• Age 5
  
• Have 99 Vills
  
• have an army of 200 pop, one of those units being imp (ideally)
  
• Have the most important unit and economic upgrades
  
• have buildings (walls, barracks, stables)

How you achieve that: Doesnt matter!
Usually you'll need as many hunts and gold mines as you can get.
For most civs you'll use 3 villagers into 700 gold into 3 tc boom. Detailed explanation in the next chapters!

Most obvious and strongest picks: Brits and porto
Those two are deeply discussed in this Guide!

Gather all Starting ress.
Get a house and a market
Get 50 gold and 50 wood for hunting dogs.
After that switch all vills to hunts and send all new to food.
At 14 vills: Ageup with 400 wood

During Ageup: Send 4 to gold.
Age 2:
Send 700 gold
Gather the 400 wood --> Get steel traps and the gold upgrade
Gather the 700 gold and age up to age 3 (fast ageup)
Send all new vills to hunts. herd outwards hunts to your base.
Get the second coin market upgrade.

Age 3:
You want to have 3 on wood (for houses), 6 on gold and the rest on food.
(after you have more than 25 vills on food, send some new ones to gold)
Continue to produce vills and go to Age 4 when you have enough ress (1000 gold).

Age 4:
Send Factories.
Have around 30 on food and a little less on gold, so you can quickly advance to age 5 (2 canons).
When you clicked up, send new vills to wood (dont forget market upgrades).
You should hit imp at around 15 - 16 mins.
Get Capitol and get the economic upgrades.
Transition into mills and get upgrades. Try to get as many coin mines as possible

At around 16 mins:
Switch factories to heavy canons and get out 2 (so you have 4 in total for your first push). After the two spawned, switch facts to gold.
Prepare walls, church and arsenal (get relevant upgrades for dragoons)
Get 3 stables, start producing Goons after your mass cavalry (church upgrade) finished.
Get around 30 Dragoons and get them to at least guard (jinete). Ideally you have them imperial.
For your last card you can send 2 more heavy canons, so you have a strong first push.
After treaty ends:
move forward with your army and get map control / finish the enemy.
Continue to get your transition to mill / estate eco and add units as you see fit (usually cassadores, organ guns, mortars).

Note: you can also try to use different units, that was just something i felt was good (for example use musk + heavy canons or go for cass / goon / mortar)

Things to keep in mind:

• Take better fights
  
• Take map Control (including Trade roude/ natives)
  
• Build forward bases and walls

Summary:

• Get as soon as possible to your maximum eco (age 5 and 99 vills)
  
• Do a strong initial Push (musk + Canons or Dragoons and canons)
  
• Get Map Control after treaty ends (Walls, Bases, Trading Posts)
  
• Take good fights!

Video Showcasing the build including a ranked match:
https://youtu.be/EZNlbBH2Zak


Deck:

Gather all starting ress
Build a house and a market
gather 50 gold for hunting dogs and get hunting dogs and the wood upgrade
Switch 4 to food, send all new vills to wood (house and tc).
Send 3 vills and virginia company
When virginia company arrives: Build all houses
After you built all houses, send all vill to food (except 3, which stay on wood)

After you cliked up to Age 2
Ageup to age 2 with 2 vills and cows as soon as you have 800 food.
Switch 15 - 20 of your vills to gold. Get the gold market upgrade
Immediatly after arriving at age 2
Click up to Age 3 with covered Wagon (Buy/ Sell food in market if necessary)
get the food market upgrade (teel traps) and the gold market upgrade (in this order)
If you keep your economy this way, you should be able to click up to age 4 immediatly after arriving in age 3

After you clicked up to Age 4:
In Age 4 you need more food. Retask some vills from gold to food.
Send the "Estates" card and get up to 99 vills (can produce vills in manor houses)
After that send 2 factories (Keep them on gold, dont forget the upgrade)
go to age 5 as fast as possible (usually you are Age 5 before minute 15). Use the 3 Rocket politician
When you clicked up, send some of your vills to wood (most hunters will be idle anyway)
Dont forget the market wood upgrades.
Get as many gold mines as possible (30-40 Vills on gold).

When in Age 5:
Slowly switch to mill economy.
Get Church (if you havent allready) and arsenal and get important upgrades
Get Barracks and get musk upgrades. Start Producing musks at around 18 mins. Dont forget the church Upgrade, so your infantry produces faster. You should click the imp musk upgrade at around 19:30. It should be ready when treaty ends.
Start getting some walls around your base (2 layers or more layers). Only Upgrade them when you need them.
Build some stables and get the veteran upgrade (so you can add in some later, if the enemy has many skirms)

Send your army into the middle. After treaty ends, attack with all your units.

Decks & Card Progression:
Deck: Mostly like treaty, except virginia company and 3 vills
Card Progression: 3 vills, virginia Company, Saw Mills, refridgeration, royal coint mint, estates, 2x Factories




Video Showcasing this Build Order:
https://youtu.be/qBj_7axUWbs

If you have questions, feel free to ask! :)

Patch: December 2020
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