I cant seem to win vs franks who have map control and drop castles

Generally on hideout, map control can matter a lot and if you lose the map control, then especially against something like franks he is then free to build castles around. It then becomes even harder for you to gain the map control back.

Aggressive build orders are not a bad option for hideout, even when you start with palisade walls the are also give this kind of ''false sense of security'' and as you said without map control it is hard to gain back the control of the game, even if you would be ahead economically.

Some builds from our site that you could try on hideout are going man at arm opening into archer for example (make the barrack at home, send man at arms with 1-2 villagers and use those to build the archery range near the opponent, then you can also build tower(s) with those villagers near enemy gold for example)'

Also man at arms into tower rush is really good in terms of pushing your opponent of the resources and the map.

Can't see the recording indeed, but hope this helped you abit