It seems everyone is tool rushing now.
Personally I find that a kind of 'cheap'
stradegy as it reduces the game to being
decided in the first 15 minutes. The only
good way to counter a tool rush is to tool
rush yourself. This means that to win a game
lately you need to ALWAYS tool rush because
if you are planning to bronze rush you get
caught with your pants down. It seems
impossible to wall in quick enough (if
walling is even an option with your layout)
if someone is going to tool rush you by
tooling with 16 villagers.
Is there a way to handle half a dozen
axemen, slingers or bowmen or 3-4 scouts in
your town center WITHOUT doing something
smiliar to the enemy? I can handle a scout
or maybe a couple bowmen harassing me while
trying to bronze but if the enemy commits
to a tool rush and I didn't, game over.
Does anyone else see this as ruining the
fun of AoE/RoR? The bronze rush has lots of
interesting variants (boats/infantry/archers/
cavalry) with the possibility of going Iron
if the game ends up being pretty close. Now,
Iron is impossible and bronze only during
cleanup. Any ideas/suggestions???
Personally I find that a kind of 'cheap'
stradegy as it reduces the game to being
decided in the first 15 minutes. The only
good way to counter a tool rush is to tool
rush yourself. This means that to win a game
lately you need to ALWAYS tool rush because
if you are planning to bronze rush you get
caught with your pants down. It seems
impossible to wall in quick enough (if
walling is even an option with your layout)
if someone is going to tool rush you by
tooling with 16 villagers.
Is there a way to handle half a dozen
axemen, slingers or bowmen or 3-4 scouts in
your town center WITHOUT doing something
smiliar to the enemy? I can handle a scout
or maybe a couple bowmen harassing me while
trying to bronze but if the enemy commits
to a tool rush and I didn't, game over.
Does anyone else see this as ruining the
fun of AoE/RoR? The bronze rush has lots of
interesting variants (boats/infantry/archers/
cavalry) with the possibility of going Iron
if the game ends up being pretty close. Now,
Iron is impossible and bronze only during
cleanup. Any ideas/suggestions???
Thanks,
PendragonWRB