Set: Standard Water Build

By [DoD]BqvH & [DoD]Godschalk · retold

Set: Standard Water Build by [DoD]BqvH & [DoD]Godschalk: the full build order with allocation sequence, phase timings, construction notes, and follow-up instructions.

Archaic

Food / wood / gold / favor	Assignment / build order	Notes	Follow-up / transition
1 / 2 / 0 / 0	Initial 3 Vill :; 1st Vill and Pharoah goes out and builds a Dock .; 2nd and 3rd Vills go to wood and builds a Lumber Camp.	Dock auto-queues Fishing Ships.; (General rule of thumb considering FS :; - 9 FS in archaic; - 12 FS in advance, if there is no pressure; - Classical: 9-12 FS if you fight classical water; - Classical: 18-21 FS if you want to boom)	Priest and Set Animals scout the map. Convert animals with Priest; (preferably animals with good combat stats and speed like wolves/bears/boars).; Once the Pharoah and Villager have built the dock , gather Food with the villager using the Dock as a Food drop off site; (the Docks act like a Granary) - bring a Goat or delete a Set animal near the Dock .; You only need to gather a little bit of Food temporarily with a 3rd villager; in order to get smooth villager production with Fishing Ships. He will become a builder later.
3 / 2 / 0 / 0	2 to Food next to TC.
3 / 3 / 0 / 0	1 to Wood .
2(+5FS) / 3 / 4 / 0 + 1 Builder	4 to Gold .	Pharoah and Villager near Dock go to 2nd Fish location; and build 2nd Dock , after that: Vill makes Houses, Pharaoh back to TC	Empower your TC once your Pharoah as back at base.
8(+10FS) / 3 / 4 / 0 + 1 Builder	6 to Food .	At 150 Gold build a Temple with 2 of the Gold Villagers,then back to Gold .

Advance (3:51)

Food / wood / gold / favor	Assignment / build order	Notes	Follow-up / transition
2(+12FS) / 6 / 7 / 1 + 1 Builder	Vill disttribution:; - 3 Food to Wood; - 3 Food vto Gold	Build a Monument.	Pre-queue Handaxe and Pickaxe .; Pre-queue Purse Seine at the Dock .

Classical (4.51)

Food / wood / gold / favor	Assignment / build order	Notes	Follow-up / transition
	Continue balancing your economy with reaching Heroic in mind.	Continue building Docks and Fishing Ships on available fish sites.; Build an Armory and Market .; Build a 2nd Monument.; Build Barracks with Spearmen+ Anubite +Animals to scout the map and raid.; Build more Barracks to produce an army.	There are many routes you can take from here but generally I like to:; - Stay 1 TC all the way until Mythic Age.; - Defend and fight for fish control using counter military ships.; - Go to Heroic Age asap and build a Migdol on my forward Gold site (I also use prosperity around this time too).; - Fight for Gold control in the center of the map.; - As Set Barracks units are viable in a lot of match ups. Slingers are also very strong.

Source: [DoD]BqvH & [DoD]Godschalk · Deities of Death