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Conqs beat pikes and rams, all you need is mangonel for eskirms.But then what about fact that conqs are not cost effective vs trash?Especially since Spanish may do a cavalry army.A flood of pikes+rams+ES will screw conqs in castle age.Anyway if the Spanish player could build a castle,so could the other civ.Or they can advance to imp.And conqs+knight+rams will be very heavy on gold.Even if their trash is good,they can't match gold units.
AND,a Goth or Byz will kill them before castle almost all the time.
Flush units:spearmen,scouts,archers skirmisher(m@a if Goths).So Byz get significant discounts on 50% of flush units.And a combo of both massed up quickly to a very high number will steamroll all non trah resistant armies.
But then what about fact that conqs are not cost effective vs trash?Especially since Spanish may do a cavalry army.A flood of pikes+rams+ES will screw conqs in castle age.Anyway if the Spanish player could build a castle,so could the other civ.Or they can advance to imp.And conqs+knight+rams will be very heavy on gold.Even if their trash is good,they can't match gold units.
AND,a Goth or Byz will kill them before castle almost all the time.
Flush units:spearmen,scouts,archers skirmisher(m@a if Goths).So Byz get significant discounts on 50% of flush units.And a combo of both massed up quickly to a very high number will steamroll all non trah resistant armies.
Goths got good m@a, so they aren't among the easiest to kill with a fwd for example.Eg. despite their excellent Imp, Goth are probably one of the easiest to kill before Imperial on 1v1 Ara, with Kor and Sara.
Goths got good m@a, so they aren't among the easiest to kill with a fwd for example.Eg. despite their excellent Imp, Goth are probably one of the easiest to kill before Imperial on 1v1 Ara, with Kor and Sara.
+1just give me a conclusive answer regarding how it can be more fun to make 1mio post about stats/units/civs no one ever takes serious instead of just play and enjoy the game...
i am just jealous on that much free time you seem to have, and i can't believe u waste it like this. I am always looking forward to the next 2 hours somewhere next weekend where i can go to voobly and play some games
If Ara 1v1 tiers are...
Tier 1: Aztecs, Huns, Mayans, Mongols.
Tier 2: Celts, Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, Persians, Vikings.
Tier 3: Britons, Byzantines, Goths, Franks, Teutons, Turks.
Tier 4: Koreans, Saracens.
I don't see any particularly unfair matchups, some only are tough. Like Mongol/Huns, Mongol/Mayans.
Celt are also borderline Tier 1 with their good drush, faster creating & firing mangonel-line, which is a pain for range units - dominant in Tier 2 -.
Goths/Franks and Goths/Teuts is questionable due to Goth spear-line costing nothing against 2 "knights or nothing" civs.
Rest looks fine to me.