Kharash · Age I — Golden Horde AoE4
Barracks up front, Kharash and palisades (0:00–5:50)
Have 4 Kharash active by the end of Age I and cost the opponent working time, with the Barracks down from the start, the Golden Tent at 2:40 and the age-up started at 4:05; Age II at 5:50 with 23 villagers.
- 0:00 — Rally the Town Center on sheep; 1 villager builds the Barracks then goes to food, 3 villagers go to wood.
- 0:25 — At 110 wood, the 3 wood villagers move to food: you can then put a Ger on the gold and a Ger on the deer.
- 1:20 — First Kharash, with the rally point on the opponent’s gold.
- 2:00 — A villager builds a Ger on the gold; rally the Town Center on wood.
- 2:40 — After a single drop-off, the wood villagers build a Ger on the deer, preferably next to the wood. All sheep villagers but one move to the deer; the Kharash rally on the enemy’s deer or another exposed resource. A sheep villager builds the Golden Tent then returns to the sheep; rally the Town Center on gold.
- 3:30 — Rally the Town Center on wood.
- 3:40 — A sheep villager moves to wood; a deer villager builds a Palisade around the deer.
- 4:05 — Age up with Khan and Torguuds.
- 5:00 — A gold villager builds a Ger on the wood, and a wood villager stays on wood.
- 5:20 — Spearmen in the queue, non-stop.
Hardened Spearmen, Ovoo, Batu Khan (5:50)
Chain Hardened Spearmen, put down a second Ovoo and start Batu Khan at 7:45 with 29 villagers: 13 on wood, 11 on food, 3 on gold and 2 builders.
- 5:50 — Age II. Spearman upgrade.
- 6:30 — An Ovoo; rally the Town Center on gold.
- 7:30 — A wood villager moves to the sheep, another wood villager to gold.
- 7:45 — An Ovoo, Batu Khan and Double Broadax.
Tips
- Good for disrupting knights in Feudal; the author warns it does not work if the gold sits under the opponent’s Town Center.
- The Kharash go for the opponent’s gold, then his deer or another exposed resource: the point is to make him lose as much time as possible.
- Depending on how long your Palisades are, one villager walks the line repairing them throughout the age-up and into early Age II.
- The Ger on the deer goes next to the wood if possible; the wood villagers drop off only once before building it.
- The author admits the build still needs simplifying: it probably contains some unnecessary villager movement.
Source: AoE4 Guides