Disciple Rush!

[yemshi]

1)Choose China
2) Gather up 200 Wood - Build TP
3) Ship 300 food
4) Go 10/10 White Pagoda
5) Gather 100 Wood for a foward Village
6) All vills back to food
7) Ship Steppes/Pikes and go in with 10 Disciples and 7 Steppes/9Pikes and have your fun
8) Lose everything to mm/ but save Hero for training 2 Disciples (you should have 11 vills by now)
9) Resign
10) Try it again

[fei123456]

all those days chasing down your daydream
all those years living in a blur

[yemshi]

Where's that from?

[yemshi]

It's incredibly fun' not good

[Goodspeed]

Where''s that from?

Something Disney

[fei123456]

Where''s that from?

i see the light
an amazing song

[fei123456]

i tried to age up 17p with white pagoda, chop for a saloon, send 700w for population and put all my vills to gold for outlaw pistol/rifle. also you can upgrade your monk and disciples there. sometimes i find it good against aztec rush lol. (outlaw + disciple = musk + hussar)

[divine_moon]

thinking of this rush, it's possible to modify it to make it more viable.. working on it
meanwhile any ideas gents?

[Papist]

thinking of this rush, it''s possible to modify it to make it more viable.. working on it
meanwhile any ideas gents?

In general, a strategy built around disciples is not a good idea. It is much better to just use them to bolster your regular army. By themselves they have low and hp and low siege - aside from rage-quits they are not going to win you any games.

[divine_moon]

thinking of this rush, its possible to modify it to make it more viable.. working on it
meanwhile any ideas gents?

In general, a strategy built around disciples is not a good idea. It is much better to just use them to bolster your regular army. By themselves they have low and hp and low siege - aside from rage-quits they are not going to win you any games.

ofc disciples as an army are useless, but with a small army monk+disciples can be quite a pain right? especially with th emonk converting random troops to his disciples in the middle of the fight...?

still working on this..

[Marco1698]

Bad joke. This strategy just makes me cry

[yemshi]

Reason of it

[_venox_]

good joke, this strategy makes me laugh out loud 21

[divine_moon]

someone work something out? please? i like the "idea" of a gang of disciples & their shaolin monk tearing up a gunpowder army

[aoefan4life]

i remember H2O being really good at this when TAD first came out.

[_venox_]

Then disciples were OP and you got like 10 on the fortress age up...

[Papist]

someone work something out? please? i like the "idea" of a gang of disciples &' their shaolin monk tearing up a gunpowder army

To be fair, the disciples and monk ARE very important for a Chinese FF - China relies on a small group of them and a couple batches of Old Han from the Summer Palace to tide them over to age 3. But after that all they are good for is tanking :/

[Inst]

ADVANCED MONASTERY.

With Advanced Monastery, you have access to: #1, a free pre-Colonial Age barracks. #2, mercenaries / outlaws for great justice. #3, Disciple upgrades. #4, can be sent while you're aging up. Would still like to see expert opinions on this, though.

[Inst]

#5, cheaper Disciple / Monk upgrades. Seriously, who gets the Disciple upgrades without Advanced Monastery? The upgrade price is a joke.

[tedere12]

yeah haha, it's useless

[Amsel_]

I play a lot of China and a disciple rush seems okay against civs which put on early aggression. (like Russia and Ottoman) My build is to delete the starting disciple, so that you can ship the 5 disciple card in age 1. Then age up with white pagoda with around 15 vills, followed up by the steppe rider (or pikeman) shipment. It's not very "good" and probably atrocious at higher levels, but it gives you a really good chance at destroying the enemy's FB, sometimes before he even gets it up. It's really hard for Russia and Ottoman to recover from losing their FB, so you might be able to sneak in an age-up after training some old han. It's a fun strategy to use as a gambit in a game you don't think you can win, otherwise, stick with standard China.

[towin]

i found disciples combined with the rattan shield shipment isn't bad in team games. no unit mix is a probably a problem in 1v1s though.

[ShawnRay223]

I tried my own version last year, check it out