Benefits of Starting with Britons in the Game.
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I often come across an argument that I still don’t fully understand.
It claims that Briton’s bonuses are better suited for experienced players, which is evident from their high winrate at high elo.
However, if you are a beginner who doesn’t micro and just leaves their archers in one place, having extra range only buys you about one more second before enemy cav reaches you.
People tend to simplify things by saying “just go archers,” but there are more than a dozen civs that have good archers.
Instead, we could recommend Ethiopians as a perfect beginner archer civ.
Their age up bonus makes build orders more forgiving, and their increased fire rate is better suited for low micro playstyles.
Additionally, they have free pikemen to counter cav, which can pose a problem for archers.
Britons actually have good TC and archer bonuses, tbh the only bonus which can end up being more of a bane than a boon is the faster working shepherds.
But in the long run it’ll probably just help the player become more alert of his start and get his sheep in as fast as he can (but also avoid sheep scouting)
Ball of longbows is just a win condition for many beginners, can’t get onagers in, rams are just difficult for beg to execute, britons just retreat to castle if anything tough happens, build a few halb or light cav if needed.
Extra range xbows is also very nice and not too difficult to micro.
Britons were a great pick in the original AoK, and I guess they’re still good for beginners to play archers?
Ethiopians can definitely keep up with them though.
The sheep bonus can be massive as a beginner: either to 5 on sheep and be a villager ahead to wood, or go 6 and have a much more forgiving build where you’re less likely to idle the TC due to lack of food (you can idle because you’re housed instead!)
Since Britons eat sheep as fast as boar, but the sheep don’t fight back, you can delay your boars especially if you find all the sheep quickly, and get loom before attempting to lure them.
Again, for beginners, that makes for a much more forgiving dark age.
they make archa and have eco bonuses
Agreed, I’m 700 elo and pretty sure I’m undefeated against Brits.
Too easy to beat em with cav and skirms
every civ can be reccomended for beginers tbh
Fairly open tech tree, only 1 unique unit, vanilla bonuses, straight forward gameplay.
All of these are top priorities for begginer civs.
Also going straight archers is a great first build order.
Non of the newer civs bullshit of oddly specific mechanics (build this building next to your trade to make it faster) , bonuses that create a very specific gameplay to that civ only (cuman 2nd TC), not mixing up the ages, not mixing up economy with military.
just overall very good for vanilla gameplay.
They dont have to have the highest winrate at lower levels to make them good for begginers.
Because Briton is one of the few Civ that isn’t dominated by:
* UU like Mayans.
* UT like Ethiopian.
* Regional unit like Berbers.
* Civ bonus like Huns.
* All of above like Hindustani.If you just want new players to win, give them Hindustani, Franks and Portuguese.
hmm, no archer civ is beginner friendly tbh, because archers are hard to play…
Biggest thing I would guess is the extra range is a helpful buffer for learning micro since you have some wiggle room before your archers get dragged into a castle/tc fire.
It’s easier to stop vils from repairing walls, doing damage to tree lines, etc.
Britains also have good eco, good options, and cheap tcs to make defending easier which goes a long way since walling can be hard.
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I think people don’t recommend eth because a lot of their strength is in their siege, which is just really hard for low – mid elo.
No good post imp cav just makes a civ a lot harder for a new player too since you have to baby raids more, which is really hard when you have low apm.
I definitely think franks/goths is way easier than britains, but as far as archers go I get britains as the pick
Just because you are a begineer does not mean you do not know how to kite.
Franks are truly the most streamlined in my opinion.
The scout to knight is made so direct with faster berry collection, not to mention the 488 stone castles lol.
With faster sheep it’s really easy to keep vill production up and massing some archers and later controlling 1 ball of them is way easier than going raiding with some scouts, possibly at 2-3 locations at the same time.
I think it’s just cause we’re old and britons is what a lot of us started off with
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