Alekusu

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Firstly, I have another build order against rushes, it's much more powerfull than this one except for a cav sword harass About this build order: I need 10/12 farms to be able to pop my cav sword. That's why I need a least 50 woman. (I usually get phase 3 at 17min with 60 woman and 240 army with this start) I didn't understand what you mean. sorry ^^ As i said before i've never lost with this BO (more than 25 games 1v1 and 2v2). Tau tried to rush me with some cav with romans but i could defend and win later in the game It doesn't work with romans because of the house difference. I'll upload a Roman's BO soon Let's make a 1v1

I plan to make these kind of build orders for 3 civs (2 Build orders / civ). But I need more pratice online to improve these BO. - Gauls - Mauryans - Romans

Christian, tell me if you want me to change the format of this build order, maybe it can be more clear. Anyway I think that everyone should have the same "format" for build orders on this forum so it will be more clear for eveybody. About this build, now that I practiced a lot online, I can tell you it is very strong, actually I lost only 1 game with this build (1v1 rated, 1v1 non rated and 2v2 all together) and it was against the Ptoleme archer's rush. The objective of this build is that at the moment you reach phase 2, you start producing 15 sword cav (from 3 barracks 5by5) two times in a row. You start harrassing and then you have many option: - continue harass - go all in with your inf skirmisher/spearman from phase1 - transition to full infantry with skirmisher/spearman/slingers (very strong mix) - expand with a CC - go economy - fast phase 3

Peregrino, I wrote a post a few time ago called "detailed build order for gauls". I didn't get any answers (maybe the format was not good, and difficult to understand) but actually I got in the top 10 of the ladder using this build order so it's quite good imo (Actually i made some small modifications after playing lots of multiplayer games)

Ah ok, it's true, I only use the sword cav.

I disagree with that, melee cavs are awesome for harrassing and alows different strategies than just making ranged units.

ChristonianCoder, I can help you with some detailed build orders, I remember when I was younger I bought a strategy book about Age Of Mythology and one of the chapter of the book was "classic Build Orders". If you are making this kind of guide, could be usefull for beginners to have the classic build orders for each civs. When I say build order I mean detailed production/research order until you start phasing to phase 2.

It really depends on your strategy/the map/if the ennemy rushes or not, so it's difficult to give good timing but reaching age 2 in 8-10min is good. About expansions it's in my opinion not possible to give any good timing especially if you play multiplayer games because there will be so much action from 12/13min online and your first CC's timing will depend on it. For me expansion at 12min can be a really risky investment on multiplayer games, if you play against someone that scouts the map this CC could be your death.

Probably when you reach age 2, if you are going eco you can probably create 3 or even 4 batches of 10 villagers non-stop... But usually online if you do that you'll be killed by someone who plays agressive. For me the best is still 5by5, it's not a big investment and it's easy to manage.

The thing is the batch this is good if you create batches of villagers non-stop. It would be impossible to create villagers non-stop 10 by 10 at the beginning of the game so I think the best is still 5 by 5

Hey guys, The thing is you can't consider only the first 40sec. Because yeah you'll get more food in 40 sec but not enough to invest into anything. I consider that: - you can produce non-stop batches of 5 villagers - gathering food is 0.5f/s - time to create 1 female (1 by 1) = 8s - time to create 5 female (batch) = 29s The first table is the results when you create females 1 by 1 The second table is the results when you create females 5 by 5 What you see is that after about 90sec, creating batch is more efficient (more food gathered and more villagers created). And the extra ressource you get by creating units 1 by 1 in these first 90sec are not enought to invest into anything. so 5by5 >>> 1by1. Please tell me if I made a mistake Alex

