HRE On Enlightened Horizon

TyrusLunarspear

Holy Roman Empire·Closed

Fast Castle·Season 10

The optimal start to Enlightened Horizon requires us to build an early barracks, capture the merchant camp and go destroy the wolves den. While rather straight forward, for HRE the build order looks somewhat different, since the wolf den is not enough for them to age up. I've made this build specifically for HRE specifically on this map, and it allows you to start researching Pro only 15 seconds after the normal time you would with a regular build order, only here you already have a barracks and 3 spears.

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Dark Age

0:00

to Wood

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Send to the merchant camp, with

Queue up and Rally to Sheep until there are 8 in total (this happens at about minute 01:25)

0:20

Make sure your is standing in the capture range until the arrives.
When it does, build a and queue up a . Make sure the villagers stays inside the capture zone while building. He will finish capturing by the time the barracks is built.

0:25

Take from Straggler Tree once they deposit Wood once and send them to Sheep

1:10

The on the merchant camp goes to Sheep,
Queue up a , build 3 in total

1:25

Rally to Gold, next to come out of will also build a
By now the 2 Wood probably finished gathering from it, make sure they go to another nearby Wood.

2:05

Once you collected enough Wood to build all , and a second , you will send on Wood to Gold
Make sure you build the second
Rally to Sheep

2:20

Start attacking the wolves den. Once the two wolves pop out, draw them away with 1 of your , leaving 2 to attack.
Your should have returned by this point.

3:00

The wolf den should now be burning, and you should have enough resources to age-up with .
Send 6 Food to build it.

Transition to Feudal Age

This is a good time to check if you opponent also started with a barracks. If no, you can easily kill their wolves den and capture their merchant camp.

2:20

send 1 Food to the cut down Wood
Rally to Wood and then to wood-line until you have produces like this

3:50

Send 1 Food to build a on Berries. You should have a surplus of Food to allow this downtime.

Feudal Age

4:20

Remacro, the split is noted to the left
Rally to Sheep

4:30

Research

4:45

Send 2 Wood to build a

5:30

Research and start pro scouting. Don't forget to set the drop point of each of your scouts to the .

When are done, queue up 3 more