Why Doesn't Anyone Play German Anymore?

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Re: Why Doesn't Anyone Play German Anymore?

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Germans are a underutilized civ. Free uhlans is just awesome. I win many games with only a barracks because of free cav + shipments.
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Re: Why Doesn't Anyone Play German Anymore?

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I do think that shipments also take longer to arrive for the Germans, but I'm not completely sure.
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Re: Why Doesn't Anyone Play German Anymore?

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[quote=""Lost_my_hope""]I do think that shipments also take longer to arrive for the Germans, but I'm not completely sure.[/quote]

Nah. All shipments take the same amount of time (30 seconds) to come from the home city once they are clicked. This is regardless of civilzation. Germany requires more XP to earn shipments though. I can't recall the exact number but the information in previous posts by lisbon looks about right.

The one exception is merc shipments which require 60 seconds to arrive from the HC. Spahi are also counted as mercs. As for other unique units like urmui, i'm not sure.
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Re: Why Doesn't Anyone Play German Anymore?

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All shipments take 40 secs to arrive, except mercs and spahis which take 60 secs.
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Re: Why Doesn't Anyone Play German Anymore?

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[quote=""Sporting_Lisbon""]All shipments take 40 secs to arrive, except mercs and spahis which take 60 secs.[/quote]

i thought spahis wer 40secs in re, but the fp changed it ti 60secs making spahi ff weaker :roll:
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Re: Why Doesn't Anyone Play German Anymore?

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im glad spahi ff on fp is weaker , seriously broken unit if you think about them. 60 sec ship time for 5 units that are gaurd level stats in age 3 for only 1k food is still an absurd bargain.
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Re: Why Doesn't Anyone Play German Anymore?

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Nice posts about shipment times and XP values for shipments. I always knew there were some distinctions among the civs, but never had the precise data on them.

@ Chris: I think the Germans do well against the French, although the French double rax xbow/pike is a little better early, I find. If ever one civ countered another, though, I still think Germans are the perfect counter to Russia. Those weak muskets can't stand up to uhlans in sufficient numbers, and because they don't get a musket shipment, you can quickly overpower 10 trained muskets with 12 uhlans around 7:00. If they build any strels, you wipe out everything they have in an instant. They have to rely on 8-9 cossacks for anti-cav, and 1v1, uhlan > cossack.
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