Seems like a very solid build order. If you want to add a little bit on top see if you can combine your lumber camp with the Kremlin area of effect. For those who don't know, Rus outposts have an area of effect buff that makes any lumber camp in the area give 20% extra resources dropped of. Another thing you can do is reset your scouts shooting animation by giving a move order after shooting. This lets you kill deer significantly faster
As a HRE main looking to play the Rus as well, this guide was really well thought out, and adds something most don't which are the adaptations to be considered, which yeah, spearmen might be an obvious choice, but it's a good thing all this info was put out in a 9 minute video!
Thanks! Great to hear it man! Means alot when people let me know if they're finding it useful :) I'm always open to suggestions for improvement also, I hope the build works well for you / helps you play RUS, I find them pretty difficult compared to English and French for example. Do you have any favourite civs?
@@FarmManOfficial Well Don't know man I haven't tried many of them but I love this game and def I love how diverse they are. I will try all the factions one by one that's my things. You have really good content I watched some opening vids hopefully this will help me today a bit. First day I went 6-3 yesterday was around 50% with Rus. I just can't get this starting eco right so ur builds are good. I am new to AoE but I played every RTS under the sun so I am by no means new. This is helpful no suggestions
@@FarmManOfficial Sorry but why garrison the scout at 3:30 any purpose or just clicking there ? Also what do u think Golden gate vs Kremlin in general? With Golden gate u can trade for Stone for new Tc sometimes but it really leaves u open for attacks
@@naummw6328 yeh that was a miss-click Lol. I hate the fact that if you have your scout selected and click on the TC it garrisons! Haha. Yeh these two landmarks are so different that it really depends on your play style. For this build as you're going quite heavy aggression in feudal I'd prefer the Kremlin to help defend at home in case your opponent is playing cavalry and tries to raid the economy. I haven't used the golden gate too much though, could be useful as you say to get up to the next age quicker or boom with eco. The Kremlin gives me alot more piece of mind to attack though without worrying too much at home, I can build the Kremlin on one side of the base and wall the other side quite well. I'd say the Civilisation match up is quite important to help you decide though also, against the Chinese for example, if they go for the Barbican of the sun, then feudal age push becomes alot harder. In which case a switch to eco approach with be golden gate for instance might not be a bad option.
Nice, looks like army composition is really important with aoe 4 and is a big focus for the game. Quite like it! Thanks for taking the time to comment! :) Do you have a favourite civilisation so far?
@@FarmManOfficial yea. I did however get caught off guard sometimes by sending all my units to the enemy area and not leaving military units at base. I gotta remember not to send all my military units away. And the RUS are my fav so far. Pretty unique
@@LagaholicYeh that's quite a tricky balance actually, I've found that the Kremlin on one side of the base and walling up the other side works quite well! I've definitely been caught out too lol. Good thing is, cavalry raids at that stage of the game, they usually lose their army to TC fire :D I quite like the Rus too, very interesting civilisation! It seems pretty popular like the French
Isn't this super inefficient? Hunting cabins to close to each other generate less gold. Also the Kreml boosts wood if the hunting cabins are in range, which is not the case in this build. I don't know, the build order is nice and well optimized, but the positioning of his buildings is rly inefficient. Also as Rus, u want a more dense base. Otherwise there's no point in using defensive landmarks. Just my opinion.
