How to Play Chinese 2 TC in Season 5 & 6 AOE4 (Still good in 2024)

Gamers all around the Highview today we are going to do China guide now I said I haven't done Ruth's guide in a long time but apparently I did do a roost guide recently but China guide I'm about 30 sure I haven't done China guide in forever there are some builds that you've probably seen like a while back like one TC zugunu push and that's still like possible and viable I don't have a guide on it I think the 2tc China is still how most people play China uh because it just scales so well with Song Dynasty and you got Barbican and it just works out pretty pretty well now I'm going to show you guys the the kind of the the process of you know what I'm thinking and I'm gonna show you two games both are against Malian but I'm gonna try to give you some pointers for the other matchups uh one game is kind of like a normal game the second game is gonna be more of a uh how to deal with trade so the second game I'll show you the opponent went for a trade and I know a lot of Chinese players struggle with it because because um that's one of the ways you can play against China you see if you go trade China goes to DC you can kind of outscale them so let's get to it the first thing you will do is you will put all six villagers on wood and you're gonna put all six villagers on wood where the berries are so if the Bears were here I would put these six villagers on this tree if the berries were in the back here I would put the six villagers on this street just to you know just get used to it right now before they drop off resources You're Gonna Bake a mill here and then put your sheep on that too and this is this is like if you're new to China this might be hard to do the first time but you'll get used to it and once you place down the mill all these villagers got 10 wood as you can see then you're gonna Inspire the mill that is building and once the meal completes they will actually drop off the wood with the 20 extra bonus so if you supervise it boom 72 wood from 60 to 72. um so yeah and do not shift click like don't shift click Mill into the the Sheep you have to just just click and that's it so this gives you 172 what you're gonna rally seventh villager onto the food you're gonna build a village right next to your food the reason for that is if you ever get rated you can instantly jump in um and then you're going to Rally eighth villager on the wood in order to get three wood you're always Gonna Miss Three Wood exactly so you're gonna get three wood and you're gonna build a gold mine villagers Villages are always always built next to your resources okay don't build your Villages like there if you build a village one next to the food try to have one next to the gold and then one next to the Woodline so whenever you get harassed you can hop in a village and save your villagers once you chop the three wood you you uh deliver it to TC and then you go into the gold mine now this is the I honestly I don't even remember the last build I did how exactly it went but this is the newest variation of this China opening and how you play it now you're gonna have three in Gold total and you're gonna have three on gold until you get Song Dynasty and now we're gonna be rallying onto the food once again you don't want to go berries because sheep is higher Gathering rates so only go berries if you up and you don't have any sheep but uh always go sheep first now whenever you have for about 40 gold tax try to take the goal drop off and send the guy back you can use shift command for this so you right click shift click onto the TC once he picks it up and then you uh shift click e for supervised back from the mill now try not to do it um like as they're about to drop off you can see me kind of pick it up right when they all dropped off this is something you can practice the higher you go if you're like goalie silver or like plaid whatever you don't need to time it super well but if you're maybe higher like diamond or conquer you should probably um you should probably try to time this so you don't lose any food right then you're gonna go back supervise that thing again and whenever you have 40 gold Mill you're gonna pick it up because that's going to be a huge gold boost for you for now now this is a big part of China and a lot of players don't do this too well and that is where do you place your Barbican now if you're playing against passive sieves it it which at this point like there's no real passive sieves anymore I feel like like every sieve is being aggressive at least at high level but if no one is usually being aggressive towards you you can go Imperial Academy first and you can age up with one villager and if you're going Imperial Academy first you're going to be building Barbican later with four okay if you go Barbican first you're gonna build it with two villagers the important part is where do you put your Barbican this is extremely extremely extremely important okay if you place your barbecue in a bad position it you can lose the game because of it and Barbican is what wins you to games or gives you the the opening to win games so where do you put your Barbican preferably you wanna hit up multiple resources you want to protect not just one resource like I don't want to put Barbican here because that just protects food and tree line but I have Tree Line in the back right so this would not be the best position in my opinion um although I could put Barbican right here to secure Stone and gold and then I could do a big wall like here to secure this side so there's an option like that uh the thing is if the opponent just breaks through the wall your whole economy in the back is going to be exposed the wood line the deer the berries the bore everything is going to be exposed so you can do that but it's a little too greedy like you're trying to secure resources like here that you don't need to because you already