All 1 vs 1 games are ruined because the Chinese players only play the Tower Rush + Earth Wall (troll strategy), which consists of building a Chinese tower near the rival town center and immediately using the Earth Wall power to stop the rival’s economy, which causes a huge imbalance in the game that only favors the Chinese pantheon.
lol this took some time to become a problem.
just wait till china players learn they can have a barracks and a tower AIO and they can proxy with that.
Not sure if limiting this god power to TCs or just generally buildings that are on Secret Ground would limit the offensive capabilities of this god power enough.
They should limit the GP to TC, VC and fortress just like hades, or like suggested here, only work on sacred ground. Imagine placing sentinals on a wall segment inside your oponent’s base…
And wall segment should take time to become towers. With some indocation as well, and maybe treat it as a building under constuction so it takes more damage just like a tower under construction would.
This just save a lot of time in building towers this way, which is an oversight.
Another option is to scrap the tower on walls altogether and make it just reduce cost for towers over barrecks.
I finally have a strategy I like and to counter a bit the early pressure Norse give. And in my low ranked matches opponents don’t give up immediately cause of this and still fight till the last unit.
As soon as I see a barracks next to my TC I click resign. Which isn’t long, usually the quafu shows up as soon as I hit age 2. This is exactly why I quit AOE2, playing vs tower rushes and castle drops isn’t what I consider a fun way to spend my time.
This is still more manageable than the wall towers, but I get you.
I think making their start harder so an all in with a kuafu which is like 4 of their normal villigers will be less desirable. Like less resources or more expansive dropoffs or more expansive vills (45 food).
But more than anything nerf Nuwa’s hero kuafo, make it much more expansive (200 food at least, so it delays classical). Corrently for 3 more favor you get a 50 res cheaper, much stronger kuafu that gather even faster, can fight myth and respawns on death for free.
Overall the Chinese are nice, they just not to soften those rough edges. Which are to be expected when you intreduce new mechanics which is a must for a new civ.
What if you go atlantean. Stay longer in archaic age to make more citizens. And then go up with Hyperion for heroic renewal. And make your villagers heroes so they can heal.
Or try Odin with his healing human units.
Or Loki and make Hersir in archaic age.
With Atlantean you can also build towncenters earlier.
If you have Atlantean and reach heroic age with Theia, Prophetic Sight gives Oracle Heroes the ability to see through stealth. And he allows you to see the UI of your opponent.
Probably Hyperion’s Sons of the Sun plus Theias Prophetic Sight can aid your gameplay well with automatic oracle heroes.
Another idea is Greek and make toxotes and take Apollo in heroic with Sun Ray or Oracle with UI insight.
Or a unit with a bonus against villagers, but i would have to look that up which have that.
With Egyptians you want Isis. And then empower your monument with the pharaoh and secondary pharaoh. That will increase the godpowerblock range from 20 to 40 range. Thus you can use taht on two monuments.
The Chinese god powers are very broken and should be nerfed.
You are a truly annoying fella. Are you the guy who spammed forums a couple months ago?
(sorry if this came around rude but nearly every post is just negative and criticising)
Do you think the game doesn’t deserve criticism? Do you think the game is all good? Do you think it’s fair that the Chinese can halt the economy of any other civilization as soon as the game starts? Is it fair to you that the Atlanteans can turn all their military units and villagers into heroes to have a much more effective economy than the rest? The game is poorly balanced, many things are too broken. Why do you think many players are leaving the game? I’m just mentioning the things that seem unfair to me in the game and that deserve to be balanced or replaced. I play with all the pantheons and I don’t like the injustices in the game.