Men-at-Arms + Tower Rush

Strategy Notes

• Queue villagers continuously and build 2 Houses at the start
• Send villagers to sheep until you have 6
• 1 villager builds a Lumber Camp; +3 villagers collect wood
• 1 villager lures the nearest boar
• 1 villager builds 2 Houses near the berries; 1 villager builds a Mill next to them
• +2 villagers to berries; lure the 2nd boar
• +3 villagers to sheep or boar food
• 1 villager builds a Barracks, trains 3 Militia, then goes to mine Stone
• 1 villager builds a Mining Camp next to your gold; 1 villager mines gold
• Scout your opponent's base well to find their main gold and woodlines before going forward
• Upgrade Militia to Men-at-Arms as soon as Feudal arrives
• Send the Militia/Men-at-Arms plus your Stone and Gold villagers forward toward the enemy base
• Build your first tower out of your opponent's reach — it becomes the defense for your second tower
• Place towers on the enemy's gold and wood lines to deny those resources
• Use Men-at-Arms to chase isolated villagers and to screen your tower builders
• Pull low-HP villagers into a finished tower to garrison and shoot
• Build Houses forward if you run short on population space
• Weak against: Quick reactions — this attack requires a large commitment (around 5 villagers not gathering resources) and leaves you with a big economic setback if it fails. Opponents who scout early and wall before your villagers arrive blunt the whole plan.
• Strong against: Greedy and passive openings that cannot respond to forward aggression in time, and economies clustered on exposed gold or wood lines.
• This is a fairly complex build that needs practice to execute properly; it gets especially tricky micro-managing forward villagers and military while expanding your economy at home.
• The large commitment means a failed rush is a significant economic setback — only commit once you have scouted a good target.