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HRE Fast Castle / IMP

Valdemar1902

Holy Roman Empire

Fast Imperial·Season 9

This is a Fast Castle build. Classic HRE relic collection into Swabia or aggro castle. Win Condition: Use knights to secure relics in castle then imperial. Alternatively, all in with knights archer or xbow spear maa

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18steps

Dark Age

0:00

3

0

3

0

to Sheep,
to Gold (build + )

~0:12

3

0

3

0

Rally to Food until Age 2

~0:24

0

0

0

0

Once buildings are completed and all Gold are gathering, you send your to inspire the ONCE, then back to Food

~0:35

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0

0

0

with 4 Food all the way on with 2 tiles between Wood &

Transition to Feudal Age

2:10

3

3

3

0

4

Take to Gaiatreeprototypetree. gather a whole tree (150w) then one round of Stone for Arrow Slits on

Feudal Age

3:37

5

4

3

3

Upon Age 2 send the 4 age-up to Wood and Rally to Sheep

4:00

Transition to Castle Age

7:00

9

4

4

0

and send both on Relics if safe to move out. If not, then wait for knights.

Castle Age

7:30

11

12

4

0

Castle Age: Produce and macro.
Time to make and raid/secure relics

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3:00

3

3

4

0

1 more to Gold

3:10

4

3

4

0

on Gold

8

4

4

0

1

and Arrow Slits

4:05

8

4

4

0

Train and put him on Gold

4:10

8

4

4

0

(add in farms whenever you have 75w)

5:00

12

4

4

0

3 farms in total at 5 mins

6:20

6

4

4

0

8

Pull 8 Sheep for

8:00

10

11

4

3

Send to Stone

9:00

15

8

4

3

Add 2nd if needed.
Build more towers to store relics.

11:30

14

10

4

3

12

Here you can decide to go Imperial with a few knights. Sometimes it is better to just play it out in castle if you opponent is aggressive, but if they are doing 2TC its fine to catch up with .
Just dont forget to store enough stone to make with and Relic for defense. Then switch comp in imperial to MAA for example and remember and other economy upgrades.