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Wasting food on spahi? Those 3 spahi killed your falcs before they did anything.
Because I forgot to pull up my Dragoons (that was pretty much my major mistake of the game)? Congrats, 5 Abus Guns could've done the same job. Those Spahi sure did alot of rading later though.
You don't use Spahi on civs with Dragoons and War Wagons. You build Abus Guns to deal with Falconets. As it was, your Spahi killed one villager. One.
If not for my mistake with the Dragoons not being up far enough, those Spahi would've been wasted entirely.Quote:
Nearly no abus guns? What the hell? I made 22 abus guns, compare that to your 2200 opponent NIGHTdream who made 7.
He was 2150. He rushed, not FFed. You never had enough Abus Guns in any engagement to make a difference. Instead you spent resources on utterly useless units like Manchu.
22 Abus Guns in a 22 minute game is quite low for an Ottoman who has FFed.
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Manchu? I'm going to send mamelukes against highlanders and dragoons, right? Or corsairs? Manchu were for the lancers and dragoons. Ottomans don't get many decent dragoon counters. They can take care of lancers, but dragoons...
Manchu were a waste of gold. You don't build Manchu to deal with Lancers, you build Janissaries, lot of Janissaries (with maybe a few Cav Archers for effect, to soak Skirmisher fire). The idea is to save most of your gold for Abus Guns.
You build lots of Abus Guns and Jans versus Dragoons, they are your only hope. Manchu don't do crap to Dragoons. Spending 1000 gold on +10 Abus Guns would've helped alot more than 9 Manchu. They even kill Lancers too slowly. On the other hand, get 20 Abus Guns (18, actually) in a group and they one shot kill a Lancer.
That aside, you should never have sent Manchu for the simple reason that my deck contained Swiss Pikes and Highlanders.
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You told me to use Ottomans. I wanted to use Russians, and I even told you before game I was lacking certain cards.
You claimed you would do better than a 2150 Ottoman and offered to prove it. I wasn't about to let you have an easy way out when you suddently wanted to play Russians instead.
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Church card?
Thats the mose useless church card in the game. Oh right, you already know that.
You must not realise I meant the Advanced Church techs card, not the cheaper church techs card. Otherwise you'd be making one of the n00biest statements I've read in some time.
But speaking of the cheaper church techs card ... you boom with 3 TCs a not use it? It's in nearly all my Ottoman FF and FI decks. Infact it's an intergral part of the church FI. Most useless card in the game my arse.Quote:
I simply picked a land deck that seemed fit. They're nearly all the same, except some age 4 differences and the 5 abus card.
One's decks shouldn't be nearly all the same. Decks need to be fine tuned to the map and civ. In your case, you had an even greater advantage, you could've picked a deck that was also fine tuned to the player (me).Quote:
I picked Industrial and resource cards.
I play half 2v2s and team games, so I don't always pick the best cards for 1v1. Getting 8 janissaries and 2 falcs actually has been on my agenda for a week now, but I have only gained 1 level and I used that to get the 11 janissary card (one step away)
That must be one of the most asinine excuses I've read. You have no use for 2 Falconets or 8 Janissaries in team games now? Ooookay ...
You had 46 levels to pick those cards. The fact that you did not, speaks volumes.
P.S.
Another one of your brilliant moves was to build a Commanche trade post for some reason and then actually attempt to train Commanche Horse Archers (good thing you stopped at 4), which are even worse than Cav Archers.
I would understand if it was Lakota (Dog Soldiers), but Commanche? *shakes head*
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