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I did make a thread about it but I saw that he's on this forum so I decided to expose him.

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ports imo are easiest civ to use allround good units op mortars , so your best bet is with them, brits and other civs like them which take alot of micro to make them affective take alot longer to get used to. ports is basically goons and cassadors backed up with artillery and them crazy arse mortars u cant go wrong.

Oddball the Angry:

Solmyr:

Why do you think british is the easiest? I don´t see that point, because you need a decent cowboom to get a great eco. I don´t understand why they should be easy for beginners.

 

In my opinion easiest civs are France (because they don´t need to much tactical knowledge to get a decent score and a got military as a beginner) and Ottoman (because you don´t need to train villiager. When I started playin AoE training villager was one of my biggest Problems :-) )

It was just my opinion, I guess it was because I picked them up easily myself. Japs are easy for new players but they would never find an online game that allows them.

Cowboom is easy with brits, and manor houses can give you lots of extra settlers to chop wood, which will give you more mills and plantations.

They have most of the ECO mill and plantation gathering cards, and have the estate homecity card.

This will give you serious boom later on in the game as you can train 20 villagers at once, and it only takes the time of 2 villagers.

 

max2h:

Cowboom is easy with brits, and manor houses can give you lots of extra settlers to chop wood, which will give you more mills and plantations.

They have most of the ECO mill and plantation gathering cards, and have the estate homecity card.

This will give you serious boom later on in the game as you can train 20 villagers at once, and it only takes the time of 2 villagers.

 

Why you would use several mills with the brits is beyond me.  MAYBE 1 or two.  Cowbooming and doing manors at the same time isn't easy to perfect, and fighting with ports is way easier.

Why wouldn't you? While your sheep are fattening, your settlers need something to do, and as there is only a 20 sheep train limit, your not going to need many settlers constantly harvesting food. Because you have a manor boom, you have already gotten all the wood on your side and all the wood you will need. You don't need to mine any longer because you have enough wood for plantations, which gather much quicker than mines. By now, your hunting has probably gone to a halt, and gathering is just dumb, so what else can you do but mill?

I like to split up my settlers between building manors and hunting. I dedicate 4 or 3 of my vills to wood and 1 or 2 of my vills to hunting. I train settlers from my tc to go to hunting. I cow boom later in the game, once I have enough food to train both vills and sheep. 20 minutes into the game I should have all 20 manor houses, and I am working my way through the rest of the wood on my side. When My sheep start to hit the 100s, take like 5 vills from my hunting group and harvest those sheep. When all game is gone, I recall my hunters, eliminate any 100% fattened sheep, and start farming. When my coin group is gone, I build some plantations, or I use some of them to wood, and eventually take them to the plantations as well as part of my original lumber group. I aim for 56 pop on plantations and 35 pop on mills, with the remaining 9 vills, I harvest sheep. I build enough livestock pens to be able to quickly fatten all my sheep at once.

Once the game begins, I pay less attention to the livestock pens. If I have a very high food supply, I will return to the mills with those 9 villagers and focus 95% on my military and fighting. I set my factories on wood, or rockets depending on the enemy's civ and tactics. 

This will give me a stable supply of wood, as I might loose some buildings, but I'm not constantly training wood. If I need to train Longbow-men, I see if there is another way to attack the enemy, with maybe artillery, or I use my market. Usually I have enough wood If I need LB men. I make sure I have enough wood to quickly rebuild an economy If its damaged badly. I use estates to retrain the vills, and my remaining wood to rebuild the economy. Also, If I don't use much wood, the factories really boost your wood amount. 

This strategy has not failed me yet. What I face, is problems with my military, once the treaty or half map split is over. 

you make sheep instead of cows?!?!?!

i don´t think brit eco rocks with just sheep...

and against a decent fighter your economy might collapse if you just have mills and plants with brits

or am i wrong?

Ok please dont down british while ive never profected it the british can boom on normal speed with a score of 2800 the cow boom is one of the best in the game and kerkamus can speak for me here the british econ and balance of military can be near unstoppable. 

Thomas B:

you make sheep instead of cows?!?!?!

I play vanilla version. There is NO cow training allowed. Yes I know theres a card in Tad, but I don't play that cause everyone else that does has the twc + tad patch

Ports --> easier to manage then brits in the beginning, like alan said they are basically dragoons,cassadores with artillery in the rear.

Brits on the other hand need more micromanagment.

 

Brits have goons, possible Fu bowman, and artillery.

Brits get better hussars and just as good muskets 

predatorfreak:

Non-op, Portugal.

Op, France.

India and British are two of the hardest non-ops to really become absolutely outstanding with and compete very effectively. Because of this, Brits are seeing something of a resurgence in the top-tier right now, Alan, Sanderson, The British-Laming Wonderkid (anyone who plays at high levels knows who this is) , etc all have very very good Brits, hell mine aren't too shabby either.

 

Fix'd

 

Lawl jokes, your brits are ok.

Too fix it right you'd have to change the comma to a period, nooblet.

In addition, to the person claiming a truly excellent British boom is easy, bull-fruiting-shite. The British boom is one of the most attention-demanding in the entire game, only Iroquois demands more attention in fact. Pulling it off properly, achieving a good score and keeping your eco going while you fight is harder than it looks for British.. 

mine is japan u stupid duch spammer