Different stages of the game, different answer.

-Super noob: The 150 Archers out of the gate is nice. Lets you get valleys and a close by flat.
-Keep 10 Scout, Pike and Sword, dismiss the rest. It sets you up with 60K lumber. Enough to put down some cottages and get them to 3.

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Later on, Mich scripts.

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Mech bat changes your game too much. You are now upgrading to ballista farm and not PvP and you will be doing the ballista farming all to soon, after the purge and thugging of the weak is done.