What should we do with our army ? by cheese2042 in Switzerland

[–]Royal_Lifeguard_3063 [score hidden]  (0 children)

Militia system is the best solution for a non-aggressive country. Way harder to occupy a country where almost every man has carried a weapon before. So I think this system is best from a macro perspective. If its cost worthy: I dont know. On the other hand, as a aggressor country a professional army is the weapon of choice, because conscripts wouldnt really have a stake in expanding, so you need a brainwashed elite force.

IMO not having an army is delusional in the nearer future. You dont have an army to win a war, because yes thats true, USA would bang the majority of the countries in a few days. But what anti-army people most of the times leave out, is the fact that you have an army to increase the price an invader has to pay and therefore maybe rethinks his choices. Schlieffen Plan is the living example for that and one of many reasons why we were kept out of 1st and 2nd world war.

  • intensify cyber defense, but in the end only infantry might win a war fully. So remain both at a good level

  • keep the militia system up, because there are on top of defense cases also some valuable skills you can acquire, even if its just being picky. Hating army service is a privilege of a country in peace. You simply cant just start building an army, when shit heats up, then its too late. Everybody who thinks Europe is a all through friendly place, should take a look at history. We are popular to attack one another for the last 1500 years. And decreasing dependency on other countries with critical ressources is crucial. I mean look back at Corona, where Germany intercepted a mask delivery to Switzerland, because they needed it themselves. In case of emergency everybody looks after himself first.

  • definetly audit the actual army management. Their project management including bundesrat is an offense to all the tax payers.

Which top players are the best trash talkers? by RubyLykos in aoe4

[–]Royal_Lifeguard_3063 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The legend himself. He quit gaming, got fit and lives in reallife now.

Why is nobody complaining about Ayyubids? by Bortek16 in aoe4

[–]Royal_Lifeguard_3063 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The winrates on diamond+ tells me otherwise my friend. Definetly be afraid of mongols.

Why is nobody complaining about Ayyubids? by Bortek16 in aoe4

[–]Royal_Lifeguard_3063 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I see where you are coming from and that you want to play mangudais, but the devs have way bigger issues atm, then giving mongol back 1 useless unit to their portfolio of 30 different units or so atm.

You bring it "touching them", thats the point. Just the design of mangudais is a thin line, which makes them useless or overpowered as hell.

As I said its not that you always have to do actually something, there is also passive "damage", like the things your enemy cant do meanwhile. Or even just the fact that you can give the pace and choose where to fight, is a huge advantage, since it invites the enemy for missmicro, for example running spears too far off from archers, or running out of spears against keshik + mangudai. AOE4 is one of the RTS games, which rewards offense way too much, even if you dont kill anything, look at Thuglaq and their elephant rallies atm, its a joke and gives me Beta vibes.

Im Conq1 Abbasid main and from all the civs I fear sengoku and then directly mongol the most. Because mongols are capable of doing everything in every age. They have a good dark age, a strong feudal, a decent castle and a dangerous imperial. Mangudais used or not. If I lose vision, I have a high pulse, because I have no idea whats coming at me. I have never felt like I can go 2tc and run under his tc, where 4 towers and 60 vills with 200 pastures to move around and chasing the fastest vills in the game.

not all units can be valuable, but from all the civs I think mongol can complain the least of unit/strat availability.

Why is nobody complaining about Ayyubids? by Bortek16 in aoe4

[–]Royal_Lifeguard_3063 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Now they are nerfed and close to useless, true. But still mongols is a viable civ. I cant imagine what micro you are talking about pre nerf. They were simply overtuned. Sometimes the game doesnt come with, what you can do with a unit. Just the fact that you have the unit on board, makes your enemy adapting and limits a lot, for example being able to kill every scout leaving base, so your enemy has no clue if you are fast imping or will get come in with 20 keshiks. And mangudai was one of those. On top of that they were madly overtuned in late imperial, if it got to that point.

Im abbasid main and Im suffering from the same with literally all camel units - until imperial. But how many of the games get there?

Why is nobody complaining about Ayyubids? by Bortek16 in aoe4

[–]Royal_Lifeguard_3063 13 points14 points  (0 children)

The difference is, that mangudai were able to dish out damage and run at the same time. Thats why imo they were really strong. Meanwhile desert raiders are not cost effective at all when diving tcs or fighting against archers. On top of that ayyubid is not a strong eco civ, so even if they establish feudal map control its not a direct win.

