Iro strategy

[yurashic]

I have a weird idea about an iro BO. What do you think?

300 w start. Chop 25 w and build a house. Convert your starting travois into a dock and make 2 boats. Ship 3 boats as first card. Age with 16 pop. Put all vills on wood. Queue 3 more boats then put all on food. Convert aging travois into a warhut. Ship 600 w. Use it for 2 houses, market + dogs and 2 more boats. Ship 5 vills next and put them on wood. Make some army, ship military next and pressure.

Benefits:
- Boats allow you to be in colonial at 3.10
- 32 vils at 5.30 with early military production

Drawbacks:
- No tp

Ideas:
- You could skip 600 w and 5 v and just ship and make army for a very early rush.
- You can use this if you get a no tp map on qs (Hispaniola, Indochina)

[lemmings121]

- 32 vils at 5.30 with early military production

omfg, thats why iro is banned of most games.
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but yeah, looks good, matbe not the best thing on a standard map, but for hispaniona /indochine might be good.

[deleted_user0]

Dont see why u would want to ship 3 boats. U can do this and still send 3 vils.

[yurashic]

3 boats don't consume natural res and can't be raided.

[[Armag] diarouga]

3 boats don''t consume natural res and can''t be raided.

3 vills gather faster and you 3 vills when you get raided don''t matter.

[yurashic]

On Hispaniola, Indochina, Araucania or other low hunt maps you will have to gather berries anyway, and they are very slow. On normal maps 3 v might be better.

[DerMaxinator]

I can definetly see the use in this, and it sounds fun to me

Only problem is when its a water map, the opponent must have at least 2 caravels in his deck, and if you get expensive Fishing Boats and then loose them, it wasn't really worth all the wood.