00:00 g'day fellows and welcome to a build
00:02 order breakdown in this video we're
00:03 going to be taking a look at a build
00:05 order that you can use to climb the
00:06 ladder and I assure you it is available
00:08 from the noobs to the pros this is an
00:10 insanely good build order with the
00:12 Ottomans a really easy to use sieve I
00:14 was talking about it with a bunch of
00:16 friends and they were saying no it's
00:17 hard to use I don't think so I think the
00:18 ottomans are super duper easy let's get
00:20 into it we're going to start by queuing
00:22 up five or four villagers in our town
00:24 center and sending out our villages to
00:26 Stone and we're going to make one make
00:27 sure one villager is going to food let's
00:29 begin all right cue up the town center
00:32 everyone out to Stone one Village at a
00:34 food and move the Sheep across we're
00:36 also gonna just grab these two sheep hey
00:38 hey that's not how you path right there
00:39 Scout did you see do you guys see that
00:41 Scout right there trying to park like
00:43 that we're gonna immediately go to the
00:44 front of our base once we've secured
00:46 that so these guys are gonna go and grab
00:48 some stone for us and what we're going
00:50 to be doing here is a bit of an early
00:51 aggression now you can uh do this
00:54 strategy against every single
00:56 civilization at the moment on any single
00:57 map it doesn't matter if there is one
00:59 strategy you are going to learn make it
01:01 this strategy uh because this is an
01:03 insanely strong strategy so now we're
01:05 going to take these guys and let's go
01:06 out like that and one here you're gonna
01:10 go over there so yeah if there's one
01:12 strategy that you could learn right now
01:14 if you're new to the game and you know
01:17 you you still haven't really decided on
01:18 the server or anything like that I would
01:19 say learn this strategy and you're gonna
01:21 get really really good quickly uh with
01:23 it if you just practice this because as
01:25 I said you can pretty much do it uh you
01:27 know on every single map in every single
01:29 match up it's it's a really really good
01:30 one uh so with our Scout we're just
01:32 Scouting Around our base just looking uh
01:35 to to find any potential uh sheep that's
01:37 all we care about right now is just the
01:38 starting sheep so there should be five
01:43 all right and we're rallying to food Ah
01:46 that's that's gonna be a key factor here
01:47 and we're collecting 150 wood so you can
01:50 see us right now so we're going to be
01:51 using 50 of that wood uh for a house 50
01:54 of that wood for a llama camp and 50 of
01:56 that wood going to be for a mining camp
01:58 as well now when the way that we time
02:01 this is uh it's a little bit weird so we
02:03 go to 10 villages on food and then we go
02:05 out to gold and the reason why is
02:07 because we actually want a lot of
02:08 villages on gold and we want to minimize
02:09 our walking distance so the sooner that
02:11 we can have those those Villages you
02:14 guys you guys need to be out over here
02:16 and so with that he's going to be able
02:18 to do that so the idea is that we want
02:21 um we want lots of villages on goal but
02:23 we don't want them to have to be walking
02:25 from the wood line over to the gold and
02:27 back to the wood all that kind of stuff
02:28 so what we're going to do is we're just
02:29 going to send a whole bunch out there
02:31 towards the end uh of of our age up and
02:34 that's that's essentially the idea so
02:36 we're gonna get our second build out
02:37 there now and then finally our sheep
02:40 coming through now we're gonna go scout
02:41 out the enemy now this part's optional
02:42 you don't have to do this it's probably
02:43 a bit more of an advanced uh part to the
02:46 build order but what we're going to do
02:46 is we're going to be aggressive against
02:48 our enemy now in this game we're playing
02:50 up against the Russ uh so we're going to
02:52 be looking at hitting their Stone
02:53 because they typically want to go for
02:55 that second Town Center so we're going
02:56 to send our spearmint out onto the map
02:58 into the world uh to go and look for
03:01 something to hit potentially
03:03 uh and so now as we begin moving out
03:07 we are looking for the gold or the stone
03:09 depends on which one but typically going
03:12 to be on the opposite end of the map
03:13 making sure we've got villagers queued
03:15 up now we want four on gold
03:17 and then we're going out to Wood after
03:19 that so 10 on food four on gold and now
03:22 we can see so that's where the enemy
