How the hell to deal with Spahi lamers

[fei123456]

I'm playing India and Ottoman just go naked FI, with 8 industrial Spahi at around 9 minute. He even has 4 deli to raid my villagers for a while. I go age 3 with Taiji Maha and spam 7-8 howdahs and realized he has a 22 azap shipment in his deck: 2200 resources is it real?

I didn't try colonial play cause 5 spahi > 30 sepoy nowadays. Even his minutemen can beat sepoy easily lol. That's the few BOs in which I can't even imagine how to play.

[Miyawaki Sakura]

Fb agra - 2.75wood trikle - 700c ff
And send 2siege ele - anti cav shipments?

[Squamiger]

i think you want to make zamburaks. otto has azaps now but generally ranged cav spam is still the best counter. gurkah should shred azaps too.

you can do a karni mata stable start and make 5-10 zams and then go age 3, to catch his deli raid and then start to mass vs. the spahi.

[iron_turtle]

i think zamb start is good, but ultimately you have to mass howdahs because they can atleast face and somewhat counter the bombards. Siege ellies just die too quick.

[look]

10/10 with tp
700c-700w
karni age 1
militar age 2

if he's going IV
zamb + 2 siege elephant..
From there you need to adapt accordingly
If he has an era 3 composition, always try to have mahouts to help withstand damage

[fei123456]

You all forget he can have 8 spahi and 22 AZAP at 9:30. Either zamburak or howdah die like sand castles against 22 AZAP.

[callentournies]

skurm guun culv

[alistairpeter]

You just need at least 3 decks for kerimb

[look]

You all forget he can have 8 spahi and 22 AZAP at 9:30. Either zamburak or howdah die like sand castles against 22 AZAP.

show me how can this be possible..
u cannot be in age IV at 9:30
only if u are playing against and very passive player..

[Hazza54321]

Cant you kite azaps with howdah anyway

[richard]

quit

[Mitoe]

I feel like if you know he will do this you can probably do a sepoy/redcoat timing push (700w 300e 5 sepoy, or maybe 300e 5 sepoy 700w if that's too slow), deal some damage, then ship 700c age and mix gurkha/zamb + siege elephants depending on the situation.

[_tank]

Spurrs lamers are a problem as old as time (or aoe3, whichever has been around longer)

I like to use this classic video as a reference

[peekaboo]

honestly, this MU is almost imposible late game, india can do anything agains azap big bombards spam azaps even counter siege elephants