Unit Combinations

[Sun_Tzu1]

What's your favourite base unit combinatoin and why?

For Aztec, I think Coyotes / Jag Prowlers works really well.

(1) It's pretty pop efficent.

(2) It covers all the counter bases with just 2 units!

(3) Both units can stealth if you want them too.

(4) Both are food heavy, so, you can upgrade your food collection and that works for both units.

[I__CHAOS__I]

lately I've had fun going full ruyters, they pwn, but add a few falconets and it's a killer combo

[Sun_Tzu1]

Do Ruyters cut it on their own? They'd get slaughtered by Maces for example - hence the artillery combo!

They seem to be like faster, cheaper, pop inefficent Eagles.

Why do you like them so much?

[IndyBrit]

Imperial cuiraissers mixed with imperial cuiraissers

(is that cheating?)

[Sun_Tzu1]

Big time

[Tatltael]

occasionally ill go all wakina +warclub and ill add on the teepee construction / boost / speed increase blahblah.. its pretty intense if i can get there >:]

[Soccerman771]

Call me old-school if you like: X-bow/pike

Throw in a cav card and you can beat most unit combinations/house people. Simple for most civ's to do and only requires eco management on 2 fronts, wood & food.

[Sporting_Lisbon]

Abus guns with protection or HC/Jinetes

[Crazy]

max pop strelets :-P

[I__CHAOS__I]

[quote=""Sun_Tzu1""]Do Ruyters cut it on their own? They'd get slaughtered by Maces for example - hence the artillery combo!

They seem to be like faster, cheaper, pop inefficent Eagles.

Why do you like them so much?[/quote]

ruyters are simply amasing, they might even break even with maces, but anyway, they run off and some hussars or falcs will deal with the rock-throwing vermins :p
the heavy gold production dutch have make em almost free units

[StrokeyBlofeld]

British muskets with rockets. Gotta love that splash damage........

[Soccerman771]

[quote=""StrokeyBlofeld""]British muskets with rockets. Gotta love that splash damage........[/quote]

And a very hard combo to stop at any level...

[Kaiser_von_Nuben]

[quote=""Soccerman771""][quote=""StrokeyBlofeld""]British muskets with rockets. Gotta love that splash damage........[/quote]

And a very hard combo to stop at any level...[/quote]

Yes. This is my British 20nr combo:

(1) 40 Redcoats with 8 Black Guard Highlanders from the Church (25% upgrade HP, too, from Thin Red Line);

(2) 8-10 King's Life Guard Hussars (more if he has culvs);

(3) at least 4 INFINITE rockets from HC (with more to come!)

But, a smurf did stop me with the French last night. He had 9 heavy cannons, skirms and then a gendarme mass.

As far as my rush combos go, I have several favorites, but Age 3 veteran skirm/veteran uhlan is my favorite. If you have enough uhlans, they act as anticav, and the skirms clear out any anticav infantry/dragoons they may have. Plus you can keep ship in massive quantities of each unit from the HC.

In the old days, I used to really like Jaegers/Landsknecht/uhlan. Of course, you can never get that much gold together fast enough anymore :neutral:

For the Brits I have to say I love LB/pike. It's better than xbow/pike and, as Soccer said, all ya need is wood n' food. Basic and strong, without any cav requirement. In fact, it neutralizes the cav problem if handled right.

[LaZy]

When playing Dutch my fav combo (saloon permiting) is mass falcs and any of the OP anti cav mercs ( swiss pikes, black riders). If the saloon decides that the merc is the big daddy of cannons than thats what ill mass and protect it with ruyter/ running halbs. I really kinda miss it tbh.

sicco 4 good

[Heyco]

French: Skirms + Goons (or Skirms + Gendarms). Gendarms only works actually good enaugh...