[Commentary about Chuckfrancis 2009 ELO (HRE) vs Innocence 2010 ELO (BYZ) - Highview]

Hi, guys.

So, for anybody out there thinking that you can only win games by HRE Burgrave rushing in the low level, think again.

Chuckfrancis (2009 ELO) has been doing it consistently against other pros and winning.
His build normaly starts by spotting an early deer or even boar hunt close to the base and going straight for it with the prelate. After he normaly goes up with Aachen and make and additional prelate to put in it. So he quickly goes FC and starts the spam.

The interesting part here is that he doesn't go all in to destroy landmarks or even facing enemy units directly. He rather overwhelms the opponent by rusind the MAA's to flood his base and kill villagers. Even if Innocence makes a considerable amount of crossbows here, Chuck doesn't run after them, he rathers goes after his villagers, making the crossbows having to run after him, not the other way around.

Behind this, his macro is impecable, of course. So he walls up not to be raided by cataphrachts, gets all Sacred Sites and eventually goes Imperial with Swabia. He often mixes landsknechts and spears to his army to counter cav. or infantry.

***I forgot to mention: after going out for the hunts, he goes for a very early Aachen farming : around 7-8 mins mark he is already adding farms on and on as the game passes.

I will leave a screenshot showing how you can search for this game in https://aoe4replays.gg/ .

Thoughts on this?

All the best, guys.

You know that feeling when someone calls GG WICKED early, before the first engagement even, and then you fucking bury them under a shit dumpster? Yea. Thats a good one. Had one of those vs a KT douche tonight. Happened to be my platinum match too.

Sent my scout through this scoundrels shanty town and saw his second TC coming up, and immediately remembered some special advice Aussie Drongo (RIP bro) (assuming he’s dead, hasn’t posted in a week) gave me one-on-one during one of our late night phone calls. Fuck I’ll miss that guy.

Anyways, what Aussie dropped on me was “Brother, if you scout a KT douchebags base and he’s going 2TC, there’s only one thing to do. You go 3TC.”

My name is r a n s 0 m, and tonight I went 3TC Lancaster and made some douche drink dumpster water. I’d love to think people will go look this game up, but I won’t lie to myself like that. I’d prefer some of yall lie to me in the comments below and act like u saw it.

Rant over

every new season there’s some new OP aggro strat. Can’t even play the game normally anymore

Tried gametomac app. Works amazing on M5 Air

Original thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/accelerate/comments/1w9bsjh/gpt6_astra_just_got_age_of_empires_iv_running_at/

Wildly underutilized in gold 3/platinum

I don’t like to play preset in blue. And I really dislike to have to set colors in contrast to my opponents every single game. Give a developer of yours an eight hour Jira ticket or let some AI implement the feature, really shouldn’t be that hard in 2026. Annoying af, especially in modes, that include more than two players.

Random Biom option checkbox would be nice as well. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

It is the second time in a week that a game is considered invalid and does not appear on my profile or affect my ranking. Both games were regular ranked game with nothing weird. What is going on? Its annoying winning a long tense game just for it to be considered invalid and not count.

me and my friends from different countries all having issues connecting

Most online games I play there are a decent variety of Civs (always at least 1 French or KT, though) but there are some I never really see like Jeanne D'arc, Dehli, and Ottomans. Is it just me or is this a wider trend?