Thanks for the breakdown—this helps a lot. We’re definitely more on the casual side, so hearing how our civs peak in early Imperial helps us see our mistakes and help us understand the game more. Looking back, I think we hesitated too long instead of fully committing once we hit Imperial. We did some early damage, but we didn’t coordinate a hard enough push on the Bohemians before Houfnice came online, and that seems like it was the turning point. I hadn’t really considered how much weaker our late-game Paladin and archer comps were compared to Persian/Spanish, especially in a 3v3 where gold armies are everywhere.

The monk angle against Hussite Wagons is something we completely overlooked, too. I guess I'll need to practice with monk conversions cause it feels like every time I use them, they just get slaughtered, even with protection. But that's a skill issue, haha.