First thing to remember about Black Forest maps is to choose your civ carefully at the start. There is little point in getting civs with strong archers, as its likely you are going to be behind walls or rows of trees and the archers will not have much to do.
I recommend choosing Celts or Teutons. Celts because of the seige upgrades, seige is important to knock down all those walls. Both Civs are good because they have seige onager which can be useful at imperial age for destroying trees.
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This is a basic strat used by the Mystic Briton on several occasions quite successfully, although you will win most times with this, you will need to be good at it to beat a really good player. Build your town centre and a Mill near to berries. Move your sheep to the Mill, not the TC. Send your scout around to explore a small area around your town and then send it straight towards enemy town. Meanwhile train non-stop villagers, build houses and lumber camp. When you have located enemy town upgrade loom immediately. Send scout back and then send about 5 villagers to the enemy town and click on your scout - put him on agreesive mode and on guard to guard the first villager in the line. This will ensure the scout kills any wolves that try to kill the villager. Meanwhile keep training villagers at base. As soon as you get to enemy town, delete your town centre (by clicking the town centre and pressing the delete button on your keyboard), then build another one in your enemies town within range of their town centre. As soon as town centre is built garrison your villagers inside and click upgrade to feudal age. You will find that your enemy loses quite a few men before he stops attacking your town centre. As soon as he stops attacking it, send out some men to chop wood build houses and steal your enemies' deer or wild boar if they are around. When you get to feudal, build a blacksmith and upgrade fletching and town watch. This will make your town centre even more powerful. Train villagers and keep 3 or 4 garrisonned inside. As soon as you have 800 food, upgrade to castle age. At castle age build a town centre in your original town (normally it wont get attacked by this time), and others in enemy town as resources allow and get seige workshop and send in the battering rams. With any luck your opponent will not be up to castle age yet and you will destroy his only town centre, this will delay him a lot. Now finish him off and send him the message "Mystic Briton Rules!"
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This strat is best for low and medium resources where deleting your town centre is not really a viable option. Here you should do a normal land build up strat, except that when you have about 10 villagers, make sure loom is researched and send 3 of them off into enemy town with scout guarding them. Send one more villager to build palisade wall to protect your villagers at base. (Any wolves will be following the previous 3 villagers) Once you are in enemy town, hide your villagers away until you get to feudal age. Build a barracks in your own town (in case they try to bash down the wall with militia), then when you are upgrading to Castle age build a stables in their town. As soon as you are at castle age, train two knights and hit their wood cutters and gold miners. Then build town centre in their town and seige workshop. Seek and destroy!!
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