iwillspankyou wrote:I_HaRRiiSoN_I wrote:I honestly think even on RE patch where sioux shines is the 11min DS BB timing slamming in 7 DS + ~15 vet AR + 5 RR (ship) + 5 BR (from colonial) where you alternate between war dance and siege dance. I dont think the civ is broken on the lt./capt level. Possible strat for the next tourney is on klondike, take tp as standard, try and control centre and drop teepees on the exposed gold mines and gold starve the opponent, (force them to push out of base). [there is only 2K gold in base and no other extremly close mine]
If that where the case - I guess most ppl would play sioux -
How often do you play them - and if you dont - why not if you think they are so OP
I like to mix between sioux german spanish and maybe french/china very rarely, My two mains are easily German and sioux. German is standard but i like sioux as its different, has a very forward aggressive mentality and multiple options however i feel that in 95% of my games im looking to go fortress as a semi ff. I wouldnt class them as OP at all, probably average at best which gets worse vs. higher rated opponents.
I think siouxs biggest problem is that its extremely hard to play on a no tp map, no minute men and that the concept of spawning MM/warriors as a dance is fundamentally broken as its natural to have firepit next to tc, where you would have to sacrifice vills to do the defence dance while having 10 idles in the tc. holding french's musketeer + vill + pioneers push is extremely hard, same for many colonial pushes... Also if you commit to building 3-5 teepees at home as an attack is coming, the opponent can back off and the teepee's become effectively useless.
I also think that people dont play sioux as they have the assumption that it is a nooby civ to play with the large raiding pressure it exerts and many lower people refuse to play as/against sioux when lower down on the pr scale and as a result never pick it up when they get better.
Simply put, for me they are a fun civ to play but its not competitive enough currently.