Scout report

RM 1v1 sample: 6,388,699 games. Overall win-rate leaders: Romans 54.3%, Tupi 53.2%, Bulgarians 52.7%. Most played: Mongols 5.7%, Franks 4.9%, Persians 3.6%. Elite slice: Byzantines 79.1%, Chinese 77.7%, Tupi 76.6%.

AoE2.ai is tracking 45,735 RM 1v1 players. Top five: #1 VIT | Hera 2,966, #2 Oni.Vinchester 2,921, #3 wR.Sebastian 2,914, #4 wR.Lucho 2,875, #5 VIT Liereyy 2,852. Longest hot streak in the sampled top ladder: Oni.TaToH (26 wins). Best sampled win rate with 300+ games: VIT | Hera 75.0%. 50 of the sampled top players have played in the last 24h.

Just got paired to a 400 elo as a 1300 elo. It's been a while since the Mac release came out, but the player base is tiny. I basically know all players from 1000 to 1500 and I've played them all (constantly get repeats, sometimes I get paired to the same person 3 times in a row). Elo is messed up as well, 1500's that should be 1800 and 1200 that should be 800 Do you think the player base will eventually grow or should I just try to find a way to play on PC? (crossover is messed up since the release).

I’ve been playing a lot of Muisca lately. I feel like this civ has a ton of potential once you get the hang of their unit roster, but I’ve hit a bit of a wall with my macro and composition choices. I have a bad habit of getting way too comfortable doing all in Castle Age pushes forgetting to click up to Imperial. How do you usually gauge when to stop over investing in castle and actually click up to Imp? I’ve been using Slingers to deal with siege and as a trash filler which feels pretty effective in my games so far. My main question is where do Archers fit into their game plan? What's their specific role or power spike compared to relying on Slingers/Temple Guards/champis? Also when/why would you use the guecha warrior? Muisca seem to start of strong with a big fall of in imp.

After a long break I resumed my campaign attempts on hard, but I'm currently stuck at Suryavarman 4 (the one where you have to defend some Dravidian allies) the issue here is that the enemy doesn't even try to attack me, on Standard they were actually attacking me quite often but on Hard I'm almost invisible and they're focused exclusively on green. I had a good attempt where the economy was going great, I had already conquered the islands and was on my way to attack the main blue base and then green just died. I tried reverting to a previous save to put some defenses on my own in green's territory but the game doesn't let you build castles in their base, only towers and docks, which were not enough to deal with the absurd amount of orange and blue ships that are constantly attacking them. Tried restarting and focusing on being aggressive with ships from the start, but blue ended up attacking even earlier and my economy was struggling to take off. This is meant to be a 1 Sword campaign. I'm definitely worried about the rest of the Rajas campaigns, 11.