Khmer Fast Castle — Knights & Scorpions
SitauxThe target is 22 villagers plus the scout. Add one or two Dark Age villagers if deer pushing is uncomfortable, and add one farm for each extra villager.
Leave maneuvering room when walling wood and gold, and place a house inside each enclosure: Khmer villagers can garrison there if early units break in.
Keep Knights and Scorpions in separate control groups, bring a repair villager, and run around the enemy economy. The goal is open villagers and idle time, not an early Town Center kill.
Build timeline
The first row shows new villagers, transfers and task assignments; the figures below are the totals after the step.
Dark Age
1Send the 6 starting villagers to sheep and queue villagers immediately
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2Send villagers 7 through 9 to a woodline near the gold and build the lumber camp
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3Send the next 6 villagers to berries and build a mill
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4Bring in both boars, then push deer once the sheep and boars are secured
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5Seed 2 farms as soon as the wood is available
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6Send villagers 16 through 18 to food under the Town Center
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7Send villagers 19 through 22 to gold and build the mining camp
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8Click Feudal Age at 23 population
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9During the Feudal transition, collect exactly 50 stone with 5 food villagers, then return them to food
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10Wall the woodline and gold with roomy palisades; include a house in each enclosure for garrisoning
2231540Feudal Age11On reaching Feudal Age, click Castle Age immediately without constructing Feudal buildings
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12Pull the berries villagers back to safe straggler trees and rebalance to 10 on wood and 6 on gold
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13Build one defensive tower on the woodline and one on the gold, both inside the walls
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14Research Double-Bit Axe and build a Stable during the Castle transition
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15Send one villager forward to the side of the enemy base for a hidden Siege Workshop; build it at home if the villager is denied
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Castle Age16Reach Castle Age around 13:15, complete the forward Siege Workshop and start Knights immediately
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17Produce Scorpions continuously and add Knights whenever resources allow
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18Rally new villagers to straggler trees, then use the extra wood to add farms; move the Town Center rally to gold when gold runs low
221066019Bring one repair villager with the push and keep Knights and Scorpions in separate control groups
20Attack exposed villagers and idle the enemy economy; do not waste the timing trying to destroy the Town Center
21Add a Monastery to heal Knights, a Blacksmith and Bloodlines as the rush stabilizes; add a Ram if walls or buildings stop the push
