Killing FB vs killing vills

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Killing FB vs killing vills

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A lot of times after a player wins a big fight and they have like 20 units left or something (ex blackstar vs samwise hudson bay game from that weekend stream), they will siege the FB. Isn't it better to go for the vills instead? If their vills aren't gathering, they wont be able to use their FB anyway, and your whole army getting trapped by 10 units coming from behind from the fb will rarely be a major risk unless CM or something comes from the other side.
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It's risky to move in past an fb. You risk getting surrounded and having to take a horrendous fight. That's at least how I feel whenever I had to option to either try to go for vills or just siege the fb.
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The other thing is that u wanna make sure u have safe points to ft her resources from. As he said ur opponent can use fb to surround army or even force ur vills off resources if ur troops aren't nearby. That'd why it's best to go for fb first then when u have safe res, go for his unprotected res etc
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Tho if I got any cavs I would rather go for vills with them while other troops go for fb
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When I play germany vs an age 2 civ like french or british, there are usually a few fights, and after a while I kill his army but I had maybe 10 skirms and 6 uhlans left. Those guys will take FOREVER to siege 2 raxes, a stable, and potentially an outpost. In those cases I think it's always best to go for the vills
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Just ship 5 dops and burn the whole map
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always fb, with you have long bow, you have to siege fb too =/
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It is always better to kill the fb before hunting vils - they will still be there after the fb is down, and you won't have to worry about the enemy pincering your army.
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