durokan wrote:What do you think of 3 huss shipment + 5 huss rush in colonial? If you catch your opponent off guard, it can be really good I think.
Also, can do the dutch ever get a trading post? In addition, is it truly neccessary to build banks aleays as the dutch, it seems like they could be similar to germany with their fortress agenda if they do a tp in discovery/transition while skipping the banks. (4 big shipments, 8/7 skirm and 9/7 ruyter)
The problem with the 8 huss start is that most civs either start cav themselves ir start with musks. So its going to be pretty tough to do some significant damage. And then you face another problem. If youre going to do this, you are making it much tougher to ever age up to fortress. Basically you kinda force yourself to play in age2, which is not what you want as Dutch.
Going 5 huss + 8 pike can be really effective against cav semi ffs though.
About the german style FF, Dutch has a few problems. The biggest one is that they dont get an amazing 6 vill shipment, and dont get the extra uhlans (which makes it a 5 huss semi vs a 9 uhlan semi), so timings are going to be harder to hold. Especially if you consider that their first fortress shipment is much less powerful because you dont get the three extra uhlans.
Im still not sure about the TPs. Ive been wanting to test them, but I can never find any point in the BO where they would fit.