Tried this on custom 4 different ways. With and without deer/boar.
Fast 3+Ram is beaten by demilancer after 1 manor. Follow-ups always too far behind
Delayed 6+2 Ram and full upgrades beaten by demi/FC white tower. Game ends
No worker pull required in either case for HOL, buisness as usual and comes out ahead at about 1.8x eco.
Still working to see if counter greed is possible, so far nothing pulls ahead, not even 2 TC but achen on deer does provide a lead alebit dead to demi when they arrive
im not saying the matchup is imbalanced (its more balanced now after the cost nerf to yeoman)
but i do think its wrong for any civ to be immune to fuedal all-in when greeding
Dark age spearman on gold, harrass stone after age up?
This doesnt work becouse lancaster villagers have bows to fend off the spear, and typically since they start with 3 on gold the spearman will not arrive on time.
Even if the spearman is ignored completely and he gets a villager kill, the lancaster will have enough to age up and then the otd players eco is about 20% weaker to lancaster for the rest of the game.