Chinese¶

Kite Dive flexible ranged/siege.

Spawn unit	Starting age	Kills to Castle	Kills to Imp	Razes to vill	Cap	Interval
Chu Ko Nu (Elite on unlock)	Feudal	250	500	2	80	8 s

⚡ Quick reference¶

Baseline (reworked): +3 villagers start, techs discounted progressively, TC +LoS/pop, Fire Lancer/Fire Ship speed, farm team food. UU Chu Ko Nu. UTs Rocketry (Scorpion/Rocket Cart/Lou Chuan buff), Great Wall.
Requiem v294: starting age Feudal; kills-to-Castle 250; razes-to-vill 2.
CBA role: flexible ranged/siege.
Post-vill: CKN + Spear/cavalry screen + regional Fire Lancer/Rocket Cart.
Weak vs: Skirmishers, high-pierce-armor infantry.

🏛️ Standard DE profile

Civ bonuses
Start with +3 villagers but -200 food, -50 wood.
Town Centers +5 population (technically +5 in Feudal per age via patches — verify current DE wording).
Technologies cost -10% Feudal, -15% Castle, -20% Imperial.
Demolition Ships +50 HP.
Team: Farms +45 food.
Unique units
Castle UU: Chu Ko Nu (multi-arrow crossbowman).
Unique techs
Castle Age — Great Wall (walls and towers +30% HP).
Imperial Age — Rocketry (Chu Ko Nu +2 attack, Scorpions +4 attack).
Notable missing techs
No Bloodlines, no Paladin (Cavalier max), no Halberdier (Pikeman only), no Heresy.
Walls: full set (and buffed by Great Wall).

🏰 CBA REQUIEM v294 profile

(v294 numbers: Fandom wiki, retrieved 2026-08-21)

Starting age: Feudal (Requiem v294 start table).
Spawn unit: Chu Ko Nu (Elite on unlock).
Spawn interval / cap: 8 s per Castle; cap 80.
Kills to Castle / Imperial: 250 (Castle) / 500 (Imperial).
Razes: standard.
Free starting tech: Rocketry commonly applied at spawn to make Chu Ko Nu competitive; Thumb Ring; Chemistry.
Elite unlock: on Imperial promotion.
Available buildings after villagers: Barracks, Archery Range, Stable, Siege Workshop. Elephants disabled. Scorpions typically enabled (Chinese signature). Trebuchet enabled. BBC available.

CBA role & archetype

Primary role: Ranged AoE / anti-swarm. Chu Ko Nu secondary arrows shred packed enemies.
Secondary role: Wall/base breaker with Scorpion + BBC late game.

🌅 Opening play

Minute 0–3: sit at max range vs packed enemy piles. The tighter the enemy ball, the higher your secondary-arrow damage.
Patrol: short-patrol; Chu Ko Nu wants stable firing lines.
Preferred fights: massed melee (Goths, Teutons, Vikings, Japanese, Aztecs, Celts).
Refuse: Onager/Mangonel fire (Chu Ko Nu are fragile), Mangudai kites, Cataphract trample.

⚔️ Kill accumulation strategy

Safe farm: any melee-swarm civ.
Avoid: Mongols (Mangudai out-range), Ethiopians (Siege Onager), Celts (Siege Onager).

🏚️ Raze allocation

Second raze. Chinese have tech-discount eco that scales well; but Huns/Persians still take first priority.

👷 Post-villager composition

Wall order: back diagonal — Great Wall bonus means Chinese walls are the tankiest, use extra stone here.
Standard build: 2 Ranges, 1 Siege Workshop (Ram), 1 Barracks (Pikeman). UU production and Castle research run from your pre-placed Castles.
Imperial composition: Elite Chu Ko Nu + Scorpion (with Rocketry) + BBC + Pikeman screen.
Silver-UT priority: Rocketry if not free — buffs both Chu Ko Nu and Scorpion. Then Great Wall for defense.

⚖️ Strong against / Weak against

Strong vs: Goths, Teutons, Vikings, Japanese, Aztecs, Celts, Malay, Burmese (all melee).
Weak vs: Mongols, Ethiopians, Celts (Siege Onager), Bohemians (Hussite tanks arrows).

🤝 Team synergies

Best pairs: Persians (elephant tank + Chu Ko Nu cover), Aztecs (Jaguar dive + Chu Ko Nu back-line), Bohemians (Hussite screen + Chu Ko Nu behind).
Conflicts: Britons (redundant archer role, both die to same counters).

🎮 Key micro rules

⚠️ Common mistakes

🔒 Version-locked (Requiem v294)

Free Rocketry at spawn is common but v294-specific. Elite unlock, cap and interval cap 80, interval 8 s — verify against the Requiem v294 table before final decisions.

End of Group 1 (Armenians → Chinese). Group 2 continues with Cumans → Georgians in Appendix D.