Mayan Drush
Mayan Drush written by StorM_Country
Based on the Drush created by Mozart
The following players were consulted for help and
guidance:
THuG_Ralber_Mh, StorM_SorcK_, RookSun and THuG_Ruso
Step 1 (Start of Dark Age and Scouting - Pop 5)
Start by putting the usual 4 starting Mayan vils on
sheep and put the following 2 onto sheep also. With 6 vils on sheep your EW needs to find the
the following
- The remaining 4
sheep
- Both your boars
- Your closest deer patch
- Your berries
- Your main gold
After and only after all this is found then u may go
and scout your enemy, when scouting your enemy u essentially need to find
- His main wood
- His berry
- His gold
- His TC of course
- His closest deer
patch
You also need to observe all the time when scouting
the enemy how many vils they have on each res at any given time, then you can
make a guess as to what they are going to do in feudal age, i.e 3-4 on gold,
possibly archers, 3-4 farms possibly skirms or scouts
Step 2 (Dark Age econ continued - Pop
7)
Your next 4 villagers after the initial 6 on sheep
need to go to wood, make a lumber camp as defensively as possibly. Your next
villager should lure your furthest boar if the boar is front of your base, if
both behind either will do, your don't want to give your enemy a chance to steal
a boar. With this boar lured your next villager should lure your 2nd boar.
*You need to do your luring before starting your drush
so u can keep up villager as well as militia production and not have to pay too
much attention to your economy
With both boars lured and hopefully all 8 sheep watch
for around 100 wood, once u have it send 2 villagers from food to a
forward position to either side of your enemies town, make a barracks and start
making Militia, at this point also make a mining camp on gold with 2
villagers on gold taken from your tc/food not wood. At this point you will be
in around 20 pop with
- 4 on wood
- 2 on gold
- 11 on wood, all
boar/sheep under your tc
- 2 forward
villagers
At this point put your new villagers onto wood, make
sure not to get housed, keep making militia (max 5 for now). Once u have 100
spare wood take 4-5 vils from your tc and send to your deer, if u don't have
deer put them on berry and an additional 5 vils (making 10) onto berry. If u
have deer make it 5 on each starting with deer then berry when u have enough
wood. Keep making vils and putting them onto wood and each time you have 60
wood drop a farm at your tc.
Step 3 (The Drush, fighting, scouting and
walling)
While keeping your economy going you will use your
newly created Militia and your EW to harass your enemies
woodies, vils on deer and vils on berry. Try not to lose any militia to the
enemy TC, if your enemy starts to fight your 5 Militia/1 EW army with greater
numbers then retreat a few tiles and go back in and target one villager, your
objective is not to lose militia and maximise how many villagers you kill and
how much you distract your enemy. Have your 2 forward villagers go with
your army and wall your enemies lumber camp, berry patch, gold and stone in that
order if possible. This will help ruin your enemies economy and quicken your
victory.
Step 4 (Keeping your economy strong and
clicking up to Feudal)
Once you have walled all u can with your 2 forward
vils send them home and try keep your economy balaced, keep making farms until
you have around 5-6, keep 9-10 on wood, with 2 still on gold keep the rest of
your vils on berry/deer until u can up at 500 food. If your enemies economy is
stronger than expected, wall your economy best you can and keep your militia
alive for as long as possible annoying him constantly. Once u reach feudal age
drop a blacksmith and an archery range, 2 if you have enough wood (which u
should). With any remaining wood/gold start making archers and click up to
castle age soon as you have the res.
Step 5 (Up to Castle age, the Transition
and Aggression)
Once you click up if your berry is finished take 6
vils and put them on gold making it 8 on gold, make another 3 farms (total 8
farmers), research double bit axe in your
lumber camp and fletching in your blacksmith for +1 range. Drop a
2nd lumber camp also and spread your woodies evenly between both. If you can
afford to drop a 3rd range while constantly making archers and using them to
annoy the enemy. An idle army is a useless army. At this point your enemy will
think you are doing an archer flush and may resist going to castle to make
skirms. Once you castle upgrade your archers to crossbows and if you
can afford it get bodkin arrow. Also if you can afford it get horse
collar/wheel barrow, if not just horse collar and keep making villagers.
