2 TCs · Winery — Macedonian Dynasty AoE4
Stone, wood, Grand Winery (0:00–5:10)
Start the Grand Winery at 2:30 with 2 builders, gather 350 stone then 400 wood, and reach Age II at 5:10 with 21 villagers (15 on wood, 4 on food, 2 builders).
- 0:00 — All 6 starting villagers on sheep.
- 1:00 — Rally on gold until 2 miners: the first builds the Varangian Warcamp then the Mining Camp, the second helps finish it.
- 1:50 — Rally back on sheep, up to 9 on food.
- 2:10 — Rally on the isolated trees around the Town Center.
- 2:20 — When the 2 miners have gathered 200 gold, send them to stone.
- 2:30 — Age up with the Grand Winery: 2 food villagers build it, diagonal to the first Town Center. 3 more food villagers also go to stone.
- 4:10 — When the isolated trees run out, the woodcutters build a Lumber Camp.
- 4:50 — After 350 stone gathered, all the stone villagers go to wood.
- 5:00 — At 15 villagers on wood, the rally point goes back to food.
Second Town Center, diagonal (5:10)
Put the second Town Center down at 5:10 with 10 builders, then bring 5 of them back to wood and send 5 to gold; both Town Centers rally on food and gold.
- 5:10 — Age II: the 2 Grand Winery builders go to gold.
- 5:10 — At 400 wood gathered, 10 wood villagers build the second Town Center, diagonal to the Grand Winery.
- 5:50 — Second Town Center done: 5 of the 10 builders go back to wood, the other 5 go to gold.
- 6:30 — Rally both Town Centers on food and gold.
Tips
- The author rates it good against passive or defensive opponents: two Town Centers and no army, all the effort on the economy.
- The Grand Winery is an economic and religious Age II landmark: it takes the place of the Imperial Hippodrome, and its 2 builders then go to gold.
- Put the Grand Winery diagonal to the first Town Center, then the second Town Center diagonal to the Grand Winery, to keep the buildings grouped.
- inberkewetrust’s variant: the same Grand Winery supports an infantry pressure in Age II, with a Stable against infantry civilizations and a Varangian Stronghold against cavalry ones.
- Two Town Centers need uninterrupted villager production: at 6:30, rally both on food and gold.
Source: AoE4 Guides