OOTD Early Pressure into Swabia Boom

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3x Rally Food

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• Feudal Age
• Meinwerk Palace with 2x Villager
• Rally Wood
• 3x Villager Food -> Wood

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Wheelbarrow -> Double Broadaxe -> Horticulture / Survival Techniques

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• Iron Undermesh -> Fitted Leatherwork -> Steeled Arrow -> Bloomery
• Archers vs Gilded Horseman: 63/84/125 Hits
• Archers vs Gilded Archer: 21/25/32 Hits
• Spearman vs Gilded Horseman: 9/9/10 Hits
• Spearman vs Gilded Archer: 14/16/18 Hits
• Horseman vs Gilded Horseman: 25/28/32 Hits
• Horseman vs Gilded Archer: 7/7/8 Hits
• Gilded Horseman vs Archer:
• Gilded Horseman vs Spearman:
• Gilded Horseman vs Horseman:
• Gilded Archer vs Archer:
• Gilded Archer vs Spearman:
• Gilded Archer vs Horseman:

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If opponent builds Spearmen, build as many Gilded Archer as possible and use them in the middle and use your Gilded Horseman as flank raiders. Careful to not let your Horsemen fight Spearmen.

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• Castle Age
• Normally go Burgrave Palace to build cheap Gilded Landsknecht, because all of his (non-siege) counter Units to your Gilded Horseman + Gilded Archer are melee (namely Spearmen, Horsemen, MAA, Knights) and will take heavy cleave blows from your Landsknechte.
• Only go Regnitz Cathedral if you have a lot of deeply wounded Gilded Units while clicking up, so you can build 1-2 Monk to quickly heal them up and resume your pressure before your opponent has time to add a TC or Landmark.

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• -- Dealing with Archer counters (Siege & Unique) --
• VS Mangonel: Mangonels are much less of a problem as for other Archer Civs (more HP, fewer UnitS), but they are still dangerous. The obvious luxury choice is building a few Springald, but if you can't afford it just try to dive them with your Gilded Horseman and split the Gilded Archer.
• VS Malian/Byzantine Javelin Thrower: Possibly the nastiest Unit to play against with t his style. You need to dive them with your Gilded Horseman. But if he is any good, he will have Donsos/Limitanei inside of his Javelins, so you need to try to snipe most of them with the Gilded Archer first before diving in and resetting the Javelin count. These two matchups are most likely slightly unfavored.

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• -- Dealing with Horseman counters (Unique) --
• VS Abbasid/Ayyubid Camels: A main nuisance is their Camel Unease debuff, so if there are only a few Camel Units mixed in, try to focus them to remove the -20% damage debuff on all your Gilded Horseman. If they mass Camel Units, consider the following adaptations: VS Camel Riders / Camel Rider -> add in Gilded Landsknecht / Gilded Crossbowman. VS Camel Raider -> focus them with Gilded Archer. VS Camel Archer -> focus them with Gilded Archer + Gilded Horseman.
• VS Janissary: Focus them with the Gilded Archer. If the path is clear, also dive in with the Gilded Horseman and they will trade quite well, but never fight anything else than the Janissaries with your Horsemen while in their range.

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Lastly, another OOTD counter is Japanese, because of their Buddhist Monks that can half your Units' DPS. But this is not as much of a problem for our Gilded Horseman + Gilded Archer style, since they are smaller Units. But an OOTD player going for Gilded Knight / Dragon Handcannoneer / Gilded Landsknecht is in big trouble if they bring in these Monks. Just snipe their Monks and try to fall back until the debuffs have fallen off. If you can't avoid the fight, shuffle the debuffed Units to the front so they die first, so you lose less DPS.