ANyways the point is, instead of massing fast halbs or falconets when he FF'ed, he just made lots of Merc Cav, with Skirms, and then brang halbs later.
But right when he fortressed he made a Saloon and made some Straidots, which made my 4 age up Hussars and 5 Lancer Shipment run. Then i tried w/ Rods and falc, then he made more merc cav, and spammed skirms, and after he was winning engagements he wore me down with halbs and gg.
He did a standard 4 bank FF. 3 vills, 700 wood, 600 wood, or 700 gold, or maybe the bank wagon in there somewhere. He walled up and make like 8 skirms to defend my rod/wardog/musk rush the next game, and then blew by me with banks and made more Merc Cav.
The point is, i havent seen many people do FF Merc spam. I know Spies are effective against mercs, and i mentioned it to him, and he said they arent that bad against merc cav, expecially when you have skirms around to fire down any spies. It was really effective, even more so wit the Dutch eco, banks, and 15%mining gold bonus.
Maybe the Dutch are actually surpassing Spain as the top civ. Not just in my experience with this guy, but quite a few people just losing to Dutch in general.
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