French
vs Byzantine
Gameplay Plan
Spear opening? Secret genius?
Skip pro scouts and apply heavy pressure, go to map resources early. Play Knights archers and try to find good fights. Do your best to force him to invest a lot of resources into defending his berries, this should allow you to go castle and apply more pressure.
Watch out for stables and add towers to defend vills on outside resources.
General Tips
Archers do a good job of sniping Camel Riders.
vs Macedonian Dynasty
Gameplay Plan
If they hippodrom, that means they will have a lot of horseman quickly, better to keep knights near base to defend gold while massing archers, or make a few spears to keep everything secure.
General Tips
vs Japanese
Gameplay Plan
Early wheelbarrow, check if they barracks. If so, send 6 to gold and get 200, then go age up and make an archer. Skip or delay pro scouts based on spawn
If they FC, make knights and break their gold and sit on it. When you have done so, quickly go castle.
I am not sure with which landmark, even Valdemar isn't sure, so I guess take stock of the game. I think Royal Institude.
General Tips
vs Sengoku Daimyo
Gameplay Plan
I think you don't go for early wheelbarrow and instead go for the quick Knight opening, try to kill a Yatai or 2 before you either pro scout or try to go castle with about 5 knights and 10 archers, if you did good damage
General Tips
vs Abbasid
Gameplay Plan
Pressure 2nd TC, go castle with Royal Institude, kill
General Tips
vs Ayyubids
Gameplay Plan
Hard matchup
ps -> Knights + Archers
If they FC, deny food and take all deer If they play feudal with mass Desert raiders, move to horseman, archers
General Tips
vs Chinese
Gameplay Plan
Early wheelbarrow -> ps -> pressure him and try to outplay -> Castle at 12 minutes with Guild Hall -> 4-6 on stone for keep -> Relics -> try to deny the boar from him -> go for a kill on minute 18, use Guild Hall to push with more Knights, make siege.
General Tips
You should have more units when you both run out of food thanks to Guild Hall and keep discount. That is especially true if you didn't lose vills and if he was unable to secure the boar.
Keep 2 knights there if you can spare them. After Barbican goes up, impossible to raid
vs Zhu Xi
Gameplay Plan
General Tips
vs French
Gameplay Plan
MAKE KNIGHTS
General Tips
vs Jeanne d’Arc
Gameplay Plan
Make knights, you win the long game if you don't lose more knights than he does. If he makes spears, you should too, but try to make less spears then he does and make archers to kill his spears, you will have more knights.
General Tips
Don't rush to go castle here. Your villager eco bonus should carry you here.
vs Knights Templar
Gameplay Plan
Pressure 2nd TC, go castle with Royal Institude, kill
General Tips
vs Holy Roman Empire
Gameplay Plan
Don't let him get more than 2 relics and you win.
General Tips
vs Order of the Dragon
Gameplay Plan
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vs Delhi Sultanate
Gameplay Plan
ps -> scout for spears, stable and archery range -> fight quickly to remove ghazi. If you were unable to take good trades, consider adding spears
In castle, arbs can be good if he goes for elephants with no archers first
General Tips
vs Tughlaq Dynasty
Gameplay Plan
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vs English
Gameplay Plan
You can make 3 Knights into FC with Guild Hall and go for SS, depends on spawn
I think you can also 2TC yourself and go castle with Guild Hall. I think French wins the matchup in the lategame.
You can also ps -> take his deer -> take 2 boars -> go for siege push
General Tips
If he makes a bunch of knights in castle, make arbs and knights
vs House of Lancaster
Gameplay Plan
ps -> Knights -> Archers -> Spears
General Tips
You need more arhcers than usual to one shot. This is obviously hard since HoL very good right now
vs Malians
Gameplay Plan
Open Knights and make archers, raid and take good fights
This depends on you being able to kill javs
General Tips
Gotta scout well for cow amount to determine his eco situation, deny 2nd pit mine
vs Mongols
Gameplay Plan
Early wheelbarrow -> Scout around your base to bring back sheep and only then go and find the barracks. You can macro a bit more on gold, like 5, and you are likely to be able to gather 300 gold before needing to leave for a knight + age up.
If they Mangudai, you go for archers.
General Tips
vs Golden Horde
Gameplay Plan
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vs Ottomans
Gameplay Plan
Tough, you might have to add some spears to your army.
You might be able to take castle with Royal Institude here and go for a kill quickly
General Tips
vs Rus
Gameplay Plan
If you can:
Skip or delay Pro Scouts -> Pressure with Knights to force spears -> Make archers to deny Horse Archers -> Castle with a deer advantage hopefully