USA Cowboy Build

AndiAOE · Post by **AndiAOE** » 28 Jun 2021, 18:06

The Cowboy Build:

Core Idea: Use the Busted stats of Cowboys (225 hp + 20% RR + 18 range charged ability + 19 base range attack for only 120 coin and 6 population) to gain map control and take good trades.
Difficulty: Hard (Extreme Micro potential with charged ability, hard macro, tight low eco build)
Effectiveness: Good vs people who dont know how to deal with it. Against ppl who know, I dont think it is too strong tbh. But it is fun!

Age up with 13 Villagers (build 1 house) with the 700 food costing age up
get 100 more food -> Then split 5 to wood and rest to coin
Gather wood until you have 300 -> then retask vills to food/coin
Build a saloon as soon as the card arrives - Preferably in the middle of the map - Use flag besides saloon to increase production speed
Build a house during age up, then send 4 vills to food to sustain vill production
Train Cowboys - dont train any other outlaws (they bad) except maybe gunslinger for siege dmg
Be agressive and force fights. Keep enemy in his base
Use 700 wood for more saloons (for housing) + house(s) + market

Card Progression: Chinese Immigrants - Saloon card - 700 wood - 700 coin - hamilton economics

How to Counter:
go double barracks and for a timing with roughly 30 units (musk, musk/bow or bow/bike depending on what your civ has). Or try to finish the game with semi FF and 2 falc timing

Open for Feedback. After some testing around (and temporarly loosing roughly 80 ladder points and 100 rank by figuring this build out) I think this is the best version of the build I could come up with (more successful than at start, so i am where i started at lol). I am at 1400 - 1600 Supremacy elo, depending on how yolo build orders I go for.
Personally i feel like the units stats are so busted that there is probably some way to make it work consistently

Video Showcasing the Build:

See some Ego posts below. I had a 5 game loose streak with this build and was so tilted that i didnt save recs, maybe next time :)