am i just getting out-microed here
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holy shit look at greatscythe's games played log: https://eso-community.net/ladder.php?pa ... atscythe11
60+ pages of games, only ever as GERMANY ON RETAIL GREAT PLAINS. this is like in The Shining when the wife discovers Jack Nicholson has just been typing " All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy" over and over for hundreds of pages.
i feel like we need to stage an intervention
60+ pages of games, only ever as GERMANY ON RETAIL GREAT PLAINS. this is like in The Shining when the wife discovers Jack Nicholson has just been typing " All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy" over and over for hundreds of pages.
i feel like we need to stage an intervention
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Re: am i just getting out-microed here
haha this guy is sooo ...
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Frost Bite wrote:haha this guy is sooo ...
That's some real Germany here.
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Frost Bite wrote:haha this guy is sooo ...
He's actually a really nice guy. I've played with him on ep maps before. Maybe if u tried being nice to him
And I don't get what the deal is here. Many people restart games 2 mins in for far off hunts too and he went for the re at the first second saving ur time. Don't u want a fair game anyway?
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he is nice ye. I've played a lot of games with him on gameranger and eso.
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rsy wrote:And I don't get what the deal is here. Many people restart games 2 mins in for far off hunts too and he went for the re at the first second saving ur time. Don't u want a fair game anyway?
Sure, then if both players do that, you spend your time rehosting because it's GP and 90% of the time one player is gonna have shit hunts, or mines too far, or missing a mine, or whatever...
Even in the most advanced tourney rounds, we don't rehost because the mines are a bit in front lol.
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Kaiserklein wrote:rsy wrote:And I don't get what the deal is here. Many people restart games 2 mins in for far off hunts too and he went for the re at the first second saving ur time. Don't u want a fair game anyway?
Sure, then if both players do that, you spend your time rehosting because it's GP and 90% of the time one player is gonna have shit hunts, or mines too far, or missing a mine, or whatever...
Even in the most advanced tourney rounds, we don't rehost because the mines are a bit in front lol.
Yeah fair enough
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damn, i just played that match up again and i swear i can't win the fight. its the same fight every time and i just cant win it. granted, this game didnt go great because i shipped 300w trying to snag the second tp and he got it first, so I sort of wasted a shipment. But this time, it felt like i had good positioning against his cav with my changdaos, problem is, his dopps are right next to his uhlans and he just wrecks my changdao and then its GG bc uhlans are on my skirms. Dop + uhlan feels almost impossible for china to counter at that point in the game.
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Re: am i just getting out-microed here
Send 10 arquebusiers or 4 iron flail as a first shipment in Age3. 5 meteor wasn't the wisest choice here, but would be optimal against civs that have early canons.Squamiger wrote:damn, i just played that match up again and i swear i can't win the fight. its the same fight every time and i just cant win it. granted, this game didnt go great because i shipped 300w trying to snag the second tp and he got it first, so I sort of wasted a shipment. But this time, it felt like i had good positioning against his cav with my changdaos, problem is, his dopps are right next to his uhlans and he just wrecks my changdao and then its GG bc uhlans are on my skirms. Dop + uhlan feels almost impossible for china to counter at that point in the game.
Then what's the point of playing China if you don't use its best shipment and the consulate potential? Send Intervention with the British consulate + spend your 400 export for 6 additional redcoats. You'll get 15 guard-level units and that could be your first timing! Don't send 300w or else it delays Intervention.
Plus you didn't switch to Brit once you built the consulate and therefore you didn't take advantage of the 10% hp bonus for land units.
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Djigit wrote:Send 10 arquebusiers or 4 iron flail as a first shipment in Age3. 5 meteor wasn't the wisest choice here, but would be optimal against civs that have early canons.Squamiger wrote:damn, i just played that match up again and i swear i can't win the fight. its the same fight every time and i just cant win it. granted, this game didnt go great because i shipped 300w trying to snag the second tp and he got it first, so I sort of wasted a shipment. But this time, it felt like i had good positioning against his cav with my changdaos, problem is, his dopps are right next to his uhlans and he just wrecks my changdao and then its GG bc uhlans are on my skirms. Dop + uhlan feels almost impossible for china to counter at that point in the game.
