Hi everyone, I'm an 1100 DE Pleb, the purpose of this post is to seek some advice.
I just played a random arena match provided by the matchmaking system.
I picked Persians becasuse they have a good boom.
The other guy picked Franks and went for a very aggressive castle push.
We both hit castle age at a similiar time and when I saw the first castles, I decided to go for a faster Imp, and treb the castles down.
I managed to do that, and treb down 4 castles on my base, so I thought the game was over, because he invested thousands of resources on those castles and didn't kill any vills.. But from that point on, we battled for 2 more hours (He got the five relics while I was cleaning my base), and I only won
because Persians have a super OP post imp game. (Also my opponent made some mistakes, like making paladin with only +1, +1)
I feel like if I chose any other civ, I would not have been able to win.
But there is no such thing as "Franks super all in castle rush on arena" on high level games 11, so there must be a better way to counter it.
Obviously any advice on the game is wellcome, but my main question is: how can I punish the castle push?
The key is that he got all the relics, so any civ would lose on the long run..
Also, I understand that because this is low ELO, there are a lot of things to improve before talking about strategy.. again, any advice is wellcome.
Here a pic to encourage people to download and watch the game:
Arena - Persians vs Franks
I just played a random arena match provided by the matchmaking system.
I picked Persians becasuse they have a good boom.
The other guy picked Franks and went for a very aggressive castle push.
We both hit castle age at a similiar time and when I saw the first castles, I decided to go for a faster Imp, and treb the castles down.
I managed to do that, and treb down 4 castles on my base, so I thought the game was over, because he invested thousands of resources on those castles and didn't kill any vills.. But from that point on, we battled for 2 more hours (He got the five relics while I was cleaning my base), and I only won
because Persians have a super OP post imp game. (Also my opponent made some mistakes, like making paladin with only +1, +1)
I feel like if I chose any other civ, I would not have been able to win.
But there is no such thing as "Franks super all in castle rush on arena" on high level games 11, so there must be a better way to counter it.
Obviously any advice on the game is wellcome, but my main question is: how can I punish the castle push?
The key is that he got all the relics, so any civ would lose on the long run..
Also, I understand that because this is low ELO, there are a lot of things to improve before talking about strategy.. again, any advice is wellcome.
Here a pic to encourage people to download and watch the game:
Arena - Persians vs Franks