Hera Build Orders-Dec 2020 v1 2

Straight Archers............................................................................................................
2
Scouts into Skirms ........................................................................................................ 3
Scouts into Knights ...................................................................................................... 4
All-in Scouts .................................................................................................................. 5
Men-at-Arms into Archers ......................................................................................... 6
Men-at-Arms into Eagles ........................................................................................... 7
Drush into Archers ....................................................................................................... 8
Pre-Mill Drush FC .......................................................................................................... 9
Drush FC into Crossbow ............................................................................................ 10
Hybrid Map (Land + Water)........................................................................................ 11
Scouts into Unique Unit............................................................................................. 12
Huns: Scouts into Archers ......................................................................................... 13
Turks: Arena Fast Imp ................................................................................................ 14
Saracens: Drush FC with Market ............................................................................. 15
Cumans: Double TC into Kipchaks ........................................................................... 16
Franks 19 Pop Scouts................................................................................................. 17
Build orders by: Hera © 2019, 2020

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• Going for archers in Feudal Age is one of the easiest builds, yet it’s very powerful.
• Up to about 1400 – 1500 DE this is, in my opinion, the best strategy to use if you master it.
• After that you will need to learn to mix in a drush or some man at arms before hand.
VILS TASK NOTES

WOOD FOOD GOLD STONE VIL POP
6 6 villagers to sheep 6 1-6
4 Build lumber camp #1 4 7-10
1 Lure boar #1 7 11
1 + House + mill on berries 8 12
2 + 2 villagers to berries 10 13-14
1 Lure boar #2 11 15
1 1 villager to berries 12 16
2 2 villagers to food under TC 14 17-18
3 3 villagers to wood 7 19-21
- + Loom + click up to Feudal Age 7 14 0 0 21
3 TC villagers build lumber camp #2 (5 per LC)
On the - + 3 TC villagers to build mining camp on gold 10 8 3 0 21
way up
- Build barracks at 60% up
- Double Bit Axe
- x2 Build two archery ranges
- Make archers
4 Send 4 new villagers to gold 7

- Build blacksmith, continue walling
New villagers to wood, build farms when you
- + can afford
- Get Fletching, move archers out
- Wheelbarrow (around minute 16-17)
1 Send 1 more villager to gold 8

- Click up to Castle Age
On the - + Horse Collar + Gold Mining upgrade

way up
- + Get archer armor, keep massing archers
- + Crossbow + Bodkin Arrow
- Bowsaw
- x2 Drop two TCs (woodline, secondary gold)
- + University + Ballistics
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• This strategy works really well to counter archer civs, especially those that open with a drush
• Essentially the scouts work to clear up any drush/maa rush and then go straight to the opponent
to harass him. Then you prepare skirms at home to counter his archer switch!
VILS TASK NOTES

1 Lure boar #1 7 10
1 1 villager to food under TC 8 11
2 2 villagers to berries 11 13-14
On the - 3 TC villagers to lumber camp #2 10 11 21
way up - Build barracks at 60% up
- + Build stable, make scouts
- + Double Bit Axe, Horse Collar

New villagers to wood, build farms when you
- + can afford
- + Archery range, make skirmishers
- + Blacksmith, Fletching
- Wheelbarrow
6 6 villagers to gold 6
- Send berry villagers to farms as they run out
- + Archer armor, Gold Mining upgrade
- + Elite Skirmisher upgrade, Bodkin
- Make knights
At this point you have a few options:

• Adding stables for more knights is usually a great choice. More skirms are good if needed too.
• You can also get some buildings down like a siege shop/monastery/university and look to go for
imperial age, it depends a lot on the civ matchup in game!
• This strategy is amazing for civs with a cavalry focus. You go for a quick scout rush, full wall, and
then try to get to Castle Age faster than your opponent to finish him off with knights!
VILS TASK NOTES

1 Lure boar #1 7 10
- + Build stable, make scouts
5 + Drop farms when you can afford, 5 to gold 5

Blacksmith + Wheelbarrow when you have
- + 5 villagers on gold
- Send berry villagers to farms as they run out
- + Bloodlines, cavalry armor