Hey there! Thanks for you comment. Absolutely please do share your opinions! Its the only way we can improve at the game and think about different options! :) So essentially when thinking about inefficiency it's important to assess it based on your intended goals. The opening for this build is heavily targeted in getting military production of knights + one other unit type and feudal aggression bearing that in mind, you're vulnerable to counter attacks when you go forward (it's actually a good counter to this strat) With regards to the goal of the Kremlin placement we have 2 options. Placement for defensive purposes Vs placement for economic purposes. Both have their uses. (Ideally if you can do both it would be awesome!!) Economy isn't quite our target in this strategy, rather we want protection of that gold. If we get pushed off that forward gold = no knights. Because also we are going for a double unit opening, we might be behind against other civs going for a fast rush e.g. mongols or English. Personally if we want to take advantage of that increased wood gathering, id build a fortress on the woodline and the Kremlin on the gold. Because the Kremlin means you can continue to mine gold with those villagers. (Opponent less likely to dive on Kremlin as they'd take damage) and quite freely move forward with all your army rather than having to split army to stay home to defend. Those were just my reasons for putting the Kremlin forward for defensive purposes, I valued that more than economy at that stage. Either way I think you raise a good point though, because I think we'll need protection of both the wood and the gold! And it makes sense then to put a fortress on the woodline. I think on this map gen we'd need both actually. Thanks for the comment. Hope this shares my thought processes, but your points are valid, just depends on the approach you want to take protect gold Vs protect wood + bonus. I think we'd probably actually need to do both!
Absolutely great content, thanks! Your first rush begins at 7 mins, at this point an English player will be already able to produce a squad of longbowmen, which makes it hard to work.
Hi there, cheers for the comment! Yeh I've been thinking recently that maybe could go upto next age a bit quicker but getting the other landmark and then buying the wood for production buildings maybe
Could work, just depends on how his Kremlin and TC are positioned with the natural barriers. Harder to make this work on a small map because of the longbow rush, but if you enemy goes English, you can always try to age up faster. Don't know, going to try the build and see how it goes
You made this look so easy but I've been struggling to replicate this build smoothly even against AI. I wonder if it's because the map is difficult (altai). This map made me want to try rus out in the first place, as the resources are so spread out and the gold is so scarce. Definitely all the micro gets me the early feudal monument with no goldmine, but as I expand for resources I get raided from all sides with small raiding parties that are easy enough to deal with, but they keep coming and picking off villagers and food sources before I can get defenses finished.
Hey there thanks for the comment! I find the RUS are quite APM intensive as you have 3 scouts running around back home. It also does depend how much pressure you're applying because if you're in your opponent's face all the time they're less likely to be attacking your base (which by the way is a smart move and a decent counter I think) but if they do, some wooden fortresses to protect key resources will be the key. Tricky to suggest what's going on though tbh without watching the game. I hope this somewhat helps though !
Seems like playing SC2 for years gives me a advantage here. I learned the buildorder in a couple of hours and the APM intensivity feels so slow :D But love the game!
hello again my man! great guide as always, I find Rus a little bit busy at the beginning with 3 scouts LOL, so I hotkeyed them to 1 2 3 xD Question; I have been victimised by Mongol Dark Age TC rush + early horsemen recently, it really caught me off guard. Do you have any suggestion on how to early spot their movement and how to anticipate them? (as any civ, let say Rus)
Hey dude :). Yeh for sure man there is alot happening with the Rus at the beginning of the game, lots of independent units across different parts of the map to control also! So I've had this question a lot because of how many people are doing this crazy strat lol. I haven't actually come across it myself yet, and I'm not even sure how to counter it except for using scouts to see it coming (which as the Rus will be much more natural as you're producing extra scouts anyway). Trouble is, even if we see it coming, what can we do about it? Honestly, I'm not too sure yet, Only thing I can think of is trying to relocate alot of your villagers elsewhere on the map, and if it is a water map, Dock early for fish. Try and get a military unit out early depending what your civ allows you and try to attack their villagers who are back at home who are gathering resources. I'm definitely going to keep an eye out for counter strats and keep you updated if I can, because alot of us facing this haha. I'll put a post in the community tab also, incase anyone who follows the channel has some ideas :)
@@FarmManOfficial nice thank you! Yea it is best to send scout forward 1st when against mongols. I also watched the replay of this TC rush guy: - he produced atleast 11 villager in total 6 to food, 5 to wood. - he sent 5 vil to wood 1st, and 1 to build Ovoo. The next 5 vil to sheep (builder to sheep). - while food villagers in production, he sent scout to get sheep, and get 1 wood villager to build a ger in which scout will drop collected sheep there. - after 11th villager produced, he immedeately drive TC next to opponent's, also build stable next to Ovoo to produce 4 horsemen. - after TC arrives at destination, he get the Khan inside TC to fire extra arrows on villagers. While also producing 2 villager and send them to nearest gold mine to build Ger. - next he harass villagers with a total of 7 horsemen. Also getting extra resources from stray buildings.
