zutazuta wrote:

cowhax wrote:Wait Samwise12 bet 1000 points against himself? Well he is my new hero and earned my respect.

rather he bet all his money on himself 4-0

LOL even more respect. I didnt see what his betting conditions were.

@Garja it's arrogant to think there isn't more than 1 way to play Dutch, or that Dutch should be played. That's all I mean. I think building a TP with Dutch can be worthwhile also. Yes Dutch has a weak age 2, but how long does it take for 1 bank to accumulate the same gold as a 700 gold shipment? It...

The problem with playing Dutch is wanting to make all your banks as fast as possible, but in reality this is very careless. Its like investing 100% into tech and no units. You just dont do it. You shouldnt make more than 2 banks in age 2 in my opinion, unless its long game. 700 gold is a way better...

because people are going to want to damage your eco no matter how many banks you've built or resources you've sent. They're going to do damage if you have to garrison all vills in your TC because you went 100% boom without even a pikeman.

Wait Samwise12 bet 1000 points against himself? Well he is my new hero and earned my respect.

The problem with playing Dutch is wanting to make all your banks as fast as possible, but in reality this is very careless. It's like investing 100% into tech and no units. You just don't do it. You shouldn't make more than 2 banks in age 2 in my opinion, unless it's long game. 700 gold is a way bet...

For some reason I don't like her as a blonde.. but they already killed my crushes

I forgot to add that my other favorite unit is the Hatamato Ronin for their sheer destructiveness.

Favorite strong unit: Abus gun
Favorite practical unit: Coyote runner
Favorite fun unit: Fusilier

that's the reason why I like firepit so I can at least do alarm dance with all of my villagers in a crisis. If you have just a stable up you should make axe rider and either micro down the xbow, or send them to the other player's base to do a harass. Send an age 2 infantry card while focusing down t...

I BET MY FAMILY ON KINGOWNAGE OMG HOW CAN GOD FORGIVE ME?!?!?!!?!?

garja wrote:keshik pretty useless ye, worse than steppes.
Also tashunke prowlers, rajputs, flamethrowers (wow China units so useful).

And no, strelets are not weak at all.

No love for keshik or steppes?

Whenever I play as Russian I tend to despise strelet just because I know in the back of my mind 10 streltsy are basically the same as 8ish crossbowmen or 7ish skirms, and I can't choose however many I want to make at a time. always 10... but they aren't useless. I'd say most useless unit are either ...

I dislike whiners I couldnt agree more Whining and providing insight into the flaws of a game are two very different things. Ive seen a lot of good criticism in here I had never even thought of before. btw I wanted to add in that fallen heroes having a slight line of sight around their body is just...

still, 7 sheep is an age 1 shipment so its fair to consider that a 500 food shipment. 7 cows however, being an age 2 shipment, would come out to 3500 food total which is really good even if you start eating them at the 200 food mark. 7 cows are 3500f when fully fattened, which translates to 875f wh...

consider a late game water map, where both players probably have schooners in deck. but one player has water supremacy. the other player would probably eventually ship livestock if it went late game, yes? Thats just one scenario livestock is useful. not sure what you mean by 2100 food is 1200 actua...

Same goes with playing Russia 24/7 OMGScoots.

2100 food, which you still need to gather, so that''s around 1200 actual food. Which is still not worth it if you have to wait 20 minutes. If you build a livestock pen you still gotta wait like 5, and then you also have to spend another 200 wood. If livestock shipment were ever worth it, PR 30+ pla...

Well they dont have villager shipments also, so livestock can be treated as a villager shipment. Ill never buy the argument that livestock shipments are bad, except for most civs. Honestly, I can agree with that. Anyway, shipping units is safer too. Even if its 3 hand cav, that gives you something ...

@somppukunkku @umeu : Why not play your matches on your own schedule, and just send the replays to Veni/interjection/zuta to live broadcast for Smackdown? Or have somebody else stream it, then have the aoe official channel rebroadcast the stream + commentary?

Ah I knew this was going to happen. Can we keep this thread specific to game mechanics and not mention various bad manner players?

Why come here to brag if you've dropped AoE3? Have you gone to the "greener pastures" of LoL?

1 quick question: are you actually good? If so, prove it.

It's time for some honesty. Even if you think AoE3 is a good/great game, all games have their flaws. And I think AoE3 has many flaws worth listing, otherwise it'd still be played by a good percentage of gamers despite it's age. So rather than me list out what all I dislike about the game, I'll menti...

I guess if you had the kind of software, you could at least use the ape heads. but since sioux are mostly naked it'd be trickier to make them all proportionate and have smooth animations.

how would you change the models to resemble apes? or you're talking about using dubers and orangutans etc?