03:23 Town Center is we know where the enemy
03:24 Town Center is so we can now rally our
03:29 now we will get a pretty decent age up
03:31 time with this as well we're going to be
03:32 using five villagers to age up
03:35 it's a scout back there oh I'm gonna
03:37 make sure we move these sheep in a
03:39 little bit closer so that they don't all
03:40 get killed killed too far away
03:44 all right there's the gold so we'll just
03:46 go for that I think he's got Stone down
03:47 here as well so we've got a beautiful
03:50 this is this is amazing whenever this
03:54 uh and now you can see we are starting
03:56 to uh to struggle a little bit so I'm
03:59 gonna grab five villagers I'm gonna make
04:01 my twin Minner at my dresser I'm gonna
04:02 make sure that I pull these guys back I
04:04 don't want them to to fight I just want
04:06 them to be distracting the enemy
04:10 and now I'm also going to be dropping
04:12 so you can see that we're just about to
04:14 get housed that's why we collected that
04:17 and so with this now we're still
04:19 collecting uh plenty of gold we're
04:20 looking to collect up to 250 gold and
04:23 the reason why we're doing that is
04:24 because we're going to be getting early
04:25 upgrades uh and so the idea here is that
04:28 we want to try and take advantage of the
04:31 fact that we just want to stay on one
04:33 Town Center we don't we're not too
04:35 interested in getting additional Town
04:36 centers and because of that we're going
04:39 to try and use or get as much value as
04:42 we can out of the villagers that we've
04:43 got from that one Town Center looks like
04:45 the villagers from gold have left the
04:49 looks like we might have a little sheep
04:50 delivery coming in now remember we want
04:51 250 gold after we've got 250 gold then
04:55 we're going to be moving our villagers
04:57 off gold we're gonna be bringing them
04:58 over across to uh I think we actually
05:01 sent them out to stone for a little bit
05:02 as well but we'll be bringing them on to
05:04 uh wood as well in a little bit so you
05:06 can see now we're slowly getting towards
05:09 still down here working our Magic
05:12 all right so that should be 250 three
05:14 two one that should be it
05:16 so now we'll go over to Stone so we're
05:17 just going to collect 100 Stone and now
05:19 with these guys can I just drop them off
05:22 as we're about to age up because these
05:23 five Villas are all gonna go over onto
05:25 the berry Landmark let's put that one
05:27 down now we could have actually made our
05:28 mining cap a little bit better where are
05:30 you guys going get over there
05:31 all right and so straight as soon as we
05:34 let's not get that one let's get to that
05:36 one double broad ax
05:38 and so what we're doing now is really
05:40 focusing on that big economy we're
05:42 getting both of our upgrades nice and
05:43 early wheelbarrow and double broad ax
05:45 and the idea here uh is that we're we're
05:48 really going to be pushing out a lot of
05:49 military units uh so here I'm going to
05:51 be dropping down an archery range
05:54 make sure we keep villages
05:57 housing here as well so we want we want
05:59 a hundred Stone once we've got a hundred
06:02 then we're just going to uh leave one
06:08 so it's about to happen so now that's
06:09 going to start making
06:12 we'll pull two Villas now here
06:14 I think we'll we'll try and do that it's
06:16 not it's not the prettiest
06:19 all right so we're just gonna leave
06:22 just that one Village up now we're gonna
06:23 start rallying out to food in fact we
06:25 can probably just rally uh to our sheep
06:29 and we want to switch this guy over onto
06:31 Sparky now so let's cancel that go over
06:34 spy here and we're also going to drop
06:35 down our blacksmith make sure we get it
06:41 all right and so behind this went out
06:43 making arches and so the idea is that we
06:45 want to get so many arches it's all
06:46 about big Archer balls here uh that is
06:49 not Archibald that is Archer balls
06:51 so we might actually just rally over to
06:52 food train exhaust this a little bit
06:55 and our first point is going to come in
06:57 we're going to be going with meta drums
06:58 and we want to make sure that we're
07:00 keeping all of our units together in the
07:02 same group and that's the great thing
07:04 about the Ottomans is you can just kind
07:05 of put everything together in the same
07:07 group you don't have to worry too much
07:09 about it I mean obviously you do want to
07:10 try and micro as well but now the units
07:13 begin coming out and we are just pumping
