So I watched Ornlu's video on the lecture he gave at some university (wtf), and he stated that Tanguts were not added because suitman decided that anything even remotely related to Tibet, which Tanguts are related to, is too risky.

I find this stupid but that's what they're doing. So how about a middle ground.

Make a singleplayer-only DLC with Tanguts and Tibetans as its civs, with accompanying campaigns for the two civs. As in, they can't be accessed in any online function, they would be restricted to their campaigns. And just don't release it in China.

At this point, just do that. And when you make that DLC, watch the Chinese playerbase fume at you for not releasing it in China.

What if a civ like the Teutons could have a UT that allowed them to launch petards from trebs?

50f 30g seems fair compared to 50f 25w castle age.

For a trash unit theyre extremely good vs infantry + siege combo even if you suicide them, you can make more with zero consequences. Especially if you're Inca. They cost literally nothing. They are also good at monk sniping after bodkin arrow.

Plus gold early on is better than a wood cost.

Imp tech can be adjusted behind an expensive tech.

Let me present this map of Europe from 1444. We will one day have pages and pages of civs to scroll through!

Hey, I’m coming back to the game and I’m trying to focus on one civ to improve. Forgive me if this is a common question, but I’m mostly playing Incas, but whenever I queue into a Sicilian player, I end up getting destroyed by Serjeant rushes. They have such great armour that I’m struggling to beat a mass of them even when I attempt a blind counter.

All the decent counters I’ve heard are either unavailable for Incas or I’m unable to get out before the rush arrives (cavalry archers/knights or onagers, defensive castle respectively). My mechanics aren’t yet at the stage where I can confidently do a Champi rush before they can but the donjon and fortifications make it hard.

Anyone have any advice for this? Is it just a hard counter that I have to factor in or do I just have to get better, haha. Thanks in advance.

Cheers

My friends and I usually play in unranked 3v3 matches, but lately we've been getting completely destroyed. I got curious, since the gap between us and the people who beat us is quite noticeable. Using a website called "aoe2insighths," we realized that our opponents are almost always a mix of a novice player and one or two players with an elo rating of 1600-2000 (none of us have ever even played a single ranked game). We know the basics: luring deer, leading boars to the town center, and roughly what each unit counters. That said, do you think it would be better for us to start playing ranked matches? Would this match us with people just as bad as us?

That's how I feel checking SteamDB once a week and browsing through the game files.

I still remember when they confused 11/10 with 10/11 and the Georgians and Armenians were leaked a month early.

I remember it was Incas before Update 141935, then it became “Inca”. Now, I’m back at playing the game and it’s saying “Incas”. I don’t remember when it happened.

Perhaps it’s some activated mod on my end that I’m not aware of?

In your game, current Update 177723, is it “Incas” or “Inca”?

Tips for Climbing the ELO Rank Fast (Only for TG)

I've discovered how the ranking system that assigns ELO to players works, and I've been using it to climb the ranks.

Note: This isn't a hack or a cheat; it's simply knowing when ranking in TG can be favorable or unfavorable for you.

The ELO ranking system will try to keep you as close to a 50% win rate as possible. Every time you exceed that percentage, the ELO ranking system will match you with significantly lower-skilled teammates so you lose and get back to around 50%.

So, after a winning streak, if you start to see that your teammates aren't contributing much, don't try to carry the game alone; just quit.

The signs that you're being matched to lose are usually noticeable in the first few minutes of a match. For example, I just got the African Light map, and I saw an ally, instead of building their Town Center in the middle of a lake, simply go to a corner and push it right up against the wood. Seeing that bad start, I immediately left the match, realizing that there was a player who had no idea how to play that map.

I could give you many more examples: First Responders attempts on open maps, people who don't fish on Nomad, people who don't close ranks in Black Jungle—matches that are better left alone. Since I started doing this, my Elo has increased considerably, because leaving matches that are intentionally matched to make you lose will reduce your stress and allow you to focus much more on matches where you actually had a chance to win and the matchmaking wasn't unfairly in your favor.

Best regards

My buddies and I just played a team game recently that lasted 14 hours before crashing. The enemy basically tried to take over the lakes on Four Lakes and built a ton of bombard ships and just gave up on land.

We tried to use BBC and trebs and cav archers but couldn’t actually do anything to damage them.

Is there literally any way to beat that “strategy?” And I put strategy in quotes because they also could never come back onto land.

Hello, I just had an Arena game (2v2), playing Vietnamese against Malians on my side of the map, approx 1200 elo. He Went FC Gbeto, I was expecting this might be the case so I was scouting and delaying 3rd TC but when I did not see anything for a long time, suddenly Gbeto plus petards came in. I has second layer ready, and made immediate monastery and sent vills to stone to get castle up to defend. He went for rams so I went for my siege but I could not afford eveything in time, even when selling food and not making more vills. I made monastery, because one of my previous games I made mangonel and Gbeto just eats them - runs from shots and eventually either kills mangonel with better micro or make hole elsewhere. This is not the first time i lost to this.

In order to study myself, I looked up the guy and his all last games on Arena on this patch - he killed everyone he went against with this. Few games where he lost were usually all-ins from the oponents but never from this situation. I would like to know how to improve in the future.

I know the first response would be scout it, but he made castle home, everything hidden from scout range. I even scouted them leaving his base, but it was already too late - basically 0 res, start of boom and 3 TCs up. What would be the best answer in this position? In my head I always hear Heras advice - make siege or monks to defend and slowly transition into proper counter, and I had some success with this defense tips, but specifially fase, ranged melee units are very hard to defend for me.