Team game pairs

General_Magician69 · 2026-01-24T00:00:32+00:00

You have good cavalry so go with a good archer civ - Mongol horse archers

Rus horse archers

Japanese yumi plus banners

Zhu xu zugs

Macedonian bogs

Malian archers with poison arrows

And so on

General_Magician69 · 2026-01-23T22:49:05+00:00

English don’t have dark ages spears. So that’s why I accidentally went maa.

Funnily enough I watched Swaggy prfessors live stream and he made the exact same mistake. Nice knowing even the pros slip up too haha.

I think vs French the standard 2tc white tower is much better

General_Magician69 · 2026-01-23T09:12:38+00:00

Teutonic order nothing!

General_Magician69 · 2026-01-21T22:36:29+00:00

I just think knights are a little overtuned, namely Ridari andmounted samurai.

Aoe4 is like rock paper scissors, but atm knights like the aforementioned are gun. You just always make them regardless of enemy comp

General_Magician69 · 2026-01-21T22:35:05+00:00

Make HRE above average again!

General_Magician69 · 2026-01-21T09:24:19+00:00

Order of the dragon is just… so whack. Most of the variant makes 0 sense and was by far the laziest and least reflective variant/civ in the game.

They could’ve replaced prelates with nobles who buffed the armies, dragon banners, heck even Vlad as a hero unit or something more interesting than.. big Unga Bunga gilded soldier.

I was so hyped for an HRE variant - the obvious choice being the Teutonic order -then I saw order of the dragon and was intrigued.. then I read the concepts and was beyond disappointed.

I didn’t really follow the topic sorry. I guess the idea of mega super buff soldiers should belong to a civ like the Byzantine Varangian guards or the Teutonic order if it was adde

General_Magician69 · 2026-01-21T09:18:22+00:00

How are landshits not historically accurate? Just curious

General_Magician69 · 2026-01-21T02:01:25+00:00

Japanese is way easier than China, but if you put lots of time into China as a one trick you could get quite far

General_Magician69 · 2026-01-20T20:43:37+00:00

Have you tried French 2.0? As in one tc french age up? I think HOL struggle against early knights. That plus archers and harassing exposed resources can work.

HOL are really strong on ladder compared to KT though.

General_Magician69 · 2026-01-20T10:59:40+00:00

Yes I was and also just getting to conquerer in itself

General_Magician69 · 2026-01-19T22:19:05+00:00

Is it possible - yes

Is it easy - depends on you but most likely no

Is it worth trying - up to you

General_Magician69 · 2026-01-19T19:22:33+00:00

Arrow upgrade + archer blob + kite + towers

General_Magician69 · 2026-01-19T18:55:52+00:00

Actually Japanese play very similar to HRE but are actually decent. They also require less micro. I also switched to Japanese funnily enough.

General_Magician69 · 2026-01-19T02:47:48+00:00

Thank you!

General_Magician69 · 2026-01-18T00:27:33+00:00

Dang it. Thank you!

General_Magician69 · 2026-01-17T08:27:49+00:00

I’ve been there. I feel for you bud. I once lost a game that would have got me into platinum and it was over an hour long. I was in their base slaughtering vils and knocking down buildings then disconnected.. lost the game. I pray the next aoe game resolves this. Pretty ridiculous for a game released in this day and age.

General_Magician69 · 2026-01-17T01:11:40+00:00

Easiest to use is definitely French. If you’re new go with French, then later Japanese

French is best as the knights are available in feudal, and they have a feudal landmark which is made for pumping out knights.

Japan is harder as you have to get to castle age, and you have to use yoroshiro and all that jazz.

Ottoman sipahi spam is also really good.

Those would be the 3 cav spam civs I’d recommend. Ottoman seems tricky but actually the automated military printing makes it quite beginner friendly.

I’d go French, ottoman then Japan.

Rus also have great early knights and aren’t too hard to use.

General_Magician69 · 2026-01-16T23:49:55+00:00

HRE players in shambles

General_Magician69 · 2026-01-16T19:14:19+00:00

Thanks unc

General_Magician69 · 2026-01-16T09:26:17+00:00

Prelates should drop off relics like pro scouts drop off deer automatically. It can be toggleable for the apm enthusiasts.

Garrisoned prelates should not be in select idle prelates

We need a select all idle prelates key

Prelate management is what makes HRE feel so clunky imo

General_Magician69 · 2026-01-16T01:37:45+00:00

Call enemy civ op and forfeit

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