If you’re trying to learn to properly boom up, practice a conventional Fast Castle on Arena. Generally however, the idea is once you’re in Castle age, you want to expand your eco in size and space using TC’s, but only so far as you believe you’re able to without being killed. If you’re pocket and you’ve reached castle age quick, going for knights can turn a flank on it’s head and win you the game right there. you don’t want to follow an archers build order against Britons.Ĭastle age is the variable. So also be careful with using build orders, because if you build into the wrong unit, then the build order is (at least partially) losing you the game.

So keep an eye on your enemy, keep scouting and keep an eye on what he is trying to do.ĮDIT: A build order just basically sets you up for a specific strategy. If your enemy isn’t adding a second tc, but going for a one TC all in, you need to mirror that, or at least make more army than normally, so that you don’t get overwhelmed. Mangudai), try to aim to get a castle up.įurthermore, the enemy playstyle massively affects what you should do.

Generally, you want to control as many resources as possible on the map, so if you haven’t already located all the neutral resources, look for them, keep your economy growing, maybe contest relics, at least try to get 2. Build orders cut short because the game can develop in so many different ways, and different civilization matchups will also largely affect what you should do.

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