On the
way up - Gold Mining upgrade
- Build a second stable
- Make knights
- Drop two TCs on wood and gold
- Bow Saw
• The best thing to do after you have 3 TCs is to drop more stables and flood knights.
• If your opponent has a lot of anti-knight units (camels, pikes, monks) feel free to transition to a
unit that can counter their counter and supplement your knight army the best.
• Don't rush going to imp with cavalry civs because you don’t get that quick power spike as you do
with arbalest civs, so sticking in castle for a bit longer is natural.
• This is the 2+ stable scouts in Feudal, which can be used by any civ that has bloodlines.
• It works better with civs that have extra bonuses like Magyars, Huns, Malians, etc.
• Starts with a standard 21 pop scouts build order, changes happen in Feudal Age.
VILS TASK NOTES

1 Lure boar #1 7 10
1 Build lumber camp #2 6 20
- + Stable, make scouts
- + Double Bit Axe, Horse Collar, more farms

Long distance mine 50 gold with 1 villager
- x50 until you have 100 total
- Wheelbarrow when you have 13-14 farms
- Bloodlines once you have 100 gold

Send berry villagers to farms when berries
- run out
- + Second stable, blacksmith
- + Cavalry armor, Forging

Keep making farms, another mill if needed,
+ send new villagers to gather wood
- Make a stable for each additional 6-7 farms
• Keep spamming scouts until you win (or lose!)

• This is an all-in strategy, so don’t age up, stop attacking, or switch into something else
unless you have a very good reason to!
• This strategy is quite common these days. The men-at-arms serve as a buffer to give you time to
make an archer switch, while hitting your opponent nice and early in Feudal Age.
• Men-at-arms have high damage output and are dangerous in the early game!
VILS TASK NOTES

1 Lure boar #1 7 11
- Push 1 deer with scout
1 Build barracks 18
1 1 villager to wood 5 19
2 Build mining camp on gold 2 21
- + Loom + Click up to Feudal Age 5 14 2 0 21
On the - 5 TC villagers build lumber camp #2 10 9 2 0 21
way up - Make 3 militia, send forward
- Man-at-Arms upgrade
- Double Bit Axe
- Seed farms
- Build archery range #1
5 Send 5 new villagers to gold 7 26

- + Build blacksmith, get Fletching
Keep seeding farms
- + Wheelbarrow (around min 16-17)
- Click up to Castle Age 10 X 9 0
On the
Build archery range #2
way up
- Horse Collar
• At this point you’re playing it like a standard archer mid game.

• You can aim for a faster imperial with Arbalest, or make a switch to cavalry or skirmishers
if your civ is good at those options.
• Feel free to get some siege and pick up ballistics with a university as well!
• This strategy is very all in and works best with Aztecs or Incas. It starts with a men-at-arms rush
into walls, massing eagles in Feudal, to eventually go all-in 3 barrack eagles in Castle Age.
• You can even use the market to buy/sell resources in order to make the rush more explosive!
VILS TASK NOTES

1 Lure boar #1 7 11
- Push 1 deer with scout
1 Build barracks 18
2 Build mining camp on gold 2 21
2 TC villagers to lumber camp #1
On the - + 1 TC villager to gold 7 9 3 0 21
way up
- x3 Make 3 militia, send forward
- Man-at-Arms upgrade
- + Double Bit Axe + Horse Collar
- Build barracks #2
3 Send 3 new villagers to gold 6 X

X Seed Farms until you have 9-10
- Build Blacksmith, get both infantry upgrades
X New villagers to gold (Stop seeding farms)

Make Market when affordable
- Sell Stone/buy Food (as needed)
On the - + Build Barracks #3, keep massing eagles
way up Building Mining Camp #2 on main gold

- + Gold Mining upgrade
- + Eagle Warrior upgrade + blacksmith upgrades
- + Bowsaw + Squires
• This is very similar to the straight archers build order but has a small step beforehand, the 3
militia drush. This is used to keep your opponent open, and potentially get a bit of harassment off.
• It does slow down your archer rush by 30 seconds or so, but sometimes hitting your opponent
early with a drush is more valuable than a couple of extra archers!
VILS TASK NOTES

