Opponent lamed the shit out of me - yet I won

Now laming in today's meta is usually attatched with Goth and Mongol opponents or if you have Chinese. But no, it was me Lithuanians vs Viking opponent.

At min 1, I was scouting with my 3rd and 4th sheep and noticed my 3rd sheep disappearing. Dafaq! It has been only 1 min in game and my opponent has found my location!? But that doesn't end. Luckily 5 seconds later I found my 5th and 6th sheep (Technically goats) and went to find my 3rd one but I was late. Okay not so bad. I have seen the pros usually push in or mill deer so I will be fine. Had he brought in 1 militia to kill my deer, I had cried. But he brought in 2 villagers. One was approx 5 HP, and he walled out my lumberjacks (it was an awkward map) and then walled himself in to kill my 2nd boar. Luckily I had sent my 4th lumberjack to wall off the other side. I ran out of sheep, and accidentally put 5 on deer. No worries, all my shepherds and the new villagers went to berries. What do I see? A full HP villager is walling my berries. Walls are tough to deal with upto Feudal Age except for Man-at-Arms. Thankfully I had 8 villagers which prevented him from doing this. This was quite a dirty dark age for me. But thanks to the Lithuanians bonus I had hope. I could constantly create villagers, which was very important. All my new villagers went to berries. I picked 8 foragers to gather the meat of the 2nd boar which had been rotting. 3 farmers, 5 hunters (on deer), 6 foragers, 2 lumberjacks and 8 hunters on 2nd boar made sure that I advanced fairly soon. Those 8 hunters weren't in a terrible position though. As soon as all meat was collected, I built another lumbercamp, thus reducing walking time.

All this ensured that my opponent isn't great with his economy either. An early set back in his economy cannot be compensated for the free upgrades. I chilled. I had planned a skirm + spear rush, but leave that for Knight rush. My scout was able to harass his villager while he was walling but I had only killed his single villager (the one who lamed the 2nd boar). But I knew what follows. Palisade walls aren't really a problem for Knights. He was also taking stone which meant he was planning a castle. But lack of range upgrades meant my Knights really didn't have a problem. Got all Castle Age upgrades for Knights except Iron Casting, which meant that TC fire can be ignored. Even though he was Vikings, he was making Feudal Age spearmen which weren't a problem for me.

It was also my first time in last 10 games that I had created a 2nd TC, and thanks to the lame my economy was so unbalanced I had too wood floating. Well make a 2nd and a 3rd TC. Insane eco, great raids, destroying his TCs (I almost destroyed 2) since I had collected 3 relics, and a better Imperial Age time meant I won clearly.

One point to note for you guys. Knights aren't great at destroying TCs unless you get +4, which is only possible with Lithuanians or Imperial Age (Knights with BF or Cavaliers with IC).

I really want to send my game to T90 and anyone of you who requests. Can you help me in sending it to him?

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