have stone and gold in the back so you're just being too creepy placing Barbican on this deer is way too far away um and also you only get deer and stone which is like whatever so in my opinion the best and the only possible spot for Barbican in this game is on deer right here why because it defends semi-defense this wood line it defends this wood line it defends the back wood line semi-defense the the berries gold and stone in the back and eventually when I do get a wall here even if the opponent breaks through I have a Barbican to still protect now because I am playing against Malia you also want to make sure they don't join your deer so uh if you play against Malian and they go pro Scouts it's very good to have Barbican on a deer because you can actually deny them from stealing it so yeah here we go I'm sending two villagers and I'm still rallying onto the food because I want to get Imperial Academy fast as well boom right there and you can see that's going to protect till about here so it's good range where opponent cannot poke around or do anything there so it's going to be very very hard to attack I just dropped the or you just picked up 40 gold next time they drop I'm gonna go deliver that I'm still mining gold now there are two options and I've been kind of playing with the wheelbarrow variation recently so there are two options option number one is the moment you hit 200 gold or 210ish you can pull these guys off of gold but recently I've been trying to leave them on gold until I have 150 to get fast wheelbarrow with with the superior official so you can do both whichever one you like you can like I said you can pull off now when you have 200 and build Imperial Academy or you can you know leave them until you have enough for wheelbarrow because you are working with a lot of villagers and your base is kind of big right all the way to Deer so wheelbarrow early will help you in my opinion quite a bit now one time I saw a question like doesn't getting wheelbarrow reduce the amount of reduce the amount of gold you get from tax drop off yes but at this point it doesn't really matter too much okay like if you don't want to rush wheelbarrow with Chinese like you don't want to go wheelbarrow first on you know straight away but getting it around this point is more than fine because you're not that dependent on tax gold anymore and you're also gonna have barracks and yada so you want to have 10 on food until you get Imperial Academy which we do right now and I'm gonna age up three four workers is more than fine now where do you put Imperial Academy um you usually want to put it to touch as many resources as possible not Golden Stone because you're not gonna be on those resources for a very long time but maybe a better spot in this game actually wouldn't be here it would be like here I think this Imperial Academy would be way better so I misplaced it here it's not the biggest deal but Imperial Academy does generate 100 extra tax gold from your buildings so if you manage to catch the mill and the lumber camps that's going to be a really good amount of gold extra that you're going to be getting so don't don't underestimate that so again I would I should have probably placed it here it would still reach the mill but I went for it here now from this point on I like to leave about six seven workers on food uh the reason for that is you're most likely going to get harassed uh whether it's Knights or Malian scouts or Horsemen or I don't know like any like usually if you play Chinese you know this already like mostives are going to attack you um so the reason I like to leave six seven on food is in case the opponent is attacking I can quickly make whatever production building I want right now the moment I have wood for it and I can um you know I can try to you know build some minutes and defend now one thing to note the only sieve where you should not be doing this is the Song Dynasty is English because if English ages up super quickly the long boost can be coming right now and if they're coming right now your production might be too late and the game might snowball pretty fast so my suggestion to you if you're playing against English uh get Imperial Academy first then put a lot of villagers on wood and then start producing units and get Song Dynasty a bit later otherwise you might get in a situation where you're trying to chop wood and there's like long bows here there's longbows here there's longbows here and it might get very awkward what about French for French it doesn't matter because even if French arrives now or French night wouldn't be arriving now it would be in production now by the time they arrive your TC will protect your food villagers plus you can hop in this you have Barbican to protect your food and you can just get Barracks from these trees make two Spears and you're good to go but English is a bigger problem because they're attacking from here um other than that you don't need to worry you can go like this exactly what I'm doing so what is my goal right now as you can see I still am going on gold um because I think I still went on goal this game for to get wheelbarrow so the Barbican finished now one thing to note you can use your Barbican to kill your deer here by the way so you can just click Barbican and right click the deer to to kill it you can't shift q but you can right click and on the other side you need to no matter what city you play against you need to scout what your opponent is doing China is one of the uh the sieves that get gets the highest value from scouting because it gives you the options like okay if opponent is also booming I can make my second TC maybe on this deer pack or I can make a TC on the bore if the opponent is being super aggressive then maybe you want to make a TC more defensive so with China it's kind of like you want to be as greedy as possible while taking no damage that's how you should be playing and scouting