Hi all, I wanted to share a funny build I tried these days, as it worked surprisingly better than I thought
Note that I don't claim this strat to be viable, I only want to bring diversity and surprise. This can only be done against greedy play/greedy civs because of the very few amount of units you will have early on, and an opponent who scouts properly (or even look at decks
) will want to pressure your base ASAP and crush you easily. But at my (low) level (master sergeant) this build can be really funny and effective against a shy opponent.What is interesting in this build is that in the Industrial age, Germans get fantastic shipments such as 2 Heavy Cannons of course, but also 3 Horse Artillery, 4 Nitroglycerine Petards if you can afford to troll more, and above all 10 Guard Hussars from pecelot's homeland, knowing that all age IV shipments but this one give you 4 extra friendly Uhlans. Germans also have the 'Palatine settlements' card which is quite useful for the huge amount of pop you'll need
I highly recommend a map where you can build 2 TP, one of them in base is better
The deck I use :
Age I
Classic stuff here, TP or market depending on the start crates, 2 Settler Wagons as first card, wood treasures are welcome, age with the Quartermaster (400
)Transition: Assign almost all villagers to
, build what you are lacking (market or TP), gather for placer mines, a house, and 125 for steel traps, then all vills to 
and 
Age II
Send 3 SW, get steel traps, with your 400
from age up build a 2nd TP and 2 houses, no military building, which means that you are very fragile a this point3rd card is Palatine settlements, you will really need this population in age IV
Gather
and in order to go age III ASAP, do it with the Marksman (6 skirms)During transition gather for age IV
Age III
Send a mighty Fort to protect your colony, followed by 1000
.Go Industrial with the Engineer (2 falconets). During transition, train War Wagons in your Fort. With 1000
, build a stable and a rax, keep 600 .Age IV
If you succeeded to go so far unharmed, victory is almost yours. You should have a shipment waiting for your click, 10 Winged Hussars is almost always the best choice. The following ones depend much more of the progress of the game and your opponent's army composition.
Thanks to the 600
you have kept, research the 'Guard War Wagons' upgrade, and train more of them in your fort. Guards WW are pretty enjoyable units against age II or age III compositions.Here are some recs of successful attempts, 3 on RE and one on the EP. I should'nt have tried this build against the Iroquois, but luckily he didn't attack early, he said after the game that he wasn't familiar with this civ. Even against Brits it is risky, you never really know what they will do, but against these guys it worked
