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Step 4 - Nomad

Written by Ralber (THuG_Ralber_Mh)

Formatted, Edited and Added to by Karl (StorM_Country

Step 4 - Nomad

Hello,

I made several observations in Nomad watching CTC, MysT and other expert records as well as playing a few games and talking to Poisn (BsK_Force) and these are the general notations I gathered, I hope you find them useful.

Most common civs are: Vikings, Persians and as a third civ either Chinese or Mayans. Spanish, Celts and a few others are good too but not at the same level as the previous 2.

All civs excluding their particulars share the same basic goals, there is 5 Steps in this and they are as follows:

1st) Build the TC as soon as possible. Usually the vills are sent to an intermediate point, the one point that is closest to all of your vils (except one vil that searches for a good water spot and builds a dock) and once reaching that area a vil uncovers a good spot to TC you start building it.

2nd) Secure the min. food to guarantee non stop vill production. Once the TC is up put the min. of villagers on food to keep the tc working and the rest go to wood to make fish boats from your dock as soon as possible.

3rd) Place enough vills on wood to keep dock working and making houses as well as some additional wood to build the remaining Dark Age building to purchase the Feudal Age upgrade.

4th) Scout the map until you have found all the resources you will need for your strategy. It is normal to scout with a villager in nomad unless we were lucky enough to find some sheep. It is crucial to find enough resources to keep your TC pumping vils, but if we already covered this it is a good idea to start scouting with a villager when you have around 10, once your villagers and fishing are secured.

5th) Focus on reaching our goal age. Generally it's not profitable to delay the age upgrading for a 2dock boom (except severe lacks of food) so in my opinion it is best to focus on the resources we need once the fish boat production is steady. So once you have enough vils on wood put more on food if you found more (hunting, berry etc) and up ASAP, if food is short put more on wood and drop a 2nd dock and pump both. You typically need 6 vils on wood to pump one dock and build houses