what your opponent is doing will allow you to do that now if I was playing against uh like I said like a Cavalry sieve which Malian is I would go for Spearman first and I think I do go for spearm first so you can see I got about 150 gold I'm gonna start wheel bearing a bit there we go and this is the variation of the build that I was talking about where I get wheelbarrow and I think it's quite decent because I I really like wheelbarrows and upgrade not economical just being able to move around faster and maybe avoid raids and stuff like that is really uh good in my opinion so um now I'm just rallying onto the wood and you want to have about 10 on wood 910 and wood at this point and then you want to go on to the stone I'm gonna make a barracks in a second and because I'm going to be making spearmen and Imperial officials I added two more onto the food China economy early game is pretty complicated again if you've played China you you know uh because there's a lot of like for example earlier I said you need six on food but then I see Stables so I'm like okay I need to make spearmen and I need to make Imperial officials so I had two workers to be able to produce spearmen um and Imperial officials and villagers at the same time because not my villagers are also producing faster I'm making a Barracks here and obviously make your production buildings like barracks and Archer ranges in the range of the Imperial Academy because you also get tax uh gold from producing units so right now we got 10 on wood I'm supervising that second Imperial official is gonna come out soon I'm gonna pick up the gold from the mill and then go on to um onto the stone now my Scout's been scouting the whole time like what he's doing does he have Archer ranges does he not have archery ranges what's going on so knowing that he has scouts and only Stables I'm feeling pretty safe the first thing I'm doing is covering my stone because that is the only resource that is exposed right now my Woodline is safe this is safe because I can just jump in the village if he goes there the only exposed resource is this and in a moment I will realize that he is going for uh Pro scouts because I looked at these deer and they were you know starting to disappear so what I did after is I put my spearmen over here to make sure he doesn't join these deer you can see my resources right now they're working pretty good now with this extra wood that you have which you will have you can always use to start making walls and to make it more complicated for your opponent to attack you now I could have done a greedier wall and I could have done like a wall here but I just wanted to play safe um the last thing you want to do is have the enemy cavity run around your base so I will wall off here too because I don't want scabs to harass here let me go around and you know gotta chase them with spearmint all day so there we go and I think I spotted yeah I spotted an Archer range so the moment I saw the Archer range I built a tower right here why did I build a tower right here well I got two options because now he's going Tower I can either make you know Horsemen or zugunu in which he if he goes Javelin throwers my zunar gonna be so I would have to go Horseman Spearman which is quite expensive or I could just make a tower upgrade it with hand Cannon slits and then just try to get uh get to Castle now I'm gonna I'm gonna wait for the PC to to finish and I'm gonna tell you what to do after so I'm missing some wood because I didn't make a tower but I am getting the upgrade and I'm putting the TC in this game right here why well these deer are gone so that's not an option I can make a tower here on the gold to cover this whole side right so I don't need a TC here but there is this space where he could sneak in around and be annoying in the wood line or maybe harass this Woodline later on so I just figured this this is going to serve like a like a tower right and then um it's gonna offer basically Extra Protection so someone asked when I play this game why didn't he harass more and the thing is where could he harass like he can go there he can't go here he can go here without committing serious amount of units so it's like a good China play is when the opponent has literally no place to attack but to run into barbecue or Towers or whatever else he goes here now which I recognize is the only vulnerable spot I'm gonna get extra Stone I'm gonna get a tower and I'm just gonna upgrade that and then we are chilling um now the reason why in this game I am rushing to um age up instead of fight is because your strongest unit for China and fuel is the zugunu but against malians they're pretty pretty bad um and the reason why they're pretty pretty bad is because of Javelin throwers they out range them massively so the whole spearmens you're gonna spam doesn't really work too too well and if you're going for horsemen for example against massive like malians uh you will run out of food really fast because you took one of my deer packs and he can just make cows so you don't want to commit to that kind of gameplay so again some sieves you will want to age up to Castle against some sieves you will have to make units so the moment my TC went up now this is the important part if I was playing against an opponent it was all ending me like they're one TC and they're masking units and they're attacking me I wouldn't try to rush Castle okay I would commit fully to defending so if you look at my worker split right now it's six eight I have one on Stone top greatest Tower and 24. like I'm trying to get to Castle from this point on as fast as possible because I don't think you can do any damage so I don't need to make units right so if I was playing against maybe hre that's looking to a job I would do this exact same thing maybe minus the towers because atro usually doesn't harass uh if I was playing against like French or or ruse or whatever I would