wedsaz
Clubman
posted 05-18-00 07:35 PM
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Don't forget palmy has more expensive villies, which slows their start a bit. Some other civs are quite good too, due to early military bonuses or other economic bonuses. Roman, shang, yamato, persian, ...
Anyway, with palmy I'd opt for a scout rush and/or SS rush. They have the resources for it, but I'd prefer not having my expensive villies walk around instead of gathering. You can build the scouts at home and, due to their speed, still get them to the enemy early enough to do much damage.
Also let's not forget the have a nearly (who's gonna miss logistics and priest techs?) full bronze, so that's not a bad time to rush either.
RomanGladius
AOKH DM Champion
posted 05-18-00 09:31 PM
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Never ever ever try to tool rush with Palmyran. A critical element of the tool rush is TIME. Unfortunately Palmyran is the slowest civ to tool 99% of the time. (The other 1% of the time is when Palmy makes 3 vills and tools @ 5:30 with 5 villagers and a 4 sf spot. Not useful at all, unfortunately...). Also Palmyran villagers use food like mad. More food on villagers = less food on military.
the_true_Augustus
Clubman
posted 05-18-00 09:46 PM
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3 / 16
well Roman, do you even know how to play with Palmy? it sounds like you dont
wedsaz
Clubman
posted 05-19-00 04:57 PM
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7 / 16
G:
Palmyran doesn't rush because rushers are too chicken to seriously try them. They're at least as fast as yassy and roman, believe me.
wedsaz
Clubman
posted 05-19-00 08:32 PM
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9 / 16
Flawless Empire:
You should play vs humans, the computer AI sucks. Plop down a tower anywhere when you hit tool and like within 10 mins he has no villies left.
Hyper
Clubman
posted 05-19-00 08:44 PM
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10 / 16
Palymran Rush is an oxymoron