Made up or pre-made?

Do you play pre-made strats or make up your own?

Made up!
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9%
Somewhere in between
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No Flag arriah
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Post by arriah »

I'm interested in strats and decks you made yourself, especially if they are an abnormal style for your civ. what are your favorite strats and how effective are they? Do you play with any odd cards?
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Post by anonymousv2 »

There are very few Dutch colonial based strats, so I made up a few that I use.
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Post by arriah »

anonymous wrote:There are very few Dutch colonial based strats, so I made up a few that I use.



In team games if I am playing skirm and the opponent is not pressure me with a lot of cav I will mass 100+ skirms really fast then age and destroy everything. Then they send their cav at me and I''m like lol
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Post by _DB_ »

I actually like classic strats, but in real and competitive gaming I like to use the 'best way' to play a match-up, no matter who designs it.

I'm in love with using karni builds with India, using Garja-type russia and some type of improvised piroshiki FF.

Moreover I like boneng's indian waterboom strategy and nayuki dutch fi on deccan.
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Post by Wuangaga »

I get every strat i can get on the forum, steal some funny stuff from Aizamk and just improvise some builds that seem logical to me if i don't know anything better. So pretty much a mix because you just can't find a strat for every match up in this forum yet.
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Post by arriah »

wuangaga wrote:I get every strat i can get on the forum, steal some funny stuff from Aizamk and just improvise some builds that seem logical to me if i don''t know anything better. So pretty much a mix because you just can''t find a strat for every match up in this forum yet.


Well we should fix that
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Post by 360noob »

The easy to remember strategies I use, the rest I just make up on the fly
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Post by yemshi »

Usually I don't even know what I am doing.
And when I do it it either works or it doesn't. That's the way to learn.
(btw never do a no-army Chinese waterboom on Hispanialo)
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Post by Papist »

I improvise in team games and play more standard in 1v1. Since team games are a lot longer and are typically a lot less predictable, I just go with the flow.
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Post by momuuu »

I always thought my Dutch playstyle was copied, but after seeing how other people play thecl civ I am slowly starting to come to the conclusion that I do have my own style. Although I didnt invent shipping 700w of bank wagon first or whatever, the build orders I use for specific match ups are still very much my own creation based upon my own testing I guess.

Mostly its just a personal version of the already existing core, same for other civs.
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Post by yurashic »

I said pre-made just because it is a cool word.

But seriously, standard play is usually best simply because it gets the most out of your civ. Non-standard builds usually rely on surprise and they either win really hard or lose really hard depending on how well the enemy adapts.
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Post by gibson »

Playing standard isn't fun for me. Whenever I play an unrated game, I always fi or some other cheesy strat. I basically never win, but it's funner for me then playing standard.
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Post by Good ol Ivan »

jerom wrote:I always thought my Dutch playstyle was copied, but after seeing how other people play thecl civ I am slowly starting to come to the conclusion that I do have my own style. Although I didnt invent shipping 700w of bank wagon first or whatever, the build orders I use for specific match ups are still very much my own creation based upon my own testing I guess.

Mostly its just a personal version of the already existing core, same for other civs.
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Post by japanesegeneral »

Double Ports 10/10 Bow/Pike is not as bad as it sounds like
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Post by princeofcarthage »

I didn't watch recs or streams until now, for most part of the game I learnt it myself so all decks which I use are currently are mine, however 90% they resemble pro decks. For treaty I only got teached brit by my friend all other decks I made on brit knowledge.
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Post by forgrin »

Mostly pre made/pro strats, but from alot of different sources old and new, some of them good some of them odd/aizamk-esque. I did however make a build specifically for Fanpatch Ports on Cascade Range to deal with the lack of TPs.
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Post by Hazza54321 »

Every strat is premade, because aiz has already tried it
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Post by Durokan »

arriah wrote:
wuangaga wrote:I get every strat i can get on the forum, steal some funny stuff from Aizamk and just improvise some builds that seem logical to me if i dont know anything better. So pretty much a mix because you just cant find a strat for every match up in this forum yet.
Well we should fix that



Aztec - skull knight FI
Sioux?
Iro?
Otto - petars fi or FR
Port - 10/10 rush
Brit - black watch ff
French - musk + cdb (pioneer + nw passage)
German - Howitzer FR / merc spam with improved mercs
Russia - surovov ff
Dutch - ?
Spain - FI
Japan ? Consulate rush maybe idk, i dont play them enough
India - flail elephant rush
China - FI han reforms
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Post by Wuangaga »

durokan wrote:
arriah wrote:Well we should fix that

Aztec - skull knight FI
Sioux?
Iro?
Otto - petars fi or FR
Port - 10/10 rush
Brit - black watch ff
French - musk + cdb (pioneer + nw passage)
German - Howitzer FR / merc spam with improved mercs
Russia - surovov ff
Dutch - ?
Spain - FI
Japan ? Consulate rush maybe idk, i dont play them enough
India - flail elephant rush
China - FI han reforms

Sioux - Native scout rush
Dutch - Stadthoulder FI
Spain - Id prefer FR here
Japan - 10/10 rush with 2x 3 Samurai
Iro - Err something with down destroyer and the rush on EP
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Post by Durokan »

wuangaga wrote:
durokan wrote:Aztec - skull knight FI
Sioux?
Iro?
Otto - petars fi or FR
Port - 10/10 rush
Brit - black watch ff
French - musk + cdb (pioneer + nw passage)
German - Howitzer FR / merc spam with improved mercs
Russia - surovov ff
Dutch - ?
Spain - FI
Japan ? Consulate rush maybe idk, i dont play them enough
India - flail elephant rush
China - FI han reforms

Sioux - Native scout rush
Dutch - Stadthoulder FI
Spain - Id prefer FR here
Japan - 10/10 rush with 2x 3 Samurai
Iro - Err something with down destroyer and the rush on EP

i meant fr for spain, good catch :)
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Post by Good ol Ivan »

Skull Knight FI?
Never saw that but sounds like something which could work in a 2v2 maybe.
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Post by [Armag] diarouga »

ivan wrote:Skull Knight FI?
Never saw that but sounds like something which could work in a 2v2 maybe.
Nagayumi won bsop russians with that strat in the ASC.
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Post by Good ol Ivan »

diarouga wrote:
ivan wrote:Skull Knight FI?
Never saw that but sounds like something which could work in a 2v2 maybe.
Nagayumi won bsop russians with that strat in the ASC.
wtf is asc
Anyway, Im actually curious, is there any BO available out there?
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Post by [Armag] diarouga »

Asc is the spring championship.
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Post by Wuangaga »

ivan wrote:
diarouga wrote:Nagayumi won bsop russians with that strat in the ASC.
wtf is asc
Anyway, Im actually curious, is there any BO available out there?
Its the Spring Championship. You pretty much do a standart FI squeeze Smoking Mirror in for OP Swashbuckler and make Skull Knights with your Firepit. WP boom included of course.

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