it's time to share a new strat
P10
the idea of this strat is based on an extremely fast age up, giving you the time needed to place your 2nd TC where you want, claiming map controle before the other player reaches age II.
Originally, it was a pure rush strat, but soon enough I realised it has a lot more potential, and it's very flexible.
Basic BO
- sent 3 vils on hunt asap, while picking up the food crates with the others. Don't pick up any other crates, you don't need em and every second gained is critical.
- Queue 3 vils, so your pop cap will be 10/10. Continue gathering the 800 food you need and age up with 500 food politician.
- Your explorer should try and find food treasures and herdables (cow, sheep etc...), if you have good map-knowledge you can often guess where to find food treasures, use the spyglass for this as well. If you find herdables, eat em asap!
- Optional: first shipment: 300 wood. I use this card when I plan on rushing or harassing early on. If I do a FF, I save this shipment.
Transition to age II
(usually between 2:00 and 3:30)
- Unless you FF, foward 1 vil to a place where u want your rax and 2nd TC. If you can, shoot back some hunts near the enemy TC :twisted:
- Collect the remaining crates (and the 300 wood) and build 2 houses.
- Try and find XP treasures, it helps speeding that 2nd shipment. Spyglass the enemy base this time.
- Eco management:
for musk spam: - Put 1 vil on wood, 3 on gold, rest on food. Adapt according treasures you picked up - but this works fine usually.
for Xbows/pikes: 5 on wood, rest on food.
for hussar harassment: 6 on gold, rest on food.
Age II
- build your rax or stable asap and send your TC wagon to the frontline.
- pick up the 500 food and spam the unit you want.
- ship 8 xbows or 6 musks - but wait until the TC wagon has started building a bit, otherwise the shipment will arrive before it's build and you won't be able to have the drop-off point in the foward TC.
- make vils from 2 TC.
- be evil - snipe vils, kill men and women, create CHAOS!!! (that's why we play this game, right?)
Usually I ship 700 food, followed by the next military shipment. This is where you need to adapt.
If you want to FF, the BO is slightly different.
- Don't ship 300 wood, but ship 700 gold first.
- during transition, gather up to 300 gold, rest on food.
- Your early age up time will make it hard for your opponent to guess what you're up to. You will reach age III sub 7 min! with 6 cassadores or 7 musks.
- as 2nd shipment I like the 700 wood, for houses, TP or rax/stable. If you are not under pressure, 700 food is also good so your vil production will be smooth (from 3 TC)
Deck I use:
Good luck and HF!
Chaos
just when i thought i had a counter strat figured up u go and create a new variation which forces me to create a variation as well :mad: lol nice write up, im curious tho as to why you don't have 2 organ guns in your deck, could be a nice addition if you age up with the 7 musket polotician 
