First: keep making villagers if your town centre allows it. Second: move the builders you will need for your opening—usually wood for production, food for units, and the resource your first military choice actually costs.

Third: scout with a question. Where are the vulnerable resources? Is a barracks appearing? Are walls closing? Random movement reveals terrain; purposeful movement reveals a plan.

Finally, place the next two actions in order. “Build stable, make scout” is better than arriving in Feudal and opening the technology tree like a restaurant menu.