Brand New to the Game, but Experienced in RTS: Need Help Choosing Civ That Suits My Playstyle!
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Hello everyone, I recently started playing AOE2 and I’m already hooked. It’s no surprise that this game has been popular for many years. Although I have experience with other RTS games, I’m still new to AOE2 and would appreciate recommendations on which civilizations to focus on based on my playstyle. I tend to play defensively at the beginning of the game until I have upgraded my units and feel confident enough to go on the offensive. I prefer simplicity, and don’t enjoy having to build a lot of different unit types or micromanaging many different tasks. I also prefer land battles over naval battles and ranged units over close combat. Lastly, I’m not a fan of rushing or sacrificing units unnecessarily. Please suggest which civilization fits my playstyle the best, and whether it would be a good fit for team games/support. Thank you for your help!
As someone else already said I believe britions would best suit your playstyle
Britons, you build a mass of arbalest/longbows and snipe every incoming thing from 12 tiles away.
Beware of rams, they absorb so many shots, you need a secondary unit to kill them. If facing a cavalry civ, that secondary unit can be halberds, if not I’d do light cavalry. Yes, britons have a mediocre light cavalry line an cavalry in general, but they sinergize so well with the longbows that it may be worth. Trebs are a must when you advance, and a couple of monks are optional.
Teutons are a pretty slow and tanky civ, you might like them
Surprised that no one said Portuguese. their 1 TC turtle defence into castle drop with organ gun slow push is exactly what you described.
You’d probably enjoy the Arena map style of play.
Koreans turtle to war wagons could be good for you.
Byzantines
Britons. Archer build order.
Franks = cheap castles and free farm upgrades, throwing axemen are fun and generally pretty good
Britons = not very defensive, good TC boom, you make archers and they go chut chut chut
Ethiopians = a bit of a bump to get you moving in the early game, one of the best arbalest/siege/halb deathballs in the game
Bulgarians = cheap krepost for defense, heavy cav archer, faster working blacksmiths to get your upgrades
Teutons = cheap farms means a powerful eco, castles have extra range to kill bombard cannons, lots of upgrade to get
Koreans = defensive towers, war wagon is individually the most powerful ranged unit
Mongols = mangudai are the most powerful ranged army, fast early game to help you get there, siege ram go vroom vroom
Britons. Portuguese.
Teutons are slow as fuck but deadly.
Im gonna throw byzantines in. Cata are disgusting. Melee cav. Unstoppable late game
Or do what I do. Play Persians. Rush to get tc. Delete tc. Rebuild tc in enemy base. Defend tc. Repeat as needed
[St4rks in-depth civ guides](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkfKpVNo6sRmKTnbNyYYaUGx_f095Ij0g), only 5, but they have basic ones suitable for all playstyles. Find your favorite. Likely Franks for strategy simplicity: open scouts, see whats up, def what’s coming, macro knights and eco.
Several players of prior RTS-background with any notions of macro and common strategy quickly got to ~top5% or 1700/wherever with Franks, as they are so powerful and most of all, very very easy to play.
Mongols and macro all the way to elite mangudai+meatshield is another option, Mongols is one of the guided ones, see that.
Any love for the Japanese? I read somewhere they had really good towers?
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