Templar Feudal Fortress and Knights from Temu [WIP]

Collect 200-270 Stone, take 5 Villager to Gold and 2 Villager to Food

Collect enough wood for Stable, House & Safepassage, (about 300 Wood ) take all to Food

Hold onto Stone to build Stone Wall near your Town Center in Feudal

Your Safepassage is going to be worth between 2-3 Villager depending on how much gold they generate every minute. You should assume for the worst until your pilgrims have safely make it to the Sacred Sites.

When delaying your 2nd Town Center and Fortress (cause you're about to get rushed), you need to secure your Gold from Sacred Sites and Mining Camp with the help of a few Stone Wall with the Arrowslits from Kte Town Center 's "Fortress Influence. You should try to build Stone Wall between your Town Center and the resource you think is most vulnerable. This is going to be your gold in the case of this build.

Still, you can build a 2nd Stone Wall between Wood and Deer if they're close to increase your defense if need be.

Stone Wall could be deceptively unimportant to destroy with enemy Battering Ram if they're disconnected from surroundings, so wall length worth of 100 Stone near your resources (preferably with a Stone Wall Gate which is worth 35 Stone so your Villager can climb up, to emulate a Outpost ). Don't fight out of the influence's range.

Using Stone Wall like beefier Outpost has the benefit of safeguarding idling Villager closer to the resources, and you can possibly get more than 5 Villager on top of Stone Wall if its long enough. Remember that the trade-off is Villager can still take ranged damage but at a reduced rate atop Stone Wall. Don't forget to close the gates!!!

You can produce roughly 4-5 Chevalier Confrere Age 2 at the same time you can build a Town Center, so delaying it for a minute or two in terms of Wood gathering ups your military pop and lets you defend with Cavalry + Arrowslits under the influence of your Town Center and Stone Wall, or to provide company to your Safe Passage with what is kind of budget Knights.

You can play into the Fortress Influence ability if you keep building Stone Wall near your Town Center and Fortress on the Pilgrimage route you choose to defend. The point isn't to make a highway out of Stone Wall but to use them efficiently so your economy isn't out of balance.

Aging up with either Koc or Ang plays well with what your defense needs at the moment. Either give your Fortress more health if the opponent has Counterweight Trebuchet away from the Sacred Site, or if there's a massing army near the Sacred Sites give your army more damage and regeneration.

Oh and building a 2nd Town Center at some point would be good. But remember that the Town Center you build don't have the Fortress Inluence ability.