Rate and review my Gurjaras build order

[Zork]

The Gurjaras gives a unique possibility to garrison your livestock in the Mill to produce food. Eating your livestock might not be a good idea. Besides this, you also get 2 Forage bushes under the TC. I've come up with a modified build order for Dark Age:

- Start the game with the typical 2 houses setup and creates vils.
- Send vils to the 2 bushes until you have 6 vils. When the bushes are depleted, move all of them to the main Forage bushes.
- In the meantime, scout with your camel and with all the livestock. You won't eat them.
- Vil 7 should create a mill near the usual Forage Bushes and let it take the forage bushes. - When you scout enough of the surroundings, garrison your livestock in the Mill.
- Vil 8/9/10 should go to the straggler trees. You don't have enough wood to build a lumber camp.
- Vil 11 go to boar and lure it to the Mill (easiest). Move your 7 vills to the boar. When the boar is done, back to the forage bushes.
- Vill 12 goes to trees and makes a house.
- Build lumber camp when you have enough.
- Keep creating vills.
- Wait till the boar is depleted, then lure other boar with a new villager.

At this point, normal build order. Try hunting for deer, fish. Have 10 on wood etc. etc.

I've noticed by doing this build order that I'm not worried about the timing. Forage bushes don't deplete like animals do, so move them from or to them while luring boar is fine.

I'm also waiting for Loom until Feudal, but you might want to research it, for example when running out of food. Depends on the situation.

Please let me know with any suggestions and feedback.

Rick (Zork)

[Gorilianul]

The Gurjaras have a massive food bonus if they manage to get livestock in their mills. For 3 animals you get about 1 food per second. Get 30 animals and you get 10 food per second. On nomad maps where livestock is plentiful they have a huge advantage.
What I don't like about them is that they have no cavalry archers, and the campaign Hero Prithviraj is a cavalry archer. Later in the game you have no control group for him. I convert cavalry archers if I see them otherwise no cav archers for them. The massive armor bonus to camels makes them really tanky.
The chakram throwers are like gbeto/axe throwers only better as they hit multiple targets in a line.