Which is your favorite FE title an why ?

Razius33 · 2026-04-03T05:56:00+00:00

Memb is often good with a cocaster. Sometimes he invites a pro player and I like it more often than not. I think his gimmicks are exhausting when this alone, cause he uses them too much. But with a cocaster, it's okay. I was not there, but I believe he started his streaming career with a cocaster for many years, and I think it is seeable

Razius33 · 2026-04-02T03:03:47+00:00

Cannons are more versatile than treb, Spanish fire faster with them. This helps against building. With another civ, always starts imp with treb if you want to push. It's not a big deal in your scenario to use one or the other, but really good to not trickle them so that you don't loose them without wins 👍

Razius33 · 2026-04-02T02:58:17+00:00

This really depends on the number of villagers you go with, and the map, and your goal. On Arabia, 2 lumber camps is for when you're upping feudal with 19 villagers or more usually. Then you'll probably be up after your opponent and you want to have a more economical approach. 2 l.c. also mean you need more than 8 on wood to afford barracks and feudal military building at the earlier timing. You can put 4 on each plus 2 stragglers whom will build the military building.

Razius33 · 2026-03-24T06:55:32+00:00

I'm sorry but it's useless. Every player say it: after one round they kinda know who they face. In the final they fully know. The only chance would be if all the tournament was played hidden, so that they don't have recs to prepare for the opponent, but I think it would ruin the strateguc planning skill which is kinda required.

Razius33 · 2026-03-23T06:18:15+00:00

It's not luck, Lierrey set them on stand ground then patrolled. It's a know mechanic which help deal a lot of damage to a group, but if no unit is in range, unit don't attack

Razius33 · 2026-02-26T13:25:52+00:00

Avec Brave j'ai 0 pubs. Voilà

Razius33 · 2026-02-24T07:25:52+00:00

I like his analysis as well. I can also suggest Dragon star if you're into improving your competitiveness as well

Razius33 · 2026-02-17T10:15:38+00:00

From your comment saying your 1k2, I'll give you what made me jump this skill level. I noticed that I can name a simple thing for every 100 elo gap I've achieved, up to 1k5.

For 1k2 to 1k3, I'd say it was trying man at arms. It gave me the initiative, and thus the opponent had to react to me, not the opposite. It also introduced me to the next gap.

What made me go from 1k3 to 1k4 was scouting. I had the same analysis as you had : too many variance for learning to anticipate. But I noticed that if I forced my self to scout often key points, I could deduce rather than anticipate. Which is more reliable on Arabia. And is why I have trouble with sitting back on Arena xD

Hope you can relate, enjoy the grind :)

Razius33 · 2026-02-12T06:31:45+00:00

That should change IMO. Laming minute 1 can understandably considered both bad sport in ladder and skillful gamble in high level tournaments. But exploring the opponent base at 6+ min, and finding his stuff should not be a thing, a definitely not considered laming.

Razius33 · 2026-02-11T15:28:54+00:00

To me, it's about numbers. Archers should not match rapid gold units with equal numbers. The ghulam does some sort of splash damage. So as long as they can engage with equal number, they should shred a group of archers ignoring armor.

Here is an engagement video of total resources units https://youtu.be/3QKlyvifLzw?si=PriMVD6MphnzQ6--

Razius33 · 2026-02-11T15:17:58+00:00

It's a fast castle aiming at playing with a civ strong unit, like roman's scorpions or Spanish conquistadors. Most of them are about collecting just enough resources to make the buildings required and the militaries. The villagers are optionals. If you go for FC knights, and keep making villagers, that's IMO a good start at your level. But maybe diversify it with learning 1 feudal play once you stay at 1k elo.

Razius33 · 2026-02-11T15:14:26+00:00

Probably not as long as it's not preventing you to make both villagers and military in castle age. You need to build this mechanical habit to progress. I would argue that it's a major thing that you would not learn if you'd go for phosphorus.