Great build , great explanation for everything . What do you think about 6 scouts instead of 3? I have seen a few build orders with 6 because you can take a complete deer spawn with it.
Hi there! Thanks for the feedback! Appreciate it. I haven't seen it too much with 6 scouts, but I have a feeling that's too many and would delay your feudal age too long. Also, getting professional scouts is great, but I tend to get it after blacksmith upgrades and attacking, and so for me those scouts wouldn't really be doing much useful (in terms of collecting deer carcases for a long time). If getting six so that you can try and get all the deer on the map, that could be a good idea tbh because the bounty bonus is pretty good with the villager efficiency increase! I'm thinking 6 scouts would be very challenging for me personally to micro in the early game though. Its quite a nice idea though, I think the biggest bonus of having the extra scouts would be that you're more likely to unlock the bounty bonuses levels, but it's pretty dependent on your skill in micro-ing 6 scouts! Just FYI, one tip for speeding out deer shooting can be found here: ua-cam.com/video/pQjmR4Z8yUo/v-deo.html
Thanks for the fast answer 👍🏻 I make some tests (with A.I) the best play was for 5. Used my first scout directly to the enemy town center , a circle to steal their sheep and back to my base meanwhile Each scout spawn set to go automatically to different places at the map , then send then back to the base while killing the deers (Not animation cancelling because it's to much for me at the moment 😂) When I hit feudal got gold for profesional scouts and wheelbarrow at the same time , start bringing those carcases, all my wood goes directly to military not on farms. It delay feudal like to 5:10 , but the best thing is I explore all the map , find the relics , so if go to castle age , I can sent the warrior monks directly to them and get the enemy ones faster. Need to test in a real fight 😂👍🏻
Great Video! If I use this build order for a 4v4 would it be smart to go with Archer & Spearman? What build would you recommend for someone who is horrible/slow and gets carried every 4v4 game by his friends? (I need help Farm Man 🤣) Thank you!
Hey dude, thanks for the comment! No worries man, I'm always here to help if I can :) It is a little bit different in team games though tbh because it depends on what both your team mates and your opponent's team mates are going. But maybe go for knights and then decide on whether you add spears or archers depending on what your opponent is going. Basically go for knights + the unit that counters them. E.g if they go for knights, then you go for knights and spearman. If they go for spearman to defend themselves, you can go knight and archers. If you're in a pocket position though you might want to boom a little by going for a town centre plus just knights only to start with. Hope this helps a little, feel free to message back any questions anytime :)
@@FarmManOfficial Yes this helps a lot. Also I think your videos are done very well! They are not too long and the added on screen menu/build order is great for me to take a screen shot and try it out. Bonus question please: Which Civilization would you recommend for beginners? I know the game says ENG & French but I wanted to see what you thought. Thanks agian!
@@kraze257 Thanks dude! Plenty of build orders coming in the future. Yep I'd very much agree with the game to be honest. I found personally the English and French easiest to play and also very strong civilisations. I'd probably say the Abbasid Dynasty is the easiest to play after those two civilisations, but it does also get some taking used to with the House of Wisdom mechanic. I do have a video specific to the house of wisdom and also the abbasid dynasty incase you are interested which breaks it down. I also really like the abbasid dynasty as it is a very flexible civilisation with a lot of fantastic bonuses!
@@FarmManOfficial I have never tried the Abbasid Dynasty yet. I'm going to check out the videos and give them a shot. Its always exciting to try a new Civ. Thank Farm for all the advice!
