Chinese Old Han Rush

China Old Han Rush

This traditional Age 2 rush is criminally underrated. Overwhelm your opponent with the classic pike/bow combo while your economy grows steadily.

Discovery Age I

-If you are on a TP map, build a trade post and chop wood for 1 village

-If you are on a non-TP map, build a village and chop wood for a 2nd village

-Get 16 villagers

First Card: Northern Refugees

AGE UP: Summer Palace - 500 food

Transition I-II

 -Put 4 villagers on the wonder, 6 on food and 7 on wood

-Continue making villagers and put them on food

Colonial Age II

-Change summer palace to old han army production

-Build a war academy

Second Shipment: 8 pikes, 8 chu ko nu, or 7 steppe riders (send depending on your opponent. I prefer 8 pikes or 7 steppe first)

-Queue old han at the war academy

-Build a village

Third Shipment: another military shipment

-Place new villagers on wood

-Continue to produce old han army and villages

Fourth Shipment: another military shipment

-Continue to produce old han and villages

-Build a market and slowly start to get upgrades without limiting villager and military production

-At this point you need to make a decision, continue to press and overwhelm or age up. If your opponent is still age 2, continue to overwhelm. ONLY IF your opponent is age 3 and is combatting you with vastly superior units (like artillery) would I consider aging. You can easily outmass your opponent with the upcoming resource shipments and production. 

Continued Age 2 Play

Fifth Shipment: 700 wood

Sixth Shipment: 600 wood

-Build a consulate 

Seventh Shipment: 300 export

-Switch your consulate to the civ you desire. I prefer the British for the extra HP and access to redcoats

Eighth Shipment: Intervention 

Transition to Age III (LAST RESORT)

Fifth Shipment: 700 coin

-Transition needed villagers to coin and food

-Get market upgrades in transition 

NOTES:

-10 Rattan Shields is a fantastic cavalry shipment

-Standard army is very strong vs infantry focused civs. Steppe riders can have their siege upgraded with mongolian scourge and chu ko nu will annihilate all heavy infantry.

-Don’t be afraid to change your composition or mix and match. China also has access to ranged cav age II. You honestly should not need them, but they are a great option. (Ming Army) 

By: SamuraiRevolution
For: The Asian Dynasties

Video: https://youtu.be/6BiPCFjQ234