put probably about five on gold five six on gold um in order to you know get my ego upgrades get double broad ax get the wheelbarrow if you don't have it uh survival techniques fertilization blacksmith upgrades and most importantly to be able to produce zugunu and at this point you can see I am making my fourth Imperial official right now so I use three so far you always want to have one imperial official go around to to get the gold right you don't want to use all of them supervising you always want to make sure one is going around picking up gold and because this one is now going onto the gold I'm gonna make the fourth one to go around and collect stuff you can see there's two 260 gold in this Mill because of Imperial Academy giving bonus taxes uh now if I was playing like I said against an aggressive sieve and I would need to make units I still have the barracks so the next plan of action would be put five six on gold get the fourth Imperial official and then I would try to have uh like 15 workers on food 15 on wood and then like five on gold and as the game progresses I would rally one TC onto the food one TC onto the wood and you want to Rally onto the wood until you have about four or five Archer ranges and like one two three Barracks plus blacksmith after that if you have too much wood you can either start slowly making granaries and Farms if your like food is is not very accessible on the map or you can just rally both DC's onto the food because you're gonna need a lot of food if you're producing units now if you're going for spear benzoganu which is most likely something you will go for if you're fighting in feudal make sure to get upgrades like plus one weapons especially preservative because it matters quite a bit and what you want to do then is just defend Mass crazy amount of units uh only having five six on gold should be enough if you have Imperial fissure going around collecting as well and like eventually you will only need like let's say 15 on wood once you've done all your production buildings and once you've done like the extra walls or whatever and um then you're gonna have like at one point like 40 on food 15 on wood and five six on gold and you will uh as I like to call it naturally be able to age up what I mean by that is you will you will be producing workers you're going to be producing units and you will still have enough food to age up now another thing is whenever you move to the next resource try to move your impeller Imperial officials as well this is something that is very crucial to playing China uh and it's 20 extra resources right so it's a lot it's not like a little bonus it's a crazy bonus so if I gather all of this and I go on to these berries I want to have Imperial official there but you don't want to put like two Imperial officials on food one on wood one and gold because then you don't have one collecting so right here I have some workers on deer so technically I'm not getting the 20 extra that's all right as long as majority of your villagers are under the the Imperial official uh because also one thing you need to be careful of is if you have all your villagers in the same spot as China if that gets denied you lose all food income so if you're potentially playing against a harassment or attacking sieve it's okay to do this like to split up workers um and from that point on like if you're fighting in field like I said you might as you know you Mass spearmen if opponent ages up at any point you can just cut production attack them and age up as well because if the opponent is aging up and you have all these units you might as well push and try to do something because uh zuganu are really really strong even against Castle units because of the way they attack which is every time they shoot they deal at least three damage so they they shoot three times one damage each if the target has too much armor so they still do three damage per shot so if you have like 40 50 zugino you can melt Castle men at Arms or you know nights or whatever else so now that I've covered the feudal side if you're gonna stay in feudal like I said at this point you would have five on gold five six on gold you would have 15 16 whatever on wood and then you would have the rest in food make up your buildings uh or get your production up pump out units and as you need food like for example if I'm spamming units and let's say he's poking here once these berries are done I'm gonna do like a wall here maybe get this bore get the berries in the back so you kind of need to secure your food sources as you go and if you can't you can also have uh one TC on wood one tissue and food forever kind of thing and then whenever you have extra wood you start building dranaries and Farms now in this game my opponent did go for um Pro Scouts into cow boom into fast Castle as you can see he is slowly going to the castle there's too much food right now but he's gonna correct that in a moment and I'm trying to I'm rattling both TC's here because I'm trying to get these berries like you know completely depleted because their front berries so I I don't want them to attack into them later on then I gotta run and all that so he's going with foremba um it's very foreign so behind this what do I want to do well if you're aging up like this what units do you want to make well you want to make units that um like based on what the opponent is going for so if you're playing against a night suit you want to continue making spearmen if you were fighting in feudal you can switch to like you can upgrade your zugunu get your blacksmith upgrades and castle and then switch to crossbow spearmen or you can go Palace guard spearmint as well if they have a lot of archers you can just go Palace guards uh and then cross pose if you're playing against um a sieve that doesn't have a Cavalry I mean just start spamming Palace guards you can also use them to harass you can go Knights as China