1 Lure boar #1 7 11
2 1 villager to berries 10 13-14
1 x2 + Build house, barracks, house (in that order) 17
1 10 Mine 10 gold (no mining camp), then food 1 18
- x3 Make 3 militia, send forward

4-5 + Food under TC (3-4 Farms) 16-17 23-24
- + Loom + click up to Feudal Age 5 16-17 0 0 23-24
On the 5 TC villagers to build lumber camp #2
way up
- + 3 TC villagers to gold 10 8-9 3 0 23-24
As TC food runs out, send villagers to
- straggler trees
- Double Bit Axe
- x2 Build 2 archery ranges at front
- + Make archers, and a few spears if needed
- + Build houses and wall up
- + Blacksmith, Fletching, send out archers
4 4 new villagers to gold 7 27-28

Make farms with 4-5 new villagers until
4-5 + about 13 Farmers, then get Wheelbarrow 17-18 32-34
When berries run out, 2 villagers to gold,
- +X 2 villagers to wood/farms 10-11 13-14 9 32-34
- Click up to Castle Age 10-11 13-14 9 0 32-34
On the - + Horse Collar + Gold Mining upgrade
way up - Archer Armor (keep massing archers)
+
- + Crossbow upgrade + Bodkin Arrow
- Bowsaw
- x2 Drop 2 TCs (extra wood, secondary gold)
• This is an advanced build order meant to hit your opponent quickly, and also keeps you safe from
counter attacks because you can usually wall up completely.
• This build works for FC into knights or xbow, but works best with xbow.
VILS TASK NOTES

6 6 villagers to sheep 6 6
1 Lure boar #1 7 11
1 + Make house, barracks, then go to berries 8 13
1 Lure boar #2 9
1 x10 Collect 10 gold (no mining camp)
Start making militia, don’t idle TC
- x3 Send forward when you have 3
3 + 3 villagers to berries, make mill 12
1 villager to lumber camp #1, one to start
2 + walling 5
4-5 Lumber camp #2 with next 4-5 villagers 9-10
1 villager to berries, make farms until you
1 + have 7-8 with food villagers 13
4 4 villagers to gold, build mining camp 4
Get Loom, click up to Feudal Age,
- + continue walling 10-11 13-14 4 0 28-29
Make range + blacksmith
- + (can also adapt here to go knights)
- 2 villagers to gold 6 30-31
- Click up to Castle Age 10-11 13-14 6 0 30-31
- + Horse Collar + Bit Axe
On the - 2 more villagers to gold 8

way up - Make second range, produce archers
+
Fletching, seed farms, send extra villagers
- + to wood
- + Bodkin, xbow upgrade, send forward
- Bowsaw
- Wheelbarrow
• At this point you should look to add 2 extra town centers:

1 on a secondary gold and 1 on another woodline to expand your base.
• You can also add a university for ballistics, or a siege workshop.
• A monastery to get relics also helps. Once you are on 3 TCs you can transition to other units.
• A classic build order that can be used when you have a good map thats easy to wall and protect.
• You start off with 3 militia to harass your opponent early, then follow it up with full walls.
• The faster castle time allows you to get crossbows and try to get a good lead over your opponent
with some early tech advantage!
VILS TASK NOTES

1 Lure boar #1 7 11
1 x2 + House, barracks, house 17
1 10 Collect 10 gold (no mining camp) 1 18
- x3 3 militia + scout to raid opponent
3 3 villagers to wood 7 21
3 + Food under TC (6 villagers to sheep) 16-17 24
3 Gold 3
- + Loom + click up to Feudal Age 7 16-17 3 0 27
Archery Range (Use 2 Villagers to build) +
- + Blacksmith (Use 1 Villager to Build)
- Make Archers (ASAP)
Click up to Castle Age
- (Idle TC max 20 seconds to click up) X X X X X
On the
way up
- +
Horse Collar + Double Bit Axe
- Bowsaw
- x2 Drop 2 TCs (Extra wood/secondary gold)
- Wheelbarrow when possible, around min 21
• At this point you’re playing it like a standard archer mid game. You can aim for a faster imp with
arbalest, or make a switch to cavalry or skirm if your civ is good at those options.
• Feel free to get some siege and pick up ballistics with a university aswell!
• However, since you went fast castle, you’re probably missing important eco techs, like Gold
Mining, Horse Collar/Heavy Plow and Wheelbarrow. Make sure to pick those up in Castle Age
whenever possible, it’s important!
• This build is great for those weird maps that have both land and water.
• This build will help you benefit from fishing and early game water bonuses, but will also allow you
to surprise your opponent on the land!
VILS TASK NOTES

