How To Do The Unstoppable English Fast Castle

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[@FitzBro]

Special request for "How to Stop the Unstoppable English Fast Castle"!

[@majortwitched]

Was really hoping he was going to play against Hardest AI.

[@Tom3K_grabarzzzz]

I wish there was not that many english players on the ladder in team games its like every fkin gameee

[@PatrickHyland]

Yes please. English are all over the ladder with fast castle whitetower builds. It's oppressive and we all need help lol

[@felicienscottdemartinville7807]

this has literally taken over the ladder... takes a lot of the fun away...

[@PaulMccarthyIII]

Ottoman dark age rush should counter?

[@McEnroe911]

Ah, now I see why I've faced this 4 times in a row this morning haha.

[@Nil-js4bf]

Impressed at how clean this build is. Nice work.

[@gladiatorcp]

Thank you bro, once again your content is top tier. Thanks again

[@patryk-eb4rd]

would love to see how to play a macro english for longer games or team matchups. Also the various ways if game doesnt end quicker! thanks+

[@Olof1Eye]

Just tried this on the ladder vs HRE and it worked like a charm.

[@2step251]

i've been using this same strat on 1v1 ranked aswell for a couple days now, its extremely good,

[@MrAtaguas]

I feel like this fast castle into knights is gonna be one of the metas for a few civs. I'be done this for English but also Abbassid weirdly enough with the new culture wing tech of reduced age up cost and also with HRE steel barding (this can be especially scary when the enemy sees 8 armor knights rolling in at minute 10). It's like a big booming french player can make mass knights in imp you can do the same with HRE in castle

[@kidwickido5600]

Gotta love consistant uploads!

[@adamb6108]

tbh I still occasionally play games without english in them. more buffs please.

[@rcshap]

This is already all over quick match, was trying it myself and had 4 mirror match ups in a row lol. Managed to beat a diamond player when i am only gold3/plat 1 by adding just 2 longbows during feudal and then attacking his vills when he tried to go castle. He had exactly 3 maa liek the video suggest and i only had 2 but he couldnt stop my harass and had to pull vills off the landmark and couldn't finish it: meanwhile i aged up behind the attack.

[@LIONHEARTE944]

Drongo says knights but armor clad men at arms could also be deadly

[@rel_9602]

The king is actually pretty useful in order to heal your knights. I like playing fast castle with abbey of kings, producing knights and going for 2 archer ranges

[@thegorn]

Aussie Drongo: Don't take any damage from the enemy TC also Aussie Drongo: 3:52

[@Kahutara]

beat my first gold in ranked (every match has been gold so far ) thanks to this build order... haha cheers drongo

[@stkfr]

What do theses castle knights do better than french feudal knights in the end?

[@chouni5196]

Beat the hardest ai on 3 try, thank you very much

[@ssang90]

Pretty new to AOE4, but I'm finding your contents really helpful. Quick question - Do we eventually wanna get 2TCs even with this build? I'm wondering if getting 2+ TC is normally recommended if the game goes on for longer and get into a Imperial age.

[@roberthiggins8234]

Im not a great player, only Plat level. But I think in this build you generally wouldnt go 2TC. I suspect the only scenario you would look to go 2 TC is if both players have large villagers losses, and both have made it to castle age. Or possibly if your opponent has turtled up and you know that the game is going to be a long one. If you havnt had villager losses you are most likely going to benefit more from imp than trying to boom villagers.

[@VGSymphony_]

Here is my personal input. Each build has a goal. This one is to get knights early enough for your opponent to be unable to respond. If you change goals, you're giving your opponent some slack, which is bad news. You must have heard about the rock/paper/scissors relationship between units. Well, it's the same with strategies. Booming > Turtling > Rushing > Booming > etc. You want to priorise one at a time. In the case of this build, you can do both since two MAAs have little impact to your eco and can rush while your eco is 100% invested in itself. So your opponent doesn't have the eco to efficiently counter your booming with a rush tactic. You basically force them into turtling mode while booming, which is quite a power move. The purpose of a second TC is booming. Which would be an answer to your opponent turtling successfully against your knights later in the game. If you rely on this basic framework, you'll make better decisions. Scout and react to what your opponent is doing at any time.

[@DrJeffreyTran]

It’s quite stoppable when I try this build order LOL. Still learning

[@pdxcorgidad]

Right? Trust me, it's absolutely possible to get wrecked with this. Personal experience.

[@piggy8435]

How do you know when to do this build vs the 2 tc build?

[@story_appreciator6666]

How do you have the resource bar in the top left corner?

[@KobuCake]

looks super strong

[@BillsMafia1013]

What age 4 landmark would you suggest if it goes to imperial

[@clairelove7786]

I’d go wynguard palace, English has some new units and they’re strong.

[@glens1800]

Surely now you would age up with abbey of kings ?

[@chrisnewtownnsw]

new challenge. win a game without using a build order

[@JohnnyEMatos]

I take that challenge every single game, gehe

[@Haluc7N]

This is a difficult one to execute. How would it work. Once you learn a few BOs and UNDERSTAND how they work and why, then if you want to play good you will just implement parts of certain BOs because for example you know how many workers you need on which resource to afford what. So what does it mean not use a BO? How much deviation from a BO do you need to not call it a BO? And also, poor BO is still a Build Order. Or you want him to play really poor random sht on purpose.

