2v2 araucania

[IndyBrit]

I'm proud of this little game. This is about as well as I can play here, although I'm sure mistakes were made. :-P

This is a 1st-2nd versus a 1st-2nd, probably a good look because we have many in that skill range. My partner wanted to double-cav and boom while raiding.

Comments welcome. These are friends of mine, so please be kind in all comments.

FYI - ROBOT PATCH

[deadhanddan]

k downloaded and will watch later

[ChrisTheMean]

Good watch, Indy. Of course, I'm no expert, but here's just a couple things I noticed (I watched from your perspective). Wasting two deer to decay at the start seems like it could be avoided. You had to ship land grab pretty early, as there were only two hunts accessible to you at the start. On a map with that many berries, it would have probably been better to build an outpost near one or two of the many berry patches (AFAIK, berries>mills, and outpost=cheaper than mill). Other than that, nice raids, your second one on the French player especially. It seemed to me like you guys could have held your partners TC, as they only had like 8 pikes to counter your hussars. I know its important to concentrate on the battle, but in an early one, you had like 18 idle vills for quite a while, then 8 for even longer. Nice micro with your LB's in the French town, at one point you were swarmed with hussars and managed to survive. Your partner did a really nice move with his pikes during the final attack on the Dutch player at the end, hanging them back, expecting a flank on the ranged inf, then pulling them up to the expected flank just in time. GG! :mrgreen:

[IndyBrit]

Good stuff in there Chris. Thanks for taking the time to look and comment.

Indy

[I__CHAOS__I]

well played Indy.
A few things I noticed:
-keep vil production going, this will boost your eco reaaly fast, brits need it.
-Once you are on the offence, try to build some new baracks closer to the frontline, you had the resources for it. Your units had a long walk before gettin some action
-Don't use the attack move with longbows, I saw the annimation reloading several times after a kill which slows down their ROF. When you got a nice mass, just let em do the fighting and enjoy the show

gg

[Kaiser_von_Nuben]

Well played, Indy. Your hussar build was good, and your raiding was effective, too. I generally don't age with the food politician when I do Brit hussars, but either way you get the job done. I like the coin/outpost because I get map control and coin for steel traps. Sometimes you wind up with only 4 hussars from the initial batch, but in my view having all the market ups is a worthy price.

Nice job switching from cav to LBs. You did that seamlessly. And again, you proved that there is rarely a need to age up with that manor economy! Nice job. I got scared when those 7 French falcs popped up before the battle at their town, but your ally had your back.

My only comment in addition to what's already been said: When you're Brits, GET ALL THE MARKET UPGRADES!