what's the wildest strat that actually worked? i typically do unranked so i don't see much out of the ordinary, but i'm sure many of you have seen wild stuff
lol when 3 turtles destroys all, you know it's starvation time
"My opponents tell me to get covid and die" would make an awesome flair
lol yessss… would wear it as a badge of honor
Island maps where people run out of wood are often sources of giggles.
Still Hoang.
Going full infantry every single match. It works 100% of the time, except when it doesn't. 11
I once randomed Armenians vs Georgians on a relatively open Megarandom.
Took a bit of damage vs scouts but walled up and got up a bit after them. Saw them boom and on stone.
So I hung back and went 20 halbs and 4 rams. Then taxid across the map with a constant stream of rams and halbs coming in. They had only cav so they died instantly.
Didn't actually expect it to work 11
That sounds legit!
It did work that one time but of course the next time I tried it, it didn't work.
Really, castle age halbs still die to everything except cav. So you need your opponent to be surprised while they are making full cav.
but do they die to....other halbs? 11 i like the taxi fare tho. be sure to give em 5 stars
Yeah, they recently expanded so they can fit 6 in castle age, too.
7/10 top score.
I love the battle taxi strat… I do it all the time
On paper that's just the logical meta counter against Cav-play
The halbs, yes, and it's surprisingly affordable in castle age because the upgrade is good heavy.
Pushing with rams as well is really all-in, though, and basically requires your opponent to not scout them.
Sounds fun!
Early Castle Age win with Elephant Archers as Gurjaras.
I mean...I was trying to do it, but pretty good it worked first time.
the eco for that though would be wild!
I've seen Celts HCA+Hussar work out thrice at 2300 ELO
Don't have to make an awkward infantry transition if you just don't go infantry ;)
that's some mighty high elo!
In a 2v2 game, my teammates town got completely wiped out. So, I made the decision to go all in on that dudes town rather than attacking my opponent like I was preparing to do.
He rage quit. Looking at a the map afterwards, we could have easily been defeated had he or his teammate attacked my town.
Not that wild of a strategy I guess, but damn was it satisfying.
smart! if they're all in then you know they're exposed
I saw Viper win a game with zero military past his starting scout. 100% vil win.
Hera did this in empire wars recently. Forward towers asap and stone walled in his opponent
He made military units too though.
I just rewatched most of it and i am pretty sure he only made 1 spear at minute 0 and likely that was just an instinctual thing
11 that's insane. spanish?
Exactly. He was booming, too, so it was a full pop vil rush against military. Totally overwhelming.
A few times I managed to successfully execute Spanish fast castle into siege tower into castle drop on Arena lol. Should work well with Sicilians too.
It's not that great itself, just so unexpected to get castle dropped and have conqs inside your base early on Arena that it breaks the energy brain that was mentally prepared for a boom fest.
Conqs in siege tower????
No, you put vils in the siege tower, scale the wall and build the castle inside on their TC.
Castle dropping right outside the wall is a common strat on the arena, but nobody expects the Spanish castle drop inside the base.
Spanish and Sicilians have faster builders, so they are better for this. Also conqs in the eco early on is a disaster.
7!
Nothing too crazy, but one time my side of the map in a 4v4 nomad ended up just me v 2, while my teammates (who were all massively better than me) ended up 3v2.
My strategy of send all my archers at the booming guy and pray to God my allies won in time didn't just work-- it excelled. The guy tried to outboom the rate I was killing vills-- I was doing massive damage. When his ally tried to shut me down at my base, I screamed, cried, made palisades (which i later saw had a massive hole lmao), and a couple towers and desperation xbows and somehow scared him off.
Cut to an hour later I'm still massacring Mr. Boom's vills and was ram pushing his ally's TC, just as my allies wrapped up on their side and the GG is called.
Checked stats-- at one point those two had nearly 200 combined villagers. I had under 60 vills, only two archery ranges, a ton of palisade walls tgat were nearly all on fire, and a body nearly falling apart from the adrenaline. No idea how what was supposed to be a "don't die" strategy won. (1200 elo)
Not much but one time I fucked up my build orders and ended up just going all-in with a multi-vill tower rush with stone mining. Opponent resigned. Total bluff. If he had just shifted a bit and gone up, I would have been dead in the water.
I’m guilty of resigning when my opponents do this. In my head, I’m always thinking that my opponent is sitting comfortably in their base, booming and flourishing…while I keep having to spend time moving around and garrisoning villagers. It’s completely psychological to think that I’m so far behind without any proof, but damnit I cannot help it.
Same. Sometimes, I forget that the score is right there and can be a good clue. I also forget that logically, a player can't have 6-8 "idle" villagers and be ahead on eco when the total # of villagers should be no more than 20-30.
