I was wondering, When I play team ranked most of the time I see my teammates only spam 2-3 unit kinds.
As the English am I far off or is this the correct units to spam to help my team?
1.Longbow
2.Crossbow
3.MAA
I play with a friend that always pick english.
Right now he’s only making longbows to support our crossbow+ spear in Castle age and rams/trebuchet to push
We are Platinum and Gold players, so keep in mind that we are talking about low league.
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When this happens, I usually go directly to the English city that has the King’s army and kill as many villagers as possible with the cavalry. It was a tactic created by Beasty, it’s so obvious, it can work sometimes, but players of cavalry civs will probably eat the English alive. The best unit you’re going to make depends on what the opponent is doing, the moment, etc… you need to think about whether it’s worth fighting for your friends because in the medium and long game their economy will develop more and yours not so much. The enemy can choose you to rush, so you need to see what’s more worthwhile. English is a civilization for those who are just starting to play, it’s simply boring.
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As english you supply trebs and more trebs and sometimes rebauldequins. Until you can build the ranger ball to its critical mass.
Longbows are useful early, garbage when knights show up, then usefull again later with netowork of citadels since they can counter key lategame units (handcannons, ranged cav). Dont hyperfocus the civ gimmick - the common units are mostly better than the unique ones.
Crossbows are good no matter what. That said, english have meh units overall with the network of castles/citadels being some kind of crack. Leave xbows to a civ with really good ones - french, or delhi for instance.
Maa with extra armor are very good, but fall off too soon. Also, most things you want an maa for early, horsemen are better for. Anything you want maa for later, knights are better for. Viable maa spam civs include abbasid, delhi, hre. As english, as soon as you enable the speed aura, your knights are way better for cost and pop than your maa.
TLDR - English gives me lots of trebs, static defense and eventually rangers.
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Thanks gang! Ill take the advice given!
Also dumb question, Why are the French CB better than the English?
Maxed stats are 10 melee armor, same attack rate as archers (1.6) , and a 25% discount on a non-heavy unit. Has an additional ability to raise ranged armor to 8 and gain +1 extra range. Smashes anything that can kite them.
Also you can go Royal Institute to get the melee armor and attack speed tech in age 3 for a discount to ramp up sooner. These things are what people think janissaries are.