What is your preferred construction and upgrade order for support-villages?

Well... from the options I think for me could be the first:

• All the buildings and fields that take less than 5 minutes to finish

Because I like a good start and going to let my new village have some infrastructure as soon as possible.. so starting from warehouse lv 3 or 4, then granary, some resource fields, market at least 4, military meeting point lv 1, and so on..

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Let's say this is going to be your 6th or 10th village sometime during the mid-game. What do you want want to finish first? Do you rather build everything evenly up, focus first only on the resource production, or first try to get culture point buildings upgraded?

• All the buildings and fields that take less than 5 minutes to finish
• Main Building to lvl-5
• Everything with less than 30 minutes to finish
• Main Building to lvl-20
• Resources to lvl-8
• Culture buildings to reach 400 CP / day
• Resources to lvl-10, including resource factories
• Rest of the culture buildings to reach 500 CP / day
• OPTIONAL: walls and other defensive upgrades

Above is my preferred order for Gauls, when I'm going to be boosting and sending resources from other villages. All in all this takes about ~23 days to reach, and majority of the resources need to be boosted from other villages. But after that it can similarly support next support villages

What's your upgrade order, and what do you want to prioritize differently? I would like to hear and learn from your methods!

For me it is storage first. Makes setting up trade route easier.

Upgrade storage until I feel comfortable shipping resources constantly. The level depends on time of day. Going to bed soon? Easy to let longer storage buildings upgrade over night anyways. Going to be on a lot the next few hours? I can have lower storage because I'll be around to spend.

Then upgrade resource fields as quickly as possible.

I do somewhat build main building during this time. Again, good for over night building.

I don't focus on market or military buildings or anything else until the RF are complete. After RF it depends on the villages purposes. Will it build chiefs? Then academy and residence. Otherwise marketplace to 20 and TH to 10.

I like rushing level 10 town hall asap to get large celebrations running as soon as possible. Usually within 2 hours of settling a new village. I ignore pretty much everything else until I get to that point, then I start passively levelling up resource fields until they are maxed since you will already have main building level 10 and enough storage to comfortably get to level 10 resource fields if you want to have space to do large celebrations anyways.

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I like rushing level 10 town hall asap to get large celebrations running as soon as possible. Usually within 2 hours of settling a new village. I ignore pretty much everything else until I get to that point, then I start passively levelling up resource fields until they are maxed since you will already have main building level 10 and enough storage to comfortably get to level 10 resource fields if you want to have space to do large celebrations anyways.

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Fields to 5

Main building 10

Warehouse 12/ Granary 12 / Market Place 10 / Barack 3 / Academy 3

One field to 10

Resource building level 3

Fields to 10

Resource building to 5

Academy 10

Townhall 1

That's the basic setup, depends on village type how to continue. And with Roman you can continue the fields non-stop of course. perhaps important I'm a non-gold user.

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That is quite bold way to push for CPs!
But I like it. I've usually only been doing the Small Celebrations, and never really found the playstyle to keep doing the Large Celebrations consistently, but only occasionally. And that's why I've needed to upgrade the base CP buildings.

Do you think it has been working well for you? And you have been gold-finishing those last levels of Granary and Town Hall, right?

Yes, I actually spent gold on most of the upgrades leading up to getting that first initial large celebration going in each village, then I just let them upgrade with time without spending any more gold. It's a bit of an upfront investment, but because you get the celebration up and running quickly, it means that you will get to the next village even quicker which starts snowballing very quickly.

The question is when do you start and when do you stop because you obviously don't want to end up with 32 villages and no troops nor do you want to end up with 8 villages and no economy to support your troops. My best answer is do the level 10 resource fields and level 10 croplands in 5 villages quest then start rolling out celebrations 24/7 and you stop anywhere from 13 to 18 slots. Do not ignore your kingdoms needs though, if they need troops right now then build troops right now. it doesn't matter if you have 20 slots and your villages get chiefed by the enemy as soon as they reach level 10 resources.