Blockhouse hp needs to be buffed. It is currently way too easy to break Russia's contain game in colonial. This change would go way further than cutting villager cost ever would. Russia are too strong atm I think he is for removing/changing vill cost and instead buffing bh HP and a few other things...

10 pisteleros is a very good and underrated shipment (it is more valuable than china intervention), and makes cetan/war club rushes very good IMO. No Troll

So a lot of threads have been made on this topic, but none have the information I was hoping for. I am looking to build a new PC and was wondering what would be the best configuration I can make. So, I would like to hear about your specs, and what settings you run at and around what FPS you get (if ...

Wait wtf

Advanced Arsenal is a pretty good card, and I have it in my mirror decks, and some of my other decks. It is kinda annoying just because the techs there cost so much (700 res for the musk attack and 450 for HP I think), and the card does nothing to help those out.

Hmm... I honestly have no idea what to do except maybe go into the bios and see what there is to see there.

Papist wrote:I'm surprised nobody has brought up the monk and disciples yet.

I mean they are good and means that china has good early presence, but they arent as good as villages, war academies, and good age 2 cards, as well as strong consulate options.

Now, what about team 2 mongol scouts?

Im on a laptop, with no dedicated gpu tho (just hd 520), and I get 60-80 fps on low settings 1440p regardless of which patch I am on. What are your laptop specs?

Garja wrote:TPs have little to do with ports being good. On non TP map they would be even better vs other TP civs.

Yeah they really dont, but they are better with one, as most civs are.

Ports and Dutch are probably top civs on all maps. On maps with good hunt (i.e. High Plains, Adirondacks, Hudson Bay), ports can just do a 5-15 musk semi with a TP or two, maybe even ATP and stagecoach, and almost auto win against Germany, and do very well against almost every other civ. They even d...

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Darwin_ wrote:Japan is easily better than china in 2v2. No contest. Shrine everywhere on the map and deny your enemies hunts, while you boom as well as Britain, and spam insane Ashi and 20 atk yumi in age 2.

Ok if you say so, then I have to change my mind.

Lol wut

Japan is easily better than china in 2v2. No contest. Shrine everywhere on the map and deny your enemies hunts, while you boom as well as Britain, and spam insane Ashi and 20 atk yumi in age 2.

What is so good about the china FB? Is it 9 pike shipment coupled with old han? You can ship 300w in age 1 and get two tps in age 1 with not extra gathering so you can then ship pikes, ckn, steppes and 700w pretty much back to back Hmm... I had tried that before but never tried to play colonial off...

What is so good about the china FB? Is it 9 pike shipment coupled with old han?

Germany is okay as a whole, but Uhlans just suck. They are not even really worth building on this version of EP; I would almost rather have 3 ww over 8 uhlans in my deck now which is not a good thing. If we keep the Uhlan nerf, we definitely need to counter-buff ww, probably increasing their hand re...

700w, 3sw, 700c - 1 uhlan is a good nerf. Would add some nice strategy because you could send fewer resources and get more uhlans or vice versa. Same nerfs for 8 skirm and 9 uhlan.

The uhlan nerf as it stands is just so bad and makes a once decent unit almost worthless.

German consulate bow/pike with summer palace age up. China is generally good in team because they can take map control with villages, and a single military building produces both cav and infantry,

17 vill age up with a market or Tp with 400w and then 5 coss/700w, 700c fast age up into cossack opri strel with cannons. Build a blockhouse with 400w and 2 houses, and only train two batches of vills in colonial. I would really only bother doing this in team, in which case I would go heavy on the ...

4v is adding eco add a point in time where your eco is already amazing and youre actually struggling to get mapcontrol or punish a semi ff as brits. Not a fan tbh. Yeah its not the best, but you can get away with it on high hunt maps, something that almost all ESOC maps are. I think it is fine, and...

3v, 700w, 600w, 5 vill, musket attack/4 vill is standard BO. Age with tower and have 200w when you age up and place a forward rax and the tower. You should have built around 2-3 manors in transition. Build manors with 700w, and more on 600w plus a extra rax or stable. On 300w start, build a TP and c...

I did some expierimenting with semi-ffs today vs. the AI just to nail down some good Build Orders. I practiced them on high plains and did pick up treasures, so take that into account. The one I came up with was: Wood trickle, age with 400w, 700w/5 cossack, 700c. I did a 14 vill age up in this build...

17 vill age up with a market or Tp with 400w and then 5 coss/700w, 700c fast age up into cossack opri strel with cannons. Build a blockhouse with 400w and 2 houses, and only train two batches of vills in colonial. I would really only bother doing this in team, in which case I would go heavy on the o...

I normally go bank wagon because it is easier, and build a stable and 2 houses on 400w. Alternatively, you can build a bank on the 400w, and a stable, houses and more banks on 700w. Both are good options. You can also go bank on 400w and 2 two banks on 700w and then a bank wagon and then age, or 600...

Oh yeah I totally forgot about light infantry negative multiplier against cavalry. Personally, I like it on Nilla because it means fewer civs can cav semi all the time because cav is so much weaker in general. Did uhlans still have 6.5 speed and neg multiplier against vills on TWC?

Ive heard a lot of people talk about dutch being their main civ on TWC. What was different about them?