but honestly Palace guards do the same thing they're very fast and you can just harass me Palace guards they're also cheaper and they will accomplish the same task um if you can go for relics as China you should I think in my opinion if you get too relics it's that's pretty successful as China because you will usually be the save that does not have the map control so if you get two relics that's more in fine um now uh I think that no matter what city you play against getting astronomical Clock Tower as the first Landmark is very important in Castle and then getting a nest of beer 2 will help you out so so so much because it makes it so hard for your opponent to engage into you because on swvs and then they either have to go springled or they got to try to snipe it somehow and you know if you're defend it well with your infantry and sdbs will be safe so at this point this is kind of like in a way the the maybe not now maybe in about like few minutes is the hardest part for China and that is when you're running out of food and the opponent is attacking you which is why you got to be careful to slowly transition into granaries um as you're aging up to Castle you want to have about 13 to 15 villagers on gold so the moment I started aging up I rallied both my TCS onto gold until I have 13 to 15. because you're gonna get a lot of stuff you're gonna get monks nest of bees blacksmith upgrades unit upgrades you know crossbows Palace guards so you will need gold and around this point uh if you float a lot of gold before that you can get this earlier uh Imperial examinations for extra gold for Imperial officials but if you did not float out of gold you can get it around this time because this Mill will pay off for uh for the upgrade pretty quickly because you will usually have ton of gold in the mill um so again Somalian what I'm doing is I'm going for extra Barracks because Malian will uh most likely go for like Archer sofa in which case if I go Palace guards Spearman and nest of bees to take care of the archers that's gonna be perfect unicorn for me and because I'm playing against malians that can that usually goes for archers with poisoners I get plus one under iron mesh first and I might get plus two uh next as well now I'm gonna speed up the rest of the game I kind of gave you the the little you know input on how to do stuff what to do and I'm gonna show you the next game where the opponent goes for a trade where I feel like it's a lot harder to play against as China so in this game uh I go for monks and like I said my goal is to relics so I managed to secure one on The Middle and then the second one I managed to secure as well with some units and now the important part is if you're playing against some of the weirder saves that can like go for multiple unicoms it's very important for you to scout so my lens is one of those things that can go for so so many different things and what do I see I see a lot of musafari Warriors and this is becoming the meta recently from Malian Malian goes for a lot of musafati Warriors because you usually go for uh spearmen and and Palace guards which they both actually get beaten by Safari Warriors so the moment I saw that uh because I just saw them killing my uh my monk here and a few units I saw 10 of them so I'm like okay he's producing producing booster bodies technically you can deal with them with nest of bees but the safest option to go against Mr body Warriors is gonna be just Master unit they absolutely melt them because musubatis have no ranged armor so they absolutely get wrecked by them so immediately I get stealed arrows uh upgraded I'm gonna get the second one too and I'm just trying to survive the onslaught now depending what sieve you play against is China you can be more aggressive or more passive uh Malian versus China in the late game is very China favorite so I'm not really rushing to like oh my God I got a counter attack or I gotta do some damage I don't need to I can just literally sit in my base whole game and eventually my arm is just better so here he goes for harassment I got some decent shots it's a lot of damage meanwhile on the other side like I said I'm using Palace guards to harass a little bit you're just buying yourself time like all these harassments that I'm doing not only that I'm harassing but I also just saw there's 25 my Safari Warriors so I'm trying to wall Off full wall eventually because you don't want to be open from any side because you don't want to be open for harassment and I'm just chilling I decide to go for a granary here the reason I'm deciding to go for grinder is here instead of like maybe here or there is because there's no resources on this side of the map if you notice like there's not much going on here right I have gold here I have big stone I have berries um I have four I have Woodline Woodline Woodline so because I have Barbican here as well I figured I can just do a stone wall and completely secure that area and just put my food there because I don't want my food sources to be harassed at all he comes in here but again it's a distraction and I think he gets like two villagers and he loses everything which was definitely not worth it now mustafaris are coming you can see the villagers The Villages being next to the gold into saving he doesn't kill any my units arrive and the attack gets completely completely stopped now now someone might be like why did the opponent commit so much like he didn't need to well he didn't but he did you know he's playing against China he can just sit back and do nothing and that's kind of the advantage of China like people have to do something before it snowballs too hard and if you look at the worker count already it's a destruction but yes he has cows sure and he has pit mines but um if you look at the the income it's gonna only get worse and worse for him and I also have Imperial official here I have Imperial official on gold coming