Tower rushing Is my favorite early game open map stray. Not sure why I just find it more fun. Anyways I normally do it with Tetons going all in with 9 or 10 villagers.
Problem is Teutons castle age and early imp kinda sucks on open maps, and people start predicting that Teutons will tower rush on Arabia. What are y’all’s recommendations for other early game tower rushing civs that have more options? I’m 700 elo ish currently but I want to climb and people are probably going to stop dying feudal to my all in at higher elos so I need civs with better follow up. I have all the DLCs so that’s not an issue. Poles seem like the obvious answer but I’m curious if there’s other civs I have not considered that would also be good.
For tower rushing, Teutons/Poles/Koreans/Incas/Sicilians come to mind.
Teutons: high garnison capacity, free murder holes, good farming even with poor eco
Poles: stone/gold dual gathering, villagers hp regenerstion, good econony if untouched
Koreans: faster stone gathering, free tower upgrades
Incas: cheaper towers
Sicilians: dongeons instead of towers: sergeants build dongeons. Dongeons and sergeant auto-upgrade in castle age.
Cumans: towers do not scale but double TC behind tower rushing is very strong if you can pull it off. The reason is that feudal TC is absurdly strong if let undisturbed, while the tower rush forces most opponents to stay at home. Cuman’s problem is that they are underwhelming when not using the feudal TC.
In addition, civs with good dark age might be good unconventional civs for tower rushing. Japanese/Khmer/Malays might be worth a shot.
I don’t think Teutons are that that bad below 1400 Elo. It also depends on your late game playstyle. Even if Teutons do not tower rush, they can scout rush and archer rush, then they still have a scaling knights/skirms combo, scaling skirms/pikes combo, in castle serviceable xbows behind a good eco, and in imperial age good tools for trebwars.
But most other civs I mentioned above have arbalesters if you like. Poles/Koreans should have a good late game if they get to it.
Thanks for the in-depth answer. Never thought about Cubans and using the tower rush as a distraction for the second tc, I wonder if you could tower rush with the second tc. like a feudal age douche. Khmer also sound interesting since the fills I send forward could keep farming when they aren’t garrisoned in or building towers.