Viper's Four Lakes Lithuanians

Build Guide by Esteb

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Note: the number on the left indicates your current number of villagers. Don't know where this is?
3
Queue up Villagers

Queue up as many Villagers as you can in your Town Center

2 Houses

Two Villagers build one, one Villager builds the other

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    When finished, send them to Sheep

4-5
Sheep

Send your new Villagers to Sheep

  • Immediately after, take 3 villagers from sheep and...

Lumber camp

Build a Lumber Camp. This will be your only Lumber Camp throughout Dark Age

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    When finished, send them to Wood

6
Sheep

Send your new Villager to Sheep

7-8
Wood

Send your new Villagers to collect Wood

9
Dock

Send your new Villager (from now on, "dock vill") to build a Dock

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    When finished, start queuing up fishing ships

  • After building the dock, take your dock vill and...

House

Build a house nearby

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    When finished, send your villager to collect fish

10
Sheep

Send your new Villager to Sheep

11
Wood

Send your new Villager to collect Wood

4
1 + 1
6

12-13
  • By now, your dock should be already finished, with one fishing ship already working

Wood

Send your new Villagers to collect Wood

14
Sheep

Send your new Villager to Sheep

  • Take your dock vill and..

2 Houses

Build 2 houses where they help to create a wall

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    When finished, start building a palisade wall

15
Lure Boar

Send your new Villager to lure the nearest Boar.

16-17
Wood

Send your new Villagers to collect Wood

18
Dock

Send your new villager (from now on, second dock vill) to build a second Dock on the same lake

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    When finished, send them to collect fish

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    Start queuing up fishing ships from both docks

  • Take your dock vill and...

2 Houses

Build 2 houses where they help to create a wall

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    When finished, keep walling

19
Lure 2nd Boar

Send your new Villager lure your 2nd Boar

20
Sheep/Boar

Send your new Villagers to Sheep or Boar

8
8 + 1
10
1

21-23
  • By now, you should have 2 docks creating fishing ships, and ~8 fishing ships already working

Wood

Send your new Villagers to collect Wood

  • Take your second dock vill and...

House

Build 2 houses where they help to create a wall

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    When finished, keep walling

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    By now, you could start being attacked by the enemy, so you may want to take more villagers to walls

24
(Gold) Mining Camp

Send your new Villager to build a Mining Camp next to your Gold

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    When finished, send them to Gold

25
Gold

Send your new Villager to mine Gold

  • Also, take 2 of your villagers collecting from Boar and...

Gold

Send your Villagers to mine Gold

26
Wood

Send your new Villager to collect Wood

Loom

Research Loom in your Town Center

  • Take 1 of your villagers collecting from Sheep to...

Mill

Send your Villager to build a Mill, ideally next to your Berries

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    When finished, send them to mine Stone

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    This is needed in order to build a Market in Feudal Age

Queue Feudal Age

Queue Feudal Age in your Town Center

  • Take your remaining 5 idle villagers from Sheep and the one that built a Mill to...

(Stone) Mining Camp

Send your Villagers to build a Mining Camp next to your Stone

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    When finished, send them to Stone

  • Take your dock vill and...

Second Lake Dock

Build a Dock on a diferent lake, if able. If unable to leave the base, send them to wood

  • Your second dock vill may have already finished walling, so...

Second Lumber Camp

Send your second dock vill to build a second Lumber Camp. Now we can forget about them

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    When finished, send them to Wood

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    Also take at least 3 villagers from the first woodline to this new one

Stop queuing fishing ships

In your first lake, you should already have 14 fishing ships. You don't need more than that

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14
4
6
2

Feudal Age

26
  • Take 1 villager mining Stone to...

Blacksmith

Build a Blacksmith, ideally where it reinforces your walls

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    When finished, send them to stone

  • Take 2 villagers mining Stone to...

Market

Build a Market, ideally where it reinforces your walls

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    When finished, send them to stone

27
Lumber Camp

Send your new Villager to build a third Lumber Camp

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    When finished, send them to Wood

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    Also take at least 3 villagers from the first woodline to this new one

28
Wood

Send your new Villagers to collect Wood

Queue Castle Age

Queue Castle Age in your Town Center

Fletching

Research Fletching in your Blacksmith

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17
4
6
1

Castle Age

28
  • Take at least 5 villagers collecting Wood and...

Town Center

Build a second Town Center. You may need to buy 100 stone

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    When finished, send them to

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    Start queuing villagers

29
  • Take 8 villagers from wood and...

Castle

Build a Castle with all 9 villagers (or more). Make sure it helps defend either an exposed resource or an entrance to your base

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    When finished, send them back to wood

Hill Forts

If your opponent is being aggressive, research Hill Forts to keep them at bay. Especially good against a mangonel attack

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By now, you should start sending your new villagers to the resources you need, so this build order will focus on what buildings/upgrades/units to do next

Gillnets

In one of the idle docks research Gillnets

  • Take your dock vill and...

Third Lake Dock

Try to build a new Dock in a third lake. Your opponent may already be there, so be prepared for a small naval battle

  • Take all your idle fishing ships and...

Fish Traps

Start building fish traps next to your docks

Wheelbarrow

Research Wheelbarrow in your Town Center

Monk

Train 1 or 2 monks to gather the relics

Town Center

Build a third Town Center

Town Center

If your base is safe, build a fourth Town Center

If your enemy is also going for the relics

Build a Barracks, a Stable and start training Scouts

If your enemy has units

Start training Leitis and try to sneak your monks and get the relics