right here and I have Imperial official and stone so at this point you don't need Imperial official on food okay you just need on wood Stone and gold and then one guy just let him roam around and collect stuff foreign so right now I have 14 zugunu I have a lot of Mr bees I got a lot of Palace guards I'm adding more production I don't want to fall behind on units or anything like that I'm getting some spring oats and overall you know it feels pretty good I make a keep at the front just to have a like a defensive coin so I can push from um yeah so the nested bees do a crap ton of damage I do a keep here he's trying to harass he's trying to go around but with Spears I secured a key if I push his gold and at this point it's kind of like a death push if you look at the supply it's 200 versus 110. and technically he didn't like sure he could have you know done the push here maybe better not lose as many units but he didn't do anything wrong it just what the game looks like if you play China like properly and you don't take any damage the game just kind of looks like this where it's a destruction boom and um I also build Great Wall Gatehouse here because that's where all my resources are so I just wanted to again not to risk secure a win he goes for a push here and it does not work out I have too many units and that's gonna be it now let's go let's go to the second game where I'm playing against trade because I want to show you how to deal with trade this has become a more popular I'm not sure how it is on like every single level but at the high level trade has been like one of the solutions how to deal with booming China except just all letting them obviously which can also work and that is just going trade and basically China goes to DC song uh the enemy will establish trade and out boom you completely with the amount of gold they're going to be getting so um a lot of people panic maybe sometimes too much and they try to all in super quickly and then they lose and the game ends so I'm not gonna go through the build again I'm just gonna go through the uh my you know thought process as I'm playing against trade now um first thing if you're playing against opposite trade you need to immediately do the the zugunu Song Dynasty All In okay you cannot go to DC against albacy trade and the way you can see opposite trade is through the you know their wings if you see uh trade Wing then you need to not go second DC and you need to make like four Archer ranges five Archer ranges one barracks and you need to just mass units and attack if you go to this against opposite their trade is too strong and it comes online to too quickly for you to wait and deal with it later plus Abbasid is a very strong save in the late game so if it does reach the Imperial and they have trade you will lose uh if you're playing against Malian like here you will see that it's not that urgent and you don't need to deal with it right away and if you also play against Mongol trade in my opinion it's not that urgent for you to need to deal with it immediately because their caches are not that strong caches are also not that strong so it's not like massing Lancers that you're gonna just die and you know Mongol is also not a siblings that's that strong in the late game so just like Malian even if they have trade and you enter legium you can still fight obviously you want to contest it but it's not the end of the world so in this game I didn't know that my opponent was gonna go trade obviously so I was looking where do I put Barbican now this Frontier is in a pretty bad spot if this was gold like one of these was gold this would be okay spot for Barbican because I would get Deer uh safe wood line I get uh Vision into the forest and I would get stone and gold so that would be pretty good Barbican and it's in the front so you get some like map control and stuff uh so that would be pretty good Barbican the boar obviously is way too far away so that's not an option and then uh the third option which is the best option is on this deer pack which is pretty I mean it's kind of far away from my town center it's a second deer back as well but I get gold I get Big Stone I get berries I get deer I get this gold kind of and it secures that part of the map where it gives me a lot of vision into the stealth forests and like I said usually when a Barbie can own food sources um and it's also indirectly protecting the the berries in the back right so I go for Barbican there and I think oh yeah this is where I saw Saharan Trade Network um and I was very surprised because if you want to go trade why not just put it like here or or here because if you passed go past the Saharan Trade Network you also get a lot of food um but whatever so I saw that he went for this landmark and now I am scouting like what he's doing and all that and eventually I do see markets which I'm going to show you um there we go I'm going with the second DC um let me check yeah I did check the corner and I didn't see markets yet I check over here I see he's not mining gold I saw the Stables uh and I saw the mill so I knew there's a potential for Scouts I think I go for it again here and I see markets and I'm like okay he's going trade cool so what is my goal here well there's a lot of ways to deal with this um I could have just gone for a second DC and then started making units and attacking I could also against Malibu in the Mongol I could also go to TC make five spearmen and do the castle rush like the previous game and then went with Palace guards to try to deal with his army what I did is something you can do as well um the only thing you need to be careful of is where the enemy Scouts are I saw that his first Scout is on my Scout and I see the second Scout right so I know he has no vision on this side of the map and if you look he has no vision on this side of the map and I knew that because both Scouts are here now this is a bit of a like