Gg wp. The game did not feel lame. Your dark age horsemen pressure likely threw off his BO and your aggressive scout sniping meant he blindly pushed out onto the map for food, allowing you to seriously hamper his expansion after eating his villagers. He also did not expand onto any hunts after being denied, which slowed his recovery. For a 1-tc play he also did not put on any pressure in feudal with knights or contest the map control, but I appreciate that it is easier said than done when the mongol horde explodes in the early game.
Hey a few things: 1) Would your timing on the horsemen rush would be faster, if you took 1 villager to the ovoo and the other 5 to harvest a straggler tree (dropping off at the Ger at first)? Then, 20 more wood for the horsemen. 2) Just note, most of the food on this map is around the river. Especially the beginning sheep and the fish. I usually run straight for the river and then go along it for sheep in the early game. If you have map control, take the food in the map middle. It will give you a lot of tempo. 3) A "mongol wall" is really easy on this map because you can put an outpost at each land crossing of the rocky river, so you can see anything that walks across the map. You definitely had enough wood to set that up and make yourself essentially invulnerable to any counter raids because you would see them so far in advance this way. I think you did a really good job throwing his build off, and you also got really good raids in feudal so you really deserved the win. I'm surprised he didn't go 2TC
Gg wp. The game did not feel lame.
Your dark age horsemen pressure likely threw off his BO and your aggressive scout sniping meant he blindly pushed out onto the map for food, allowing you to seriously hamper his expansion after eating his villagers. He also did not expand onto any hunts after being denied, which slowed his recovery.
For a 1-tc play he also did not put on any pressure in feudal with knights or contest the map control, but I appreciate that it is easier said than done when the mongol horde explodes in the early game.
Hey a few things:
1) Would your timing on the horsemen rush would be faster, if you took 1 villager to the ovoo and the other 5 to harvest a straggler tree (dropping off at the Ger at first)? Then, 20 more wood for the horsemen.
2) Just note, most of the food on this map is around the river. Especially the beginning sheep and the fish. I usually run straight for the river and then go along it for sheep in the early game. If you have map control, take the food in the map middle. It will give you a lot of tempo.
3) A "mongol wall" is really easy on this map because you can put an outpost at each land crossing of the rocky river, so you can see anything that walks across the map. You definitely had enough wood to set that up and make yourself essentially invulnerable to any counter raids because you would see them so far in advance this way.
I think you did a really good job throwing his build off, and you also got really good raids in feudal so you really deserved the win. I'm surprised he didn't go 2TC
Not lame man, love this playstyle