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20 Eagles in 20 minutes

The reason I chose Aztecs was because they are one of two civilisations that can create eagle warriors and that is basically it hehe.

About this strategy...

Mainly aimed for team games. It's not very useful in duels as a flush will kill this with ease. But if you were in the pocket of a 3v3, this strategy is very ful (similar to my mass knight rush). The eagle warriors get both armor upgrades, forging and tracking, which makes them nearly invincible against arrows with 4 pierce armor.

  • Villagers 1-6) Sheep
  • Villager 7) House, and then lumber camp
  • Villagers 8-11) Wood
  • Villager 12) Sheep
  • Build House with anyone.
  • Villager 13) Lure boar
  • Once boar is dead, all shepherds move to boar, but if theres still sheep, keep 1 villager on the sheep.
  • Villager 14) Boar
  • Villager 15) Lure second boar
  • Villager 16 goes to build mill near deer.
  • Build House with anyone
  • Villager 16-18) Goes to hunt deer
  • Villager 19) Sheep or Boar
  • Villager 20) Wood
  • Build House.
  • Villager 21) Build mill near berries
  • Villager 22) Wood
  • If theres too much crowd in the town centre, use some shepherds to make some farms around the town centre.
  • Villager 23) Wood
  • Villager 24) Wood
  • Villager 25) Build mining camp near gold
  • After all sheep has been consumed, send the shepherds to gold - use 1 to make a farm.
  • Villager 26) Gold
  • Villager 27) Farm
  • Villager 28) Wood

~ Click Feudal ~

Recap on what we have so far:

* 10 lumberjacks

* 4 foragers

* 5 farmers

* 6 miners

* 3 hunters (on deer)

  • Make a barracks and a house.

~ During Feudal ~

  • As soon as you hit feudal, queue 3 villagers and use 2 lumberjacks to make an archery, and 1 to make a blacksmith.
  • Villager 29) Wood
  • Villager 30) Wood
  • Make a farm with one of the builders.

~ Click Castle ~

  • Once the deer hunters have finished, send them to mine gold.
  • Use the 2 builders to make more barracks.

Recap again:

* 6 farmers

* 2 foragers

* 12 lumberjacks

* 9 miners

* 2 builders

Research scale mail armor.

Build more houses.

~ During Castle ~

Queue as much eagle warriors as possible from each barrack. Research chain mail armor. Research forging. Once you are running low on gold and can\'t make any more eagles, research tracking. After you have your 25 upgraded eagles in 20 minutes, go kill the enemy (obviously).

After you sent them, keep making a few eagles and make villagers, research economy technologies, whatever.

