duckzilla wrote:That's where Germans come into play with 30% faster infantry.... Ronin become basically uncounterable in age III.

Full speed german ronin with improved mercenaries are a nightmare to deal with at any stage of the game...

Only civ i have ever had success with vs germany (im around same PR as you) is sioux. Bow riders to keep away uhlans, switch to axe riders when they hit 3 and age,ship rifle riders to handle uhlans (you can even just send the axe rider into rifle rider card). Sending your cav upgrade cards mean your...

pecelot wrote:Yojimbos are amazing, it's just that they cost a lot, require a card and have counterparts at least on par.

^exactly

Also you might as well build a monastary anyways and see if black riders or manchu are available.
Or even comanchero since you will have the pop as japan early on

I think if you really would prefer to use Yojimbo, just put the mercenary shipment card in your deck? I have it in my japan deck. They are a good unit it is just a shame you cant just train them from the stable by default. I mean Yabusame are expensive but no where near a Yojimbo

... Okay, seriously, I just dont get it. Am I the only one who likes to have the option to train a anti-cavalry unit that is fast enough to chase cavalry down or to run away if things get dim, and that, unlike the Yabusame, can actually hit decently hard? Japan generally is supposed to be dictating...

that's a long-overdue card that I've wanted to check for some time now, seems really viable, though I think the idea is that you stay age 2 and instead of throwing out 2200 resources for an advancement, you mass more cavalry and get units from the top shelf with just sending a card — moving the Tir...

Yamato23 wrote:Why trade monopoly even allowed? It's totally not fair!!
#trademonopolyruinedthegames

Trade monopoly + aztec town dance is crazy overpowered and an often overlooked facet of the aztec fast industrial

Will these be uploaded to youtube ever? Or are they available on twitch?

Sioux should beat spain but its not hopeless for spain, i dont see how u can possibly beat india though Saw a tourney round on tibet once on tibet where spain stayed colonial and just spammed rods and upgrades including military drummers vs sioux and it worked really well, as long as sioux doesnt g...

Sioux should beat spain but its not hopeless for spain, i dont see how u can possibly beat india though Saw a tourney round on tibet once on tibet where spain stayed colonial and just spammed rods and upgrades including military drummers vs sioux and it worked really well, as long as sioux doesnt g...

Maybe make rods cheaper in general? They were worth the cost on nilla when they had better stats (esp siege) but they cost way too much for what you get now

jgals wrote:the card seems kind of unusable because you have to idle your TC to make them. They do a decent job in mass vs most units although still not great. But I cant train vils at the same time im traning them

You just build a native embassy and train em out of there

You can play the advanced scouts card on LOST maps to spam and suprise your opponent for fun. Then you can buff them with the native upgrade cards and make them cheaper. I don't think that you can use any of these cards in a supremacy game. there is nothing surprising in Lost games do those cards a...

First of all I want to highlight something: Balance at rank 40 is not necessarily balanced at rank 20! . If you balance for top players it might cause issues for rank 15-30 games, so having a perfectly balanced tournament final doesn't mean the majority of people will enjoy playing the game. Not ma...

In this matchup, wouldn't it be ideal to go full sowar- zamburak? Ship your camel attack right away after trickle, desert terror, martial arts card, draw out some colonial play rather than just age blindly. Without artillery worth using i dont see much point aging against Aztec?

u9894 I think that would actually be just as bad as a gold crate--you simply can't use it until Colonial, sometimes even mid-Colonial. I think what you mean is 2 Discovery Age shipments, and I don't think it will, actually. People already construct TPs in age 1 which nets more than 100xp after cons...

u2 with the idea of xp crates may i suggest perhaps for the asian civs an export crate? Gaining 100 export for japan would ne a huge boost vs a coin start. Might be too good for india though Edit: also the xp crate could allow for 2 colonial shipments potentially which could open some interesting b...

Card – Offshore Support Effect decreased to provide +5 range (down from +10 range). Effect added to provide 20% bonus to damage to all War Ships. Woooooooooooooooooooooow u85 u925 u1731 Didn't you know about that? There was a point in TWC where tlaloc canoe big button was in colonial so on some map...

Why are they only countered by Asian cav? What is the difference Mahouts, naginata, sowar, iron flails, steppe etc. all have 2 mulipliers that look something like this (exact numbers may change as each civ has a card that modifies multipliers) 2x infantry 0.5x heavy infantry So they do double damag...

P i k i l i c wrote:As Sioux diarouga beat Hazza with advanced scouts

After reading this i might revisit my Sioux advanced scout build. I guess they counter everything decently that does well against bow riders. Not having snare in EP really hurts them though

Well looking at the map and ignoring the crates does seem like the most objective and fair way to me Crates are always a luck factor as are treasure positions. Why should that not be the case if the map has to be rehosted One could consider that map spawn is a luck factor as well. After all, why wo...

You can play the advanced scouts card on LOST maps to spam and suprise your opponent for fun. Then you can buff them with the native upgrade cards and make them cheaper. I don't think that you can use any of these cards in a supremacy game. Advanced scout can be a good card for aztec... They can us...

Yeah rods used to have 13 atk x3 vs cav instea of 10 x3.5. I personally would like to see rods reverted to nilla as they were much more interesting there. I could be wrong, but I think rods' melee attack was nerfed at least two times. It started with something like 16, was nerfed to 12 and then to ...

Errrm... Best Dragoons of any European civilization? Their own Culverin shipment? -Debatably-The 5 mameluke shipment, though... I will admit I put this one on my deck because I just wont usually find myself just sitting on such a large amount of gold. I never considered the Portuguese as defenseles...

I dont like Organ Guns... I mean, I honestly do not understand what is their advantage over Culverins suppose to be. So, I guess we agree on that. ... On most of the games I played, if it does gets to the Industrial Age, Culverins are common due to their ability to counter other artillery while sta...