Age of Darkness Builds: +700 Gold before Wave 1! - All Difficulties, All Factions, Unit & Ballista!

[@julian-ku1cs]

Thank you Catbert7 ! My previous goal was 500+, 700+ is a HUGE improvement, i guess it's my bad for never aiming for 20 stone on the first tick. i'm pretty sure this is gonna be enough for me to finally conquer 6.4 (veil + waves), now i just gotta practice the BO until the game is fixed !

[@catbert7]

And so you did! 🥳 Grats! Glad I could help. I'm working on a new build now, which doesn't require the 2nd early Mine. It's a little worse for Ballista defense but a little better for Units, and, most importantly, almost guaranteed to work on every map, and simpler to execute.

[@SephNight]

Edwin/Order I 28 upkeep I 2 Pikes, 2 Soldiers, 2 Archers Tax Cycles (Turns) 1 (Day 1): House - Clear forests I Find 2 Wood spots totaling 36+ 2: Wait 3: Lumber Camp (about 20% through gold cycle, for easier timings) 4: House 5: Lumber Camp 2 (place immediately) 6: Wait 7: Stone Mine (about 20% through gold cycle, for easier Worker transfer) A 8: Wait If I made a Heroless 9: Stone Mine 2 (place quickly) 10: At 50 Wood, Transfer 4 Workers from Wood to Stone BO vid, it's up here 11 (Night 1): Keep 12: Borrow all but 2 Mine Workers, Refill Lumber Camp 13: 1 House, 2 Huts (when Wood ready) 14: 3 Houses (when Keep pops) 15: House (place quickly), Return Workers to Mines 16: Workshop 17 (Day 2): Lumber Camp (place in 1st 20% of wood cycle) 18: House, 2 Huts 19: Lodge Research (when Shop finishes) 20: 4 Huts (place quickly) 21: 3 Houses 22: Upgrade all Houses (quickly) 23: Lumber Camp 24: if Ballista run: Warehouse; Distribute guards to entrances if Unit run: Lodges/Huts until 40s from Wave 25 (Night 2): B: Lumber Camp, Hut, Lodge Barracks; produce units constantly; Sconce Research, at convenience 26: Stone Mine 27: Lodges/Huts until 1.5 mins out; Warehouses 2 within 4 turns

[@catbert7]

Hey all! Hope you're finding this useful. If any updates are made to that game that require modifying these builds, I will note that here. As of 6/21/22, all good! 👍

[@knochenmarc117]

Nice guide but it would have been awesome if you had the steps written out in the description or as a comment. Would have been easier to play it and not having the need to skip through the video. But still really helpful and funny guide.

[@robertquilindo8853]

To reach 700+ before wave 1 is awesome . I always thought getting 500+ is the limit.

[@mikesean5377]

I appreciate the effort but honestly this build is kind of BS. It works beautifully if you have 20 stone worth of findable ore in 2 zones in the first 5 minutes or so. That is VERY unlikely to say the least. Then it falls apart basically as you are stuck with 18/20 stone and wait 2 hours for the next long stone cycle. Dont get me wrong. Its genius swapping the lumber guys over to stone at the last minute to go Keep fast! Just saying you will need to be ready to start over...and over....and over... :-)

[@MaiconSaquettoX]

sill work for actual version?

[@MaiconSaquettoX]

Could you turn on automatic subtitles?

[@catbert7]

It's on. YT help says it takes some time to compile but it's working for me now. You? I also edited the auto-transcript a bit, adding grammar to at least the first part. It's too long for me to do the whole thing, I'm afraid.

[@MaiconSaquettoX]

@@catbert7 Working now. Thanks.

[@catbert7]

@@MaiconSaquettoX 👍