07:15 out units Non-Stop and from here it's
07:16 very easy very simple because all we're
07:19 doing is keeping a nice balance of
07:21 villages on food villages on wood
07:23 replacing our wood camps and just making
07:25 arches that's it we've got both of our
07:26 military schools here uh these guys are
07:29 both going to be on spahy for the rest
07:30 of the game uh and the third one that
07:32 comes in that will be going on to the
07:33 meta uh but for the moment you just
07:35 chill out because this is where your
07:37 mass starts to build you can see we've
07:39 still got those arches in Cube
07:41 and we might want to start adding uh we
07:43 might want to start adding uh villagers
07:45 over to gold as well because we're going
07:47 to need to start thinking about upgrades
07:49 but before we do that we're just going
07:50 to keep throwing down more archery
07:52 ranges you can see we're getting a
07:53 little bit over the top with it here but
07:55 our macro is very nice and balanced
07:57 super duper easy build order to pull off
07:59 uh very very hard to to stuff up this
08:01 build order uh because you're quite safe
08:03 your enemy is not going to be really
08:05 applying too much pressure towards you
08:06 at early stages of the game and it
08:08 allows you to build up a pretty decent
08:09 mass as you can see right here and then
08:11 we can take this mass and we can convert
08:13 this into a very strong timing push now
08:15 it looks like our berries just respawned
08:17 right there so we're gonna make sure
08:19 that we go up we always want to exhaust
08:20 our berries as quickly as possible
08:22 adding in more houses
08:24 and three archery ranges could be more
08:27 than enough for now so we'll just leave
08:31 and now you can see how big our mass is
08:33 really starting to get and it's starting
08:34 to look a bit scary right like you push
08:36 an enemy with this kind of unit mass and
08:38 and they're going to have problems uh so
08:40 it is uh it is definitely a nice
08:43 strategy to open now once you've got
08:44 that 100 Stone uh you can stop Gathering
08:46 the stone so something small to to think
08:49 about because you are going to be
08:50 needing to drop down the next one uh
08:52 sometimes your macro can be a little bit
08:54 off so always try and balance out your
08:56 and your wood you want to try and keep
08:58 that those two working together
09:01 um and and making sure that they are
09:03 balanced uh but then now we're moving
09:05 towards those upgrades now when it comes
09:06 to upgrades you could probably move
09:08 villagers over a little bit faster you
09:09 can see right now we're starting to
09:10 stack up that wood quite a bit uh this
09:11 is the consequence of me having that
09:16 uh what will be happening is we'll be
09:18 moving into a battering ram timing push
09:20 here so you know we're pushing out we
09:22 probably shouldn't be pushing out
09:23 without plus one uh but uh let's let's
09:26 move some more villagers over onto gold
09:27 at this point you can probably move
09:28 these guys over a little bit earlier you
09:30 can see we're still just pumping out
09:31 archers trying to keep as many as we can
09:37 super very easy though and from here we
09:40 can now get Siege Engineering in with
09:42 Siege engineering on the way that's when
09:43 the push really starts to begin you know
09:45 we're applying pressure to the front
09:46 we're just playing with our food at this
09:49 but we got we got a little bit of a
09:51 counter attack over here
09:54 pull our units back here just make sure
09:58 he's going ham look at that
10:01 so with that obviously uh this is this
10:03 is not part of the build order getting
10:04 raided with spearmint like that let's
10:06 pull these spheres and make them move a
10:10 and we'll get everybody back to work now
10:15 that guy's still getting attacked uh oh
10:18 did we move out archers away we must
10:19 move our arches away
10:22 all right well our upgrades now come
10:24 through we're looking to get plus one
10:25 we're gonna drop down a single battering
10:27 ram because we're gonna need the wood to
10:28 do something else and that is get our
10:30 next military school in so now we're
10:31 gonna get our third military school in
10:33 uh we're gonna make sure that we drop
10:34 this one down in the best spot that
10:36 we've got that's a good spot over there
10:37 normally you'd want to avoid having them
10:39 on the front line but I think in playing
10:42 um this kind of game where you're on the
10:44 aggressive I think it's kind of set it's
10:45 quite safe to do it
10:49 and that's essentially it now you can
