Place the first 6 villagers on sheep

Send the next 4 villagers to wood and build a Lumber Camp

Lure the first boar, then build a house and Mill with the next available villager

Establish 6 villagers on berries and keep 8 hunters on boar or sheep under the Town Center; lure the second boar in time

Send 1 villager forward to build the Barracks early enough for Militia production during the transition

Send the final 2 Dark Age villagers to gold; skip Loom only when both boar lures are safe

Click Feudal at 22 population and queue 3 Militia immediately so they are already crossing the map before the age completes

During the transition, seed about 3 farms and move food villagers to a second Lumber Camp until the economy reaches roughly 12 on wood

On reaching Feudal, research Man-at-Arms and Double-Bit Axe, then attack before the opponent’s first Scouts or archers are ready

Build the first Archery Range after the wood economy is organized; add the second Range next and immediately follow it with a Blacksmith

Produce an archer/skirmisher mix by default and research Fletching by the time the first 5 ranged units are ready

If committing to pure archers, grow to 6 gold miners. For more skirmishers, keep adding farms instead

Grow toward 18–20 farms, add Padded Archer Armor when fighting ranged units, then research Wheelbarrow before the Castle click

During the Castle transition, move 6–8 farmers to wood for a Crossbow and Town Center continuation; keep the farms if switching to Knights instead