Most civs spam maa right? What’s a counter to them??
In age3 → crossbows, knights, veteran musofadi.
In age2 only early knights and musofadi.
Gazi raiders and sofas aren’t too bad against maa either, as Gazis have mild bonus damage against heavy units and sofas have mild bonus vs infantry.
Maybe I’m wrong, but my experience is that ZXL can get waaaaay too many zhuges out early for you to get to castle early…
They age up faster than anyone, and then have a stream of zhuges flowing into your base in before you’ve had time to scratch your… Head.
The only way I’ve found so far is to counter their aggression with more aggression.
But I played a game last night. Raided the hell out of ZXL. Punished them bad, and they still went castle easily and overran me. I’m sure I made errors somewhere, but I was damaging their eco so bad that I thought I had them…
Anyway. If someone has other strats I can try, I’d love to hear them.
I still think they’re too OP.