2 TCs · White Tower — English AoE4
Sheep, gold, then stone (0:00–4:22)
Click up at 2:40 with 14 villagers: 5 on food, 3 on wood, 3 on stone and 3 builders. The stone pays for the second Town Center.
- 0:00 — 6 villagers on sheep; one of them builds a House first.
- 0:20 — Rally the next 2 villagers to gold; the first one builds a Mining Camp.
- 1:00 — Rally back to sheep until 8 on food.
- 1:40 — 1 villager to stone, with a Mining Camp.
- 2:00 — 1 villager to wood; it builds the Lumber Camp.
- 2:20 — The next 3 villagers to stone: 4 on stone in total by 3:00.
- 2:40 — Age up with the Abbey of Kings: 3 food villagers build it. The 2 gold villagers move to wood, and the rally point too.
- 2:50 — While aging up, keep rallying on wood and build a House with a stone villager. With 6 on wood at 4:00, extra builders on the Abbey of Kings speed up the age-up.
Second Town Center and farms (4:22–10:14)
Land the second Town Center around 5:00, then reach Age III around 10:00 with about 44 villagers and both Town Centers producing.
- 4:22 — Age II. The 3 builders go to wood; rally on food.
- 5:00 — Build the second Town Center with the 4 stone villagers and rally new villagers on it: 8 builders by 6:00.
- 5:20 — 1 or 2 wood villagers build a Mill and the first Farms; move wood villagers to the farms little by little.
- 6:00 — Town Center done. New split for a fast Age III: one Town Center rallies on gold until 8 on gold, then on wood; the other rallies on food.
- 7:10 — Wheelbarrow, Horticulture and Double Broadax once about 10 villagers are on farms. With one full Mill, send new villagers to food.
- 9:00 — Age up with The White Tower: 8 food villagers build it, then go to wood.
- 9:10 — Rally on wood for the Monastery, an Archery Range and a Barracks; keep adding Farms, or hunt the deer.
Relics and production (10:14)
Turn the economic lead into map control: relics, the central gold, then a push or the Imperial Age.
- 10:14 — Monastery first, then more production buildings.
- 12:00 — Secure the big gold in the middle and the relics; then prepare the Imperial Age, or a Castle Age attack.
Tips
- A 2 TC opening is weak to very early aggression: scout at 3:00, and if an army is coming, add Longbowmen and Hardened Spearmen before the second Town Center.
- Two Town Centers only pay off with constant villager production: never let either of them idle.
- Place the second Town Center on deer or on a gold vein, so villagers drop resources right next to it.
- Variant: VortiX clicks up at 2:10 with 2 gold villagers and sends 4 food villagers to stone — same result, a Town Center at 4:30.
- Against a Fast Castle civilization, use the 2 TC Fast Castle build instead: same opening, The White Tower at 8:40.
Source: AoE4 Guides