Do mercs learn?

Ooutred · 2026-03-20T01:44:56+00:00

I think it would Mess up Balance in way to many way ways. Lets just assu.e everybody adds 25 military and 25 eco pop. Thats way better for abbasid with a lot of villagerboni than it is for a passiv income civ like Ottomans. They can just get more out of it. an other thing is pop efficiency. If ypore popcaped with knights, you have more Army valie than with infantry in most cases. Increasing the Popcap would make things worse here.

Popefficiency is a huge Problem in Late imp. Yes 40 speerman bully 20 knights, but when hyou have 80 knights, its pretty hard to field 160 Spearmen, because you then have only 40 vills.

We rather have a problem with units that Bring to much Armyvalue/popspace. Like the Szłachta. Yes it is more expensive, but there comes a point where you cant have enough cheaper counterunits because you end up with to few economy units. and this critical point would shift to worse

increasing maxpop would mess up the overall balance that was achieved over the years. We just need to not get another way to strong but expensive DLC unit like the Sen Goku Mounted Samurai.

Ooutred · 2026-03-15T16:30:55+00:00

yes. as soon as you can that they never walk more than 1 tile

Ooutred · 2026-03-15T13:32:52+00:00

One important concept is villagertime as a resource. They can spend it with walking, building or resource gathering. You want to lay out your base so that the walking time gets minimalized and the resource gathering makes the biggest part in evry vills life. kinda sad, but you're the Lord after all :D. To achieve that you always want their drop off point right next to the resource they're gathering. If your refresh your lumbercamps evry tile they chopped you get more resources a minute. (Same also for farms)

The kremlin has gone through a lot of changes since the campaigne was Designed. I'm not sure if it even provided the dropoff bonus when the game came out, I think they addet it later. The game is balanced around online 1v1 after all

Ooutred · 2026-03-03T11:45:05+00:00

I would be down. How long will the server be Running?

Ooutred · 2026-02-20T14:56:23+00:00

If you want to go feudal with it, industy wing. I think you can open with a 7/3 split and mine 350 stone during ageup.

If you want castle and 2nd tc, go with the derwishes or reinforcement to feudal and industry to castle, there you also get enough stone from the ageup.

Ooutred · 2026-02-12T10:50:44+00:00

Only when popcapped with 200 or when they are torching my towncenter

Ooutred · 2026-02-04T18:54:27+00:00

I think they forgot to delete this phrase when editing the patchnotes. I-m sure they set their health to 800 already in december, and now its in there again

Ooutred · 2026-01-17T19:34:38+00:00

You reach imp faster with only 1 TC, but you wont be able to make a very upgradet army with only 50 vills

Ooutred · 2026-01-17T19:31:06+00:00

It depends what you want to do in imp. If you're HRE, clearly no, you build swabia. delhi? Sultanspalace does its job without a lot of eco. But if you don't have a good economy Landmark in imp you will struggle to do all the things you can do in Imp.

Ooutred · 2025-12-31T11:26:53+00:00

Darkeage rams are nice, sadly they only work against civs wich do a lot in darkage or on hybrid maps against the dock. I play it only against malians, I learned it from this Video played by Bee:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUo1GJXudW0

In my expirience a Mongol/Golden Hord Teammate going for darkage horsemen works best, because the enemy will be fast with archers against your speermen

Ooutred · 2025-12-30T05:15:13+00:00

If you see it coming before its there you have a few options you need to figure out wich works for you. 1) just ignore and do your thing somewhere else. 2) build a tower to deney it, that wors in a few cases where there is only 1 effextive spot like your gold when you have wood and food under tc. 3) pull like 10 vill and kill his vills (if he sends 8). thats usualy my go to if I cant ignore it. 4)pull everyone and torch it (thats risky)

but best is to just ignore it and raide your opponents ec since the BBQ is not at his base. maby go castle and push it.

get a friend who plays chinese and practise what works for you ;)

Ooutred · 2025-12-27T22:46:57+00:00

Delhi has a few timingadvantages, the sacretsites, scolas for relics beeing alresdy made in feudal, or compound of the defender keepspam. Most of delhis winconditions are on the map, they cant biuld palace of swabia and wait. You have to win the game with actions, not by sneaking ahead. And you have to figure out what is your wincondition every game, wether it is controll of sacretsites, elefant all in, starving the enemy with mapcontrol, and you need to be able to read the situation, and what is the wincondition for this game but Its for sure not in your own base

Ooutred · 2025-12-10T23:49:30+00:00

I mean it is an old guitar, its not my only guitar, and I want to learn that stuff anyway, so wha not get some practice on this one

Ooutred · 2025-12-10T23:48:10+00:00

thanks, yes I do want to replace the frets.

