Lombards rather than being a profitable building it helps a lot for macro you can just have wood without having any vills rather than selling at market and getting wood if you have any res excess just invest in lombard so it's actually more worth as chopping wood is costly Indeed. I would consider ...

Tried a 3v3 queue like some 3 hrs ago 15mins still not a game found clearly majority of ppl are playing singleplayer/campaign/lobby games and only few like say 200 are doing ranked maybe or even less out of 4k ppl online lol What ELO are you? I am hovering around 1450 ELO(tho i pick 2v2, 3v3, 4v4) ...

ESOC having a normal one.

Just to double down on my point about the stupidity of matchmaking. https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/789162788177051698/980956333631209502/unknown.png?width=1168&height=657 So I got matched with literal 2400 elo premades, versing 900 elo premades. HOW?! And that 0 ELO gain, just to rub s...

I have only just realised Italy has like 3 unit upgrade cards (2 are specific to the pavisier), like in a drawn out situation I feel like Italy really struggles I found that Bersaglieri maxed out are on par if not slightly better than French Voltigeur for only 10 gold more, so it doesn't appear as ...

[mention]u11190[/mention] I don't see anything wrong with the architect analysis. He calculates the number of VS for e.g. a house at 200 plus the build time for a total of 210 VS, then divides by the architect build time (80s) to get the result of 2.6. That is to say you would need 2.6 vils to gath...

Very interesting, and would prove useful for determining usefulness of either unit. Granted, I have a few remarks about your methodology. You add the resource cost of each building into the total time needed to construct a building. While I understand that you want to account for the fact that the b...

I have only just realised Italy has like 3 unit upgrade cards (2 are specific to the pavisier), like in a drawn out situation I feel like Italy really struggles I found that Bersaglieri maxed out are on par if not slightly better than French Voltigeur for only 5 gold more, so it doesn't appear as b...

oh yes, how could I forget the maphack card or the retroactive treasure doubling. or the tank. or teleport buildings. I know the units and eco on these new civs are largely nothing special, but the absolute disregard for any existing dedicated decent players is weighing on me. I've never been a top...

Quite a big croissant, ain't it?

Shout-out to @Maxyking25 for our team games and this gem :)
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EAGLEMUT wrote: ↑

29 May 2022, 17:32

I wonder how well this card works, anyone tested it?

From my experience, it doesn't

DragonFruit wrote: ↑

29 May 2022, 15:04

Maybe you could delete the church twice and rebuild it? I'm not sure the challenge isn't available to me.

Thankfully this works. TYSM

is this even possible? I can't seem to find any civ which can build 3 of them, even with cards. Closest i could find is Italy with their Basilica card, assuming it works. malta can with the 2 church card age 1 Thanks! Tho this would mean that the challenge is locked behind DLC, is it not? :?

is this even possible? I can't seem to find any civ which can build 3 of them, even with cards.

Closest i could find is Italy with their Basilica card, assuming it works.

Age 3 Pavisieri are still fairly usable, and in age4 we are likely expected to transition to Bersagliere and the trumpet spam. Id consider siege resistance to be actually quite nice in cases where stagger mode doesnt spread out your units. The splash damage is minimised a lot. Plus if youre versing...

I think 5v and less crates was better for Italy. Pavisiers definetely need the guard upgrade and possibly one more base damage upgrade. Right now the unit is simply not abusable at all even with full ups. And btw the multiple resistance mechanic is terrible. Siege resistance is basically useless (i...

Oh also, There should be a button to automatically refill the Lombards when they get low. Late game they consume so fast that you need to mother them nonstop.

I thought it would be 300 food for 300 wood and coin, but it comes out to be 150+150. Dumb design. Not necessarily, keep in mind that food gathers the fastest, and if you invest wood or coin you get 225f 150 other resource. if you focus purely on food you can use Lombards to some extent to make you...

After playing only Italy for the entire afternoon and evening of release day, I can deduce several remarks - The initial start of only 5 vils and architect is really tough, and you need to rush market techs to catch up. It helps if you have a Dutch teammate that goes TEAM Nassau first, albeit can ha...

The Vil per tech mechanic has some clear techs to be used with to maximum benefit, and the cheap arsenal techs card is insanely good for semi FF or generally age 3 strats, especially if you're going for an infantry focused strategy. Also, Italy + Dutch with the House of Nassau card is really scary :)

Italy if left unchecked is utterly busted, and I love it.

Le Hussard sur le toit wrote: ↑

25 May 2022, 18:44

fei123456 wrote: ↑

25 May 2022, 09:33

Abus performs bad against ranged cavalry units. They may trade well with skirmisher, but it's over when mass cavalry come.

They do siege damage don't they ? That should help a lot vs cav.

And half damage to *all* Cav. Ottomans have very few options vs ranged cav beyond bruteforce.

For civs with 3v as their shipment, I wonder if giving them an extra vil at the expense of the shipment would balance out the power and opportunity cost, while also providing more options in age1. This excludes civs with alternate vils and Lakota, given how the opportunity cost needs to differently ...

Recently i picked up Ottomans for a straightforward civ to climb with, and I've noticed a lot of people commenting how Abus guns are really bad, like utter dogshit, even with me seeing genuine success with them, sick KDs and such. From the games I've used them in, even after their ROF was nerfed, th...

Another important issue with 3Vil is the fact that almost all other cards in age1 see no use. And those that do are only such because they have no 3v, or are so exceptionally synergistic with one particular civ that they only see use there. Regarding Age 1 rushes, given the speed of the game and muc...