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ES_MrMilo:

Thanks, guys. =) Any tips for either the guide or the VOD? I'm looking to improve things in any way I can.

What do you think I should add, or leave out?
 

i have dail-up and its extremly hard for me to download 200mbs.... so maybe a recording would be good to have along with the VOD.

s0me0ne-else:

and even for some with a good experience in Dutch, like me, i didn't know that the banks should usually go on the front of the base, but now, i do this and i realized how it helps, and also, i din't use the market as much, but now i've seem that it can really save your game
 

Biggest problem is that relying on your banks large hp to survive rushes is not good when fighting otto, their armies siege is so high your just digging your own grave. 

Wilson_teh_Great:

s0me0ne-else:

and even for some with a good experience in Dutch, like me, i didn't know that the banks should usually go on the front of the base, but now, i do this and i realized how it helps, and also, i din't use the market as much, but now i've seem that it can really save your game
 

Biggest problem is that relying on your banks large hp to survive rushes is not good when fighting otto, their armies siege is so high your just digging your own grave. 

but when they try to destroy the banks, i have time to make a army, and fight them before they destroy it, but if they overwhealm enough to destroy my bank, i'd loose anyway

Genious!! i won againt a oppennent with home city lvl 30, however i am just hc lvl 12

ty alot

thibaut

DirectXAOE:

Genious!! i won againt a oppennent with home city lvl 30, however i am just hc lvl 12

ty alot

thibaut

don't use someone's HC lvl to know if he is good or not, use his PR for it(to know his PR, just mouse over his avatar on the waiting room or look at the loading screen before the game starts) there are many bad player with high HC and many good players with low HC

kelopelo27:

MrMilo, what do u recomend now that dutch is begining with one less villager.  Ive seen several players skip collecting any gold in age 1 because of this...what do you do now that the new patches are out?

Wow, I cant believe I didnt find this before... lol

This more or less matches my BO exactly, except I use the Bank Wagon instead of 700 wood, mostly because u can get it up faster than u would with 700 wood. However, I might switch to 700 wood as a second shipment instead, it wouldnt be as hard to get 4 banks and with that extra coin I can just buy/sell at the market for the extra wood.

Never really thought about 700 food, guess mine was more of a semi ff with a stronger eco, but tbh I can see a straight ff working more. And for the coin and herding reasons, yeah ill probably go with this instead of 700 wood as a third shipment (another bank, barracks and stable if the 300 wood was gathered earlier)

But yeah, like the others were saying, the massive coin setup would probably make me more inclined to do a cannon/ruyter spam instead of skirms. In this case would 8 skimishers be a better shipment than 9 ruyters, coz the opponents likely to be going mostly infantry until he realises I have cannons. Or a fort? Dont really know wat my fourth shipment should be...

All in all, the Dutch FF pwns. The best thing is that practically all of the units ull be using auto upgrade to veteran, saving lots of resources as well, whilst the banks can provide cover for hunters nearby and miners.