this strategy will not work against a player who is going to rush you very hard or a FF or SemiFF who gets canons and defends his canons while sieging your base as you dont have enough army to protect against canons
send explorers quickly to build nearest TP
gather all the wood crates and leave food crates on the ground
queue 1 villager
by the time explorers reach TP you should have 200w
switch all villagers to wood immediatly after all wood crates have been gathered
try to find wood treasures after TP is built
build a house when 10th villager is queued
you should be able to build a house and queue 11th villager just in time to avoid idle tc (nerfed in oct as house now cost 80w)
send first wood trickle card
switch all villagers to food once you have 3 more villagers in queue
send all future villagers to food, try to herd multiple group of hunts towards your tc
by the time 800f is gathered your last villager would be popping out
send good faith agreements as your 2nd card
build agra as close to tc as possible or between your tc and tp if closeby
basically try to protect your base as well as you can with it as you wont be making an army soon
during transition to age2 make market, house, consulate
research the faster food tech in market and later research the 5% all resource tech and stronger villagers tech as well if you have enough food
as soon as you age up get the 300 export card
move all villagers to food and keep 4-5 on wood to have continuous villager production
ally with french and get all 3 resource crates 300f 300w 300g and switch to ottoman
get 700g as next card and also get 3 villagers from ottoman consulate (if you are not rushed, if rushed use the minutemen from ottoman consulate)
once you have 1200f 1000g go to age 3 with taj mahal
research the gold gathering tech in market
gather 500-600 gold
once in age 3 you should have sufficiant food from hunts and gold from taj mahal age up to a total of 2000f 1200g to age up to 4
once in age 4 get urumi's, mahouts, howdah, get two bombards from ottoman and switch to british and get 2 surgeons
depending on how your opponent went you might have to fight and make units early or take damage from him while you age up to 4 and have enough army
sometimes i loose my tp, agra, taj mahal and tc as well while i build another tc behind to get those age4 shipments, beware of getting housed as you wont be able to get your age4 shipments
most of your opponents will expect a forward agra or a rush or sepoy spam so they would have armies early, beware of that by scouting their base and be prepared and switch your strategy as per need
if your opponent is kiting a lot you should go with gurkha zamburaks and siege elephants
elephants are slow and on maps where you get berber camels you should get camels as the camel card which boost your camels also boost berber camels
mahouts pathfinding is busted so micro them else they will die to focussed fire and kiting
urumi's are only good against heavy infantry, they will die easily if pitted against cavalry or kiting units skirmishers/muskets/dragoons
