What Caused a Wooden Item to Disrupt Portugal?
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It appeared that, in the 1.1-1.2k elo arena, Portuguese players were the dominant force, typically opting for the castle drop strategy into mass organ guns. Countering this was almost impossible, with only a 25% chance of success if scouts and light cavalry were used to keep their castle at home, and even then only a 10% chance of victory if they managed to castle the walls.
Disagree. I’ve had success with scouts and spears.
Portuguese are in a good spot. Arena is for clowns, normal people (i.e. non-clowns) appreciate the changes.
Fewer on wood to start lol
I am totally newbie who just played some campaigns and skirmish with hard ai which is what I can beat rn.
Can you guys please enlighten me for this situation? Why defender can’t use scout to get map control or scare away vils since Portuguese will get little to none military unit when castle dropping I assume?
Go castle before them and build knights and delay that castle drop by all means. The only civ I found that can do this is the Khmer. At optimal times I was going castle at the 10-11 minutes mark, and starting to produce knights almost immediately as I hit castle.
Stay fedual for archers. If he doesnt attack, try fast imp.
I had a hill fort game the other day. He dropped Castle in his own base. I didn’t have a clue how to play hill fort and just went archers as dravidians. Archers got melted by 8-10 orgaz guns. I had a pretty good eco and could afford elephant archers. Slowly stopped his advance and pushed back.
Towers behind the wall but outside the castle’s range. Improve them at the university. Go just 1 TC, you will still have more eco than the other guy. Get imp faster, treb/cannon that thing. I dont know if it works on 1v1, but i’m able to defend it and even break in TG (12++) 2v1 while playing malay and my pocket booms.
Yes, playing malay also helps (a lot) xD
Just fedual towers. Dont let them build castle near your base. Try to keep them in the by building more towers. Then go up and boom or make army. Most of portuguese pickers have gained elo just by doing one start and dont react well to the aggression.
I think that at my lvl (1.2k) opening archers will deny a forward castle, and if u pick Britons their xbow will trade decently with organs.
Another option is to
pick Mongols: early defense castle into mongudai that counters organs.
Because they’ve always been good on arena, and organ guns strategies were already very hard to deal with for most civs, even before the change.
Just dont play arena
I hate them too. It’s gotten to where if I see them I just trush ftw.
they’re not broken and this isn’t hard to stop
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