Bean7
Skirmisher
posted 10-29-07 10:16 PM
EDT (US)
6 / 10
To all those FFing Chinese players...Japan is a huge opposition to face if you don't take them down (due to those vill cards, as well as the team castle card which seems awesome in a team game...2nd age? That's amazing). Basically, I'm falling for Japan, as my starting civ: China is quickly being picked up by the good players...and a LOT of them...
India also has a very nasty sepoy/gurkha rush...
-blake
Epierce41
Skirmisher
posted 10-30-07 01:44 PM
EDT (US)
7 / 10
I've found Japan's FF to be pretty effective. If you do a naked FF with 1 vil building your first wonder and send 600 gold immediately upon reaching Colonial, then have 8 vils build your second wonder, you can often get to Fortress in under 10 minutes. So far, I've done it once in under 9.
Of course you're screwed if your opponent rushes, but because it's so fast you can even do a semi-FF instead with a little rush defense and still get there pretty damn quickly.
Epierce41
Skirmisher
posted 10-30-07 04:44 PM
EDT (US)
9 / 10
Nice, Patrick. In colonial, do you make use of the 600Gold shipment and then send the 5 Yumi?