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by forgrin
21 Feb 2016, 19:30
Forum: General
Topic: Water discussion
Replies: 87
Views: 5455
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Re: Water discussion

But wait. We cant talk about nerf water if people think water>land is acceptable on some maps... So lets just discuss about that issue. Well, water is part of the game. Yes, it definitely needs changes, but there should be maps where water play is better than land. I think just 1 standard map with ...
by forgrin
21 Feb 2016, 17:14
Forum: Strategy
Topic: Portuguese Halb Fast Fortress
Replies: 28
Views: 3065
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Re: Portuguese Halb Fast Fortress

krichk wrote:But aren't minutemen+uhlans+TC scary enough to deal with halbs+cass/organs until the 8 skirts arrive?


It'd be very close, probably yes I'd say? Unfortunately this build doesn't work as well if 8 skirms comes first unless you get them with the halbs as they pop out.
by forgrin
21 Feb 2016, 17:10
Forum: Strategy
Topic: Portuguese Halb Fast Fortress
Replies: 28
Views: 3065
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Re: Portuguese Halb Fast Fortress

the build order is interesting Always wanted to do an aggressive FF with ports like spain does This doesn't looks like a master sergeant build order, sounds way better The write up is highly appreciated! Have a question, I wonder, with TP, if you can do 700g 700w 6 musk (for even faster timing) 9 m...
by forgrin
21 Feb 2016, 17:05
Forum: Strategy
Topic: Portuguese Halb Fast Fortress
Replies: 28
Views: 3065
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Re: Portuguese Halb Fast Fortress

Imo, if you get a 200w start you should get an early TP and go 10/10, otherwise the normal age up is 2:40 and not 2:45. If you aged with 13vills, you should be able to chop for a TP while aging and it shouldn't delay your age up so you should do it. Good suggestions, I didn't think of 10/10 on 200w...
by forgrin
21 Feb 2016, 17:01
Forum: Strategy
Topic: Portuguese Halb Fast Fortress
Replies: 28
Views: 3065
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Re: Portuguese Halb Fast Fortress

14 ulhans vs mm ???? and not just that, without army the raids will just idle him enough and he may not even have rez to call minutes without skipping vils... and considering the shit early eco ports have, it wont be viable.... and 2 organs have such low hp lol... war wagons will just rape them eve...
by forgrin
21 Feb 2016, 10:01
Forum: Strategy
Topic: Portuguese Halb Fast Fortress
Replies: 28
Views: 3065
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Portuguese Halb Fast Fortress

I've developed this build specifically to attempt to deal with Germany as Ports, although it could also work against China to an extent. This is an aggressive FF that focuses on a combination of cass, halbs, and organ guns and includes minimal eco to speed up the progression. Note that this build is...
by forgrin
21 Feb 2016, 07:56
Forum: Strategy
Topic: Water Treasure Hunting Guide for Indonesia
Replies: 15
Views: 3508
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Re: Water Treasure Hunting Guide for Indonesia

Panmaster wrote:Water treasures are very lacklustre but there are some interesting land treasures on maps such as Indochina e.g. +15% building HP


100w, 150c, heck even 125f and 125xp are all good in age 1/transition, at least in Sup 1v1.
by forgrin
20 Feb 2016, 15:58
Forum: General
Topic: Recruiting
Replies: 17
Views: 1272
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Re: Recruiting

iNcog wrote:I'll add those to the Wall. Treasure guide is an excellent concept.


Thanks! :)
by forgrin
20 Feb 2016, 15:54
Forum: General
Topic: Water discussion
Replies: 87
Views: 5455
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Re: Water discussion

I've been thinking about water a bit but I don't have a lot of thoughts on it. I'm just thinking that it would be easy to mod ships so that they don't beat land unit, I don't think that was ever their role anyway (in game or historically). Ships should be used to fight water, not support land. Cara...
by forgrin
20 Feb 2016, 06:38
Forum: ESOC Civilizations Discussion
Topic: Portuguese Discussion Thread
Replies: 810
Views: 33713
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Re: Portuguese Discussion Thread

Marco1698 wrote:No need to touch the cassador's speed if they have more range than musk. Making them even faster, would say when they are near musk, those musk won't be able to escape


What are you referring to? Cass already have 4.5 speed.
by forgrin
20 Feb 2016, 06:04
Forum: ESOC Civilizations Discussion
Topic: Portuguese Discussion Thread
Replies: 810
Views: 33713
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Re: Portuguese Discussion Thread

Wouldn't it be better to make ports vills train faster instead of making them cost less? Cuz ports settlers have the same stats and gather rates as settlers of other civs and making them cost 80f feels weird. I am not saying this is bad. It has actually made ports better but it feels weird. Unfortu...
by forgrin
20 Feb 2016, 02:33
Forum: General
Topic: Recruiting
Replies: 17
Views: 1272
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Re: Recruiting

if you want to put together something in custom content section or strategy section then its always possible to get sticky depending on quality of the post and number of other stickies http://eso-community.net/viewtopic.php?p=109072#p109072 http://eso-community.net/viewtopic.php?p=109069#p109069 Wo...
by forgrin
20 Feb 2016, 02:28
Forum: General
Topic: Recruiting
Replies: 17
Views: 1272
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Re: Recruiting

http://aoe3.heavengames.com/cgi-bin/forums/display.cgi?action=ct&f=15,37749,,10 This is a great guide (or guide to all guides to be specific). It has links to all the most common strategies for every civ. If we could get this onto the site, it would be really great. It has civ overviews as well...
by forgrin
20 Feb 2016, 00:16
Forum: Strategy
Topic: [OUTDATED] Strategy Wall
Replies: 164
Views: 24978
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Re: Strategy Wall

by forgrin
19 Feb 2016, 23:59
Forum: Strategy
Topic: Water Treasure Hunting Guide for Indonesia
Replies: 15
Views: 3508
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Re: Water Treasure Hunting Guide

musketeer925 wrote:What kind of treasure rewards are there in water treasures? What's good and what's not? Never really looked at them much.