Good question, and I hate to answer like this ... But depends! Personally professional scouts is usually the last thing on my list. At that moment you'll be sorting out your eco at home. And micro-ing knights and archers. The time to get professional scouts (practically speaking) is if you're in a period of not much military engagement i.e. you're just waiting for some re-enforcements, or have been pushed back a little. In reality your order of priority is likely to be: 1) maintain your army and take the best fights possible 2) organise macro at home 3) if you have some spare APM, get professional scouts and bring back those carcasses Hope this somewhat helps. Ultimately when you run out of berries you'll need to put a hunting cabin near your deer (you won't have got professional scouts by then most likely). It's at that point it's a good idea to get the tech because once those deer run out, you'll be forced to farm otherwise
@@zachariastsampasidis8880 yeh it's actually quite expensive. Especially if you're going for a knight spear/archer ram push. You'd need to research siege engineering and ideally iron undermesh also (I'd prefer to spend my gold on those techs) rather than professional scouts. If going for a more eco approach e.g. you think a ram push won't work then can use that gold for professional scouts, it's very game dependent though, it's good to pre think though e.g. Ram push viable yes? Delay professional scouts to get upgrades first Ram push not viable? Can spend gold on professional scouts instead
Hi hi, hope you're well! So on open land maps, Rus will usually go for 2 town centre with the new town centre being placed on the boar to gather boar food. They sometimes still go 1 TC but will still usually go for the boar with a wooden fortress for protection. you might find my 2TC Rus build order useful perhaps if you're looking to go 2tc with Rus: ua-cam.com/video/dKq1CGKPPi0/v-deo.html
Hi there! Yep, really important to try and get those scouts out early to shoo that hunt. There is a way of shooting deer quickly btw, you can see it here if you haven't seen it already : ua-cam.com/video/pQjmR4Z8yUo/v-deo.html
I don't think this build order is anywhere near optimal or polished enough to be treated as a legitimate build order for competitive play. For one thing, there are too many small adjustments constantly across the game, like moving villagers to different resource and buildings at random timings. I'm not worried about APM, but this level complexity will make this build order much more error prone than other BO. At the high level, your win rate == 1 - your error rate; Having a lower error rate BO means increasing your win rate. Secondly, the random timing of the research of wheelbarrow in this video made believe this BO is not meant to be used seriously. I believe any people who are RTS veteran will question it when seeing you just randomly start the research. But the video didn't bother to explain anything and it feels you didn't think the timing of a research matters much. This made it look like a very random action. IMO, the early research of wheelbarrow isn't worth it since the bottleneck of your resource collection rate isn't the travel speed or capacitiy because everything is near your drop building. Thirdly, the timing of starting the feudal age landmark (3:45) is so late in this video. It's like more than 1 min later than French (which I'm familiar with). Since I'm not familiar with RUS, I can't say you are wrong, but based on the floating resource (87 food, 140 wood, 99 gold) at the time you started the landmark, and your random research of wheelbarrow early game, I strongly believe this timing can be greatly improved. E.g. Why do we need floating 140 wood at this point? Why can't we reduce the wood villagers early and increase the wood production after the landmark started?
Seems like a very solid build order.
If you want to add a little bit on top see if you can combine your lumber camp with the Kremlin area of effect. For those who don't know, Rus outposts have an area of effect buff that makes any lumber camp in the area give 20% extra resources dropped of.
Another thing you can do is reset your scouts shooting animation by giving a move order after shooting. This lets you kill deer significantly faster
Awesome! Yeh I only realised about the outposts earlier today. The deer animation reset is new to me! Thanks man! That's awesome
Thank you. I like the "principles of the build" section.
Welcome :). Thanks for the feedback!
@@FarmManOfficial Welcome mate. Did you provide the pdfs of the builds on your discord? I could not find them.
As a HRE main looking to play the Rus as well, this guide was really well thought out, and adds something most don't which are the adaptations to be considered, which yeah, spearmen might be an obvious choice, but it's a good thing all this info was put out in a 9 minute video!
