Win Water

    Build Guide

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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

    4-6
    Sheep

    Send your new Villagers to Sheep

    7-10
    Wood

    Send your new Villagers to collect Wood

    11
    Lure Boar

    Send your new Villager to lure the nearest Boar

    12
    Dock and 2x Houses

    Send your new Villager to build a house near the water, then build a Dock close to deep fish, then build a second House

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      When finished send them back to Sheep / Boar or gather Shore Fish

    (4x) Fishing Ships

    Make 4 fishing ships on your Dock and send them to Deep Fish

    13-14
    Wood

    Send your new Villagers to collect Wood

    15
    Lure 2nd Boar

    Send one of your Villagers collecting from Boar to lure your 2nd Boar

    16-20
    Sheep/Boar

    Send your new Villagers to Sheep or Boar

    21
    Sheep/Boar

    Send your new Villager to Sheep or Boar

    Loom

    Research Loom in your Town Center

    Queue Feudal Age

    Queue Feudal Age in your Town Center

    Wall up!

    You will be focusing your attention on water, so you don't want your enemy to attack you on land

    • Take a Villager Sheep / Boar to...

    Wood

    Send your Villager to join your Lumberjacks

    • Take 7 Villagers from Sheep / Boar to...

    Lumber Camp

    Build a Lumber Camp on a second patch of wood

    • Take 4 Villagers from Sheep / Boar to...

    (Gold) Mining Camp

    Send your Villagers to build a Mining Camp next to Gold

    • Take a Villager from Sheep / Boar / Shore Fish to...

    Dock and House

    Build a second Dock and then a house next to it

    • Take 2 Villagers from Sheep / Boar to...

    Straggler Trees

    Send your Villagers to chop wood from the Straggler Trees next to your Town Center

    4
    16
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    1

    Feudal Age

    21
    Double-Bit Axe

    Research Double-Bit Axe in a Lumber Camp

    Fire Galleys

    Queue 2 fire galleys in your Docks

    • Take the Villager that built the second Dock to...

    Dock and House

    Build a third Dock and a House next to it

    22-23
    Gold

    Send your new Villagers to mine Gold

    24
    Mill

    Send your new Villager to build a Mill next to your Berries

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      When finished, send them to Berries

    • Take your 2 Villagers gathering from straggler trees to...

    Food

    Send your Villagers to Berries or heardables if you still have any

    25
    Berries

    Send your new Villagers to Berries

    4
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    14
    6
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    25
    You take it from here

    Depending on how the game plays out, you may want to expand your navy, go for a fish boom, or start developing an army on land