By HC_Shanks__


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11.11.06 17:53 - yolcuvincent
thanks for advices but it's hard to strive with animals..it extends 20 minutes..i have to work hard :)
21.12.06 17:50 - Narse
sheeps don't last that much, so when they ran out i replaced them with berries, and then farms. got 46 eagles fully upgraded in those 20 mins, and i think i can get some more
22.12.06 00:22 - nuupus
this is cool taku, but i havent ever found more than one boar, i know i suck
24.12.06 14:43 - Cicjose
this is my civ of choice and if i get on with villagers i would have almost 50 farms by the game and use the market to get the other resources when i need them and have about 90 army
08.02.07 22:07 - CsI_Daut
Its impossible to do that!
09.02.07 22:51 - L_Clan_Chris
i havent yet done it successfully, but i think might be possible
20.03.07 17:31 - sir whiteheart
i dont think Narse is telling the truth when he said he got 46 eagles fully upgraded in 20 mins. This is impossible unless one starts with extra resources.
21.03.07 00:39 - otist
Very useful!
04.05.07 12:18 - Gladiator
Narse is not telling the truth
20.07.07 01:27 - Howard
I made 39 eagles in twenty minutes, Upgraded with tracking,squires,scale and chain armour, forging, and iron casting. this tactisc was good but I did some other things to make more eagles.
22.09.07 21:02 -
Howard: this is about rm, not dm
13.10.07 05:40 - CPLGonzoG
this was great dude, i did it in 17 mins and destroyed my opponents, thanks a lot, ur daman!!
14.10.07 16:18 - briton sucks
when you say lure boar what after? does it just kill it self. and would the vil die luring it?
29.10.07 13:54 - Gohan
its very gud trick..i got worked....made around 40 aztecs in 23 mins with full upgrades...
01.11.07 04:52 - nD
Would it work also for Mayans? Cos isnt the mayan eagle war stronger? They got an upgrade or something..
10.11.07 23:13 - Mac
At what time u feudal ?
26.05.08 10:03 - 1525
This was nice but i can do much more than this
26.05.08 10:03 - 1525
This was nice but i can do much more than this
09.06.08 22:30 - jaime
este juego es el mejor juego de mi vida me gusta me gusta
14.07.08 12:07 - lolman
why don't u use the berries??? its much faster!!!!
16.07.08 21:46 - quantum714
Aztecs are my favourite civ! AZTECS RULE! the eagle warriors own, then later backed up with jaguars.....also eagle and jaguars are opposites(40F 60G for eagle and 60F 40G for jaguar)(my numbers may be incorrect) so when ytou have a high of one resource build the right troop
24.09.08 02:23 - axshi
very hard! but impossible? :)
19.10.08 00:54 - odd
Hey, can you make a recorded game of this tip? :-)
29.10.08 00:09 - AlexanderTGreat
Ok archers cant beat the eagles but the knights of enemy pocket will own the eagles and your eco next
01.12.08 03:20 - nick
About the 20 minutes, do you mean 20 minutes in the way the game measures it? (in the top left corner of the screen), which is 2 seconds roughly a second? Or in real time?
08.02.09 11:51 - stygN
Right. This all depends on what starting recourses you have and what gamespeed you heave. So please state this. And please consider this before you say that someone is bragging. What if Sir Whiteheart tried this with "Very High Recourses" and "Fast" gamespeed, then its possible to make around 50... The question is what HC_Shanks__ (author) used. Now, I don't remember if its normal to run with "Fast" or "Normal" gamespeed, but its mostly normal to run with "Standard" resources. Its a long, long time since I played hardcore, but at that time I could prolly get around 25 upped EW in around 20 min (RL) on "Fast" with "Standard". But I never played the Aztec/Mayan while I was hardcore, played mainly Chinese, but then again, I remember getting pwnd utterly by an Aztec/Mayan guy since the EW are good against CKN....
08.02.09 11:59 - stygN
On a note to the Boarquestion raised by "briton sucks": No, the boar don't die on its own. The clue is that you use 1 villager to attack the boar 2 times, then run back home with that villager. When the boar reaches your other foodgathering villagers you use them to kill the boar. Now you have 340/350 (don't remember) food right next to your base. Thats good for 2 and a half sheep! So, if you are the world champion of micromanagement you can keep on luring boars to your base and get fast and free food.
09.02.09 14:57 - D-J
good for new players nd obiously this is for noobs mostly i advance the castle age in 16 minuts. after that u can do anything depends upon ur civilization what u want to do night rush archers or eagle warriors if u want to b the strong then u have to concstrate on both sides ecconomy nd attack fast this is the main thing any how its good to improve ur skills bye bye
11.02.09 15:56 - No Nonamed
