Ottoman Mosque FF- Sourced from HG- AoE Patch 1.07

I know what you're thinking. omg a otto ff? wtf is he thinkin? BUT!! How does 15 Janisaries and 2 falconets by 7:00-7:30 sound? I've tryed all of the church card ff's,(bwkic, quatrefage, kalmuck, and grenadier) but iv'e found this one is the fasest. NOT the strongest, but the fastest, and speed kills. I prefer faster but it depends on your playing style. Anyway, here is the shipment order.
Age 1:
3 villies

Age 2:
700 gold, Palace Intrigue(unquie church card)

Age 3:
2 faclonets


From here on it depends on your shipments, depending on how much damage u inflict on them. Here is the build order.


Age 1: 4 vills to nearest hunts, the rest on wood crates. Get your explorer to the nearest trading post ASAP. It is best to play on a map that you are familiar with. Try to get your explorer buildin a tp by 30 sec into the game. After crates are all gone, have one vill build a house. First shipment is 3 vills. work your explorer hard. Get a gold tresure if u didnt get a gold crate, other wise food or wood treasures are good too. Advance at 2:00-2:30 dependin on treasures. Use the politian that gives 200 gold and a tower. Keep all villies on food during age up.

Age 2: Send 700 gold ASAP. Gather 200 gold from age up and send forward tower as close as possible to the enemy town. As soon as u have 1200 food switch all settlers to wood. Gather the 700 gold with 4-5 villies and age up. Advance with 400 wood and galley politian. Send the unique church card and build a church. Get wood treasures with your explorer. 135 wood guarded by two outlaw rifleman is a good one.

Age 3: As soon as u age, start gathering the wood from age up, send 2 faclonets, and as soon as u have 1000 wood, send the 15 jans. Don't forget to switch the home city gather point to the tower!(It stinks, i've done it)use falconets to pound military units first, use jans as meat shield. After you have killed all if any of their units, start pounding the houses to prevent shipments like 6 skirms from age up. Then go for the town center. Kill his MM. After u killed his MM, go back to you town, get your idle villies back to work. and get that galley fishing if the map has water. With all of the wood u have still, build 2 tc's with your explorer. Gain map control. After killing houses, u should have a shipment now, send the fort to gain even more map. After 2 tc's are built, switch 10 or so vills to hunts and get settler upgrades. and boom yourself to victory!!


I haven't recorded any yet but i will. I'm not sure how to post recorded games so if someone could say that would be helpful. Plz offer any HELPFUL TIPS or consturctive criticism. Thank You.