Definitely feels like the Palace Guard was a mistake. Gets countered by both MAA + HC. Ideal China comp against that slugfest feels like Fire Lancer for siege sniping/good AOE damage on MAA, Horsemen for meat shield and attacking HC, then own Chinese HC for the raw damage. Palace Guards biggest advantage is mobility so it constantly chuck them into a meat grinder like that against HRE of all civs is just a foregone conclusion. Even Grenadiers would have worked fairly well for China too but the Palace Guard + Trebuchet tunnel vision is what got him in the end.
I agree. Making MAA in general against HRE is a bad idea because of heavy maces and Palace Guards are even weaker to that kind of thing too. A meat shield with springalds could have also worked to shred the infantry heavy comp. That's why I love Lipany though because it really changes how and where people choose to fight. Very interesting to watch imo
Saw this game first on Aussie Drongo but cool to see a different perspective !
I didn't realise that Aussie caught this one as well. Glad you enjoyed my cast too :)
Definitely feels like the Palace Guard was a mistake. Gets countered by both MAA + HC. Ideal China comp against that slugfest feels like Fire Lancer for siege sniping/good AOE damage on MAA, Horsemen for meat shield and attacking HC, then own Chinese HC for the raw damage. Palace Guards biggest advantage is mobility so it constantly chuck them into a meat grinder like that against HRE of all civs is just a foregone conclusion. Even Grenadiers would have worked fairly well for China too but the Palace Guard + Trebuchet tunnel vision is what got him in the end.
I agree. Making MAA in general against HRE is a bad idea because of heavy maces and Palace Guards are even weaker to that kind of thing too. A meat shield with springalds could have also worked to shred the infantry heavy comp.
That's why I love Lipany though because it really changes how and where people choose to fight. Very interesting to watch imo
China hoarding all that gold xD
He is just saving all those taxes for a rainy day XD