Early days, I was losing quite badly, barely managing to defend myself. I send 5 villagers to the absolute middle of his base and build a castle. He never saw it until it was to late.
I randomed Mayans vs Persians on 4 lakes once.
Fish boomed on three ponds, two of my ponds got wiped out, but defeated the enemy with full longsword. As Mayans. No supplies or gambesons. Ended the gane with more two handed swordsmen than villagers. They also took out a castle.
Another one:
Cumans vs Slavs on arabia: went full feudal. First 4 range archers, which was good as he was seemingly trying to pull off an FC. He was forced to make a tower, but I hkt a lot of vill kills and his FC got somewhat delayed.
By the time he hit castle age, I had a 2TC boom at home, was making spears from 3 barracks, had a forward siege workshop, which was producing rams that were taking out his production buildings, market, houses, etc. Built 4 forward stables for bloodlines scouts that kept on sniping his siege. I towered his main gold.
I had literally gotten all feudal age techs have for men at arms, which was the only feudal military unit I hadn't made at all.
I hit castle age at minute 46! And I was still killing so many villagers.
Castle drop on his main TC sealed deal and it was gg
Monks only.
Should be the douche.
But even wilder: Cuman Feudal Douche.
Yesterday I somehow got tower rushed on Pacific Islands. I was so confident it was a terrible strat that I could just ignore while expanding to another island. Then they added MAA on my home island and got very chaotic until I ended up with no way to sustain army production.
extreme agression works on me too. i feel your pain
Nomad game, I went bohemian tower rush, into rebooming 3 times into skirm, handcannons and rams.
My friend was Vietnamese and went 1 v2 vs. Incas and Malians.
We won but only because Incas forgot to get upgrades on his eagles before a big fight. Very messy game.
is tower rush good with bohemians?
Was more of a, they're both right beside me decision. Didn't really work. But hey free stone mining is nice. They're not
I will preface this by saying that this strategy did not work, he lost. But it was great. Tatoh vs Viper on gold pit some years ago turned me into a fan. Tatoh had an unwallable base while viper had a very easy wall. Tatoh noticed and walled viper into his own base, cutting him off from the gold at the center of the map. He lost but it was the genuine best off meta way to play that terrible map seed.
Another one he won, Tatoh was in one of the hidden cup tourneys on a map called cup. He played celts and drushed the enemy dock and walled it in to take water. It was a genius strategy.
I love water maps malay dock superiority on team maps.
Usually my map control gives my team a huge resources advantage. I control map early and they carry me on lategame :P
Now that I think about it, a no military polish castle drop into Obuch on fortress, followed by filling the guy's base with more castles. It didn't feel like it should've worked (mainly because I suck at this game) but God did it ever
Cumans on islands, make feudal tc on enemy island and castle drop in castle age (with all the vols created there)
I had a fun game as khmer on pacific island going fast castle, ignoring fish completely and dropping a sneaky stable on his starting island to rush him with elephants. He fled onto other islands but i managed to destroy his tc before he could reach castle age. Game went on for some time as i was trying to get some water controll. Once i reached imp he gave up.
Sicilian douche on islands (back when they had the bonus to garrison transport ship with 10 units in dark age)
Monk rush is pretty wild 😜 , sure it doesn't work if the opponent has knowledge of the very specific response.
A friend and I have been doing fc war elephants with Persians ever since they gave them more bonus damage against buildings. People never expect it and war elephants are almost as good as rams against buildings on top of destroying every unit that is not a monk (we usually combo it with another UU that can snipe the monks). It's worked at 1k7 Tg elo a couple times and it's a lot of fun to stampede through the ennemy base.
Bulgarians fu man at arms and skirms spam all feudal followed by krepost drop in castle age. I keep adding barrack and range in feudal to keep up with my eco
Not that wild, but I have had very good success building half a dozen conquistadors and a few petards. Blow through enemy walls and go raiding the enemy lumber camp before he can respond.
Other ways of getting through the enemy walls are just too slow.
Look up the legend of red phosphoru on YouTube. T90 made a few videos on him where he goes all in fast castle Hussite wagons, and rathas with bohemians and bengalis and it’s crazy how well it works
i typed "ninjalui" and for some reason i had a really high score
had a marathon 2v2 team islands game during the pandemic , was almost 3 hours. everyone in the game ended up with bases on different islands than they started….
wood was all gone, but i found a tiny bit of gold and was able to make half a dozen monks. i had no navy, but our enemy had a few turtle ships… in a last ditch effort (since we were basically screwed) i tried converting the turtle ships and actually managed to get all 3. no one else had wood or a navy so it was basically gg, i just methodically went and destroyed everything on the map with my new navy 🤣🤣
guy was a touch salty…. told me to get covid and die