Suppiluliuma
AoEH Seraph
posted 06-20-09 06:06 PM
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9 / 51
I totally concur with Duan, there's no way slingers could be underrated, They are the main core of the armies of most tool rushers i've faced.
Now i don't get you Fruktfisk, you say that slingers are underrated but still in your opinion they are the most useful [military land] tool age unit. I think that's a bit contradictory.
jordanthejq12
Clubman
posted 06-21-09 02:08 PM
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12 / 51
That's your experiences. My experiences show a whole lot of axeman/slinger trushes, which come in handy quite often, especially if enemy is one of those good archer civs like Assyria or Minoa. And slingers can counter HHAs or CAs or compies, meaning they stick around even in late Bronze/early Iron, until the cents and Dumbos come out.
jordanthejq12
Clubman
posted 06-23-09 10:09 AM
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14 / 51
It's not totally understating their usefulness. Assyrian CA rush can be stopped cold by enough slingers. Though CAs, in my opinion, are somewhat overrated-they only have 5 attack FU, which does nothing to a cent. CAs only serve as priest stoppers, or if I don't have HAs or EAs. Frankly, unless my opponent is priest flooding, I'll use regular bowmen over CAs if I have to.
Suppiluliuma
AoEH Seraph
posted 06-23-09 11:21 AM
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16 / 51
Assyrian Chariot archers stopped by slingers? Must see that: CA have have better range, attack, speed and HPs than the slingers and as a bonus all Assyrian Archer units have an increased fire rate in the game. I think is unlikely that slingers would beat down an army of chariot archers. Indeed if one gets a nice army of Chariot archers in bronze, one's virtually unstoppable (at least in my experience).
Duan Xuan
Clubman
posted 06-26-09 10:59 AM
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20 / 51
It's getting kind of exasperating in here. Are we even talking about the same age and the same units?
How can you have STs, hoplites, priests and even HAs when you're just recovering from a failed Tool Rush, probably still struggling to get to Bronze, while I'm in your base with 20 CAs killing off or chasing away your helpless villagers? Even if I'm merciful enough to let you get to Bronze and make some STs and hoplites, I'll still have a far larger economy than you, and I can spam 50+ CAs nonstop from more than 10 ranges all over the map, while coming up with compies and STs myself and preparing to hit Iron.
Having 25 slingers (which is really a lot) left over doesn't mean you can slow down my CAs. I can outrun them any time and kill off your villagers. While you're preoccupied with my initial CA force, I am pumping out one CA in less than a minute from at least 4 ranges - faster than you can kill them.
BlitzkreigComin
Clubman
posted 06-26-09 09:39 PM
ET (US)
23 / 51
Interesting read. jordanthejq12 is the modern wedsaz.