Then what's the point of playing China if you don't use its best shipment and the consulate potential? Send Intervention with the British consulate + spend your 400 export for 6 additional redcoats. You'll get 15 guard-level units and that could be your first timing! Don't send 300w or else it delays Intervention.
Plus you didn't switch to Brit once you built the consulate and therefore you didn't take advantage of the 10% hp bonus for land units.
Remember consulate units are only 10% better than standard units so brit 'Redcoat' in age 3 would vet Musk +10% stats (+10% HP from Consulate passive bonus). Saying that they are guard units is definitely over estimating them
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I’m gonna watch the game later maybe.
Btw 4 fails is a bad shipment.
Btw 4 fails is a bad shipment.
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5 Meteor Hammers is one of the best cavalry shipments in the game, 4 Iron Flails is below average.
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Aren't iron flails better in this case, where the German player has uhlans, skirms and some dopps?Mitoe wrote:5 Meteor Hammers is one of the best cavalry shipments in the game, 4 Iron Flails is below average.
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Djigit wrote:Aren't iron flails better in this case, where the German player has uhlans, skirms and some dopps?Mitoe wrote:5 Meteor Hammers is one of the best cavalry shipments in the game, 4 Iron Flails is below average.
Why would they be? Less dmg, range and fewer units.
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Squamiger wrote:holy shit look at greatscythe's games played log: https://eso-community.net/ladder.php?pa ... atscythe11
60+ pages of games, only ever as GERMANY ON RETAIL GREAT PLAINS. this is like in The Shining when the wife discovers Jack Nicholson has just been typing " All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy" over and over for hundreds of pages.
i feel like we need to stage an intervention
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True, but I feel having more HP and area effect can be a decisive factor too. They deal about the same damage vs. infantry and perhaps the -1 handicap can be compensated by the area effect. What do you think?Lukas_L99 wrote:Djigit wrote:Aren't iron flails better in this case, where the German player has uhlans, skirms and some dopps?Mitoe wrote:5 Meteor Hammers is one of the best cavalry shipments in the game, 4 Iron Flails is below average.
Why would they be? Less dmg, range and fewer units.
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Djigit wrote:True, but I feel having more HP and area effect can be a decisive factor too. They deal about the same damage vs. infantry and perhaps the -1 handicap can be compensated by the area effect. What do you think?Lukas_L99 wrote:Show hidden quotes
Why would they be? Less dmg, range and fewer units.
They deal less dmg vs skirms even with the bonus and will fight dopp/uhlan most of the time. And 1 splash isnt enough to compensate for the much lower dmg.
Trust me, 4 fails are bad!
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Djigit wrote:Aren't iron flails better in this case, where the German player has uhlans, skirms and some dopps?Mitoe wrote:5 Meteor Hammers is one of the best cavalry shipments in the game, 4 Iron Flails is below average.
As Lukas says, there's little reason why they would be.
5 Meteor Hammers:
1300 Hitpoints
30% Ranged Resistance
170 Attack, 5 Range (2x vs Artillery)
4 Iron Flails:
1400 Hitpoints
30% Ranged Resistance
88 Attack, 1 Area (1.5x vs Infantry, 0.75x vs Heavy Infantry)
And just for fun (although this card is SLIGHTLY underrated):
10 Steppe Riders
1500 Hitpoints
30% Ranged Resistance
150 Attack (2x vs Infantry, 0.5x vs Heavy Infantry)
5 Meteor Hammers just has much more damage output than 4 Iron Flails, even accounting for multipliers and area damage (1 area is pretty bad, 2 area is kind of where it becomes relevant), and have 5 attack range on top of it. Even 10 Steppe Riders is arguably a better shipment, unless you have a large mass of cavalry already where them bunching up and blocking each other and other units becomes a problem.
If I were to create a list of cards that are most likely to outright win you the game upon arrival, 5 Meteors is definitely up there for the non-mercenary shipments.
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@Mitoe Wow the 10 Steppe Riders comparison really put things into perspective.
