It is a tilting strategy to play against but it puts them so far behind economically, you can even just abandon your original TC and rebuild it somewhere else and still be ahead. Then scout where he’s taking gold and tower it. Or send scouts or archers while he’s still stuck in dark age. If none of that works, you will get up to castle age before him and just put 10x villagers on stone on your way up to castle age. By the time you reach castle age you’ll have enough stone to castle drop his forward TC. Alternatively just save your stone for extra TCs and use a siege workshop to kill his forward TC.
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