Topic Subject:Help with an alternative German ff build
somme Skirmisher
posted 01-17-06 05:07 PM EDT (US)
Normally Germans go straight for the mercs but I had an idea (only tried offline) Hit age 3 normal time with 7 skirms politician. (have all vils on gold as you age and settler wagons on wood) Get a church, study merchantalism and send palatine settlments, 9 skirms, 9 Uhlans then 14 jaegers. This means your non-merc force is 16 skirms and 16 uhlans.. Throw in some br and jaegers and gg. My only problem is it is a bit slow. Any suggestions?
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Qazitory HG Alumnus
posted 01-17-06 05:17 PM
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I've done this in several games and it works quite nicely. I do prefer having TPs instead of doing merchantilism, but it works as well. You might want to consider having 7+9 skirms in your deck, along with 8+9 uhlans. If you're up too late, you might try to shave off some time by choosing the 500f politician. Also consider getting palatine settlements one shipment later?
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Plebus Pharaolympics 2000 Competitor
posted 01-17-06 05:40 PM
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2 / 4
Why not 1000 wood instead of palatine settlement?with 1000 wood you build 10 houses 1 barrack build that 9 skirmishers and you saved 250 wood for church and 1000 gold for mercantillism(450 food takes less villager-seconds to collect than 405 gold).You get about 270 exp from that,and by the time you have 1200 gold for mercenary the shipment should be ready.I guess this will be a little quicker(you lost 3 uhlans from saving a shipment though).
[This message has been edited by Plebus (edited 01-17-2006 @ 05:44 PM).]
Ceres629 Skirmisher
posted 01-17-06 06:09 PM
EDT (US)
3 / 4
no need for palatine settlement, just make use of the screw that you only need one free pop to ship mercs. ship the mercs, build the houses later. Thats the screw all the good german merc rushers use.
Once 1.04 i'm gonna build me an anti-german deck, i can see german merc FF's becoming the new 'otto-rush'!