callentournies wrote: ↑

21 Mar 2023, 04:46

Inca, Malta, Italy. See a pattern?

1 aoe2 gimmick and 2 great civs grognards love to mald about?

>Italy changes You're becoming excessive with it. Italy FI can be simply fixed by nerfing the free Outposts, say slowing down the build rate for them, opening Italy for an aggressive rush to counter the FI. If Italy proves too weak in fast games, buff Pavisieri, thereby encouraging multiple differen...

I think some pros are just not used to outside-the-box strategies and are getting frustrated since the game is no longer the same-old it once was, during EP era, and have a hard time approaching a different game. Granted they were always frustrated, whenever Kynesie would pull out some random shit y...

Dead thread.

Also THERE IS A FUCKING GOD

France is a consistent and easy way of getting the pike xbow rush going, and can use the pikes to deny TPs, which Ottos especially depend on as a lifeline. This combined with 3 Huss ship and consistent pressure can do wonders to cripple the FI-er. Plus, this is dependent on catching the FB and the F...

Bring out the classic Pike Xbow and deny them an ageup.

Dolan wrote: ↑

06 Mar 2023, 09:43

Aykin Haraka wrote: ↑

03 Mar 2023, 15:02

we never pronouce the x at the end of a word

Astérix et Obélix

They're Gauls, not French

remind me when we started to use lakota instead of sioux Lakota is actually easy to say and type so switching from Sioux to Lakota is easy. It's not like Iro where the DE name is long and annoying to say/type, so most people still use Iro (or so I thought but I read through the thread and people ar...

All Lakota needs imo is age3 food options, because they consume food like it's nothing and need Age 4 to get the infinite bison or tons of wood to set up the farms. An Age 3 infinite 10 bison would go a long long way.

Lakota has always been a poorly designed civ since, almost by design, they win any upright fight but lose to buildings. So people just build buildings. Lakota produces the most obnoxious games (maybe im just bad). Devs tried to return lakota to being a horsie civ by nerfing the fuck out of its bow ...

> Mortars can now attack units

So what's that Swedish shipment for now?

Coffee Mill Guns (IV): Moved to Age 4. Lame Overall the sensibility with which players' whining is accomodated is disgustingly high. Found the coffee mill abuser. I wonder if devs should even be entitled to touch stuff like the 3v card. Feels to me they're just doing a wrong to whoever has played t...

I recently made a thread on the official forums regarding this topic. If you want to give your input and help make team games great again, feel free to join in!
https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/team- ... ess/224148

Team ranked matchmaking is out of whack even in the most played games. It's a trade-off between how many are close to your rank, how to compensate for adding a slightly higher rank in one team, how many had a losing/winning streak (you need to punish winning streaks to prevent too fast climbing), a...

After picking up team ranked again after so long, I can confirm that the situation is still as bad as ever, especially with imbalanced matchmaking.

I think you're overblowing the value of rushes in team games. Speaking from experience, rushes are most often done by well-coordinated teams(and cheating clans, cough cough) that will more often than not stomp randoms matched together. Honestly, while team games can already be annoying to assemble,...

I think you're overblowing the value of rushes in team games. Speaking from experience, rushes are most often done by well-coordinated teams(and cheating clans, cough cough) that will more often than not stomp randoms matched together. Honestly, while team games can already be annoying to assemble, ...

Ye Russia has always been pretty average and now with the new civs and safer maps it's just mediocre, competitively speaking. I don't even know why is it ranked so high in some tier list. I'm not advocating for Russia buffs (in fact the age IV musketeer buff is huge and not even deserved probably, ...

Gatling with that card and leather cannons with case shot are borderline OP because they do decent even against cav. Iirc case shot was nerfed cause it was even more ridicolous. Literally. There are some simulations people ran, Gatling vs Hussars, and Gatlings just barely won. Now imagine with a fe...

After last patch French is probably the best legacy civ. Or Otto. Or India actually. I like that shipment that gives you six shipments How quickly can you get that many? the tech requires you to already have researched a bunch of techs/shipped shipments to spike so much immediately. Also what peopl...

Aizamk wrote: ↑

22 Oct 2022, 15:50

seems like this currently causes OOS, unfortunately

Nah it's explorer ransom and/or the new skins

It would require a large amount of shipments to be useful, in which case I'd also recommend Bourbon royal house. Btw, unfortunately they lose the vil tag, so you can't buff them by 65% HP. But the idea is there, and rather promising, if you can keep up the shipments.

Garja wrote: ↑

21 Oct 2022, 21:15

What about Romania revo?

I am wondering if the effect applies to Romanian Cavalry archers too, that have 1 ROF. But I'm not sure judging by the text.

Garja wrote: ↑

21 Oct 2022, 19:08

Azap (and CA) have a card in age4 to remove the setup animation. Can potentially FI and use that unit instead of jans.

I just realized something.
Otto fast revolt into Romania has literally broken Cav Archers

Explorer ransom causes OOS