Build a house first with two villagers and another house with the other. While the houses are building train villagers and keep training them until you have to go feudal.

Put your first 5 villagers on sheep as soon as you find them... if you don't find them straight away then find the berries and build a mill with all villagers at once, get berries until you have found your sheep, then switch villagers back to sheep. If you are close to the sea, then shore fishing is better than berries, so you may consider building a mill on the coast and shore fishing with a few villys.

Villagers 6 to 10 go on wood.

Villagers 11 to 14 go to wild boar or hunting, shift villagers from sheep to hunting when sheep stock has depleted.

Villagers 15 onwards go on wood.

Send your scout around the outside of the map to find the position of your enemies and also to reveal wheres best to wall off.

Send two or three villagers off to build palisade wall between edge of map and lake betweeen you and your opponent. I recommend you leave one on the enemy side, but its not really necessary.

Its time to build a dock, try to build it near a large patch of water where you have more chance of getting a large fish stock.

Train fishing boats non stop, send one around the water to reveal the patches, then subsequent ones directly to patches.

Send all subsequent villagers to wood until food is enough to advance to Feudal age. (You should have around 45 villagers / Boats).

When the berries /shore fishing is gone put these guys on gold and build a mining camp.

When you get to feudal age, train 2 villagers and build first market, then blacksmith.

When market is finished trade 200 stone for gold (if you need to) and immediately upgrade to castle age.

Build another dock or maybe two and start building galleys. Remember, any decent opponent will also be fishing in the same lake as you and therefore if you can hit his food supply now, its the same as killing villagers near his TC.

When you have three or four galleys, patrol them towards your enemies, as soon as you reach castle age upgrade to war galley, kill alll your opponents fishing ships. Try to keep control of the lake as this can be crucial to winning.

When hunters are finished put them on wood

Stop training fishing boats when you have one on each available patch.

Upgrade Gold mining and Double Bit Axe as soon as you have the resources.

Build a stables near your dock and train 3 knights. Patrol each of these knights (one at a time) in a different direction, so they are constrantly patrolling the coast, this will ensure the enemy don't land a transport and drop off villagers.

Build at least five town centres on your side near to resources like gold, stone and wood. Build a few farms, the fish stocks won't last forever.

Upgrade town watch, so you can see any enemy buildings going up in your town.

Start building farms in main town and upgrade horse collar and heavy plow. Keep building ships all the time, but be careful of gold reserves. Fireships and Galleys are fine, dont get demolition ships as long as you control the sea.

If your palisade walls are under attack, build some stone wall, two or three rows if necessary.

Build a monastery and university and upgrade to imperial as soon as you have enough gold and food.

When you reach imperial, upgrade gunpowder at university and cannon galleon at dock. Get at least 8 cannon galleons and start pounding your enemies town, send a transport over with some villagers and land them within the cover of your ships.

Build a town centre on enemy land, several barracks (6 at least) and a castle.

Get trebuchets and infantry. Use the infantry to cover the trebs and kill whats left of enemy army and villagers.

Job Done!

Because chinese start with three extra villagers and 150 less food, then the strategies can be fairly different from other civilizations.

The main concern early has to be getting food in quickly, otherwise it is not possible to train villagers non stop.

This means that if you find your forage bushes before your sheep then quickly start foraging to get that vital food to be able to train another villager.

Put your first 7villagers on sheep as soon as you find them... if you don't find them straight away then find the berries and build a mill with all villagers at once, get berries until you have found your sheep, then switch villagers back to sheep. If you are close to the sea, then shore fishing is better than berries, so you may consider building a mill on the coast and shore fishing with a few villys.

Villagers 8 to 10 go on wood.

Villagers 11 to 13 get wild boar.

Villagers 14 onwards go on wood.

Send your scout around the outside of the map to find the position of your enemies and also to reveal wheres best to wall off.

Send two or three villagers off to build palisade wall between edge of map and lake betweeen you and your opponent. I recommend you leave one on the enemy side, but its not really necessary.

Its time to build a dock, try to build it near a large patch of water where you have more chance of getting a large fish stock.

Train fishing boats non stop, send one around the water to reveal the patches, then subsequent ones directly to patches.

Send all subsequent villagers to wood until food is enough to advance to Feudal age. (You should have around 45 villagers / Boats).

When the berries /shore fishing is gone put these guys on gold and build a mining camp.

When you get to feudal age, train 2 villagers and build first market, then blacksmith.

When market is finished trade 200 stone for gold (if you need to) and immediately upgrade to castle age.

Build another dock or maybe two and start building galleys. Remember, any decent opponent will also be fishing in the same lake as you and therefore if you can hit his food supply now, its the same as killing villagers near his TC.

When you have three or four galleys, patrol them towards your enemies, as soon as you reach castle age upgrade to war galley, kill alll your opponents fishing ships. Try to keep control of the lake as this can be crucial to winning.

When hunters are finished put them on wood

Stop training fishing boats when you have one on each available patch.

Upgrade Gold mining and Double Bit Axe as soon as you have the resources.

Build a stables near your dock and train 3 knights. Patrol each of these knights (one at a time) in a different direction, so they are constrantly patrolling the coast, this will ensure the enemy don't land a transport and drop off villagers.

Build at least five town centres on your side near to resources like gold, stone and wood. Build a few farms, the fish stocks won't last forever.

Upgrade town watch, so you can see any enemy buildings going up in your town.

Start building farms in main town and upgrade horse collar and heavy plow. Keep building ships all the time, but be careful of gold reserves. Fireships and Galleys are fine, dont get demolition ships as long as you control the sea.

If your palisade walls are under attack, build some stone wall, two or three rows if necessary.

Build a monastery and university and upgrade to imperial as soon as you have enough gold and food.

When you reach imperial, upgrade gunpowder at university and cannon galleon at dock. Get at least 8 cannon galleons and start pounding your enemies town, send a transport over with some villagers and land them within the cover of your ships.

Build a town centre on enemy land, several barracks (6 at least) and a castle.

Get trebuchets and infantry. Use the infantry to cover the trebs and kill whats left of enemy army and villagers.

Job Done!