10:50 see we're just going to be looking to
10:51 pick up the rest of the upgrades uh and
10:53 and that's it so we'd look to push
10:55 typically you'd want to go with more
10:57 than one battering ram so you maybe want
10:58 to do two or three would you get a
10:59 little bit interrupted here but I will
11:01 forgive the AI for interrupting our
11:03 perfect little build order there with
11:04 some Spearman but that's essentially
11:05 what it looks like the ottoman build
11:07 order the ottoman opening
11:08 um I've got uh chat here at the moment
11:11 I'm going to open the floor to questions
11:12 if you've got any questions about the
11:14 way that we play it from here or the way
11:16 that we transition in fact we can talk
11:17 about some of the ways that you can
11:19 transition out of this uh and the best
11:21 way to do it so the power spikes for the
11:23 ottomans are going to be that mid feudal
11:25 timing push as well as early castles
11:28 their other timing push about two
11:30 minutes after they age up which is when
11:31 they get their first manganel that's a
11:32 big spike for them so those are the
11:34 pushes or the timings that you're going
11:35 to be looking for so ideally you might
11:38 want to stay in the castle age for you
11:39 know 16 17 minutes try and look to
11:41 surround your enemy and then start
11:43 talking or start thinking about that age
11:47 uh so it's it's basically it I've got I
11:50 can see in call in the chat saying it's
11:51 basically the Chinese build order except
11:53 it's easy to pull off and that's exactly
11:55 it right it's super easy to pull off I
11:57 mean it's not as easy as like the French
11:58 seven to food three to Gold that sort of
12:00 thing but it's still pretty easy right
12:02 like you don't have to deal with
12:03 Imperial officials or anything like that
12:04 uh so it makes it it's quite simple uh
12:08 you know there are a lot of things we
12:09 didn't talk about in there that probably
12:11 go down to more of the intricacies of
12:13 the civilization but I will refer you
12:15 guys to Beastie cuties video If you
12:17 haven't watched it already the ottoman
12:18 uh overview that he just did where he
12:20 talked a whole bunch about it uh so I
12:22 would refer you to Beastie uh make sure
12:24 you check him out another YouTuber great
12:26 Creator and uh yeah I guess we'll leave
12:30 uh pandemonium in the chat asking
12:31 doesn't Mass Horseman beat this though
12:35 yes it does which is why it's imperative
12:37 that we Scout uh the enemy we didn't
12:39 really talk too much about scouting but
12:41 yes uh and we can always drop down a
12:43 Barracks we can always switch our
12:44 military schools from Sparky over to
12:47 but yes Mass Horsemen will beat arches
12:50 that is uh that's the counter system uh
12:53 but it you know ideally we'd look to try
12:55 and Scout that out before it actually
12:58 it can be tricky to get a critical mass
13:00 of Horsemen versus this and then you can
13:02 always weave in spement and that's
13:04 exactly it it's the weaving Spearman or
13:05 the woven spearmint that make it so
13:07 tricky to deal with a strategy like this
13:08 because once they come in you know two
13:10 at a time three at a time and there's a
13:11 big mass of archers that are getting
13:13 their movement speed boosted by the The
13:15 Meta it makes it very difficult
13:18 um if you didn't waste your spam in your
13:20 dark age women yeah yeah well you're
13:21 always going to try and keep your stuck
13:23 HDM alive remember that even if you're
13:25 trying to be aggressive with them you
13:26 don't want to fight the enemy you just
13:28 want to annoy the enemy
13:31 berggrave rush just absolutely beats a
13:34 blast this right no it doesn't a lot of
13:36 people don't realize uh how good the um
13:40 a lot of people don't realize how good
13:42 the ottomans are against berggrave rush
13:44 because of the meta The Meta gives an
13:46 extra two melee armor so you can just go
13:48 uh full Cav and spear against it I mean
13:52 obviously it it depends on your map it
13:54 depends on your matchup but against a
13:56 berggrave rush if that's what you Scout
13:57 then very happily you can switch into
13:59 full Horsemen Spearman and just put the
14:02 matter on melee armor uh as long as
14:04 you're on one base you should be able to
14:09 all right well if you're watching this
14:10 on YouTube that's gonna be it a short
14:12 video a quick video but hopefully that
14:13 gives you a bit of insight to a strategy
14:15 that is uh slowly but steadily taking
14:17 over the ladder and uh we'll catch you
14:19 guys in the next one
