ok then how abt chakram + frontier ele archers
https://www.ageofstatistics.com/statistics/individual?period=p03_v03&filter=rm_solo_closed_pro
it looks like the strong inf/siege civs generally do quite well against gurjaras. So I think itâs indeed the main counter. Only teutons is a bit weird to me. Imo Teutons should be one of the best against gurjaras.
BBC without SE. They are OK, but many of the top arena civs have fu bbc
Andimo neither kshatryas nor frontier guards are worth it on arena if there is only one big battle that decides everything (which is usually the case in this kind of boom into military games). Kshatryas must be researched too early and frontier guards is too expensive.
hmm thinking about dlc India being religious land there is no monk civ. how abt giving monk bonus to dravidians or bengalis would that balance it?
SE-less bbc should still deal with the counters to your UU (or your HCs) just fine though
Bengalis are almost a monk civ tbh
No civ is monk civ that lacks heresyâŠ
(laugh in burmese)
How is that? they have no bonus for that
Yeah but almost full monk tree means if theres a monk civ they prob should be them
Canât believe this coming from someone who wants to make Dravidians a twin sibling of Malay.
Is their eco too strong? Maybe after Kshatriya as you still have 1 and a quarter extra farmer in your mill and there are plenty of food as left over. Since you can push all the deer in Arena, the loss of 450 food from sheep paying back slowly doesnât hurt at all. And Chakram is an awesome unit in Arena. Only heavy cavalry is good against them but the existence of ultra super camel really makes opponent think twice b4 going to cav. Also in arena you wonât want to play cav in the first place I guess.
It is a good bonus. Strong with time but never OP.
Iâll be careful to buff them. Elite upgrade cost can be reduced by 200 food. But base stats of unit need a tweak at best, not just direct buff. 15 seconds CD time to regenerate full HP is insane.
Agree. Siege Elephant is OP though. Cheaper, faster to train and better than SR. So maybe limit the bonus to camel only will be a good change.
I know someone who will love to see a monk bonus for Bengalis. (Not me)
If you get SO i guess so. But imo SO isnât worth it most of the time if opponent has bbc. And you donât need even large amount of shakram thrower to one shoot siege weapons. Halb SO monk should be good though (but not really easy to micro).
Well against shakrams, yes, good point. But serjeants are countered very well by hc (itâs maybe the single weakest gold infantry vs hc) and I figure camel hc wins vs cavalier serjeant (just a guess didnât play that one before).
No. Not all. Elephant archers die hard to SO and you donât have even parthian tactics so your elephant archers arenât even that good vs halbs. Bengali are way better for that. You donât have bbc but you have monks which gurjaras canât use here. Shakram thrower is better here as you can at least run from SO shots.
Teutons is THE counter vs gurjaras on arena. But teutons never shine in these stats because they are more difficult to play than other arens civs so thatâs not really astonishing imo.
I disagree with both of these. Thatâs maybe true for the clown and vintage arena versions of last tourney but in regular arena you can get pretty often to exoensive comps and UTs (and there are more expensive ones than gurjaras).
I know someone too (not me ofc).
As I said, Iâm open to other ideas for making that terrible civ usable.
I made an adapted buildorder for the new gurjaras. It is intended to be an archer buildorder.
(For the new gurjara mill mechanic available in the current PUP)
The Idea is to make 2-3 mills instead of 1. This way you can use your scout to scout your opponent cause you can mill your deer. You also get faster Food income. It is fast enough that you should be able to basically sustain your TC productio with 3-4 vills on berries. Because of the extra mills you build in Dark age, you get up 2 vills later though. Idk which build is better, but I think both have their pros and cons. I personally prefer the new one cause it allows you to scout the opponent.
