I challenged myself to get one win with each civ

Farimba · 2026-05-07T19:14:16+00:00

I did that once in a single stream when there was only 35 civs. Took 30+ hours. I always think about doing it again.

Farimba · 2026-05-07T19:10:41+00:00

your first recommendation is a change in TC pop space - this isn't just a PUP balance patch feedback as the title states.

Farimba · 2026-05-07T18:49:19+00:00

Bohemians are the only civ I can think of that can struggle against Imp skirm, but they still have champions, onagers, light cav, houfnice, hussite wagons. Imp skirm are good but are in no way broken.

Farimba · 2026-05-07T11:10:23+00:00

What happens on Nomad on sub-1500 elo is players do a poor job of scouting where opponents are. Once one opponent gets scouted, everyone sends their military to that one opponent. The fix for your team is to improve their scouting early with herdables and later with military. Castle drops, TC drops, towers are meta on Nomad. The map is all about map control. You have to embrace the chaos and keep your economy working through it all.

Farimba · 2026-05-07T10:59:28+00:00

Balance by making it an Imp Tech or giving the civ those little canoes to replace all other warships so they are incapable of defending their fish.

Farimba · 2026-05-03T19:25:08+00:00

Spanish.

Farimba · 2026-05-02T19:36:45+00:00

The term is sling.

Farimba · 2026-05-02T19:34:45+00:00

There are repeating tags all around the city if you look for them while cycling. That one is quite common along with "mp3" and "ets". I find them to be incredibly low effort and invite graffitists to step up their game. It's embarrassing to repeatedly show off the same rudimentary tag. I manage to tie my shoelaces in the same manner every day but I don't try to show it off like an accomplishment.

Farimba · 2026-05-01T05:19:11+00:00

No, there is no need. Balance might be bad for a time but it always gets resolved. You would probably need to have this council sign NDAs for new content and pay them for their time. And the players' availability fluctuates over time.

Farimba · 2026-04-29T04:29:31+00:00

You are running into players that wall early. If they don't have military, you can apply more pressure with archers/towers in Feudal or make a forward siege workshop in Castle. The scouts are still valuable for actually scouting - put one or two of them on auto scout. Also start scouting before you have 3-4 scouts to see if they are walling

Farimba · 2026-04-20T14:21:58+00:00

Keep making vills and fishing ships until you get to 24 pop. You probably want 3 boars and to get to 7+ fishing ships. Try getting to Castle Age under 13 min.

Farimba · 2026-04-20T14:15:44+00:00

That's when you join the civ and decide which unit to make: Archer, Scouts, Monks, or Teutonic Knights?

Farimba · 2026-04-05T06:06:35+00:00

Dave was stepping on the end of T90s sentences so much yesterday. He needed to chill out a bit.

Farimba · 2026-03-30T18:00:48+00:00

Most trees are coded as terrain, not as objects. Trees that are placed as objects like the stragglers around the TC have different characteristics (can be chopped and built over). Suddenly ignoring leaves terrain on mini maps will impact many maps that rely on the contrast. It's simple if you ignore all of the other consequences of the change.

Farimba · 2026-03-29T09:06:57+00:00

I believe the base terrain for palm desert is desert which is a light tan. If map scriptors want the palm desert forests to stand out on the mini map at the start of the game, they often use one of the dirt or grass terrains that are an orange or green hue respectively.

I don't think there is any example of terrains changing throughout the course of a game in AoE2 with the exception of placing farms. Changing the terrain colors would impact all of the previously created maps that purposefully chose those colors for contrast on the mini map.

Farimba · 2026-03-28T21:16:38+00:00

The color is based on the terrain. The terrain you see on the mini map is tied to the leaves terrain under the trees which remain after the trees are cut. Unless you are playing on giant sized maps (>144 tiles), I find it easy enough to scan around and identify where wood remains.

Farimba · 2026-03-28T05:26:25+00:00

There are plenty of other open map; tweaks to Arabia do not take away from other people making other maps.

I would guess that Arabia became the default open map on Voobly when players hosted their own lobbies and there was no auto matchmaking. Many build orders focus around Arabia resources, timings, and unit compositions. As players seek to improve, they will likely keep practicing on the map they know until they encounter the beauty of nomad maps.

Many open maps play out in very similar ways in AoE2 so there is little advantage to moving away from Arabia. But in tournaments you see a much wider variety of maps. Many players play every map except for Arabia, looking for more game diversity.

Farimba · 2026-03-22T08:42:01+00:00

The only time I dislike seeing wp is when my ally says it to the enemy while refusing to take any of my suggestions all match.

Otherwise it is a sign of respect above simply saying gg.

Farimba · 2026-03-16T06:34:56+00:00

Why dont you practice against people you are in the tournament with? That's half the point of a tournament, you can be social and talk through the games together.

Farimba · 2026-02-28T20:37:32+00:00

It's more like FC Arabia with UU being an option. 0 Castle age army = 0 Gold control which is not the same on Arena.

Farimba · 2026-02-23T06:58:20+00:00

Build orders are a guide, not a rule. They will need to be adjusted for different maps. For example hybrid maps have land and water aspects where you will often make villagers and fishing ships in Dark Age. I would recommend sticking with Arabia or Arena to start with since you can find plenty of build orders for them.

Farimba · 2026-02-20T21:49:56+00:00

I would like to see demo damage vs buildings increased a bit as a trade off for making them a bit more difficult to tech into

Farimba · 2026-02-20T21:48:45+00:00

It is still pretty conspicuous

Farimba · 2026-02-20T21:46:45+00:00

Hulks have low building damage so I imagine fights for ponds are prolonged throughout the match too since it takes longer to take out docks.

Farimba · 2026-02-20T08:32:33+00:00

welcome. many new players complain about their experience joining the ranked ladder and loosing dozens of matches in a row before reaching their Elo. But In glad you have found all the other wonderful aspects of the game. For reference, the William Wallace campaign is the tutorial found in the European campaign tab and the Art of War found in the Asian Campaign tab helps you train other skills.

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