a you know high level decision but in low leagues people are not going to be active with Scouts so you can always try and do this right so I sneak into villagers I'm gonna mine a little bit of extra Stone I got my second TC ride my right next to my main PC I could have actually placed this TC here which was probably a mistake on my side now that I look at it it didn't impact the game but you know if I could redo the game I would probably do this DC on this deer pack right here just to get uh the second earpack secure but I go all the way around here I make a wall first and then I just Tower his Market at the same time look at that Village from the gold and I'm also going to wall off the top Market because I don't want him to trade on the top side because I have no units to contest it right now so I finished the wall I go for double Tower here and um yeah he's got Warrior Scouts but I got a couple of spearmen again just like the last game and now I'm gonna go for the castle Rush again with a little cheeky tower now I could have also went for aggression in feudal but like I said I don't like fighting in feudal as uh Chinese against himalayans because of Javelin throwers so I prefer to kind of put some kind of Dent into the trade or you know be annoying and then go Castle into palace guards so um I'm upgrading my tower he actually reacted pretty quickly like the moment he saw he went blacksmith and he got um what's it called he got Siege engineering very very quickly so he reacted like almost immediately um yeah there's a Siege engineering to break the towers he loses the trade and now the trade is stopped right he is producing Traders but the trade is stopped and I'm slowly getting to uh to Castle I also got a little bit of extra Stone to upgrade him just to be a little extra annoying and now my villagers are all mowing down the food I walled out this side of the trade which she didn't even attempt to trade but you know safety right and uh yeah so this was like the fastest possible response he could have gotten here on target firing the the traders to try to kill them but this did delay his economy and if you look he should be actually close to aging up right now but look at how many units he's making he's making donzos he's committing to units because he can't just kill this with one ram because he doesn't have perfect scouting like if he didn't make donzos and I'd come in with horses and I just killed a ram then even more delaying everything meanwhile because his army is at the bottom and I obviously see it I'm just destroying a couple of houses here again just just distracting him as much as possible Right the moment he comes here I think I'll run away I lose my scar which is really bad and the clock tower is coming up and look at that destruction I'm going for six Barracks because my goal now is to just mask Palace guards um which is what I do I'm gonna get my upgrades as usual but I wasn't aware that he has this many Barracks so he instantly goes for most Safari Warriors which I don't know if you know but in the Safari Warriors from feudal age will actually do really well against uh Palace guards so in a moment um The musafari Warriors will start arriving and I cannot find this anymore like he will actually beat my Army even though he's futile so instead what I do is I just start running my Palace guards around they're faster than his units so I just run Palace guards into the train I'm getting the relics uh in this game I wanted to get all five because he is so far behind on castle and if the age is up he's not going to be trying to get relics first right he's gonna try to protect the trade and he doesn't need relics because he's Trading so I'm trying to get all five relics I'm booming just as usual as you can see right here 15 workers on gold like I told you in the last game and the moment I saw most Safari Warriors once again I went for uh forzugino I'm trying to kill his Scouts whenever I can killing Scouts on Heidi is always really really good um because you know they lose so much Vision now this guy I don't know why he didn't pick up the Relic but look at him idiot um say I'm harassing wherever I can I'm getting my relics I'm mowing down the food over here overall feeling pretty good I wall off my side of the map and right now if you look at the economy it's uh what is it 77 versus 92 and uh how many Traders does he have he has 28 Traders which is a serious amount right that's not a that's not a low amount that's a that's a good good amount of Traders right now so if this was opposite I'm dead okay if this was opposite I am dead already because Abbasid gets food and gold from their trade which is uh broken um and right here you're about to see a destruction and you're about to see zugunu at work if you look at his army it's quite a big army and I have like what is this 12. his whole Army is like completely melted um I think in a moment I start transitioning to granaries because I'm about to run out of um run out of resources I go for a little counter attack here because why not I got my nest of bees which again makes a big big problem for the opponent I take all these off and I'm not trying to you know not trying to lose everything um and because I got Stone now there's the grunters coming because I got the stone the best thing you can do against trade especially as China is to just keep on their trade now it keeps with other Sims are pretty crap because they just like arrows and they can kind of get taken down pretty easily but Chinese keeps are still very very strong and even though he reacts immediately it's not fast enough the keep is already like in place and now all I need to do even if I lose all these units right if I stay here for about two three minutes I'm gonna be in a really really good spot because one of these resources gets completely cut off so I go for a tower I go for a sprinkled upgrade I'm gonna go for another keep here