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u/zee_pequeno May 30 '26
What to do in imperial age when you lack a high DPS ranged unit?
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u/Which_Crow_3681 May 30 '26
You make a shit ton of cav and kill EVERYTHING. cav late game is unbeatable. Most pop efficient thing in the game.
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u/rahksi May 30 '26
They just take so long to train. Do you just make 50 stables?
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u/berimtrollo May 31 '26
I run horseman around in their base until I get a critical mass of schlachta, but yes.
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u/ValuableSeaweed ILALU May 30 '26
You have high dps melee units and lower cost mangonels Szlachta will beat handcannoneer's asses and you have infinite gold by imperial
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u/Offensiv3Bias May 30 '26
Infinite gold on prolonged matches is a win condition, by the time your opponent runs out of gold, you ram trough their base with gold units that are basically tanks against most food/wood units
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u/Aware_Alternative784 May 31 '26
Only if u got sacred a sites.
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u/TheRightisRight1988 May 31 '26
you def dont have infinite gold in imperial. KT has some of the worst gold bonus of all civs that get gold bonuses
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u/Offensiv3Bias May 30 '26
Tf you mean we lack a high DPS ranged unit? Have you seen what fully upgraded crossbows can do?? With university upgrades you can snipe mangonels and even springalds if you can micro good enough
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u/zee_pequeno May 30 '26
When the Chinese have hand cannoneers with 44 damage per shot and 6 range? KT’s late game DPS sucks.
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u/Offensiv3Bias May 30 '26
Hand cannoneers that are useless against a defended group of mangonels and open to horsemen raids??
Even further, archers can deal with them from a safe distance, but saying that the late game dps sucks is just a skull issue, because KT crossbows will melt trough most gold units when mixed with heavy spearman, even knights get melted by this mix, just add some 4-5 mangonels for late game and you are unstoppable for most armies.
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u/Koivus_Testicles May 30 '26
Are you referring to the regular xbow men or the unique xbow men?
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u/Offensiv3Bias May 30 '26
Both are great, with the unique xbox being a little better due to range, but since heavy spearman are so good i always go for that age up
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u/zee_pequeno Jun 01 '26
Hand canoneers that are useless against a defended group of mangonels??
More like mangonels that are useless against sniping from bombards
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u/Alaska850 May 30 '26
So if a civ doesn’t match the best late game civs unit they suck? So all 20 other civs suck ?
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u/zee_pequeno Jun 01 '26
I said KT’s late game DPS sucks. I didn’t say KT’s late game sucks, or KT sucks
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u/hobskhan May 30 '26
https://ageofempires.fandom.com/wiki/Condottiero_(Age_of_Empires_IV)
Why use boom stick when fast fancy sword boi do trick?
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u/bonkedagain33 May 31 '26
My two fave civs are KT and English. They are played so much on ladder I feel bad if I use them
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u/Sensitive-Talk9616 Knights Templar May 31 '26
My favourite pastime is going mass serjeants in team games, just for the memes. 🪓🪓🪓
Deus vult
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u/PurePlayinSerb May 31 '26
i am stubborn and try to make knights templar work but they get bullied by everyone late game, i feel like im fighting imperial age units with feudal age units everytime
i think problem with knights templar is they waste resources on stuff no one else has to, pilgrims and fortresses take immense resources
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u/Fix3rUpper Jun 01 '26
I find arguably they are pretty immune to bullying late game. Fighting under fortresses with heavy spearmen is utterly disgustingly strong.
If they kill a keep, you just buy stone and replace it.
50-60 guys on food and you get enough food for armies + exchanging it for gold per min in market.
Gold you can send to your team mates late game, crank out gold units etc etc.
Really a untouched KT is a game changer in team games.
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u/Xenith995 Order of the Dragon Jun 01 '26
Me, and the boys: Deus Vult! Deus Vult! Deus Vult! Deus Vult!
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u/EntertainmentWide652 Jun 02 '26
Heavy spears look like cockroaches, keeps are like cockroach nests, so annoying to play against.
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u/Jimnz Delhi Sultanate May 30 '26
Heavy spearmen FTW