Feudal pressure · Iron Pagodas — Jin Dynasty AoE4
Gold then hunt, age-up at 2:30 (0:00–3:55)
Click up at 2:30 with 7 villagers; the Great Pasture is done at 3:55 with 9 Mounted Villagers, 3 of them on gold.
- 0:00 — 2 villagers hunt the reindeer, 1 mines gold with a Mining Camp and builds a House. Produce Mounted Villagers non-stop, rally on gold up to 3 miners.
- 1:10 — 3 villagers on gold, 2 on food.
- 1:45 — Rally on food.
- 2:30 — Age up with the Great Pasture: 2 food villagers build it, then go back to food.
- 2:55 — New villagers keep going to food.
- 3:30 — Rally on wood, with a Lumber Camp, up to 6 villagers on wood.
Constant Pagodas, then the forge (3:55)
Produce Iron Pagodas non-stop from 3:55, add a War Stable, a Grassland and a Blacksmith: aim for 15 Mohe Tribesmen and 6 Iron Pagodas around 9:35.
- 3:55 — The Great Pasture is ready (9 villagers): Iron Pagodas non-stop and pressure.
- 4:15 — Research Double Broadax.
- 5:10 — War Stable: against Spearmen, Mohe Tribesmen; otherwise, even more Iron Pagodas.
- 6:15 — A Grassland.
- 7:00 — One more villager to gold, rally on food; Blacksmith and a few Palisades if needed.
- 8:30 — Expand to a hunt protected by an Outpost; consider Mohe Ancestry; aim for Steeled Arrow and Iron Undermesh.
- 9:35 — Benchmark: 15 Mohe Tribesmen and 6 Iron Pagodas.
Tips
- One Mounted Villager every 35 s with no idle time: 9 by 3:30, 20 by 9:55; the first regular Villager comes out at 10:15.
- Against an infantry civilization, Iron Pagodas and Mohe Tribesmen while staying aggressive (6 villagers on wood are enough to produce 2 Mohe Tribesmen at a time); against cavalry, Iron Pagodas only (Zubatch’s variant, same video).
- Zubatch’s variant: a new Town Center, then around 10:00 about 10 Mohe Tribesmen and 6 to 8 Iron Pagodas with Iron Undermesh and Double Broadax; Dragon Pavilion at 11:00.
- A faraway hunt (deer or boar) needs an Outpost to protect the 5 Mounted Villagers who go there.
- This build plays as a timing, with no Age III landmark planned: the 15 Mohe Tribesmen and 6 Iron Pagodas of 9:35 are the benchmark to strike.
Source: AoE4 Guides