If you do use control groups, then you shouldnt really need to double click units when you only have a few unit types. Even if you sniped his cannons his mams would've beaten your army - they have 40% rr and 1,450 hp. Best bet is to wait for his push (inevitably Otto will push as your eco advantage ...

lol whoops <!-- s:P --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_razz.gif" alt=":P" title="Razz" /><!-- s:P --> do you use control groups? Everything seemed to be in one group and you took a while to notice / adjust p.s. you didn't need to push out at that time. You knew he was going falc / mams and you had the...

I think like 50. Here's comes the Sam spam...

Back in the day it was quite common for full coss for the first 8-9 mins before even making a BH, given Russian musk suck and coss have two upgrade cards before age 3

Sorry but if the water map has say more than 4 whales, and Jap goes full out wall crazy (looking at you Kynesie) then it's pretty hard to play against. Japan can get to age 3 before you've got through 7 layers of walls, and we consistently say that the best way to beat Japan is a timing push of arou...

NerVe 1v1 $750 tourney (TAD FP1.1a) - in 2010: 1st: Samwise12 2nd: Flooky 3rd: H2O 4th: Luigi Note both Sam and Flooky won an official AoE hat, as shown in the pictures here However, I never did get to see either of them in their hats, which was a shame. Spnz also ran a tourney back in the day, I ca...

NerVe was decent clan! We ran a Nerve tournament a few years back for around $2k I think. Will work out the brackets / winners for the other thread later this evening

samurais?

Otto can get up much quicker than Russia and will have more fortress shipments. Straight FF won't work to counter it unless you can slow down his push - could be with some raiding to distract, some early pressure into FF to try to contain and snipe vills to slow down the age, the use of walls - some...

So maybe there aren't enough active players for a 2v2 now, but some of the old 2v2 tourneys were actually surprisingly good, especially where players went non-standard against better players to try and pull off a win (slinging, French grens, natives all over the place and so forth). It's a good thin...

If the interest is there, then there could always be a number of tournaments for fun rather than money. Usually it's the money and the prestige of a cash tournament that motivates some people to play, so I guess you'd have to have enough people wanting to play for fun to make it work. I'd certainly ...

It might be cool to come up with some ideas for fun tourneys with maybe a smaller prize fund for the future. 2v2 tourney would be good, but to be honest there are less people that play 2v2 together consistently nowadays. This was a tourney age sanc (I think) ran a few years back. I remember there be...

Here's another if anyone's interested, which was supposed to be a pike semi-ff, but had to adapt into colonial play to start. p.s. lots of mistakes made, but the largest one was not scouting what Jap was doing at key moments in the game. Sometimes you can over focus on treasure as you 'guess' the st...

The key here is to pressure eco and maximise vill idle time - and also work out what your opponent is doing. If he hadn't boomed so much and invested earlier in military then the game could go different, but then you can adapt and go age III earlier. Not all games will go this way, the earlier game ...

Given the recent thread on playing vs Japs, I thought it may be useful for some of us to post recs of the MU's we've played recently vs Japan. Looking through my recorded games I only had 1 but attached in case it can help - not the best play from me, but in the previous game I went single rax pike ...

Timing is essential in any MU vs Japan. Your strat on GP completely depends on what the other player is doing and all the usual variables, but generally I'd probably semi. Early game Jap will struggle to deal with your falcs, so I would siege with musk/pike age 2 and focus on shrines until you're up...

- use your explorer to scout his base early - get timing right and see where he builds second TC - if you scouted dock you could've adapted. You kept your explorer idle by your FB and built stable rax before you even knew what he was doing (you generally need to have a vague idea of your opponents s...

Unless you kill his forward tower early it's pretty hard to beat this vs a decent player imo. No doubt people have better builds than me, but I went naked FF for blackriders vs Kakasuma or whatever his name is the other day. He killed my TC before I even managed to get them out. Even if my macro / B...

Didn't spadel send 2 vills in his mirror vs veni? I don't play japs, I think they have a villager card in age 1...?

Surely if he always FF then go colonial sepoy and take map. If he has a few cdb on each mine then send a few cav to raid each mine?

50 on Kiljardi wins 3-0

gs do you have odds? I have 50 donated points, I need to bet on something outrageous

Well there was a general 'wall' theme going on here..

If Garja won the Ger-Jap match up I would've been riiiich. Now I'm poor. Damnit

500 points Fard wins 3-0

300 points goongoon wins

150 points goongoon wins 3-1

325 points Garja wins 3-0

135 Somppu wins 3-0