11:17: Outlaws depend on the map, Mercs are always random outside of the ones you can cause to 'appear' (for civs like Sweden and Germany with their respect cards).

@Widgie

11 ай бұрын

As a native enjoyer it’s hard to understand these things haha

@Peachrocks5

11 ай бұрын

​@@Widgie They aren’t mutually exclusive. Some mercs work better with some natives techs. Like any that reduces coin costs of units are pretty good.

@Toonrick12

11 ай бұрын

I would point out that for US and Mexico, their outlaws overrule the map's outlaws. Meaning that you always have the same three outlaws on every map.

I've always found Palatine Settlements a really awkward card in practice. It's theoretically the equivalent of like, 1200+ wood, but in Age 2, it's very do-nothing. In Age 3, when you'll have a bunch of houses and can actually get a sizeable pop boost in one shipment, it always feels like there's more impactful Age 3 shipments you could be sending instead.

@andreashillitzer2291

11 ай бұрын

the card has no tempo and with Germany most of your other cards have a lot tempo

@Peachrocks5

11 ай бұрын

You need to send it second in age 2 to get mileage out of it. Realistically it’s going to save 600 wood + build time with how most 1v1s go.

@davidpereira5969

11 ай бұрын

yeah its interesting but in early age 2 its not enough, while in age 3 there are better cards to send

@Toonrick12

11 ай бұрын

It also doesn't help that because of Germany's XP curve, you're also gimping yourself with the extra xp you get from building houses. If I were the devs, I would fuse it with Germantown settlers to make in on par with the US' German immigrants.

@davidpereira5969

11 ай бұрын

@@Toonrick12i think a way to buff it whould be a bigger house buff other than pop space. like maybe more house hp, more build bounty, cheaper, hell even make it send 1 or 2 house wagons

I feel like Swedens Merch Decks are stronger because they have more unit coverage with their unit upgrade cards

@CazadorDeBrujas22

11 ай бұрын

Yes, the OG mercenariea civ (Germany) need a buff for more balance with the swedens mercenaries.

@CodeF416

11 ай бұрын

​​@@CazadorDeBrujas22Bruh Germany doesn't need any kind of buffs whatsoever. It's literally overperforming in every regards

@gaiusiulius7724

11 ай бұрын

the "advanced mercenaries" card is the best merc upgrade and you need only one space in your deck for it

@t4ntrumtf2

11 ай бұрын

@@gaiusiulius7724 you need to be in age IV though, sweden lategame mercs for sure better but yet to see a 1 v 1 sweden merc build

@Peachrocks5

11 ай бұрын

The other thing that makes Sweden better is that their upgrade cards are generalised. They also can get unlimited gold mines if it goes late which allows for some insane gold gather rates. Germany just has a 20% upgrade and the camps and honestly the camps are a questionable investment of a shipment. Sweden also starts with advanced arsenal, minus having it in age 2 unless you go up with the 900 food.

He did a lot of smart micro to overcome the akans

akans are good musks, but they are still musks.

Harquebusiers and highlanders are the reason i always run spy upgrades.

I like how u covered this one: you have not missed too much of both and still have focused on one which is very important, otherwise doing both or all the players coverage is absolutely a superficial and distracting approach. So thanks for doing this with much better focus on one thing ... I strongly agree with taking away from "cinema" style coverage of game and more strategy competitive assessment of one or max two but to do two one needs to switch very quickly and often to both and it's doable only for short games like below 20 min. I strongly suggest to go on one only like u did here more than other times... Thanks for this merc strategy,... I think it went also anti cav thinking that Hausa would have gone with their powerful raiding habit and units of cavalry. Very strong civ indeed the Hausa and well designed (sound etc)

This is a very vanilla strategy. Nowadays you can squeeze mercenary camps in this. What I am not seeing is germans going for the prince elector with habsburg. Really wanna see one going their.

@Widgie

11 ай бұрын

It may be a vanilla strategy but he’s making it work! He’s rank 15 on the ladder!

Always great content Widgie! QUESTION: has everyone abandoned India? I looked for pro India players and nothing recent; the only few clips I found was only to see India lose. C-tier?

@Widgie

11 ай бұрын

Good question! I don’t think they are C tier, I think B now tbh

Very enjoyable yet still hard to make it with this tactic .

Nice vid. How do spies fare against mercs? With and without assassins?

@Widgie

11 ай бұрын

Spies do super well with or without

Great thumbnail widgie, best one all year

@Widgie

11 ай бұрын

I did enjoy making it! Thanks man

Merc build struggles very much vs civs that can build spies/assasins though

@vilemzadrobilek583

11 ай бұрын

Not really, Spies/Assasins are effective only on paper. In practice their damage (even with massive boosts against mercs) and relatively low HP means they get absolute swept away by high HP, high damage mercs. If something is really made to wipe mercs, it would be ninjas Japs can get. 450 damage per hit to merc, THAT is anti-merc unit. Not some measly 100 in melee and 52,5 at range, before resists come into play. And in order to have Assasins, you need a card. Which basically nobody, even in autistic 1v1 lobbies, ever carries in their decks because its bad AND dead card.

How can I get this replay or other replays of good players to learn from?

L'inquisiteur. What a fancy title tho. :3

Hey widgie I have a casted game I would like to share with you if want to share in your channel. It’s 1v1 Sweds vs India very intense game. Let me know soon thank you.

@Widgie

11 ай бұрын

Sure thing! DM me in Discord

Finally, we didn't see the purpose of the witch hammer card...

@caramon95

5 ай бұрын

the idea of the card is to reduce mercenary population and to recruit an unit that can heal and attack, generally speaking healers or priest do a better healing work than the inquisitors

game is still boring and absolutely full of full-blown sweat narrative who think they're going to get rich playing it like can't even get a Lobby 90% of the time either kicked for being too low level or too high level absolute dead pile of garbage thank you but no thank you

@alexsuschevski4237

11 ай бұрын

Dude, people have been playing this game for almost 20 years, and this video of it has 2k views in last 12 hours, like considering all this it can’t be that boring :D

@wolffiow9620

11 ай бұрын

@@alexsuschevski4237 and then go try to play it I guarantee you you won't find a Lobby in this video has 2K views but only a hundred likes those are Bots not real viewers grow up

@alexsuschevski4237

11 ай бұрын

@@wolffiow9620 why would I go look gor a lobby? I play 1v1 ranked only. I can find a game in several minutes, all day every day with no problem. Pretty good for a 15 years old game you have to admit

@wolffiow9620

11 ай бұрын

@@alexsuschevski4237 you proved my point the only people playing this game on the people trying to be good at it the days of this happening no more relaxed team match gone there's no compassion there's no new strategy there's nothing new is this the same units the same meta it is boring

@alexsuschevski4237

11 ай бұрын

@@wolffiow9620 kinda natural that after 20 years some people might get bored😄😄 I proved nothing, as I dont play competitively. I stay at same elo, I do ranked just so I can easily get a match. And there are new metas and BOs with almost every patch. And new cards, units and visuals. Too bad you dont take notice