Age of Empires 4 - Zhu Xi Legacy Fast Castle Guide

[@placas94]

Drongo, for your knowledge, viper is back on aoe4. Don't let us wait too long for a good old viper casting

[@AussieDrongo]

if i could VIP people on youtube, you would be it sir.

[@placas94]

@@AussieDrongo getting an answer so fast, and from you personally, is already more than a VIP

[@makingivan]

wow, what??

[@thegorn]

The one. The only. The VIPERRRRRRRR!

[@Davidsen14]

​@@AussieDrongo do u think it's balanced for a civ to be able to hit castle in 5m? I feel like it defeats the purpose of the whole game if u have that

[@MotoMoop]

thanks for your content Drongo, my friends and i watch your casts every night after work on xbox and it’s a great getaway from work. thank you 🙂

[@PokePhan]

Currently my fav new Civ, thanks for the build!

[@xB74CKxC4Tx]

bro drongo your vids are so good always explaining the macros and micros in detail! this will help me alot in ranked

[@WalrusJones185]

This is what I assumed this civ would get used for when i first saw the tang bonus. Sure you can save 400 resources on your farming, or you can get a trash unit early that beats spearmen/horsemen/archers and denies the enemy at least 225 passive resources per minute while gaining 375 per minute prior to tithe barns being possible (after tithe barns its more like 700.) Song dynasty gives you a low hanging fruit but this gives you a millitary rush (Shaolin Monks,) a tech edge (Castle,) and an economic boon (Relics) all at the same time, and you still have the song bonus before you need farms. Now here is the real kicker, if you fast yuan the pagodas you get are going to become production buildings for the monks, and you are getting 250 per minute from the relics. So you start getting. - Enough stone for a town center every two minutes between the meditation garden and your pagodas. - Four buildings spitting out shaolin monks. - Six super imperial officials. - A savings of something absurd like 630 on your landmarks. You would need to have build 22 farms for a bigger savings from going song. So you have a strong regenerating damage sponge as the core of your army, simple macro, and enough gold to go as gold heavy on the rest of your composition as your can dream of.... And you still can go song.

[@Adu1tish]

I will not watch Mr. Drongo at work before I play the expansion. I will not watch Mr. Drongo at work before I play the expansion. I will not watch Mr. Drongo at work before I play the expansion. I will not watch Mr. Drongo at work before I play the expansion. whoops

[@landoncarpenter3540]

Oops too late

[@ZzSora85]

Thanks for the guide, its helpful drongo

[@tungtung211]

Now let's do 8 minute Imperial Age.

[@AussieDrongo]

I would except they have nothing really to gain from it

[@Yeldibus]

Getting rushed by Ayubids / French completely wrecks this build. It's a greedy gamble play.

[@KajenIII]

The shaolin monks are probably going to get some of the resources converted to gold at some point it seems crazy that they only cost food

[@ProtossEver]

That is insane !

[@Orgxion0]

The Shaolin monks of this civ are OP. Nothing counters them😅

[@charlieb1283]

when do you make more imperial officials?

[@hadimali6392]

Ayyubids is cheaper to age up but, only once :D

[@joelburton7015]

for some reason after i age up to castle i cant build the other moument to get to song dynasty

[@vishnuhu9086]

how do you do the force drop off without crowding a sheep?

[@MrAtaguas]

Zhu Xie is pretty strong prob the strongest of the new civs imo because of all the eco bonuses. They aren't as safe without the barbican but my god can you age up fast. Japan is probably the worst imo with all their unit feeling quite underwhelming except for their knights which are pretty good but I think Japan needs a feudal buff of some sort. They feel like a dark age civ in feudal

[@DomOMediaProductions]

look at beastys build iive had 0 issues since

[@jleithhead01]

Shhhhhhhhh keep Japan a secret haha

[@TaylorBaker-s5w]

Love. ❤

[@danieljayasiri7739]

Mate do you know if the garden landmark still provides the free resources once the nearby resources have run out?