even if I lose them like I said it's it's completely all right [Applause] and you can see he's kind of trading better he's killing my Army but Chinese keeps like I said are really really strong even without boiling oil so yeah and now the trade is completely stopped look at all these Idols like this is not just uh like 34 workers Traders are like really really good so this is like double that basically um behind this I'm transitioning to a lot of food I got way too much gold as you can see and uh I'm starting to Stonewall the map because again I'm playing against Malian so if this game goes to Imperial even if he trades and gets gold it's gonna be probably uh more than fine for me he goes for the keeps uh and like I said he's losing so many units to to the keeps because it's double keep too I take some Palace guards to harass on this side again just buying myself time to fully wall the map with stone walls and to force that you know super late game I went for Great Wall Gatehouse again on my granaries which I really like doing you can also use I could have technically also done a great wall Gatehouse here which would be really good to protect these Golds and then push again onto the trade but I decided to go for a safer option um I finished the age up and now if you look his economy was is so screwed right that he's got almost nothing right he should be floating like thousands of gold but he needed to mine gold with how many workers is this 21 workers just to support his economy so his economy is like wasn't a pretty bad spot now it's like a reset it's back to normal but if you look at the worker count 132 verse 114 and uh you know 20 resources on top of Woodstone and gold uh is pretty pretty good for me so now the only thing that's left is to push and try to um you know end the trade I don't need to kill his base I don't do anything I just need to end the trade whenever you play against trade opening that should always be your priority to to shut down here I go for the Omega key just couple of workers but but the keep is up and now I can just go there and fight I got Siege Workshop I want to get a bombard to the store to keep and now because he can't pay job he is nowhere near to aging up because of all the trade interruptions um so so far ahead if you look at the economy 2.4 K to 1.2 one point make a 3K versus 950 he has 3.8k gold sure but that just came in that hasn't been the case this whole game and right now my gold income is pretty bad because I just put some workers here but if I get this down I can take these two goals and this Stone pretty pretty easily because if you look I have 2.4 K Stones I can just make like three more cubes here and with the amount of nest of bees I have he's nowhere close to having any Siege Army plus I have Imperial Siege as well which is a lot better if I go spring on Range thank you he's got nothing here and he knows he's gonna die because these are also Imperial spearmen and Imperial Palace guards so there it is in the end if you can ever extend the game is China and go into imperial that's going to be good for you so I'm not saying always try to go into imperial but that is your strength and China is actually very very good in feudal and Castle now the hardest part of China if you're wondering like why is nobody wise you know why aren't people just spamming China if it's that good well to learn to the point where all your resources are covered and you're not taking damage and you're transitioning properly is the hardest part of China it's not mitering your army making your army is pretty um is pretty you know the easier part of China the harder part is not only macro and using your Imperial officials correctly but also uh like knowing when to transition to granaries knowing where to put your defensive structures and stuff like that which takes a lot of experience to learn and it's not just like oh this is where you put Barbican because a lot of it depends how the map spawns so you gotta kind of decide in the moment like every game is is a new game and you only learn where to put your barbicans through a lot of experience sometimes your Barbican is going to be just outside of range or something you'll be like oh if I put it a little bit to the left I would have been fine um but yeah try playing China I think it's a it's a lot of fun once you get the defense down uh it also feels very frustrating playing against China if you can't break them because it feels like there's nothing you can do about it and then people kind of Dent into you and attack into you and lose too many units um because of that so yeah that's gonna be it uh I hope you enjoyed this little China guide um again it's not so much of a build order update because China has not really changed like there are some things that change in early opening for China but it's not like this completely new build or completely new unicomp it's it's more so you know the thought process behind it and and you know how to play it and how to use your units that that has improved massively uh for China because China also has had some changes in terms of balance but nothing that changed the way the interaction between units and economy works so that's it if you're watching this on YouTube thanks so much for watching appreciate you I hope you learned something new today check out my all other guides I have guys her friend truce English Malian and probably some more stuff I got ottoman guides whatever you need and I'll be making Molly and cow boom guide oh I also made Delhi to TC guide but I still need to do oh yeah I have Mongol guide as well I still need to do opposite guide and that's it actually those are the last two remaining so yeah if you're watching Youtube thanks for watching checkpoint on Twitter probably live right now if you're watching you on Twitch

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Length: 54min 8sec (3248 seconds)

Published: Sat Aug 12 2023