Keep pumping xbows from your 2-3 ranges and hitting your enemy concentrating
solely on killing villagers while he is feudal age. When making xbows gather
them around your most vunerable res, most likely your gold and keep them there
until you have 7-8+ then send them to the enemy.
And that is basically it, keep balancing your vils
between wood/gold until you have extra wood then drop a 2nd TC on your wood or
gold. Because Mayan xbow are so cheap you can mass them easy, never group them
keep them in 2-4 groups hitting your enemy everywhere possible, if he remains
in feudal age push hard and when you think its possible send in rams.
Comments:
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21.12.06 17:02 -
Narse |
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interesting, but why mayans? |
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08.03.07 17:55 -
sir whiteheart |
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because mayan archers are cheap. |
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18.04.07 22:03 -
angus |
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* 4 on wood
* 2 on gold
* 11 on wood, all boar/sheep under your tc
* 2 forward villagers
i guess you mean 11 on food |
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28.04.07 19:04 -
ewfwe |
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mayan have the efficient reso bonus so its easier to make militia on dark age.. also, mayan have 4 vills in start.. |
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24.05.07 22:33 -
Kippy |
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how would chinese fair in this situation?? |
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18.09.07 22:43 -
Noob |
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Hello
I am noob and I want something explained for me. How exactly do I lure a boar. |
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18.09.07 22:44 -
Noob |
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My villager always get killed when I try to. The only way I suceed in is when I use about 5 villager. |
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10.10.07 02:57 -
Nils |
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You have to get one of your villagers after a boar, and when the boar is running after him/her, you run with the villager to the town center where you have other villagers shooting at the boar |
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08.11.07 13:01 -
z |
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its mayans cause archers are cheap, if you read any of this article you would know. |
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03.04.08 17:26 -
InNomineMortis |
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I think that Aztechs can have a fast start witha fast flush... but they need to change the start a lot and use the "carry +5" bonus. I tried some starts and the results has been nice! ...Also Aztechs have a good start, not only mayas |
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17.04.08 14:14 -
InNomineMortis |
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I tried some start with Aztechs but I only reached feudal with 23 vils in 10.20 and a good economy... Nothing of unusual. é_è
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27.08.08 12:20 -
Noob2 |
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Sorry, I'm a noob. Can I ask you something? I play AOE II just with cousins, and we choose regicide, all visible map, high starting resources... When you write these strategies, and when there are "tournaments", what are the usual game settings? Standard game? Standard resources? I want to start playing seriously :-) |
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27.08.08 14:37 -
Noob2 |
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And what about map size and pop limit? |
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13.09.08 09:35 -
pro(¿) |
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200pop, map not revealed, resources standard, map size = quantity of players, map is usually arabia/green arabia. |
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08.02.09 12:18 -
stygN |
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Note to "tournament rules": I would assume that the big pros are playing on gamespeed "Fast", but thats just an assumption. This is why I would like the authors to state all this information to avoid speculations, replies based on false settings, etc.. |
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10.02.09 12:50 -
Hesh |
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Nope dude. The big guns also play normal. Though it may seem boring. |
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08.03.09 13:30 -
HowIDied |
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lol... You would never make it to 2k skill on fast game speed... |
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03.04.09 17:30 -
Bitch |
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Normal sucks balls |
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12.04.09 16:08 -
Fede-lasse |
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No, you. |
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28.05.09 19:51 -
StorM_Country |
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Mayan's because their res lasts 20% longer meaning if a sheep is 100 food u get 120 food from it and so on for all trees, wood, gold, stone, boars, sheep, deer etc.
Also u start with 4 vils so ur faster up (25 seconds) for same pop as most other civs.
Archers cost -10% in feudal, -15% in castle, -20% in imp.
Yes i meant 11 on food as ur about to drush :) As u need food to make militia and civs from TC.
If anyone needs any clarification my msn is charlowk@hotmail.com and i regularly play aoc on www.igzones.com under StorM_Menace |
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11.06.09 17:03 -
lutz |
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geil damit gewinn ich auch gegen computer easy |
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10.08.09 19:29 -
aoe freak |
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An easy way to break into the enemies bases(when walled).
