I main Rus, currently Plat 2 and I keep running into greedy 2 TC openings and I'm not sure what the cleanest punish is. It's worst against KT: they go 2 TC, turtle up, and in Castle they've got keeps everywhere. Once that's up I can't find a way in. Three options I'm weighing: Commit to feudal aggression and punish the second TC before the eco pays off Fast Castle and try to out-tech/out-eco them Just go 2 TC myself and play the macro game Which is actually strongest into a defensive KT?

We need teamchat in the lobby and 45 or 60 seconds before the game starts. So you can discuss Strats/civs. I will PayPal developers $10 if they make this happen immediately.

Just like we already have transport ships to move units across water, I think it could be interesting, useful, and historically believable to introduce a new land-based transport unit: a Transport Cart or Wagon. The basic idea would be simple: a non-combat land vehicle that can carry a small group of infantry units, monks or villagers and move them faster across the map. It could work in a similar way to naval transport ships, but balanced for land gameplay. Possible uses: Saving groups of villagers during raids if a transport cart is nearby. Moving infantry more quickly toward active combat areas. Creating more tactical options for reinforcement, retreat, and map control. Adding a more realistic logistical layer to large-scale armies. Suggested Wagon stats Name: Transport Cart / Transport Wagon Available from: Feudal Age or Castle Age Cost: 75 wood + 25 gold, or alternatively 100 wood Hit points: 220-280 HP Armor: 0/0 or 1/1 Movement speed when empty: 1.5 Movement speed when loaded: 1.4 Capacity: 8 units Attack: None Animals: 2 horses, mules, or oxen Allowed units: Villagers, infantry, monks, and other foot units Not allowed units: Cavalry, siege units, and other wagons Combat restrictions: Units inside the wagon should not be able to attack while transported Main role: Mobility, evacuation, reinforcement, and tactical repositioning Balance idea: The wagon should be useful, but fragile. It should help players move or save units, but it should not become a combat unit or a way to bypass normal army positioning too easily. To keep it balanced, the unit should probably be fragile, have no attack, and be vulnerable to cavalry, ranged fire, and siege damage. Units inside should not be able to attack while transported. OUT OF THE BOX IDEA A possible deeper version of this idea would be to use transport carts for internal resource logistics. For example, in a more advanced redesign of the economy, villagers could deposit resources into local drop-off buildings such as lum

My only criteria is that they cannot age up the entire game. My top contenders are Sengoku and English because they both get meaningful eco bonuses in this scenario and have men at arms

How do you deal with a scout just killing ur workers at the start of the game, b4 u even have a barracks or any units. I play Chinese and I always put 2 on gold at start. If they use their scout to attack them, I can either attack back with my villager (they immediately run away, making my villagers run). Or I can keep mining (and die) Lose lose scenario? Is this just how the early game works? Nothing I can do? Just deal with it and do the same thing to them? It completely fucks my gold income… making my age up much slower. Makes me wanna ff and go next when I find a player doing that shit.

Hi all, I’m learning Chinese as a new player and I love the civ late game. If I don’t get harassed early I always do amazingly. Unfortunately every game against French they constantly harass me early with super tanky royal knights that destroy me and overwhelm my units. They also always attack my 2 villagers on gold with their scout. If I make the villagers attack back, they run away. Meaning I either mine the gold and die, or stop mining the gold and chase after them while they run away. ITS A LOSE LOSE! How do you play the match up? I do my start of: mill on sheep, gather more sheep with scout, build house and mining camp, put 2 workers on gold. Age up as soon as possible.split workers between wood, sheep, and gold and triple supervise (with 1 officer gathering the tax) If I’m going against French or expecting early aggression I build a barracks and start pumping our spearman. But the archers they bring with their knights always kill my spearman easily. And when I’ve built archers, they do no damage to the knights and just get run down by them and easily killed. I lose a bunch of workers from their attack. I fall behind and just lose. Does Chinese have any decent defense for this? Am I missing a defensive strategy apart from just building archers + spearman and hoping for the best? Should I spend wood on walls? It would cost so much wood to make a full circle around my base out of wood… and if it’s just a line of wood walls they just go around. I’ve built an outpost or 2 but with 5 archers in them the damage is just so low on the tanky royal knights.

I have long been an offline player only, enjoying games vs. AI and more recently playing lots of The Crucible. However recently I have really started to have the itch for playing on ladder, just to see how I rank against actual humans opponents... I feel like one of the annoying things I'll face when I start playing is losing to super cheesy strats so I'm wanting to prepare myself, even if its just a little bit, for this experience... What are some of the most annoying or cheesiest strats you face when playing ladder and what are some really simple things you do to stop these strats/builds? For context, Im regularly beating Ridiculous AI 1v1 so I feel like Im probably in gold somewhere, although of course thats purely guess work. Thanks in advance!

I've been playing a bunch of Jin dynasty lately and have ran into a few matchups that I just don't have an answer for. Anyone have some recommendations for what to do against the following?: Mass janissaries when fighting ottomans Mixed mustafi / spears from malians

Hey guys, I quit this game for a while due to frustrations with where the devs were taking it. Every now and then I come back to try again and I just cannot believe the kind of stuff I'm seeing. Why are there both green and dark green colors? Green was already a terrible color because it clashed with the minimap. Now there's dark green and I literally cannot tell who is who during a fight. How hard is it to make team-coordinated "cold vs warm" colors? (Company of Heroes has had this for ages) It's hard not to get agitated when such simple features have been overlooked for so many years. I really had such high hopes for this game.