Rush · Great Pasture — Jin Dynasty AoE4

Age II at 1:45 with 8 villagers (0:00–3:12)

Force a food drop-off at 1:40 to click up at 1:45 with 8 villagers: the Great Pasture is ready at 3:12, with 12 villagers.

0:00 — 2 Mounted Villagers hunt the reindeer under the Town Center, the third mines gold with a Mining Camp. Regular Villagers come out rallied on the reindeer.
1:40 — 8 villagers in total: get ready to force the food drop-off, so the age-up starts right away.
1:45 — Forced drop-off, then age up with the Great Pasture: 2 Mounted Villagers from food build it, then go back to gold.
2:00 — The gold Mounted Villager builds a House.
2:20 — One more villager to gold, then the rally goes back to food.

Beat the opponent’s knight pressure to the punch: Iron Pagodas and Mohe Tribesmen from 3:12, then wood from 3:40 to sustain production.

3:12 — The Great Pasture is ready: produce Iron Pagodas and Mohe Tribesmen immediately, and put on the pressure.
3:40 — At 10 villagers on food and 4 on gold, rally on wood; the Town Center now produces Mounted Villagers.
4:15 — Make more Mohe Tribesmen to protect the Iron Pagodas during raids, and press the open points of the map.

The build exists to get ahead of knight pressure (the French first of all): the Iron Pagodas harass, the Mohe Tribesmen protect them.
Kill the two reindeer right next to the Town Center straight away, otherwise villager production stops for a few seconds: the timings are very tight (Jockxtar’s advice).
Variant: Eldritch clicks up at 2:05 with 3 villagers, produces Mohe Tribesmen non-stop (5 to 6) and hits the opponent’s back gold around 4:20; he can then stay in Age II or go Castle, the safer option.
Variant: Jockxtar clicks up at 1:50 and makes 2 Horsemen before the Mohe Tribesmen to block the opponent’s gold or stone; avoid it against feudal heavy cavalry (French, Jeanne d’Arc, Rus, Golden Horde) and against English, Lancaster and Abbasid (military wing).