Great build man love the explanation step by step
Thanks! Great to hear it man! Means alot when people let me know if they're finding it useful :)
I'm always open to suggestions for improvement also,
I hope the build works well for you / helps you play RUS, I find them pretty difficult compared to English and French for example. Do you have any favourite civs?
@@FarmManOfficial Well Don't know man I haven't tried many of them but I love this game and def I love how diverse they are.
I will try all the factions one by one that's my things.
You have really good content I watched some opening vids hopefully this will help me today a bit. First day I went 6-3 yesterday was around 50% with Rus.
I just can't get this starting eco right so ur builds are good. I am new to AoE but I played every RTS under the sun so I am by no means new. This is helpful no suggestions
@@FarmManOfficial Sorry but why garrison the scout at 3:30 any purpose or just clicking there ? Also what do u think Golden gate vs Kremlin in general? With Golden gate u can trade for Stone for new Tc sometimes but it really leaves u open for attacks
@@naummw6328 nice! Hope the games go well, yeh there's so much to learn, I love these civilisations being so different, catch you soon :)
@@naummw6328 yeh that was a miss-click Lol. I hate the fact that if you have your scout selected and click on the TC it garrisons! Haha.
Yeh these two landmarks are so different that it really depends on your play style.
For this build as you're going quite heavy aggression in feudal I'd prefer the Kremlin to help defend at home in case your opponent is playing cavalry and tries to raid the economy.
I haven't used the golden gate too much though, could be useful as you say to get up to the next age quicker or boom with eco.
The Kremlin gives me alot more piece of mind to attack though without worrying too much at home, I can build the Kremlin on one side of the base and wall the other side quite well.
I'd say the Civilisation match up is quite important to help you decide though also, against the Chinese for example, if they go for the Barbican of the sun, then feudal age push becomes alot harder. In which case a switch to eco approach with be golden gate for instance might not be a bad option.
really well made ! was struggeling with the rus so far, thanks
Thanks! Appreciate it :). Hope it works well for you!
I just did a similar order, absolutely comp stomped.
Nice, looks like army composition is really important with aoe 4 and is a big focus for the game. Quite like it!
Thanks for taking the time to comment! :)
Do you have a favourite civilisation so far?
@@FarmManOfficial yea. I did however get caught off guard sometimes by sending all my units to the enemy area and not leaving military units at base. I gotta remember not to send all my military units away.
And the RUS are my fav so far. Pretty unique
@@LagaholicYeh that's quite a tricky balance actually, I've found that the Kremlin on one side of the base and walling up the other side works quite well! I've definitely been caught out too lol. Good thing is, cavalry raids at that stage of the game, they usually lose their army to TC fire :D
I quite like the Rus too, very interesting civilisation! It seems pretty popular like the French
Isn't this super inefficient? Hunting cabins to close to each other generate less gold. Also the Kreml boosts wood if the hunting cabins are in range, which is not the case in this build.
I don't know, the build order is nice and well optimized, but the positioning of his buildings is rly inefficient.
Also as Rus, u want a more dense base. Otherwise there's no point in using defensive landmarks.
Just my opinion.
Hey there! Thanks for you comment. Absolutely please do share your opinions! Its the only way we can improve at the game and think about different options! :)
So essentially when thinking about inefficiency it's important to assess it based on your intended goals.
The opening for this build is heavily targeted in getting military production of knights + one other unit type and feudal aggression bearing that in mind, you're vulnerable to counter attacks when you go forward (it's actually a good counter to this strat)
With regards to the goal of the Kremlin placement we have 2 options.
Placement for defensive purposes Vs placement for economic purposes. Both have their uses. (Ideally if you can do both it would be awesome!!)
Economy isn't quite our target in this strategy, rather we want protection of that gold. If we get pushed off that forward gold = no knights. Because also we are going for a double unit opening, we might be behind against other civs going for a fast rush e.g. mongols or English. Personally if we want to take advantage of that increased wood gathering, id build a fortress on the woodline and the Kremlin on the gold. Because the Kremlin means you can continue to mine gold with those villagers. (Opponent less likely to dive on Kremlin as they'd take damage) and quite freely move forward with all your army rather than having to split army to stay home to defend.