Would be nice if you could find a fast "lvl" guide, where you get as fast as possible to Imperial Age with a nice econ up and running. I think you can get around 18-20 minutes if you use the same start as here...
24.04.09 03:42 - Alex
Badly that records of these games are not -..-
03.05.09 23:27 - Gospodinow
cant make it man. u go for castle with 30 vils. if i go with 23 i will be in chastle while u make 28-29 vil. and while u make army i will make 2 3 tc on wood and gold.so what u gonnda do?u lose.stupied tactics.
18.05.09 21:42 - Woody
I know this is very old, but nevertheless. I like the aztecs, and I was going to try this tactic, in a standard game against 2 computer opponents on hard. But, to begin with, I only start with housing for 5 units, not 10. So the first thing I have to do all the time is build a house, which of course takes time and wood resources. Do you usually start with housing for 10 units? What type of game is that? Thanks in advance for all the tips and advice, is very helpful, love this game after all this years :)
18.05.09 21:42 - Woody
I know this is very old, but nevertheless. I like the aztecs, and I was going to try this tactic, in a standard game against 2 computer opponents on hard. But, to begin with, I only start with housing for 5 units, not 10. So the first thing I have to do all the time is build a house, which of course takes time and wood resources. Do you usually start with housing for 10 units? What type of game is that? Thanks in advance for all the tips and advice, is very helpful, love this game after all this years :)
28.05.09 19:56 - StorM_Country
Does the host/creater of this website still be around? I'd like to contribute more strat articles...the one's on here from me i wrote almost 3 years ago :) Things have changed, i'd also be interested in providing some players like Ruso, Dreams, Patin, Dogao, all the top 1v1/Team players at the minute for interviews to add to Zuppi's one.
28.05.09 19:56 - StorM_Country
Arg :) My MSN is charlowk@hotmail.com
03.03.10 04:48 - Durazell
Nice tactic, works great. But I wonder if it would work on a pro player though?
07.06.10 19:06 - _CS_ShadoWalker
I got 30 Eagles with forging & scale armor in 20 min & i think it is much difficult to make more EW then.
08.08.10 00:24 - Sasori
i normaly put 6 on sheep and then 4 on berries is that stupid but when i hit fuedal i have like 800 food its amazing
16.09.10 16:31 - Ahahhanoob
But I've got one question, what if he walls up?
18.09.10 14:16 - Auron
I tried this strategy,but by the time i make 20 eagles warriors the enemy has enough time to wall up,so as long as he rushes to defence i can't see this strategy being efficient
14.10.10 21:56 - saul0
by the time you did all that the enemy would be in inperial age and would have way better troops. 20 mins 20 troops i could do better than that.
24.11.10 14:33 - pacific
good tactics
24.11.10 14:36 - pacific
i think it's for standard resources and normal speed but many of them are taking it as medium or high resources.... as it is impossible to reach imp in 20 min with standard resources but many said this too...
21.12.10 01:57 - Superesky
Here is a guy making 49 EAGLES In 23 MInutes - http://aok.heavengames.com/blacksmith/showfile.php?fileid=6468&ci=9f5ef5e23cfe5b6170f82ff56179c781CesWJ2GHpNBeNq/Bz63fazEvLri6WGmFvRgpV7qWGeYxRvuzaoNuE00h6aHi/Hep3KOOXr4PL1taGSIpUQrPnJo9LpLLp/RP7Ka9NzWEmylERZEi5ZW8ZBkwgHLo9Lx5yw==
12.01.11 08:47 - noob
I got owned by the computer on mediocre with 26 EW about 20 minutes in. The comp had knights and archers behind walls, my ew couldnt get through and got slaughtered, then the horsemen came and slaughtered the rest, and killed my farmers.
20.02.11 07:39 - gccnmvmk
This tactic is not to use against computer, I tried it in hardest 1 vs 1 and when I had the eagles the enemy had alredy walls. Then, he send xbows and killed my eagles (really, the xbows owned the eagles with the hit-and-run tactic, even with 4 pierce defence)
27.03.11 23:58 - Narse
lol u all suck faiiil LMFAO GARMRAGNER
31.05.11 20:01 - Rusher
@ Csl_Daut No, it´s not impossible! it´s very easy! Nice! Thx for good strategy!
31.05.11 20:05 - Rusher
Why do I have to build an archery?
01.09.11 03:59 - Nino
Really good tactic. I played in a multiplayer game, but losed, because my opponent came with 11 knights and 8 archers after 18 minutes, which were fully upgraded. Anyone know the tactic for that???
09.09.11 00:24 - rizwan
I go castle in 16 min but cant control my eco after reaching castle...and this helps my opponents to make huge army...
29.08.12 14:53 - Fjotor
Just did 50 Eagles in 20mins with Mayans, used 3 barracks and alot of gold diggers. Didn't buy any upgrades what so ever, totally crushed my opponent. I will try to do it again and upload video.
22.09.12 11:53 - XP
HOW CAN THIS HAVE LESS VOTES THEN 20 KNIGHTS IN TWENTY MINUTES!!!!! FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUU!!!!