Not a top one but on the map that according to you doesn’t require skill they have pretty good boom as they have 3 tcs up faster and thus more vils than generic civ (more food on farms is also nice bit secondary to tc bonus).
They are also the only civilization in the game that can send all of their villagers back once their first tower is built… (I can be facetious. Of course wallers do matter)
For pure booming on Arena:
- Khmer
- Cumans
- Indians
- Vikings
- Burgundians
- Poles
- Teutons
as far as I experienced these civs.
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Surely depends on the map, e.g. on open maps I’d place Slavs above Poles but not on closed ones like Arena.
Khmer true but why Britons? Does the early shepherding bonus have such an impact?
It’s more the wood discount on TC I guess. Save you 275 woods.
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you can’t do 4 TC boom right away there aren’t enough resources in terms of wood and food to maintain constant vill and farm production.
it’s approximately a Lithuanians bonus in terms of saved villager time, you can retask those guys to Wood earlier so you can seed farms earlier… Basically you can get a FC as good as Lithuanians but you also get a 3 TC boom right away that is very smooth since you can drop farms (might have to buy 100-200f at market for first farms).
Idk if Britons are best in terms of booming, but in terms of booming they feel really nice, it’s nice to drop 3 TC right away, and be able to afford Bow Saw and maybe even a Monastery.
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Dude it’s impossible to have a normal discussion with you isn’t it 11 Irrespective of the fact that I was speaking about 3 tc boom it doesn’t even matter which approach you take. The fact is you get more vils and faster boom bc you have your tcs up earlier.
If you do a standard 3 TC boom, as Sicilians you are basically playing without an eco bonus. If you consider the faster building speed an actual bonus, then Spanish should be a broken boom civ too according to you, in reality the Sicilians faster TC building bonus accounts for a minor boost and isn’t comparable with what other booming civs can do.
Like imagine Spanish, the resources saved on building TCs in Castle age and ALL buildings built faster before that. Each house is like 3 extra wood you get in terms of saved villager time, a Blacksmith is something monstrous like 10w probably.
Judging from the leak, all 4 Indian civs will have huge booming potential.
Is it confirmed it’s 4 Indian civs? I also hope the DLC will drop in a reasonable amount of time
As you don’t seem to get the point: Spanish built tc 30 percent faster, sicilians 100%. It’s not about the res saves but the extra vils. Sicilians get like 5 vil advantage because of that. This plus extra food on farms gives them a pretty good boom.
The Sicilians also have a very smooth feel to their play, though their farms are out of rhythm. Having B level siege is quite the luxury for dealing with any number of defensive scenarios. The reduced wood spending from the farms plays into this. The lack of Bombard Cannons is quite acceptable and would not relate to their booming. They also have a good lineup for defending their booms, especially when mixed with that bonus that reduces bonus damage.
For arena, it shd be Khmer/poles/indians/teutons/cumans
Surprised so many ppl pick Burgundians. U guys could check resource collected around 23min to 26min (before any battle/imperial)
Burgundians maybe very good after hand carts but it’s quite late
Persians booming advantage is relatively late as the villager number advantage start getting obvious at around 80pop. IMO they have better eco than franks in arena but sure they aren’t among the top until like 30mins
What?? Aztecs Mayans vikings are civs that have great eco when fighting feudal/castle age. But they ARE NOT specialists in booming. Vikings carry 20 units of res with early handcart could backfire in early castle age
Poles, overall as much food as slaves and getting it earlier which is like for Khmer a massive bonus.
Extra gold from just stone mining making Villa much more effective and giving more total gold.
IF you ask me folwakrs need a rework Much Less instant food and instead 10 garrison space
Booming is not just about early Castle age. I agree that early handcard CAN backfire.
Aztecs +3 carry capacity is huge for farming. Mayans, well… you might have a point there.
Aztecs is an alright civ for booming but nothing more. The +3 creates a small advantage in Feudal, allowing you to hit Castle age a bit sooner and to do the signature Aztec all in. It gives you a few extra resources but if you plan on large scale booming, the +3 is negligible and you are basically playing a civ with no eco bonus.
outside of faster building TC and extra stone they have nothing to help booming since their wood eco bonus is quite weak and helps very little so they are not a booming civ imho. faster TC may save you time to spend into villagers, but you then need food eco immediately to boot and you are still probably behind a simple persian boomer who has extra villagers from earlier ages
not terrible at booming eh, just not in the top imho
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