Uploaded November 2020 | Updated September 2026, 4 hours ago
Fast castle crossbows into 2TC fast imperial with forward castle drop as Malay. Optimized for Arena, adaptable for other maps.
1-6 sheep under tc (6f 0w 0g 0s)
7-10 wood (6f 4w 0g 0s)
11 lure boar (7f 4w 0g 0s)
12 houses then going on berries (8f 4w 0g 0s)
13 build mill on berries (9f 4w 0g 0s)
14-15 on hunt under TC (11f 4w 0g 0s)
16-17 berries (13f 4w 0g 0s)
18-19 hunt under tc (15f 4w 0g 0s)
20-21 build farms (17f 4w 0g 0s)
send 3 from hunt to wood on new lc (14f 7w 0g 0s)
22-23 wood on 2nd lumber camp (14f 9w 0g 0s)
24 wood on 1st LC (14f 10w 0g 0s)
at this point: 5-5 on wood, 4 on berries, 2 on farms, 8 on food under TC
seed 3 more farms (14f 10w 0g 0s)
25-29 on gold (14f 10w 5g 0s)
30 on berries (15f 10w 5g 0s)
click feudal with 5 on sheep, 5 on farms, 5 on berries, 5-5 on wood, 5 on gold
once sheep runs out, those vils go on stragglers around TC (10f 14w 5g 0s)
1 vil builds barracks right away
upon arriving to feudal, drop archery range with 2 vils and blacksmith with 1, don't forget additional houses
horse collar
build more farms until you have 9
31 on gold, 32 on wood (14f 12w 6g 0s)
click castle , queue archers and bit axe
Upon reaching castle age, research crossbows and fletching, build monastery and contest relics
berries should run out shortly after castle age, those vils drop 2nd TC on wood
research bow saw when you can afford it
1 tc gather point on gold, second tc gather point on wood
keep adding farms until ~25
wheelbarrow when you can afford it without idling any TCs
at 20 minutes, move 7 vils to stone
7 * 20 = 140 / minute, in 4 minutes you gather 560 stone
build market and university
click imperial at 24 minutes, move out with 9-10 villagers to drop fwd castle
at min 25, start building castle
at 26:xx start trebbing opponent, get bracer, chemistry, arbalest
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This video was created under Microsoft's "Game Content Usage Rules" using assets from Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition, © Microsoft Corporation.
Fast castle crossbows into 2TC fast imperial with forward castle drop as Malay. Optimized for Arena, adaptable for other maps.
1-6 sheep under tc (6f 0w 0g 0s)
7-10 wood (6f 4w 0g 0s)
11 lure boar (7f 4w 0g 0s)
12 houses then going on berries (8f 4w 0g 0s)
13 build mill on berries (9f 4w 0g 0s)
14-15 on hunt under TC (11f 4w 0g 0s)
16-17 berries (13f 4w 0g 0s)
18-19 hunt under tc (15f 4w 0g 0s)
20-21 build farms (17f 4w 0g 0s)
send 3 from hunt to wood on new lc (14f 7w 0g 0s)
22-23 wood on 2nd lumber camp (14f 9w 0g 0s)
24 wood on 1st LC (14f 10w 0g 0s)
at this point: 5-5 on wood, 4 on berries, 2 on farms, 8 on food under TC
seed 3 more farms (14f 10w 0g 0s)
25-29 on gold (14f 10w 5g 0s)
30 on berries (15f 10w 5g 0s)
click feudal with 5 on sheep, 5 on farms, 5 on berries, 5-5 on wood, 5 on gold
once sheep runs out, those vils go on stragglers around TC (10f 14w 5g 0s)
1 vil builds barracks right away
upon arriving to feudal, drop archery range with 2 vils and blacksmith with 1, don't forget additional houses
horse collar
build more farms until you have 9
31 on gold, 32 on wood (14f 12w 6g 0s)
click castle , queue archers and bit axe
Upon reaching castle age, research crossbows and fletching, build monastery and contest relics
berries should run out shortly after castle age, those vils drop 2nd TC on wood
research bow saw when you can afford it
1 tc gather point on gold, second tc gather point on wood
keep adding farms until ~25
wheelbarrow when you can afford it without idling any TCs
at 20 minutes, move 7 vils to stone
7 * 20 = 140 / minute, in 4 minutes you gather 560 stone
build market and university
click imperial at 24 minutes, move out with 9-10 villagers to drop fwd castle
at min 25, start building castle
at 26:xx start trebbing opponent, get bracer, chemistry, arbalest
► live streams: twitch.tv/dave_hun
► discord: discord.com/invite/sb6yqm3
This video was created under Microsoft's "Game Content Usage Rules" using assets from Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition, © Microsoft Corporation.