Those were just my reasons for putting the Kremlin forward for defensive purposes, I valued that more than economy at that stage.
Either way I think you raise a good point though, because I think we'll need protection of both the wood and the gold! And it makes sense then to put a fortress on the woodline. I think on this map gen we'd need both actually.
Thanks for the comment. Hope this shares my thought processes, but your points are valid, just depends on the approach you want to take protect gold Vs protect wood + bonus. I think we'd probably actually need to do both!
Absolutely great content, thanks! Your first rush begins at 7 mins, at this point an English player will be already able to produce a squad of longbowmen, which makes it hard to work.
Hi there, cheers for the comment!
Yeh I've been thinking recently that maybe could go upto next age a bit quicker but getting the other landmark and then buying the wood for production buildings maybe
Could work, just depends on how his Kremlin and TC are positioned with the natural barriers. Harder to make this work on a small map because of the longbow rush, but if you enemy goes English, you can always try to age up faster. Don't know, going to try the build and see how it goes
You made this look so easy but I've been struggling to replicate this build smoothly even against AI.
I wonder if it's because the map is difficult (altai). This map made me want to try rus out in the first place, as the resources are so spread out and the gold is so scarce.
Definitely all the micro gets me the early feudal monument with no goldmine, but as I expand for resources I get raided from all sides with small raiding parties that are easy enough to deal with, but they keep coming and picking off villagers and food sources before I can get defenses finished.
Hey there thanks for the comment! I find the RUS are quite APM intensive as you have 3 scouts running around back home.
It also does depend how much pressure you're applying because if you're in your opponent's face all the time they're less likely to be attacking your base (which by the way is a smart move and a decent counter I think) but if they do, some wooden fortresses to protect key resources will be the key.
Tricky to suggest what's going on though tbh without watching the game. I hope this somewhat helps though !
Seems like playing SC2 for years gives me a advantage here. I learned the buildorder in a couple of hours and the APM intensivity feels so slow :D But love the game!
hello again my man! great guide as always, I find Rus a little bit busy at the beginning with 3 scouts LOL, so I hotkeyed them to 1 2 3 xD
Question; I have been victimised by Mongol Dark Age TC rush + early horsemen recently, it really caught me off guard. Do you have any suggestion on how to early spot their movement and how to anticipate them? (as any civ, let say Rus)
Hey dude :).
Yeh for sure man there is alot happening with the Rus at the beginning of the game, lots of independent units across different parts of the map to control also!
So I've had this question a lot because of how many people are doing this crazy strat lol. I haven't actually come across it myself yet, and I'm not even sure how to counter it except for using scouts to see it coming (which as the Rus will be much more natural as you're producing extra scouts anyway).
Trouble is, even if we see it coming, what can we do about it? Honestly, I'm not too sure yet, Only thing I can think of is trying to relocate alot of your villagers elsewhere on the map, and if it is a water map, Dock early for fish. Try and get a military unit out early depending what your civ allows you and try to attack their villagers who are back at home who are gathering resources.
I'm definitely going to keep an eye out for counter strats and keep you updated if I can, because alot of us facing this haha. I'll put a post in the community tab also, incase anyone who follows the channel has some ideas :)
We have some good responses in the community tab already :).
ua-cam.com/users/FarmManOfficialcommunity
@@FarmManOfficial nice thank you! Yea it is best to send scout forward 1st when against mongols.
I also watched the replay of this TC rush guy:
- he produced atleast 11 villager in total 6 to food, 5 to wood.
- he sent 5 vil to wood 1st, and 1 to build Ovoo. The next 5 vil to sheep (builder to sheep).
- while food villagers in production, he sent scout to get sheep, and get 1 wood villager to build a ger in which scout will drop collected sheep there.
