Overview
A few of the most common Build Orders used in Age of Empires 2 for newer players. Not comprehensive. Updated in 2021 . YOLO!
Introduction
This was a private effort of compiling a few of the most common build orders available for newer players to use and follow.
Unless stated otherwise, I do not include when to make houses. Nor do I go into variations of build orders for certain civs.
Like how Mongols only need 1 vill made between getting boars. So on so forth.
Note –
All builds are based upon standard resources. 8 sheep, 2 boars, no deer.
Scour Rush, 22 Pop, Long Form
6 sheep
3 wood (first wood vill makes lumber camp)
First boar
Loom
2 vills to berries (make mill on berries)
Second Boar
3 vills to berries
2 vills under tc to eat boar ( also make 2 farms with wounded vills under tc)
(Reason: enemy will have a harder time killing wounded vills near your tc.)
2 vills to first lumber camp
Last vill to new wood spot make second lumber camp
Go feudal
In Transition (I.E. while advancing to feudal)
While going up add 4 more vills to wood for a total of 10 (Max 5 per lumber camp)
Make rax with vill under tc asap – if you are more than 70% feudal when you start your barrax use 2 villagers.
When feudal make your stable 175 wood.
Then when you have 50 wood 100 food, get Double Bit Axe
When you have 75 food 75 wood, get horse collar start making farms after horsecollar 50% done (Reason: Horse collar doesn’t apply retroactively)
When In Feudal
Don’t die…..
Scout Rush, 22 Pop, Short Form
6 sheep
3 wood (first wood vill makes lumber camp)
First boar
Loom
2 vills to berries (make mill on berries)
Second Boar
3 vills to berries
2 vills under tc (make 2 farms with wounded vills)
3 vills to wood
Go feudal
In Transition (I.E. while advancing to feudal)
4 more onto wood (from sheep)
Make rax with vill under tc asap
Have second vill near rax as you hit feudal
Make stable
Get double bit axe and horsecollar asap – don’t make more farms until you have horse collar
Note with this build order, the time in feudal should be around 10:10 – 10:20 anything beyond this, and your tc was idle for a while.
Fast Castle (Into Boom)
27 pop with houses
First three vills build 3 houses, have 2 vills build one, one vill builds 2 houses
6 vills onto sheep
Next 4 vills on wood
Send next vill to lure first boar
Get loom when vill is going to lure boar
Send next 2 vills to berries; make a mill on the berries
Get second boar
Send 2 vills to wood (total of 6)
Send 1 vills to berries ont he way make house
Send 2 more to berries(total of 5)
While making berry vills make 5 farms
1 to wood
Make house
3 to gold
1 to wood
1 onto a farm
Go Feudal
In Transition (Dark Age to Feudal)
build 1 more farm for total of 7 – have three vills under tc eating sheep
when you hit feudal
make 2 vills in tc – they go onto wood
have the 3 vills formerly on sheep make market blacksmith –
2 on the market
1 on the blacksmith
Go Castle Age
Get double bit axe and horse collar while advancing
Castle Age Brief
Three vill on gold make TC on main gold
5 Vills from berries make tc on wood or wood stone when possible.
Get wheelbarrow at gold tc
All vills to wood, make farms as you have wood
After wheelbarrow finishes buy 100 stone, start hand cart, get first gold upgrade
Make 4th tc 21 -22 minutes make on a secondary gold (Ideally)
As fourth tc goes up have tc near main gold send all vills to gold as well as fourth tc when finished.
24 minutes make uni and monastery
25-26 minutes click imp. Should have around 80 population.
22 M@A into Flush
6 sheep
4 wood
first boar
2 berries
second boar
2 berries
3 food
rax and house if needed then – back to food under tc
gold
loom
up to feudal age
While Going Up
4 on to wood for 8
1 on to gold for 2
2-3 farms
-other vills under tc finish sheep or deer and farm as wood comeing in.
In Feudal
get double bit axe,
M@A upgrade
Farm as wood comes in (while waiting for wood have extra vills cut nearby trees.)
Add to gold slowly.
Drush Fast Castle
(31 pop no houses)
6 sheep
4 wood
First Boar
Loom
2 Berries
Second Boar
2 berries
Next vill made builds barrax (should be about 6 30)
Next vill mines 10 Gold (goes on food after collecting gold)
2 on wood
2 on berries ( for 6)
Next 6 vills on stragglers, add farms @60 wood until you have 7-8 farms
Click Feudal at 31 pop (including scout + 3 milita)
In Transition (Dark Age to Feudal)
Take 4 vills from sheep under tc put them on gold as soon as you click up
Send another 2 onto wood ( 8 total)
When in feudal
Make 2 vills both go onto gold
2 vills make military building
1 vill makes blacksmith
Click Castle Age
Get double bit axe and horse collar while advancing
Fletching if doing archers, no upgrades for knights
Drush Flush
28 pop up including Militia + scout
6 sheep
4 wood
First Boar
Loom
2 Berries
Second Boar
2 berries
Next vill made builds barrax (should be about 6 30)
Next vill mines 10 Gold (goes on food after collecting gold)
Rest on food under tc.
Make 2 -3 farms with injured vills as u get the wood.
Click up 28 population
Keep militia alive
In Transition (Dark Age to Feudal)
4 vills to gold
8 to wood ( 12 total)
2 onto berries
make more milita if you have extra food and original milita still alive + can do damage
In Feudal
Get man at arms (if milita still alive),
Double bit axe and horsecollar when you can.
You should enter feudal age about 11: 30
Galley Rush
Basic Galley Rush 25 pop with loom.
Dark Age
6 sheep
4 wood
1st boar
1 wood
dock
2nd boar
rest on food
start making fishing ships as soon as the dock is built
at 25 population click up (assuming all ships are made – so if 24 population with three fishing ships click up)
While Advancing to Feudal
3 villagers to gold
2 villagers make 2 more docks for a total of three and houses as needed
rest onto wood, leave wto on food if you have no big fish
When in feudal
immediate double bit axe
send 4 new vills to gold for 7
then a mill and new vills onto berries
continuously make gallies, get fletching when you can, add a foutrth dock as nessesary.
In Caslte Age
make more dock make tcs get ballistics asap
More Advanced
Don’t use loom use your scout to lure at least one boar.
Scouts Fast Castle Build Order
Outro
As I said this is in no way comperhensive, generally used for Arabia 1v1.
I have no intention of doing a Kts rush build order,
1) it is easy to find
2) it varies to great degree and I have yet to find one I like
If you need other build orders but cannot find them. Search AoCzone.
Hope this helps.
Sorry it is a wall of text.