What skills does each civilization develop?

[inyourpc]

All skrims died no problems, Just delete market and switch to full cav for better pathing.

[RefluxSemantic]

I dont know about not using the market. I usually use standard vill ratios for different stages of the game, so when I notice Im floating res I try to fix these vill ratios.

Beyond that, a ton of res imbalances come from coin/food running out, or from vills idling. Its probably good to use the market here. If you really want to improve, just analyze your recs to learn if your standard vill distribution is correct or not.

[Imperial Noob]

Otto develops your ability to resist flaming

Funny to have Otto and flame retardant in one sentence.

[edeholland]

this quote reminds me of some hltv copy pastas

Check out AoE3 copy-pastas thread. Crossposted the above there.

[harcha]

if you want to develop such skills as scouting and adaptation, also being active on the map, don't main japan

[dansil92]

I would say that a great civ to learn macro with would be Iro. The reason i say this is that you have a wood-food only macro age 2 (can help practice general vill distribution), and in age 3 you have to plan for how many kanya you may or may not need to train so it requires some thinking ahead to not float resources

[harcha]

if you want to practice herding play brit

[dansil92]

If you want to practice losing vills, play brit

[jorgeguerra]

Japan, the skill of winning games without ever leaving your base.

[s_deboer]

I play Dutch so I make liberal use of the market early game to buy wood. 1300w shipments not enough :(

[Kap_AOE3]

If you want to practice losing vills, play brit

Im OP losing vills as brit 21

[Le Hussard sur le toit]

Playing ports trains you to lose.

[chris1089]

At my level no-one knows timings, and if they do them they are late. So usually as port I can win half my games by just sitting in base until I have 60 vils.

[Le Hussard sur le toit]

At my level you are obliged to play on shitty RE maps with no hunts so your best bet is to embrace losing (or play an other civ, but who wants that ?).

[Le Hussard sur le toit]

Russia teaches you to idle your TC.
Port teaches you to have inactive vills and no units.
(also teach you that you need to call colonial militia before your TC is destroyed).
Japan teaches you to boom blindly before being badly beaten by a bowerful biming.
India teaches you that musk-type units beats skirms.
Dutch teaches you that 50 vills is more than enough.
Germany teaches you to donate XP to your opponent for free (technically called "raiding").
Sioux teaches you to move cav around the map aimlessly (technically called "raiding").
Azzy teaches you that you have to macro correctly to make an FI works.
China teaches you that training units is for losers.
Spain teaches you that pikes are great.
Otto teaches you to outmicro your opponent.

[[Armag] diarouga]

Otto teaches you to outmicro your opponent.

What ?

[Qosashvili93]

No botto teaches u how to make cry your oponent

[Le Hussard sur le toit]

Otto teaches you to outmicro your opponent.

What ?

Don't feed the troll.

[princeofkabul]

using market is a skill. Don't use it when it's not necessary, use it to fill patches in critical moments.

[aligator92]

Russia teaches you to idle your TC.
Port teaches you to have inactive vills and no units.
(also teach you that you need to call colonial militia before your TC is destroyed).
Japan teaches you to boom blindly before being badly beaten by a bowerful biming.
India teaches you that musk-type units beats skirms.
Dutch teaches you that 50 vills is more than enough.
Germany teaches you to donate XP to your opponent for free (technically called "raiding").
Sioux teaches you to move cav around the map aimlessly (technically called "raiding").
Azzy teaches you that you have to macro correctly to make an FI works.
China teaches you that training units is for losers.
Spain teaches you that pikes are great.
Otto teaches you to outmicro your opponent.

So playing french, brits or iro is useless?

[chronique]

Spain teaches you that pikes are great.

Spain teache you that pikes are bad, dog is human's best friend, and how takes care about your parents (aka 2 falc)

[Le Hussard sur le toit]

So playing french, brits or iro is useless?

Brits was already done.
I guess French teaches you that hand cav is op, and Iro teaches you to shrug off flaming ?

[harcha]

iro teaches you to always say "first!"

[Squamiger]

im wondering about the idea that boomy, turtle civs teach macro and fast aggressive civs teach micro. I feel like in general, aggressive civs operate on very tight margins, to be able to squeeze out the most effective timings. So macro is really important in the early game. E.G. vill macro for Aztec to be able to immediately train 5 coyotes when the warhut is finished and keep vill production and make houses, or the macro for Russia to keep vill production and musk or strel production at once.

With boomier turtle-y civs like Ports or Brits or Japan, it feels like you have more time to correct macro mistakes, and more room for error since you just have more resources in general. Meanwhile, you really need to worry about micro, since you need to be able to hold pushes from aggressive civs with less military in your base.

Like, it feels like if you are the aggressive one, you get full map control and therefore the way you arrange your villagers on the map is really important. But if you are the defensive one, you can't necessarily macro how you want anyways (because you are being denied res from raids and pushes), but you adjust for that by 1.) having a better eco in general (or a good shipment curve, like China) and 2.) microing hard on fights to win against a more numerous enemy army

[Mr_Bramboy]

im wondering about the idea that boomy, turtle civs teach macro and fast aggressive civs teach micro.

This is true. Boomy civs have to generally focus relatively more on the macro than on the micro in the largest portion of the game, while aggressive civs have to generally focus relatively more on the micro than on the macro for the largest portion of the game. We like to hate on the Botto FF, but timings like these teach valuable skills to newer players. Playing defensive musk huss teaches a different field of skill.