It depends though. If it turned out to be a victory, then it's a good move, especially in a scenario that your enemy forward block you and rush you. But if your enemy placed his military buildings at his base and developed his own eco without any thoughts of pressuring you, then your strategic shrin...

I think #2 is most important. Going into the game with a plan is probably the most important thing you can do and easiest way to improve. Now obviously it has to be a good plan if you want to win, but even a not so good plan is probably better than doing random shit. Agree, and sometimes the plan n...

Cav rush? That's not even helpful for french, they could even have one thousand methods to make things better.

Well yeah before they wall up you would want to scout if they are doing age 2 play or not if they are doing age 2 then you can just adapt and make some settlers and control the trade post line depends on how slow they are from what you saw in base. The same goes for age 2 in my post you have to wai...

As Russia I believe you have to rush every game against ottomans unless it's maybe a strong water map or some different map like Deccan. Your best bet to win on re for age 2 (in my experience) is to do an all in rush like 17 settlers then stop for just unit spam to idle. Right when you age you want...

Well basically lots of match ups to practice general skills, map readings to help you know your environments better, study differences between different civs to know your opponents better. But in general, I think situational awareness will be the most important thing, this is what other things are d...

Otto russia is a weird match up for a few reasons. Russia struggles because jans are so tanky and strelets take much longer to take down a mass of jans than any other musketeer type unit. Otto ages much faster than them as well giving them time to be ready to defend against early russian aggression...

I'm now trying to summarize gentlemen's opinions. Most of you think it is really tough for Russia to make it in terms of a match-up with Ottomans(especially when Ottos are doing FF), and Russians should avoid impulsive rushing when determining the opponent is doing FF, otherwise Russians will be ver...

u6046 yes, the New Year's Classic Tournament is a one-civilization tournament Yeah I noticed that before but not confident at myself, my ranking is only below major. But since your kindly invited me...I signed-up minutes ago, and messaged the person in charge about which civ im going to use. Just t...

It's close, otto ages 350-410 usually so if you start bh at 415 at the latest your musk are gonna be out a little late but thats not a huge deal. The point is your want otto to be trading Jans for musk early so that they don't have a big mass of Jans when they get falcs, mams etc and slowing down h...

Kaiserklein wrote:Yeah but often you're gonna be already building bh when otto is not up yet, so you can't always rely on scouting the age up politician

Yeah that's the problem. If Russians wanted to be more conservative, they were supposed to do bh for the worst concerns.

u6046 sounds like you should join the upcoming tournament. it's a one-civ tournament, so you pick your civilization before the tournament starts by messaging u4860 and that is the only one you play throughout the event. would be a good playing field for your russia! Really? Did you mean New Year's ...

Otto has always been like this. Same deck could be 3 or 4 very viable strats, even on EP. Biggest mistake most otto players make is gearing their deck too heavily to their predetermined plan, nullifying their versatile advantage. Scouting otto is very important, but Russia holds on (in every MU) be...

Rushing is probably always gonna be a loss unless otto fucks up Well the only way Russia can win in general is if otto fucks up, and I think rushing vs their ff gives otto a bigger margin for error than just sitting back and waiting to get right clicked But otto can totally play age 2, and even if ...

Imo, just mass as much russian shit as you can, ship CM right before he right clicks and maybe even vill pull same time with CM. Then it's up to next 10 seconds if you win or lose. This is versus FF. Versus colonial its easier, just spam strelets and keep your TC fire on abus. Also raiding can be g...

Otto has always been like this. Same deck could be 3 or 4 very viable strats, even on EP. Biggest mistake most otto players make is gearing their deck too heavily to their predetermined plan, nullifying their versatile advantage. Scouting otto is very important, but Russia holds on (in every MU) be...

Otto has always been like this. Same deck could be 3 or 4 very viable strats, even on EP. Biggest mistake most otto players make is gearing their deck too heavily to their predetermined plan, nullifying their versatile advantage. Scouting otto is very important, but Russia holds on (in every MU) be...

gibson wrote:

Kaiserklein wrote:Rushing is probably always gonna be a loss unless otto fucks up

Well the only way Russia can win in general is if otto fucks up, and I think rushing vs their ff gives otto a bigger margin for error than just sitting back and waiting to get right clicked

Well, I agree.

Kaiserklein wrote:Rushing is probably always gonna be a loss unless otto fucks up

Yeah a better way is to pressure but at the same time develop the economy as early as possible, as best as possible, pretty tough though

gibson wrote:Yea but if otto ages with the tower you know they will make ff. If you rush and he's playing in age 2 it's auto lose for Russia.

That makes sense. But quite often, they will still age up successfully, so it's important for Russians to develop economy allowing further possibilities while rushing.

I have a dozens of DG's Russia recorded games, if you need, I can send them to you through email. I'm also a Russian player, I play Russia ONLY.

If u scout that otto aged with the tower you could rush I guess, but if it's vs a decent player that won't work. Resign button is your best bet, or heavy water I guess Well years ago I would choose to resign, but not now. It's interesting for me to think about it. Ottos Aging with the tower makes R...

Usually Ottos have everything, and they decide what to do first, and Russians scout for Ottos' actions to decide what to do to cope with. Now do we have some other ideas such as an universal and error-tolerable builds allowing flexibility to cope with different tactics from Ottos(including early for...

Yeah russia should probably not be able to deal with jans + falc in colonial if falcs are well covered. Kind of need to age up to get falcs yourself but you're much slower than otto so it's not easy Yeah, it's pretty tough in this case. Actually the most serious issue is that Russian players cannot...

I'm actually not confident at dealing with Ottomans' FF, usually hard to pressure(if well built and defensed), unable to stop it's aging up, and hard to defend when Ottomans' age3 troops fully developed. But this one is interesting, Russian player was able to conduct effective pressuring and reinfor...