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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 46,475 RM 1v1 players. Top five: #1 Oni.Vinchester 2,914, #2 _LY_Yo 2,912, #3 wR.Lucho 2,890, #4 VIT | Hera 2,838, #5 TAG_Sitaux 2,836. Longest hot streak in the sampled top ladder: 抖音ique (64 wins). Best sampled win rate with 300+ games: VIT | Hera 74.8%. 66 of the sampled top players have played in the last 24h.

A lot of serious posts in here, thought would change it up with a light hearted moment about my son. He’s 8 and been playing for a couple years now scenarios and against bots in random map games. Always plays random civs as loves learning about the different civs, different buildings etc…he got into the game watching T90 vids with me (the rainbow building fighting show is how he described community games). Anyways this morning he comes out to me, in a panic, ‘Dad I think something is broke with the game, it’s really annoying all my villagers just turned into Spearman!’ Couldn’t help but laugh, ‘Welcome to the Flemish Revolution’ I told him and explained what he had done. ‘Oh Danggit’ he replied. ‘I guess I’m using them to fight now’. What I wouldn’t give to go back to such a simpler time with the game, building basically tower defence scenarios on Blakc Forrest when I was a kid myself 🤣

I was making a lobby to play with a friend. We discussed settings and planned to 2v2 some bots, but then another guy came in. I thought it was one of his steam friends. He complained about my friend's connection a bit before he started swearing and insisted we fix it. Me and my friend quit, and I found I had set it on "public" rather than friends-only. It was funny, and I wonder how many people do this accidentally.