@@godoftwinkies574 so wait…. Does that mean I’m waiting for a warrior, Amazon of a woman and a dwarf to come and kill me? This sounds like a terrible deal
@@godoftwinkies574 well some people look at it in terms of money like hey you will get paid more. But sometimes you just want the day to yourself to enjoy and sleep in
@@godoftwinkies574 oh yea yes yes. She can have a lot of good things like that rare seed, I think she can also sell coffee beans and even seeds that aren’t available until year 2 like cabbage.
I really don't think this mission is hard at all. Simply rushin one or two castles towards the Ghorids is way more than enough to repel the attacks, even on hard mode. They AI gets drawn to whatever attacks them first, if it's a castle they will simply bang their heads at the castles over and over. The first wave is the only rough one.
Well my original plan was to get them to attack my castles up top however I made mistakes and that didn’t happen. And dealing with the raids and green and yellow attacking and dividing my units, the fact I had no good cheap unit to deal with cav, lack of gunpowder because the campaign said so. This mission while not taking me the most amount of tries (that belongs to the horns of Hattin) this took me 3.5 hours in game time to finish. With the final push into cyan making me feel like I could possibly fail and run out of resources if I didn’t have a market to support me
@@jarg_64 What do you mean with no cheap counter to cav? You have camels, they may cost gold but they are still cheaper than knights. Also I don't know why would you need it to be cheap if it's going to be your main unit against almost everybody. Btw, do you really play with all that lag? That's gonna be real hard tho.
@@gagegogo cheap as in I don’t have good spears. I would rather spend my gold elsewhere. But feel like I’m stuck using camels and skirms. The lag is due to the increased speed of the replay. Normal gameplay isn’t this fast or laggy.
@@jarg_64 Well, campains always tend to limit the options a lot, but what's wrong with camels? They are such an amazing unit. There's not much else to spend the gold, but even so this mission isn't very restrictive with resources altogether.
@@gagegogo personally I feel like camels die too easily for a unit requiring gold to produce. You want them fighting cav so they need to be in the front line. But they are only good against cav so anything else is not a good fight. I also feel like… while they do good damage to other cav it’s not enough to cover their cost against ai. Against another player yea. But ai never seem to run out of gold while we do. (Unless you got trade) Idk in the long run I am only OK at AoE. I’ve made it past many missions all on hard with a lot more to go and I never went WOOO CAMELS. And instead went meh, camels. But I’m an idiot so perhaps camels are much better than I give them credit for, and I’m letting my judgement and bias get in the way.
@@godoftwinkies574 well that’s an odd one. As Mario was jump man back then and it was meant to be a Popeye game. But donkey king did eventually stay (and then there is that whole timeline mess) along with Pauline who came back in Odyssey and I think some of the sports game so….
This level is BRUTAL. I eventually did it by targeting gray first, while walling off green and some of yellow to keep them from annoying me. Once you start cutting into gray's base, they really start to fall apart, and yield tons of resources.
normally i would have tried to fight them off but with how things were going I felt like leaving them alone and going after my other targets was the better decision. was it? IDK. someone else did mention about getting rid of Gray and that caused the raids to end or have the raids send less units. if thats true then yea deleting gray early would be a good option
@@jarg_64 Grays attacks hit VERY hard if you leave them. Green it's more like a trickle, and after a certain point they don't get much stronger. But Gray just keeps ramping up, and eventually they WILL win. Not to mention that as Hindustanis, they have a much more varied spread of units, and as the game goes on, they will use more of it. This is bad for two reasons: 1: Gurjaras are a hyper-counter civ. They thrive on the opponent only using 2-3 different units and then making the counter to hard-stop them. The more units mixed in, the more difficult this gets. 2: Gurjaras are really bad in when gold starts running low. Kshatriya lets them get a food discount, but gold costs are still high and they really lack good trash units. So you need to end the fight with them quickly before the Gurjaras run out of steam.
Gray never attacks me on this level, I just build castles on the right side and rush green and yellow with elephant archers and 7-8 trebs. After I just drop another castle on teal and gg in 25 mins max.
I think the extreme versatility of units sadly prevents the rotation of your roster. And yet, you extensive character choices probably exists in case your units die. 🫤
@@godoftwinkies574 haha no one is allowed to die here. I won’t let it happen. Honestly this is a good group. It just sucks that we lost our physical wall due to plot
@@godoftwinkies574 yea she is more of a mage killer than anything else. It just sucks as I would like her to “fit” in better in some other ways as well. But a flying mage killer is also a good thing, especially when you got long range magic casters
@@godoftwinkies574 hmmm. Ok. Yea magic also had its own triangle system but they removed that. Well they also removed the weapon triangle in this one as well. Part of it exists as abilities the characters can learn but I don’t know if I like that
@@godoftwinkies574 OK i will work on improving the bin, i know i keep forgetting the poor cat. I feel so bad some times :( dwarf and a wifu before a husbando. got it
@@godoftwinkies574 yea. And the drunk and the football star and the camera girl and the guitar guy and the possible witch daughter and the teacher and doctor
hand cannons sound like they would be good here however this campaign doesn't allow us to create them but with the tight spaces and hussars in the front as cannon fodder the enemy would have had a much more difficult time
In aoe2 rule of thumb is to fill 6/10 of your population with eco, when you have 200 pop I would go for 120 vills When defending against the raids, I would go castle + pike. I would use the pikes manly to deal with siege and maybe cav. The castle can do the heavy lifting. Pikes aren't strong, but they are insanely cheap and easy to mass. They are just a shield for the castle
i would have gone for the pikes however this Civ only has the basic spearmen. No pike or halbs. so while spears are cheap i feel like their low stats would be more of a waste of resources and pop space.
I am not an expert on AoE but i do remember hearing about wanting a lot more eco than military. my issue is my stupoid brain gets overwhelmed and then i forget to get more vils. Like i guess i could of had more farmers or lumberjacks or later on trade carts
If movement actually effects the bubbles then that’s a strange detail. Like I guess I coil see the reason behind it, moving around causing the air underneath to move around but in a game sense I would like to see more bubbles (tiny bubbles 🫧) spawn when I run over them
@@godoftwinkies574 yea the entire family is a bit dysfunctional. Demitiris does care for his daughter but not for his step son. Robin seems to care for both kids but seems to put more attention to Sebastian than Maru
Yea well I feel like most of the people in the valley have something wrong with with them. Their stories opening up as you get to know them like Shane and his drinking problem and his connection to Jas. Marnie and Lewis and their quote Forbidden love. Sebastian and his family issues Maru and her overly protective father. Leah with her art and backstory. It’s nice to see not everything is perfect as things never are. But it’s also a shame you can’t do too much to truly help some of them.
@@godoftwinkies574 no I need this cash to pay off our soldiers. Purchase food and supplies. These soldiers are just 3 meals away from a rebellion. And as the leader of that happens it’s MY head that will be on a pike
