A TimeToMicro with TWC and TAD units only. I tried to have a mixture of realistic skirm-goon-cav units and more unusual units, repeating units as little as possible.

Lol, I also just made a TTM. I'll post it soon. The units actually spawn on your side and not your enemy's, which is a plus.

I don't think cav archers are that bad, as they have much more hp and also slightly more dps than dragoons (since they fire twice as fast) for a lower cost. But the setup animation and lack of ranged resist is annoying indeed, so it depends on the situation how bad they are.

Rice paddies gather at the same effective rate as mills/lantations because the vills don't walk around, and as we know vills don't gather while walking on mills/plantations. Same reason native farms have a lower base gather rate.

In imperial the trickles are only like 3 vills on wood due to the upgrades

When are Howdah useful? Are they a good general-purpose unit to mix into your army, or only vs cannons (since zams are fine vs cav)?

What also makes the 9 redcoats OP compared to 9 normal musk shipment (there is no 10 musk afaik) is that you get the veteran upgrade plus the extra upgrade for free, instantly.

yemshi wrote:(...)
They might be the Standard civ but you don''t need a standard civ. That''s why they are not balanced.

wtf

If I remember correctly, quicksearch games are always rated whereas hosted games are not rated if they end before 2 minutes. I don't think this has ever been discussed here, though.

Age of Empires I (yes, the 1997 game) is still quite popular it seems. The following video has been watched over 10000 times in just two days: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://cohet.tv/Hong-Anh-vs-Tieu-Tieu-Hiep-T1/video-aoe/49115.html">http://cohet.tv/Hong-Anh-vs-Tieu-Tieu-H ... 49115.htm...

@diarouga By elo rating I guess, the same way the current seeding works if I am correct...
I still agree that noobs shouldn't complain if they are up against a good player though, they were fully aware that this could happen.

Urumi one was cool to watch.
Musketeer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBFpw-459VU (skip to 1:30 or so)

The Shining?

The problem is not with typing the characters into the field, but with getting the game to accept it.

Doesn't work, says invalid name.

How do you create an ESO account name with, for example, Jap characters instead of normal a-z, A-Z and 0-9?

Well I purchased a steam account - and can''t get it to work. I am not prompted to make a new nick - and am asked to log onto tad using my old nick. Yea it finally happened - new stuff I can''t figure out..... Oh and this is the second time I have purchased a steam account.... And same issue..... I...

On a related note, Aizamk is bored of aoe3 and now plays settler massacre all the time.

They are not heavy inf, but they are inf, which they shouldn't be considering their role. It means falcs and cav like sowars counter them.

Fortress is 1:50 slow and 0:40 fast. Other ageups are 1:30 slow and 0:30 fast. Fast includes both Messenger and Exiled Prince. Source: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="https://docs.zoho.com/sheet/published.do?rid=mr7781ad081c531b8441e86e97a1e3bfe32aa&mode=html">https://docs.zoho.com/sheet/pub...

diarouga wrote:Meteor are better, that''s why you send 4 meteors before 5 irons.

Wut?

I think putting vills in melee could have beaten the gren rush. Since a melee attack is twice as fast as TC fire, this more than doubles the damage output of the vills. It increases the dps against grenadiers more than eightfold.

Ok thanks for the replies, I forgot the speed difference yes.

China often uses 11 changdao but nobody uses 8 halberdiers. Why is that? They are basically the same unit type (changdao being cheaper and weaker) but 8 halberdiers easily beat 11 changdao.
I guess China's lack of dragoons is a reason, but that doesn't suddenly make changdao a good unit, does it?

Some team cards can only be sent once per team, for example the cheaper outposts card (Ports, Iro). Other team cards can apparently be sent multiple times per team (team 1000c of Otto, Aztec).