I Got That (Boom Boom Boom)

[If you had no idea what I was talking about]Okay, you've made it this far, let's get right through it. I'm gonna assume you just fast castled with 500+ wood/food and 200 stone and you're looking at a 4 TC boom.1. Did you remember to build a couple houses? 30/30 pop is bad for booming ya know.2. Immediately queue some villagers, not 10, 2-3 is good, put the gather point on wood for now.3. Grab your 4 Berry/Foragers and tell them to build a suitable first Town Center. They're likely to be done or have been done by now so it makes sense to put them back to work!4. You should always get your Lumbercamp upgrade whenever it's available. If you have enough wood for 2 Town Centers and Bow saw Axe, get it! (275x2 + 100 = 650 wood). If not, wait until you've laid down 2 TCs and then get it.5. Your second Town Center should be built by another 4 villagers, likely taken off of wood. Remember all those good locations we discussed? It still applies here.6. You should be able to buy 100 Stone from the market now, it costs 161 gold usually, so make sure to buy it before your allies do! (and enemies too since the market is a global economy based system).7. If you are able to build a 3rd Town Center immediately after building your first two, congrats! Either you have Brits, Celts, Vikings or just had a good start or you've done some great Lumberjack micro. If you weren't, follow step 8 onwards.8. I cannot stress how important Wheelbarrow is. As soon as your second or third TC are finished building, get that tech! Try to research it before the 20 minute mark. It'll go a long way, oh trust me.9. Try not to build any farms between your second and third TCs (third and fourth overall). The faster you build all your TCs, the better. Building farms delays that last TC which is meh. Space your TCs out; don't put them all in one sector unless you have like 3 gold piles, 4 forests and 2 stone piles all in the same exact place. You need your TCs for farming.10. When your TCs come up, make sure to put them all on wood. It's the most important resource for a boom since you cannot do anything good with gold (unless you buy food from the Market, blech!), or stone, at least early on. Keep 1-2 villagers queued in each TC, and make sure they're always working!!! Keep a few villagers on gold, like 2-5.11. As soon as you have 60 wood, grab a Lumberjack (or more) and tell them to build a farm around your TCs or leftover Mills. You want to make sure that you don't have more than 60 wood (40 for Teutons) for more than 2 seconds at any given time. It'll be hard at first, but you'll become a machine at pressing B + F with practice.12. Since you're booming, your population will rise significantly and as a result, you need to pay attention to your Population count. Send 1 villager to the corner and tell him to start building houses in a row. Avoid clutter. Booming efficiency relies a lot on farmland (like in real life) and cluttered houses don't help. If you have OCD, even better! Here's what I usually do with my houses in the start.13. Sending that villager out of the way is good since nobody will use that space anyway. Here's an example of what I mean (ignore my overzealous ally, I had aegis on :D)14. Is your wood below 60? You'll initially have some trouble keeping all of your TCs busy with villagers, but it will stabilize. Your wood should stabilize first. This means you'll always have wood to build farms with.15. Once your food stabilizes, prioritize Heavy Plow first. Farms are good, right? More food and +1 carry rate is goooood. This should be ~22 minutes or so.16. At 23 minutes, you should have 40 farmers, give or take a few. Depending on your civ and strategy, you might need more or less. Brits don't need that much food, but if you're Persians... keep churning those farms out.17. At 22-23 minutes, you should start focusing on gold. Put 2 TC gather points on gold (separate ones plz!!) and get the first Gold Mining upgrade. Also get Cartography once you can if you're playing a Team Game.18. At 24-25 minutes, you'll hopefully have a good balance going on, and at this time, aim for your second TC tech (Hand Cart). I usually get at 22:30-24:30 or so, but if it's your first few times trying this strategy out, you might be delayed. No worries.19. 25-26 minutes onwards, you can focus on stone. I didn't advise mining stone earlier because it's incredibly slow to mine unless you're Koreans and it's not worth spending villager seconds on when food, wood and gold are more important. Get your Stone Mining tech now if you need to.20. Aim for 100 villager population by 26:00 if you are doing a full boom. If you're going for a Fast Imperial (27-29) minutes, it's okay to advance with 80 population around 24-25 minutes.21. Did you remember to build your 2 Castle Age buildings? Start building them around 25 minutes onwards. I recommend Siege Workshop + University but I personally prefer Monastery since it's only 175 wood vs. 200 and I can grab relics. Your choice, but most people like Uni + Siege Workshop for the upgrades in Imperial Age.22. You should be able to click up at around 26-28 minutes. It'll give you an Imperial time of 29-31 minutes, which is good for a full boom since I can guarantee you'll have a great economy. Don't forget to keep your TCs busy even while advancing. Get your Blacksmith upgrades now for necessary units and be smart about it, for example, don't get horse armor for Vikings cuz that's just silly. If you were going to boom, make sure you can take advantage of your civ's strengths. Making Viking Cavaliers/Light Cav isn't efficient and they'll get wrecked by Castle Age Pikemen.23. If you were off by a few hundred gold or so, sell some wood or food. If you were off by a few hundred food, don't garrison, but instead just wait for the food to trickle in. Nobody is perfect and sometimes I can't even get 30:00 Imperial times on a consistent basis.24. Hmm, I forgot what I was gonna say. Oh yeah, since booming is kind of like an art, you need to ask specific questions. I tried to make it as detailed as possible but I've definitely made mistakes or left things out. Contact me on Steam or whatever if you didn't understand anything here.25. Crush your enemy with 40 paladins at 35 minutes. Oh yeah, that feels good.