Villager | Action | Further actions | |
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1-3 | Houses | Berries + make Mill | |
4 | Berries under TC | ||
5 | Berries under TC | ||
6 | Lure Boar | Finish Berry Bush, then 5 on boar under TC | |
7 | Straggler | ||
8 | Straggler | ||
9 | Straggler | ||
10 | House => Lumber Camp | ||
11 | Lumber Camp | Send Straggler Vills to Lumber Camp | |
12 | 2nd Boar | ||
13 | Straggler | ||
14 | Straggler | ||
15 | House = > Mill Deer | Send Straggler Vills to build Mill on Deer | |
16 | Mill Deer | Que the mill builders to the deers so they shoot 1by1 | |
17 | Berries | Send 3(-4) sheep from your first mill to 2nd | |
18 | Berries | Que 4 of your Boar vills to 2nd Lumber Camp, 2 to Berries under TC | |
19 | Waller | ||
20 | Waller | ||
21 | Waller | (Build 3rd Mill with one of your Foragers on the other side of your Berries) | |
Loom | (if necessary drop food from your hunters and foragers) | ||
up to Feudal | (Send 2 sheep from your first mill to the 3rd) |
Donât overestimate the extra Food income from the extra mills. Itâs 10 (2nd mill) and 6 (3rd mill) food per minute.
Tried this 3-4 times. Very tight build, especially around 2nd boar luring time. And a few times I was able to wall fully and do the eco approach but I guess you can only do a defensive archer into eco with this build.
Very vulnerable to any pre-mill drush or other early attacks. But could be a great build for TG and closed maps.
Oh btw, many times the boar pathing around the bush, far deer etc kinda messed up the build a lot.
I currently work on a different build that should be less tight and more âflexibleâ.
This one is about making the 2nd mill first and then the lumber camp. I will tell when itâs ready.
And thx for the feedback
Ok I have a build to go up to feudal, but I canât really explain how to distribute the vills from that on.
Cause you need a lot of wood income from there which you get from chopping stragglers - itâs experience to know when to take them off there and where to put them. The build is kinda âflexibleâ but you need a lot of experience to make it work.
To add some complexity to it, the hardest part is even the start cause to make that build work you need to learn a unique form of early scouting.
Scouting Explanation:
Cause you want to find your deer asap you âskipâ the first layer of scouting with your scour and go immediately to the second âlayerâ. This leaves an empty gap you have to scout with your sheep. Which is tricky cause of the multitasking. I tried to learn it by making a âdry testâ without caring about the TCs and vills, just using the scout and the sheep.
So itâs definetely a hard to master buildorder but if you get it, it should be kinda flexible, allowing you to go for whatever you want: Wall + Archers, Spear + Archers, Skirms, Scrush, Trush ⊠(only drush and MAA isnât possible)
Itâs again a 20 pop build.
Villager | Action | Further actions | |
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1-3 | Houses | Berries + make Mill | |
4 | TC Berries | ||
5 | TC Berries | ||
6 | Lure Boar | Directly 5 on boar under TC | |
7 | Straggler | ||
8 | Straggler | ||
9 | Straggler | ||
10 | House => Mill Deer | ||
11 | Straggler | Send 3 Straggler Vills to Deer Mill | |
12 | Straggler | Lure 2nd Boar, Send 3 Sheep to 2nd Mill | |
13 | Straggler | ||
14 | Straggler | ||
15 | Lumber Camp | Send the 4 Straggler Vills to Lumber Camp | |
16 | Straggler (?) | ||
17 | Straggler (?) | ||
18 | Straggler (?) | ||
19 | Straggler (?) | ||
Loom | Drop Food to get up | ||
Send your 5 vills under TC to 2nd Lumber Camp |
I canât guarantee you will find your deer in time, itâs probably kinda luck if you find it with either your sheep or your scout.
I figured out you can make this a bit easier if you queue your vills from the first boar to the berries and then lure the 2nd boar. If something like pathing makes it weird you still have a bit of food income from the berries.
I think the best âdefenseâ against that is just your scouting. If you see the opponent going for it you can switch to a counterdrush with more units. MAA or Scouts shouldnât be a problem cause of your fast uptime.
Sure but even if you scout, with this build I donât think u will have the resources to get your barracks up and have enough militia in time. And even then considering how far the deer spawn, the second mill would be quite vulnerable.
But this definitely is a great build for closed maps and maps like Ghost lake or Gold rush which is wallable.
you would probably need to make a âpre-lumbercampâ drush then yeah. Maybe I make an extra build for this cause it is probably kind of messi. But with the long walking time of the enemy drush it should be viable.
