I'm countering sarcasm with sarcasm, but he really wasn't being that sarcastic because he presents himself as a huge n00b.
And there is no way in hell a Britain player will have 20 longbows and 5 pikes at your doorstep before 7 min. Even so ... you use the military you aged up to fortress with (possibly skirms?) to kill of pikes and use falcs to crush longbows. I've never encountered a British player that hasn't gone fortress before 9 minutes, it's pretty stupid not to IMO.
And 4 minutes? Maybe four minutes after the initial house boom begins, at 5-6 minutes, and then 4 more minutes to take advantage of it, so yea 9-10 minutes ... starting it during advancing is suicidal because you need the wood for a barracks, since you certainly can't FF due to the VS you spent on food vs wood. A well executed aggressive FF can certainly be dished out before 10 minutes, if not, and hopefully, earlier.
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Thats why I've lost to several Brit longbow massers who hit me around 7 minutes with 20+ longbows.
And there is no way in hell a Britain player will have 21 longbows and 5 pikes at your doorstep before 7 min. Even so ... you use the military you aged up to fortress with (possibly skirms?) to kill of pikes and use falcs to crush longbows. I've never encountered a British player that hasn't gone fortress before 9 minutes, it's pretty stupid not to IMO.
In order to even HAVE that army at your base by that time (6 lbs shipped in, 3 groups of 5 created, 1 group of 5 pikes), it requires 2 minutes of training time, and that's if you were able to continue pumping them consecutively, which combined with house booming, would be difficult. Then they have to move them to your base, which takes another 30 seconds, maybe less if they forward based. So they can start pumping these longbows by 5:30, without stopping? It may be possible but still against MM, 2 falcs ... yea not fun for the british player, especially when you potentially have another shipment of skirms/cass/longbows arriving.
And they would be plain stupid to do it against you, a Russian player. Strelets, when they enclose on longbows (or cossacks which will rip the lbows apart, or slow them down, allowing the strelets to kill them) will rip them to pieces, strelets are basically watered down skirms that work in larger numbers.
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This is coming from the person who doesn't understand sarcasm.
Right.
I understand all the elements of the English language very well thank you very much. And if I had to choose, I'd certainly pick grammar and correct spelling over sarcasm. And sarcasm is more entertaining and much easier to understand in real life, than on forums where the body langauge depends on bold or italic text.
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No. That timing was horrible, considering the context of the post and the post you were replying to.
It made very little sense, if any.
I don't remember asking for your opinion. You seem to have many issues with everyone at these forum, seeing as you start quote wars in nearly every thread. So from now on, I'm going to do my best to ignore you.
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unless you did it on purpose, which seems unlikely because of your mental level.
So someone who cannot formulate proper sentences has a higher mental level than I? Your lack of intelligence is stunning.
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