Detailed Cheese Men-At-Arms guide (BeastyqtSC2)

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• You'll start by moving your 6 starting villagers accordingly:
• 3 Villager queue 2x Wood
• 1 Villager to Repair House -> queue 2x Wood
• 1 Villager to Repair Mill -> queue Repair Farm
• 1 Villager to Repair Farm
• *Villagers will build mills next to the mill
• *The single villager who built the house will be queued to join the other 3 villagers harvesting the 2 straggler trees

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• These actions will be done over a few minutes:
• Rally 6 Villager from Town Center to Repair Farm (this should result in having all 8 farms around your mill)
• while you wait for your villagers: Queue your scout to circle your base, eventually grabbing sheep to bring back to the Town Center. You can also go and scout out your gold deposits.

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• Once you have 8 farms built, and you have 50 wood, then:
• 4 Villager from Wood to Repair Mining Camp to gather Gold (your villagers should be done harvesting the 2 trees by now)

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• At this point: you'll end up waiting for you 4 villagers to gather 200 gold, while you wait go ahead and...
• Rally Town Center to Sheep

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• Your next goal is to get 8 villagers on wood while your Abbey of Kings landmark is getting constructed:
• Rally Town Center to Wood (Rallying to the straggler tree next to Town Center)
• Move Villager from Sheep to harvest Wood next to Town Center

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• Once you have 50 wood:
• Move Villager from Wood to build Lumber Camp to harvest Wood
• *Make sure your lumber camp is built next to an abundant supply of wood
• *Don't forget to re-rally wood from Straggler tree next to the town center to wood next to the lumber camp

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Build House

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• Once you have 8 Villagers on wood:
• Rally 2 Villager from Town Center to Gold

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• 1 Villager from Town Center to Repair queue 2 Barracks
• Rally Villager from Town Center to Repair Farm & Mill

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Build Man-at-Arms from Barracks (this should theoretically non stop for the rest of the game)

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• The world is your oyster, what happens next is up to you. I recommend practicing this build order against an easy ai a few times to get comfortable with it. (or watch Beasty's video)
• I didn't expect creating a guide would take so much effort, I'm just a noob player in AOE4. Once i play this strategy enough, I'll change it up, add or remove some things.
• Let me know if I did something wrong, if theres an error, or if it's too hard to follow. I originally wanted to create something more readable and understandable to the average new player, but I'm afraid I've made a considerable block of confusing instructions.