Original thread found here.
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Questions:
1. Which combination wins cost-effectively, musk+hussar or xbow+hussar?
2. What happens in a game French vs Dutch, both players playing perfectly?
3. 4 Hussars and 8 pikes are sieging your stable in your base. You're raiding your opponent in his town with 10 hussars, all his vills are garissoned. What do you do?
4. 20 Xbows + 10 pikes vs 20 xbows + 5 hussars. Who wins?
5. Dragoon vs war wagon. What's the most important reason why goons are better in early fortress and WW are better late game, assuming both are unupgraded except for guard and imperial ups?
6. French vs China, what's the best approach for French in this match up?
7. French vs China, assume China sent 9 pikes to counter the French raids that come with a 10 hussar semi-FF. How does the French player still use his hussars effectively?
8. Why is it unwise to send 1000 wood as your first card in fortress?
9. You're playing a French mirror. Your opponent has 4 hussars. You have 3. Your opponent chases you all the way to your TC. What's the best way to handle this?
10. On great plains, should Ottomans go for TP or mosque?
11. What's the best way for Spain to counter a French musk+hussar start in colonial?
12. At what point in a game should a Dutch player generally be looking to age to fortress?
13. In a German mirror you went cav start. You scouted your opponent's forward barracks and he apparently plans to rush you. How do you quickly win this game?
14. In a French mirror, why is it better to go cav start instead of dual rax?
15. What's Russia's best counter to cavalry in age2?
16. What's the best way for Japan to beat a Chinese FF?
17. As French when dual rax rushing Japan, where should you attack?
18. As British you scout a French player having 6 vills on wood at 3:30 mins. What's your response?
19. As Spain, you scout a 210 XP treasure right outside your TC's LOS. You have 1 dog. The game time is 1:30 and you've just sent 3 vills. How do you approach this?
20. In the cases of China and Spain, is it best to stick together with disciple/dog+explorer, or scout apart?
21. What is, in most cases, the best Aztec strat?
22. Considering Sioux have all unit types in age2, what's the main reason they would age to fortress?
23. You as Russia are trying to take the 95 wood treasure on great plains. 1 Of the guards is dead. Both your explorer and 1 Indian explorer are standing on top of the treasure. Your explorer only has 100 hp, his has 250. His other explorer is dead. Your crackshot is not going to reload in time and his explorer is coming to attack you. How do you approach this, first priority being to take the treasure?
24. China mirror. Both players have just aged and are now fighting in the middle of the map with 8 arqs, 3 ckn, 2 steppes and an explorer. Both players are sending 10 arqs. How do you get an edge?
25. When scouting cows on Mongolia with both your explorer and the cavalry scout, what's the best way to get them to your TC safely?
26. As Japan when playing against France, you expected a dual rax xbow rush. You have 10 yumi. 5 Enemy musks are sieging 1 shrine on 1 side of the map, another 5 musks are sieging on the other side of the map. Your first card was heavenly kami. Give the 2 possible ways to continue this game.
27. Which age2 and age3 politicians should sioux be using pretty much always?
28. Describe in detail how to micro a 5 musk vs 5 musk battle.
29. You're playing as Spain. It looks like your opponent has outmassed you (he has 10 xbows and 20 pikes, all you have is 10 bows) and is chasing you to your TC. You have a couple of houses, a rax, 500 food, 100 wood and 0 coin. Describe your actions.
30. What's the difference in card order between an economic cav+bow start as Spain, and a military-based one?
Give the best first 4 cards for each of these variations.
31. Give the best card order in a Dutch mirror in the following situations (first 3 cards):
- Your hunts and gold are very close to TC and your opponent will never be able to touch your vills with raiding hussars.
- Your resources are somewhat far out.
In the following match-ups, you're playing the first of the 2 mentioned civs. What should your pre-game plan be?
Mention which strat you will be doing, or - if it depends on your opponent - how you will respond to your opponent's strat.
32. Brits vs Japan
33. Sioux vs French
34. India vs Iro
35. Dutch vs French
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