I used a cover mode disciple for the last time today

Hand Shock Infantry: Cover mode removed from all Hand Shock Infantry units.

Giving JPC a taste of his original medicine

I hear German mercs do well against spies

If you're going against player who you know likes to wall you can still pull it off. If you think he will be overconfident behind his walls, like some wallers are, start sieging in transition to age one with monk and 5 disciples; if he scouts a forward village, consulate, and a monastery he already ...

This is kind of an all in china build that has a decent amount of early pressure. The build order can deal a lot of early damage, and has several variations. The gist of the BO is to send french cons, age up with 4 vills on the white Pagoda, and push; however, don't build a TP. Rather than building ...

So what I've gathered is the best way to counter water is to go water yourself, or really outplay your opponent if you want to go pure land. I've tried looking for the Kaiserklein games vs Kynesie, but the ones popping up on youtube had a lot of land games, or water ended up winning, even without ma...

6kvs 17k, beating Khorix with age one tiger shipment disciple rush

If it's a must, I guess I will start trying to contest water then. Alternatively could I FI, or do a timing instead of an all in rush? Some civs seem to benefit from water more than others, land play seems to work for some matchups for me still; I am just in shock when I "win on land" and ...

I am nto a fan of going on water, I don't fun doing it so I don't have any decks with 2 caravels and a frigate. I like to try and contest water on land, usually my response is to hard rush, but once they add walls and CM I really am lost. In this past I had tried out sending 2 caravels or a frigate,...

I say keep the gather rate nerfed, and make fishing boats cost 100 wood again

Is cover mode not worth losing the hand damage if pikes are on top of cav, but still getting targeted by ranged units? Say I was facing strong cav such as cuirs or lancers would I want to prioritize killing the cav or preserving hp for the pikes in case more cav is coming? I like to cover mode when ...

What civs would you use this build against? I have done a similar build for flamethrower timings (flamethrowers and dops stacking area is a nice comp) but with only a castle instead of two raxes. Instead of sending 2 vills I send GFA and get the food crates and 500w, then switch to German with cheap...

what about tea export 700w then the vill card? this makes it function more like a 4/5 vill card and the 700w gives xp to pivot into it, but you'd end up sending it in age 2 instead of transition, and they wouldn't be gathering as long. When I rush I always seem to send 7 steppe first, and judge if I...

Well if you are looking for a better game, I know a few called Age of Empire III the Asian Dynasties, Age of Empire III the Warchiefs (2 pop 'darmes), and Age of Empires III; they're like DE but better.

I read that as wash my warchief

I'm not convinced this is the best Aztec rush

fei123456 wrote: ↑

02 Nov 2023, 23:42

Malta doesn't have cav units itself, so adding limits for foreign units will make it unplayable.

they have shadow teching goon/huss

It's hard to have a fun game when playing against Malta

Mitoe wrote: ↑

30 Oct 2023, 19:07

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didn't know that, maybe the other 3 are all here in secret 21

Who did I miss? I saw Mitoe, Snowww, Hazza, and Kaiser, who is number 5?

The 2 cav fulani comp is very hard to beat in age 2 without a musk huss civ.

Mitoe wrote: ↑

30 Oct 2023, 00:21

Is this a jab directed at me dropping out of the top 100 briefly a few months ago?

No I would've rounded you up, can't see anyone objecting. Maybe we had 4 when Tabben was on too, but if he came back we'd have 5 now.

4/8 of the 2019 LAN competitors in the top 50 right now! Is this the most since the start of DE?

To be fair, the Tribal Marketplace does give you 21% yield on your mine. It’s 10% according to this page : https://ageofempires.fandom.com/wiki/Tribal_Marketplace (which makes a lot more sense than 21% btw) Yeah, but when I test it in game I get 2420 coin out of a 2000 mine. Granted, I did test it ...

Actually, it looks like the Tribal Marketplace at release cost 25w to build but let you gather coin 10% faster with no upgrades, but was later changed with the Knight of the Mediterranean DLC to be free and have a yield bonus instead of a gather rate bonus. what steps did you take to find this out?...