However i would like to share some recent experiences i had playing Russia against some pretty decent competetion.
I would say Russia is the worse civ in 1 v 1 games along with Dutch. 2 v 2 is a totally different story i think. I play alot of 2 v 2 games, just recently have i started to play alot of 1 v 1. Anyways, Russians are pretty good in 2 v 2 games if given the right amount of time, and/or not losing any villies up to fortress.
Just to kind of paint a picture, me and a portugese player FF'ed and attacked the Russians Dutch partner, we killed all his houses like 8 villies, had his score really low, in the mean time Russia was sending units here and there to help.
No big deal i thought we had the game, but all of the sudden my units were not plentiful, and my partners were all dead before we could get his TC down, so i retreated. To make a long story short, at about 13 min the guy was way ahead in score and just flooded Muskets and Oprichniks.
Soon after it was GG, this had happened to me in another game the night before but instead of opri he spammed Cossack. Maybe they sent the fast cavalry and infantry cards?
Anyway to end the thread, i really dont think Russia is as bad as people make them out to be, not in 2 v 2 games anyway.
"Were surrounded.........this simplifies things." - Chesty Puller USMC 1950
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[This message has been edited by ub3r (edited 04-06-2006 @ 03:38 PM).]