- after 11th villager produced, he immedeately drive TC next to opponent's, also build stable next to Ovoo to produce 4 horsemen.
- after TC arrives at destination, he get the Khan inside TC to fire extra arrows on villagers. While also producing 2 villager and send them to nearest gold mine to build Ger.
- next he harass villagers with a total of 7 horsemen. Also getting extra resources from stray buildings.
@Farm Man Official do you know adam curtis? You have exactly the same voice !
Nah I don't know him lol!
What is the purpose of the second hunting cabin for berries? Plenty of ship why waste wood on a second cabin?
Great build , great explanation for everything .
What do you think about 6 scouts instead of 3? I have seen a few build orders with 6 because you can take a complete deer spawn with it.
Hi there! Thanks for the feedback! Appreciate it.
I haven't seen it too much with 6 scouts, but I have a feeling that's too many and would delay your feudal age too long.
Also, getting professional scouts is great, but I tend to get it after blacksmith upgrades and attacking, and so for me those scouts wouldn't really be doing much useful (in terms of collecting deer carcases for a long time).
If getting six so that you can try and get all the deer on the map, that could be a good idea tbh because the bounty bonus is pretty good with the villager efficiency increase!
I'm thinking 6 scouts would be very challenging for me personally to micro in the early game though.
Its quite a nice idea though, I think the biggest bonus of having the extra scouts would be that you're more likely to unlock the bounty bonuses levels, but it's pretty dependent on your skill in micro-ing 6 scouts!
Just FYI, one tip for speeding out deer shooting can be found here:
ua-cam.com/video/pQjmR4Z8yUo/v-deo.html
Thanks for the fast answer 👍🏻
I make some tests (with A.I) the best play was for 5.
Used my first scout directly to the enemy town center , a circle to steal their sheep and back to my base meanwhile Each scout spawn set to go automatically to different places at the map , then send then back to the base while killing the deers (Not animation cancelling because it's to much for me at the moment 😂)
When I hit feudal got gold for profesional scouts and wheelbarrow at the same time , start bringing those carcases, all my wood goes directly to military not on farms.
It delay feudal like to 5:10 , but the best thing is I explore all the map , find the relics , so if go to castle age , I can sent the warrior monks directly to them and get the enemy ones faster.
Need to test in a real fight 😂👍🏻
I really like this thanks. Sub
Thanks! Really appreciate it :)
Is Rus your favourite civilisation in the game?
Why the Kremlin instead of Golden Gates?
You could go for either, but atm tbh I prefer the Golden Gate alot more than the Kremlin
How do you counter this?
I often play Chinese hre or rus
Great Video! If I use this build order for a 4v4 would it be smart to go with Archer & Spearman? What build would you recommend for someone who is horrible/slow and gets carried every 4v4 game by his friends? (I need help Farm Man 🤣) Thank you!
Hey dude, thanks for the comment! No worries man, I'm always here to help if I can :)
It is a little bit different in team games though tbh because it depends on what both your team mates and your opponent's team mates are going.
But maybe go for knights and then decide on whether you add spears or archers depending on what your opponent is going. Basically go for knights + the unit that counters them. E.g if they go for knights, then you go for knights and spearman. If they go for spearman to defend themselves, you can go knight and archers.
If you're in a pocket position though you might want to boom a little by going for a town centre plus just knights only to start with.
Hope this helps a little, feel free to message back any questions anytime :)
@@FarmManOfficial Yes this helps a lot. Also I think your videos are done very well! They are not too long and the added on screen menu/build order is great for me to take a screen shot and try it out. Bonus question please: Which Civilization would you recommend for beginners? I know the game says ENG & French but I wanted to see what you thought. Thanks agian!
@@kraze257 Thanks dude! Plenty of build orders coming in the future. Yep I'd very much agree with the game to be honest. I found personally the English and French easiest to play and also very strong civilisations.
