Id say franks > goths is pretty clear
Even thou stefan played bad and he hismelf knows that, random-random still remains pretty stupid in my opinion on arena;D
2You can win every match up when you play smart.
I think you haven't fully explored the options of going full castle age aggression in arena. By booming in any way or form for pers/byz, you let byz make castles and buildings outside your walls. Its a much better idea to make xbow/kts or both to force byz to make all his stuff inside his base, which buys a lot of time, and makes eco efficiency for byz poorer. Then you just stay castle age for long enough to recover the eco you lost in making the kts xbow. Getting the relics and extra mines in middle more than makes up for this. You can pretty solidly delay a HC halb push with weakish eco, by spammings kts and crossbowman for just long enough to place a bunch of castles in front. And then you can jsut repair them until imp and abuse relic control in the meantime. Especially with persian eco this is possible.What I don't like about rnd though is that the matchup forces some kind of game and it's less about decision making. You can't play aggro with pers vs byz. Your only decision making is - should I go scouts/LCs and boom or should I only boom? Similar is celt vs got situation, you can't play def as got, because celt is so much stronger in imp, so you're forced to play aggro with whatever map you/enemy have. And unfortunately that situation when 1 of the civs has big edge in imp happens at least in 30 - 40% matchups.
I mean lets be realistic, you going to win with persia vs aztec or eve smthing like celt vs aztec 1/10 times on equal skill, and if you win vs some random ara hun ****e who 1st time touches a monk civ, please don't count that.
You can try to go for a tower hop or some surprising strategy.
I think terror did this vs dracont once.
And in Persian vs Astec..
If Persians can reach late imp they can win also.
And in Persian vs Astec..
If Persians can reach late imp they can win also.
And in Persian vs Astec..
If Persians can reach late imp they can win also.
I would not say so. In TG their Paladins are amazing, but there is gold factor in 1v1 and Persians lack ranged unit quickly clean up Aztecs Pikemen(HC takes too much time to reload, Siege Rams of Aztec player can take the damage). If Aztec player makes it to the trash war, which is not hard, Persians are completely lost with bad skirms and no unit to stop Champions + Halbs + Siege Rams.