1 Lure boar #1 7 11
1 + Build house + dock + house 8 12
x4 Make fishing ships as you can afford them -
1 Lure boar #2 8-9 15
6 6 villagers to food under TC 15 21
1 TC villager to lumber camp #1
- 7 TC villagers to lumber camp #2 14 7 0 0 21
On the - TC food runs out; villagers to straggler trees 14 X 0 0 21
way up
- Build barracks (when affordable)
- Double Bit Axe
- + Build house + archery range #1
- Fire Galley (ASAP, add more as needed)
7 7 villagers to gold 7 28
4 2 villagers to berries 11 32
- Build archery range #2
- + Build blacksmith + Fletching
- + Make archers, add spears if needed
- + Wall up base + houses
- Pull 2-3 from wood and make farms 11-12 13-14

- + After 12-13 farms, get Wheelbarrow
Click up to Castle Age
- (Idle TC max 20 seconds to click up) 10-11 13-14 7 X 32 + X
On the - Horse Collar + Gold Mining upgrade
+
way up
- + Archer armor + mass archers
You have a ton of options here:

• You can add extra eco, add more docks and go for a water switch with fire ships or war galleys, or
you can keep the pressure on the land.
• The choice is yours, and it depends a lot on the map, and the civ matchup!
• This build is great for getting to those powerful unique units quickly, such as conquistadors,
arambai, mangudai, etc.
• You open scouts to give you time to wall, then you wait to drop a defensive castle and start
massing your unique unit! The stable also helps to pick up bloodlines/husbandry later if needed.
VILS TASK NOTES

1 Lure boar #1 7 10
2 2 villagers to berries 9-10 12-13
1 1 villager to food under TC 13-14 17
2 2 villagers to wood 4-5 18-19
Send 3 villagers from under TC to lumber
On the - camps, with 5 on each lumber camp 10 11 21
way up
- Make barracks (start building at 60% up)
- Build stable with 2 villagers (on the front)
- + Double bit, Horse Collar
- Drop farms as you get the wood to do so

Work on fully walling your base – you must be
- fully walled with safe stone + gold
At 13:30 (around 30 vils), send the next 3 vils
- + to stone, send the next 4 vils to gold 4 3 ~30-32
- + Get Wheelbarrow, build blacksmith
When berries start to run out, send 2 to stone
- + and 1 to gold, make a farm with the last vil 5 5
On the Get upgrades for your unique unit, get Gold
way up
- , Mining upgrade
Build castle immediately in a secure position,
- begin producing units
Get bowsaw, continue getting unique unit
- upgrades
• At this point getting a second castle to continue massing unique unit is a strong option.
• You can also tech switch off of it completely and into another option if you wish to do so,
it depends on the civ matchup mostly!
• This build is specific to the Huns civ, but can be adapted to fit other civs.
• The idea is to open with a scout rush to keep your opponent at bay, and then switch to archers in
mid Feudal to get into a strong crossbow mass in Castle Age.
• It’s best done with arbalest or cavalryarcher civs.
VILS TASK NOTES

1 Lure boar #1 7 10
1 Mill on berries 8 11
Send 3 villagers from under TC to lumber
On the - camps, with 5 on each lumber camp 10 11 21
way up
- Make barracks (start building at 60% up)
- Build stable with 2 villagers (on the front)
- + Double bit, Horse Collar

At 13:00 (around 28-29 villagers), start taking
- + gold, make archery ranges x2 7 ~28-29
Get Wheelbarrow once you have 7 villagers
- + on gold, build blacksmith
- + Get Fletching, send 3 more villagers to gold 10 ~35-36

Click up to Castle Age after Wheelbarrow
- finishes
On the - + Archer armor, Gold Mining upgrade

way up
- + Keep massing archers, make third range
- + Bodkin, xbow upgrade, go forward to attack
+ University + ballistics
- + Wheelbarrow, bowsaw
• At this point you’re playing it like a standard archer mid game.

