Outlaw meme

A meme build for the meme enjoyers who want to play a lakota army with some outlaws. Don't play this online, there is no way this build can outperform standard Lakota playstyle.

Game plan

Get as fast as possible to age 2 with the messenger and use the coin crates to activate outlaws in your native embassy. Then, leverage the ability of that civ to not need houses and amass a large number of outlaws.

Age I

Standard Lakota opening. If you have good coin treasures, open with a market, otherwise, a simple teepee will suffice. Focus on XP treasures. While food treasures will make you age up earlier, the real bottleneck of outlaw production is the 700c shipment. You want it asap hence the focus on XP treasures.

Your explorer should recruit human treasure guardians and scout all the mines around your base.

Age up at 15/200 pop with the messenger (fast age up).

During your very short transition, put 8 villagers on wood (keep the other 7 on food) and chop for a market, fur dressing (the coin gather upgrade) and a native embassy. Build the native embassy after everything else and use 2 villagers.

Age II

Ship 700c as fast as possible. Shift all your wood villagers to coin. Your objective is to start producing outlaws as fast as possible. Compared to other outlaw builds, your production will start later (around 5'15" at best). Scout your enemy to see which outlaw you should produce first.

Your 3rd shipment is "Astute trading" (a.k.a native silversmith) for coin mine preservation. Keep producing outlaws and take good trades. I would suggest building a mass of renegado. They have very good siege for a light infantry, more range than cetan, and a better multiplier vs heavy infantry. From this point several paths open to you.

Follow up

1. You can increase your tempo by shipping axe riders. You cannot train heavy cav with this build and your opponent will certainly leverage this by training light infantry. Heavy cavalry shipment will cover the weakness.
2. You can set up for a bigger timing by shipping 600c to build a big coin buffer, then either improve your pistolero or get cheyenne allies.

You can send the 700f crate to start ageing up. Unlike euro outlaw builds, you cannot go age 3 fast (you burned the messenger going age 2). I would suggest ageing with the 1000f and almost immediately click to industrial with the warrior. This move synergises best with your outlaws who shadowtech when in industrial, provided you researched the "Wild west" tech at the embassy.

Unlike other outlaw builds, you will have to tech switch to your regular units at some point. Tashunke prowlers are excellent because they shadow tech. Support them with wakina rifles. Do not forget to research the cooperation big button at the tribal marketplace to get a nice discount on your coin shipments.