0 A.D. Gauls Strat (tested (many times)on pve vs very hard IA) This is a build order I use against IA (very hard level), tried only one time against human player (and win but this doesn’t really validate this strategy against human players yet). I think it can help beginners to have detailed Build orders and anyway I love strategy so just want to share with you guys. There isn’t any subforum for strategy so I just put it here for now. I'm french so sorry for english mistakes. C means cavalry V means female villagers S means soldiers # means production 1C → Chicken then go around the base to find some animals to hunt. At 6/7min, go scout 4V → Farmstead near fruits → fruits, they’ll do a farm after finishing the fruits 4S → wood near CC Research fruits upgrade #5V → 1V will makes houses non stop, when you reach phase 2, she will make a market, 1V will go on fruits, 3V make a stock for wood near a good forest at the back of your base #5V → wood #5V → wood Research wood upgrade after starting to build 4 Houses #5V → wood (You should have 18 villagers on wood at the back of your base now) #5V → farm Research farm upgrade after starting to build 6 Houses #5V → farm #5V → farm 4S that are on wood near CC → barack (before 4min) in front on your base then make a stock for wood near a forest in front of your base #5S from Barack → wood #5V → farm #5V → farm #5S from Barack → wood (at this point, I like to do some outpost (1 or 2) to see where the enemy will attack me) #5V → farm #5V → farm (Now you should have 8 farms) #5S from Caserne → wood #5S from CC in continue→ wood #5S from Caserne in continue → wood Usually the IA attacks you now, you'll be ready to defend. Upgrades from House (2 upgrades,I don’t know the names in english, one to increase your pop and one to make your villagers stronger) Research transport ressources upgrades (i dont know the english name, it’s on the stocking building for wood/stone/metal, the upgrade on the right) When you have 100 population, go on phase 2 (you should click before 10min) What you do during transition to phase 2 depends on your strategy for phase II. I have two strategies I like with gauls, an economic one and an aggressive one. ECONOMIC STRAT this strat in base on the fact than infantry slinders don’t cost wood or metal, so you can use your wood and metal to research all the economic upgrades, use extra wood to add barracks, towers, market. use your food to make villagers and food+stone to make slinders. If you do this strategy, on phase 1, when you make soldiers, make more spearman than infantry skirmisher. For this strat, during transition to phase 2, upgrade stone and put some soldier on stone, you want to create lot's of slinders when you reach phase 2. AGGRESSIVE STRAT If you do this strategy, on phase 1 make more inf skirmisher than spearman. This is by far my favorite but more difficult to manage (however much more fun and exciting strategy). During transition to phase 2, you need to upgrade metal, send soldier to metal, make 2 barracks. When you reach phase 2, produce 15 cav swordsman non stop (this cost losts of food, you’ll need to add extra farms). Make groupes with CTRL+1, CTRL+2 etc. harass non-stop. When you harass, send 15 cavalry on the right side of his base and the next 15 on the left size etc..(Don’t fight his army, you want to harass not destroy his army), these are the thing you want to kill/destroy first: villagers on wood/stone/metal not too close from their CC isolated infantry archers/skirmicher/slinders NOT Spearman ! an isolated barrack. if your enemy don’t have many spearman, destroy the houses ! he won’t be able to make any spearman and you’ll win with your cavalry. Try not to lose any cavalry, never engage the fight, if his army follows you, just turn around his base, soon you’ll have 3-4 groups of cavalry in his base so he won’t be able to defend everywhere Don’t forget to take care of your base during the harass, make villagers, soldiers, upgrade your economy, expand etc... Please try it and give me some feedback and advices !

Hey Sanguivorant, this is indeed a good way to boom but I have a few questions about your strategy: - You said at 20min you reach the 300 population limit and go to phase III but what upgrades do you have at 20min (economic upgrades, armory upgrades etc) - What's your situation at 10min and 15min (female villagers and Soldiers) ? - At what time do you go to phase II ? - Do you make a CC in phase II ? I agree wih you about a thread/forum dedicated to strategy discussion, I have some detailed Build Orders I tried to optimized with Gauls and I'd like to share to get some feedback.

Hey Dninde, Another small tip againt AI: AI's first 3-4 attacks will always come at the same location so after the first attack, put a few defense tower in this location, it will help you defend the next attacks ! Have fun and good luck !

I am French, but live in Osaka so GMT + 9 I think. My real name is Alexandre, nickname Alex, but Japanese don't have "x" in their language so they call me "alekusu" and that's my profile name.

Yes I'm French, good guess ! Actually I live in Japan and they can't say "Alex" here, they say "Alekusu" that's why my profil name is Alekusu. I saw many french guys on this forum, am I right ?

Hello everyone, I'm Alex, new (started on Alpha 17) player on 0 A.D. First I'd like to say that I really love this game, I've been looking for this kind of games for years (I'm 24 years old so I enjoyed all the AoE, AoM etc when I was younger). I just wanted to introduce myself since I've been checking this forum for a few weeks now and really enjoying all the discussion/topics about the game (and I'll try to participate by giving my own ideas for the game in the futur). A big thanks to the development team and all the people that help them, please continue this amazing work. I played only single games until now but now that I'm beating the highest difficulty level against the computer you'll see me soon for multiplayer's games. Sorry about english mistakes. Gauls forever ! Alekusu