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Jan 23 2026 07:37am


AoE4 Japanese base layout.
One of a handful powerful builds atm for 4v4


Produce Buddhist Monks: Zen (Generate 25 gold every 60 seconds per Buddhist monk) / heals / damage de-buff


2 Military Japanese units are best:
1) Onna-Musha - Unique Horse Archer specializing in taking down heavily armored units with its high damage, mobility, and longer weapon range. Replaces the Crossbowman.
ups: have 3 university upgrades / very mobile / massive range
downs: needs age4 to be best / bad against buildings / expensive 60gold costs, 20 more then crossbows
2) Onna-Bugeisha - Unique light infantry which is fast and has longer weapon reach, but is ineffective against heavily armored enemies.
ups: fast attacks and mobile, great to burn down buildings / low 20gold cost / can build siege rams against walls
downs: dies fast
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Jan 23 2026 08:32am
Oh wow, thank you for this sacred scroll of Ultimate 4v4 Wisdom. Truly groundbreaking stuff here.
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Jan 23 2026 08:54am
Needs way more towers
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Jan 23 2026 09:10am
Miletary?
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Jan 23 2026 09:19am
Needs way more towers


Your towncenter and Castle of the Crow give garrison space for 35 villagers, safety when get raided.

Those 4 Towers are there to put Monks inside. Not for villagers.
You have 5 buildings that produce Monks , and only 1 that produce villagers.
Towers die very fast.

Then you want about 30 Monks under your towncenter, to heal villagers and debuff enemies, and to create chaos, and bait enemy inside.
To buy time, when get raided when army is not nearby, to buy new units

About 20-30 Monks you wana put near allies towns or in team battles


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Onna-Bugeisha cost 60food and 20gold
How many Buddhist Monks do i need to upkeep with farm food production?

a farm produce 45food per min, reduced to +/- 42food per min when dropping off recourses
multiplied bye 1.6

60farms*42*1.6 = 4032 food per min

4032/60*20=1344 gold per min required
1344/25= 54 Monks needed

4032/60=67 units per min

Production speed is 15sec, reduced bye 33%production speed upgrade
= 11 barracks

Oh wow, thank you for this sacred scroll of Ultimate 4v4 Wisdom. Truly groundbreaking stuff here.

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Jan 23 2026 10:13am
Your towncenter and Castle of the Crow give garrison space for 35 villagers, safety when get raided.

Those 4 Towers are there to put Monks inside. Not for villagers.
You have 5 buildings that produce Monks , and only 1 that produce villagers.
Towers die very fast.

Then you want about 30 Monks under your towncenter, to heal villagers and debuff enemies, and to create chaos, and bait enemy inside.
To buy time, when get raided when army is not nearby, to buy new units

About 20-30 Monks you wana put near allies towns or in team battles


------------------------------------
Onna-Bugeisha cost 60food and 20gold
How many Buddhist Monks do i need to upkeep with farm food production?

a farm produce 45food per min, reduced to +/- 42food per min when dropping off recourses
multiplied bye 1.6

60farms*42*1.6 = 4032 food per min

4032/60*20=1344 gold per min required
1344/25= 54 Monks needed

4032/60=67 units per min

Production speed is 15sec, reduced bye 33%production speed upgrade
= 11 barracks


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you typed way too much for someone who is messing with you. Lol. Also methwitch is trolling you, too.
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Jan 23 2026 01:16pm
Methwitch doesn't troll...
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Methwitch doesn't troll...


oh my bad.
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Jan 23 2026 02:07pm
Ages of empire 4 came out?
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