctch 8-9 vills to wood and 8-9 on hunt. Once you have enough wood, build another house and set the gather point to wood.
Age II
*You should have aged with the 200 gold and outpost politician (unless theres a better one later, i dont know though). Put the outpost forward and send a vill or 2 there to build a barracks ASAP.
*Upon aging, send the 700 wood card. When it arrives, put 2-3 vills on it and build a house and another barracks.
*Keep putting more vills on wood, ur gonna need it.
The Attack
*As soon as the barracks is up build either 5 pikes or 5 longbows, depending on if ur opponent has a barracks up yet, if so do longbows first.
*Take the first two batches of lbows and try to find some hunting vills, you may manage to pick some off (remember to shift-click each one and try to get between them and the Town Center).
*once you have about 10-15 longbows, and 10 pikes, attack the enemy **if the enemy is ottoman, try more longbows and fewer pikes, unless you can kill his barracks/artillery range before he can get abus guns.
**DO NOT GO FOR THE TC WITH THE FIRST WAVE**
10 pikes even in cover mode will not kill the Town Center and you will suffer heavy losses. Start with military buildings, then houses(unless playing germans, then go for houses first), then make sure u have reinforcements coming before you attack the TC.
Remember to keep producing vills and make units according to what you see your opponent doing. The good thing is, you dont need any gold at all to do this strat, and it requires only a level 10 HC to be efficient (though higher is still better)
I'll try to get times soon, and a recording if someone can tell me how to post it.
Any tips or comments would be helpful and please dont flame me or anything, as this is my first strat post and I dont want the thread to get off topic.
Thanks All =)
[This message has been edited by xMatt the Greatx (edited 04-21-2006 @ 03:38 PM).]