I know plenty of habitual nilla civ players who have spiked at least +5-10 PR by switching to/learning asian civs, breaking out of the capt-major swamp. In fact I have records of such players trying asian civs for fun beating (legit) PR 35-40 players in qs. If someone could provide a single example ...

It's dead obvious.

Interesting observation. I do think that the rift caused by the esoc patch, dividing the community into an self proclaimed class of 'pros' vis-a-vis the vast bulk of unwashed noobs still playing on the RE patch, generates a whole lot of toxicity in and of itself . The inherent country club mentalit...

And as someone who's been a part of both communities for a long time, I haven't seen what you're saying about this community being a vehicle for in-group bullying and snobbery. Sure people here fault the RE for its technical bugs and bad civ balance, but who doesn't? And when has anyone here attack...

[...] Another note to consider, people are kinda scrubs in aoe. Like nilla players, RE GP/deccan players, game was not balanced good and players tried to create sub-culture which is unhealthy for a game. We can still see in EP like no-NAT, wall-lame cry, sea lame, cease fire where players avoid the...

Nice filibuster.

Interesting observation. I do think that the rift caused by the esoc patch, dividing the community into an self proclaimed class of 'pros' vis-a-vis the vast bulk of unwashed noobs still playing on the RE patch, generates a whole lot of toxicity in and of itself. The inherent country club mentality ...

Tabben pulled off a rather convincing (semi) FI build as Dutch vs diarouga's India in the semi finals in the LAN. Meta or not but I think that build goes toe-to-toe/stand a fair chance to beat India's urumi FI stuff.

Check out diarouga's complete France Guide on the strategy wall.

HUMMAN wrote:came for musket stayed for rouga and turk fun cast! You should have a channel diarouga!

Indeed. Diarouga's game knowledge is near encyclopedic as has been demonstrated in numerous threads and I think a channel of his own would be of great benefit to the community.

Please delete.

CS GO pros have 5-10k hours atleast......is that same for aoe3 as well? Knowing this to be true, it never ceases to amaze how very little supremacy xp most pro players have accumulated on their accounts. Like if I create a smurf and play 100 games or so/make a few home cities I basically have accum...

[Armag] diarouga wrote:As I said during the stream, Germany ff is 6:30, tabben aged at 7:30, thus he had to send 8bows and 3 dopps instead of age 3 shipments.

So in essence always go 3 sw/700 g? And isn't uhlan semi with a greedier card order (3sw/2sw or 3sw/700w) more potent in this mu?

Yea, people used to go skirm/uhlan and never make a single WW (that was the H2O rule). Now people just go skim/jaeger/WW and it's even better than what the ger players used to do. Hang on. Since WWs have been left untouched in the EP patch skirm/Jaeger/WW would be a strong alternative to skrim/uhla...

You tell them Mitoe. People who main India and Otto should speak sotto voce about other civs being op.

It could be argued that the biggest problem with walls is not that they're inherently too strong, which is historically accurate - enabling a tiny band of brave men to fend of entire invading hordes, but rather that they are way too cheap. Imagine the intricate wall system of Constantinople costing ...

[Armag] diarouga wrote:It was a 200w start.
Without it, I'd do the same without TP and without 3v shipment

Interesting. So VC first unless wood start and age up with 13-14 vills?

[...]I don't outmass you in colo if you age on time and do Mitoe's cav stuff. Or diarouga's vc lb pike semi thing[...] I'd be interested in knowing the general BO for Mitoe's cav stuff and diarouga's lb pike semi thing. For my BO you can watch my first game vs tabben from the LAN. Was it a 200 w st...

Kaiserklein wrote:[...]I don't outmass you in colo if you age on time and do Mitoe's cav stuff. Or diarouga's vc lb pike semi thing[...]

I'd be interested in knowing the general BO for Mitoe's cav stuff and diarouga's lb pike semi thing.

I would love to see new civilizations. There is still a lot of potential for: ⋅  European powers which fit to the timeline: Sweden, Poland-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Hungary, (Italy) ⋅  African powers fitting to the timeline: Kongo, Ethiopia, Ashanti/Oyo/Mali, Morocco, (Zulu) &sdo...

I was playing vs a better player than me and i was doing skirm/goon combo i was losing badly so he told me to do veteran musk + cuirassier and it was working fine but i could not mass enough of them so i end up losing but i think musk/cuirassier is better combo. What works pretty well is grenadier ...

Can anyone confirm that it is IrishFaithful streaming on this channel: https://www.twitch.tv/gryphoonaoe?

Sorry kind of vague topic I guess. I was trying to find a civ or two to stick with. I was really starting like british, just feel if the game gets going to long or past there peak, it becomes really difficult. French also seem good, but very over played. I have always loved the natives like iro sio...

Too bad musketjr is not to be found on the list...

As I've said before. People arguing that the esoc patch is balanced, is wrong. You've made it worse. The ESOC Patch team are 5 people who don't have a single idea of how the game works. You only play unrated games with your own friends, don't listen to anyone else and then complain about stuff you ...