[puck_it24]

Same thing happened to me.

I’ve been able to beat it by walling up, building 1-2 towers on my woodlines, and getting 8-10 skrims.

This holds them off from wrecking my eco.

Then I get light cav and go clean up their army / raid eco.

Eventually the AI makes spears / pikes — get some archers to mop those up, make a castle and some trebs, and it’s smooth sailing.

Getting blacksmith upgrades is also key.

The AI doesn’t do a good job of this, so you can win a lot of fights with full upgraded units.

[cloudstrife559]

I think a lot of people are forgetting that you’ve only played a few games, and probably don’t know the game so well yet.

So let me state something that is so obvious to most players of the game that everybody seems to forget to mention it: archers are countered by skirmishers.

When you reach feudal age, you should try to build an archery range (build a barracks while you’re advancing to feudal age, or you won’t be able to build it), and start producing skirmishers.

Once you have enough wood, build a blacksmith and research fletching and padded archer armour.

The first will give +1 range and damage to your skirmishers, the latter will give them +1 armour.

Beware that the counter to skirmishers is scouts.

If your opponent starts to make some scouts, you can either make some spearmen from the barracks you built (they counter scouts very hard), or add some archers from your archery range (they do much more damage to scouts than skirmishers).

If your opponent is still massing more units than you’re able to defend, you can build a second archery range sometime later.

Otherwise, just add farms and go to castle age, at which point I would probably add a stable and make knights (if your civ has them) and also upgrade your skirmishers to elite and with the blacksmith upgrades.

Alternatively, you can start making archers and transition to crossbows.

Which is better will depend a bit on what your opponent is making, and you’ll learn this over time.

Have fun!

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