AOE3 Forums

I just played someone on Ceylon, and they stayed on their rock the whole time, having 13 Fortified Outposts and Docks covering the coastline so i couldnt land anywhere. he also happened to have all naval cards, and eventually won coz i couldnt get to his island at all. Surely this is laming? I was winning easily by eco, I made sure that he never moved off his island but somehow he had enough wood to keep rebuilding them, presumably he had factories. Surely this is laming?

nope dats smart

if he does dat blockade him wit ur ships so he wont move and have patience wood will eventually run short for him 

Suppose I dont have time to waste 2 hours on a noob...

Its lame to play against, seriously. He had a much bigger navy than me so enevtually Ifigured i wouldnt have time for this and i resigned.

well u gotta have patience

idk but tryin using canoes too

and if u was better at eco make a few ships and do anything u can to make them land 

Why not use Monitors?

I did, they do nothing against Docks... remember that in the Proto they have x0.1 vs docks... even without the outposts, he still had cannons.

i kno its hard wen they put up a nice defense

but if u have time and *** dont stop pressurin

and use canoes if u can make them they can help alot 

Yeh, monitors backed up by frigates = chip away until nothing left. You would've won if you held the main ground and prevented any wood.

Here's a good battle plan:

Send a decoy ship (Frigate). You're opponent might be thinking your army is in that ship so he will kill it. Once that decoy is near the island, it will be fired upon. Send another ship (Frigate/Caravel) with your army in it, behind the decoy, so the ship won't get attack and your army would land with no problems.

Mr. Ace:

Here's a good battle plan:

Send a decoy ship (Frigate). You're opponent might be thinking your army is in that ship so he will kill it. Once that decoy is near the island, it will be fired upon. Send another ship (Frigate/Caravel) with your army in it, behind the decoy, so the ship won't get attack and your army would land with no problems.

And by the way, make sure to put one man in every decoy; if you don't, he'll know there's no men inside.

Good plan, but you have to load up the decoy ship with 1 unit (explorer, villager, or pikeman) as the opponent sees the flag showing the ship is carrying unit(s) and then he will fire on it.

Ya, don't forget to put atleast 1 unit in the decoy. Thanks for correcting me guys.