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Yeah meteor hammers are just insane, the range is huge. I think if china could train pure meteor instead of mixing in iron flails, they would be top civ
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Djigit wrote:Send 10 arquebusiers or 4 iron flail as a first shipment in Age3. 5 meteor wasn't the wisest choice here, but would be optimal against civs that have early canons.Squamiger wrote:damn, i just played that match up again and i swear i can't win the fight. its the same fight every time and i just cant win it. granted, this game didnt go great because i shipped 300w trying to snag the second tp and he got it first, so I sort of wasted a shipment. But this time, it felt like i had good positioning against his cav with my changdaos, problem is, his dopps are right next to his uhlans and he just wrecks my changdao and then its GG bc uhlans are on my skirms. Dop + uhlan feels almost impossible for china to counter at that point in the game.
Then what's the point of playing China if you don't use its best shipment and the consulate potential? Send Intervention with the British consulate + spend your 400 export for 6 additional redcoats. You'll get 15 guard-level units and that could be your first timing! Don't send 300w or else it delays Intervention.
Plus you didn't switch to Brit once you built the consulate and therefore you didn't take advantage of the 10% hp bonus for land units.
yea that was another mistake i know, I delayed my Brit consulate and didn't have it when I first pushed his base. Was tired last night. But I'm pretty sure I had it by the time of the deciding fight.
But sending intervention just feels like it would get cleaned by those skirms too easily; I need hard counters. And also, I know that I'm just probably not as technically proficient as this guy, and this match up might not be in my favor given the strat he's doing. I could probably win more easily if I went France or something. I just have become obsessed with beating him on GP with my China. I just feel like dops + uhlans is incredibly tough for China to beat because dopps just clean up changdaos so hard.
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Technically could you not get dopps from the german consulte instead of Redcoats?
Vs germany i usually spam a lot of cav and let meteor hammers deal with the dopps and uhlans with redcoats and arq behind them. As long as a handful of flails can tank long enough to drop the majority of the dopps you should be just fine to counter uhlans, which are quite fragile to the mass of meteors and redcoat. I dont know how likely it is for you to pull it off but getting the manchu shipment in asap can be extremely powerful vs the mass of uhlans amd make it hard for germany to remass
Vs germany i usually spam a lot of cav and let meteor hammers deal with the dopps and uhlans with redcoats and arq behind them. As long as a handful of flails can tank long enough to drop the majority of the dopps you should be just fine to counter uhlans, which are quite fragile to the mass of meteors and redcoat. I dont know how likely it is for you to pull it off but getting the manchu shipment in asap can be extremely powerful vs the mass of uhlans amd make it hard for germany to remass
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So today I went on ESO but nobody really was online, except for that guy. So I thought why not play China vs him.
I went for the 300 Export build, stacked coin for Manchus just before he attacked (so in theory I could have had even more units out). I still won the fight convincingly. Maybe you can watch and deal with it better the next time. Mainly just positioning and pulling back the cav so they dont get rekt by dopps.
Note: I could've gotten even more mass earlier if I got those 2 big XP terasures near my base, but that wouldve skewed the game.
I went for the 300 Export build, stacked coin for Manchus just before he attacked (so in theory I could have had even more units out). I still won the fight convincingly. Maybe you can watch and deal with it better the next time. Mainly just positioning and pulling back the cav so they dont get rekt by dopps.
Note: I could've gotten even more mass earlier if I got those 2 big XP terasures near my base, but that wouldve skewed the game.
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Re: am i just getting out-microed here
If your micro is good enough you could kite so many units with hand cav DD
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Lukas_L99 wrote:So today I went on ESO but nobody really was online, except for that guy. So I thought why not play China vs him.
I went for the 300 Export build, stacked coin for Manchus just before he attacked (so in theory I could have had even more units out). I still won the fight convincingly. Maybe you can watch and deal with it better the next time. Mainly just positioning and pulling back the cav so they dont get rekt by dopps.
Note: I could've gotten even more mass earlier if I got those 2 big XP terasures near my base, but that wouldve skewed the game.
thanks! ill watch it when im done with work today.
Hazza54321 wrote:If your micro is good enough you could kite so many units with hand cav DD
haha fat chance.
Maybe I'll make a stream, called "Squamiger Attempts to Beat Greatscythe" and just play him every night.
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