I love the buffs for some Russian cards. The age IV card for musketeers now giving +25% hp/dmg is absurdly strong. You have to remember that Russian musketeers scale from 150hp/23dmg stats instead of how it looks like in the game, yielding +37.5 hp/5.75 dmg. However, given that their colo musket is ...

3 SW (+2 Uhlan) is hands down the best shipment in the game, directly followed by 2 SW. Can't imagine a situation where you wouldn't send these two as first cards. However, I'm not totally sold on silversmith yet. Assuming that you put all your SW on coin and placer mines (+ amalgamation) is already...

How quickly can you get that many? the tech requires you to already have researched a bunch of techs/shipped shipments to spike so much immediately. Also what people kinda forget is that this is a royal house that's map dependent but generally available to all. France just gets the card option caus...

Garja wrote: ↑

27 Oct 2022, 02:10

After last patch French is probably the best legacy civ. Or Otto. Or India actually.

I like that shipment that gives you six shipments

fightinfrenchman wrote: ↑

26 Oct 2022, 22:12

Right after they implement state flags

Yeah, really missing the flag of the one and only North-Rhine Westfalia here. Ruhrpott stronk!

So... how is Sunak seen by the populace? On paper it looks like he could shape British politics for decades, if he is somewhat successful. Given that the material for comparison (BoJo/Truss) is utter trash and that Sunak doesn't appear to be a complete imbecile, this doesn't even look unrealistic fr...

So you say, I should send the Bourbon thingy, research my 9000XP tech, get 6 shipments, go french revo, and cash in my 12k of each res?

I used the French card that gives you access to the Bourbons in a standard 3v3 around the 25 min mark. I don't know how they calculate that 9023 XP, but I instantly got six new shipments lol. Also the pictures for Royal Musketeer and Royal Dragoon are glitchy.

ShinkuroYukinari wrote: ↑

20 Oct 2022, 21:46

OOS happens when someone ransoms explorer

Okay, so that was me

Trainable Prinz Chavaulager and Landwehr units don't seem very impressive. Why would anyone use a card for an expensive dragoon with low dmg output or a low range skirm with few hitpoints?

When you literally stand between "the west" and "the not-west" it's easy to fall into the fallacy of both being equally bad. As far as I understand Turkey has legitimate interests in having both of these powers balanced and on good terms so that Turkey can continue to function a...

The order of US/NATO may not be an ideal world, but it's at least 100 times better than the Putins. This is the exact reasoning of pretty much anyone within the NATO/EU/the West (except the US). "The West" is far from perfect, but it's strictly superior to the terror countries and people ...

I'm happy about the scale of changes as well as many - not all - details.

I see many useful changes. Things like Rockets doing 1.5x dmg vs infantry or Thin Red Line no longer nerfing infantry speed by -25% (now -10%). I also note that many things that I have always felt slightly overpowered are nerfed a bit (e.g. whale oil or boyars). Okay, what is this? [NEW] Azekura (II...

NATO wasn't involved in those wars, afaik, it was the USA and a 'coalition of the willing', which is usually a handful of NATO allies, but they didn't drag NATO into it because there was no legal basis to do that. Not all of them would have agreed anyway. NATO was in for Afghanistan, because 9/11 w...

yeah that's just every war ever. people in the west like to put labels like "terrorism" and "war-crime", to somehow deem it "super-illegal", but in the end that's just how wars go It's new to me that US or NATO deliberately attacked civilian infrastructure like hospita...

Russia tries to recolonize Ukraine in the same manner as it has always colonized it's neighbors. With Ukraine, Russia tried to bit more off than it can chew nowadays. The approach only looks tone-deaf from a Western/Ukrainian perspective. For Russia, it is just a continuation of how they treat their...

There's also a kamikaze drone, Toufan, that is just mechanically launched and then left to travel for a distance then explode. But such a drone is unlikely to cause any precise damage. It's probably used to create terror among the civilian population. that just sounds like an exact copy of V2 rocke...

Sargsyan wrote: ↑

16 Oct 2022, 19:04

Say what you want, but the shipment mechanic of AoE3 is spot on here.

According to the data to be found here , the answer is food . But the difference is minimal. French villagers gather 25% faster than others, but lack the homecity card Food Silos (15% faster gathering on mills). They should have the following fully upped gather rates: 1.4 food/sec 1.375 coin/sec If ...

I wouldn't call that a gift to his people. Up to now, he doesn't join the war because of strong internal opposition. He needs his security forces to suppress his people. Wasting his troops in Ukraine may lead to his regime falling.

Then maybe they could have given gas to their population for free. That would make Putin very popular. It just doesn't make sense to blow up their own pipe, lose so much gas, so that, according to the scenario duckzilla mentioned, they could use some Russian proxies in German politics to lobby for ...

They lost somewhere between 115.000 tonnes and 300.000 tonnes of gas since the pipes were blown up. It's a huge quantity of lost gas that they could have sold to China or India. Makes no sense for them to sabotage their own pipes and lose such a huge amount of gas. They can't sell this gas to anyon...

Please answer to my survey - who do you think blew the nordstreams, for what purpose / for what gain? If you don't know something, always assume the simplest answer to be the correct one. It was the Russians. To my limited knowledge, the Soviet Union followed a strategy of planting explosives along...

RIP bridge to Crimea