20 Elephants in 20 Minutes - Could it be faster?

Age of Empires II: DE II - Discussion
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After making this guide here for Malay Elephant rushing, I was wondering about a few things:

  1. Could this build actually be done faster? 19 minutes maybe?
  2. What is a critical mass of elephants that is unstoppable? Is 20 just a meme number?
  3. Is it worth mixing in any other unit with this build? i.e. Scouts for monk or archers
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Scout cavalry are trash without upgrading them to light cavalry, and that takes away time and resources for your meme build. It would be easier to mix a few knights if you need to chase anything down.

Critical mass is an overly misspoken concept. You already can snipe a TC with 10 battle elephants. Basically with this build, you could atk anywhere after 17:30 and that’s when you should start looking for opportunities and start getting sneaky. 20 is just a meme.

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It would be great if i can do this at my level. Having castle times under 17:00 min. isnt a guarentee. It sounds fun to have around 10 elephants around 17:30 marching into there base.

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Yup! Being able to demolish TCs before the enemy can field any real response is so satisfying