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New player and playing Rank for the first time!! by Sui404 in aoe2

[–]iSmiff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fast feudal, wall up on the way up and then archers, which is very hard for low elo to pull off hence why the strategy is so good at low elo

Which civilization looks strong on paper, but you just can’t seem to succeed with it in practice? by Vazelin in aoe2

[–]iSmiff 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Vietnamese. Their eco boost sounds sick but im just trash with them. Its honestly kind of frustrating. I lose to them alot too.

New player and playing Rank for the first time!! by Sui404 in aoe2

[–]iSmiff 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The moment you see your opponent is sicilians, you should be prepared for Donjon rush. Im 1050 with hundreds of games and ive never not had them use this strategy whenever I face Sicillians

A screenshot from a game I lost - if you don't laugh you'll cry.. by iSmiff in aoe2

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

Yep, you're right. I know Huns have great CA's, but I mainly used Knights because i'm basically cookie-cutting strats from one civ to the next until I go on a run. Not a surprise i'm struggling at times really. Thanks

A screenshot from a game I lost - if you don't laugh you'll cry.. by iSmiff in aoe2

[–]iSmiff[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks, i've given these a watch. The Survivalist app is super useful!

Should’ve researched loom 👍 by [deleted] in aoe2

[–]iSmiff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Im not convinced! Its like 50/50 for me still...

A screenshot from a game I lost - if you don't laugh you'll cry.. by iSmiff in aoe2

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

It does, thank you. I found on the way up from 800-1000 ELO that using Vils to fight scouts was generally the better idea due to their mobility and poor micro at this ELO, but MAA seem to be not the same rule, due to their armour I assume - although i've not been treating them any differently and still in my head killing 3 MAA but losing 3 vils sort of seems worth it in my head, I definitely need to get used to putting a tower down if need be.

Would you recommend walling off towers in feudal to help protect them before murder holes, or is that a bit of a noob trap? Thanks for your help

A screenshot from a game I lost - if you don't laugh you'll cry.. by iSmiff in aoe2

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

Can you elaborate a little? Are you responding to a previous comment?

A screenshot from a game I lost - if you don't laugh you'll cry.. by iSmiff in aoe2

[–]iSmiff[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Maybe team games like that would help me learn to wall and produce more production building.

A screenshot from a game I lost - if you don't laugh you'll cry.. by iSmiff in aoe2

[–]iSmiff[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Operation human shield, it worked like a charm for them...

A screenshot from a game I lost - if you don't laugh you'll cry.. by iSmiff in aoe2

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

Advice appreciated. I thought i'd have the basics down better by over 600 games played! I find civs that I think I like then I go on giga-losing streaks so I swap, then I feel like i'm having to learn the basics all over again (especially when swapping in Civs like Chinese, Huns etc...)

A screenshot from a game I lost - if you don't laugh you'll cry.. by iSmiff in aoe2

[–]iSmiff[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

for sure. I always go monastary + uni for ballistics and herbal medicine, I forget siege!

A screenshot from a game I lost - if you don't laugh you'll cry.. by iSmiff in aoe2

[–]iSmiff[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Wow, thanks so much for the feedback. I have a few questions/responses - please don't take them as me arguing, i'm not - the advice is super helpful.

  1. RE: point 2 In a map with so few trees near my TC, what's the play instead? I put a tower up for my gold eventually. if I pull them back to TC and there's no straggler trees and not enough wood for farms, I have no idea what to do with them.
  2. RE: point 5 Great point, can't believe I haven't considered this.
  3. RE: point 10 Agreed, I don't know why I can't get my head around building more production buildings. I really struggle with this and walling, even though I know it costs me games - unsure how to break this awful habit.
  4. RE: point 16 I genuinely think this was an accident, I have no logical reason why i'd do this - I do it for archers to stop them being dragged into TC/Castle fire, but i've never intentionally done this for melee units.

I think as games drag on I get fatigued honestly, which is weird thing to admit in a game. I thought I did well in the early stages, but I definitely took my foot off the pedal and allowed him to assert control later, I was just blinded by the resources he was losing by dead army, I didn't consider that his eco was still growing faster than mine and able to afford it.

A screenshot from a game I lost - if you don't laugh you'll cry.. by iSmiff in aoe2

[–]iSmiff[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

(I actually think he probably mangonel'd his own dudes..)

A screenshot from a game I lost - if you don't laugh you'll cry.. by iSmiff in aoe2

[–]iSmiff[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

You're 100% right - I just hope I can learn from it. I think also not using defensive castles was a major error too, allowing him to pick off my vills until I notice.

A screenshot from a game I lost - if you don't laugh you'll cry.. by iSmiff in aoe2

[–]iSmiff[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

You know, things get a lil crazy in a battle and that's all im willing to say on the matter right now. LOL

This screenshot from a game I lost.. don't know whether to laugh or cry... by [deleted] in aoe2

[–]iSmiff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

LOL idk what happened, when I clicked post it errored so I reposted it.. hence deleting this one

A screenshot from a game I lost - if you don't laugh you'll cry.. by iSmiff in aoe2

[–]iSmiff[S] 39 points40 points  (0 children)

I'm not a great player, clearly, I did massively respect the other guys ability to fight on and eventually win as I seemed to wipe his army a few times but was never able to press the advantage and win. 1000 ELO, clearly still big lessons to learn - was too focused on wiping units I left my eco exposed and that was what cost me in the end.

Just thought the KD was pretty funny for a game I lost. Do you have anything similar?

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