We've had guides of Ottoman and German, and I thought: Lets write one for the Dutch! I'm not a very good player and I haven't got too much experience with 1 vs 1s, but almost all were with Dutch. And anyway, you dont have to be a pro to collect some strats This strat can be adapted at a lot of points, for instance you could decide to build an artillery foundry during the ageup to age 3 and make falcs as soon as you arrive, or go for a stable with hussars/ruyters. You will, however, need a barrack pretty quickly in age 3. *build a stable *Ship Stadhouder once you have clicked age up. Your devision should be: 9-9-4 Kill your enemy
This strat is very effective in 1v1, and has few weaknesses. You will mainly want to use this strat against people who are likely to stay in colonial like British, Aztec and Sioux, or against Iroqouis, Portuguese (at least on non-water maps), Germans, Spanish and sometimes Ottomans, Russians and French, but against French ONLY if they FF. As you can see, viable in almost every situation. We will come to mirrors, Ports on water maps and French if they not FF later.
*Send 4 vills to mine gold, let the rest unpack crates
*build one or two houses depending on how much wood you got in crates
*send all vills to food, all new vills to food as well
*send
*age with 17 villagers, with
*during age up, distribute your vills like this: 10 - 3 - 4 and cueue a vill
*first card should be
*collect the wood from your age up with your wood villagers, cueue another villager
*build a bank, the first villager of age 2 should arrive now, set him to wood
*when 700 wood arrives, use your now 4 wood gatherers/builders and your new vill to gather it. Make two vills, put them to food
*build another bank and a barrack
*ship
*sometimes you have time to make 1 more vill while you gather food for age up, sometimes not. Click age up when you can but do not cancel a villager if its still being made. Age up with
*During Transition, your division should look like this: 12-6-4
*Ship
*cueue as many skirms as you can and a few villagers
*depending on what your opponent is doing, ship either 8 halbs or 8 skirms
*You should aim at 15-18 skirms and 10-13 halbs(depending on what you shipped)
*If you havent been attacked yet, move forward and harras your enemy a bit
*ship 8 skirms/8 halbs, depending on what you havent shipped yet, and in the case of skirms, make 5 halbs and when its halbs make 5 skirms
*build another barrack and eventually an artillery foundry while you keep up making vills
*go after your enemy with your 20-23 skirms and 15-18 halbs. It could be that he is also in fortress now, but you have a superior economy. Keep reinforcing your army if you are managing, otherwise retreat
*build 2-4 falconets and 2 culverins
*kill your enemy
This strat works best in mirrors and against French FFs. Can also work against German and to a lesser extend Portuguese. You use
*cueue 5 hussars
*build a barrack
*ship bank wagon and cue skirms untill you have 5
*raid with your hussars
*build your 3rd bank when you have the resources
*if your raid is going well, make 3 more hussars. If you are facing pikes/musks, use your 5 skirms, or if they cant manage make 5 more
*age up when you can with
*make your hussars veteran
*ship halbs if your skirms survived, otherwise ship skirms and make 5 halbs
*attack with your infantry and 4 hussars, let your other 4 hussars raid him from the back while you attack at the front. You should have, ideally, 18 skirms, 5 halbardiers and 8 hussars with 5 halbardiers and 5 hussars on the way. You will have less military later then in the last strat, but you will have hurt your opponent and maybe even lured him in cancelling his ff. Your hussars also force him to make anti cav which your vet. skirms kill very easily.
This strat is best done against defensive player, ports for instance. You follow
*Build 2 TCs with your explorer once you have the wood. If you are attacked, send
*you will need to gather 1000 gold during age up, but this shouldnt be too hard. If you can gather 2000, even better. *Once you are age IV and have collected your gold, send Stadhouders from the Church. Also send waargelders if you can.
*Send
---------I Have to Go Now, I Will Finish it Tomorrow With the 4 Bank FF and Pike Rush