I've tried it with malians a couple times and it works pretty well because your initial m@a are less likely to die from TC fire, and you can follow it up with a longswordsman all-in in the castle age (the +2 pierce armor allows you to go straight to the enemy TC and destroy it) and just end the game there and then if the initial attack caused enough of a delay to your opponent. Also the wood discount adds up with so many towers and the free gold mining helps smoothe out the transition to Castle age.
I created this strategy by myself with 22 villager pop and got little differences about order. Used Excel and resource/minute stats of villagers. I am continue creating man-at-arms till 5-10 of them aswell. Depending on situation but i calculated already my resources always enough to create more in cost of late castle age. Tought and tried a lot while creating. Didn't saw this strategy from other players in 80 games so i feel like i am genius strategy creator till i see this build. :D I am using Goths. They got cheap infantry and if you fail, you can come back with infantry spam on late game if success with towers i am following up with castle drop and enemy resigns. Winning %80 of 1v1 games unranked. But match elo must be around 1000-1100. Games usually go around 20-45 minutes.
Hey I’m curious how well this would work with Roman’s and if there are any changes that would be made if using them. Also does this still hold up 2 years later?
I'm thinking about doing a modified version of this with Bulgarians. Idea being that since MAA is free, we only need 10 gold, so no need for an extra mining camp, which should lead to better eco later on. Any thoughts on this?
Do you think it would be possible to go fast castle after this, and put even more pressure with a forward Krepost, since we already have the vills on stone?
It’s certainly possible but it would delay your castle age time by quite a lot so if it didn’t do much damage it would be gg but I suppose you’d just need to do a normal scout rush and then add 2 or 3 on stone and send 2 or villagers forward.
Do you have any build orders for goths specifically? Because most orders wont work with them cos instant loom. Should you get one more vil in general or go up quicker?
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here from your website. very cool!
Awesome! Nice to know people still use the website! Haven’t updated it in forever!
I'm learning to play the Japanese and this BO is great for them.
Thanks Morley.
No problem! Glad it’s helping! Definitely a good one for japanese!
Another great guide. Thank you, keep the good job. Cheers from Brazil xD
Thank you my friend. Glad you’re enjoying the content :-)
I'm playing AoE2 HD but I think this is still very useful for me :)
Yeah it will work on HD :)
Hi guys, let me know what you think. Which civs do you think this strat would be best with?
I was going to ask this of you, actually! Bulgarians could be decent for their free m@a, koreans and incas area also obvious choices!
Yeah Bulgarians would be great for this. Lithuanians possibly too because of their food boost.
i will try it out with incas. Not sure if the best civ for tower rush but i really like meso civs.
I've tried it with malians a couple times and it works pretty well because your initial m@a are less likely to die from TC fire, and you can follow it up with a longswordsman all-in in the castle age (the +2 pierce armor allows you to go straight to the enemy TC and destroy it) and just end the game there and then if the initial attack caused enough of a delay to your opponent. Also the wood discount adds up with so many towers and the free gold mining helps smoothe out the transition to Castle age.
I created this strategy by myself with 22 villager pop and got little differences about order. Used Excel and resource/minute stats of villagers. I am continue creating man-at-arms till 5-10 of them aswell. Depending on situation but i calculated already my resources always enough to create more in cost of late castle age. Tought and tried a lot while creating. Didn't saw this strategy from other players in 80 games so i feel like i am genius strategy creator till i see this build. :D I am using Goths. They got cheap infantry and if you fail, you can come back with infantry spam on late game if success with towers i am following up with castle drop and enemy resigns. Winning %80 of 1v1 games unranked. But match elo must be around 1000-1100. Games usually go around 20-45 minutes.
Hey I’m curious how well this would work with Roman’s and if there are any changes that would be made if using them. Also does this still hold up 2 years later?
This should be ok to use. M@a in general isn’t used anymore as it’s too slow
I'm thinking about doing a modified version of this with Bulgarians. Idea being that since MAA is free, we only need 10 gold, so no need for an extra mining camp, which should lead to better eco later on. Any thoughts on this?
Do you think it would be possible to go fast castle after this, and put even more pressure with a forward Krepost, since we already have the vills on stone?
The initial m@a change sounds good. Don’t know if you could FC with it though. Maybe.
What happend to your Build order website?
Now that they've added Poles to aoe2, I finally have to look at how the trush is actually made. It's the perfect strategy for them.
It is, for sure. You can even add archers
Look for farm_man_official’s channel he has a polish man at arms with towers into archers build
Is there a possible scout and then tower rush?
It’s certainly possible but it would delay your castle age time by quite a lot so if it didn’t do much damage it would be gg but I suppose you’d just need to do a normal scout rush and then add 2 or 3 on stone and send 2 or villagers forward.
Thanks! I often use the mongol scout rush, got decent results haha but my micro still aint that good so i lose many scouts to spearman often
Do you have any build orders for goths specifically? Because most orders wont work with them cos instant loom. Should you get one more vil in general or go up quicker?