1. Build a Manonogal and tell it to attack ground. Tell it to do this by the trees.Have your troops ready and when all the trees are cleared move in.
2.Transport ships are a good way to get behind enemy lines. Look for water by their base and send those transport ships baby!
3. Buy 3 of those stone launchers from the castle (don't know how to spell it) and crush the gates. Have your troops ready to move in.
This Mayan Rush is brilliant thanks for the tips! |
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17.08.09 13:06 -
wulf |
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WIll this work as any civ?
And fast is more pro than normal |
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07.11.09 18:24 -
... |
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Fast is more retarded than normal.. Every noob thinks that they are more pro because they play with fast. CMON maybe the real pros know what makes you pro? |
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21.11.09 23:03 -
robin,orus,swe |
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jag är en vit jävel vill in i min mammas fitta igen gillar min lärare har set hans kuk (dick) |
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13.03.10 15:45 -
giff |
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hahhaha yesterday i tryed it vs a friend! it works ! but i played byzantines. with mayans it ll be easier! |
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02.05.10 20:08 -
Hunor_666 |
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A recorded game would be nice and what is "EW" ? |
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15.05.10 23:29 -
DM_25 |
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yes, replay would be nice. ew = eagle warrior |
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18.07.10 16:57 -
Andy |
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Every noob tend to think fast is for pros... but in fact, every player who play AOE2 seriously play on normal speed. On fast it's just not enough time even for the world's best player to manage his military and eco at the same time. |
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22.07.10 18:44 -
da flava |
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can you tell me please what means luring a boar?
I always put 5-6 vils on the boar. |
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05.08.10 13:49 -
_Dr_B_Spangle |
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Lure a boar, in aoc means, to bring it close to your town centre, to do this send a vill, attack it twice (no more, no less) and it will chase that vill, run that vill back to the town centre where villagers shoot and kill the boar, nice and close to the town centre ;) |
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08.08.10 00:21 -
Sasori |
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hey i noticed that mayans are best with archers but i dont prefer indian civs caus no gunpowder cavalry i like teutons and goths est civs in the game |
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11.09.10 07:28 -
wtf |
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wtf wtf wtf wtf wtf wtf wtf |
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11.09.10 07:29 -
11 |
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wtf=ftw=fun the wat 11 |
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14.09.10 18:06 -
sp|kY |
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why mayans....
u can apply this strategy to ane civ... |
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25.10.10 21:36 -
Koof |
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mayan because for villagers +1 in 8:00 = 23
and archers no have more cost |
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12.12.10 08:12 -
Down with Sasori |
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Mayans are epic win! They own any other civilization in economy and economical archers.
Mayas ftw!!!!!!! |
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12.12.10 08:22 -
Sasori Hater |
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Agree with "Down with Sasori", Mayans are the epic ones! |
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22.01.11 14:42 -
sp|kY |
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plzz tell me aoe servers??? |
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22.01.11 15:25 -
-sp|kY |
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my voobly messenger does not connect...it shows reconnecting again and again..but it doesnt happen....what shud i do??..plzzz help |
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07.04.11 00:19 -
_InnocencE_ |
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UPDATE YOUR SITE, PLZ! THIS LOOKS LIKE A GHOST CITY. :( |
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04.09.11 13:08 -
Fede-lasse |
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Lol, indeed it does. I don't even think he's maintaining it anymore. |
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11.09.11 13:43 -
Lkm426 |
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wow mayans are my fave civ anyway 11.... |
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19.11.11 23:56 -
Victor Meldrew |
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in age of empires 2 type king of the hill to get a king it will appear outside of your castle if you press a ally's castle and type to smithereens 1'0000000 sabouters will appear outside of there castle this only works on the Impereial age! |
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20.11.11 00:03 -
I AM THE BOSS I MADE THE GAME |
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El car'velo de kilo manner i poloive sartome pricepe=good manners
type 8m njkljjhuidhguivgbenivgeuirvbeuvbrbuyeuvberu TO GET A HUG FROM BIG DADDY! |
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07.02.12 23:41 -
Achilles |
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Great post. Your start is completely different them I am used to and it explains why always lose 1 vs 1. |
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09.05.12 10:26 -
paul |
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remember to build houses lol, first 2 vils build house, rest build second thn go sheep ;) |
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