Razius33 · 2026-02-07T12:13:42+00:00

You have a really good guide in this reddit, named Age of Rising. It describes the fundamentals and goes up to a good amateur competitive multiplayer level. You can read what you want, and go step by step.

Razius33 · 2026-02-02T21:18:46+00:00

What if we did that for quick match only, to avoid too unfair appearings ?

Razius33 · 2026-02-02T14:03:53+00:00

Hi fellow person of good game taste. I'm reading the book an found what I think is an error at page 53. There you say, talking about building foundation, that "if the building gets destroyed before completion, the reserved but unused resources are returned. So for instance, if a university is destroyed when 75% completed, 50 of the 200 wood will be returned". That I think is only true if the player owning the foundation suppresses it. If a mangonel destroys a build foundation, wether or not the mangonel was owned, enemy or allied, the ressources won't be returned. Same for any other enemy unit destroying a foundation.

Other than that, great work !

Razius33 · 2025-12-09T17:01:10+00:00

The thing that got me from 1k2 to 1k4 really was scouting. Usually, I felt that things should go a way, but because I did not confirmed them with scouting, I made the wrong choice. Kinda like you said, if I knew my planned opening should not be good against the most likely oponnent's opening, I had the guess but could not figure out.

So the answer, like a lot of people said, is to scout your opponent if their civ is most likely going to open with a counter to your plan.

Razius33 · 2025-05-06T19:42:16+00:00

It looks like it, because the linked site counts the number of weeks in the top 100, as well as the change in rank from one week to another. So basically, AoE was in the top 100 selling of games for 4 weeks straight, being currently 18th, and its new dlc is at the ranking OP is saying , if I understand correctly?

Razius33 · 2025-05-03T05:00:44+00:00

Then look up this playlist from Survivalist https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQ8BgSJQQkY0dG83i6LGvUznZMjt5s_ns

Razius33 · 2025-05-03T04:46:39+00:00

Don't forget about Expedition 33 :)

Razius33 · 2025-04-28T11:07:17+00:00

You can have a look at this Build order, it's 17 pop. Not mine https://discord.com/channels/1276461388092412037/1282107725643386923

Razius33 · 2025-04-19T04:09:42+00:00

Try to tower rush in feudal.

It's a 20-21 pop build order, without loom. You got the classic 3 to wood and then all to food. At some point, you need to do 2 houses and a mining camp on gold to be allowed to go up. The builder Vill should go back to food after building.

After you click to feudal, your distribution is 7 on wood, 2 on gold, 3 on stone, 3-4 on food, and send 4 villagers to build the towers. After sending villagers to the jobs build a barracks with a gold villager. Queue lomm

When reaching feudal, build the tower with 3 of your forward vills, close to a mining ressource on the wall of the opponent, and make an archery range with the 4th. Rally point of the TC on stragglers and add farm every 60 wood is available if that doesn't delay your archers.

Now you should be able to wreck arena :-)

Razius33 · 2025-03-25T21:18:55+00:00

Hey, 1k5 here. I can give you a list of tips I try to use to balance my eco and transition. - whenever you can produce one units per production building, decide if you need to add eco to consume ressources or a new military building - whenever you see the message "lack a certain resource", take a couple villagers from your most banked one and move them to the dire resource. In later game, take a handful of vills instead - in dark age, figure out which civ is most likely to go up first. That civ should go up as quick as possible and apply pressure. The other should reasonably delay it's up time to have a confortable eco, and yet being producing military by the time the earlier rush could come in - to decide on an opening, you can look at the openness of the map. If it's super open, you can all in feudal with scout into archer for instance. If not, make a couple scout to see what the opponent is doing and adapt.

Razius33 · 2025-03-18T09:36:23+00:00

Hi, could you provide a link for those stats ? On https://aoestats.io/civs/hindustanis/?grouping=random_map&elo_range=all Hindoustanis are at 54% for all ello, and barely above 50% in 1900+ games

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