I’ve been mostly playing Macedonians lately and playing against Golden Horde feels terrible. It basically seems like if the game gets out of feudal it’s over because their scaling is so good. At the same time, it’s hard to do much damage when they build improved towers. Anyone figure out a good strategy?
Well, the Macedonians and the Golden Horde have many things in common: They don’t really have many economic bonuses, and they depend on raiding the enemy to stay alive long enough to build a strong economy in the mid-game. Also, the Macedonian has also the drawback that their barrack cost a lot (200w).
Golden Horde Raids
You should consider that the Golden Horde will generally always spawn Khans and Heavy Cavalry in Feudal Age (II), so they gonna rush you in feudal, yes or yes. I’ve also seen them use a Dark Age (II) rush with early horsemen.
Countermeasures
So, to counter that, In Dark Age (I), always keep a scout near their base to see if they are building a stable or not, and have a tower near your gold ready for the 2nd Age (II), around 5:30 or 6:00.
Regarding landmarks
The Hippodrome in 1v1 is not very optimal, because in the 2nd Age it only produces horsemen, while the Golden Horde can already produce Keshiks and Torgut (Heavy Cavalry) that can destroy horsemen.
Fast Castle
However, Golden Horde troops will always take a long time to reach Age 3. You could try a Fast Castle (III) and attempt to defeat them with higher-quality Riddaris. Also, keep in mind that your Spearmen are of better quality and quite useful against cavalry.
Funny thing: you don’t have a strategy when they currently have a bug exploit that allows them to create 40 units every 50s if you don’t end the game before minute 10 or when they hit castle.
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Is there an actual bug? I thought they were just made in an oppressive way
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This is the first time I’ve heard of this bug. I’d better tell my clan so we can be careful in multiplayer.
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Yup Had this happen to me as well one game (and to rub salt in the wound the dude was also map hacking caught them red handed turning off free cam when watching them clicking near almost every sheep at the start of the game through the fog of war). It’s a bug where they assemble disassemble and reassemble the Military Gher things that spawn out the landmark as you age up, so when they go to create 2 units it spawns out 10 cause they disassembled and reassembled the stable gher 5 times. It is a bug that SHOULD NOT be exploited by anyone until the devs fix it and anyone caught abusing said bug after all the reports that have come out need to be banned.
Don’t let him get to Castle Age or they’ll run you over…
It’s been widespread for two days now. Multiple discussions about it on reddit and supposedly tutorials on how to do it on Bilibili.
According to one of the threads on Reddit a dev said they are aware of it.
If you search the bug report threads, someone actually reported this bug back in November. But surprisingly people haven’t exploited it yet. I submitted multiple tickets of games where players have utilized the exploit.
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Nice to know the Devs are aware of it, hopefully it wont take them 2 months this time Like what happened with the Rus gold exploit.
Edit: oh wait nvm I missed the part of your sentence where you said this bug has been around since November…