Something Ottoman specific that I havent seen mentioned. He really trolled his military schools. These produce free Units automatically and are extremely valuable to kill. In every ottoman guide you build the Military schools directly next to the TC for utmost protection but this guy trolled and you could have just destroyed it without being in range of TC. Also if he didnt choose the greedy landmark which is generally worse and micro-ed a bit better he actually might have defended your rush without doing anything else strategically. Kinda lucky how bad he was honestly, looked like he was first timing ottoman or never watched a guide before.

Once you push them off gold and corral them in their base you can probably go castle and dive the TC with castle MAA with upgrades. They can sit underneath the TC for years and not give a shit. You had the game won after you pushed him off gold and food and secured a couple worker kills - clinching the game in feudal as HRE is definitely hard. Use your superior eco to get to castle when you have a good push like this and you'll wrap the game up much more quickly

Aachen forward next time place next to the gold. Better place and behind tc. To much wood. Get a rams earlier. Don't ever dive the tc like that. Burn production or something. So much unused wood. You can take a break in your push and age up after doing suffiecent damage. Castle age m@a crusader feudal. You have so many times were you can go for his production at the bottom for free.

I thing i got to plat season 1 then gave up as games was far to drawn out and stressfull, Always went all in to have a quick game, good rush though. I played again recently and gold players are definitely better than thry were on release, they all have a iron will to not quit as well. If you want some one to practice with give me a shout im planning on getting back into it.

people have got better at the game generally, so Gold league may feel more like the plat league in former seasons. Nobody should really feel bad about that. As competition gets more fierce, so your rank will drop. It would make you feel like you've got worse but no, others could have gotten better. I struggle to get past plat 1 in solos. That said there are so many big beginner errors you're making here. Feudal maa are not very strong, especially without armor upgrades. You need to be causing them idle time on resources, not running in under a fully garrisoned town center with 4 MAA. You might be struggling because you're just a casual player who's expected to walk into ranked ladder and get wins without studying the game and looking at your own mistakes? If you're going to do a feudal push, you need rams. You can't just dive under a TC with feudal maa, unless you have some serious numbers. Did you know Deer have a much higher gather rate than berries? If so why go for berries before your pocket deer at the back?

Just seems so boring. TC should realisticly 4 shot those man at arms