How do you make this many scouts

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How do you make this many scouts

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idk i was just wondering b/c they do 15 hand damage and siege and had almost 200hp
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There is a card for that. You can build them in your TC then. I fell victim to that before, too. Hehe.
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Play with score on, it will improve your gameplay a lot.
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How about 50 scouts vs. 50 envoys... who would win?
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I play with score on, but never pay attention to how it drops or raises. I usually only compare scores with it. Does anyone remember how to tell if a person is rushing or booming just by looking at the person's score? Rush is something like it drops a bunch then raises fast when the units pop out, yet I am not sure of the degree of the fluctuation. All tips in this area are accepted :)
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Scouts also don't show up in score, which can be very misleading.
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When this was first exploited, cyclo completely smashed me with this tactic, it use to be quite OP at one time back in TWC.
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You can usually tell an ff in a team game as they usually have the highest score early on, especially dutch.
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You have to build a native embassy or two and send advanced scouts to really spam them. The problem is they cost 90 wood. Fun strat when it works.
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British scores usually go up really fast when they manor boom.

All I know is that my score is always extremely low in team games when I go all-cav. Any thoughts as to why?
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When you go cav you're normally protecting the ranged infantry and kamikazing (more or less) against their ranged infantry. Guess who stays safe most of the time if everything goes well? That's right, your partner's infantry.
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[quote=""Kaiser_von_Nuben""]British scores usually go up really fast when they manor boom.

All I know is that my score is always extremely low in team games when I go all-cav. Any thoughts as to why?[/quote]

Meatsheild much? If you keep most of your cav alive (75%) it should be high, but if you loose most of it and RI + cav wars -- it will be low.
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I have the same Problem. Especially with germans.
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That explains it. In most team games, I lose a lot of uhlans in order to protect the infantry. I spam them constantly and generally get a good mass quickly, but there are always losses; after all, they have low HP and you need to keep the infantry alive! :)
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Re: How do you make this many scouts

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Yeah I have that problem with Uhlan spamming too.

My score goes low then goes extremely high when they wth everyone in their way.
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