How do you get better at ranked?

The deer and wolves got stuck behind so I deleted it so the wolves can get out and I put one villager behind while i built an armory so it can kill and harvest the deer from behind

Although I did follow your advice yet again and did extremly
Record Game2026-02-26.17-01-51 megalopolis Susanoo-Demeter.mythrec (5.6 MB)

I have had the worst luck today

This match right here royally pissed me off to the point where I broke my monitar stand. I rarely get gamer rage, but I was utterly fuming because I have no idea how he was even winning. He stood in on place the entire time and didn’t bother expanding like at all. He had literally 1-2 production buildings max near his starting town center. Somehow he had higher ELO even though I had complety taken over the map and had a significantly higher amount of production buildings then he did. Yet despite army, after army, after army, he wiped each one completly and I could not make a single dent, and right until the end he sat there the entire time, didn’t bother once to attack me. I have never been more frustrated with a match the entire time I’ve played this game
Record Game2026-02-26.22-42-03 ghost_lake Susanoo-Loki.mythrec (8.7 MB)

Much better base layout. Its been improving nicely.

Missed a wall at the right of your gold mine to cover all your important resources.

Dont trap the tower with buildings in both sides since you dont get to use it to garrison that way to keep your vills safe.

You forget sometimes to make dropsites.in the image for the chiken the vills are traveling all the way to the farms. And you forgot for some time for the woodline as well.

You transition to farms too quickly. If you arent under any preassure, you can tke the hunt on the outside. You had good map scouting early on so you found hunt and second gold.

When fighting with you 2 god powers in classic age you want to drop the swampland not in the middle of it all. But more on the retreat path of your opponent. Also the sword you should use it faster. Dont aim it at where the army is now but towards where its moving. Your goal is to keep the units in the swamp the longer you can.

Here he lost a couple to the intiial spawn but had a quick way out. and the sword was used after he got out.

He is being quite greedy for no reason here. It takes time getting used to. But you cant forfeit scouting afterarchaic age. It should be a constat thing. Finding out about this and killing half of this or forcing him too turn them into bersekt would have put you miles ahead.

Dont iddle in the middle of the map. If you are gonna take a break from fighting, retreat, and use the horses to look around. See what you can find.

Think of miko as vills for favor. Theres little reason to be 10+ min iddle with them instead of gathering favor.

Look at your resources. You are floating a lot of wood, are housed and you could be on your way to heroic age had you have an armory or market.

Same dynamic as before, you are opening the fight with your god power. This type of god powers that affect a zone you want to use when the fight is already happening since it makes it harder to get out off. You are palcing it in the middle of you, so half the god powers area does nothing since he wont go towards you during it.

Since you remain house for long periods of time you stop making units and villagers, so you fall behind both in eco and in army. Even if you have more production buildings it doesnt matter since you cant make anything from them while you ahve no pop-

You reach points where you have 4-5 K wood. You should try to notice sooner and adjust your eco, with that many wood you could be in mythic age by now and would have def won that fight with either the sword or typhoon godpowers.

Same dynamic as before, his vills are wide open and you are not taking advantage of that. His army is also slow, mainly being trolls, godi and throwing axemen. all bad units to chase calv with.

When you take this fight you loose and have calv units remaining retreat, group up and while you make army try to move around with calv, you never know what you could find.

You also keep enggin into an army of trolls with little heroes and their special cleans your army.

Be smart about where you fight, theres no reason to fight on the upper left full of towers and fortress instead of downwards that its just a town center.

Theres no reason to ram head on to his most fortified position.

Good godpower usage. However as you can see you have only 4 heroes that can target the dragon and they dont even target it fast, they first clear all the other units and then move into the draon, which costs you all your archers. You didnt make bushi (hero archer) through most of the game and it costed you

You took a great fight later on, cleaning all his army and once again you stand iddle. It can be scary to push but you gotta remeber that time you are taking to fully replenish all your units he is also.

As a final pointer try to micro your units better, the fights seem to showcase you send the forward and they just attack whats closest to them. He had a wall of firegiants cleaning you units flat and you rarely got to them since you first targeted all his front units.

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Someone was not happy today





Record Game2026-03-06.00-58-16 anatolia Demeter-Tsukuyomi.mythrec (3.8 MB)
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Record Game2026-03-05.23-35-45 midgard Demeter-Amaterasu.mythrec (3.9 MB)

i would advise you to dont play with demeter is very hard to use it