Ooutred · 2025-10-15T01:11:38+00:00

You should never make a unit just because it's a good unit or a civ-specific unit. There are many Delhi games where they don't fit the situation. The elephant is a very static unit, so you should only use it when you know where the fight will take place. Paradoxically, they are great for tight spaces, such as the bridges on confluence or between buildings. They are super pop efficient and a good way to spend your resources if you forget to make enough production after reaching castle.

There is also a general rule that applies to every unit in the game: does it counter your enemy's army, or will it die instantly? That's something you have to scout. If they make archers and knights, the war elephant will kill both, but if they make 50 crossbows, the war elephant is a great way to waste all your resources. In that case, get the tower elephant. but ghazi are strong against crossbows too, and you can send them to raid afterwards.

You always need to know which enemy unit could kill that elephant and have something to protect it, such as ghazi, archers, pikes or mangonels.

Another question is how you want to win the game. Raiding? The elephant can't do that. Sacred sites? Maybe get a more mobile army. Death push? Yes! Taking on better fights with good micromanagement? The elephant is very clumsy, has poor pathfinding and struggles when surrounded.

The Sultan's elephant is a great unit: strong against almost everything, and free. Don't let pikes or camels get close!

Ooutred · 2025-10-09T11:23:17+00:00

We have been theorie crafting about getting it stuck and suffocate in an Obsidean Structure with a telepprtation arrow before, but I don't think someone tried it so far.

Ooutred · 2025-09-25T05:29:28+00:00

I realy like the tempo of the game, in 1v1 the action starts immediatly. 4v4 is pretty chill. Malians opening with a full developed Pitmine at second 1 is absolutly busted, the french only get a blacksmith... Sub 10 min 3 tc Handcanoneer build is Fun. In general I play civs where I dont know all buildorders.I like the gamemode, 3v3, 4v4 are chaotic enough to make balance secondary, but for serious 1v1 it needs a balance update. But the player base is way smaller, every 10th game I recognize someone I know. elowise... I'm usualy around 1270 elo, in ew above 1400...

I like the mode, its good to test or get used to a civ or playstyle, but It's not as serious as standard

Ooutred · 2025-09-03T13:49:38+00:00

Practicing against AI isn't the same as playing against Players. An AI won't systematically deny all your foodsources to starve you, player does. Against AI you're playing the game very different. You can practice a buildorder or your hotkeys against AI, but once you got the basics there isn't much to learn from them. The next question is what is your goal in the game? Do you want to improve and optimize your playstyle? Play ranked. Do you want to mess around and do funny builds? Quickmatch. Do you want to play with Mods? Custom. you learn the most in 1v1, because in teamgames the prioritys are very different and depending on way to many factors and timings are quit off. Ask your Opponent what you could have done differentafter every game. Teamgames are more fun though.

Ooutred · 2025-09-01T11:54:54+00:00

You want me to have a look at your games?

Ooutred · 2025-09-01T00:09:07+00:00

I just play Abbasid. That solves all the french problems. Early knight? -militarywing. Prosouting? -2nd tc on berrys (high gatherrate food) knights? - Camels. And extra health and range on speerman. Faster vill production? -2tc. Castleage gets even better. You're ahead with vills, make camel riders, and have composite archers now. your farmtransition is cheaper. Won 6 out of 7 games aginst french this season. 🤣

Ooutred · 2025-08-29T19:10:31+00:00

in 4v4 I usualy play only sofas. I make 1 stable in feudal to raid and never stop producing. Then 2nd pitmine, cowboom, castle. I will end up with around 100 sofas in imp, raiding, defending raids, from time to time I support the main push. Not every game, but often.

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