• You can aim for a faster imp with arbalest, or make a switch to cavalry or skirmishers
if your civ is good at those options.
• Feel free to get some siege and pick up ballistics with a university aswell!
• Note this only works with turks since you get free chemistry.
• A couple other civs can pull off Fast Imps but not quite like the turks!
VILS TASK NOTES

6 6 villagers to sheep 6 6
1 Lure boar #1 7 11
1 + Build house, then to berries 12 16
4 4 villagers to wood (only 1 lumber camp) 8 20
3 3 villagers to food under TC 15 23
Make farms with food villagers as you run out
- of hunt/6 villagers to sheep
5 Build mining camp, send to gold 5 28
- Click up to Feudal Age (no Loom) 8 15 5 0 28
On the Send 3 villagers under your TC to straggler
way up
- trees as you run out of food 11 12
- + Build blacksmith (1 vil) and market (2 vils)
2 2 more villagers to gold 7

- Click up to Castle Age 11 12 7 30
Double bit, Gold Mining upgrade
On the - + (Horse Collar optional)
way up Make farms with the building villagers,
- + sell sell 200 stone at the market
2 2 more villagers to gold 9 32
Build siege workshop and monastery with
- + 3 wood villagers, back to wood when finished
- Click up to Imperial Age
Send berry villagers to a second gold mine
On the - (when berries are done)
way up Build barracks, two archery ranges
- + (buy wood if needed)
Make handcannons from ranges, bombard
- cannons from siege workshop
- Keep adding to your economy
• At this point you NEED to play aggressive and look to break into your opponent’s base.
• Make sure to micro your units a lot, you can't afford to lose even 1 unit for nothing.
• Don't try to add economy. Stay on one Town Center and put all your resources into military.
• You can start mining stone after a few minutes to potentially get a castle up.
• This build order will be the drush FC into all-in w/ market using Saracens.
• You can abuse the market with other build orders, but this one lets you full wall rather early so it’s
usually more consistent.
VILS TASK NOTES

1 Lure boar #1 7 11
1 x2 + House, barracks, house (then food Under TC) 17
1 10 Collect 10 gold (then food under TC) 1 18
- x3 3 Militia + scout to raid opponent
4 Lumber camp #2 8 22
Food under TC (6 villagers to sheep), farms as
2 + needed 14 24
3 3 villagers to gold 3 27
- + Archery range + market (Use 2 villagers each)
2 villagers to gold, send berry villagers to gold
2 when berries are gone 5
- Sell + Sell stone, click up to Castle Age 29-30
On the - Double Bit Axe
way up Make archers, make second range
+
- + Send new villagers to wood/gold
- + University + ballistics
- Buy/Sell Abuse that market
• Some follow up options are to add forward siege, or maybe add third range and get thumbring.
• You can also start mining stone to sell it or go for a forward castle.
• GL HF!
• This is the most common strategy with Cumans. 2 TC boom on 20 pop is solid for most maps,
and following it up with kipchaks is a solid choice.
VILS TASK NOTES

1 Lure boar #1 7 10
2 2 villagers to berries 9-10 12-13
3 3 villagers to food under TC 13-15 19
On the - Send two TC villagers to lumber camp 5
way up -
Go to stragglers as you run out of food
under TC
Send 6 villagers from stragglers/6 villagers to
- sheep to build TC on a woodline, ideally with
a gold/stone close
- Send villagers from second TC to wood

Go to gold/stone when you have around 16
8 + farms: send 8 to gold, 4 to stone 8 4
- + Make barracks and stable (or market)
- + Make blacksmith and get Wheelbarrow
On the - + Get Fletching and Bloodlines

way up
2 2 villagers to stone 6
- Drop defensive castle, start making kipchaks
Get upgrades for kipchaks
+ (Bodkin Arrow, armor, etc)
- Two-Man Saw
After this, you have some options:

