Can ESOC please post these games on their YouTube channel? Some of the best games have been played in this tourney, and I’d love to re-watch them in my own free time. I noticed the last games posted were the 1st qualifiers of the previous tourney, and not even the games after that. Does ESOC need h...

I’m a big fan of using age up politicians as the secret names.

Cant believe they haven't undone the Dutch exp bank nerf! I am very happy about the japanese shrine hp nerf seems like a very reasonable change. I think the dev's need to look into the Brit v dutch matchup, as it seems pretty much unplayable now for the dutch player.

Buff to Halberdiers... hmm I might give the game another chance

some units like yabusame(.28) and yojimbo(0.25) fire so fast their projectiles launch before their animation even begins and is completely desynced. you can really feel how much love the devs put into Japanese units in general when you look into the files. For some reason this just makes me sad... ...

I would only buff those underused units if it is needed to balance a specific MU/game situation. For example dopps could have their colonial stats buffed slightly in exchange for a nerf on their vet upgrade as part of a general policy to make German colonial play more viable. But buffing dopps in t...

Grenade launcher could easily be a tech research at arsenal rather than an entire shipment that essentially does nothing and has to compete with 2 Falcons for a shipment shot.

Kaiserklein wrote:

dutchdude117 wrote:-ship colonial militia blindly even if you scout no aggression

This is never good

Good point I should rephrase that. Ship colonial militia blindly unless you scout no aggression. If you didn’t scout, well then CM is blanket protection because you are not building units.

Example Games: https://youtu.be/XDrlYU8xCnE https://youtu.be/TBZvqCfDKs4 The goal of this build is to circumvent Dutch abysmal age 2 play by abusing Colonial Militia, without making any trade offs between economy and aging quickly and holding enemy all in. If enemy is all in, it is critical to use v...

Zutazuta wrote:Just like 1776, the USA sends the UK packing. NAmen.

NAmen

Hey this is pretty cool. I'd love it if we could see natives available and outlaws available. I'll try using it when I play and see if I can give more feedback.

I'd be surprised if spy rush became meta. If it became a problem you could disable spy training add a tech at church that cost like 5 coin and takes 30 seconds to research that unlocks spies.

100% church should be available age 1

The way I like to play this match up is to scout his second shipment with the envoy. (The first shipment is always 3 sw and you need to hide from the 2 uhlan) if it is 700c then German is going naked ff. If it is 700w you know you need to scout for unit production buildings. 700w could also mean sta...

Wait when did we figure this out ? I wish I knew this before. I must try it tho

Fun game vs Inca

I've got a fun game that I just played
Dutch v Japan, pretty short one (12:00)
Dutch v Inca, a long one (30:00)

I made a test stream of a random game I found on the ladder
Looking on some tips for improvement

How to beat China and Germany build order bots 101

Hey I am sure these are awesome, but on my screen it looks like the images were posted incorrectly, it just says the word image instead of having your art.
Let me know if I can help at all

Very exciting Dutch v China game, I feel like I am improving a lot on the positioning of my units in fights. I've really taken to heart the advice from mitoe/H2O from their stream talking about before you can learn micro you must learn positioning.

Dutch Vs Sweden fun game:

I love these jotunir bumps. They let me see all these interesting posts I’ve missed out on over th years.

Not gonna lie this strategy seems pretty aids to play against. But it sure is a whole lot of fun to play. -Camp in base with 7 banks and colonial militia. -Go for industrial with as few units as possible. -Wall the hell out of your base -Age with towncenter -build towncenter with explorer -3 factori...

Blueberry is basically better than before (less food but works on prior torps). Xbows is a clear buff making for a great colonial. Eco is great overall and having torps on wood (never nerfed) now is useful for xbows. The civ got +100w for -100f which with the new changes is now a net buff. I'm pret...