Grrr... Im playing a 1v1 on pampas against a *cough* OP *cough* brit. I thought, I've had troubles with them before but now I've had some more experience so I'll try again. This guy has a level 99 British HC compared to my lvl 40 French HC (Big deal, we have the best cards anyway).
I go around early game and grab every single llama on the map and fatten them. A few minutes upon reaching Colonial (about 40 sec before him) I have a large surplus of food and I am Once I hit fortress, about 2 min before he does, I ship in 3 cuirs and make skirms and vet muskets. He has vet longbows, some pikes and hussars. We both have 2 falcs. In this battle, it's very close because although his longbows slaughter my skirms (and falcs!), he is a retard (even though hes a rank above me) because he lets my musks attack and sluaghter his longbows in melee. I also kill his hussars with musks and ride round the back with cuirs to take out his falcs, even though they all die to longbows! I beta him with a few men left and quickly press the attack with a few musket reinforcements. I almost destory one building, yes, one before he comes up with about 10 longbows as well as an outpost firing and violating my half dead rabble. I am forced to pull back and am still ahead of him economically. Mreanwhile, I've secured most of the hunts and practically every goldmine so he is forced to go to mills and plantations earlier. I hit industrial and make more musks, skirms, and cuirassiers. Meanwhile he's massing longbows, pikes and rockets. while I make 5 falcs and about 20 cuirassiers, 10 jaegers and about 12 musks as well as 3 heavy cannons from my factory. He now has guard longbows and his econ is far better than mine now. This is the bull*** part: He sits back and blasts my 2 forts and factory with mortars (God damn I hate those mortar pussies). I counter-attack of course and get raped. I used 5 falconets which killed something like (10!) longbows and rushed in to kill his rockets which were slaughtering my army. His longbows are beating my f***ing By now my econ is ok, but I have no military buildings and he has a large unstoppable army coming towards my base. No joke, but with cuirassiers I never get what I pay for. They cost a ton of res and get slaughtered quickly by longbows. I never seem to get my money's worth with them. it takes forever to get them into and attack (with their horrible path finding) and are a high priority for the enemy and get saughtered. i'm sick of people saying this game is very balanced. I'm so pissed off right now I did everything right and lost because of longbows. In small batches they are fine to deal with because my cav can latch on quickly and attack. With mass longbows I cant attack the ones in the middle and when I do I have to get the hell outta there because 500 res of anti cav is coming. Also, rockets are insanely OP, they are just.... I'm not even gonna bother. Thanks for reading the rant. Please give me a break with your responses. [This message has been edited by KrAzY_KaRl (edited 10-01-2006 @ 05:28 AM).]
I sneak around across the river and attack his colony when he doesnt expect it, killing about 6 vils and destroying his TC before he retaliates, Ive stocked up a group of musks and skirms, about 25 troops altogether and attack his forward base while he sint ther,e i destroy very little and by the time he comes back he destroys my little force. Now I have o army and he has a substantial one, because I split my army(well I thought it was pretty smart actually because he had to split his forces or have his colony or fb destroyed).
im in ur base
steelin ur crates