[@AussieDrongo]

yes it does

[@thegorn]

@@AussieDrongo That's sick. I got a spawn where the garden covered 3 stone mines. Getting into Song gave me a super cheap second TC. Felt like it was for free.

[@AussieDrongo]

yeah man its wild, it'll get nerfed soon though for sure its way too good

[@danieljayasiri7739]

@AussieDrongo lol yup that needs a nerf for sure, maybe cut down rate when resources have run out...any more nerfing than that would make people ignore the landmark

[@lucaxtshotting2378]

waaaait a second they start with 200 wood????? hahahahaha the fuckign power creep.

[@danielmedina07]

Amigo, tardo 18 minutos en subir a castillos 😢, subes muy rapido , yo distribuyo mal mis aldeanos

[@PaulikasKarolis]

Maaan, I'm trying as hard as I can and the earliest I can do is 7-8 minutes for castle, I just don't have enough food to do that and to be producing villagers at the same time, am I missing something? Also when do you get your wheelbarrow upgrade?

[@michaelbotta1414]

I'm in Plat 1 and I've been able to get castle in 6 and a half minutes or so. Are you making sure to 1) go for sheep first and not berries and 2) constantly supervise dropoffs? It's important to drop off your taxes after manually dropping all the resources in the mill. If you go 7 food then 3 gold then the rest food you'll have plenty! Another thing might be making sure that your meditation garden is built next to berries.

[@Fleshreaperrr]

how do you defend vs early pressure with this?

[@Tothesun_]

Savunamıyorsun, bu yöntem riskli..

[@MyriadColorsCM]

Castle age at 6 minutes is absurd.

[@traductus3337]

How do you even counter this? Just lost against this nonsens as the OG HRE, i made knights but soon as they make some spears they become useless. Not to mention, that they hit castle even faster then og HRE, so by the time my first knight comes up they already have there monks running back with the relics. No fudal unit can stand against them and MMA are to slow and are still to weak.

[@cornelishenk4569]

It's just broken including the immortal monks

[@teakodo]

does meditation gardens work on boar / deer

[@AussieDrongo]

it does not

[@thomsom1]

Drongo pls don't say that farms are cheaper than the english ones because that is objectively wrong. Just say they have a better wood eco (and that is even better than cheap farms!)

[@AussieDrongo]

no

[@J-cz7yv]

How does one eject relics from a monastery on Xbox?

[@J-cz7yv]

After much frustration I found that you cannot eject a relic. BUT, if you have a monk (my case was a shaolin monk) and click on monastery there is a little hand picking icon that comes up. He then retrieves it. I was trying to put them from monastery to pagoda’s and it took me all day lol. 😅

[@thejombojo]

I didn't know it was pronounced juicy

[@Howitzer-Rain]

❤

[@RicardoAlmeidatm]

How exactly is a monk that can solo 2 horsemen ok?

[@munish267]

Its not a normal monk. Have you seen the crazy things real life shaolin monks can do? I do believe that 100 food is way too cheap for such an op unit though.

[@JuL3r]

Well it costs 200 food.

[@munish267]

@@JuL3r ohh is it? My bad. Then maybe it’s balanced for a castle age unit, because they fall off in Imperial.

[@JuL3r]

@@munish267 I cant tell yet. It looks strong, especially versus Mali. So far I'd say it's a good unit, but not imbalanced. But time will tell.

[@hatgiongecoseed6285]

Is Yuan discount also apply for religious units, siegs?

[@AussieDrongo]

it was a showmatch and i shouldn't have posted the game until the host of the showmatch posts it

[@lucaxtshotting2378]

riight hahaha Imagine with an actually good build. The power creep is real. They changed it on release no? It used to spawn with 5 villagers and an IO. Not that chinese spawn with an IO... xdd whatever

[@lucaxtshotting2378]

oh nvm, wasn't counting the scout. As said, still. Specially after taking the extra 50 wood at spawn for no reason into consideration