2 TCs · Fast — Japanese AoE4
Stone, wood and Kura Storehouse (0:00–5:05)
Reach Age II at 5:05 with 21 villagers, after an opening on stone and then everything on wood: all set to put down the second Town Center at 5:10.
- 0:00 — 1 villager on sheep; 3 build a Forge next to the stone and 2 build a Farmhouse. The Town Center rallies on stone.
- — Rally on sheep until 10 villagers on food, then rally on wood.
- 3:05 — The 5 stone villagers move to the trees around the Town Center.
- 3:40 — 5 sheep villagers build the Kura Storehouse; the others go to wood: only 4 villagers are left on food.
- 4:00 — A wood villager builds a Farmhouse; rally the Town Center on wood.
Second Town Center next to the gold (5:05)
Put down the second Town Center at 5:10 with 10 wood villagers, then a Forge on the gold; the first Town Center rallies on wood, a Barracks around 7:00.
- 5:05 — Age II. The 5 Kura Storehouse builders go back to sheep and 1 villager goes to the Kura Storehouse Farm.
- 5:10 — 10 wood villagers build the second Town Center on the gold if it isn’t exposed; otherwise next to the berries and wood, or on deer. Rally the Town Center on wood.
- — Town Center done: 5 villagers build a Forge on the gold, the other 5 rally on wood.
- 6:20 — The first Town Center rallies on wood.
- 6:40 — Tawara.
- 7:00 — A wood villager builds a Barracks.
Tips
- A second Town Center on the gold is exposed: only place it there if the opponent cannot reach it; otherwise next to the berries and wood, or the deer.
- Variant (MaskedDitto): 3 villagers on sheep and 3 on a Forge at the stone from 0:00; Daimyo Manor around 2:00; at 350 stone, the stone villagers build a Farmhouse on the berries then go to wood; Age II around 5:50.
- In MaskedDitto’s version, the 4 Kura Storehouse builders and the 11 wood villagers build the second Town Center next to the gold around 5:50; the first Town Center rallies on food, the second on gold.
- MaskedDitto’s follow-up: Barracks around 7:15, Katana Bannerman and about ten Onna-Bugeisha from 7:30; Double Broadax, Specialized Pick, Tawara and Takezaiku around 8:00; Farms around the Town Center once the sheep and berries run out, then the Floating Gate.
- In Age III: Mounted Samurai and an Uma Bannerman, a Shinto Shrine for the relics, then Daimyo Palace and Shogunate Castle (MaskedDitto).
Source: AoE4 Guides