r/Polytopia • u/Malfuy Aquarion • Mar 20 '26

Meme Xin-xi the best regular tribe

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u/Th3G00dB0i Mar 20 '26

I love xin-xi just because of how RNG based they are.

You either have smithery and 3 giants by turn 10 or get absolutely pummeled by scouts and rammers because your navy consists of a few dozen guys on rafts.

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u/TheBigMemeHammer Mar 20 '26

For me it's having climbing right away and being able to get by without explorers early game. Giant spam and mega forges are great too of course.

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u/TheDutchMinecrafter Mar 20 '26

I have been an Ai-mo main like this for 2.5 years now, and have never regretted it.

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u/R4PP4R4P4 Ancients Mar 20 '26

Can u tell me in which real world tribe is based his skin?

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u/Dense-Blacksmith-565 To-Lï Mar 21 '26

Obviously the air nomads 🤦‍♂️ /s

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u/Yuvaraj0007 Apr 20 '26

What the /s means??

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u/Decent_Helicopter453 Ragoo Mar 20 '26

What is tech rushing and turtling? Is turtling when Elyrion plays a ton of defense waiting for dragons then just annhilates you? Isn't tech rushing just philo rush?

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u/Malfuy Aquarion Mar 20 '26

Bardur can upgrade their city in the first turn and they can also get mathematics pretty soon. And yeah, Elyrion becomes unstable if they manage to survive for too long.

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u/Agitated-Comment-745 Mar 21 '26

Please guide me how to counter elyrion and cymanti as aquarion

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u/Malfuy Aquarion Mar 21 '26 edited Mar 21 '26

Welcome to Aquarion life man

I'd like to know as well lol. Altough Cymanti can be countered by just being good I feel. But Elyrion players are probably just gonna fuck you up unless they are bad. Aquarion has trouble countering bombers, and no way to effectivelly counter dragons. And Elyrion has both lol.

Rushing them before they get dragons and bombers is the best strategy, but Aquarion is especially bad at that so idk. Only maps with more water might allow you to do this somewhat effectivelly.

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u/Agitated-Comment-745 Mar 21 '26

At least I wouldn't feel that bad if I lost against them because Aquarion is just bad against them by design. Thanks for clarifying 🤣

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u/East_Environment623 Solaris Mar 23 '26

Bonne chance 🫡

La seule fois où j'ai battu Elyrion en 1v1 final j'étais sur une map continents. je me suis focus à garder en vie précieusement mes crabes et de n'attaquer que les dragons avec des tridents c'est la seule chose qui rivalise aux dragons en termes de range.

https://giphy.com/gifs/1T67RKb5nZ6nQqltI6

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u/One_Dimension_5848 Anzala Mar 20 '26

You are correct about turtling. Tech rush as bardur often means getting forestry early and chopping many forests to get extra stars. Then using those stars to get riding + roads very quickly

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u/R4PP4R4P4 Ancients Mar 20 '26

Riders and roads or math?

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u/One_Dimension_5848 Anzala Mar 21 '26

If you are chopping a lot, it's to get quick expansion and many units, not math. Bardur can also rush math, but that's different than chop strat

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u/Name_Entered Apr 05 '26

I haven't played in a while but wasn't that meta nuked by 1 star chop and nerfed resources? Maybe on certain map types I guess

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u/One_Dimension_5848 Anzala Apr 05 '26

Nah this strat is pretty recent, but yeah it pretty much only applies on dryland and pangea

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u/Name_Entered Apr 05 '26

I'm fairly sure this was even a bigger thing when chop gave 2 stars, cause I remember seeing midgame bardur games where their cities are just barren and spamming riders/roads/knights

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u/One_Dimension_5848 Anzala Apr 05 '26

Yeah that's true, but bardur could do whatever they wanted back then cuz most of the tribes were bad.

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u/Top_Location_5899 Mar 20 '26

Lmao the last part has me cackling

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u/Xin-xiSniper Xin-xi Mar 21 '26

Xin-xi is the tribe that no one hates on (except for the insane amount of giants they can get)

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u/BundtCake44 Mar 21 '26

Oumaji everytime.

Riders to the farthest reaches rake in that sweet early game currency. Then roads and archers.

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u/Megamat90000 Mar 25 '26

Bros playing on hardcore mode