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Or cheat and trade stuff for horses, usually wooden weapons.

You should know, that 1 stable/swinefarm needs 1.5 farm. So 3 farms - 2 swinefarms. Also, I set corn delivery at 5 for stables and swinefarms. For Mill at 2 (then one farm can support two mills). To ask your question about amount of farms during the game, I have 5 farms for most of 60 PT games, 2 swine farms and 1 stable. If you want to aim for 40 bows, make swine farms first. With late stable, you'd have around 3-4 horses.

To have 30 swords, you need two working Armor Smitties at 30 minute. Of course, the earlier you make them, the better. Then make Weapon Smithy right away (it takes about 1 minute to make one iron weapon). Or make two at around 40 minute. Of course, then there's iron and coal distribution . For me, the best setting is: iron at 2 or 3 for both Smitties. Coal at 3 for Iron Smithy (Iron Smitties usually wait for iron ore, so they don't need that much coal imo). For weapon and armor smithy - coal at 2 or 3. Metallurgist's - coal at 4 works good for me.

Using Market is not cheating, it's playing as game's name indicates: Knights and Merchants .

I recommend you to watch this video. It helped me to build more efficently, so maybe it would help you as well .

surely it depends on the map too?

but either way 40 bows 25 swords and some knights is pretty sick, that build must be tight! i find it so hard to mix knights cause stables seem to take so much of my corn that my entire town is starving at 65 min. when do you build that stable and how many farms are you running on?