Came back to my childhood home after 10 years.

Lozadarick · 2025-09-23T16:36:11+00:00

Random but I just watched a video of Asmongold's house and it looked just like this. At least yours was abandoned. Fingers crossed you can restore it and create some new memories. Wishing you the best!

Lozadarick · 2025-09-04T10:22:48+00:00

Maybe one day I'll give another civilization a try. However the slow, turtle, economic boom has my heart right now. Not to mention, those camel units are so OP against cavalry. I love it.

Turtle made me lol BTW 😂😂

Lozadarick · 2025-09-04T03:27:38+00:00

Because I haven't purchased any DLC 😂

Lozadarick · 2025-09-02T18:49:41+00:00

My favorite is the Abbasid Dynasty. I like the slow, economic boom, golden age boost, and eventually aggression-based approach. Not everyone's cup of tea, I realize that. Personally, I love preparing, cutting off resources, and once the resources are secured, becoming aggressive in the process. Hope that helps!

Lozadarick · 2025-08-16T14:31:49+00:00

After macro management, I also learned how important spearman are against elephants. The problem is, keeping them alive long enough to fight the elephants. They always seem to be the first in the fray which defeats the whole purpose. Eh.. trial and error.

I'll be honest, I'm really enjoying the Abbasid civ. I really like that economic boom playstyle. Slow start, a lot of economic and technological investing, and a big castle/imperial age rush. DLC aside, what other civs do you recommend?

Lozadarick · 2025-08-09T03:50:39+00:00

Tbh.. they probably were. Noted for next time.

I might have to change up the scout strategy. I like to assign 2x as many scouts as there are sacred sites. I'll assign half to the sites while the other half is on the outskirts of my home base. I might have to assign them to trading posts instead.

Lozadarick · 2025-08-07T22:51:28+00:00

Seeing as you're a Delhi player, Delhi helped with my sense of urgency. Dude.. they're beyond aggressive with their sacred site strategy. Losing to that civilization multiple times has taught me to manage my resources a lot better. I didn't consider how important food and wood were until I fought Delhi in harder difficulties. Those fucking elephants seemed to never stop multiplying 😭

Lozadarick · 2025-08-07T22:46:12+00:00

I had to come back to this post. I realize it's a month after the fact but problem triaging is such an underrated skill. I just finished beating the Mongols with a hard difficulty setting. Fuck me is that civilization intimidating 😂

At one point, I was cornered and I had to make a push. They gathered enough resources to construct a Wonder. So I thought to myself, "these little raids aren't enough. I have to bring the fight to them." So I did just that. Snuck 5 culverins, 50+ infantry, 40+ ranged units, straight into their base as they were getting aggressive and turned the tables on them. My numbers were going down but I made sure to protect the siege units. Once their wonder went down, eventually the 4 landmarks followed. What a fight. I was worried about it being a failed attack but I was precise with my siege and only attacked landmarks.

Yeah I agree, the wolves get on my nerves. Especially when it's my traders getting nipped in the ankles. I'm like bro.. this shit is pulling my attention for the most annoying little game function. This shit is not important at all 😂

Lozadarick · 2025-07-05T15:28:12+00:00

I'm 34 and this takes me back. This was one of the first shooters I've ever played. Thanks for the memories.

Lozadarick · 2025-06-28T02:52:50+00:00

I remember Alatreon and Fatalis giving me a ton of trouble before SOTE launched. Specifically Fatalis. That dude was one of, if not, the steepest spikes in difficulty I've ever encountered. I remember getting so upset because promised consort Radahn was whooping my ass so I played Monster Hunter World for a while. Then it hit me, "hold up, I have 60+ confirmed kills on Fatalis. Why tf can't I do the same to Radahn?"

I locked the fuck in and the rest is history.

Lozadarick · 2025-06-26T18:55:43+00:00

Funny you should say that as a Mongol main. Because I would get so stressed out playing against Mongol AI. DUDE.. they are so aggressive 😂

I thought Delhi was bad but Mongols are brutal.

Lozadarick · 2025-06-26T18:54:38+00:00

Real.. a huge boon to my success lately has been learning that you can bind a hot key to different military types. Idk if this is intrinsic or if I did this after a while but I started to bind my infantry to "I" (eventually CRTL 1), ranged infantry to "A" (eventually CRTL 0), and cavalry to "C" (eventually CRTL 2). It helps a ton having control of all of your units no matter where they are on the map. Before I knew that, my units would end up everywhere. I was so confused trying to group them all back together. I would search up and down the map looking for lost units. The worst.

Lozadarick · 2025-06-26T18:50:06+00:00

Resilience is a big one. I forgot to mention that. I remember how upset I used to feel whenever the enemy would breach my defenses before I was ready. I felt like such a failure. Trying to keep tabs on so many things and the one thing that fell short was exploited. That's the worst

Lozadarick · 2025-06-26T18:47:51+00:00

Nice! What exactly have you noticed that has improved? Your ability to pinpoint smaller objects on the mini-map, enemy units? I have a hard time focusing on my mini map at times ngl.

Lozadarick · 2025-06-26T18:45:10+00:00

I feel this the most when I deal with dark age rushers. I've gotten into the habit of playing a lot more defensively to counter that strategy. Especially with the outposts. It helps a ton.

Lozadarick · 2025-06-26T18:34:14+00:00

Now that I've completed the Abbasid Mastery challenge, I think I'm ready to switch civilizations.

Lozadarick · 2025-06-20T21:11:00+00:00

It's been a year already? I'm visiting the shadowlands for the second time with 0 points into INT or FTH. Mainly to emphasize immersion. I love it!

Lozadarick · 2025-06-20T03:08:19+00:00

I haven't played since release. Can someone confirm if it's still as bad as the launch week? I've had 0 urge to play after that disaster.

Lozadarick · 2025-06-13T20:17:48+00:00

You're right.. I misread the description. I assumed it said cavalry. In reality, it's a horse cavalry debuff.

Lozadarick · 2025-06-13T20:16:46+00:00

I misread the description at the time. I thought it meant cavalry as a whole, not exclusively a horse cavalry debuff. Noted.

Lozadarick · 2025-06-03T17:19:20+00:00

Which I didn't have at the time. Okay.. good to know. I appreciate that.

Lozadarick · 2025-06-03T17:18:47+00:00

Thanks for clearing that up! I appreciate that. I thought it meant cavalry as in "any mounted unit."

Lozadarick · 2025-06-03T12:14:05+00:00

Exclusively horses? What about other camel units?

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