I'd probably say the Abbasid Dynasty is the easiest to play after those two civilisations, but it does also get some taking used to with the House of Wisdom mechanic. I do have a video specific to the house of wisdom and also the abbasid dynasty incase you are interested which breaks it down.
I also really like the abbasid dynasty as it is a very flexible civilisation with a lot of fantastic bonuses!
@@FarmManOfficial I have never tried the Abbasid Dynasty yet. I'm going to check out the videos and give them a shot. Its always exciting to try a new Civ. Thank Farm for all the advice!
So how quickly into feudal age should you opt for professional Scout
Good question, and I hate to answer like this ... But depends!
Personally professional scouts is usually the last thing on my list. At that moment you'll be sorting out your eco at home. And micro-ing knights and archers.
The time to get professional scouts (practically speaking) is if you're in a period of not much military engagement i.e. you're just waiting for some re-enforcements, or have been pushed back a little.
In reality your order of priority is likely to be:
1) maintain your army and take the best fights possible
2) organise macro at home
3) if you have some spare APM, get professional scouts and bring back those carcasses
Hope this somewhat helps. Ultimately when you run out of berries you'll need to put a hunting cabin near your deer (you won't have got professional scouts by then most likely). It's at that point it's a good idea to get the tech because once those deer run out, you'll be forced to farm otherwise
@@FarmManOfficial is it because it costs too much gold even if you can cheat gold by being the Rus?
@@zachariastsampasidis8880 yeh it's actually quite expensive. Especially if you're going for a knight spear/archer ram push. You'd need to research siege engineering and ideally iron undermesh also (I'd prefer to spend my gold on those techs) rather than professional scouts. If going for a more eco approach e.g. you think a ram push won't work then can use that gold for professional scouts, it's very game dependent though, it's good to pre think though e.g.
Ram push viable yes? Delay professional scouts to get upgrades first
Ram push not viable? Can spend gold on professional scouts instead
u forgot about the scouts being able to get carcasses of deer and bringing home
I haven't forgotten.... In fact I actually mention it the video. You need professional scouts to do it
Whats the meta for Rus now?
Hi hi, hope you're well! So on open land maps, Rus will usually go for 2 town centre with the new town centre being placed on the boar to gather boar food.
They sometimes still go 1 TC but will still usually go for the boar with a wooden fortress for protection.
you might find my 2TC Rus build order useful perhaps if you're looking to go 2tc with Rus: ua-cam.com/video/dKq1CGKPPi0/v-deo.html
Guys are killing deer so the Rus can't get gold from them
Hi there! Yep, really important to try and get those scouts out early to shoo that hunt. There is a way of shooting deer quickly btw, you can see it here if you haven't seen it already : ua-cam.com/video/pQjmR4Z8yUo/v-deo.html
I don't think this build order is anywhere near optimal or polished enough to be treated as a legitimate build order for competitive play.
For one thing, there are too many small adjustments constantly across the game, like moving villagers to different resource and buildings at random timings. I'm not worried about APM, but this level complexity will make this build order much more error prone than other BO. At the high level, your win rate == 1 - your error rate; Having a lower error rate BO means increasing your win rate.
Secondly, the random timing of the research of wheelbarrow in this video made believe this BO is not meant to be used seriously. I believe any people who are RTS veteran will question it when seeing you just randomly start the research. But the video didn't bother to explain anything and it feels you didn't think the timing of a research matters much. This made it look like a very random action. IMO, the early research of wheelbarrow isn't worth it since the bottleneck of your resource collection rate isn't the travel speed or capacitiy because everything is near your drop building.
Thirdly, the timing of starting the feudal age landmark (3:45) is so late in this video. It's like more than 1 min later than French (which I'm familiar with). Since I'm not familiar with RUS, I can't say you are wrong, but based on the floating resource (87 food, 140 wood, 99 gold) at the time you started the landmark, and your random research of wheelbarrow early game, I strongly believe this timing can be greatly improved. E.g. Why do we need floating 140 wood at this point? Why can't we reduce the wood villagers early and increase the wood production after the landmark started?