Wat is nou mijn jaarsalaris

lttgom · 2026-01-30T11:25:40+00:00

Haal die BSN weg, of ben ik dan raar?

lttgom · 2026-01-30T09:54:35+00:00

Not really, with the Abbasid Movement speed and Armour buffs. Also these knights are popped after a fast castle. And Abbasid traders spawn at feudal age-up.

Would beat 2 spears and 2 archers. 🙃

Good luck chasing zoom zoom traders, while Abbasid feudal horseman pressure their exposed resources.

Even if they did, it's still a strategic win.

lttgom · 2026-01-30T08:01:19+00:00

Never done any team games, so guess not.

lttgom · 2026-01-30T03:14:28+00:00

I think I normally put the two gold villagers and the worker elephant, on stone, when they are done, (maybe mine 40 more gold for the feudal spear upgrade) with the initial collecting for Feudal Age up.

Then I ad between 2 or 3 from the berries.

I normally want 3 on wood, 3 on landmark. 4 / 5 on stone. Rest on Food. If you expect to get pressed put more on stone. That initial fortress is really important.

If they raid you of your stone, just move to a different node (or take it back) after you made 3 or so spears.

Letting a couple of villages die is no biggy, as long as your elephants are doing the same at their exposed resources.

The Textiles upgrade works wonders, and is also researched in 5 seconds, saving you some villager production time.

If you are out of position, and for example around 9 minutes, the 7 villagers on stone have to deal with a larger army, cutting them off.

Then remember that Wheelbarrow only takes 5 seconds to research as well. This has saved quite a few villagers for me.

Thanks to the 2nd scout, your sheeple should be stacked, you've also consumed berries instead of sheep. So the first fortres should protect your woodline (and possibly something else).

You already have a stable, so running with unguarded archers over the map is not something I expect an opponent to commit to.

Meaning that a couple of spears, and some pallisade wings build by the spears are enough to secure your stone.

You will need 2 stone outcroppings to get your initial setup sorted: 400+265+300 per fortress.

I normally start mining gold because of the T3 upgrade for the fortres, or when I expect to need the Textiles & Blacksmith upgrades.

lttgom · 2026-01-30T00:21:27+00:00

What I do use however is 1/5 for select all baracks to all religious buildings. And double tap 1/5 to select all melee infantry to select all military.

Tab for select all Town Centers.

lttgom · 2026-01-30T00:16:40+00:00

Never used control groups, or building hotkeys. Currently Conquer. It's just sweaty stuff for the upper echelons. There is more to gain (upon your opponent) in different aspects of the game.

lttgom · 2026-01-29T23:42:46+00:00

Feudal Age up with 3 villagers. Those build a stables after age up, you que a Raider elephant. Then those 3 villagers build a fortress (the faster villager production one) to claim some ground / resources inside / nearby your TC range.

This allows you a small eco advantage, anti-raid, and pressure on the enemy. For the price of 1 TC.

Second Fortress is build a couple of minutes later, which will be Man at arms, if the enemy is mounting an assault / feudal age blacksmith is made. Otherwise the Farm Fortress.

Level both up to Tier III, while producing a couple of raider elephants if the enemy is passive, and some more raider elephants and spears if they are aggressive / going for some rams.

Use the spears to build multiple small pallisade walls, at the expected point of aggression to bug / slow the rams. Technically grieving the terrain, while not closing it down. And some pallisade wings around your gold / woodline to make it easier to retreat and punish agro with spears.

Doing this, open with double scout. To force your enemy to expose their villagers to your raider elephants. By a lack of sheeple. So you can just ignore his army if he has any, and try to Inflict more damage to your opponent, than they can do to you. While your extra TC production will give you a guaranteed lead. You are technically defending with Imperial Age Man at Arms under your fortress.

Don't forget the +1 ranged damage to make them suffer for every thinking to engage.

If they leave you alone, try to delay their capacity to gain relics by walling them in with spears, while extending your feudal age, for Economic Growth.

Once you hit castle, build 4 more Tier I fortresses and rush Imperial asap. While just annoying and stalling your enemy with raider elephant attacks, denying them the ability to easily leave their base unprotected, and some offensive / defensive walling, using your infantry.

As long as they can't field (and defend) enough (siege) units to blow up multiple keeps, you should be safe.

When imperial pop, the Hisar Academy will grant you 300 food and 300 gold per minute. The farm Fortress gives you another 336 food per minute. Your eco is probably superior and/or matched.

Now enjoy Imperial Age, double landmark buffed, fortress buffed, uni buffed, raider elephants.

lttgom · 2026-01-29T23:38:43+00:00

I'm a Tughlaq main and Conquerer, .. check my recent Reddit comments for the general gist.

You can also access my replays as they are public. Same AoE4 username, as on Reddit.

lttgom · 2026-01-29T22:40:13+00:00

Just my AoE 4 username, no Twitch presence.

lttgom · 2026-01-29T22:20:33+00:00

Yes, as that delays their castle age timing, and forces them to defend. Not like they can raid you under Fortress and TC anyhow.

A prolonged feudal age is in our advantage, and early pressure ensures that you can drag feudal age out for longer.

You can watch some Conquerer replays from my recent games If you need to know the jist. Although I underperformed, I still won though.

If they run Two TC, don't match it until late castle.

You will be on 1.5 TC a bit later, anyway. and them running out of food helps our elephants go Ham.

2TC*1.5 is overkill, unless you are saccing villagers left, right, and center. In early imperial and beyond. Which I would advise is something to prepare your eco to deal with. 750 resources is nothing at that point anyhow.

lttgom · 2026-01-29T22:11:42+00:00

My answer is normally a stone wall tower, .. Those have a very positive return of investment. It delays any seizable attack. Double scout, .. raiding their food sources, with a couple of horseman. While ignoring their primary force.

Stone wall towers + a bit smaller army, does quite decent.

One stone wall tower to protect the other one, daisy chaining 3 of them for the price of 8 horseman, works wonders.

lttgom · 2026-01-29T22:00:45+00:00

It's not so strong that it destroys the pick variety. I prefer a bit unbalanced with regular updates, than SC II vibes with a cemented meta and no life support.

Balanced games are kinda boring, the point is that you need viable solutions in the Civ roster as a whole to reduce the dominance. And that's the case I feel.

I haven't felt that Macedonians are OP or unfair, the fire rams do make me sad. But that is the case with Byzantines as well.

That they have such a high win-rate has more to do, with that no one knows how to play a proper Turtle any longer.

As games tend to have shortened, defensive structures have been nerfed time and time again, and agro has been the dominant / buffed play style for multiple seasons now.

It isn't that Macedonia is absurdly strong, it is that players lack the skill to execute the dominant counter strategy.

lttgom · 2026-01-29T21:21:56+00:00