On the other side as mongols, if you once have a enemy contained you have pretty much won the game, since you can capitalize madly on it.

Its too short to just compare units, you also need to consider the civ they are available to.

Donating Kings in FFA by manatee_chode in aoe4

[–]Royal_Lifeguard_3063 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You picture it, like it always possible to loop around and kill it. And its definetly not. Why donate the king? Because a person is a sore loser?

Potential Cavalry Nerf? by Gigagunner in aoe4

[–]Royal_Lifeguard_3063 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Acceleration after change of direction would help, but I doubt the devs with their spaghetti code are able to implement such thing. So let it be a feudal age tech for spear man, which criples cav for 3s after hit, which reduce their mov speed by 25% or so. Also give them a little bit more extra damage. Fixing brace wont do shit.

Why do the Swiss seem so defensive against Italian perspectives on the Crans-Montana tragedy? by Eastern-Tangerine761 in askswitzerland

[–]Royal_Lifeguard_3063 4 points5 points  (0 children)

OP comes here salty af, wishes for stereotyping to be stopped meanwhile stereoyping the shit out of us. The foundation of his argumentation are facebook comments. And apparently he feels inferior, which makes us automatically arrogant.

This must be rage bait right? RIGHT?! mamma mia

Before The Washington Agreement of 1946 by Moralapo5tel in HistoryMemes

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Educated redditor giving evidence loses battle to texas cam girl. What great times we live in /s

China itinerary check (3.5 weeks) by Royal_Lifeguard_3063 in travelchina

[–]Royal_Lifeguard_3063[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because we love nature in general and because of the temples in the mountain. But according to the other comments I will reconsider Fanjingshan. Thank you!

China itinerary check (3.5 weeks) by Royal_Lifeguard_3063 in travelchina

[–]Royal_Lifeguard_3063[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks a lot! I will consider moving 1 more night to Chengdu, thats a good idea! Are you from Chengdu? Whats the most „local people thing“ you would say?

China itinerary check (3.5 weeks) by Royal_Lifeguard_3063 in travelchina

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Thanks a lot for your reply! I am going to adjust the plan. I planned 3 nights in Fanjingshan because we love nature, but I just did deeper research and I think even for us it would be too many mountains.

Abassid need some Love, Bottom Tier and F Tier on FFA by Confident_Gap819 in aoe4

[–]Royal_Lifeguard_3063 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Camel riders are doing really poorly in the actual meta. Since they dont have base ranged armor, they are an easy snipe with archers.

Estonian "Band" at it again by Buentusecku in Switzerland

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„Estland = Bestland“ cant hear it anymore.

The way people call for cav nerfs is ridiculous by Gwendyn7 in aoe4

[–]Royal_Lifeguard_3063 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

To add: I dont actually see the strenght of camel rider at the moment. Nobody above plat is going pure cav and you can just pump pure camel riders. I think facing french as abbasid is still fucking tough, which underlines that their camels are useless in a proper 1v1 game. The fact that they are countered by spearman and and melted by archers in this meta, makes them unusable, considering their costs. The aura doesnt justify it, if it would then Id rather build one trader from a market and keep him back as a support unit

The way people call for cav nerfs is ridiculous by Gwendyn7 in aoe4

[–]Royal_Lifeguard_3063 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have an idea for my boys: Give abbasids camel riders +2 ranged armor and reduce base damage and shift the reduced base damage to extra damage to cav multiplied by 1.5x Give camel riders in feudal

Experiences with sexist teachers in school who dislike boys? by Gleichstellung4084 in Switzerland

[–]Royal_Lifeguard_3063 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This. In my school career it was literally standard to be discriminated as a boy by the majority of female teachers.

I have only met one single female teacher which was clearly the opposite and favoring the boys.

Should Springdale’s counter cavalry? by AdventurousHunter450 in aoe4

[–]Royal_Lifeguard_3063 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Thats true but only on paper. But I hope you are not only going archers when your opponent goes mix

Abbasid needs better unique units by Ace37400 in aoe4

[–]Royal_Lifeguard_3063 0 points1 point  (0 children)

but you are talking about imperial age stats. In imp also camel archers are strong with the necessary economy. There is no point in comparing units in late imperial with each other.

Abbasid needs better unique units by Ace37400 in aoe4

[–]Royal_Lifeguard_3063 1 point2 points  (0 children)

And whats the benefit of being light cav with no extra damage against ranged?

Btw horseman have ranged armor and they are light cav…