momuuu wrote:
RE Sioux is indeed weird: they are super reliant on bow riders in everything they do.
not to take away from the rest of your post, but that part isn't true. RE sioux isn't that reliant on BR at all. Sure, they're a great unit, on RE they're probably even OP. But sioux can easily win games without them, and in fact, in quite a few mu's making BR is what will lose you the game, especially since many strats ppl use vs sioux are specifically designed to counter BR. Bow pike works quite well vs br for example, but gets decimated by AR Wakina RR. when I played sioux on RE i didn't make BR in the 75% of my games. I usually went wakina AR.
Imo sioux never needed 5 vils, or karni mata tp's, at least not as standard, perhaps as a late game eco card it wouldve been fine. BR were too strong, and the nerf was fine imo, they're still a great unit regardless. Cetan buff wasn't necessary I think, but not bad either, cetans were really quite bad. Teepees just needed to be buffed in what they did, increase unit hp. making them cheaper and increasing the radius would've sufficed.
you can defend vs infantry rushes in many ways, you can drop a warhut in transition, which is good vs russia for example, as tc + warhut fire one shots all their infantry. with teepees and 4 cav first you can hold easily vs 5 cossack 5 musk or 10 strelet. after that it's a matter of 700c or making BR or whatever. vs some slower timings in age2 you can just straight ff and win with teepees + shipments and whatever you can squeeze out of warhut or rax. vs many other civs that are strong with eco you can raid and run around and don't fight a straight up fight but instead pick them a part one at a time. rafuuu style basically. very strong, and actually something people don't do enough. the only thing sioux was really kinda weak against was vs walling + tower with ranged infantry behind. but even vs that there are things to be done, such as booming 99 vils quickly, taking stagecoach and do a dog timing etc etc. weaker walls kinda fixed this on EP anyway, and the fact that sioux can now actually do a decent water boom also counter acts that a little.