There's a reason she is a pro player lol. Couple thoughts from a plat player: anytime she raided your food you went back before securing it with walls/towers with your army to protect. Also seemed like you werent securing anything specific with your keeps e.g your next gold or food. I would probaly build farms around keeps too or in the back after walling rather than forward. I see you said you arent familar with ayyubids but as an ayyubid main i love when people go mass knight vs my desert raiders. A desert raider beats a knight strsight up. Archers actually do pretty well against both desert raiders and camel lancers. For a front line horseman are alright despite the camel unease. Its tough cause if you go spears she can just switch the desert raiders to ranged mode and kite. All in all you did well and i wouldn't have lasted half as long. GG!
I dropped the keep on the deer/wood and the other keeps on the gold/stone/wood. I was hoping she had rotated from those berries 😂. She had more units than I anticipated, but she had a ton of units from the Gamba wing. Felt like I had to drop farms around the forward keeps by that point as the back was open. I was already in a bad spot. I had quite a bit of idle TC time too, too much going on. She was microing both sides while using pro scouts and walling, I couldn’t keep up. Ghazi/spear/archer seem to work pretty well in some other games I watched later.
Early on her mobility and you having no walls really swung things. Also, you’ve been putting the keep further back to protect farms, but you had this one pretty forward.
Yes and yes. Ayyubid are probably my least familiar matchup and I made a few silly mistakes. I was about 30 seconds late in starting sanctity. She got EXTREMELY fortunate with the castle age Gamba wing. She got EIGHT traders and multiple rolls at the mele and javelins units as well as stone-10 of those things at 12:00. I should have had tempo in early castle with 3 sacred sites and 5 relics, but she had so many of those units that she flipped the fight on me. Also, didn’t realize how good desert raiders are in castle- my knights were almost useless. Speer/ranged was probably the move. In hindsight, I think I go compound in this matchup if they fast castle and try to get to Imp ASAP. She’s also really good lol.
Good game buddy
There's a reason she is a pro player lol. Couple thoughts from a plat player: anytime she raided your food you went back before securing it with walls/towers with your army to protect. Also seemed like you werent securing anything specific with your keeps e.g your next gold or food. I would probaly build farms around keeps too or in the back after walling rather than forward. I see you said you arent familar with ayyubids but as an ayyubid main i love when people go mass knight vs my desert raiders. A desert raider beats a knight strsight up. Archers actually do pretty well against both desert raiders and camel lancers. For a front line horseman are alright despite the camel unease. Its tough cause if you go spears she can just switch the desert raiders to ranged mode and kite. All in all you did well and i wouldn't have lasted half as long. GG!
I dropped the keep on the deer/wood and the other keeps on the gold/stone/wood. I was hoping she had rotated from those berries 😂. She had more units than I anticipated, but she had a ton of units from the Gamba wing. Felt like I had to drop farms around the forward keeps by that point as the back was open. I was already in a bad spot. I had quite a bit of idle TC time too, too much going on. She was microing both sides while using pro scouts and walling, I couldn’t keep up.
Ghazi/spear/archer seem to work pretty well in some other games I watched later.
Early on her mobility and you having no walls really swung things. Also, you’ve been putting the keep further back to protect farms, but you had this one pretty forward.
Yes and yes. Ayyubid are probably my least familiar matchup and I made a few silly mistakes. I was about 30 seconds late in starting sanctity. She got EXTREMELY fortunate with the castle age Gamba wing. She got EIGHT traders and multiple rolls at the mele and javelins units as well as stone-10 of those things at 12:00. I should have had tempo in early castle with 3 sacred sites and 5 relics, but she had so many of those units that she flipped the fight on me. Also, didn’t realize how good desert raiders are in castle- my knights were almost useless. Speer/ranged was probably the move. In hindsight, I think I go compound in this matchup if they fast castle and try to get to Imp ASAP. She’s also really good lol.