They potentially need to be pulled of to something else temporarily then yes. You need to track the enemy drush to see when itâs necessary.
Imo you should be ahead if you do a 4 militia drush to counter a 2-3 militia drush in the wider context of the game, so I think it is a viable strat even on the open maps if your scouting is on point.
Key is ofc to still get a competeitive uptime even if you had to move off your deer.
I tested it and it was a nightmare 11
I thik you just get loom, add some mini walls where it is possible and then go up maybe 1-2 vills later. But the earlier scouting is really neat against the drushes, so I donât think it is a problem. Especially the modern 2 militia drushes shouldnât be a problem to deal with the 4 vills on the deer.
BTW has anybody tested to make a surprise (premill) drush with gurjaras? Nobody would ever expect that. Yes you lose a lot of food income but itâs potentially worth it nevertheless cause nobody expects it.
Especially with the new bonus you could eat like 2-3 of your sheep even cause they would only provide minimal extra food income in the mill.
I also made an Arena Buildorder. Itâs 26 + 2 vills with 3 Mills. Itâs also for immediately dropping a Castle when hitting CA. Whilst going up to Castle you can make some scouts and the eco upgrades.
The Build is also very tight, you can expect a few seconds of TC Idle time. But you should end up with a perfect timing on your Berries to transition into Farm Eco (be aware to safe some wood for that).
Villager | Action | further Actions | |
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1-3 | Houses | Berries + make Mill | |
4 | TC Berries | ||
5 | TC Berries | ||
6 | TC Berries | Start Pushing 3 Deer, when you have 4 deer donât touch the 2nd TC Berries with this build | |
7 | Straggler | ||
8 | Straggler | ||
9 | Straggler | ||
10 | Straggler | Make 2nd Mill with Berry Vill | |
11 | Straggler | Make House with straggler Vill | |
12 | Straggler | Send 3 Sheep in 2nd Mill | |
13 | Straggler | Make 3rd Mill with Berry Vill | |
14 | Straggler | ||
15 | Wood | Send 2 Sheep in 3nd Mill, 4 from stragglers to lumber camp | |
16 | Straggler | ||
17 | Berries | Make House with straggler Vill | |
18 | Berries | Make 2nd Lumber Camp with 5 straggler vills | |
19 | Berries | ||
20 | House => Berries | ||
21 | TC Food | ||
22 | TC Food | ||
23 | TC Food | ||
24 | Gold | ||
25 | Gold | ||
26 | Stone | Start Making 4 Farms under TC, Queue 3 from your TC to Stone, Queue last TC vill to berries | |
Click Up to Feudal | Make a Barracks and a House | ||
27 | Stone | Make Market + Stable | |
28 | Stone |
I didnât expected this build to be that tight, but it is probably just because you canât eat your sheep. I still think itâs kinda strong arena Buildorder even if itâs kinda âslowâ. If you donât want to Castle drop you potentially just make 1 more lumber camp instead and you should be able to drop TCs immediately.
Edit: Itâs for the new PUP Gurjaras, again. The current active patch doesnât gives any benefit for having multiple mills.
Gurjaras late game is sick. Idk if it can compete with something like Turks or Bohemians, but mass Chakrams and Shrivamsha are the way to go. Yes those units probably arenât as strong as a Turk Heavy CA individually, but overall Turks spam from 120-130 pop while Gurjaras can go 115 pop, even 100 in principle if you arenât scared of raids/having to replenish all at once.
Dealing with a civ that can throw 100 army your way and conveniently also mix in Siege Elephants (especially good vs Archer civ)/Bombard Cannon can be very nasty. Iâve seen Gurjaras beat other sick late game civs like fully boomed and fully teched Mayans.
Note Iâm thinking mostly closed maps here Arena-style because if itâs Arabia, IF you enter Imperial age on even terms (big if vs Gurjaras), Gurjaras have better resource/map control and raiding potential with cheap Hussar, potential Camel switch, and Shrivamshas. They are even not horrible in treb wars due to Bombard Cannons.