curious
Clubman
posted 11-30-01 10:25 AM ET (US)
Hi, I am trying to gather some strategies against Cho rush in DM games. I have tried every combo including cents+heli, HHA+cats, HHA+cents, but they are often too damn slow to build sizable army aginst cho legion+tower combo.
Given 2 players' skills are same, choson player almost always seems to have edge against the other civ. They are just too easy to amass and too damn cheap to build. Only real success i had against a "good" cho was when the land was divided by shallows (cho hates water, hit archers can really rock in this map) or if I play cho myself. Tell me your success stories against cho before I turn into another cho exclusive player.
peter
HG Alumnus
posted 12-01-01 05:19 PM
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wedsaz:
try a few games with or against Mace to see how hard to convert their HAs and Cavs really are (if you use 2 priests per unit you'll be surprised to see how sooon they're converted. Tool age units seem to be harder to convert - don't waste time to try to convert Mace buildings though, it isn't worth while - even a band of villagers can destroy them faster)
AOE_Revolutionary
Clubman
posted 12-02-01 06:38 AM
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Whilst playing against choson, I usually have tonns of HHarchers backed up with 30 or 40 siege (cats). Because both the siege and HHAs are long range units, you dont get damage dealt by your cats. What I do is, I line up the HHA to attack the legions, then I back them up with the immense siege. Since cats have wide damage, all legions attacking will take damage, and if you can imagine 30 cats raining down those boulders around 10 to 15 legions die straight away. This means you lose only around 5 units or so if you carry out the attack successfully.
AOE_Revolutionary
Clubman
posted 12-07-01 02:23 PM
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Well I used to play a lot of DM games before. Most of the people were Choson users. They would send huge numbers of legions, but 20 or more cats usually took away 1 wave with minimum damage. The key is to make lots of seige as fast as possible. He will use towers, so siege also acts as a double.
AOE_Revolutionary
Clubman
posted 12-07-01 02:28 PM
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And ever wondered why so called "experts" complain about SIEGE. They usually put a message up like NO SIEGE, SIEGE ARE FOR ROOKS, now that is becuase good SIEGE can wipe out CHOSON army in no time.