age of empires 2 build order fast castle

I can’t recall the exact times but iirc you’ll reach castle at about 18 minutes having around 19 farms. In any case, none of these qualify as fast castle builds.

You’ll have less vills but you will be up a little earlier to castle age in the end. If you want to go for a more relaxed approach you can go for 20 or 21 pop up to feudal just as you do with a regular scouts BO (it’s pretty much identical apart from you try to go for only one lumber camp and of course you don’t build a barracks while upping so 7 on wood is sufficient). However, it’s fairly tight and doesn’t work without dear. This way you will get the maximum amount of extra vills in feudal. When you reach feudal you build the tc and get bit axe and horse collar immediately. After clicking up you send most of your vills under the tc to wood (you need at least 8 on wood, here). If you do not expect early aggression from your opponent and you are able to push all your deer you can aim for a super early 18 pop up with 2 vills on wood. Imo it depends on how many extra vills you want to have until going to castle age. There might be BOs for setting you up until feudal age, though. Building a second stable during this period is also key to doubling your production of knights.Since you have a lot of villagers in feudal age, a BO for going castle age wouldn’t make too much sense.

Double bit axe at the lumber camp and a horse collar at the mill will help keep the economy streamlined. Now en route to Castle Age, you have some time to research several key technologies.

If the foundation of the earlier steps is complete, this should already be saved up once the buildings are complete and can be clicked once ready. To advance to the Castle Age, you will also need 800 food and 200 gold in resources. Sustaining Knight production in the next age will require at least three gold miners per stable, so most knight rushing players aim for six gold miners to maintain a stable knight production using two stables.

Once they have finished building, assign these villagers to gold. Create two or three new villagers to build a Stable where you can make Knights, and a Blacksmith so you can upgrade them, and these two buildings will unlock the Castle Age button. Now in the Feudal Age, transitioning to the Castle Age as fast as possible to start producing knights is key.

Age of empires 2 build order fast castle