Description
A more organized build order based off of BeastyQT's season 5 Malian guide.
Build Order
| Time (MM:SS) | Description | Food | Wood | Gold | Stone |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 00:00 | Send 5 villagers to straggler trees, send 1 villager to make pit mine on nearest gold vein. Rally to sheep. | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| Queue scout. | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | |
| 00:25 | Once villager completes pit mine, use it to build 6 houses around pit mine. | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| 01:05 | Once wood villagers collect 150 wood, send to sheep. | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 01:25 | Once villager finishes building 6 houses on pit mine, send to sheep. | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 02:35 | Send 6 food villagers to age up. (Mansa Quarry) | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 02:45 | Send 4 food villagers to wood (straggler trees first). Rally to wood. | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| +4 wood | 4 | 8 | 0 | 0 | |
| 03:50 | Age up completed. Use villagers from Mansa Quarry to build stables. | 4 | 8 | 0 | 0 |
| 04:05 | Stables finishes; Put the 6 villagers on food. | 10 | 8 | 0 | 0 |
| Research Warrior Scout. | 10 | 8 | 0 | 0 | |
| 04:10 | Rally villagers to food. Build mill and lumber camp. | 12 | 8 | 0 | 0 |
| Produce 6-8 warrior scouts when research finishes. | 12 | 8 | 0 | 0 | |
| 04:45 | Research Horticulture and Double Broadaxe immediately after mill and lumber camp finishes. | 12 | 8 | 0 | 0 |
| 05:00 | Send one food villager to make house and mining camp next to gold vein. Begin mining when finished. | 12 | 8 | 1 | 0 |
| 05:25 | Send villager to build a pit mine, mining camp and 6 houses on second gold vein. Begin mining when finished. | 12 | 8 | 1 | 0 |
| Produce cows with mill as needed. | 16 | 8 | 1 | 0 | |
| 06:40 | Consider researching wheelbarrow. | 16 | 8 | 1 | 0 |
| 07:15 | Send 4 food villagers to gold. | 13 | 8 | 5 | 0 |
| 07:45 | Send 2 wood villagers to make archery range and blacksmith. | 13 | 6 | 5 | 0 |
| 08:05 | Send 8 food villagers to age up (Farimba Garrison). | 5 | 6 | 5 | 0 |
| Begin researching specialized pick. Rally to gold. | 5 | 6 | 5 | 0 | |
| +21 gold | 5 | 6 | 26 | 0 | |
| 08:30 | Research Steeled Arrow in blacksmith. | 5 | 6 | 26 | 0 |
| 09:15 | Age up completes. Send 8 villagers to gold. | 5 | 6 | 26 | 0 |
| Immediately begin producing Archers with Farimba when age up completes. | 5 | 6 | 26 | 0 | |
| Research Veteren Warrior Scout. | 5 | 6 | 26 | 0 | |
| 09:30 | Consider researching Acid Distillation if economy is working well. | 5 | 6 | 26 | 0 |
| Research Steeled Arrows (2/3) and Iron Undermesh (2/3) when possible. Reseach military academy after these are completed. | 5 | 6 | 26 | 0 | |
| Research Poisoned Arrows when you have surplus gold and have completed Balanced Projectiles (2/3). | 5 | 6 | 26 | 0 | |
| 10:50 | Once you have 26-28 on gold rally to food for Sofa production. | 5 | 6 | 26 | 0 |
Notes
Get 150 wood from straggler trees to make 6 houses around the pit mine. Use Warrior Scouts to harass enemy villagers when possible. If you are new to Malians, building a mill on berries can help if you run out of sheep before you can produce cows. If playing against a civ that is building knights, make a barracks to produce Donzos. If you need to defend against an aggressive civ, put 10 villagers on wood instead of 8 for extra archer production. Farimba Garrison should be producing units 100% of the time. Use archery range/barracks/blacksmith for research upgrades. Use Sofas to protect your archers. They are tanky with upgrades. Poisoned arrows are the biggest upgrade to go for, but don't freeze your economy to do so as it is expensive. Malians try to win by overwhelming their opponent in Castle Age.
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