Whenever I play Arena, there is not much I can do other than fast imp or fast castle. This is kind of fine sometimes, but not always. Like sometimes I get castles around my gold mines present outside or very close to the walls. In that way I cant mine gold at all and eventually loose.
So I want to ask two things here:
1) What are the good rushing strategies (if any) in Arena map? What else can be done to achieve a victory without letting your opponent boom too much (especially if he has a superior civ in imp)?
2) How to react in situation when the gold mines have got opponent castles around them assuming that i have enough resources to proceed at that time? (I tried using rams and sometimes petards but usually opponent shifts the base at that point and keeps breaking those rams).
So I want to ask two things here:
1) What are the good rushing strategies (if any) in Arena map? What else can be done to achieve a victory without letting your opponent boom too much (especially if he has a superior civ in imp)?
2) How to react in situation when the gold mines have got opponent castles around them assuming that i have enough resources to proceed at that time? (I tried using rams and sometimes petards but usually opponent shifts the base at that point and keeps breaking those rams).