[Anonymous Player]

Hello everyone!

I’m a new player and I usually play as Persians on multiplayer with my family.

My dad, who has been playing Age of Empires for 20 years, usually teams up with me, but he only plays as Mongols.

My siblings usually attack me first since they know I’m the weakest link and my economy usually takes a hit because I have difficulty defending early on.

The Persians are a very expensive civilization, so I’m usually last place in terms of economy and military.

My go-to strategy is to use Elite War Elephants, Elite Skirmishers, and Paladins, which is very costly in terms of gold and food.

Is there a better, more cost-effective combination I could use?

Or are there any tips you can provide a noob like me so I can beat my older siblings and rub it in their faces?

As an additional note, my sister always plays as Spanish and my brother usually plays as Franks.

My brother tends to attack early and pick off my villagers to further disrupt my already struggling economy.

Lastly, for some reason we always play Coastal Regicide (I don’t have a say in that).

[Azot-Spike]

You need a combination of Knights and Camels, and don’t use Skirmishers.

Research Kamandaran and play Crossbowmen that only cost wood.

These Crossbows will be a perfect support for your Elephants

[MtG-Crash]

In Teamgames the idea is that you dont make a composition (meaning: different types of units).

You only focus on one unit (Paladin or War Elepehants) and do what your civ does the best, and your partner makes something that complements that.

So the perfect 2v2 idea is always to pick a cav civ and an archer civ, because Paladins + Arbalesters basically beat everything.

The combo of a strong cavalry unit plus a strong archer unit complements each other perfectly.

In some cases you could think about cavalry + cav archers, if your dad really wants to stay on Mongols.

With that in mind, your best composition with Persians + Mongols is when you go Paladins or War Elephants (and only that!) and research all Blacksmith upgrades for that and Bloodlines and Husbandry (and Mahouts in the case of War Elephants of course), and your dad goes only Mangudai with all upgrades.

Then your dad adds some siege (like Siege Rams) and you both can bring some Trebuchets.

And this all together is the best composition you could do as Persians + Mongols.

But the main idea is that you dont waste resources and population space to skirmishers and such, and only do either knights or elephants, and your dad accompanies that with Mangudai, and then you fight as a team.

[MagJeju]

If you attack with war elephants in a map like coastal, i will just assume you will have time to get to any army composition.

Would you mind changing civ??

Pick celts/teutons or even ethiopians.

Just produce spears to defend from your brother

Boom into 130-140 vills and produce halbs and siege onagers in imp.

Big badaboom = Have fun

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