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by ruminator
Tue Aug 04, 2009 9:50 pm
Forum: Age of Empires 3
Topic: The purity of Vanilla!
Replies: 8
Views: 4273

The purity of Vanilla!

Hi! Not been on much, still having to work for my wages rather than just turning up, but do still try to get a game in now and then ... I was struggling on TAD as I couldn't run FP and was getting bored of Jap lamers at my level and China's inability against decent cav. I decided to boot up Vanilla ...
by ruminator
Thu Jul 16, 2009 12:57 am
Forum: Strategy & Recorded Games
Topic: Assigning Settlers to Fd crates right at the start
Replies: 16
Views: 8845

Re: Assigning Settlers to Fd crates right at the start

Pop back in and find we have new clan necro. HallChr is reborn!!
by ruminator
Fri Jun 12, 2009 1:47 am
Forum: Strategy & Recorded Games
Topic: tp start with china plausible?
Replies: 4
Views: 3018

Re: tp start with china plausible?

Rather than 300 wood, send the tp card - you get a free tp and the next one's are cheaper as well. Send 600 wood as first card on aging and get a second one up along with war hut, extra village and queued old han. If they've left you alone this long, go on a shipment spam ...
by ruminator
Sat Jun 06, 2009 10:25 pm
Forum: Age of Empires 3
Topic: The blind people woke up over there at Robot
Replies: 86
Views: 30228

Re: The blind people woke up over there at Robot

Ok. Got it now, patch notes were not very clear ... or I was drunk .. choice is yours ...
by ruminator
Thu Jun 04, 2009 11:33 pm
Forum: Age of Empires 3
Topic: The blind people woke up over there at Robot
Replies: 86
Views: 30228

Re: The blind people woke up over there at Robot

[quote=""36drew""][quote=""Aaryn_GenD""]to drew and kaiser, you have to distinguish between two things: what generally most people want and what robot wanted to do primarily they wanted to fix double deck along with some oos exploits and decreasing overall lag...
by ruminator
Wed Jun 03, 2009 4:13 pm
Forum: Age of Empires 3
Topic: The blind people woke up over there at Robot
Replies: 86
Views: 30228

Re: The blind people woke up over there at Robot

It all sounds confused, but Iroquois FTW I think!
by ruminator
Tue Jun 02, 2009 11:12 pm
Forum: Strategy & Recorded Games
Topic: Trouble vs Rusians
Replies: 9
Views: 5091

Re: Trouble vs Rusians

[quote=""deadhanddan""]with china its always worthwhile to have 10 rattan shields in your deck , especially vs. russia. been ages since i played china but whenever i did i stood best chance at winning in age 3 then staying in a prolonged colonial battle. russia's 3 vill batch tra...
by ruminator
Mon Jun 01, 2009 1:27 am
Forum: Strategy & Recorded Games
Topic: Trouble vs Rusians
Replies: 9
Views: 5091

Trouble vs Rusians

I'm sure we've covered this before, but I'm just strting to look properly at China again. How do they cope with age 2? They age up at the same (ish) time but then Russia can either mass strelets or cossacks and China seems to struggle versus either and especially versus both. Any particluar strats? ...
by ruminator
Tue May 19, 2009 12:34 pm
Forum: General Board
Topic: music ?
Replies: 1
Views: 2269

Re: music ?

Music for car journeys and IPod down the gym ...

I prefer playing computer games in the relative quiet as I need to think ...
by ruminator
Mon May 18, 2009 6:28 pm
Forum: Age of Empires 3
Topic: servers down once again
Replies: 20
Views: 8708

Re: servers down once again

Same for me ... couldn't get on so forced to noob it up at TF2 instead. Mass Heavy FTW!!
by ruminator
Mon May 18, 2009 6:24 pm
Forum: Strategy & Recorded Games
Topic: Dutch 8 Pike Card - I Love it !
Replies: 12
Views: 5915

Re: Dutch 8 Pike Card - I Love it !

It's a must have card for your deck, but not an automatic playing choice. I would play 700 wood, bank wagon and possibly even 4 settlers before this unless they were knocking on my front door ... The key is that everyone knows the Dutch have an 8 pike card, so it often frightens off any cav raid, a ...
by ruminator
Thu May 14, 2009 8:21 pm
Forum: Strategy & Recorded Games
Topic: Yukon Crazy!
Replies: 16
Views: 7520

Re: Yukon Crazy!

Some favourite native upgrades - correct me if any of these are wrong: Cavalry cheyenne - 40% faster cav training commanche - 10% faster speed Infantry Inca - 20% increase infantry speed seminole - 25% archer damage tupi - 10% archer damage zapotec - 20% hand infantry damage all units apache - 5% sp...
by ruminator
Wed May 13, 2009 8:41 pm
Forum: Strategy & Recorded Games
Topic: Yukon Crazy!
Replies: 16
Views: 7520

Re: Yukon Crazy!

[quote=""generalbuschmann""]i use atp as spain and do a atp ff or semi ff. i try to get like 2 tradingposts when i age to colo, in age 3 then i have lots of shipments and can send lancers/rods/pikes/cannon etc. maybe try french with atp and natives, with all those upgrades native...
by ruminator
Wed May 13, 2009 3:08 pm
Forum: Strategy & Recorded Games
Topic: Yukon Crazy!
Replies: 16
Views: 7520

Yukon Crazy!

I am working on a new strat after being harrassed by a German playing early ATP and then spamming lightning warriors on Yucatan! I was looking at who can benefit most from playing ATP and decided that Portugal may be the way forward. Without a 3 settler card in age 1 they have no set card policy her...
by ruminator
Wed May 13, 2009 2:45 pm
Forum: Strategy & Recorded Games
Topic: When to boom in fortress?
Replies: 1
Views: 1921

When to boom in fortress?

A long rambling one I'm afraid. I'm getting frustrated by my lack of progress but have at least managed to factor the main issues behind this: Certainly when playing 1v1 rated games, my main weakness does appear to be knowing when to build a second t/c (Portds excepted) and start to boom properly. O...