It seems my posts about Japan being OP don’t fly anymore, but maybe that’s because I’m going into a bad matchup? I don’t understand what I’m supposed to do beyond early aggression and a potential 2nd TC vs Japan. Age 3 doesn’t do it as Japan has a much better powerspike.
(Edit, even buildings just get annihilated by Samu and very decent siege with anti unit bonus for some reason)
Japan gets free upgrades anyways, so a 2nd TC isn’t needed for them in most cases. Cav can run in with the highest speed in the game with untouchable Kitsune.
Greek can somewhat fight MU with MU but considering that Japan has extremely strong heal and extremely strong heroes which are also extremely strong vs anything I’m at a loss.
Fighting against Japan is an insane uphill battle. The Japanese player decides where he wants to fight, has a “Just press W “ army that can just go in and tank and heal and get out and heal yet again.
Japan has the best unit variety in the game and frankly I have no clue how I am supposed to play vs them.
I get the early idle time, I get the early vill kills and can even get a temple down without a unit loss, but the archers and cav combo early game can’t be beat with healing in the base.
I’ll take your “yeah but you should do this and that” but genuinely feel that Japan is still insanely broken and I have no clue why everybody is trying to defend them these days. And then you add Tsuk on top of that insane cake of brokeness and it’s a damn bitter cake.