Excellent question. Typically around 100w/125ish food for the shark/orca, I'll check and edit it into the main post.
by forgrin
19 Feb 2016, 23:51
Forum: Strategy
Topic: Water Treasure Hunting Guide for Indonesia
Replies: 15
Views: 3508
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Water Treasure Hunting Guide for Indonesia

Water Treasure Hunting by Forgrin This is a guide to water treasure hunting on maps like Indonesia, using the catamaran and your explorer in age 1/transition and some information on caravel hunting. IMPORTANT NOTE this is not possible with melee explorers. Without the catamaran you can only hunt tr...
by forgrin
19 Feb 2016, 23:40
Forum: Strategy
Topic: (Cross-post from HG) Mokon's Guide to Treasure Hunting
Replies: 3
Views: 513
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Re: (Cross-post from HG) Mokon's Guide to Treasure Hunting

Am I the only one who learned this from experience? Most people here probably did too, but I thought this would be useful for newer players. Some things about this guide helped me when I started out (eg meleeing certain guardians). Also note that I put in a section about Indonesia treasure hunting ...
by forgrin
19 Feb 2016, 22:40
Forum: Strategy
Topic: (Cross-post from HG) Mokon's Guide to Treasure Hunting
Replies: 3
Views: 513
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(Cross-post from HG) Mokon's Guide to Treasure Hunting

Disclaimer: This is not my guide or writing. It's an excerpt from Mokon's book, The way of the Expert, which is from 2006 and rather outdated, and also unavailable as far as I can see now. This applies primarily to European explorers. I've added in some info on the TAD guardians as I can (the bolded...
by forgrin
19 Feb 2016, 20:37
Forum: ESOC Patch Discussion
Topic: Ports: Vanilla Cass, Give 2 Culv Shipment
Replies: 10
Views: 690
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Re: Ports: Vanilla Cass, Give 2 Culv Shipment

Send 1k wood -> make foundry -> make 1 culv. Honestly if you remove every weakness of ports they just end up being automatically better than basically any civ because the TC is potentially the best bonus in the game. Please tell me, in which alternate universe does Ports have time to send 1k wood, ...
by forgrin
19 Feb 2016, 20:30
Forum: General
Topic: Recruiting
Replies: 17
Views: 1272
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Re: Recruiting

And we need to get the relevant HeavenGames and AgeCommunity stuff ported over here too, this site, as great as it is, is kinda lacking in beginner resources.

If I start copying/editing the stuff will there be a sticky thread for it?
by forgrin
19 Feb 2016, 20:22
Forum: General
Topic: Recruiting
Replies: 17
Views: 1272
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Re: Recruiting

Ok I'll try to do more patch-specific promotion when I'm there. I've also been playing 'nilla and trying to convert them over to the EP with some success. I don't really like directly promoting stuff other than the beginner's guide/ GS guide because the rest (BOs etc) don't really help until you kno...
by forgrin
19 Feb 2016, 18:58
Forum: ESOC Patch Discussion
Topic: Ports: Vanilla Cass, Give 2 Culv Shipment
Replies: 10
Views: 690
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Re: Ports: Vanilla Cass, Give 2 Culv Shipment

iNcog wrote:Caçadores are known for being bad. ):


If it's bad already, changing them back to 'nilla Cass really can't hurt then.
by forgrin
19 Feb 2016, 18:57
Forum: ESOC Patch Discussion
Topic: Ports: Vanilla Cass, Give 2 Culv Shipment
Replies: 10
Views: 690
Flag: Canada

Re: Ports: Vanilla Cass, Give 2 Culv Shipment

Send 1k wood -> make foundry -> make 1 culv. Honestly if you remove every weakness of ports they just end up being automatically better than basically any civ because the TC is potentially the best bonus in the game. Please tell me, in which alternate universe does Ports have time to send 1k wood, ...
by forgrin
19 Feb 2016, 18:50
Forum: Strategy
Topic: Could nerfing fast age be good for the game?
Replies: 74
Views: 4833
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Re: Could nerfing fast age be good for the game?

i feel brits should get a fast age to age 3, because theyre usually colonial for along time and taking soo long to age is gonna put them even further behind And fast age up means they d semi ff and be op. And spending 600 gold and 600 wood for upgrading the units will show up from thin air and you ...
by forgrin
19 Feb 2016, 18:43
Forum: ESOC Patch Discussion
Topic: Ports: Vanilla Cass, Give 2 Culv Shipment
Replies: 10
Views: 690
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Re: Ports: Vanilla Cass, Give 2 Culv Shipment

thebritish wrote:1 culv only. 2 culvs are too good


Fair, I was thinking that. However a 500 res Fortress shipment isn't good. How about 1 Culv 2 goons?

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