AoC Mid Sh 1v1/2v2 Civ
Posted: Sun Mar 21, 2010 11:04 am
Hello, AoC players! This mixed boom civ has won me many games and I'd like to share it now. Enjoy!
Powers: Expansionism
Cavalry-Ranged: Attack and Cost Reduction
Citizens: Speed
Buildings, Walls, and Towers: Cost Reduction
Economy: Farming
Field Cannon: Cost Reduction
Infantry-Swords: Cost Reduction, Attack, and Speed
OK now the first few minutes of this strategy are very complicated, and you will be extremely busy preparing your economy. Here's how I start:
10 cits to wood, then pick your civ.
3 cits make a town center on iron. Make three more cits from this town center to fill up the iron mine.
2 cits -> 2 barracks -> swords.
Make 5 citizens from your capital rallied onto wood.
1 cit makes a town center on forage. Use this town center to make 5 cits and fill up the forage patch.
With the remaining four cits, put up some stone defense (3-4 towers, 2-4 homes, and wall off small gaps. Try and make him attack from as narrow an area as possible and force him to take as much tower damage as possible). If you suspect a rush, get some of your wood cits to help with the towers, and shift-click them back onto wood.
At this point you should have 54 food remaining and only a partially-filled forage patch as your food income. That changes now. After your original 10 wood cits bring back their first batch of wood, take five of those cits and put them on the most convenient hunt.
When your tower/barracks/house/wall cits are done with their jobs get a farm up and running, preferably near hunt, although that's sometimes not possible.
Start working on farm #2 almost immediately after farm #1. As you're filling it up, you should now consider researching the farming upgrade (purchased at the granary).
***You should always be spending as much as possible. A good goal would be to keep all of your resources below 100-150 to make sure that you're spending everything. You are most vulnerable in the early game so don't just save your money, you need to use it now! I like to use my spare food to rally cits onto wood, and to expand my economy I just pull cits off wood and put them wherever I need them.***
***If you don't know what your opponent is doing at this point, now is the time to find out. Go send a sword and scout.***
***Periodically use 'tab' to find any idle cits and get them to work!***
***Your first upgrade on swords should be speed. It's helpful in every scenario you will encounter early on.***
If the opponent accuses you of glitching, you're doing it right!!!
Now things start to vary based on what your opponent is doing. Here are the two most likely scenarios:
Sword Rush
This one really puts your early game to the test. Make your base compact and try to use your own buildings as mini-walls to make his swords dance around your towers, soaking up damage. It's very easy to get overwhelmed early on. Learn to micro your cits around your base because they will come under attack and they will be killed thanks to you being outnumbered and facing more powerful swordsmen. Hang in there, you're not even at the hardest part. You only have 1 iron mine, but once you get a comfortable food income from your farms, start securing a second and even a third iron mine to keep pace with his swords (this must be done quickly, around 9-10 F11). Your next goal should be getting Richard ASAP. This is the tough part where you are most vulnerable. By now your opponent has a ton of swords and possibly even a hero of his own. If that's the case and you don't have your own hero then you just lost. Once you have Richard and survive his next huge push (which will involve a ton of swords + Richard), you're in the clear. Start eating up gold mines everywhere and make a shift towards persians. While your swords soak up damage, your persians will stand back and massacre his units at a comfortable range.
CA
Against CA, you need to get fast balista. I mean really fast, like 6-7 F11. Around the same time your second farm would normally be going up, get a gold mine and a siege factory for yourself. The first balista is only 28 gold away and really turns the tide of the game. Once you get a couple balista, go harass his base. If possible, try to avoid making any vikings. Meanwhile, you should be focusing on your economy, getting more iron and gold mines along with a fast hero. It's a little simpler against ca but this does not make it easy. He will soon have a massive CA/balista blob and you need to be ready to handle that.
Questions? Comments?
Good luck!
Powers: Expansionism
Cavalry-Ranged: Attack and Cost Reduction
Citizens: Speed
Buildings, Walls, and Towers: Cost Reduction
Economy: Farming
Field Cannon: Cost Reduction
Infantry-Swords: Cost Reduction, Attack, and Speed
OK now the first few minutes of this strategy are very complicated, and you will be extremely busy preparing your economy. Here's how I start:
10 cits to wood, then pick your civ.
3 cits make a town center on iron. Make three more cits from this town center to fill up the iron mine.
2 cits -> 2 barracks -> swords.
Make 5 citizens from your capital rallied onto wood.
1 cit makes a town center on forage. Use this town center to make 5 cits and fill up the forage patch.
With the remaining four cits, put up some stone defense (3-4 towers, 2-4 homes, and wall off small gaps. Try and make him attack from as narrow an area as possible and force him to take as much tower damage as possible). If you suspect a rush, get some of your wood cits to help with the towers, and shift-click them back onto wood.
At this point you should have 54 food remaining and only a partially-filled forage patch as your food income. That changes now. After your original 10 wood cits bring back their first batch of wood, take five of those cits and put them on the most convenient hunt.
When your tower/barracks/house/wall cits are done with their jobs get a farm up and running, preferably near hunt, although that's sometimes not possible.
Start working on farm #2 almost immediately after farm #1. As you're filling it up, you should now consider researching the farming upgrade (purchased at the granary).
***You should always be spending as much as possible. A good goal would be to keep all of your resources below 100-150 to make sure that you're spending everything. You are most vulnerable in the early game so don't just save your money, you need to use it now! I like to use my spare food to rally cits onto wood, and to expand my economy I just pull cits off wood and put them wherever I need them.***
***If you don't know what your opponent is doing at this point, now is the time to find out. Go send a sword and scout.***
***Periodically use 'tab' to find any idle cits and get them to work!***
***Your first upgrade on swords should be speed. It's helpful in every scenario you will encounter early on.***
If the opponent accuses you of glitching, you're doing it right!!!
Now things start to vary based on what your opponent is doing. Here are the two most likely scenarios:
Sword Rush
This one really puts your early game to the test. Make your base compact and try to use your own buildings as mini-walls to make his swords dance around your towers, soaking up damage. It's very easy to get overwhelmed early on. Learn to micro your cits around your base because they will come under attack and they will be killed thanks to you being outnumbered and facing more powerful swordsmen. Hang in there, you're not even at the hardest part. You only have 1 iron mine, but once you get a comfortable food income from your farms, start securing a second and even a third iron mine to keep pace with his swords (this must be done quickly, around 9-10 F11). Your next goal should be getting Richard ASAP. This is the tough part where you are most vulnerable. By now your opponent has a ton of swords and possibly even a hero of his own. If that's the case and you don't have your own hero then you just lost. Once you have Richard and survive his next huge push (which will involve a ton of swords + Richard), you're in the clear. Start eating up gold mines everywhere and make a shift towards persians. While your swords soak up damage, your persians will stand back and massacre his units at a comfortable range.
CA
Against CA, you need to get fast balista. I mean really fast, like 6-7 F11. Around the same time your second farm would normally be going up, get a gold mine and a siege factory for yourself. The first balista is only 28 gold away and really turns the tide of the game. Once you get a couple balista, go harass his base. If possible, try to avoid making any vikings. Meanwhile, you should be focusing on your economy, getting more iron and gold mines along with a fast hero. It's a little simpler against ca but this does not make it easy. He will soon have a massive CA/balista blob and you need to be ready to handle that.
Questions? Comments?
Good luck!