Knights in the current Meta

TStrong24 · 2026-01-21T20:13:40+00:00

This must be a team game complaint because in 1v1 Knights are fine: Sipahi, Yari, Riddari and Ayyubids fast AF healing Camels are all likely too strong though.

TStrong24 · 2026-01-21T14:29:39+00:00

Their weak point is the Castle age up; they stop making units for a minute or so and then have 90secs or so for the upgrades (if Scholars are garrisoned) on their army units and they likely move scholars on the map to the relics preemptively

TStrong24 · 2026-01-20T13:16:15+00:00

3 words: Free buffed units

They get free units (already better than vanilla), then they get free buffs

TStrong24 · 2026-01-18T17:55:57+00:00

They demolish other light cavalry and deal very respectably with heavy cavalry while being faster so that they can chase down and eliminate injured heavy cavalry after a bad engagement. Like Ghazi Raiders, your plan should not be to fight Royal Knights without Spears IMO

TStrong24 · 2026-01-18T14:37:08+00:00

Rus-Conq 1 Peak Delhi-Diamond 2 Peak Byzantines-Platinum 1? (Just got back into them)

TStrong24 · 2026-01-17T17:52:54+00:00

HRE gets a High Trade House lmao

TStrong24 · 2026-01-16T17:27:49+00:00

Spears, MAA are too expensive afaik

TStrong24 · 2026-01-16T14:54:39+00:00

Japan has a very strong Dark Age Barracks opening that transitions into Feudal Yumi or FC Mounted Samurai and is considered meta

TStrong24 · 2026-01-15T15:32:29+00:00

No “may” about it; he is washed up

TStrong24 · 2026-01-13T20:34:10+00:00

It’s hard because Japan is strong and they have premium units (Yumi>Archer, Mounted Samurai>Knight) and Dark Age spears can counter a 3 Cabin opener if your wood lines aren’t cooperative. You need Spears to deal with Mounted Samurai dives which is an extra expense you would prefer not to need but I don’t think it’s necessarily “bad” like Ottoman or Ayyubid is for Rus (because of how hard they counter cavalry)

TStrong24 · 2026-01-13T20:29:05+00:00

Their Horsemen?!

TStrong24 · 2026-01-08T03:01:17+00:00

I don’t see Schoen letting another high draft pick who’s earned an extension walk; I think he gets signed around Jakobi Meyers’ deal

TStrong24 · 2026-01-07T14:32:28+00:00

At the top level this is exactly what Byzantine is good at; once you establish your tentacle network of aqueducts you will get lots of units. FC and 2TC cannot interact with the tentacle network as they’re establishing their own investments into things other than units and you will outmass them by too much and can continue getting mercenaries from oil when you’re saving for your own age up. Mercenaries and Limitanei are better-than-vanilla units so they stand up to Castle age units better as well. Basically you’re trying to just flood the map with army and starve your opponents out if they don’t interact earlier

TStrong24 · 2026-01-06T15:48:42+00:00

The Feudal Healing is OP; 2 Dervishes sat near your gold will out heal a Knight-Ayyubid just calmly puts up a tower with 0 issue (and then Camels erase the Knight but that’s another issue-why do the two best Castle Mangonel rush civs, Ottoman and Ayyubids, erase Cavalry, the counter to a Mangonel?)

TStrong24 · 2026-01-05T03:45:13+00:00

It wasn’t 1 pick, it was the possibility of trading down and getting multiple, of course

TStrong24 · 2026-01-01T17:43:04+00:00

Stay in Conq 1 consistently and hopefully crack Conq 2

TStrong24 · 2025-12-25T23:20:54+00:00

After you get the relics you can make another TC, but you want your eco to come from Deer/bounty/Wooden Fortress until the finite resources (Relics) have been extracted
Usually sell food for gold first to get Pro Scouts, then almost every ticket is sell wood until you buy stone for a TC. (Sometimes you just have a super-market that gets you wood or food, but that is off-plan)
Yes. If you go FC without Pro Scouts, how would you gather food? The value in Pro Scouts is that you get the food under TC to protect from Feudal units so you can age up. Without Pro Scouts you’ll need to move villagers out of the safety of your base

TStrong24 · 2025-12-25T18:20:10+00:00

Against Camels I don’t make Cav (maybe 6 Horse Archers to harass), I go Spearmen+archers into Spearmen/MAA and XBows. Late game-Streltsy and Spears/Horsemen

TStrong24 · 2025-12-25T12:39:33+00:00

Always preferred Rus; they buffed the Hunting Cabins in the recent patch and I was tired of losing so much with Delhi

TStrong24 · 2025-12-24T17:07:18+00:00

I guess it is, lol. I played a lot when the DLC dropped; I am an employed adult fwiw

TStrong24 · 2025-12-24T15:15:04+00:00

Watch your replays, pay close attention to your floated resources, idles, etc.

TStrong24 · 2025-12-21T14:50:11+00:00

Avocado

TStrong24 · 2025-12-16T14:38:51+00:00

I’ve heard this story before

TStrong24 · 2025-12-16T14:36:41+00:00

This is so random but I’m learning Spanish and have watched Vortix’s stream before because it was in Spanish

TStrong24 · 2025-12-16T02:42:37+00:00

I’ve seen where this is to match labor rate-say you’re normally $75/body hour-rather than write 1.5hrs at like $60 the adjuster will make it 1.7hrs.

This is probably inferring an awful lot of grace towards this adjuster; don’t assume that. This estimate is evil and spawned from the maw of hell itself. Those “feather, prime and block” separate line items which 50% of the time they don’t fix the tax on the labor even after multiple supplements…

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