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warlord101:

listen portigul lack of shipments what are you talking about they have a all the shipments plus they can also get 30 black wood indians as many times as they want and also did I forget to mention the jinites (Dragoons) that are the best anti calvery in the game and once more the culverin imperale (imperal culverins) are hte best and the most long ranged cannons in the game portigul kicks ass

gooback:

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warlord101:

what is with you peolpe the portogese are the best because they start out with extra villagers and the cassadors and organ guns are amazing anti infatry units. Plus with the free town center after every age up coulped with a fortress and a factory are a perfect combo to support you colony after you revolt. but if you don't revolt and age to the imperial age the imperial gurarios (musketeers) kick ass and are great v.s. calvary, infantry, and buildings. finaly they get the best culvins (cannons) that have a longer range and are better v.s. infanty, calary, altillary, and buildings. the portogese kick extrem ass   

this post is fuckin legendary.

1 extra villager doesnt make up for the lack of villager shipments IMO, and everything else thats been said, goodspeed has summed up nicely for us

IMO, the top civs in order are (excluding TWC)

Japan

India

British

German

Chineses (extra 20 population and flying crows are amzing in late game)

dutch (if played well)

Russians (Oprichniks are deadly, they have very strong anti infantry early game with strelets, and are powerful when mixed in with musk and cossacks for a rush)

French

Ottoman (lack of infantry)

spanish (shipment spam is good, but I personally dont like them, but they should be higher on anybody elses list)

Portugese (there good once they get to fortress, but there too weak against rushes)

Why would a person exclude a group of people(Natives)... i think some1's racist.

now that I have played more TAD i think i can be more accurate with this:

Japan 

India

German

Brit

Aztec

Iro/French/Russia/china

otto/spain/dutch/sioux

ports

Im still not 100% sure but these are my opinions.

tank_:

now that I have played more TAD i think i can be more accurate with this:

Japan 

India

German

Brit

Aztec

Iro/French/Russia/china

otto/spain/dutch/sioux

ports

Im still not 100% sure but these are my opinions.

it looks pretty accurate exept the russians and the ports are underrated

Hanzo :

gooback:

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warlord101:

what is with you peolpe the portogese are the best because they start out with extra villagers and the cassadors and organ guns are amazing anti infatry units. Plus with the free town center after every age up coulped with a fortress and a factory are a perfect combo to support you colony after you revolt. but if you don't revolt and age to the imperial age the imperial gurarios (musketeers) kick ass and are great v.s. calvary, infantry, and buildings. finaly they get the best culvins (cannons) that have a longer range and are better v.s. infanty, calary, altillary, and buildings. the portogese kick extrem ass   

this post is fuckin legendary.

1 extra villager doesnt make up for the lack of villager shipments IMO, and everything else thats been said, goodspeed has summed up nicely for us

IMO, the top civs in order are (excluding TWC)

Japan

India

British

German

Chineses (extra 20 population and flying crows are amzing in late game)

dutch (if played well)

Russians (Oprichniks are deadly, they have very strong anti infantry early game with strelets, and are powerful when mixed in with musk and cossacks for a rush)

French

Ottoman (lack of infantry)

spanish (shipment spam is good, but I personally dont like them, but they should be higher on anybody elses list)

Portugese (there good once they get to fortress, but there too weak against rushes)

Why would a person exclude a group of people(Natives)... i think some1's racist.

or i just dont own TWC

maybe you might consider an incredibly obvious possibility before just going and calling people racist, no, okay then

gooback:

A414A | Goodspeed:

warlord101:

what is with you peolpe the portogese are the best because they start out with extra villagers and the cassadors and organ guns are amazing anti infatry units. Plus with the free town center after every age up coulped with a fortress and a factory are a perfect combo to support you colony after you revolt. but if you don't revolt and age to the imperial age the imperial gurarios (musketeers) kick ass and are great v.s. calvary, infantry, and buildings. finaly they get the best culvins (cannons) that have a longer range and are better v.s. infanty, calary, altillary, and buildings. the portogese kick extrem ass   

this post is *** legendary.

1 extra villager doesnt make up for the lack of villager shipments IMO, and everything else thats been said, goodspeed has summed up nicely for us

IMO, the top civs in order are (excluding TWC)

Japan

India

British

German

Chineses (extra 20 population and flying crows are amzing in late game)

dutch (if played well)

Russians (Oprichniks are deadly, they have very strong anti infantry early game with strelets, and are powerful when mixed in with musk and cossacks for a rush)

French

Ottoman (lack of infantry)

spanish (shipment spam is good, but I personally dont like them, but they should be higher on anybody elses list)

Portugese (there good once they get to fortress, but there too weak against rushes)

even though it is only one villager in the beging whee you need villagers to quickly build up a rush defence every vilager is important anyway when your the portogese your main goal is to get to the fortress age becasue veteran cassadors are better then needlers (elite german skirmisher unit) and also the extra town centers are really hard to assult if they are around each town center unless you have mortars but still the portogese can take that on to wiht there jinites (dragoons) fast moveing and they have mustkets so they can run away form musketeer and pikmen effecttivly and all other calvary units and to defend aginst rushess if the tc's don't work and army of musketeers will do fine.

C'mon now people, the TOP CIV, everyone knows its The Germans....

IMO the 3 major keys to success are:

1.  Knowing the opposing CIV

2.  Understanding the MAP

3.  Choosing the appropriate deck

Other factors are microing, raiding, etc...

These 3 keys are the 3 major reasons why I always lose !

FYI:  DENVER BRONCOS all the way!

Timber_Rattler:

C'mon now people, the TOP CIV, everyone knows its The Germans....

IMO the 3 major keys to success are:

1.  Knowing the opposing CIV

2.  Understanding the MAP

3.  Choosing the appropriate deck

Other factors are microing, raiding, etc...

These 3 keys are the 3 major reasons why I always lose !

FYI:  DENVER BRONCOS all the way!

actually microing and raiding are far more important than knowing the map and choosing the right deck.

if you don't know the map, just scout, as you'd do on every game

someone that micros well and keeps pressuring with raids that never played on that map and is using the wrong deck will beat someone with a perfect deck who know everything about the map, but doesn't micro or raid well

unless, of course, in extreme cases, like if the guy have chosen a treaty deck for land maps on a sup game in a water map

I think Dutch is better then what people are saying.   

Also, i think a lot of people use the TWC civs.  Like 80% of the games are.   

 He is what i think

Japs

India

Sioux

British

Dutch

Chinese

Iro

The rest i havnt really played much 

jap/ger/india

aztec

rest

spain/ports