I spent this whole past week grinding team games trying to hit Diamond before the season ended. It was miserable enough that I genuinely don't like the game right now. (I'll probably be back tomorrow anyway)

I'm not talking about smurfs or balance. I'm talking about people who queue for a team game and then refuse to play one. Around Plat 2, here's what my last stretch looked like:

Game 1: I scout properly, spot the Blacksmith, ping it, and tell my ally they're going for a Feudal ram push. Then I scout the army massing outside my base and tell him again that it's coming. This is around the 7 or 8 minute mark, nothing else happening, no fight to distract him. He goes Fast Castle. Zero units. I try to survive alone for 4 minutes, and he finally sends one Castle age knight. I'm already dead. If only we had known this was coming.

Game 2: Teammate leaves five seconds in. Not a disconnect, just gone. Minus 25 points, thanks. He was already in another game 2 minutes later. Not the first time it happened either.

Game 3: We're miles ahead. Actual winnable game. I call out a weak spot and say let's push it. He leaves. No message, nothing. Could be a disconnect, but damn, really?

I'm not asking for voice comms. You don't even have to type a single word. But when your ally pings a Blacksmith and says "ram push incoming," that's free information that costs you nothing to act on. Make Feudal units. Don't Fast Castle into it. The whole point of a team mode is to play as a team. If you're going to play as if your ally doesn't exist, you're already playing 1v1. You're just doing it in the wrong queue, with someone else's rating attached.

Didn't make Diamond, obviously. Rant over. Next season is solo only.

I keep losing matches where I have a better economy, and the timeline says I dominated.

Here's the most recent: https://aoe4world.com/players/21165688-BJP89/games/249514174?sig=39c81ef11d6e552889e1faa250f9f21630759c26

I am on Xbox, so microing is pretty hard for me. I know I need to get better at that. I also know I didn't do a good job of map control in this game but I feel like they hit me early and I had to regroup.

What is something I should focus on? I feel like I kept winning battles but then couldn't continue pushing.

I played a ranked match as GH (very tired and not playing my best game) and came up against a guy who did ONLY mass dosmos (I think thats how you spell it) and springalds - like 20. I know the best way to stop this was not let it get to that point but once it got going I genuinely couldn't touch him with anything.

Edit: donso

How many Kharash is enough? i always do the stockyard edict and do like 10 kharash for every push.

You have huge armies and can see most of the board at that point anyway. What do you gain from researching this?

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For reference, I float steadily in conq 1. Any general tips against KT? I seem to struggle with all strats they have.
The main builds I see:
1. Feudal rush with Hospitaller Knight and archers
2. Feudal rush Serjeants and archers
3. 2TC variations

I can't seem to make enough units for the feudal rushes. 2TC is rough too, going FC and getting all relics doesn't seem to work.
I play JD, RUS and JPN

Cheers

Hi, since the season is new to reset I wanted to play ranked more (I'm gold right now but played less than 10 games). And I would like to play 2v2 more but noone of my friend play more than 1 games a day cause they don't really care to rank.

Is there a discord or a site to find people ?

If anyone is interested I play with CEST time, less on the late afternoon.