Muge
Zhu Xi's Legacy
Fast Castle·Season 12
With the new 
wood cost reduction on village, I wanted to test the theoretical fastest castle timing into / in season 12. The time to Castle may be about 5 seconds slower depending on spawn and map, assuming good IO micro utilizing forced drop-offs to ensure minimal loss to additional resources. While this build is a theoretical time, requiring very tight execution, it should allow for a lancer raid as early at 6:55, while grabbing relics with two . If against a feudal push, I recommend adding in two archery ranges, as you will be able to delay castle age and supervise ZGN production to defend as needed. As always, scout your enemy to see what you need to succeed, but against any other fast castle timing I believe you have the advantage.
Make sure to scout for closest Berry + 
Gold for
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4010Rally to Gold, until China
4020use same China that built to bonk Sheep
4030Rally to 
Food until 16
must drop off from 4x BEFORE 6:00, and 1x from between 5:30 and 6:00
6030Use 3 Food China, build
0000Shift click 3 builder for Landmark to Wood after age-up
7030drop off
9030drop off
for feudal aggro, pivot to to defend, or if against
9330Build once enough Wood
15330drop off
If enemy making units, queue to close relic, add up to 3x
10330Use China from Sheep to build shift queue to Wood when finished
10330drop off from
From here, Rally to Food until ~16 for continuous unit production, then Rally to Wood until you can support 3x production of .
12930Queue
13930Queue
139302x to raid enemy, to relics
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