Zhuge Nu/Spearmen Knight Defense * (6/0/0/0) Send all 6 starting vills to berries, build mill * (6/0/0/0) Build a scout to find sheep. Send sheep to mill for villagers. * (6/0/0/0) Build IO. Supervise food and collect gold when 40 or more in mill. * (7/0/0/0) 1 vill to food, builds house first. * (7/0/3/0) 3 vills to gold * (7/3/3/0) 3 vills to straggler tree * (6/3/3/0) 3:15 Age up with Barbican, place on exposed resource. Use 1 food vill to make it. * (6/4/3/0) 1 vill to wood. Build lumber camp. * (9/4/3/0) 3 vills to food * (9/6/3/0) 2 vills to wood * (5/6/3/0) 5:15 After age up, move 4 food vills to build IA and get Barbican vill as well * (5/6/3/0) Build barracks with food vills. Start producing spears and getting age 2 upgrade. * (5/8/3/0) 2 vills to wood * (12/8/3/0) 2 Vills to food. Move IA vills back once done * (12/8/3/0) 6:30 Get wheelbarrow from mill * (12/10/3/0) Vills to wood. Build village on woodline. * (12/11/3/0) 7:15 Build archery range. Supervise with IO and start pumping out Zhuge Nu * (12/11/3/0) Build 2nd IO to supervise wood * (12/11/3/0) Build 3rd IO to supervise food * (13/12/5/0) From here, balance economy based on flow of game. * (13/12/5/0) 9:00 Add blacksmith and get ranged upgrades Notes This build could be modified to play against English as well. Either replace the barracks with a stable and get a few horsemen or a range and start with regular archers. It can also be turned into a rush by not building an early barracks and getting a range ASAP. Link to the original Build Order: https://aoeivbuilds.com/build_orders/4 Created By: Beastyqt Uploaded By: 0xDEADBEEF Generated by AOE4 Builds on 2025-05-03 15:33:23 +0000