bobtheboy
Skirmisher
posted 05-15-09 08:02 PM EDT (US)
I don't know if other civs have Ronin, I play as British, but spamming ronin works pretty well. They only require two upgrades, I think- 1 from arsenal and one from the church. (these upgrades aren't unit specific though). You can start spamming them and getting the upgrades at age 3. They cost *only* 400 gold, so you can have all your vills on gold, and factories if you get to age 4. The only downside to Ronin spam is that they cost 4 pop, so you can only have 50 at a time, and they train slowly, which is bad since you can only make one saloon. The only unit that can counter them is spies (If ninjas happen to be available, then this strategy doesn't work), but if my enemy makes lots of spies, I just make a few cannons and kill them all off. Spies are really terrible now, they lessened their attack against everything but mercs and heroes to 5. 5! That is such a joke...
Anyway, has anyone else tried this strategy?
bobtheboy
Skirmisher
posted 05-15-09 10:05 PM
EDT (US)
4 / 5
"You forgot to mention that you need to send a card just to be able to make ronins at the saloon."
Yeah... but when you create your first home city, it's level 10, so you can get this card... I don't understand. So what if you need a card?