Ok, I put the word "cheat" in quotations because I'm not exactly sure if this is a cheat or just the effect of a card. You be the judge...
I was playing a 2vs2 skirmish game where we agreed not to rush or attack for 20 minutes (so we could gather a little more XP). I played Russians (lvl 4), my ally British (lvl 18), and the two enemies were French (lvl 28) and Ottomans (lvl 17). Yeah... I was already nervous. Fighting late game French and Ottomans was going to be tough, especially when this was my second multiplayer game playing as Russians and teams seemed quite off-balanced.
I assumed that the French player would mass Cuirassers, and he did. The Ottoman player just massed Jannisaries, Abus Guns, Faconets and Great Bombards... go figure. So I immediately had trouble fighting both of their armies when they paired them together to attack me. I worked hard to defeat them, and eventually my superior level 4 economy paid off (lol).
As the French player sent masses of Cuirassers to kill my ally, I sent raiding parties to kill his villagers in hopes to stop him.
Now here's the catch... the French player had an army of 40 to 60 Cuirassers at any given moment of the game. It seemed like for every one my ally or I killed, one more would come. It was unbelievable! And the crazy part is, he had three mills and three plantations. I raided him twice (in a 10 minute period) and both times I successfully killed every single one of his villagers with Lakota (10), Commanche (10) and Oprichniks (15). Before I could countinue either raid, a mass of Cuirassers would come out of nowhere and swamp my raiding parties.
On my very last attempt to siege his town, I saw his stables. Now these weren't normal stables, for when he saw me, each one of his stables would unleash 10 Cuirassers EACH in the blink of an eye! I'm not kidding you or exaggerating one bit. It was literally a second of time and 10 Cuirassers would appear from a single stable. Wtf?!
Even scarier, my ally was able to do this too. He said to me, "The French player is cheating. He's not queuing his units and that's how he's able to mass cuirs so fast." I was confused and asked what he meant and he said, "Look at my stables," as he flared the minimap. I looked and as soon as I did, about 30 dragoons came out of his 4 stables in one second.
How is this even possible?
I checked out the deck of the French player and he has a the cavalry train time -25% card, but that doesn't make them spawn that fast, not even with the Church tech.
French player: Haustenfelt
British player: Cherokee_Spar
[This message has been edited by Cy Marlayne (edited 11-25-2005 @ 03:28 AM).]