garja wrote:Depends on micro, also the bigger the numbers the worse xbow/pike is.

Agreed, I was thinking about medium sized armies, in long colonial musk hus seem better irregardless of raids.

Xbow pike beats musk huss in a straight up fight but there are other factors in a real game. The reason why xbow pike isnt really viable in French mirror is xbow huss and steel traps. Also cdbs. Hmm, well you are a good player so maybe you are right, but seems like pike get raped by musk and cav ki...

Im pretty sure in a straight up fight musk/hus is better since the pikes just get popped as they run in and out to cover bows, and hus are so tanky they take a lot of ranged fire to kill, but if there are lots of trees and natural barriers bows can do ok. Like others said, bow/pike are faster to ma...

China dont need vils, they have op shipments in age 3 and like the last guy said when wonder is building it heals itself, so no way stre will kill it. By the time you get your food and coin shipments out to age like you said, he will have way too scary an army and a better eco probably. i can just ...

I watched your rec, you did get the 40 stre out of block just before 7 min, and had the 9 cossacks, but you have 11 vils at 7 min! China will get aged by 8 min, assuming you timing push at 7 min and dont attack before, (if you attack earlier, he can defend with monk/disciples, steppe riders and mm,...

I'm pretty sure in a straight up fight musk/hus is better since the pikes just get popped as they run in and out to cover bows, and hus are so tanky they take a lot of ranged fire to kill, but if there are lots of trees and natural barriers bows can do ok. Like others said, bow/pike are faster to ma...

It still takes way too long, china will already be halfway up when youre at his base and you have a tc shooting down your units all the time which makes you losing ressources for nothing. so, what if i lose 20 strelets. thats only 700 food and 200 wood (total 900 resources). if i kill his wonder be...

maybe rdx is a noob, but diarouga''s words don''t seem to be a excellent player''s h2o will never quarrel with a "noob" and laugh at voobly or gameranger. too simple, sometimes naive learn from acergame. you may not beat diarouga but he can. but acergame is kind, modest and graceful . he never laug...

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Garja doesn't exist he is just a myth. Long ago rulers told their armies that if they fought well and gave their lives in battle then Garja would reward them in the afterlife. It was all just a very pragmatic deceit, but then new generations and rulers who were raised on the word of Garja began to a...

Doesn't improve gameplay but its more enjoyable for me, and that's the point of playing, to enjoy yourself.

I think this is a pretty complex argument here, but actually not even worth arguing, its just my opinion and you can have yours. Its totally worth arguing, this topic is only about facts and expiriences, you may have your opinion but it is just wrong because at least 50% of this forum can prove you...

Even without standard builds, Japan is gonna own Port, and Iro is gonna own... any civ. But there are also lots of subtleties in the various match ups, I mean there are about a hundred possible match ups with 14 civs, and it takes a long time to learn them. If every civ had an equal chance against ...

Low level players probably have more to gain from a balancing patch than higher levels, higher levels are more aware of the civ match-up meta game, so they know how to not get lamed. Lower levels will get frustrated by losing basically just to badly picked civs in a given match-up even when they pl...

There is a chance if they are going to replace the 10 year old servers you think they wont make an official patch ? Doing the servers thing is pretty expensive so yeah... why not Cause ms doesnt gain anything from it. Most players dont really see the use of a new patch, only the higher lvl players,...

Don't go Veni! You are for sure the best caster! I mean I love Zuta but he's not active as a gamer anymore, and H20 is an amazing gamer but I don't think he is as skilled a commentator as you. I've been watching your videos for years on youtube, you are always very balanced in your approach and you ...

Also did you see Aizamk on Smackdown with that spain timing v iro? Very nice.

Spain is okay v Iro relative to other civs I think, not great but they wont roll over and die to rush so easy, they can straight ff and have dogs, rods and tower to protect tc until they can get cannons out, and they don't rely on hunts as much as other civs. Yeah I know it doesn't sound amazing and...

Micro in treaty is way less important, in supremacy it means everything. In supremacy you basically have your one army and if it dies you die, so you are very careful with it and split second reactions are essential. When you can replace an army in 5 seconds, as in treaty, keeping those units alive ...