Nice video! Good to see someone still holding up the black flag these days. I played around with this drush for a while and found it quite useful against any civ that doesn't go on gold for age up immediately, e.g. China doing their village opening or Ottomans with the Military School first. It tends to work because everyone does the greediest opener possible against Abbasid. Against Mongols, because you're so much faster, you can even block them from placing their barracks next to the ovoo and force some single unit production. I spent some time streamlining the build a little as well. If you build a maximum of 3 spearman you can stick with 2 vills on wood without getting housed and hit feudal around the 5:20 mark. Then, the natural follow up is one or two stable horsemen. I'm not sold on the military wing in this strat, though. I prefer eco to use the space my horsemen buy to set up TCs. Or do the same with culture wing and play a budget Mongol style.
I like the 3 spearman idea for optimization. Eco wing definitely going to be the safer choice as turtling with multiple TCs is generally always better than a risky rush.
Nice. I was playing around with this against French and it worked will against AI. Never had the chance to try in a real match. Dice to see that this can be viable.
Nice video! Good to see someone still holding up the black flag these days.
I played around with this drush for a while and found it quite useful against any civ that doesn't go on gold for age up immediately, e.g. China doing their village opening or Ottomans with the Military School first. It tends to work because everyone does the greediest opener possible against Abbasid. Against Mongols, because you're so much faster, you can even block them from placing their barracks next to the ovoo and force some single unit production.
I spent some time streamlining the build a little as well. If you build a maximum of 3 spearman you can stick with 2 vills on wood without getting housed and hit feudal around the 5:20 mark. Then, the natural follow up is one or two stable horsemen. I'm not sold on the military wing in this strat, though. I prefer eco to use the space my horsemen buy to set up TCs. Or do the same with culture wing and play a budget Mongol style.
I like the 3 spearman idea for optimization. Eco wing definitely going to be the safer choice as turtling with multiple TCs is generally always better than a risky rush.
The strategy is refreshing ,i have only done military wing rush before.
I like this! Thanks Fitz
Nice. I was playing around with this against French and it worked will against AI. Never had the chance to try in a real match. Dice to see that this can be viable.
nice!
Didnt see it coming