[@chrisnewtownnsw]

@@JohnnyEMatos me too haha

[@chrisnewtownnsw]

@@Haluc7N just play neutral until the opportunity for a counter strategy presents itself. In this specific case of drongo's opponent all he needs to do is turtle. No build order needed. You don't even need a hyper efficient turtle. Just throw any old turtle together. You scout the early rax therefore you begin the turtle. No build orders no canned pick up lines needed.

[@ramone8165]

@@Haluc7N Everything its a build order

[@benni2862]

How about a opponent that goes 2tc? and defends with spearmen light cav(abbasid) I feel like it could be very difficult to do enough damage. Or do you suggest an king's palace or a fast relic game in that case?

[@MrAtaguas]

I'd ram push their new TC. They are vulnerable if they boom while you do a fast castle military rush

[@benni2862]

@@MrAtaguas but the Investment of a fc is higher than a 2nd tc so they'll have more Units than you

[@MrAtaguas]

@@benni2862 not necessarily you'll notice macroing with 2 resources i.e. fast castle can even be faster due to reduced walking times and villager shuffling also fast castling gives you resources that you need for units so its a easy transition plus with english or HRE you don't even need to worry about wood because your landmark is yoru production. Plus castle units (depending on the unit) >>> Feudal units like 8x better if you go Clad Armor MAA for instance

[@jeromethy]

In addition, english will nave 2x stables and 2x archery range for extra tempo meanwhile ABBA will have to make production, units

[@benni2862]

@@jeromethy but the fact that the reinforcements arrive so late makes it quite weaker

[@nickf950]

Aren't we all sick of seeing English in every match

[@rarebeastbuilds739]

I play 5 games with this Strat and won 4, only got beat by HRE... mostly my fault... English are so much fun to play with now

[@cjedwards4641]

hre is one civ i cant beat w this strat

[@theoj4234]

You mean fun and easy? Haha Because that’s the problem, it’s too easy to play and quite difficult to beat, even mistakes from the English players aren’t that severe.

[@Salamantis]

noice

[@Tom3K_grabarzzzz]

This season is nice the only thing that spoils it is everyone just plays english i think we need to see some nerfs to longbowman...

[@Schnitzel2368]

Would work the Abbey not better? The King for Healing knights (hard in- and than for healing out- like the french). And against spears we drop two archery - Range?

[@ramone8165]

My thoughts exactly. Gotta run a few games to see if its better or not

[@GuilhermeBerger42]

Just make some monks, you can heal the knights after picking up relics

[@azbestascetyczny8424]

why no abbby for king of chads + knights?

[@Dakkonblackblade689]

Does this build work in 4v4 and 3vs3 also?

[@stkfr]

no

[@remiq1965]

Aussie_Drongo: can you post a video of this build against the hardest AI?

[@remiq1965]

Dare I request, the French hardest AI?

[@jeremysomethingville7929]

Any way we can morph this opener into a 2TC? While keeping the barracks.

[@maxmustermann3811]

You can Go early man at arms into 2tc and feudal Play for sure

[@juancantor7507]

If they put 4 villagers on gold or if they are hre they will be able to hit feudal regardless

[@reiked9330]

Nice strat, can it beats hardest ai? :D

[@funwithgames7986]

no...

[@ShwumeZilume]

"No chance of us really dying to anything because we're playing English". LOL it's the civ with training wheels. It's the naked fast castle that you can't punish!

[@AGMAdept]

Question for everyone, I've not long got back into AOE, I was a long time gamer of AOM, so I'm currently only Silver 2. Should we not be looking for Imperial to get the gold from the farms? I know English farms are great but isn't that the biggest bonus to using the farms in such mass?

[@maunaowakea777]

YUASSSS!!! GOOOOOD!!!! LET YOUR ANGER FLOW DARTH DRONGO!!!!!!! UNLEASH THE POWER OF THE DARK SIDE!!!!!!

[@funwithgames7986]

Why 1 Vil should kill the sheep?

[@con_boy]

What about French knights after huge gold opening from them

[@maxmustermann3811]

If you deny gold with early maa their Knights should be delayed heavily, and you already have a barracks, Just make 2-3 spears

[@con_boy]

@@maxmustermann3811 why I said fast gold

[@maxmustermann3811]

@@con_boy If they Go everyone in gold they wont have food

[@con_boy]

@Max Mustermann yeah they will, you can bring food under your tc until you hit castle usually, just sheep and berries or herd deer. U can defo do it tho

[@con_boy]

The tactic is all 6 on gold, 40s of camping it then leave.. if I was French and I saw English match up I'd do it.. cos ur slightly slower on age up and if he goes dark age rush he's doomed

[@nickb5311]

is tihis less effective against chinese because of their tax ability?

[@Ryan-vn7de]

RIP ladder

[@renevwestrhenen4697]

Noo you figured my build order out

[@walkingillusion7853]

Of course it is unstoppable.... he's playing against an easy ai :p

[@theoj4234]

I like the video, but I hate the fact that 40% of my next game will have to deal with this easy to execute and hard to punish strategy. English kills the game fun! 😢

[@diggoran]

Are you sure the wheelbarrow is actually cost effective here? Unless your vills are being chased around by harassment, it doesn't seem to do you much good since you never leave your base.

[@KobuCake]

it's strong for the farmers

[@Danny-gs5dv]

@@KobuCake nah not farmers, it's alright for deer and wood (farmers don't benefit from walking because the more wheat they gather, the further they have to walk to gather it, which basically cancels out the bonus it provides. gives like 4% boost after everything)

[@robstott1989]

tried a few times but still get wiped out in time

[@SadmanPlays]

FIRST!!!!