Nice I am glad you enjoy the vids! A good tip to throw off the AI and a lot of real players is to raid with 2-3 horseman. Keep them alive and cause lots of villager idle time and chaos while you boom ;)

@@UrNo_UrNo im not there yet. I still forget my scout after few minutes :(

@@jollyjungler3166 I too only started playing recently. Yesterday I realized that I had gone from being crushed by intermediate to almost squaring up to hard. Keep playing against bots for a bit but try to play some against players too since playing against players is a whole different game.

@@Mange_the_great im way too afraid to face real players

Sounds like they just wanted to surprise, be annoying and hit you on more than one front lol Don’t stress though they can do a similar strategy in higher ranks but a lot better, faster 😉 Anyways grats on the win!

It's based on the civ AND the tempo advantage I have during the game. The idea is to get to castle and survive and there are many factors but here are some of the big questions I ask myself; 1. Do I have enough food secured to get to castle (example is 10 sheep) and have some little extra after to make units to push out and to make villagers? 2. How aggressive is this player, can i defend my gold and what is their civ timings? Am I amble to eventually push out if necessary to secure relics? 3. Are they going 2-TC? (If you see this it means and you are quick enough you have a brief "safe" window to get relics and even in some games to do a 12min fast Imperial). Hope this helps! Might do a vid on it tbh.

@@UrNo_UrNo Yes, thank you very much. It gives me a lot of answers. Have to review my games if I could do sth better in timings.