Portuguese Monk Rush Strategy
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The first row shows new villagers, transfers and task assignments; the figures below are the totals after the step.
Dark Age
1Send 6 villagers to sheep
6Send 3 villagers to wood
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3Send 1 villager to boar
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4Send 1 vil to hunt under TC
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51 to make 2 houses then mill
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61 to get second boar
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7Send 5 villagers to berries
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8NOTE: lure deer if there are, or send 3 villagers from hunt to mill the chickens after both boars run out.
Send 1 villager to wood
19NOTE: make 1 extra villager here and send it to wood on chicken variations
Send 2 villagers to gold
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12Research Feudal Age (perfect landing time: 9:40)
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Feudal Age
13Take one sheep at a time and keep your villagers efficient while you wait for feudal age to hit
14Take 3 wood villagers and make a market and a blacksmith (2 on market, 1 on blacksmith)
Send 1 villager to wood
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16Research loom
sell 200 stone and buy 100 food
18Research Castle Age (perfect landing time: 13:10)
Castle Age
19Research double bit axe
Research gold mining
21send all villagers from hunt/berries/chickens to wood or gold. NOTE: having 8-9 villagers on wood seems to be the sweet spot, but it
22doesn't matter too much because we will use the market to balance the economy
23make a barracks and 2 spears
24Send 2 villagers with your scout towards the center of the map
25Make 2 monasteries near the center of the map, towards your opponents base
26Make villagers and send them to straggler trees while waiting for wood to make farms
27NOTE: you want to buy a bit of food if needed to keep early villager production going while we set up farms
Pick up the relics
29Make a siege workshop and make a ram to break opponents walls
