Are the Dravidians a Poor Civilization?
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I pitted my Dravidian forces against the Goths and was quickly overwhelmed by their Huskarls, Crossbows, and Rams.
I had deployed Elephant Archers, Urumi Swordsman, and Elite Skirmishers, but the Goths had the upper hand.
It is clear to me that the Dravidians need to be given a significant boost in power.
Urumi Skirmisher should work.
Just pay attention to who’s fighting who.
I suggest just picking the civ you lost against each game, and when you lose- switch.
Then you’ll figure out the worst civ when you can’t win anymore.
Generally yeah, but against Goths they should be amazing.
Urumi+skirm against the hc is the comp you want to go towards, but before then, you have a much better eco
Yes.
Title: Yes, one of the worst.
Your match: The first goal of Dravidians against Goths is to survive Feudal and early castle age.
Open archer and crossbow to keep away Goth drush and early castle age infantry spam.
Later, when you go to imperial, focus on Wootz steel and Champions with Elephant archers/Scorpions.
Goths be dead.
Edit: Add Urumi against Huskarl spam.
git gut
Got schooled.
If you let goths get to full imp spam anyone is going to have a bad time.
With your discounts on barracks techs you should be fully teched into champs and Wootz steel well before they’re spamming huskarls into your base.
You should raid them more.
Goths early options are not impressive and you should be able to pin them back by going archers early.
Assuming uptimes are the same you should always have the advantage.
Try to never build elephant archers they’re terrible units with only a situational use and even less so in 1v1.
Just play meta, open straight archers and keep them off stone
My favorite Imp composition (and what you should be working towards if you can) is Urumi, skirmishers, and trebs/bombard cannons.
Urumi shred infantry and cav when massed.
You could always work in some halbs if you want a bigger meat shield.
Elephant archers are fun, but so expensive and can be destroyed by halbs (or huskarls here with high pierce armor).
I wouldn’t have them as a part of my army unless it was a rare occasion when they would work effectively.
Not really, I’m using them frecuently and I can say that their team bonus sucks.
Dravidians are dificult to play, honestly.
Very focused on archers, but with good infantry entry or transition.
Their UU have place in the game, but they have a very limited number of options when you think that their Stables are completely useless.
I think the worst thing in this civ is the completely absense of any mobile unit.
More than that, why not use Champions intend of Urumi?
Their discount is huge and Goths have a bad fight against full Champions.
Mix with Elephants Archers or Skimishers and it’s a bad match for Goths.
But…
I understand you, because I have more problems playing Dravidians than playing Bengalis.
Another ‘I lost with this civ, so it needs a buff’ post.
I mean, you played it on Arena, and still got clapped by Goths.
Against Dravs – a civ known for insane infantry.
Agreed, huskarls counter archers.
But even Drav halbs match well against them after Wootz steel.
Your ele archers got shredded by xbows?
Your skirms are one of the best in the game.
Stop trying to mess with the game balance when you are still terrible at the game.
If it’s too difficult, play against the AI.
And no, Dravidians are not one of the worst civs.
Especially on Arena.
Shouldn’t have made ele archers.
Urumi alone will counter all Goth infantry and skirms to counter enemy archers/HC if needed.
But yeah, I do think Dravidians are quite weak overall.
On water their top tier
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