Brits are again at the level of dutch. They are only nice cuz of their boom, but their eco gradually balances out and during then the OP civs beat them.
And I played a major general (PR 42) in twc epic time ago, in treaty for the heck of it, named playin chicks. Got absolutely raped (less than an hour), and i asked him what were the best civs to use (i was quite clueless back then was a private who randomly joined an unrated game) he said germans, ports, french, russia and japan in 2 vs 2. I was germans and i got raped by his russia. He did not say anything about china or spain, and i do believe he knows more than you guys about treaty. He also taught me how to do speed dopples XD.
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ESO: Blitzkrieg_Mario
Prefered civs: Hell, I like them all.
Rank: TWC PR 18 (master sergeant) TAD PR 17, Vanilla PR 12
Clan: Triple Entente
Favorite games: Dofus, AoE 3, Tremulous, CoD 4, SSBB, Urban Terror