• You can add 1 or 2 TCs and go for more economy.
• You can add a university and an archery range for ballistics and thumb ring.
• You can try to push with potentially a second castle forward.
• Or, you can stay 2 TC and look to go for a fast imp if you feel like you need trebs out quickly.
• This build order can be done with any civ, but civs with big early game bonuses can pull it off way
more effectively, Franks being great at it.
• The idea is to hit your opponent faster than usual, before he has time to wall up.
VILS TASK NOTES

1 Lure boar #1 7 9
1 1 villager to food under tc 8 10
1 1 villager to food under tc 14
1 1 villager to wood 4 13 18
1 + Loom + click up to Feudal Age 4 13 0 0 18
Take 5 villagers from under TC and build
On the 5 lumber camp #2 9 8
way up
- + Build barracks and a house
- + Build stable, make scouts, wall up
- Double Bit Axe (Horse Collar is free)

Drop farms when you can afford,
5 + 5 villagers to gold around minute 14 5
Blacksmith + Wheelbarrow when you have
- + 5 villagers on gold
Send berry villagers to farms when berries
- run out
- + Forging, cavalry armor

On the
way up - Gold Mining upgrade, 1 more villager to gold 6
- Build a second stable
- Make knights
- Drop two TCs on wood and gold
- Bow Saw
• The best thing to do after you have 3 TCs is to drop more stables and flood knights.
• You can also go to stone for some cheap Frank castles and switch to throwing axemen if your
opponent is heavy into pikes.
• Going to Imperial for cavalier and later paladin is always a good option too!

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Straight Archers............................................................................................................

Build orders by: Hera © 2019, 2020

VILS TASK NOTES

- Double Bit Axe

- x2 Build two archery ranges

4 Send 4 new villagers to gold 7

- Wheelbarrow (around minute 16-17)

1 Send 1 more villager to gold 8

On the - + Horse Collar + Gold Mining upgrade

- + Crossbow + Bodkin Arrow

- x2 Drop two TCs (woodline, secondary gold)

VILS TASK NOTES

- + Build stable, make scouts

- + Double Bit Axe, Horse Collar

- + Archery range, make skirmishers

- Click up to Castle Age

- + Archer armor, Gold Mining upgrade

- + Elite Skirmisher upgrade, Bodkin

At this point you have a few options:

VILS TASK NOTES

- + Build stable, make scouts

- + Double Bit Axe, Horse Collar

5 + Drop farms when you can afford, 5 to gold 5

- Click up to Castle Age

- + Bloodlines, cavalry armor

- Build a second stable

- Drop two TCs on wood and gold

VILS TASK NOTES

- + Stable, make scouts

- + Double Bit Axe, Horse Collar, more farms

- Bloodlines once you have 100 gold

- + Second stable, blacksmith

- + Cavalry armor, Forging

• Keep spamming scouts until you win (or lose!)

VILS TASK NOTES

- Double Bit Axe

- Build archery range #1

5 Send 5 new villagers to gold 7 26

• At this point you’re playing it like a standard archer mid game.

VILS TASK NOTES

- + Double Bit Axe + Horse Collar

3 Send 3 new villagers to gold 6 X

- Build Blacksmith, get both infantry upgrades

X New villagers to gold (Stop seeding farms)

On the - + Build Barracks #3, keep massing eagles

way up Building Mining Camp #2 on main gold

VILS TASK NOTES

1 Build lumber camp #2 5 19

- Double Bit Axe

- x2 Build 2 archery ranges at front

- + Make archers, and a few spears if needed

- + Build houses and wall up

- + Blacksmith, Fletching, send out archers

4 4 new villagers to gold 7 27-28

- x2 Drop 2 TCs (extra wood, secondary gold)

VILS TASK NOTES

On the - 2 more villagers to gold 8

- + Bodkin, xbow upgrade, send forward

• At this point you should look to add 2 extra town centers:

VILS TASK NOTES

- + Crossbow upgrade + Bodkin Arrow

- x2 Drop 2 TCs (Extra wood/secondary gold)

- Wheelbarrow when possible, around min 21

VILS TASK NOTES