RomanGladius
AOKH DM Champion
posted 05-16-01 04:06 PM
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I think on medium and smaller it's persia's game to lose. But on the larger maps Hittite can make a ton of HHA and that will own persia...
wedsaz
Clubman
posted 05-16-01 07:42 PM
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RomanGladius:
can't persia counter with tons of EAs?
Shiny
Clubman
posted 05-16-01 08:58 PM
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then again hittites EA's are better...
RomanGladius
AOKH DM Champion
posted 05-18-01 11:02 PM
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wedsaz:
No, making EA in DM with Persia is pure stupidity. It's a good way to burn through food even faster. Besides, the advantage of EA is its ability to take hits, not dish it out. EA take forever to kill HHA. Better to use cats. Besides, Hittites already have the best EA counter in the game (cats) so...
wedsaz
Clubman
posted 05-19-01 00:40 AM
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RomanGladius:
I think EAs would counter hittite HHAs well enough, they beat back equal numbers of mino/greek helos with few casualties...
Hittite brings in cats? EAs of any other civ would be in trouble, but not with persian. You can easily run your EAs away and bring in your AEs, perhaps the most effective massed-cats counter in the game (high hps, good speed, trample damage).
Worried about food? Come on eles are tough, and you *do* build an econ don't you?
wedsaz
Clubman
posted 05-19-01 03:45 AM
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MAN_OF_WAR_1:
Normal AEs, definitely. I was talking about persian AEs, with 1.4 speed instead of 0.9 so the cat stones don't hit them even with ballistics. Sort of like scythes with 600hp apiece, and the extra cost is mostly food which is easily renewable if you have a massive farming operation, unlike cats and HHAs which burn through gold like aqua regia.
Towers are no problem for AEs, either. Did you know AEs take walls and towers down about twice as fast as an hcat does?
The only thing about AEs vs HHAs is that they could possibly skirmish (run shoot run shoot), they still have 2.25 speed to your 1.4 after all. That's where EAs come in, their range makes it harder to skirmish against them.
Yeah martyrdom priests rock vs cats. Oh btw persia has fully upgradeable priests, not as long-ranged as egypt's but still good enough to martyr a cat in maybe 2nd or 3rd row.